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Bombings decimate Ukraine

‘Why? Why? Why?’:
Shellings, mass graves
sink Mariupol into depair
By Mystyslav Chernov
and Evgeniy Maloletka
MARIUPOL, Ukraine — The bodies of the
children all lie here, dumped into this narrow
trench hastily dug into the frozen earth of Mari-
upol to the constant drumbeat of shelling.
There’s 18-month-old Kirill, whose shrapnel
wound to the head proved too much for his little
toddler’s body. There’s 16-year-old Iliya, whose
legs were blown up in an explosion during a soc-
cer game at a school field. There’s the girl no older
than 6 who wore the pajamas with cartoon uni-
corns, among the first of Mariupol’s children to
Mariupol continues on A5
‘We need you’: Zelenskyy
urges Congress to supply
more weapons, sanctions
By Andrea Rosa
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces destroyed a
theater in Mariupol where hundreds of people
were sheltering Wednesday and rained fire on
other cities, Ukrainian authorities said, even as
the two sides projected optimism over efforts to
negotiate an end to the fighting.
The air strike ripped apart the center of the
once-elegant building, where hundreds of civil-
ians had been living since their homes had been
destroyed in the fighting, Ukraine’s foreign
Evgeniy Maloletka / Associated Press
ministry said in a statement.
Mariana Vishegirskaya, who survived an airstrike on a Mari- Many people were buried in the rubble, the
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CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC Two Years In

Oakland A’s
waterfront
ballpark
hits setback
By Sarah Ravani

The Oakland A’s plans to build a waterfront

ballpark and development hit a setback Wednes-
day after a state committee recommended
against eliminating maritime use at the Howard
Terminal site to make way for the team’s $12
billion plan.
The Seaport Planning Advisory Committee’s
decision came after 4½ hours of discussion and
public comment. Some committee members said
they were concerned that the port would give up
valuable space used for freight and truck park-
ing — particularly if cargo usage at the port in-
creases. Six members voted against recommend-
ing eliminating maritime uses, and three voted in
favor of it. One member abstained.
Some of the committee members said they
Photos by Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle
needed more information from the A’s and the
Michael Garcia has in his San Jose home a jar of at least 200 masks he has used during the pandemic. port to understand how the proposed devel-
“It represents a lot of days, and a lot of days that were largely unpleasant in a lot of ways,” he says. opment would not impact maritime operations.
Dave Kaval, president of the A’s, said the deci-

Totems of a time
sion is a “major setback” in getting the necessary
approvals for the waterfront ballpark.
At stake is one of the largest developments in
Ballpark continues on A6

that blurred days St. Mary’s coach

By Annie Vainshtein
For many of us, the past two
years of the pandemic have been
something we don’t want to be
reminded about. It’s been a period
of time filled with death and
dread, isolation and adaptation.
Amid the murk on to during the 24 months of
pandemic life. These are the me- Bennett found
of COVID-19, mentos that have resisted moves
and decluttering projects, and
home in Moraga
some grasp for sometimes are so private and
personal they haven’t been seen
mementos by anyone outside of their keeper.
They remind us of all we’ve
By Ron Kroichick

Since the Bay Area’s first shel-
ter-in-place orders on March 16,
2020, the experience of living in
this region has shifted. Work has
become remote. For much of the
past two years, the restaurants
and art performances people lived
for became hazardous due to
virus spread. Housing costs re-
mained elusive for many. And so
has the concept of time — which
has been skewed and disorient-
ing: sometimes painfully slow,
sometimes overwhelming in its
acceleration, sometimes too de-
1 Fines delayed: S.F. restaurants and bars that built parklets to stay afloat get more time to resolve violations.
spairing to even fully experience
at all. Time can feel impossible to
distill — too opaque, too varied —
but often we find ourselves hold-
ing on to things that become talis-
mans, totems to mark a certain
period of our lives.
There are many things repre-
senting this pandemic period
we’d like to forget. But there are
also some we can’t let go of. The
Chronicle talked to people in the
Bay Area about the objects
they’ve found themselves holding
been through during one of the Twenty-one years later, after all the 20-win
most trying periods of our lives. seasons, NCAA Tournament appearances and
Toward the beginning of the sneaky-good standout players, a relevant ques-
pandemic, Michael Garcia was tion hangs in the air as Randy Bennett prepares
primarily wearing cloth masks to lead his St. Mary’s bas-
out of concern about the waste ketball team into March 1 USF: Plays Mur-
generated by disposable masks. Madness yet again. ray State at 6:40
But a little over six months into Why on earth is he still p.m. Learn more. B1
shelter-in-place, his company in Moraga? 1 St. Mary’s: Plays
supplied its employees with N95 This doesn’t happen in Indiana at 4:20 p.m.
masks, and Garcia started wear- college hoops, at least not Learn more. B5
ing those. outside of places such as
Instead of throwing them away, Durham, N.C., East Lan-
something compelled him to start sing, Mich., and Syracuse, N.Y. Coaches at high-
Pandemic continues on A7 profile, blueblood programs — Duke (Mike
Krzyzewski), Michigan State (Tom Izzo) and
Syracuse (Jim Boeheim), respectively — might
C1 set up camp, but schools like St. Mary’s typical-
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WORLD
NORTH KOREA

Seoul: Missile
exploded in air
in failed launch
By Hyung-Jin Kim
and Kim Tong-Hyung
SEOUL — A North Korean
missile fired from its capital
region exploded soon after
liftoff in an apparent failed
launch on Wednesday, South
Korea’s military said, amid
speculation that the North is
itary official said, requesting
anonymity because he wasn’t
publicly authorized to speak to
media on the issue. He said the
cause of the explosion wasn’t
known.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of
Staff earlier said the launch
came from the Sunan area near
Pyongyang, the North’s capital, Lee Jin-man / Associated Press

preparing to launch its longest-
range weapon in the most sig-
nificant provocation in years.
Details of the missile explo-
sion and the possibility of civil-
ian damage weren’t immedi-
ately known. But the launch,
the 10th of its kind this year,
shows North Korea is deter-
mined to press ahead on its
push to modernize its arsenal
and pressure rivals into making
concessions while denuclear-
ization talks are frozen.
The missile blew up as it was
flying at an altitude of less than
12.4 miles, a South Korean mil-
but gave no other details.
Lee Choon Geun, an hon-
orary research fellow at South
Korea’s Science and Technology
Policy Institute, said the missile
likely exploded less than a
minute after its launch. He said
if the missile’s toxic fuels fell on
civilian residential areas in
North Korea, they would likely
cause a major health impact.
There was no immediate out-
side report of such damage in
North Korea.
The Sunan area is where
North Korea’s international
airport is located. South Korean
People watch a TV screen showing a news program reporting North Korea’s missile launch with
file footage at a train station in Seoul. The launch is the North’s 10th this year.
media reported that Wednes- flew about 6.2 miles before it ty while trying to place its first
day’s launch occurred at the exploded, he said. functioning spy satellite into
airport, but Seoul’s Defense The U.S. Indo-Pacific Com- orbit. North Korean leader Kim
Ministry did not specify the mand said that North Korea Jong Un has vowed to acquire
exact site. had fired a ballistic missile but an improved ICBM and a spy
Chang Young-keun, a missile didn’t say whether it was a satellite among an array of
expert at Korea Aerospace failed launch. A command sophisticated weapons systems
University in South Korea, said statement said the launch didn’t he says his country needs to
the missile explosion likely sent pose an immediate threat to cope with what he calls Amer-
debris as far as 62-124 miles U.S. territory and its allies but ican hostility.
away, rather than causing it to called on North Korea to refrain
fall straight down from the from further destabilizing acts. Hyung-Jin Kim and Kim
midair blast site, due to its fly- Observers say North Korea Tong-Hyung are Associated Press
ing speed. The missile likely aims to boost its ICBM capabili- writers.

SOUTH SUDAN IRAN

U.N. peacekeepers will

extend stay until 2023
By Edith M. Lederer
UNITED NATIONS —
The U.N. Security Council
extended the mandate for
the 19,000-strong U.N.
peacekeeping force in
South Sudan for a year
Tuesday, while demand-
ing an immediate end to
fighting in the country
and political dialogue to
advance a plan to prevent
the world’s newest nation
from returning to civil
war.
the U.S.-sponsored reso-
lution. She said the mea-
sure reinforces its man-
date “to protect civilians,
support delivery of hu-
manitarian assistance,
monitor and investigate
human rights and sup-
port the peace process.”
The United States also
supports the resolution,
she said, “because it calls
for UNMISS to strength-
en its sexual and gender-
based violence preven-
tion activities, responding
dan in 2011. Impatience
has risen over the govern-
ment’s slow implementa-
tion of a 2018 peace deal
ending a five-year civil
war, including the crucial
work of merging once-
rival armed forces. An
estimated 400,000 people
were killed in the civil
war, and hundreds still
die in inter-communal
violence around the coun-
try.
The mission’s first
priority remains the pro- Matt Dunham / Associated Press 2021

The resolution was to the horrific sexual tection of civilians under Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, and their
adopted by a vote of 13-0, violence in South Sudan.” threat of physical vio- daughter, Gabriella, marked 2,000 days of her imprisonment in September.
with Russia and China China’s deputy U.N. lence. That requirement

After years in jail, Brits

abstaining, both calling ambassador, Dai Bing, includes deterring, pre-
the measure unbalanced criticized the United venting and responding
for focusing too much on States for pushing “for to sexual and gender-

are freed after debt paid

human rights in the east
African nation.
U.S. Ambassador Lin-
da Thomas Greenfield
welcomed approval for
the strengthened man-
date for the mission,
known as UNMISS, in
inclusion of many human
rights-related texts, re-
sulting in a very unbal-
anced draft resolution.”
South Sudan has exist-
ed as a nation for just over
a decade after winning
independence from Su-
based violence “within its
capacity and areas of
deployment.”
The mandate also in-
cludes creating condi- By Danica Kirka Ratcliffe, 43, and Anoosh- bargaining chips to
tions to deliver humani- and Jon Gambrell eh Ashoori, 67, landed in squeeze concessions out
tarian aid, supporting Oman following a two- of Western nations.
implementation of the LONDON — Two Brit- hour flight from Tehran, Wednesday’s an-
peace agreement and ish citizens who had been and were expected to nouncement came after
peace process, and mon- jailed in Iran for more arrive in Britain late Wed- extensive diplomacy that
itoring, investigating and than five years — a charity nesday. secured the release of the
reporting on human worker and a retired civil The British government dual nationals and led to
rights abuses and vio- engineer — were on their said a third detainee, agreement to repay the
lations of international way home Wednesday Morad Tahbaz, who holds debt in a way that com-
humanitarian law. after the U.K. government U.S., British and Iranian plies with U.K. and in-
settled a decades-old debt citizenship, was released ternational sanctions.
Edith M. Lederer is an to Iran. from prison on furlough Britain agreed to pay Iran
Associated Press writer. Nazanin Zaghari- as part of the same deal. $515.5 million, which will
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WORLD/NATION
NEWS IN BRIEF

WHO chief says

worst health
crisis in Ethiopia
As much of the world’s
attention is focused on the
bloodshed in Ukraine, the
head of the World Health
Organization said Wednes-
day there’s “nowhere on
Earth where the health of
millions of people is more
under threat” than Ethiopia’s
Tigray region.
WHO director-general Te-
dros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
said the situation in Tigray
from where he hails is “cata-
strophic,” saying the region
had been “sealed off from the
outside world” for about 500
EUROPE
Dust storm swirls
over Continent
A huge dust storm swirling
over Europe from the Sahara
desert has made it hard to
breathe in large parts of Spain
for a second straight day. The
dust was also flung across
Europe, reaching as far as
Paris, London and Belgrade.
The area of Spain rated by its
national air quality index as
“extremely unfavorable” ex-
panded from the start of the Laurent Gillieron / Associated Press

days.
“No food aid has been deliv-
ered since the middle of De-
cember,” Tedros told a press
briefing, adding that about
three-quarters of health facil-
ities assessed by WHO in the
region had been destroyed. He
said there was no treatment
for about 40,000 people with
HIV in the region.
“Yes, I’m from Tigray and
this crisis affects me, my fami-
ly and my friends very person-
ally,” Tedros said. “But I, the
dust event on Tuesday to in-
clude most of the nation’s
southern and central regions.
Authorities recommended for
people to wear face masks and
avoid outdoor exercise. Ex-
perts say the event is extreme-
ly intense but similar to those
that occur annually.
YEMEN
U.N. seeks aid for
war-ravaged nation
The United Nations is ap-
A jet fighter plane is on display at the entrance of the Swiss Army’s Payerne Air Base while a
Saharan dust storm blankets the area. Wind can send the sands as far away as South America.
The conference comes as people crossing state lines to 2.8%.
world attention is gripped by avoid restrictions. Under Chair Jerome Powell,
the war in Ukraine, which has the Fed is hoping that the rate
overshadowed other humani-
WASHINGTON, D.C.
hikes will achieve a difficult
tarian crises across the world Feds raise rates, and narrow objective: Raising
since the Russian invasion on borrowing costs enough to
Feb. 24 — raising concerns
project 6 more slow growth and tame high
that Yemen’s plight may be The Federal Reserve lifted inflation, yet not so much as to
forgotten. its key interest rate by a quar- topple the economy into reces-
ter of a percentage point on sion.
MISSOURI
Wednesday as policymakers
Abortion bill to took their first decisive step
TEXAS

director general of WHO, I pealing for $4.27 billion for

have a duty to protect and
promote health wherever it’s
under threat,” he said. “And
there is nowhere on Earth
where the health of millions of
people is more under threat
than Tigray.”
Tedros said the U.N. health
agency had now documented
43 attacks on health care work-
ers and facilities in Ukraine
since the Russian invasion
began last month.
But Tedros said the crisis in
Ukraine is “far from the only
crisis to which WHO is re-
sponding,” citing ongoing
problems in Yemen, Syria and
Ethiopia.
Yemen, the Arab world’s poor-
est country, with 161,000 peo-
ple likely to experience famine
there in 2022. The virtual
pledging conference is co-
hosted by Sweden and Swit-
zerland to alleviate what the
U.N. says is the world’s worst
humanitarian crisis. “Two in
three Yemenis — 20 million
men, women and children —
live in extreme poverty,” Secre-
tary-General Antonio Guterres
told donors in New York. “To-
day, we must do everything we
can to bridge immediate fund-
ing gaps and strengthen aid
delivery. We cannot cut people
adrift from humanitarian aid.”
reach over borders
First-of-its-kind Missouri
legislation shows that anti-
abortion lawmakers in Repub-
lican-led states aren’t likely to
stop at banning most abortions
within their borders but also
could try to make it harder to
go out of state to end preg-
nancies. A proposal that could
be debated in the Legislature
as soon as next week seeks to
make it illegal to “aid or abet”
abortions outlawed in Mis-
souri, even if they are per-
formed in other states.
State Rep. Mary Elizabeth
Coleman’s bill is aimed at a key
frustration for abortion foes:
toward trying to tame rapid
inflation by cooling the econo-
my. The Fed had kept rates
near zero since March 2020,
and the decision marked its
first increase since 2018. Poli-
cymakers also projected six
more similarly sized increases
over the course of 2022 as
inflation comes in at a 40-year
high, signaling that they are
going to pull back support for
the economy markedly.
The central bank expects
inflation to remain elevated,
ending 2022 at 4.3%, according
to quarterly projections re-
leased Wednesday. The offi-
cials also forecast much slower
economic growth this year, of
9 dead in crash,
6 college golfers
Nine people died in a fiery,
head-on collision in West Tex-
as, including six students and
a coach from the University of
the Southwest, who were re-
turning home to Hobbs, N.M.,
from a golf tournament, au-
thorities said. A pickup truck
crossed the center line of a
two-lane road in Andrews
County, about 30 miles east of
the New Mexico state line on
Tuesday evening and crashed
into the van carrying members
of the men’s and women’s golf
teams, said police.
Chronicle News Services

SYRIA

Mass graves could hold

evidence of war crimes
By Ben Hubbard
and Marlise Simons

BERLIN — By day, the

workers used heavy ma-
chinery to dig pits and
trenches. After dark, the
corpses arrived, some-
times hundreds at a time,
in the beds of military
pickups or in refrigerator
trucks meant for trans-
porting food.
As government in-
telligence officers looked Anonymous / Shaam News Network 2012

on, the dead were
dumped into the ground
and buried near the cap-
ital, Damascus, according
to men who worked at
two mass grave sites in
Syria. Sometimes, the
workers packed the dirt
down tightly to keep dogs
from digging up the bod-
ies.
Throughout Syria’s
11-year civil war, human
rights groups and gov-
ernment defectors have
documented the wide-
spread killing of civilians
by security forces as they
sought to stamp out any
opposition to the dicta-
torship of Bashar Assad.
Now, the New York
Times has gathered evi-
dence that sheds new
light on one enduring
mystery of the war: What
happened to the bodies of
the many thousands who
died or were killed in
government detention
centers?
Interviews over the
past several months with
four Syrian men who
worked at or near secret
mass graves led to an
examination of satellite
images. Together, those
clues revealed the loca-
tions of two sites. Each
one holds thousands of
bodies, according to the
men who worked there.
This photo shows a mass grave after government
forces went on a killing spree in Darya, Syria.
They could also contain
powerful evidence of war
crimes committed by
Assad’s forces, according
to human rights groups,
including the systematic
torture and the killing of
detainees.
“If the issue of the
missing and the dis-
appeared is not resolved,
there can never be peace
in Syria,” said Diab Ser-
rih, the co-founder of an
association of former
detainees in Syria’s noto-
rious Saydnaya prison
that has worked to locate
mass graves. “Every day,
we get calls from people
who want to know where
their sons are,” he added.
Many of them say, ‘I just
want to see a grave so that
I can put a flower on it.’ ”
After the uprising that
led to the war began in
2011, Assad activated his
network of security agen-
cies to stamp out dissent
by locking up protesters,
activists and others.
At least 14,000 of those
detainees were tortured
to death, the U.S. Trea-
sury Department said
last year, but the actual
number is almost certain-
ly much higher. More
than 130,000 others have
disappeared into govern-
ment detention centers,
and many of them are
presumed dead.
The Syrian govern-
ment has repeatedly
denied that it killed peo-
ple in detention. But
human rights groups
have extensively docu-
mented the practice. One
important body of evi-
dence came from a Syrian
police photographer,
code named “Caesar,”
who fled the country in
2013 with images of more
than 6,000 dead bodies,
some bearing signs of
torture.
Counting and identify-
ing the bodies in the mass
graves would only be
possible by digging them
up. But that is unlikely to
happen as long as Assad
remains in power. Russia,
his strongest backer,
continues to support him,
and he and his senior
officials have never been
held accountable for
atrocities such as the use
of chemical weapons
against their own citi-
zens.
Ben Hubbard and Marlise
Simons are New York Times
writers.
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CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
AROUND THE WORLD
WHO: Global
cases rise, while
deaths fall 17%
The number of new corona-
virus deaths reported world-
wide fell by 17% in the past
week while COVID-19 in-
fections rose, reversing a de-
cline in cases that first began
in January, according to the
World Health Organization.
In the U.N. health agency’s
weekly report on the pandemic
issued this week, WHO said
there were more than 11 mil-
lion new COVID-19 infections
last week — about an 8% rise
— and 43,000 new deaths. The
number of COVID-19 deaths
globally has been dropping for
the past three weeks.
The biggest increases in
cases were seen in the Western
Pacific and Africa, where in-
fections rose by 29% and 12%
respectively. Elsewhere, cases
dropped by more than 20% in
the Middle East, Southeast
Asia and the Americas. In
Europe, cases inched up by
about 2%.
WHO said those numbers
“should be interpreted with
caution.” It noted that many
countries are changing their
COVID-19 testing strategies as
they exit the acute phase of the
pandemic, and are testing far
less than previously, meaning
that many new cases are going
undetected.
In recent weeks, countries
including Sweden and the
United Kingdom have an-
nounced plans to drop wide-
spread testing for COVID-19,
saying the massive investment
is no longer worth the effort.
Still, infections, hospitaliza-
tions and deaths have in-
creased slightly in Britain,
driven by the more infectious
omicron subvariant BA.2.
Another contributing factor
GEORGIA
Trump’s pick for
governor failing
to attract donors
By Jeff Amy
and Will Weissert
ATLANTA — During his two
Senate campaigns, Republican
David Perdue had little trouble
raking in millions in campaign
cash. But as he tries to unseat
Georgia’s incumbent governor,
fellow Republican Brian Kemp,
Perdue is struggling to attract
donors.
Perdue’s top 30 individual
contributors pumped in nearly
$450,000 to his Senate cam-
paigns in 2014 and 2020, ac-
cording to campaign finance
disclosures. But that same
group and their immediate
family members have steered
just $26,200 to his current run
for governor. Kemp, mean-
while, has raised $81,450 from
these previous Perdue backers.
Perdue’s difficulty winning
back previous donors suggests
a broader challenge for him
ahead of Georgia’s May 24 pri-
mary, which is being closely
TEXAS
Primary ballot rejections soar under new rules
By Paul J. Weber
and Acacia Coronado
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas
threw out mail votes at an ab-
normally high rate during the
nation’s first primary of 2022,
rejecting nearly 23,000 ballots
outright under tougher voting
rules that are part of a broad
campaign by Republicans to
reshape American elections,
according to an analysis by the
Associated Press.
Roughly 13% of mail ballots
returned in the March 1 primary
were discarded and uncounted
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has been the suspension of
nearly all COVID-19 protocols
as more people abandon
masks and gather in larger
numbers.
JAPAN
All restrictions
to be lifted soon
Japan’s Prime Minister Fu-
mio Kishida on Wednesday
announced plans to fully lift
coronavirus restrictions on
March 21 as new infections
driven by the highly conta-
gious omicron variant slow.
The COVID-19 restrictions
currently in place in 18 prefec-
tures, including the Tokyo
area, will end on Monday as
planned, Kishida said as his
government seeks to cautious-
ly expand consumer activity to
help the badly hurt economy
get back on track.
Daily caseloads have steadi-
ly declined in Japan in recent
weeks after surging to new
highs exceeding 100,000 in
early February. New cases
have fallen by about half.
VIETNAM
Curbs scrapped
on foreign visitors
Vietnam on Wednesday
scrapped quarantine and other
travel restrictions for foreign
visitors in an effort to fully
reopen its border after two
years of pandemic-related
closure, the government said.
Visitors entering the Southeast
Asian country only need to
show a negative COVID-19 test
prior to arrival, according to
the Health Ministry, which
said the new measures were
effective immediately. The
watched for signals about the
direction of the national Repub-
lican Party. Despite the backing
of former President Donald
Trump, Perdue is well behind
Kemp in what is certain to be an
expensive race, an Associated
Press review of federal and
state campaign finance records
shows.
Perdue raised just $1.1 mil-
lion from the launch of his
campaign in December through
the end of January, an opening
stretch when candidates typ-
ically try to post their most
impressive numbers, and he
had less than $1 million in cash
on hand.
Kemp took in $7.4 million by
Jan. 31 and had $12.7 million on
hand. The governor, defending
himself against fierce criticism
from Trump for being disloyal
about the former president’s
false claims of election fraud in
Georgia, has pledged to unleash
that cash advantage, spending
$4.2 million on television ads
across 187 counties in Texas.
While historical primary com-
parisons are lacking, the
double-digit rejection rate
would be far beyond what is
typical in a general election,
when experts say anything
above 2% is usually cause for
attention.
“My first reaction is ‘yikes,’ ”
said Charles Stewart III, direc-
tor of the Election Data and
Science Lab at the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology. “It
says to me that there’s some-
thing seriously wrong with the
way that the mail ballot policy is
A rickshaw driver waits for tourists in Hanoi. Vietnam lifted travel restrictions for foreign
visitors in an effort to fully reopen its border after two years of pandemic-related closure.
Coronavirus update
CALIFORNIA VACCINATIONS
82.2%
have received at least one shot
70.9%
have received all shots
Source: California Covid Data Coalition,
Johns Hopkins University and CDC
reopening comes as Vietnam
reports record numbers of new
COVID-19 infections, with a
daily average of nearly 200,000
cases over the past two weeks.
Vietnam has administered
over 200 million doses of CO-
VID-19 vaccines, covering 80%
of the country’s 98 million
people, according to the Health
Ministry.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Emhoff tests
positive for virus
Doug Emhoff, husband of
Vice President Kamala Harris,
tested positive for the corona-
virus Tuesday, according to a
statement from the White
Former Sen. David Perdue speaks at a Feb. 2 campaign stop in Covington, Ga. The Republican
is trying to unseat incumbent GOP Gov. Brian Kemp.
alone.
Perdue is turning to Trump
for help, scheduling a Wednes-
day appearance with the former
president at his Mar-a-Lago
resort, where contributors will
have to give $3,000 to attend. A
picture with Trump means
spending $24,200.
That’s ahead of a campaign-
style Trump rally in northeast
Georgia this month that will
feature Perdue and former
being administered.”
Republicans promised new
layers of voting rules would
make it “easier to vote and hard-
er to cheat.” But the final num-
bers recorded by AP lay bare the
glaring gulf between that ob-
jective and the obstacles, frus-
tration and tens of thousands of
uncounted votes resulting from
tighter restrictions and rushed
implementation.
In Texas, a state former Presi-
dent Donald Trump easily won
although by a smaller margin
than 2016, the trouble of navigat-
ing new rules was felt in coun-
As of 7 p.m. Wednesday
CASES DEATHS
192 10
Bay Area Bay Area
3,796 137
California California
New cases, deaths reported
since Tuesday
House. “My symptoms are
mild and I’m grateful to be
both vaccinated and boosted,”
Emhoff wrote on Twitter,
encouraging others to get vac-
cinated and boosted as well.
Harris tested negative, but is
curtailing her schedule as a
result of her husband’s positive
test.
The prospect of the corona-
virus spreading among the
inner circle of the White
House comes as President
Biden prepares to travel to
Europe next week for a pivotal
NATO summit to discuss the
Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Harris returned this weekend
from a trip in Europe, where
she met with the presidents of
football player Herschel Walk-
er, the lead Republican vying
for one of the state’s U.S. Senate
seats.
Perdue’s campaign acknowl-
edges it is behind in the money
race and is relying instead on
energy from the GOP’s most
loyal voters.
After campaigning for Kemp
in the 2018 governor’s race,
Trump turned against him
when the governor refused to
ties big and small, red and blue.
But the rejection rate was higher
in counties that lean Democratic
(15.1%) than Republican (9.1%).
The unusually high rejection
rate to start America’s midterm
election season is expected to
put more attention on changes
to the ballot box elsewhere in the
country. Texas’ election was the
debut of more restrictive voting
rules the GOP raced to put on
the books across the U.S. in time
for the midterm elections, a
push that took particular aim at
mail voting that soared in pop-
ularity during the pandemic.
Hau Dinh / Associated Press
Poland and Romania.
U.S. SENATE
Preparedness bill
moves ahead
A Senate committee ap-
proved a bipartisan blueprint
to overhaul the nation’s public
health system, applying the
lessons of COVID-19 to future
outbreaks through a new
chain of command, a stronger
medical supply chain, and
clearer crisis communications.
The Health, Education, Labor
and Pensions Committee ap-
proved the PREVENT Pan-
demics Act this week by a vote
of 20-2.
But it’s only a first step. If
the ambitious vision does
eventually pass Congress,
lawmakers must still deliver
the tens of billions of dollars it
will take to translate it into
reality and maintain focus
after the coronavirus recedes.
Right now, Congress is even
having trouble meeting a
White House request for addi-
tional funds to keep COVID-19
at bay the rest of this year.
Chronicle News Services
John Bazemore / Associated Press
overturn Biden’s win — some-
thing Kemp had no power to do.
As revenge, Trump recruited
Perdue to challenge Kemp in a
primary, a move that some in
the party worry will leave the
eventual nominee weakened
heading into a general election
race against Democrat Stacey
Abrams.
Jeff Amy and Will Weissert are
Associated Press writers.
At least 17 other states in the
coming months will cast ballots
under tougher election laws, in
part driven by Trump’s baseless
and persistent claims of ram-
pant fraud in the 2020 election.
The number of rejected ballots
in Texas alone far exceeds the
hundreds of even possible voter
fraud cases the AP has previ-
ously identified in six battle-
ground states that Trump dis-
puted.
Paul J. Weber and Acacia
Coronado are Associated Press
writers.

FROM THE COVER
Officials tally
more than
2,500 deaths
Mariupol from page A1
die from a Russian shell.
They are stacked to-
gether with dozens of
others in this mass grave
on the outskirts of the city.
A man covered in a bright
blue tarp, weighed down
by stones at the crum-
bling curb. A woman
wrapped in a red-and-
gold bed sheet, her legs
neatly bound at the ankles
with a scrap of white
fabric. Workers toss the
bodies in as fast as they
can, because the less time
they spend in the open,
the better their own
chances of survival.
“The only thing (I
want) is for this to be
finished,” raged worker
Volodymyr Bykovskyi,
pulling crinkling black
body bags from a truck.
“Damn them all, those
people who started this!”
More bodies will come,
from streets where they
are everywhere and from
the hospital basement
where adults and chil-
dren are laid out awaiting
someone to pick them up.
The youngest still has an
umbilical stump attached.
Each air strike and
shell that relentlessly
pounds Mariupol —
about one per minute at
times — drives home the
curse of a geography that
has put the city squarely
in the path of Russia’s
domination of Ukraine.
This southern seaport of
430,000 has become a
symbol of Russian Presi-
dent Vladimir Putin’s
drive to crush democratic
Ukraine — but also of a
fierce resistance on the
ground.
In the nearly three
weeks since Russia’s war
began, two Associated
Press journalists have
been the only internation-
al media present in Mari-
upol, chronicling its fall
into chaos and despair.
The city is now encircled
‘We need you right now,’ Zelenskyy tells Congress
Ukraine from page A1
statement said, though
there was no immediate
word on how many had
been killed or injured.
Satellite imagery from
Monday showed the word
“children” written in large
white letters in Russian in
front of and behind the
building, the Maxar space
technology company
said.
The Russian defense
ministry denied bombing
the theater or anywhere
else in Mariupol on Wed-
nesday.
In Kyiv, residents hud-
dled in homes and shel-
ters amid a citywide cur-
few that runs until Thurs-
day morning, as Russian
troops shelled areas in
and around the city, in-
cluding a residential
neighborhood 1.5 miles
from the presidential
palace. A 12-story apart-
ment building in central
Kyiv erupted in flames
after being hit by shrap-
nel.
And 10 people were
killed while standing in
line for bread in the
northern city of Cherni-
hiv, the Ukrainian Gener-
al Prosecutor’s Office
said.
Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelenskyy,
meanwhile, went before
the U.S. Congress via
video and, invoking Pearl
Harbor and 9/11, pleaded
with America for more
weapons and tougher
sanctions against Russia,
saying: “ We need you
right now.”
President Biden an-
by Russian soldiers, who
are slowly squeezing the
life out of it, one blast at a
time.
Several appeals for
humanitarian corridors
to evacuate civilians went
unheeded, until Ukraini-
an officials said Wednes-
day that about 30,000
people had fled in convoys
of cars. Air strikes and
shells have hit the ma-
ternity hospital, the fire
department, homes, a
church, a field outside a
school and, most recently,
a theater where about
1,000 people had taken
shelter. For the estimated
hundreds of thousands
who remain, there is quite
simply nowhere to go.
The surrounding roads
are mined and the port
blocked. Food is running
out, and the Russians
have stopped humanitari-
an attempts to bring it in.
Electricity is mostly gone
and water is sparse, with
residents melting snow to
drink. Some parents have
even left their newborns
at the hospital, perhaps
hoping to give them a
chance at life in the one
place with decent electric-
ity and water.
People burn scraps of
furniture in makeshift
grills to warm their hands
in the freezing cold and
cook what little food there
still is. The grills them-
selves are built with the
one thing in plentiful
supply: bricks and shards
of metal scattered in the
streets from destroyed
buildings.
Death is everywhere.
Local officials have tallied
more than 2,500 deaths in
the siege, but many bodies
can’t be counted because
of the endless shelling.
They have told families to
leave their dead outside in
the streets because it’s too
dangerous to hold funer-
als.
Many of the deaths
documented by the AP
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses Congress, invoking Pearl
Harbor and 9/11, while pleading for more weapons and sanctions.
nounced the U.S. is send-
ing an additional $800
million in military aid to
Ukraine, including more
anti-aircraft and anti-
tank weapons and
drones. He also called
Vladimir Putin a “war
criminal” in his sharpest
condemnation of the
Russian leader since the
invasion began.
International pressure
against the Kremlin
mounted and its isolation
deepened as the Interna-
tional Court of Justice,
also known as the World
Court, ordered Russia to
stop attacking Ukraine,
though there was little
hope it would comply.
Also, the 47-nation Coun-
cil of Europe, the conti-
nent’s foremost human
rights body, expelled
Russia.
While Moscow’s
ground advance on the
People settle in a bomb shelter in Mariupol. At times, the shelling occurs about one per minute.
were of children and
mothers, despite Russia’s
claims that civilians
haven’t been attacked.
Doctors say they are treat-
ing 10 civilians for every
injured Ukrainian soldier.
The same geography
that for so long worked in
Mariupol’s favor had
turned against it. The city
stands squarely between
regions controlled by the
Russia-backed separatists
— about 6 miles to the east
at the closest point — and
the Crimean Peninsula
annexed by Russia in
2014. The capture of Mari-
upol would give the Rus-
sians a clear land corridor
all the way through, con-
trolling the Sea of Azov.
As February ended, the
siege began. Ignoring the
danger, or restless, or
perhaps just feeling in-
vincible as teenagers do, a
group of boys met up a
few days later, on March
2, to play soccer on a pitch
outside a school.
A bomb exploded. The
blast tore through Iliya’s
legs.
The odds were against
him, and increasingly
against the city. The elec-
tricity went out yet again,
as did most mobile net-
works. Without commu-
nications, medics had to
guess which hospitals
could still handle the
wounded and which
roads could still be navi-
gated to reach them.
Iliya couldn’t be saved.
J. Scott Applewhite / Tribune News Service
Ukrainian capital ap-
peared largely stalled,
Putin said the operation
was unfolding “success-
fully, in strict accordance
with pre-approved
plans.” He also decried
Western sanctions
against Moscow, accusing
the West of trying to
“squeeze us, to put pres-
sure on us, to turn us into
a weak, dependent coun-
try.”
A senior U.S. defense
official said the Russians
were still making little
tangible progress in much
of the country, but have
begun shelling the sub-
urbs of Odessa, Ukraine’s
third-largest city and a
major naval and shipping
hub. The official, who
spoke on condition of
anonymity to discuss U.S.
military assessments,
said Russia’s aims weren’t
clear, but Western offi-
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His father, Serhii,
dropped down, hugged
his dead boy’s head and
wailed out his grief.
On March 4, it was yet
another child in the emer-
gency room — Kirill, the
toddler struck in the head
by shrapnel. His mother
and stepfather bundled
him in a blanket. They
hoped for the best, and
then endured the worst.
“Why? Why? Why?”
his sobbing mother, Mari-
na Yatsko, asked in the
hospital hallway, as medi-
cal workers looked on
helplessly. She tenderly
unwrapped the blanket
around her lifeless child
to kiss him and inhale his
scent one last time.
That was the day the
darkness settled in for
good — a blackout in both
power and knowledge.
Ukrainian television and
radio were cut, and car
stereos became the only
link to the outside world.
They played Russian
news, describing a world
that couldn’t be further
from the reality in Mari-
upol.
As it sunk in that there
was truly no escape, the
mood of the city changed.
It didn’t take long for
grocery store shelves to
empty. Mariupol’s resi-
dents cowered by night in
underground shelters
and emerged by day to
grab what they could
before scurrying un-
derground again.
cials have long worried
about a ground assault on
the coastal city.
Another round of talks
between the two sides
was scheduled for Wed-
nesday. After Tuesday’s
negotiations, Russian
Foreign Minister Sergey
Lavrov said a neutral
military status for
Ukraine was being “seri-
ously discussed” by the
two sides, while Zelen-
skyy said Russia’s de-
mands for ending the war
were becoming “more
realistic.”
Hopes for diplomatic
progress to end the war
rose after Zelenskyy
acknowledged Tuesday
in the most explicit terms
yet that Ukraine is un-
likely to realize its goal of
joining NATO. Putin has
long depicted Ukraine’s
NATO aspirations as a
threat to Russia.
San Francisco Chronicle and SFChronicle.com |
Evgeniy Maloletka / Associated Press
This agony fits in with
Putin’s goals. The siege is
a military tactic popular-
ized in medieval times
and designed to crush a
population through star-
vation and violence, al-
lowing an attacking force
to spare its own soldiers
the cost of entering a
hostile city.
Instead, civilians are
the ones left to die, slowly
and painfully.
Putin has refined the
tactic during his years in
power, first in the Che-
chen city of Grozny in
2000 and then in the
Syrian city of Aleppo in
2016. He reduced both to
ruins.
By March 9, the sound
of Russian fighter jets in
Mariupol was enough to
send people screaming
for cover.
The jets rumbled
across the sky, this time
decimating the maternity
hospital.
Rescuers rushed a
pregnant woman through
the rubble and light snow
as she stroked her blood-
ied belly, face blanched
and head lolling listlessly
to the side. Her baby was
dying inside her, and she
knew it, medics said.
“Kill me now!” she
screamed, as they strug-
gled to save her life at
another hospital even
closer to the front line.
The baby was born dead.
A half-hour later, the
mother died, too. The
Lavrov welcomed
Zelenskyy’s comment
and said “the businesslike
spirit” starting to surface
in the talks “gives hope
that we can agree on this
issue.”
“A neutral status is
being seriously discussed
in connection with securi-
ty guarantees,” Lavrov
said on Russian TV.
“There are concrete for-
mulations that in my view
are close to being agreed.”
Prospects for a diplo-
matic breakthrough were
highly uncertain, howev-
er, given the gulf between
Ukraine’s demand that
the invading forces with-
draw completely and
Russia’s suspected aim of
replacing Kyiv’s West-
ward-looking govern-
ment with a pro-Moscow
regime.
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doctors had no time to
learn either of their
names.
Another pregnant
woman, Mariana Vishe-
girskaya, was waiting to
give birth at the maternity
hospital when the strike
hit. Her brow and cheek
bloodied, she clutched her
belongings in a plastic bag
and navigated the debris-
strewn stairs in polka-dot
pajamas. Outside the
ruined hospital, she
stared motionless with
wide blue eyes at the
crackling flames.
Vishegirskaya deliv-
ered her child the next
day to the sound of shell-
fire. Baby Veronika drew
her first breath on March
10.
The two women — one
dead and one a mother —
have since become the
symbol of their black-
ened, burning hometown.
Facing worldwide con-
demnation, Russian offi-
cials claimed that the
maternity hospital had
been taken over by far-
right Ukrainian forces to
use as a base and emptied
of patients and nurses.
In two tweets, the Rus-
sian Embassy in London
claimed that the materni-
ty hospital had long been
out of operation, and that
Vishegirskaya was an
actress playing a role.
Mystyslav Chernov and
Evgeniy Maloletka are
Associated Press writers.
In going before Con-
gress, Zelenskyy said that
Russia “has turned the
Ukrainian sky into a
source of death for thou-
sands of people.” But
Biden has rejected Zelen-
skyy’s requests to send
warplanes to Ukraine or
establish a no-fly zone
over the country because
of the risk of triggering
war between the U.S. and
Russia.
In other developments,
the mayor of the city of
Melitopol, who was
seized by Russian forces
five days ago, has been
freed, said Zelenskyy
chief of staff Andriy Yer-
mak. No details were
given about how he be-
came free.
Andrea Rosa is an
Associated Press writer.
A6 | San Francisco Chronicle and SFChronicle.com
FROM THE COVER
In 21st season,
Bennett happy
at St. Mary’s
St. Mary’s from page A1
ly serve as springboards for
ambitious coaches on the rise.
Lynn Nance, for example,
parlayed three strong seasons
with the Gaels (1986-89) into
the top job at Washington,
which didn’t work out so well.
Ernie Kent spent six years at
St. Mary’s (1991-97), then
jumped to Oregon, where he
presided over the Ducks for 13
seasons.
Bennett arrived in Moraga
in April 2001. He was 38 years
old at the time, married but
childless. Now he’s bearing
down on 60 in June, with one
son out of the house and an-
other on the brink of leaving.
One other contrast worth
highlighting: St. Mary’s went
2-27 the season before Bennett
showed up. The Gaels have
posted a losing record only
once since then, in Bennett’s
long-ago first season. They
later rattled off 13 consecutive
20-win seasons during one
stretch, including a 30-win
season and six others with 27
victories or more. They’re 25-7
this season entering their first-
round NCAA matchup Thurs-
day against Indiana.
So we repeat: Why on earth
is Bennett still in Moraga?
The answer is layered. Ben-
nett doesn’t like change, ac-
cording to his wife, Darlene.
She knows only too well; she
makes him a turkey-and-ched-
dar cheese sandwich, plus half
of a peanut butter-and-jelly
sandwich, on every game day.
His dad, Tom, carved out a
long and rewarding coaching
career at an Arizona communi-
ty college, so Bennett saw
first-hand the virtues of stay-
ing put. He didn’t want to
uproot his kids, Chase and
Cade.
And, not incidentally, he
came to savor the improbable
machine he built at little St.
Mary’s College of California.
“I never thought we’d stay 21
years, especially when he had
success early on and he started
getting job offers that were
bigger programs and a lot
better money,” Darlene Ben-
nett said. “I thought we would
leave.
“But after the first time he
turned down a job, I realized
the importance of his loyalty to
St. Mary’s for giving him his
first (head-coaching) job, and
his loyalty to the players. After
that, I figured we’d never
leave.”
Bennett had many chances
to bolt for bigger stages and
brighter lights. Over the years,
as St. Mary’s kept winning and
winning and winning, his
Oakland A’s waterfront ballpark plan hits setback
Ballpark from page A1
California, one that would
bring needed housing, jobs, tax
revenue and economic devel-
opment to Oakland. If the A’s
leave Oakland because they
can’t build a new ballpark, it
would be the third professional
sports team to depart in five
years.
Committee Chair Jim
McGrath also said he didn’t
support changing Howard
Terminal’s uses because of
projected cargo growth and
because he hasn’t seen evi-
dence that Howard Terminal
“has no utility.”
The committee’s decision
comes despite port officials
insisting that the maritime
operations would not be im-
pacted if the port’s priority-use
designation is removed from
Howard Terminal.
The committee’s decision is
not final. Its vote is a recom-
mendation to the San Francisco
Bay Conservation and Devel-
opment Commission, a state
agency that protects the bay.
BCDC’s approval is needed for
the A’s to build at Howard
Terminal.
“The project cannot move
forward without (BCDC’s)
approvals, and to have one of
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name surfaced for head-coach-
ing openings at Hawaii, Ore-
gon State and Utah. He in-
terviewed for the job at Cal, a
tantalizing possibility because
his family wouldn’t have had
to move.
But Bennett wasn’t especial-
ly thrilled with the prospect of
tackling another rebuilding
project at one of those schools
as jobs typically open only
when programs are down and
he grew to realize he had the
resources to win at St. Mary’s.
So he stayed.
And then he won some
more, including beating the
No. 1 team in the country
(Gonzaga) on Feb. 26, sparking
a seismic celebration in his
team’s cramped, antiquated
gymnasium.
“I’m a guy who likes to be at
the same place for a long time,”
Bennett said. “I’m not a mover
and shaker, I know that about
myself. But I didn’t ever think,
‘Hey, what am I going to do in
10 years?’
“I just kind of approached it
year-to-year, try to keep getting
better. I never thought I was
going to be here 21 years, but I
never thought I wasn’t, either.”
Do not underestimate the
impact of Bennett’s two boys
on this uncommon run. Chase
and Cade, like their dad, are
addicted to basketball. They
played on Campolindo-Mora-
ga’s high school state champi-
onship team in 2019, then
helped the Cougars return to
the state title game in 2020 (it
was canceled by the pandemic)
and roll to an abbreviated, 15-0
season in ’21.
This past season, while
Chase played at a prep school
near Seattle, Cade teamed with
Aidan Mahaney — bound for
St. Mary’s next season — to
lead Campolindo to the No. 1
ranking in Northern California
nearly the entire season.
Beyond that, the Bennett
family enjoys living in Moraga.
Cade and Chase attended ele-
mentary school, middle school
and high school without mov-
ing, not exactly the customary
path for kids of a Division I
college basketball coach.
“I think it comes from hav-
ing a family, having kids,”
Randy Bennett said of his
motivation to stay at St.
Mary’s. “I was happy and I
didn’t really want to move my
kids. They were in a good
situation, especially as they got
to high school. I didn’t want to
do that to them.
“It’s just been a great place
for me to raise a family and
coach basketball, and feel like I
can do all of those at a high
level, the way it should be
their key advisory groups vote
no, it’s very disappointing,”
Kaval said. “I think from our
perspective ... an unelected
body would choose a parking
lot instead of approve a pri-
vately financed ballpark with
3,000 housing units is really
disappointing.”
The BCDC meeting is sched-
uled for June 2. The A’s will
need to get a two-thirds vote of
support to move forward with
the project. BCDC could vote
against its committee’s recom-
mendation. BCDC staff will
release their own recommenda-
tion in early April.
Kaval said the team plans to
meet with BCDC members
before the meeting to answer
their questions and concerns.
Justin Berton, a spokesper-
son for Mayor Libby Schaaf,
said the “public process is a
lengthy, thorough, and trans-
parent process, and today’s
advisory committee delivered
important feedback as this
project moves forward.”
But he said, “The Port of
Oakland and its leadership
knows its capacity best, and we
agree with their detailed analy-
sis that shows they can contin-
ue to thrive and grow port
activities well into the future,
as well as support a trans-
Randy Bennett took his first Division I head coach job at St. Mary’s in 2001. Since then, he has
come to feel at home at the Moraga school where he has posted a 479-199 record.
Bennett, shown running drills earlier this month, has led St.
Mary’s to the NCAA Tournament eight times.
Randy Bennett file
Age: 59
Prior to St. Mary’s: Assistant at
San Diego (1985-96), Pepper-
dine (1996-99) and Saint Louis
(1999-01)
Record at St. Mary’s: 479-199
(21 seasons)
Ranking: 85th in wins in Divi-
sion I history
20-win seasons: 15
Most wins in season: 30 (2017-
18)
NCAA Tournament appear-
ances: 8
NIT appearances: 7
done. … And then there’s the
fact we built St. Mary’s into a
program where you have a
chance to participate in the
NCAA Tournament every
year.”
Another underplayed ele-
ment in all this is the road Tom
Bennett traveled, or chose not
to travel. He spent 19 years as
the head coach at Mesa Com-
munity College, outside Phoe-
nix, where he won 73% of his
games and nine conference
championships. Randy Ben-
nett played for his dad at Mesa
before moving on to UC San
Diego.
Tom Bennett once turned
down a Division I job, his
daughter-in-law said, to stay at
the community-college level.
formational, world-class devel-
opment.”
The committee’s decision
comes less than a month after
the City Council voted to certi-
fy the environmental review of
the A’s proposed development.
That certification triggered a
140-day process, set by state
law, for the A’s to get approvals
from state regulatory agencies.
The team wants to build a
35,000-seat waterfront ball-
park, 3,000 units of housing, 1.5
million square feet of offices,
270,000 square feet of retail
space, a 3,500-capacity perfor-
mance venue, up to 400 hotel
rooms and 8,900 parking spac-
es. If the project gets final ap-
provals — which the A’s are
pushing for this year — it
would be one of the largest
developments in state history.
The Seaport Planning Ad-
visory Committee is made up of
officials from ports throughout
the Bay Area, environmental
groups and transportation
agencies.
Its decision is based on an
analysis of whether Howard
Terminal is needed for port
operations and what the im-
pact of opening the area to
public access would be. The
committee examined how sea
level rise and environmental
Photos by D. Ross Cameron / Special to The Chronicle
Tom actually went the other
way, returning to high school
coaching after leaving Mesa in
the 1990s — and led Gilbert
High to an Arizona state title
in 2003.
“I think that did influence
Randy,” Darlene Bennett said
of his dad’s long run at Mesa.
“He saw what his father could
do — build a program and
have players come back and
support him. Randy appreci-
ates the beauty of that.”
All along, partly through an
international recruiting pipe-
line (which once brought
NCAA sanctions), Randy Ben-
nett turned St. Mary’s into a
regular West Coast Conference
contender and postseason
participant. The program sud-
denly spit out a stream of ac-
complished players — from
Patty Mills and Matthew Della-
vedova to Omar Samhan and
Jock Landale to Mickey
McConnell and Jordan Ford.
This year’s team, notably,
doesn’t feature a candidate
worthy of joining that list. The
Gaels have four players —
Matthias Tass, Tommy Kuhse,
Logan Johnson and Alex Du-
cas — averaging between 10
and 13 points per game. St.
Mary’s plays rugged defense,
limits its mistakes and typical-
ly controls the pace.
That has been enough to
produce wins over postseason
tournament teams Gonzaga,
Notre Dame, Oregon, BYU,
justice issues could affect the
project.
Port officials have said that
it’s not critical to maintain the
site for port use despite ob-
jections from port workers.
Even if the number of cargo
ships that use the port increas-
es, port officials said other sites
can accommodate the growth.
Danny Wan, executive direc-
tor of the Port of Oakland, said
at Wednesday’s meeting that
cargo growth projections have
been too ambitious and have
failed to materialize over the
past 10 years. But some com-
mittee members disagreed with
Wan’s projections and said the
reality is that there is some
growth.
Wan said “it’s clear” that the
port doesn’t need Howard
Terminal for port use, but some
committee members disagreed.
In addition, port officials
said it’s not up to Oakland’s
port to carry the burden for
regional cargo ship needs and
that the project shouldn’t be
rejected because of concerns
around cargo ship growth.
Since 2014, Howard Termi-
nal has been used for worker
training, truck parking and
staging, storage, cargo loading
and tugboat docking, according
to the committee’s staff report.
Santa Clara (twice) and USF
(twice). The Gaels went 16-0 at
home this season, including
the signature victory over their
top-ranked WCC rivals.
All in all, this year’s team
might represent Bennett’s best
coaching job yet.
“We don’t have an elite scor-
er, an alpha so to speak, but we
do have guys who understand
how to bring it every day,”
assistant coach Justin Joyner
said. “Because of that, I feel
like we have one of the tougher
teams in the West and prob-
ably the country. And it always
comes down from the top.
Randy is really hard-working
and extremely consistent, and
it feeds into our program.”
Joyner suspects Bennett still
thinks he can take St. Mary’s
to another level. The school
recently launched construction
to expand and renovate its
venerable home — long known
as McKeon Pavilion, now
dubbed University Credit
Union Pavilion — which
should help with recruiting.
Bennett called the project
“very important,” and maybe
it’s necessary to keep the Gaels
competitive. But it also seems
likely they would win no mat-
ter what their home court
looks like. Bennett’s career
record stands at 479-199,
meaning he could reach the
500-win milestone next sea-
son.
Twenty-one years ago, the
odds were long that Bennett —
or any coach, ever — would
even approach 500 victories at
St. Mary’s. But he’s still there,
chugging along with no re-
grets.
“I’ve never looked back and
said, ‘Man, I wish I wouldn’t
have passed on that one,’ ” he
said. “Now it’s to a point where
you have a place that’s kind of
yours. We have a lot of players
who come back and appreciate
the program, view it as family,
and I like that.”
Ron Kroichick is a San Francisco
Chronicle staff writer. Email:
rkroichick@sfchronicle.com
Twitter: @ronkroichick
But committee members said
they needed more information
on what properties the port
plans to offer instead of How-
ard Terminal for truck and
freight cargo.
David Lewis, executive di-
rector of Save the Bay, a non-
profit that works to preserve
the bay, said he didn’t see any
specific information about
what would replace the nearly
40 acres of port property that
would be lost if the port re-
moved the maritime-use desig-
nation from Howard Terminal.
Kristine Zortman, executive
director of the Port of Redwood
City, said the maritime in-
dustry needs to be protected
because it provides well-paid
jobs.
In January, the port an-
nounced plans to use 25 acres
of Howard Terminal to open a
container yard for storage and
pickup — an effort to improve
the flow of agricultural ex-
ports, the report stated. The A’s
and port officials have said
these plans would not impact
the A’s intended development
at Howard Terminal.
Sarah Ravani (she/her) is a San
Francisco Chronicle staff writer.
Email: sravani@sfchronicle.com
Twitter: @SarRavani

FROM THE COVER
Totems of a time that blurred days
Pandemic from page A1
stuffing the masks in a jar. “Now
we’re at the full, gallon sized,
hermetically sealed jar,” said
Garcia, adding that the jar he
uses has gotten larger and heav-
ier as the masks pile up.
This jar, which might have
otherwise been used for home-
made pickling or kombucha,
contains at least 200 N95 masks,
nearly every single one he’s
worn during the past 18 months.
When he looks at the jar now,
stuffed to the brim with identi-
cal masks, little differences start
to stick out to him, like the stra-
ta of his summertime masks,
tainted with extra moisture
from sweat and smoke from the
wildfires.
Garcia, 35, who made street
art when he lived in San Fran-
cisco, didn’t set out to create an
art project out of this, but in
collecting this strange stockpile
of used material, it became an
art project in and of itself.
“There’s a lot of art that
comes out of either process or
repetition or having a lot of one
thing,” said Garcia.
In his compulsion to preserve
his masks, Garcia started re-
membering the work of David
Ireland, a conceptual artist
whose former San Francisco
home is now a museum at 500
Capp Street. Among many
things, Ireland was famous for
the way he made art out of ordi-
nary materials, like jars of dust
and dirt collected from his win-
dow frames and front door-
steps.
And even though Garcia has
been thinking about it as a sort
of conceptual art piece of his
own, he still feels conflicted
about his project, even though
he still continues to add to it —
even if it means using extreme
force to get a mask inside. Ob-
jectively, he says, it’s biologically
repulsive.
“The outside of the barrier is
all contaminated with virus and
wildfire smoke and the inside of
the barrier is all contaminated
with me, and with the humidity
and biology that come from a
human being,” he said. “It re-
presents a lot of days, and a lot
of days that were largely un-
pleasant in a lot of ways.”
There is a way that by looking
at all the masks, squished to-
gether in one jar, the pandemic
seems both impossibly large
and heavy, a tragic pile of grief
that seems never-ending, ever-
growing, like a virus continuing
to mutate. And yet there is also a
hopeful way of seeing the jar —
as a container that is finite,
whose lid can stay sealed. Hope-
fully, one day, never to be added
to again.
A colorful reminder
No matter where she is,
Dyane Silva Janney always has
her glass orb beside her. She
keeps it lit 24/7, its colorful rays
of light keeping her connected,
even if not physically, to two
people she loved so much. In it
are the ashes of her husband
and her mother, both of whom
died within 15 months of each
other, right before and during
the pandemic.
Janney, 71, had been married
to Bill for 32 years before he
passed away unexpectedly in
2019. And in fact, everything
about their courtship had been
unexpected. The two had
crossed paths when Janney was
16 years old, working as a linge-
rie model for Levy Brothers in
Redwood City. Bill was a bra
salesman. Years later, the two
met again, and worked together
for more than a decade. Eventu-
ally they married.
Shortly before the pandemic,
Dyane and Bill moved from
Novato to Phoenix to retire
together. They were enjoying
their new chapter: Dyane was
beginning to make art again and
had gotten involved with a very
active artistic community. Bill
loved being in Phoenix, too. But
that chapter didn’t last long.
When the couple found out
Dolores, Dyane’s mother, was
deteriorating from Parkinson’s,
they sold their Phoenix home
and moved in with her, in Sono-
ma. But while taking care of
Dolores together, Bill had a
stroke.
“It went from him in a hospi-
tal bed to her in a hospital bed,”
said Dyane, adding that the trio
had to be evacuated three times
Dyane Silva Janney, whose husband and mother died in a 15-month period during the pandemic,
commissioned a glass globe made with their ashes that is never far from her side.
Myles Nye of Berkeley, a married father of two, kept a log every single day from the first day of
shelter-in-place to two weeks after his second COVID-19 vaccine, May 19, 2021.
Joni Binder keeps a half full airplane-size bottle of vodka that a flight attendant gave her
during a February 2020 flight after alerting Binder of the impending effects of COVID-19.
during the fires in Sonoma. She
often remarked that their move
had turned her into a full-time
caregiver, a role she took with
pride even as they both eventu-
ally passed away.
Dyane lost Bill, 89, in Septem-
ber of 2019, and after weather-
ing the beginning of the pan-
demic and the isolation it
brought on, her mother, Do-
lores, 92, passed away in De-
cember of 2020. And after los-
ing both of them within 15
months, Dyane became de-
spondent, feeling she had no
purpose. But her faith and her
art kept her afloat. “We can
never stop grief, it never goes
away,” said Dyane. “It’s like
trying to stop the ocean, the
waves. The point is, you have to
find out how to swim.”
Dyane has temporarily re-
turned to Phoenix, where she is
taking care of a friend going
through chemotherapy. The orb
is there with her, too, a talisman
of their love always.
“When we pass on to the next
life, people are concerned about
our bodies and what happens to
them,” said Dyane. “And when
you see a globe full of color and
brightness, it makes you feel a
happiness to know that you
have contributed to this. You’ve
been a part of it.”
At 71, Dyane says, she is not
ready to go yet. There is still
more to do in this life: children
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and grandchildren to love. But
she is certain she will see Bill
and her mother again. She has
already made arrangements for
her remains to be in the orb
with them.
“I’ve picked out my colors,
too,” said Dyane. “I asked them
to make a special one with a
touch of all of the colors. So it’ll
be a rainbow.”
Daily reflections
Since the early days of shel-
ter-in-place, the word “blur”
has prevailed as ever-relevant
and thematic. Days felt like a
blur during the earliest portions
of lockdown, where life felt like
being in a fish tank of pajamas,
homemade bread, Purell and
“Tiger King.” But for so many of
us navigating hybrid schedules
and confined space, the sensa-
tion of blurriness is still present.
But perhaps, a little less so for
Myles Nye. From the first day of
shelter-in-place, the Berkeley
father of two took to coping in
the only way he knew how:
keeping a detailed log.
An avid journaler since he
was 11, Nye, now 41, says he is
the kind of person who process-
es the world through lists and
language.
His first pandemic log is
leather-bound and smooth to
the touch, and inside, it’s filled
entirely with entries of things
Nye did or that happened on
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every single day of the pandem-
ic — from the first day of shel-
ter-in-place (“FLAM family
school, garden time”) to the day
he was “fully-vaccinated.”
After filling up that book, he
started another one. And now,
with those two logs, he can flip
to any page and see a collection
of words that illustrate the
experiences that made up his
life over the past two years.
“Something I can do now,
today, and I have been doing for
a while is I can read, what was I
doing a year ago? And there’s a
detailed list,” Nye said. “It’ll say
stuff like: ‘We fought. We were
in a bad mood. I couldn’t handle
it.’ So some of the entries are not
just fun and games.”
But the majority of those
entries revolve around family —
his wife and their two children
— and watching his sons, now
ages 4 and 10, grow older.
Asher, his youngest, learned
to jump on (and becomes ob-
sessed with) a trampoline in the
backyard, built by Nye’s wife so
the kids could get their wiggles
out. Fenton, his oldest, solved
“The Eleventh Hour: A Curious
Mystery,” a paperback whodun-
it that Nye had attempted to
solve — but ended up peeking at
the answer, and always regret-
ting it — when he was 11.
“What I was writing down
was what made the days differ-
ent,” said Nye. “(Because) what I
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was experiencing was, every-
day was the same.”
Nye hasn’t read all of his
entries from cover to cover, but
he says he frequently picks it up
and will read a random entry.
And most often he says he feels
a sense of astonishment, and
always a sense of surprise. Like
the entry logging the first time
Asher said, “I love you Daddy,”
a major milestone helped by
speech therapy. The times when
the day cares were closed and
no one knew what to do. The
week they didn’t leave the house
because of wildlife smoke. Only
a few of his entries have a gold
star on them — a sticker he used
to mark the “truly good days.”
“I feel the loss, how much
time was lost,” he said. “I’m a
silver linings finder but there
were times during the pandem-
ic where it felt like more than I
could take, and I was logging
through that as well. And I
didn’t know when I was going
to stop, until I did.”
Nye’s log didn’t make it two
years. His last entry was on May
19, 2021. In it, he wrote:
Day 432:
Second vaccine plus two weeks
Asher’s first day at Franklin
school.
A work Zoom with Greg and
Carl from consulting.
We did the transfer from one
school to another.
It was the last D&D game for
Fenton and his friends.
I went for a walk with a friend
that I’ve had since kindergarten;
we walked in the Mountain View
Cemetery and got tea.
Laurel invented a new Vodka
drink called the “Vatermelon
Vodka Vaccine”
I finished the bottom row of
Magic Maze Puzzle.
And I watched the episode of
“Upstairs, Downstairs” where
Emily dies of love.
Things could be a lot worse.
My word of the year, which is
“grit.”
A drink to remember
In February of 2020, Joni
Binder was on a flight from
Boston to San Francisco, where
she lives, when a flight atten-
dant who she’d been talking to
pulled her into the galley and
leaned in to tell her a secret.
The flight attendant told
Binder, a nonprofit advocate,
that her brother was part of the
security detail for someone very
high up in the state department.
That brother had told her that
even though it was unbe-
knownst to the general public,
international travel was about
to be canceled because of a new
virus. “You may have heard
about it,” the flight attendant
told Binder.
The flight attendant contin-
ued, warning Binder that Purell
wasn’t going to be able to kill the
mysterious virus. And then she
handed Binder an airplane-
sized bottle of vodka, telling her
to wipe down everything
around her, including her seat,
and not to talk to anyone else
during the flight just to be safe.
“It’s going to hit us really
hard,” the flight attendant told
Binder. “They’re not really
telling us anything yet.”
Binder, 55, went back to her
seat and did everything the
flight attendant said. A couple
of weeks later, a friend of hers
who was an ER doctor got sick.
“It really began to sink in,”
said Binder, who now keeps the
half-full bottle on her vanity,
where she sees it every day.
“I guess it’s sort of my COVID
talisman now,” said Binder. “I’ll
always keep it, likely on my
vanity, for the rest of my life.”
Now, when she looks at the
bottle, she can’t help but think
about the flight attendant. She
never got her name or saw her
again, but the exchange will stay
with her forever.
“I think about how kind she
was, and what an act of human-
ity it was,” said Binder.
And sitting on the vanity
now, the bottle embodies so
much: a time before COVID-19
and a time forever tainted by
COVID-19, the random inter-
connectedness of strangers, and
the connections we may never
have. But also, the ones we just
can’t forget.
Annie Vainshtein (she/her) is a
San Francisco Chronicle staff
writer. Email:
avainshtein@sfchronicle.com
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A HEARST NEWSPAPER
OPEN FORUM On Southern California Gas Co.
Utility undermines climate action
By Sara Gersen
A
few years ago, California, long
the home of technological in-
novation and climate action,
became the birthplace of a major climate
initiative: all-electric homes. Cities like
Berkeley and Richmond passed protec-
tive policies committing to all-electric
new homes, as waves of new research
revealed the health and climate risks
methane-burning appliances pose to
people. All told, over 50 cities passed
all-electric ordinances from 2018 to 2022,
and California passed a new statewide
building code establishing electric heat
pumps as the baseline technology for
construction.
But while city leaders, pediatricians,
health researchers and climate advocates
worked to get methane out of homes, one
actor in California worked behind the
scenes to sabotage the state’s progress.
The Southern California Gas Co. sells
fossil fuel to more than 21 million cus-
tomers, and unlike other utilities in the
state, it’s a gas-only utility. Seeing a risk
to its business model, the company has
worked for years to thwart the transition
to clean, electric appliances.
Consider SoCalGas’ successful cam-
paign to delay the California Energy
Commission’s adoption of strong effi-
ciency standards for water heaters in
new homes. Under a 2016 proposal, new
homes would use either gas or electric
water heaters that were at least as effi-
cient as tankless gas models — a cost-
effective alternative to old-fashioned
water heaters with storage tanks. This
single rule threatened to reduce SoCal-
Gas’ revenue by $17 million a year, ac-
cording to a presentation the utility’s
staff delivered to the company’s senior
management team. Emails obtained in a
state investigation further revealed that
the company’s chief executive officer and
chief operating officer approved an “ac-
tion plan” that included recruiting gas
industry trade groups and the building
industry to join in fighting the proposal.
This action plan was so successful
that it delayed by three years the transi-
tion to tankless water heaters as the
standard equipment in new homes in
California.
Just think about what those three
years lost us in terms of the climate crisis
in California, where a 10th of our climate
pollution comes from burning methane
in buildings.
Thankfully, a state watchdog caught
onto SoCalGas in 2017. Investigators for
the California Public Utilities Commis-
sion found evidence that SoCalGas vio-
lated state law by spending its custom-
ers’ money on efforts to stop strong effi-
ciency standards and building codes —
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Stop building so much, and water use will drop
Regarding “California residents in-
creasing water use” (Bay Area & Busi-
ness, March 16): It is no wonder that
California residents are increasing wa-
ter usage because many city and state
agencies continue to act as if there is no
problem, no drought. Huge develop-
ments of 8,000 residences and hotels are
planned for Treasure Island and the San
Francisco waterfront.
City and state agencies hopefully will
start rationing water use, but they must
also start viewing development from the
point of view of limited resources. Per-
haps then, there will be more coopera-
tion and less resentment when toting
gray water to the garden after a short-
ened shower.
Limitations is not a dirty word; it and
generally dirtier surroundings are a fact
of life.
Karen Cliffe, San Francisco
Be proactive in Ukraine
I’ve been thinking a lot about leader-
ship lately. The U.S. loudly preaches
values such as freedom, democracy and
human rights. U.S. policies in Ukraine
are shamefully reactive.
Some of America’s thought leaders
are only delaying this reckoning with
their inaccurate praise of disastrous U.S.
policy in Ukraine. Recent comments by
comments by Francis Fukuyama and
Michael McFaul are prime examples.
Fukuyama approves of the Biden
administration’s decisions to not declare
a no-fly zone or transfer Polish MiG
fighter jets to Ukraine. His rationale? It
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Editor in Chief
Demian Bulwa
Director of News
Michael Gray
Director of Features
and Daily Enterprise
A Southern California Gas Co. crew works on a storage well leak. The company is being fined for improper lobbying.
powerful tools for curbing fossil fuels.
As agency Commissioner Clifford Recht-
schaffen noted, “SoCalGas’s conduct was
not an inadvertent slip or a one-off in-
cident, but instead reflected a deliberate
and years-long pattern of conduct.”
Emails revealed in proceedings before
the state showed that a hostility to cli-
mate action was pervasive at the compa-
ny. When a contact at a trade association
requested SoCalGas’ opinion on whether
it should deny climate change, the man-
ager in charge of its energy efficiency
programs answered: “Unfortunately, we
do not oppose the concept of climate
change. We used to but somehow that
changed over the past few years and now
we are proponents of acting as a re-
sponse to climate change. ”
When the U.S. Department of Energy
released a proposal for stronger effi-
ciency standards for residential furnac-
es, another SoCalGas staffer said in an
email: “Surrounded by Assassins!”
SoCalGas’ harms are littered across
the state. The commission found that
SoCalGas improperly used customer
funds to fight all-electric codes in San
Luis Obispo, Santa Monica and Culver
City. The pressure on Culver City
worked, and the Los Angeles County city
is much better to have the Ukrainians
defeat the Russians on their own.
Never mind that the Ukrainians are
losing the war and cannot defeat the
Russians on their own. He also states
that fighter jets would not add much to
Ukrainian capabilities, in direct contra-
diction of statements from Ukraine’s
leaders.
In the future, the political leaders who
did not act to stop Vladimir Putin and
the thinkers who encouraged them will
look back with shame on their words
and actions. Their positions today will
William Nagel, Publisher and CEO
Matthew Fleischer Danielle Mollette-Parks
Editorial Page Editor Creative Director
Nicole Frugé Tim O’Rourke
Director of Visuals Director of Product, Strategy
Ron Kitagawa Jess Marmor Shaw
Director of Production Director of Audience
never adopted a code stronger than the
statewide baseline.
That’s why a proposal from the com-
mission to fine SoCalGas a mere $150,000
for years of its unlawful conduct is con-
cerning. A small fine gives companies
like SoCalGas the business certainty that
its efforts to unravel climate progress
will reap more profit than pain.
For instance, $30,000 of the proposed
fine would penalize SoCalGas for ad-
vocating against the efficiency standards
for water heaters. Compare that to the $17
million the company estimated it stood
to lose in revenue from the updated stan-
dards every year. Another $15,000 of the
fine is for fighting a stronger building
code in Culver City, which would have
transitioned an entire city to all-electric
construction from here on out.
These token fines will allow SoCalGas
to justify malfeasance as part of its cost of
doing business and preserve the oppor-
tunity to sell fossil fuels in places like
Culver City.
Meanwhile, the climate and health
costs to Californians to delay building
electrification are staggering. Extreme
wildfires and drought are making life
less hospitable in California. We’re al-
ready anxiously monitoring the news
Jack Ohman / Sacramento Bee
form a moral stain on their reputations
unless our leaders decide to actually lead
and to take real action to end the geno-
cide on Ukrainian soil.
Nataliya Anon, Tiburon
Time change has reason
Regarding “Ditch the time change”
(Letters to the Editor, March 15): There is
a consequence of getting rid of the time
change that has not been discussed.
Some industries, especially outdoor
construction, depend on sunlight in
Sean Jacobsen
Senior VP, Advertising
Elaine Lo
VP, Finance
Jeff Lawson
SVP, Print Operations
Renee Peterson
SVP, Human Resources
Javier Mendoza / Associated Press 2015
and plugging in air purifiers to make it
through choking wildfire seasons.
The stakes to go big on climate action
couldn’t be any higher.
State leaders and agencies need to be
far more aggressive with penalties
against utilities that undermine climate
action. These larger penalties should be
leveraged to help low-income house-
holds install the heat pumps, induction
stoves and other electric appliances
SoCalGas fought so hard to keep out of
homes. The Public Utilities Commission
should also redirect those heavy penal-
ties to funding programs like the recent-
ly launched Technology and Equipment
for Clean Heating Initiative, which pro-
vides incentives for electric heat pumps
for space and water heating, as well as
programs to train Californians for in-
stallation jobs.
The Public Utilities Commission
needs to get serious about punishing
SoCalGas for the “appreciable harm” it
committed. It’s time for a true deterrent,
before we see SoCalGas emboldened yet
again to hold California back from a
clean energy future.
Sara Gersen is an attorney on Earthjustice’s
Right to Zero campaign.
order to perform their work safely. It is
also standard that workers start their
workday at 7 a.m. Under the present
system when we lose our morning day-
light, the time is switched back to stan-
dard time so work can still start at 7 a.m.
If year-round daylight-saving time is
approved, some employers will pay the
cost of lighting but many will change the
starting time to 8 a.m. This will change
our area commuting patterns by putting
many people on the roads an hour later
both morning and evening.
Hopefully commuters would adjust to
this change, but are there other unin-
tended consequences?
Stephen Campi, Walnut Creek
Wildfires are too costly
Regarding “Wildfire bill would ham-
string firefighters” (Letters to the Editor,
March 9): Some argue that quickly sup-
pressing all fires will leave too much fuel
for future fires; fires are nature’s way of
managing forests. That sounds good to
me. But if the total cost of unsuppressed
fires can be more than $100 billion annu-
ally, causes a few thousand deaths and
destroys thousands of homes in the
state, 24-hours-or-less suppression
sounds like a bargain.
Let the experts and government agen-
cies figure out how to set controlled
burns to suppress fire fuel. Don’t do it
with lightning strikes, power line fail-
ures and foolish human actions. Deal
with the fuel problem with intent, not
luck.
BJ Miller, Oakland
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Like clockwork, A’s provide letdown
That was a heck of a wake-
up call for A’s fans Wednesday
— the first reports that Matt
Chapman was traded started
around 5:30 a.m.
But, in truth, A’s fans don’t
need a wake-up call. They just
hit the snooze button, roll over
and wait for the next jarring
piece of bad news.
Sure, the Chapman depar-
ture was alarming, but also
predictable, like that next blare sounding from
your clock.
The Bay Area’s cast of characters in the NCAA Tournament includes (clockwise from top left): Stanford’s Haley Jones; USF
head coach Todd Golden; St. Mary’s point guard Tommy Kuhse; and USF guards Khalil Shabazz and Jamaree Bouyea (1).
Bay Area puts stamp
on March Madness
With apologies to Jim Har-
baugh: Looking at Bay Area
college basketball heading into
March Madness, who’s got it
better than we do?
This is unofficial, but: No-o-
o-body!
The women of Stanford and
the men of USF and St. Mary’s
will be dancing this week, and
the combined package is in-
triguing, historical and poten-
tially thrilling.
Here’s your user’s guide to
the Bay Area’s most exciting
first round of the NCAA Tour-
nament since ... since when?
Stanford women
The story: Defending national
champions! But with a whiff of
Mostert departs,
but QB Garoppolo
remains with 49ers
By Eric Branch
The NFL moved into its new
league year Wednesday, but
Jimmy Garoppolo stayed put.
The 49ers’ quarterback
maintained his familiar spot on
the roster as the team’s in-
ability to trade him before the
start of free agency forced it to
perform financial gymnastics.
The 49ers needed to get
under the $208.2 million sala-
ry cap by 1 p.m. Wednesday.
And, because they couldn’t
make a cap-space-creating
ANN 1 Howard Terminal: Ballpark faces “major set-
back” after state-panel decision Wednesday.
KILLION 1 Giants add outfielder: Joc Pederson is heading
to S.F. after signing a 1-year, $6 million deal.
1 Chapman trade reaction: Players grapple with
another loss. Read at sfchronicle.com/sports.
Anticipated. Expected. Yet, demoralizing and
infuriating.
The A’s have unloaded their infield corner-
stones — Chapman and Matt Olson — as well as
Sean Rayford / Associated Press 2021
Ethan Miller / Getty Images
SCOTT
OSTLER
underdog, which is the way the
Cardinal like it. They’re only
No. 2 in the country (South
Carolina), and ESPN couldn’t
be bothered to send a camera
crew to Stanford for Selection
Sun day. No respect! Well, we’ll
show you.
The coach: This is Stanford’s
34th consecutive Big Dance
invitation, a run that started, by
wild coincidence, with the
trade of Garoppolo, they re-
structured the contracts of
defensive tackle Arik Arm-
stead and tight end George
Kittle, to become cap compli-
ant, ESPN reported.
Those moves created $18.75
million in cap space and
placed the 49ers about $9 mil-
lion under the cap before their
free-agent signings of Chiefs
cornerback Charvarius Ward,
Packers linebacker Oren
Burks and Eagles defensive
tackle Hassan
49ers continues on B8
A1
B3
Killion continues on B4
arrival of head coach Tara Van-
Derveer. VanDerveer didn’t
build her reputation as a big-
time coach by overdressing and
overacting, working the side-
line like a tent preacher. She
just coaches.
Whom to watch: Haley Jones,
the 6-foot-1 junior and first-
team All-American. What
position does Jones play? Yes.
She is the team’s playmaker,
and a close second in scoring
and rebounding, and anchors
the smothering defense. And
she’s cool. In the photo of the
Stanford women getting the
announcement of their first-
round seeding, Jones is the one
leaning way back on the bench
Ostler continues on B5
Curry is just two cool for the room
Scott Strazzante / The Chronicle 2021
Scott Strazzante / The Chronicle
Jeff Chiu / Associated Press
1 St. Mary’s vs. Indiana: The
Gaels prepare for their first-
round matchup with the Hoo-
siers, who made the field of 64
with a First Four win Tuesday. B5
Dance partners
Here are the first-round
matchups for each of the three
Bay Area teams in the NCAA
Tournament:
1 No. 5 St. Mary’s men vs. No. 12
Indiana, 4:20 p.m. Thursday in
Portland, Ore., TBS
1 No. 10 USF men vs. No. 7 Mur-
ray State, 6:40 p.m. Thursday in
Indianapolis, 5 # z
1 No. 1 Stanford women vs. No.
16 Montana State, 7 p.m. Friday
at Maples Pavilion, ESPN2
Scott Strazzante / The Chronicle
A’s fans,
often a
passionate
lot, will have
their
patience
tested by the
team’s latest
roster
teardown.
Golden
focused
on now
for USF
Head coach says
NCAA Tourney
is priority, not
personal future
By Connor Letourneau
INDIANAPOLIS — As USF
head coach Todd Golden wait-
ed to hear his team’s name
called on Selection Sunday, he
thought for a moment about
his days selling ads for Com-
cast SportsNet Bay Area.
In 2011, after a brief pro
career in Israel, Golden fig-
ured that sales would be a
good way to make money and
channel his competitive in-
stincts. But as he cold-called
potential sponsors, he missed
the grind of high-level basket-
ball: the extra shots after
practice, the locker-room ca-
maraderie, the hours of video
study, the bus rides to oppo-
nents’ arenas.
Little more than a decade
later, Golden’s official USF bio
doesn’t even mention his time
in sales. A burgeoning resume
leaves little room for non-
basketball matters. At age 36,
Golden is one of his industry’s
most prized commodities: — a
young, successful head coach
on a relatively cheap salary.
Perhaps it should come as
no surprise, then, that Golden
has emerged as a candidate
for openings at Missouri and
Kansas State. In just his third
season leading a program, he
has taken the Dons to their
first NCAA Tournament ap-
pearance since 1998.
This is no small feat, espe-
cially given the challenges of
coaching on the Hilltop: some-
what antiquated facilities,
limited support in a pro-
sports market, nearly four
decades of mediocrity, a top-
heavy conference.
There is a reason why, until
Sunday, no WCC team other
Dons continues on B6
Warriors
guard Stephen
Curry dribbles
a couple of
basketballs as
he goes
through his
pregame ritual
before playing
the Celtics on
Wednesday
night at Chase
Center. For
coverage, go to
sfchronicle.
com/sports.
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SPORTS How to reach us
Contact Christina Kahrl, Sports Editor, at Christina.Kahrl@sfchronicle.com
WARRIORS BEAT
Wiseman returns, hones conditioning
By C.J. Holmes
The Warriors recalled sec-
ond-year center James Wise-
man from their G League affili-
ate, the Santa Cruz Warriors,
the team announced Wednes-
day.
Wiseman did not play in
Golden State’s game against the
Celtics, with the earliest he
could return to the lineup be-
ing Sunday against the Spurs.
Wiseman recently appeared
in three games for Santa Cruz
on a rehab assignment and
averaged 17.3 points, 9.7 re-
bounds and 1.6 blocks in 20.7
minutes per game. He had been
assigned to Santa Cruz three
times earlier this season, but
did not appear in any games.
“The main thing is he’s
healthy and he’s moving well
and that’s the biggest thing,”
Kerr said. “That was our big-
gest concern going in. Can he
build the momentum, sustain it
and continue to work on his
NBA
Dinwiddie’s 3 at buzzer beats Nets
A S S OC IAT E D PRE SS
Spencer Dinwiddie made a
3-pointer at the buzzer against
his former team, giving the
Dallas Mavericks a 113-111 victo-
ry over the host Brooklyn Nets
on Wednesday.
Luka Doncic finished with 37
points, nine rebounds and nine
assists in the Mavericks’ eighth
win in nine games. Dinwiddie
scored 22 points, 15 in the
fourth quarter.
Kevin Durant had 23 points,
10 assists and six rebounds, but
Brooklyn saw its four-game
winning streak snapped. A
night after scoring a career-
high 60 points against Orlando,
Sharks’ Hertl
gives his OK
to 8-year pact
By Ross McKeon
The Sharks are gambling on
another long-term contract,
and Tomas Hertl is gambling
San Jose will be a winner again
soon.
The 28-year-old Czech Re-
public-born All-Star agreed to
an eight-year, $65.1 million
contract extension Wednesday
to remain with the team that’s
confident a reset instead of a
rebuild will return San Jose to
the postseason.
Both sides are clearly taking
a risk.
“My heart was always here at
home with the Sharks,” Hertl
said. “I didn’t want to leave, but
you never know because at the
end of the day, it’s business. I’m
really excited to be here and be
signed for many years.”
CALENDAR
THURSDAY
College basketball
Men, NCAA Tournament
9:15a Michigan vs. Colorado State
5#z
9:40a South Dakota State vs. Providence
Tru TV
10:45a Memphis vs. Boise State TNT
11a Norfolk State vs. Baylor TBS
11:45a Longwood vs. Tennessee 5 # z
12:10p Richmond vs. Iowa Tru TV
1:15p Georgia State vs. Gonzaga TNT
1:30p Marquette vs. North Carolina TBS
3:50p New Mexico State vs. Connecticut
TNT
4:10p St. Peter’s vs. Kentucky 5 # z
4:20p Indiana vs. St. Mary’s TBS
4:25p Creighton vs. San Diego State Tru TV
6:20p Vermont vs. Arkansas TNT
6:40p USF vs. Murray State 5 # z
(1050)
6:50p Akron vs. UCLA TBS
6:55p Texas Southern vs. Kansas Tru TV
Women
4p NCAA Tournament: Mount St.
Mary’s vs. Longwood ESPN2
5p WNIT: Air Force at USF
6p NCAA Tournament: Florida State vs.
Missouri State ESPN2
Note: Beginning at 9:15 a.m., 1050 will
carry whiparound coverage of the men’s
NCAA Tournament until the broadcast of
the USF-Murray State game.
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James Wiseman signs autographs after Sunday’s rehab start
for the G League’s Santa Cruz Warriors at Chase Center.
conditioning, timing and so far,
so good. Happy to see him out
there.”
On Tuesday, Warriors gener-
al manager Bob Myers said on
95.7 FM that Wiseman will
practice with the team this
Kyrie Irving was unable to play
because of New York City’s
coronavirus vaccine mandate.
Suns 129, Rockets 112: Devin Booker
scored 36 points, including 15 in the
third, Mikal Bridges added 26 and
NBA-leading Phoenix won at Houston
for its third straight victory.
Timberwolves 124, Lakers 104:
Karl-Anthony Towns followed up his
60-point game Monday by scoring 16
of his 30 points in the fourth quarter as
host Minnesota sent Los Angeles to a
season-worst 11 games under the .500
mark at 29-40. LeBron James, who
played through knee soreness to lead
the Lakers with 19 points, has not
played on a team that far below even
since his rookie year, when Cleveland
finished the 2003-04 season at 35-47.
Anthony Edwards had 20 of his 27
points in the second quarter to lead
the early surge by the Timberwolves,
Hertl, who shares the team
lead with 25 goals and is second
with 48 points, joins fellow
center Logan Couture, along
with defensemen Erik Karls-
son, Brent Burns and Marc-
Edouard Vlasic, with max-term
deals allowed under the collec-
tive bargaining system.
“This is a commitment to
winning now (and) pushing
forward,” Sharks assistant
general manager Joe Will said.
“Quite frankly, Tomas is a
known quantity in that No. 1
center position along with
Logan, and they’re extremely
hard to get.”
The deal makes Hertl the
team’s highest-paid forward,
and removes the potential of
him signing elsewhere in the
offseason with the expiration of
the four-year, $22.5 million deal
Golf
3:30a DP World: Steyn City Championship
Golf Ch.
11a PGA: Valspar Championship Golf Ch.
NBA
4:30p Detroit at Orlando NBA TV
NHL
7p Sharks at Los Angeles ESPN+
(streaming)
Soccer
Europa League
10:30a Barcelona at Galatasaray T
11a Whiparound coverage CBSSN
12:45p Porto at Lyon TUDN
Tennis
11a BNP Paribas Open Tennis Ch.
FRIDAY
Baseball
7p Spring training: Chicago Cubs vs.
Giants NBCSBA (104.5, 680)
College basketball
Men, NCAA Tournament
9:15a Loyola (Chicago) vs. Ohio State
5#z
9:40a Jacksonville State vs. Auburn Tru TV
10:45a Montana State vs. Texas Tech TNT
11a Yale vs. Purdue TBS
11:45a Delaware vs. Villanova 5 # z
12:10p Miami vs. USC Tru TV
tioning,” Kerr said. “He gets amount.”
tired during his runs and if he Green was slated to come off
can sustain the energy during the bench again against the
his runs and focus, that would Celtics, with Otto Porter Jr. in
probably be a result of better the starting lineup alongside
conditioning. But this is all to Stephen Curry, Klay Thomp-
be expected though, especially son, Jordan Poole and Kevon
as a big guy not playing for a Looney.
year. He will keep playing and
see how it goes.” Must be something in the
In the 39 games he played air: Forwards Nemanja Bjelica
before the knee injury ended and Andrew Wiggins did not
his rookie season, Wiseman play against the Celtics because
averaged 11.5 points and 5.8 of general illness. Thompson
rebounds in 21.4 minutes per and Porter recently missed
game. games for the same reason.
It marked the second
Green to receive more play- straight game Wiggins has
Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The Chronicle
ing time: Draymond Green missed, and the first for Bjelica
was cleared to play up to 24 since Feb. 9. Kerr said the sick-
minutesWednesday. He played ness going around the team is
20 minutes in Monday’s win unrelated to the coronavirus.
week. From there, “We’ll de- over Washington and finished
cide whether he needs another with six points, seven re-
G League game or if he’s ready bounds and six assists. C.J. Holmes covers the Warriors
to go, and Steve will put him in “Slowly but surely, it will for The San Francisco Chronicle.
the rotation,” Myers said. continue to climb,” Kerr said. Email: cj.holmes@
“He just has to keep working “Hopefully within a couple of sfchronicle.com Twitter:
and keep building his condi- weeks, he’ll be at his full @CjHolmes22
DIGEST
Nadal is 18-0 after
who never trailed on their way to their
ninth victory in 10 games.
76ers 118, Cavaliers, 114: Joel Embiid
win at Indian Wells
had 35 points and 17 rebounds on his
28th birthday and James Harden
A SSO C I AT E D P R E S S Bedminster, N.J.; Pumpkin
added 21 points and 11 assists for Ridge Golf Club in Portland,
visiting Philadelphia. Nursing a nagging foot injury, Ore.; Rich Harvest Farms out-
Nuggets 127, Wizards 109: Nikola Australian Open champion side Chicago; and The Interna-
Jokic had 29 points and 13 rebounds in Rafael Nadal became the second tional, a private club 30 miles
an efficient 26-minute performance player in ATP Tour history to west of Boston.
to help visiting Denver. Jokic reached
10,001 career NBA points.
start a season 18-0, edging Reilly The series is to start June 9-11
Opelka 7-6 (3), 7-6 (5) on Wed- at Centurion Golf Club in Lon-
Hornets 116, Hawks 106: LaMelo Ball
had 22 points, 11 assists and eight
nesday in the fourth round of don and conclude with a team
the BNP Paribas Open at Indian championship at the end of
rebounds, P.J. Washington scored 13 of
his 16 points in the fourth quarter, and Wells (Riverside County). October.
host Charlotte won its third straight. Only Novak Djokovic has
Knicks 128, Trail Blazers 98: RJ gotten off to better starts since Soccer: The owners of the Chi-
Barrett scored 31 points, Julius Randle 1990. The Serb went 26-0 to cago Cubs said that they will
added 20 points and nine rebounds
and New York won its first at home in
begin 2020 and 41-0 to open 2011. make a bid to buy English Pre-
more than a month after losing five 1 Djokovic will be allowed to mier League club Chelsea. The
straight.
play at the French Open even if Ricketts family went public with
he is not vaccinated against its interest in the buyout with
Chelsea owner Roman Abra-
COVID-19 as long as the corona-
Sharks on Thursday virus situation in France re- movich forced to sell up after he
mains stable, organizers said. was sanctioned by the British
Who: Sharks (26-25-8) at Los government and banned by the
Angeles (33-21-8) Also, Russian tennis players,
including top-ranked Daniil Premier League over his links to
When: 7 p.m. Russian President Vladimir
Medvedev, will be admitted to
TV: ESPN+, Hulu (streaming) play in the tournament but as Putin amid the war on Ukraine.
neutral athletes because of the
war started by their country in 1 Liverpool reignited the Pre-
he signed in 2018. neighboring Ukraine. mier League title race with a 2-0
“I can really help the team win over Arsenal to extend their
and we know what we need to 1 All four Grand Slam tennis winning streak to nine games.
do to go back to the playoffs,” tournaments will use a 10-point Liverpool has 69 points, one
Hertl said. “We know we need a tiebreaker when matches reach behind Manchester City.
couple of pieces to get there, 6-6 in the final set.
but I think we've improved this ELSEWHERE
Skiing: Mikaela Shiffrin in-
year.” creased her lead over Petra
The new deal includes a Saudi golf league Vlhova in a close race for the
no-trade clause the first three overall title by winning the
years, a three-team trade list in
releases schedule downhill on at the World Cup
Years 4-6, and a 15-team trade Greg Norman and his Saudi- Finals in Courcheval, France.
list over the final two years, backed LIV Golf Investments Shiffrin’s boyfriend, Alek-
according to CapFriendly.com. announced an eight-tourna- sander Aamodt Kilde, edged
The contract has an annual ment schedule that will offer Olympic champion Beat Feuz in
salary-cap hit of $8,137,500. $255 million for the total prize their tight duel to win the World
Drafted by San Jose 17th fund and a format that includes Cup season-long downhill title,
overall in 2012, Hertl has 176 both individual and team play. finishing fourth behind race
goals and 371 points in 562 Missing from the announce- winner Vincent Kriechmayr.
regular-season games over ment was the names of who
nine seasons. He has 24 goals would be playing, which would Figure skating: Olympic
and 42 points in 62 postseason affect their PGA Tour member- champion Nathan Chen with-
games. ship. drew from the world champi-
The schedule for the Saudi- onships because of what he
Ross McKeon covers the Sharks backed rival league includes called a “nagging injury” with
for The San Francisco Chronicle. four tournaments in the United which he has been dealing after
Twitter: @rossmckeon States: at Trump National in winning at the Beijing Games.
1:15p Notre Dame or Rutgers vs. Alabama Golf 7:30p Colorado at Sharks NBCSCA
TNT
1:30p Virginia Tech vs. Texas TBS
3:30a DP World: Steyn City Championship Soccer
Golf Ch.
3:50p Chatanooga vs. Illinois TNT 1p EPL: Leeds United at
11a PGA: Valspar Championship Golf Ch. Wolverhampton USA Net
4:10p Cal State Fullerton vs. Duke
5#z NBA
Tennis
4:20p Iowa State vs. LSU TBS 4:30p Memphis at Atlanta NBA TV
Noon BNP Paribas Open Tennis Ch.
4:25p Wright State vs. Arizona Tru TV 7p Chicago at Phoenix NBA TV
6:20p UAB vs. Houston TNT
6:40p Davidson vs. Michigan State NHL
5#z 4p Washington at Carolina NHL Net
6:50p Colgate vs. Wisconsin TBS
6:55p TCU vs. Seton Hall Tru TV
Women, NCAA Tournament
8:30a South Florida vs. Miami ESPN2
10:30a South Dakota vs. Mississippi ESPN2
10:30a Creighton vs. Colorado ESPNews Warriors Radio: 95.7 Sharks Radio: Sharks’ app
TV: NBCSBA, unless noted TV: NBCSCA, unless noted
11a Howard at South Carolna ESPN
11:30a Florida Gulf Coast vs. Virginia Tech SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
ESPNU 13 14 13 16 17 18 19 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
12:30p Gonzaga vs. Nebraska ESPNews Was Bos Fla LA Col
1p Illinois State at Iowa ESPN ESPN* ESPN+ ESPN+
1p Hawaii at Baylor ESPN2 7p 7p 7:30p 7p 7:30p
2p Delaware at Maryland ESPNU
20 21 22 23 24 25 26 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
2:30p Arkansas vs. Utah ESPNews
SA Orl Mia Atl Ari Cal Edm Ana
3p Albany at Louisville ESPN2
4:30p Georgia Tech vs. Kansas, at 5:30p 4p 4:30p 4:30p 7:30p 6p 6p 7:30p
Stanford ESPNU
27 28 29 30 31 1 2 27 28 29 30 31 1 2
4:30p Dayton or DePaul vs. Georgia
Was Mem Pho Utah Ari Col Dal
ESPNews
ESPN*
5p Fairfield at Texas ESPN2
3p 5p 7p 5:30p 7p 6p 7:30p
7p Montana State at Stanford ESPN2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
7p Texas-Arlington at Iowa State
ESPNU Sac LAL SA Edm Cal Van
TNT
Note: Beginning at 9:15 a.m., 1050 will
carry whiparond coverage of the men’s 6p 7p TBD 7:30p 7:30p 7p
NCAA Tournament. N = Home games
Y * Game also on NBCSBA N = Home games
Y
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BASEBALL
NOTES

Rockies, Bryant agree on

7-year, $182 million deal
A SSO C I AT ED P R E SS
Kris Bryant, who
helped the Giants win the
NL West last year after a
midseason trade from the
Cubs, on Wednesday
agreed to a seven-year,
$182 million deal with the
Rockies.
Bryant is headed to his
third team in eight
months after spending
his first six seasons with
Chicago, which traded
him to San Francisco in
July.
The 2016 NL MVP and
World Series champion
batted a combined .265
with 25 homers and 73
RBIs last season, and he
pounded out eight hits in
the Giants’ five-game
Michael Zarrilli / Getty Images 2021
playoff loss to the Dodg-
Joc Pederson, who is from Palo Alto, won a title with Atlanta last season. He is ers.
likely to fill the left-handed-hitting outfielder role vacated by Alex Dickerson. Bryant figures to be a
middle-of-the-order bat
won a playoff game since
2009.
Phillies add Schwar-
ber: Outfielder Kyle
Schwarber agreed to a
four-year $79 million
contract with Philadel-
phia.
Schwarber split last
season with the Nationals
and Red Sox. He agreed
to a $10 million, one-year
contract with Washing-
ton in January 2021 that
included a $7 million
salary and an $11.5 mil-
lion mutual option with a
$3 million buyout. He was
traded to the Red Sox in
July.
He hit .266 with 32
home runs and belted a
grand slam for the Red
Sox in the AL Champi-
onship Series.
Moving on: The Royals
Briefly: The Reds signed
infielder Donovan Solano
to a one-year, $4.5 million
deal. Solano spent the
past three seasons with
the Giants, batting .280
with seven home runs
and 31 RBIs in 101 games
last year. ... The Braves
and outfielder Eddie
Rosario agreed on a two-
year, $18 million contract.
Atlanta also signed for-
mer Giants outfielder
Alex Dickerson to a one-
year deal. ... Former A’s
reliever Andrew Chafin
agreed to a two-year, $13
million deal with the
Tigers. Chafin had a 1.83
ERA in 73 appearances
for the Cubs and A’s last
season. ... The Cubs
signed reliever David
Robertson to a one-year,
$3.5 million deal. Rob-
ertson appeared in 12
games with the Rays last

Giants, dreaming
who can play third base,
first base or in the out-
field — his most likely
position with the Rock-
traded left-hander Mike
Minor to the Reds for
left-handed reliever Amir
Garrett, then signed
season as he returned
from elbow surgery. ...
The Angels announced
that right-hander Griffin

of ‘Joctober,’ sign
ies, who have Ryan Mc-
Mahon at third and C.J.
Cron at first. Bryant also
is an obvious candidate to
free-agent right-hander
Zack Greinke to a one-
year, $13 million contract.
Greinke, a six-time
Canning won’t be ready
for Opening Day after a
setback in his recovery
from a back injury. The

ex-L.A. outfielder
All-Star, was 11-6 with a
join Charlie Blackmon 4.16 ERA in 30 games team also signed former
among the Rockies’ des- with the Astros last sea- Giants infielder Matt
ignated hitters. son. Duffy to a one-year deal.
Bryant is a career .278 Minor was 8-12 with a ... The Braves signed
hitter with 167 homers, 5.05 ERA in 28 stars for reliever Tyler Thornburg
By Susan Slusser man, but president of baseball opera- 487 RBIs and an .880 Kansas City last season. to a one-year deal. ...
tions Farhan Zaidi was clear in re- OPS, but he is about to Garrett was 0-4 with a Three-time All-Star re-
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — One of the marks last week that San Francisco get the full benefits of 6.04 ERA and seven liever Greg Holland and
final pieces of the Giants’ post-lockout would be happy to consider left-hand- playing at hitter-friendly saves in 63 appearances right-hander Dan Win-
roster compilation will be a Bay Area ed hitters, too. He also mentioned on Coors Field, where he has for Cincinnati in 2021. kler signed minor-league
native who spent the bulk of his career KNBR on Tuesday that a second base- batted .263 (15-for-57) contracts with the Rang-
with San Francisco’s most heated rival. man might be a potential target. with two homers, nine Suzuki deal: Japanese ers. ... In a deal an-
Joc Pederson, the pride of Palo Alto, Pederson fits several emerging RBIs and a .757 OPS in outfielder Seiya Suzuki nounced late Tuesday,
agreed to terms on a one-year, $6 mil- trends in the Zaidi/Gabe Kapler era: his career. agreed to a five-year, $85 the Yankees and first
lion deal with the Giants on Wednes- He’s a former Dodger, and both Zaidi The 2015 NL Rookie of million deal with the baseman Anthony Rizzo
day, according to MLB.com. Pederson and Kapler worked for the Dodgers the Year’s right-handed Cubs. agreed on a two-year, $32
is likely to fill the left-handed-hitting while he was there; the team has swing will offset the Suzuki hit .317 with 38 million contract. Rizzo
outfielder role vacated by Alex Dick- signed several ex-Dodgers in the past left-handed slant to the home runs for Hiroshima hit .248 with 22 homers
erson. Pederson, 29, spent his first two years; and he’s from the Bay Area, outfield lineup for the in Japan’s Central League for the Cubs and Yankees
seven seasons with the Dodgers, and which has been increasingly common Rockies, who haven’t last year. last year.
played in three World Series with when it comes to Giants acquisitions
them. He was on the winning side in over the past year.
each of the past two World Series. Pederson, who turns 30 next month,
“They call it Joctober for a reason!” grew up a Giants fan and the team has
Giants starter and former Dodgers had interest in him before, talking to
left-hander Alex Wood said via text him in 2021 before he signed with the
Wednesday. “Clutch player who’s a Cubs. At that time, a scout told The
proven winner. Will bring some edge Chronicle, “Joc Pederson is a perfect fit
to our lineup and is a great clubhouse for Zaidi. He bludgeons right-handed
guy. Will fit in great with us!” pitching, plays good defense on the
Pederson hit .238 with 18 homers outfield corners, and he carries posi-
and 61 RBIs combined between the tive leadership qualities. Farhan likes
Cubs and Braves last year; he went to match up and platoon. He knows
3-for-7 with two homers in the NLDS Joc well from his Dodgers days. It’s
as Atlanta charged toward the World easy to envision him pumping moon
Series title. He has extensive post- shots, splashing down into McCovey
season experience, playing in 79 Cove.”
games. Pederson’s brother, Champ, who
He can play first base along with all was born with Down syndrome, is a
three outfield spots — most of his popular figure among fans and play-
starts have come in center — and his ers, and the Dodgers gave him a World
ability to draw walks means that he Series ring when they awarded Pe-
often hit leadoff for the Dodgers. He derson his last year.
has an .898 career OPS at Oracle Park.
With Kris Bryant’s reported signing Susan Slusser covers the Giants for The
with the Rockies on Wednesday, the San Francisco Chronicle.
Giants still might be in the market for Email: sslusser@sfchronicle.com
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BASEBALL
A’s trade Chapman to Blue Jays
Third baseman latest player to go;
Oakland acquires four prospects
By Matt Kawahara
MESA, Ariz. — Matt Chap-
man is the latest big-name
player to depart in the A’s
roster teardown.
Oakland traded its standout
third baseman to Toronto —
sound familiar? — for another
haul of prospects Wednesday.
The A’s return leads with
right-handed pitcher Gunnar
Hoglund, the 19th overall pick
in last year’s draft, and in-
cludes infielder Kevin Smith
and left-handed pitchers Zach
Logue and Kirby Snead. The
A’s confirmed the terms, which
were first reported by Sports-
net.
“It’s a team that’s ready to
compete now and they’re
ready to win and go for it, so
couldn’t be happier to go join
that,” Chapman said Wednes-
day morning. “Also it’s emo-
tional because I’m going to
leave an organization that gave
me an opportunity, where I
met a lot of my best friends
and I’ve had so many great
memories. So a lot of emo-
tions.”
Chapman, a three-time Gold
Glove winner, is the third core
A’s player traded in five days.
Oakland sent starting pitcher
Chris Bassitt, a 2021 All-Star,
to the Mets on Saturday for
pitching prospects J.T. Ginn
and Adam Oller. First base-
man Matt Olson, a top-10 MVP
finisher last year, was dealt to
the Braves on Monday for four
prospects rated in the top-15 in
Atlanta’s minor-league system
by Baseball America.
“I understand it’s part of the
business,” Chapman said.
“Sometimes it’s hard when you
get attached to playing with
guys and teams and the fans
get disappointed when Olson
and Bassitt and me get traded
and guys like Marcus (Semien)
and Liam (Hendriks) don’t
come back. But it’s something
they’ve gotten used to and it’s
just kind of the filter of guys
around here sometimes.
“It’s always sad because I
Latest trade damages
A’s veneer yet again
Killion from page B1
starting pitcher Chris Bassitt.
More departures could be com-
ing. That’s in addition to last
year’s unwillingness to retain
All-Star infielder Marcus
Semien and closer Liam Hen-
driks. And saying goodbye to
manager Bob Melvin, who
provided the organization with
at least a veneer of competence.
Welcome to your 2022 Oak-
land Athletics. Where “Mon-
eyball” is no longer a cute best-
selling concept but a worn-out,
boring excuse.
The A’s pretend this is “busi-
ness as usual.” That they have
no choice. That they’re “small
market.” That John Fisher is
strapped.
None of that is true. We’re in
an endless cycle of watching
executive Billy Beane entertain
himself by making trades, of
team President Dave Kaval
carnival-barking about parallel
paths, of Fisher remaining
invisible throughout, while he
counts his money.
Giants, A’s will play added doubleheaders
By John Shea
Schedules for the Giants and
A’s became a little more con-
densed and intense because a
week’s worth of canceled games
were added to the baseball
calendar.
In order for Major League
Baseball to squeeze in a full
162-game season after the own-
ers’ lockout pushed back the
season openers, games were
added Wednesday to the end of
the schedule and throughout
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feel like what we had was
special and we did have a good
team. But all good things come
to an end sometimes. And this
next chapter of what’s next for
me, just couldn’t be more excit-
ed.”
Smith, 25, and Snead, 27,
both debuted for the Blue Jays
last season and could compete
for roles on an A’s roster in
flux. Smith hit 21 home runs in
Triple-A while posting a .931
OPS, starting at shortstop,
first and third base. Snead, a
reliever, struck out 64 of 188
batters faced (34%) between
the majors and minors. Logue,
25, made 24 minor-league
starts in the Blue Jays’ farm
system last year, posting a 3.67
ERA.
“Everybody’s not naive,
everybody sees what’s going
on,” A’s utilityman Chad Pin-
der said. “The front office is
doing an incredible job of get-
ting return for these guys, the
superstars that we have.
“We also have to acknowl-
edge there’s still a job to do.
We have to get ready to play
baseball games. If we don’t …
we’re going to start dragging.
And I know Bassitt, Chappy
and Olson certainly wouldn’t
want that. That’s not the cul-
ture they helped build here.”
Both Chapman and Olson,
cornerstones of Oakland’s
infield and lineup in recent
seasons, were in their second
year of salary-arbitration eligi-
bility. Chapman is projected to
earn $9.5 million this year by
MLB Trade Rumors. Olson,
projected to receive $12 mil-
lion, signed an eight-year, $168
million contract extension
with Atlanta.
A’s officials previously have
stated the team is unlikely to
give long-term extensions to
players without a new stadium
in place. Chapman voiced
interest early in his career in
staying in Oakland long-term,
but said Wednesday: “I just
don’t think it was realistic.”
“I think it’s still something
that’s a possibility in Oakland,
Think back to spring train-
ing of 2018 — it’s not that long
ago, Chapman and Olson were
going to make the Opening Day
roster for the first time. There
was excitement about building
around them.
The Raiders’ move to Las
Vegas already had been ap-
proved. Ground had been bro-
ken for Allegiant Stadium. The
finishing touches were on
Chase Center. The A’s would
have Oakland to themselves.
Sure, they’d already acted
like buffoons by announcing a
move to Laney College before it
was approved. But aside from
that embarrassing glitch, the
future looked bright.
Never mind.
Back in March 2018, Beane
said the organization’s vision
“has been temporarily paused”
over the Laney College debacle.
He mused about the bright
young players’ futures: “Do
they sign a long-term deal and
in three years, they’re being
moved because we have no
more clarity on our venue?”
the six-month season.
The Giants were supposed to
open with four games in San
Diego and three in Milwaukee
and instead will begin at home
April 8 against the Marlins.
Those seven games will be
made up like this: The Giants
will play in San Diego on July 7
and Oct. 3-5 — initially, the
season was to end Oct. 2 — and
in Milwaukee on April 25 with a
doubleheader there Sept. 8.
The April 25 game will be a
doozy because it’s the capper to
Matt Chapman hit 111 home runs and won the Gold Glove three times in his five seasons with
the A’s. His next appearance at the Coliseum could be July 4 when the Blue Jays come to town.
that they can get a new stadi-
um and they can fill it with
guys that can stay here for the
long term, and I hope that they
can get that because I think
this is a great organization that
deserves to have that same
opportunity as other teams,”
Chapman said. “But unfortu-
nately, my clock just kind of
started ticking and ... it just
didn’t line up.”
For A’s fans, Chapman’s exit
might evoke memories of No-
vember 2014, when the team
traded All-Star third baseman
Josh Donaldson to Toronto,
shortly after an AL wild-card
loss. Donaldson placed top-10
in AL MVP voting in 2013 and
2014. The A’s received Brett
Lawrie, Kendall Graveman,
Franklin Barreto and Sean
Nolin in a deal that A’s exec-
utive Billy Beane later said was
“certainly questionable” in
hindsight.
Chapman, the 25th overall
pick in 2014 by the A’s from
Cal State Fullerton, debuted
with Oakland in 2017 and
finished seventh in MVP vot-
ing a year later in his first full
MLB season. He posted an
.864 OPS in 2018 and an .848
OPS in 2019, when he hit a
career-high 36 home runs and
placed sixth in AL MVP vot-
No, to the long-term deal.
Yes, to the being moved, though
it took four years rather than
three, during which time the A’s
made the playoffs three times.
And the A’s new stadium?
That was a heck of a pause. It
took the A’s another three years
to present their Howard Termi-
nal proposal. Since Fisher
joined the ownership group in
2005, the A’s have spent 17 years
dithering with trying to get to
Fremont, to San Jose, to Laney
College and now, to Howard
Terminal. (Never to the site that
makes the most sense, the one
they’re on, but that’s a different
discussion).
Yet after the ballpark propos-
al was submitted in April, the
A’s had the temerity to insist
that approval come quickly,
despite the project being one
the largest development deals
in Bay Area history, even
though the A’s still haven’t
agreed to mandatory afford-
able-housing components,
despite legitimate objections to
the location, despite the com-
an 11-game trip through Cleve-
land, New York, Washington
and Milwaukee. And the dou-
bleheader Sept. 8 is wedged
between a series in Los Angeles
and a series in Chicago — so
much for an off-day on Rush
Street.
Seven A’s home games had to
be rescheduled, four against the
Angels and three versus the
Tigers.
Here’s how it’ll work: The A’s
will host the Angels May 14 (it’ll
be a doubleheader because both
ing. He won the Platinum
Glove award, given to the top
overall defender in each
league, in 2018 and 2019.
A hip injury cut Chapman’s
2020 season short and he had
surgery that September to
repair a torn right hip labrum.
His power numbers dipped
that season and his strikeout
rate spiked. He returned to
play in 151 games in 2021, win-
ning his third Gold Glove, but
Chapman hit .210 with a ca-
reer-low .716 OPS, adding 27
homers and striking out at a
32.5% clip. He had a 100 OPS+
last year — league average —
but has a 120 OPS+ since 2017.
“This is going to be an unbe-
lievable opportunity for him,”
said pitcher James Kaprielian,
who’s close with Chapman. “I
feel like oftentimes while he’s
been here, a lot of people
haven’t been able to see what
that guy is truly capable of,
how good he really is at third
base.”
Said Pinder: “The young
talent they have (in Toronto),
Chappy’s going to fit in per-
fectly.”
Pinder is an option to suc-
ceed Chapman at third base
for the A’s. Manager Mark
Kotsay said several players in
A’s camp are “completely qual-
plex financial terms that in-
clude almost a billion dollars in
local, state and federal funds.
Most of us wonder how any-
one could entrust Fisher and
his group to pull off such a
massive construction project
when he has been completely
incompetent when it comes to
running the A’s.
Fisher has been unwilling to
run the team like a professional
ballclub. He will, once again,
start receiving revenue-sharing
checks. He also hiked season-
ticket prices. Yet, bye-bye to the
Matts.
The A’s have spent a quarter
century running down their
ballclub, so it’s hard for some to
remember that it wasn’t always
like this.
Back when the Giants want-
ed to build a privately financed
ballpark, they worked hard to
get public goodwill on their
side. The face of ownership —
Peter Magowan — was highly
visible and accessible. The team
made a splash by signing Barry
Bonds. The Giants invested in
Candlestick Park to make it a
more fun and comfortable place
to attend. They took care of
their season-ticket holders.
When it came time to get their
ballpark approved, there was
public trust.
Have the A’s done any of
those things?
teams already had been sched-
uled to play that day) and Oct.
3-5, and the makeup games with
the Tigers will turn into May 10
and July 21 doubleheaders.
The May 10 date is tricky. The
teams already had been slated
to play in Detroit, and a game
was added. But because the
makeup game was supposed to
be played in Oakland, the A’s
will be the “home team” in the
opener and get last licks. So in
reality, the A’s will play 80
games at the Coliseum and 82
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ified” to play the position.
“We’ll miss his energy, what
he brings to the field every
day,” Kotsay said of Chapman.
“There’s a lot of long-lasting
relationships in there with
him. ... From our standpoint as
a club, there’s opportunity in
that room now that exists for
those guys.”
The Blue Jays just missed
the playoffs last year but won
91 games and return a young
core led by Vladimir Guerrero
Jr. and Bo Bichette. They lost
Semien and Cy Young Award
winner Robbie Ray to free
agency but bolstered their
rotation with big free-agent
deals for Kevin Gausman and
Yusei Kikuchi. Adding Chap-
man fortifies their infield.
“A lot of guys love where
they’re playing and I was hap-
py here. I was comfortable
here,” Chapman said of Oak-
land. “But I want to be a part
of winning and I want to be a
part of a long-term goal and
World Series, and where I’m
heading has that, so that’s
where I’m excited to be.”
Matt Kawahara covers the A’s for
The San Francisco Chronicle.
Email: mkawahara@
sfchronicle.com Twitter:
@matthewkawahara
No, just the opposite.
By the time the Matts were
out the door, they were resigned
to their fate. Their one-time
eagerness to remain in green
and gold had clearly faded as
they learned the realities of life
under Fisher and the workings
of baseball.
As a farewell, Chapman said
staying in Oakland just wasn’t
“realistic.”
“I think it’s still a possibility
in Oakland, that they can get a
new stadium and they can fill it
with guys that can stay here for
the long term,” he said.
If it is a possibility, it’s only
theoretical. And there’s no
reason to believe that, even if
ground is broken for a stadium,
Fisher would invest in his team.
But that’s no longer a concern
for Chapman and Olson, who
are in their primes and will be
rewarded elsewhere. As Chap-
man said, any theoretical possi-
bilities about his future with the
A’s just didn’t line up.
“My clock started ticking,” he
said.
His ticking clock gave the A’s
fans another nasty wake-up call
Wednesday. It won’t be their
last.
Ann Killion is a columnist for The
San Francisco Chronicle.
Email: akillion@sfchronicle.com
Twitter: @annkillion
on the road.
With two doubleheaders
added in mid-May, the A’s will
have a stretch of 15 games in 13
days. And instead of a four-day
All-Star break, the A’s will get
three days because of the July 21
doubleheader against the Ti-
gers.
John Shea is The San Francisco
Chronicle’s national baseball
writer.
Email: jshea@sfchronicle.com
Twitter: @JohnSheaHey

COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Indiana’s Trayce Jackson-Davis, who had 29 points in Tuesday’s win over Wyoming, figures to be a handful for St. Mary’s.
Gaels prepare for Hoosiers
By Steve Kroner
PORTLAND, Ore. — Post-
season play in any sport brings
with it the possibilities of great
memories and sorrowful end-
ings. With its one-and-done
format, the NCAA Tournament
heightens both possibilities.
St. Mary’s Randy Bennett
had his first NCAA Tourna-
ment experience as a head
coach in 2005. On Thursday,
he’ll lead the Gaels, the fifth
seed in the East Region, into the
NCAAs for the eighth time
when they take on No. 12-seed
Indiana.
Bennett’s message to his
players is to somehow remain
focused on the task at hand
while soaking in the moments.
“We had to win a lot of games
to get here,” Bennett said in his
news conference at the Moda
Center on Wednesday after-
noon, adding that he told his
players, “Don’t forget you’ve got
to play well. There are no bums
in this tournament. You’re
going to have to hoop. …
“You’ve got to play well and
you’ve got to be focused, but
enjoy it. You don’t know if you
will ever get here again. It’s
hard to get in, and I know that
for myself. Sometimes I won-
der, ‘Hey, will I ever get in this
thing again?’ ”
Bennett and the Gaels last
appeared in the NCAA Tourna-
ment in 2019, when they fell
61-57 to Villanova in a first-
round game. Three players
from that St. Mary’s team —
guard Tommy Kuhse, forward
Bay Area’s Big Three
Ostler from page B1
all casual-like, a knowing smile
on her face, taking in the mo-
ment.
Noted alum: Nneka Ogwu-
mike, WNBA forward for 10
seasons.
Fun fact: Forward Fran Belibi,
a 6-1 junior, is the only dunker
currently playing women’s
college basketball, having
dunked twice last season. She is
one of only eight women college
dunkers in history.
St. Mary’s men
The story: Whattaya mean,
the story? They’re the gutty
Gaels. Always second-fiddle to
big brother Gonzaga, always
fun to watch, but always scrap-
ping to get an invite to the
Dance.
The Gaels have gone to the
NCAAs eight times in Randy
Bennett’s 21 seasons, which is
phenomenal, all things consid-
ered. This time, the Gaels have
bonus street cred, after a late-
season win over Gonzaga (off-
set by a conference-tourney
loss to the Zags).
The Gaels embrace their
team theme, “Gritty, not pret-
ty.” That’s a terrible name for a
St. Mary’s players good-naturedly surround Tommy Kuhse
during their workout at the Moda Center on Wednesday.
Dan Fotu and forward/center
Matthias Tass — are part of this
St. Mary’s team.
Tass and forward Kyle Bow-
en likely will share the assign-
ment of trying to contain Indi-
ana’s best player, 6-foot-9, 245-
pound forward Trayce Jackson-
Davis. He averaged 18.4 points
and 8.2 rebounds per game.
“When we go against good
bigs in our league,” Tass said,
“it’s not about just me guarding
them or Kyle guarding them,
it’s the five guys who are on the
court helping each other, help-
ing me and Kyle out, whoever
we’re guarding.”
Said guard Logan Johnson:
“We have been with each other
for so long that we get the best
out of each other. We expect the
best out of each other. We know
when to cover for each other,
face moisturizer, but a great
slogan for a basketball team.
The Gaels are fighting the
rep for being a one-and-done
NCAA Tourney team. The only
time they won two games was
in 2010, when big man Omar
Samhan took ’em to the Sweet
16. Surely they can’t win three
games this time, right? Gritty
sez: If we can beat Gonzaga,
whom can’t we beat?
The coach: The bald hipster,
Bennett, took over the program
in 2001, following an epic 2-27
season. In a rickety old gym, in
a cow pasture far from any Bay
Area glamour, Bennett built a
rock-solid program.
He has resisted calls to move
up to a better basketball school
because he persists in the belief
that this is as good as it gets.
Whom to watch: Tommy
Kuhse, senior point guard. Six
years ago, Bennett told Kuhse,
“You’re not good enough to play
here.” Kuhse walked on, any-
way, eventually earned a schol-
ly and a starting job. He is still
kind of a mystery. The website
teamrankings.com lists Kuhse’s
age as “unknown” (he’s 24). His
playmaking and shooting are
known. This season he jacked
up his 3-point shooting per-
centage from 27.5 to 46.9.
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and we know when to make
switches.”
Tass, Bowen and Co. did a
fine job against Gonzaga’s re-
nowned frontcourt players,
Drew Timme and Chet Holm-
gren, in the Gaels’ two most
recent meetings with the top-
ranked Zags.
St. Mary’s (25-7) held Timme
and Holmgren to a combined 12
points in the Gaels’ 67-57 win in
Moraga on Feb. 26 and to a
combined 18 points in the Zags’
82-69 victory in the WCC tour-
nament title game in Las Vegas
on March 8.
Bennett said the Hoosiers
remind him of the Zags, and
there are similarities between
Timme and Jackson-Davis.
“I think what makes (Jack-
son-Davis) a good scorer is he’s
really quick,” Bennett said. “He
Stanford head coach Tara VanDerveer’s team has been in 34
consecutive NCAA Tournaments and is the defending champ.
Noted alum: We could go with
Patty Mills, the greatest of St.
Mary’s many Aussie imports.
But let’s go with Tom Meschery
(1958-61), who not only became
a fine NBA player (retired num-
ber with Warriors), but also
possibly the greatest all-time
athlete-poet.
Fun fact: Samhan, who lit up
the 2010 tourney media ses-
sions by proclaiming his un-
dying love to Taylor Swift, has
been giving pep talks to the
Gaels.
USF men
The story: No team in America
has seen the highs and the lows
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goes to his move quick. That’s
where he reminds me of
Timme.”
Jackson-Davis had 29 points
and nine rebounds Tuesday
night when the Hoosiers (21-13)
knocked off Wyoming 66-58 in
a First Four game in Dayton,
Ohio.
The Hoosiers had difficulties
leaving Dayton and didn’t get to
Portland until around 9 a.m.
Wednesday.
“There’s no room to be tired,”
Indiana head coach Mike
Woodson said. “We had a long
flight. I get it. Took us a while to
get here, but we got here safely.
And, this is what we signed up
for.”
Woodson is in his first year
leading the Hoosiers. He spent
four seasons (1977-80) as a
guard for Indiana during the
time the Hoosiers were among
the preeminent programs in the
country. Indiana still ranks tied
with Duke for fourth in NCAA
men’s basketball titles with five;
UCLA leads with 11.
“We all understand what
Indiana basketball is and what
it means and the type of blue-
blood program they have been
for a long, long time,” Bennett
said.
“That’s what you want,
though. You want to get into the
NCAA Tournament and play
against good teams. Our guys
understand that.”
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Chronicle staff writer. Email:
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of this program. High: Back-to-
back NCAA championships
(1955 and ’56) with Bill Russell
and K.C. Jones. Low: The bas-
ketball program was disbanded
in 1982 after guard Quintin
Dailey attacked a female nurse
on campus and booster cheat-
ing was uncovered.
The program came back to
life three years later, but has
struggled to regain relevance.
Now it’s showing signs of life
under head coach Todd Golden.
The 24 wins this season are the
most in the post-shutdown era.
This is the Dons’ first NCAA
Tournament invitation since
1998. The last USF win in the
Dance was in ’79.
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St. Mary’s on Thursday
Who: No. 12 seed Indiana (21-13)
vs. No. 5 seed St. Mary’s (25-7)
What: NCAA Tournament first-
round game, East Region
Where: Portland, Ore.
When: 4:20 p.m. TV: TBS
Story line: Historically, the
meeting between Indiana and
St. Mary’s rates as a heavy mis-
match. Indiana has won five
national titles; the Gaels only
once have won more than one
game in any NCAA Tournament
(two in 2010).
This season, though, the num-
bers tilt toward Moraga. The
Gaels have a better record, a
better NCAA seed and a better
NET (NCAA Evaluation Tool)
ranking, 19 to the Hoosiers’ 38.
St. Mary’s, which hasn’t
played since losing to Gonzaga
in the WCC tournament title
game March 8, also has an edge
in preparation. The Gaels flew
from Oakland to Portland, on
Tuesday afternoon. The Hoosiers
had to fly from Dayton, Ohio, to
Portland, after beating Wyoming
66-58 in a First Four game Tues-
day night.
The Hoosiers-Gaels winner
advances to a Saturday match-
up against the winner of Thurs-
day’s late game between No.
13-seed Akron and No. 4 UCLA.
WHAT TO WATCH
It’s all about the pace: This
figures to be a low-possession,
low-scoring affair. Through Mon-
day, the Gaels ranked 12th in the
nation in fewest points allowed
per game at 60.5. The Hoosiers
allow 65.7 per game.
Late-clock success: Once the
shot clock dwindles to a single
digit, many offenses get antsy
and players take rushed, ill-
advised shots. The Gaels,
though, thrive. Point guard Tom-
my Kuhse often uses a high
screen-and-roll with forward/
center Matthias Tass. Kuhse
typically penetrates, then finds
Tass, finds a shooter beyond the
arc or manages to convert a
drive. How well Indiana can play
defense for close to 30 seconds
per possession will be key.
Containing Jackson-Davis:
Trayce Jackson-Davis, a 6-
foot-9, 245-pound forward,
leads the Hoosiers in points
(18.4) and rebounds (8.2) per
game. He went for 29 and nine
against Wyoming. Tass and Kyle
Bowen (6-8, 222) likely will get
the call to guard Jackson-Davis.
With help from his teammates,
Bowen held Chet Holmgren,
Gonzaga’s 7-foot freshman, to a
combined 14 points on 6-for-16
shooting in the two recent
Gaels-Zags matchups.
Johnson and Johnson: St.
Mary’s head coach Randy Ben-
nett has called guard Logan
Johnson, a transfer from Cincin-
nati, one of the best defensive
players on the West Coast. John-
son might be tasked to slow
Indiana point guard Xavier John-
son, a transfer from Pitt. Xavier
Johnson has scored in double
figures in each of the past nine
games and is averaging 8.2
assists in the past five.
— Steve Kroner
The coach: Golden played for
Bennett at St. Mary’s, then
played two seasons of pro ball
in Israel, then began a career in
ad sales, then dumped that and
got back to basketball. The
Dons gave him his first head-
coaching job three seasons ago.
So far, so good: 57-35.
Whom to watch: All-WCC
guards (first-team) Jamaree
Bouyea and (second-team)
Khalil Shabazz , surely the most
melodic-sounding backcourt in
college hoops. They are rescue
pups: Bouyea had one Division
I scholarship offer, from USF.
Shabazz transferred from a
D-II program.
Noted alum, and nobody at
any school tops this one:
Russell. Like Bouyea, Russell
(McClymonds High-Oakland)
had a scholarship offer from
exactly one college: USF.
Fun fact: Alum-wise, the Dons
boast the best and the worst, in
Russell and Dailey. Both have
food-related fame. Dailey’s
10-year NBA career is best
remembered for the time he ate
a snack on the bench in the
middle of a game. Russell
forced thousands of shooters to
eat Spalding sandwiches.
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San Francisco Chronicle.
Email: sostler@sfchronicle.com
Twitter: @scottostler
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The moment is coming when USF head coach Todd Golden must decide: Does he want to stay
and try to build the Dons into a powerhouse program or leave and get paid much more?
Opportunities abundant
for Golden beyond USF
Dons from page B1
than BYU, Gonzaga and St.
Mary’s had earned an NCAA
at-large bid since Pepperdine
in 2002. There is also a reason
why, until Kyle Smith left USF
for Washington State three
years ago, no WCC head
coach had landed another
head-coaching gig since Jan
Van Breda Kolff departed
Pepperdine for St. Bonaven-
ture in 2001.
In a league in which Gon-
zaga’s Mark Few and St.
Mary’s Randy Bennett remain
in a class of their own, almost
every other coaching job feels
destined to end in a firing.
But by returning USF to
heights his past six predeces-
sors failed to reach, Golden
has well-positioned himself to
take a big pay raise elsewhere.
That is, if that’s what Golden
wants.
Asked Wednesday about
being mentioned as a candi-
date for Power-5 vacancies, he
said, “I’m really focused on
trying to get a win tomorrow
night. Those conversations
and worrying about those
things are just not something
that’s on my radar right now. I
want to do the best I can to
make sure I give my student-
athletes the best chance to be
successful tomorrow night.”
It was a PR-friendly re-
sponse, but what else was
Golden supposed to say?
Thursday’s first-round match-
up against No. 7 seed Murray
State is the biggest game of
ROUNDUP
Wright State wins NCAA tourney game
A S S OC IAT E D PRE SS
Tanner Holden had 37
points and 11 rebounds and
Wright State beat Bryant 93-82
in Dayton, Ohio, on Wednes-
day for its first NCAA Tourna-
ment victory.
Playing just 12 miles from its
home court, Wright State (22-
13) advanced to play top-seeded
Arizona in San Diego on Friday
in the West Region.
“It was a frantic-paced
game,” Wright State head
coach Scott Nagy said. “We
haven’t had many teams this
year come at us like that just
after every make and miss and
turnover.”
Holden was 11-for-15 from
the field. Tyler Calvin added 21
points, and Grant Basile had 14.
Peter Kiss, the NCAA’s lead-
Stanford’s Jones is All-American
By Steve Kroner
Stanford’s Haley Jones
received yet another presti-
gious honor Wednesday: She
was named a first-team All-
American by the Associated
Press.
Jones becomes the Cardi-
nal’s first first-team AP All-
American since Chiney Og-
wumike in 2014 and the sev-
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“Being able to coach, it makes me go.
It makes me tick.”
Todd Golden, USF head coach
his career. And as Golden
revealed during that same
news conference, his Dons
must navigate the loss of All-
WCC forward Yauhen
Massalski, who re-injured his
right knee during practice
Monday.
However, a moment will
come sometime soon — per-
haps in a couple of days, per-
haps in a couple of weeks —
when Golden must decide:
Does he want to follow the
blueprint of Bennett, his for-
mer college coach, and try to
build USF into a powerhouse
program? Or would Golden
prefer a bigger stage and con-
tract?
Golden is finishing the
third year of a five-year deal.
Though USF doesn’t have to
reveal terms of coaches’ con-
tracts because it’s a private
institution, he is believed to be
making a few hundred thou-
sand dollars a year.
That is a fraction of what
Golden could make at a place
like Missouri or Kansas State.
Former Cal head coach Cuon-
zo Martin earned $3 million
with the Tigers this past sea-
son, and Bruce Weber made
$2.8 million with the Wildcats.
Golden has voiced a desire
to stay in the Bay Area. But
with Cal and Stanford sticking
ing scorer, led Bryant (22-10)
with 28 points.
“Our guys played hard
enough to win, we just didn’t
play well enough to win,” Bry-
ant head coach Jared Grasso
said.
1 East Carolina hired Ten-
nessee assistant Michael
Schwartz as its head coach.
Women
Brooklynn Fort-Davis had 15
points and 10 rebounds, Kris-
lyn Marsh added 14 points and
17 rebounds and Howard beat
fellow No. 16-seed Incarnate
Word 55-51 in Columbia, S.C.,
in the first women’s First Four
game.
Howard (21-9), in its first
NCAA Tournament appear-
ance since 2001, advanced to
enth in program history.
Over the past year, she has
been named the Most Out-
standing Player in the Final
Four, the Pac-12 Player of the
Year and the Most Outstand-
ing Player in the Pac-12 tour-
nament.
The versatile junior guard
from Santa Cruz averages 13.1
points, 7.9 rebounds and 3.7
assists per game. She had a
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with their respective coaches
for at least another season, he
might have to move if the
right opportunity materializes.
USF’s top four players are
seniors. Even if Golden lands
some difference-making trans-
fers, he could have a tough
time repeating this season’s
success.
But as he sat at a podium
overlooking reporters Wed-
nesday at Gainbridge Field-
house, Golden was in the
mood to ponder the past —
not the future.
“My experience working in
the business world for a cou-
ple of years really opened my
eyes to the fact that it wasn’t
for me,” said Golden, whose
24 wins this season are USF’s
most since the program shut
down in 1982 because of rules
violations. “Being able to
coach, it makes me go. It
makes me tick.
“Sitting there Sunday, see-
ing our name across the
screen, it was a really surreal
moment. It was really the
cherry on top in terms of the
start of my coaching career.”
Connor Letourneau is a San
Francisco Chronicle staff writer.
Email: cletourneau@
sfchronicle.com Twitter:
@Con_Chron
play overall No. 1-seed South
Carolina (29-2) in the Greens-
boro Region.
Destiny Howell, the MEAC
tournament Most Outstanding
Player, picked up two fouls in
the first quarter and played just
nine minutes in the first half
before finishing the game with
11 points for Howard.
Tiana Gardner scored 16
points for Incarnate Word
(13-17) in the program’s first
NCAA Tournament appear-
ance. Jaaucklyn Moore, who
led the Southland Conference
at 17.6 points per game, added
14 points.
1 West Virginia’s Mike Carey,
63, announced his retirement
after 21 seasons as the Moun-
taineers’ head coach. Carey
was 447-239 at the school.
triple-double (17 points, 12
boards, 10 assists) in a win
over Portland on Nov. 16.
Stanford forward Cameron
Brink earned third-team All-
America recognition from
AP. The 6-foot-4 sophomore
leads the Cardinal in points
(13.6) and rebounds (8) per
game. The Pac-12 Defensive
Player of the Year has racked
up 72 blocks. She set the
USF earns popular
upset pick status
By Connor Letourneau
INDIANAPOLIS — Just by
taking the floor Thursday night
at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, the
University of San Francisco
will make history.
The Dons’ first-round
matchup against seventh-seed-
ed Murray State marks their
first NCAA Tournament ap-
pearance since 1998, a stretch
spanning nearly 9,000 days. No
one on 10th-seeded USF’s ros-
ter was alive when the Hakeem
Ward-led Dons fell 85-68 in the
first round to a Utah team fea-
turing NBA players Michael
Doleac and Andre Miller.
To have a longer March Mad-
ness stay this time, USF must
do something no one has done
in almost three months: beat
the Racers. Winners of 20
straight, Murray State boasts a
No. 20 national ranking, the
best record in college basket-
ball at 30-2, Ohio Valley Con-
ference Player of the Year K.J.
Williams, and one of the na-
tion’s top young coaches in
Matt McMahon.
But Las Vegas oddsmakers
give the Racers only a slight
edge over the Dons. With a
top-20 defense, a dynamic back-
court of Jamaree Bouyea and
Khalil Shabazz, and a KenPom
ranking of 21 (six spots above
Murray State), USF has
emerged as a popular upset
pick.
Here is a breakdown of a
game (6:40 p.m. PDT, 5 # z)
some experts are calling the
most compelling matchup in
the NCAA Tournament’s first
round:
Three story lines
1. How much will the Dons
benefit from their strength
of schedule?
The big knock on Murray
State is its level of competition.
The Racers steamrolled
through conference play with
an 18-0 record, but they have
played just one team, Auburn,
with a KenPom ranking as
good as the Dons’. In that 13-
point loss to the Tigers, Murray
State was outrebounded 48-33.
Its biggest wins this season
came against Chattanooga and
Memphis, which was mired in
a four-game skid at the time.
Though USF might not have
nearly as pretty of a record as
the Racers, it had the 68th-
toughest schedule in the coun-
try, according TeamRanking-
s.com. That’s a far cry from
Murray State’s 145th-ranked
schedule.
Three of the Dons’ nine loss-
es came to the NCAA Tourna-
ment’s No. 1 overall seed, Gon-
zaga. None of USF’s other six
defeats was by more than five
points.
2. Who will deliver in Yau-
hen Massalski’s absence?
Toward the end of his Wed-
nesday news conference, Gold-
en announced that Massalski
would miss USF’s first-round
game after re-injuring his right
knee at Monday night’s prac-
tice. This is a huge blow for a
team trying to reach the second
round for the first time in 42
years.
Massalski, a grad transfer
from the University of San
Diego, is the Dons’ best front-
court player. His 13 double-
doubles led the WCC and
ranked 18th nationally. In addi-
tion to pacing the conference in
offensive rebounds (105) and
total rebounds (292), Massalski
ranked second in rebounds per
game (9.4), total blocks (70) and
field-goal percentage (60) on his
way to first-team All-WCC
honors.
With Massalski now out, the
AP All-Americans
FIRST TEAM
Aliyah Boston, South Carolina
Caitlin Clark, Iowa
NaLyssa Smith, Baylor
For the other All-America teams, see the scoreboard page on B8.
school record of 88 as a
freshman.
Jones, Brink and their
teammates will begin defense
of their NCAA title against
Montana State on Friday
Dons likely will start Austra-
lian forward Josh Kunen on
Williams. Duke transfer Pat-
rick Tapé, Washington State
transfer Volodymyr Markovet-
skyy and Nevada transfer Zane
Meeks also could get time on
Williams.
3. Can USF dictate the tem-
po?
The Racers’ style of play
hardly mimics their mascot.
McMahon likes his team to
employ a strong half-court
game, calling a play almost
every time Murray State
doesn’t have a fast-break op-
portunity.
The Racers rank 240th na-
tionally in possessions per
game and the Dons are 81st. To
beat Murray State, USF must
speed up the game and force
the Racers out of their half-
court sets.
That’s what Auburn did in its
71-58 win over Murray State on
Dec. 22. Thrown out of rhythm,
the Racers missed a bunch of
easy shots and finished 33.9%
from the field.
Key matchup: Jamaree Bouyea
vs. Justice Hill
For much of the season,
Bouyea looked like a potential
first-round NBA draft pick. But
over the past seven games, his
stock dipped as he averaged 11.4
points on 33.7% shooting (20.6%
from 3-point range).
To beat a team at the level of
Murray State, the Dons might
need Bouyea to be the skilled
marksman he was earlier in the
season. It will be Hill’s job to
make sure that doesn’t happen.
Hill — the Racers’ top facil-
itator at 5 assists per game —
also will need to get his team
into its sets and take some of
the scoring load off Williams.
X-factor for Dons: Perimeter
shooting
Three-pointers account for
44% of the Dons’ shot attempts.
That’s not necessarily a bad
thing, given that USF has shot
35.5% from 3-point range this
season while holding oppo-
nents to 29.5% there.
Shabazz has averaged almost
four 3-pointers over his past
eight games on 45.6% shooting.
What might matter even more
than shot-making, however, is
the Dons’ perimeter defense.
Murray State’s ugliest loss
came Nov. 22 against East Ten-
nessee State, which finished the
season with a sub-.500 record.
In that defeat, the Racers shot
1-for-16 from 3-point range.
X-factor for Racers: Williams
The Dons can match Murray
State’s backcourt, but they
might not have an answer for
Williams with Massalski out.
Even in a system that likes to
spread the ball, Williams was
dominant, recording three
30-point games and ranking
fourth nationally with 235 field
goals.
What makes the Racers so
daunting is that, by sending
double-teams toward Williams,
teams risk giving up easy shots
to Hill or Brown (16.9 points per
game).
Stat to know: 39.6. That’s the
percentage of times a 10th-
seeded team has beaten a No. 7
seed in NCAA Tournament
history.
Prediction: This is a near-
impossible game to predict. But
assuming things are close late,
USF’s experience against
strong competition should give
it the edge. 73 Dons, 69 Racers.
Connor Letourneau is a San
Francisco Chronicle staff writer.
Email: cletourneau@
sfchronicle.com Twitter:
@Con_Chron
Rhyne Howard, Kentucky
Naz Hillmon, Michigan
Haley Jones, Stanford
night at Maples Pavilion.
Steve Kroner is a San
Francisco Chronicle staff writer.
Email: skroner@sfchronicle.com
Twitter: @SteveKronerSF
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16 Texas Southern 76 12 Wyoming 58 March 15-16 16 Wright St. 93 11 Rutgers (18-13)
16 Texas A&M-CC 67 12 Indiana 66 First Four 16 Bryant 82 11 Notre Dame (22-10)
MW E S W

NCAA TOURNAMENT

2022
First Round First Round
March 17-18 Second Round Second Round March 17-18
March 19-20 Sweet 16 Sweet 16 March 19-20
1 Gonzaga (26-3) 1 Arizona (31-3)
Thurs., 4:15 p.m. March 24-25 March 24-25 Fri., 7:27 p.m.
16 Georgia St. (18-10) 16 Wright St. (22-13)

San Diego
Portland

8 Boise St. (27-7) Elite 8 Elite 8 8 Seton Hall (21-10)

Thurs., 1:45 p.m. March 26-27 March 26-27 Fri., 9:57 p.m.
9 Memphis (21-10) 9 TCU (20-12)

5 UConn (23-9) 5 Houston (29-5)

Thurs., 6:50 p.m. Fri., 9:20 p.m.
12 New Mexico St. (26-6) 12 UAB (27-7)

Pittsburgh
FINAL FOUR
Buffalo

4 Arkansas (25-8) 4 Illinois (22-9)

Thurs., 9:20 p.m.
New Orleans Fri., 6:50 p.m.
13 Vermont (28-5) April 2 13 Chattanooga (27-7)

6 Alabama (19-13) WEST SOUTH 6 Colorado St. (25-5)

Fri., 4:15 p.m. Thurs., 12:15 p.m.

Indianapolis
11 Notre Dame/Rutgers 11 Michigan (17-14)
San Diego

3 Texas Tech (25-9) 3 Tennessee (26-7)

Fri., 1:45 p.m. Thurs., 2:45 p.m.
14 Montana St. (27-7) 14 Longwood (26-6)

7 Michigan St. (22-12) 7 Ohio St. (19-11)

Fri., 9:40 p.m. Fri., 12:15 p.m.
10 Davidson (27-6) NATIONAL 10 Loyola Chicago (25-7)

Pittsburgh
Greenville

2 Duke (28-6) CHAMPIONSHIP

All times EDT
2 Villanova (26-7)
Fri., 7:10 p.m. April 4 Fri., 2:45 p.m.
15 Cal St. Fullerton (21-10) 15 Delaware (22-12)

1 Baylor (26-6) 1 Kansas (28-6)

Thurs., 2 p.m. Thurs., 9:57 p.m.
Fort Worth

Fort Worth
16 Norfolk St. (24-6) 16 Texas Southern (19-12)
8 North Carolina (24-9) 8 San Diego St. (23-8)
Thurs., 4:30 p.m. Thurs., 7:27 p.m.
9 Marquette (19-12) 9 Creighton (22-11)

5 Saint Mary’s (25-7) 5 Iowa (26-9)

Thurs., 7:20 p.m. Thurs., 3:10 p.m.
12 Indiana (21-13) 12 Richmond (23-12)
Portland

Buffalo
4 UCLA (25-7) 4 Providence (25-5)
Thurs., 9:50 p.m. Thurs., 12:40 p.m.
13 Akron (24-9) 13 South Dakota St. (30-4)

6 Texas (21-11)
EAST MIDWEST 6 LSU (22-11)
Fri., 4:30 p.m. Fri., 7:20 p.m.
11 Virginia Tech (23-12) 11 Iowa St. (20-12)
Milwaukee

Milwaukee
3 Purdue (27-7) 3 Wisconsin (24-7)
Fri., 2 p.m. Fri., 9:50 p.m.
14 Yale (19-11) 14 Colgate (23-11)

7 Murray St. (30-2) 7 USC (26-7)

Thurs., 9:40 p.m. Fri., 3:10 p.m.
Indianapolis

10 San Francisco (24-9) 10 Miami (23-10)

Greenville
2 Kentucky (26-7) All times EDT 2 Auburn (27-5)
Thurs., 7:10 p.m. Fri., 12:40 p.m.
15 Saint Peter’s (19-11) * Please visit sfchronicle.com for result of this game 15 Jacksonville St. (21-10)

Late Wednesday, Ames* Thurs., 9 p.m., Baton Rouge Columbia Thurs., 7 p.m., Raleigh
11 Dayton (25-5) 11 Missouri St. (24-7) March 16-17 16 Howard 55 16 Longwood (21-11)
11 DePaul (20-10) 11 Florida St. (17-13) First Four 16 UIW 51 16 Mount St. Mary’s (16-12)
Greensboro Spokane Greensboro Bridgeport

NCAA TOURNAMENT
2022

First Round First Round

March 18-19 Second Round Second Round March 18-19
March 20-21 Sweet 16 Sweet 16 March 20-21
1 South Carolina (29-2) 1 Stanford (28-3)
Fri., 2 p.m. March 25-26 March 25-26 Fri., 10 p.m.
16 Howard (21-9) 16 Montana St. (22-12)
Columbia

Stanford

8 Miami (20-12) Elite 8 Elite 8 8 Kansas (20-9)

Fri., 11:30 a.m. March 27-28 March 27-28 Fri., 7:30 p.m.
9 South Florida (24-8) 9 Georgia Tech (21-10)

5 North Carolina (23-6) 5 Virginia Tech (23-9)

Sat., 7:30 p.m. Fri., 2:30 p.m.
College Park

12 SFA (28-4) 12 FGCU (29-2)

Tucson

4 Arizona (20-7) 4 Maryland (21-8)

Sat., 10 p.m.
FINAL FOUR Fri., 5 p.m.
13 UNLV (26-6) Minneapolis 13 Delaware (24-7)
April 1
6 Georgia (20-9) GREENSBORO SPOKANE 6 Ohio St. (23-6)
Fri., 7:30 p.m. Sat., 2:30 p.m.
Baton Rouge

11 Dayton/DePaul 11 Missouri St./Florida St.

Ames

3 Iowa St. (26-6) 3 LSU (25-5)

Fri., 10 p.m. Sat., 5 p.m.
14 UT Arlington (20-7) 14 Jackson St. (23-6)

7 Colorado (22-8) 7 Utah (20-11)

Fri., 1:30 p.m. Fri., 5:30 p.m.
10 Creighton (20-9) NATIONAL 10 Arkansas (18-13)
Iowa City

CHAMPIONSHIP
Austin

All times EDT

2 Iowa (23-7) 2 Texas (26-6)
Fri., 4 p.m. April 3 Fri., 8 p.m.
15 Illinois St. (19-13) 15 Fairfield (25-6)

1 Louisville (25-4) 1 NC State (29-3)

Fri., 6 p.m. Sat., 2 p.m.
Louisville

16 Albany (23-9) 16 Longwood/MSM

Raleigh

8 Nebraska (24-8) 8 Washington St. (19-10)

Fri., 2:30 p.m. Sat., 11:30 a.m.
9 Gonzaga (26-6) 9 Kansas St. (19-12)

5 Oregon (20-11) 5 Notre Dame (22-8)

Sat., 5:30 p.m. Sat., 7:30 p.m.
12 Belmont (22-7) 12 Massachusetts (26-6)
Knoxville

Norman

4 Tennessee (23-8) 4 Oklahoma (24-8)

Sat., 3 p.m. Sat., 10 p.m.
13 Buffalo (25-8) 13 IUPUI (24-4)

6 BYU (26-3)
WICHITA BRIDGEPORT 6 Kentucky (19-11)
Sat., 1 p.m. Sat., 4 p.m.
Bloomington

11 Villanova (23-8) 11 Princeton (24-4)

Ann Arbor

3 Michigan (22-6) 3 Indiana (22-8)

Fri., 3:30 p.m. Sat., 1:30 p.m.
14 American (23-8) 14 Charlotte (22-9)

7 Ole Miss (23-8) 7 UCF (25-3)

Fri., 1:30 p.m. Sat., 3:30 p.m.
10 South Dakota (27-5) 10 Florida (21-10)
Storrs
Waco

2 Baylor (27-6) All times EDT 2 UConn (25-5)

Fri., 4 p.m. Sat., 1 p.m.
15 Hawaii (20-9) * Please visit sfchronicle.com for result of this game 15 Mercer (23-6)
Associated Press
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SCOREBOARD
Odds
Home team capitalized
(Barrett 5-11, Fournier 4-9, Quickley 3-3, Arcidia-
cono1-1, McBride1-1, Burks1-4, Toppin1-4, Ran-
dle 0-5). Rebounds: Portland 41 (Eubanks 9),
AP Women’s
All-America teams
NFL
New York 47 (Randle 9). Assists:Portland 26 FIRST TEAM
College basketball (Dunn 7), New York 31 (Randle 7). Total fouls:
Thursday Portland 31, New York 14. A: 18,213 (19,812) Aliyah Boston, South Carolina, 6-5, junior, St.
FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG Thomas, U.S.V.I., 16.8 ppg, 12 rpg, 2.6 blocks,
54.4 fg%, 313-point% (30 of 30 first place votes,
Michigan 1 COLORADO STATE
South Dakota
Hockey 150 points).
PROVIDENCE 2 NHL Caitlin Clark, Iowa, 6-0, sophomore, West Des
State
Moines, Iowa, 27.4 ppg, 8.1 rpg, 7.9 apg, 45.6
Memphis 3 BOISE STATE
BAYLOR 20½ Norfolk State
EASTERN CONFERENCE fg%, 33.3 3-point% (30, 150).
NaLyssa Smith, Baylor, 6-4, senior, Converse,
TENNESSEE 18½ Longwood Atlantic GP W L OT Pts GF GA Texas, 22.5 ppg, 11.5 rpg, 55 fg% (30, 150).
IOWA 10½ Richmond Florida 60 41 13 6 88 248 175 Rhyne Howard, Kentucky, 6-2, senior, Cleveland,
GONZAGA 23½ Georgia State Tampa Bay 59 38 15 6 82 200 171 Tenn., 20.6 ppg, 7.3 rpg, 44.5 fg%, 38.4 3-
NORTH CAROLINA 3½ Marquette Toronto 60 38 17 5 81 223 181 point% (15, 118).
UCONN 6½ New Mexico State Boston 60 37 18 5 79 182 161 Naz Hillmon, Michigan, 6-2, senior, Cleveland, 21
KENTUCKY 18 Saint Peter’s Detroit 60 24 29 7 55 175 228 ppg, 9.4 rpg, 56.5 fg% (14, 113).
SAINT MARY’S Buffalo 60 20 32 8 48 162 212 Haley Jones, Stanford, 6-1, junior, Santa Cruz,
2½ Indiana Calif., 13.1 ppg, 7.9 rpg, apg 3.7, 42.5 fg% (19,
(CA) Ottawa 60 21 34 5 47 158 198
SAN DIEGO STATE 2 Creighton Montreal 60 16 36 8 40 150 230 113).
ARKANSAS 5 Vermont Metropolitian GP W L OT Pts GF GA SECOND TEAM
MURRAY STATE 1 San Francisco Carolina 59 41 13 5 87 198 139
UCLA 13½ Akron Ayoka Lee, Kansas State, 6-6, junior, Byron,
N.Y. Rangers 60 38 17 5 81 184 157 Minn., 22.4 ppg, 10.2 rpg, 3 blocks, 56.6 fg% (4,
KANSAS 22½ Texas Southern Pittsburgh 61 36 16 9 81 198 164 67).
NBA Washington 61 33 18 10 76 201 172 Ashley Joens, Iowa State, 6-1, senior, Iowa City,
Columbus 61 31 27 3 65 203 223 Iowa, 20.2 ppg, 9.5 rpg, 41 fg%, 37.5 3-point%
Thursday N.Y. Islanders 57 24 24 9 57 155 161 (0, 64).
FAVORITE LINE O/U UNDERDOG New Jersey 60 22 33 5 49 182 214 Aneesah Morrow, DePaul, 6-1, freshman, Chica-
ORLANDO OFF OFF Detroit Philadelphia 59 18 30 11 47 148 206 go, 21.7 ppg, 13.8 rpg, 52.7 fg% (0, 49).
Khayla Pointer, LSU, 5-7, senior, Marietta, Ga.,
NHL WESTERN CONFERENCE 19 ppg, 6.5 rpg, 5.2 apg, 42.1 fg%, 36.4 3-
Thursday point% (1, 48).
Central GP W L OT Pts GF GA Elissa Cunane, NC State, 6-5, senior, Summer-
FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG Line Colorado 61 43 13 5 91 236 170
Nashville -170 PHILADELPHIA +140 field, N.C., 13.8 ppg, 7.7 rpg, 52.6 fg%, 44.8 3-
St. Louis 59 34 17 8 76 211 165 point% (1, 46).
N.Y RANGERS -140 N.Y Islanders +116 Nashville 60 35 21 4 74 194 167
TORONTO -122 Carolina +102 Minnesota 58 34 20 4 72 218 193 THIRD TEAM
Dallas -182 MONTREAL +150 Dallas 58 32 23 3 67 170 173 Elizabeth Kitley, Virginia Tech, 6-6, junior, Sum-
Washington -196 COLUMBUS +162 Winnipeg 61 28 23 10 66 189 190 merfield, N.C.,17.4 ppg, 9.9 rpg, 2.5 blocks, 54.8
ST. LOUIS -125 Pittsburgh +104 Chicago 61 22 30 9 53 162 210 fg% (1, 45).
EDMONTON -225 Buffalo +184 Arizona 60 20 36 4 44 159 216 Maddy Siegrist, Villanova, 6-1junior, Poughkeep-
LOS ANGELES -170 San Jose +144 sie, N.Y., 25.9 ppg, 9.5 rpg, 49.8 fg%, 35.9 3- Steve Luciano / Associated Press
VANCOUVER -201 Detroit +165 Pacific GP W L OT Pts GF GA point % (1, 30).
Calgary 59 36 16 7 79 204 143
Florida -115 LAS VEGAS +104
Los Angeles 62 33 21 8 74 178 176
Veronica Burton, Northwestern, 5-9, senior, Linebacker Von Miller holds up the Vince Lombardi trophy after helping the Rams beat
Newton, Mass., 17.8 ppg, 5.5 rpg, 6.4 apg, 41.5
Basketball Edmonton 60 33 23 4 70 200 192 fg%, 32.6 3-point% (1, 29). the Bengals in the Super Bowl in February. Now, the three-time All-Pro is off to Buffalo.
Vegas 62 32 26 4 68 195 190 Cameron Brink, Stanford, 6-4, sophomore, Bea-
NBA

Chandler Jones to Vegas;

Vancouver 61 30 24 7 67 179 177 verton, Ore., 13.6 ppg, 8 rpg, 2.4 blocks, 56.2
EASTERN CONFERENCE Anaheim 63 27 25 11 65 183 201 fg%, 34.8 3-point% (1, 26).
San Jose 59 26 25 8 60 156 185 Angel Reese, Maryland, 6-3, sophomore, Balti-
Atlantic W L Pct GB more, 17.5 ppg, 10.8 rpg, 50 fg% (1, 24).
Seattle 61 18 37 6 42 159 220
Philadelphia 42 26 .618 —
Boston 41 28 .594 1½ NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for HONORABLE MENTION

Buffalo gets Von Miller

overtime loss. Top three teams in each divi- (alphabetical order)
Toronto 38 30 .559 4
sion and two wild cards per conference ad-
Brooklyn 36 34 .514 7 Shakira Austin, Mississippi; Kierstan Bell, Florida
vance to playoffs.
New York 29 40 .420 13½ Gulf Coast; Katie Benzan, Maryland; Grace Berg-
Tuesday’s games
East W L Pct GB Toronto 4, Dallas 0 er, Indiana; Paige Bueckers, UConn; Nia Clouden,
Miami 46 24 .657 — Arizona 6, Montreal 3 Michigan State; Jennifer Coleman, Navy; Zia
Charlotte 35 35 .500 11 N.Y. Rangers 4, Anaheim 3, OT Cooke, South Carolina; Monika Czinano, Iowa;
Washington 4, N.Y. Islanders 3, SO Jasmine Dickey, Delaware; Emily Engstler, Lou-
Atlanta 34 35 .493 11½
Nashville 4, Pittsburgh 1 isville; Dyaisha Fair, Buffalo; Shaylee Gonzales,
Washington 29 39 .426 16
BYU; Destanni Henderson, South Carolina; Rori
Orlando 18 52 .257 28 Winnipeg 7, Vegas 3
Boston 2, Chicago 1, OT Harmon, Texas; Jordan Horston, Tennessee; Abby C H RO N I C LE N EWS SERVI C E S 1 Free-agent cornerback Carlton Davis agreed
Central
Milwaukee
W
43
L
26
Pct GB
.623 —
Edmonton 7, Detroit 5 Meyers, Princeton; Olivia Miles, Notre Dame; Ash-
ley Owusu, Maryland; Cate Reese, Arizona; Taylor
to a three-year, $45 million contract to remain
Vancouver 6, New Jersey 3
Chicago 41 27 .603 1½ Colorado 3, Los Angeles 0 Robertson, Oklahoma; Jacy Sheldon, Ohio State; The Las Vegas Raiders overhauled their with Tampa Bay.
Cleveland 39 30 .565 4 Christyn Williams, UConn; Macee Williams, IUPUI;
Indiana 23 47 .329 20½
Florida 3, San Jose 2, OT
Wednesday’s games
Katelyn Young, Murray State. defensive line at the start of the free-agency 1 Chicago added former Cincinnati defensive
Detroit 18 51 .261 25 Columbus 4, Ottawa 1 period Wednesday by agreeing to a three-year tackle Larry Ogunjobi, agreeing to him on a
Boston at Minnesota, late Transactions deal with former Arizona edge rusher Chand-
WESTERN CONFERENCE New Jersey at Calgary, late
BASEBALL three-year. $40.5 million contract.
South W L Pct GB Tampa Bay at Seattle, late ler Jones and trading Yannick Ngakoue to
Memphis 48 22 .686 — Thursday’s games Major League Baseball 1 Seattle agreed to a two-year, $20 million pact
Carolina at Toronto, 4 p.m. Indianapolis for cornerback Rock Ya-Sin.
Dallas 43 26 .623 4½
Dallas at Montreal, 4 p.m. American League with defensive end Uchenna Nwosu, who
New Orleans 28 41 .406 19½ The Raiders also cut defensive end Carl
San Antonio 26 43 .377 21½ N.Y. Islanders at N.Y. Rangers, 4 p.m. BALTIMORE ORIOLES: Agreed to terms with started 15 games and had five sacks for the-
Houston 17 52 .246 30½
Nashville at Philadelphia, 4 p.m. RHPs Chris Ellis and Conner Green on minor Nassib in a salary-cap move and agreed to a
Washington at Columbus, 4 p.m. league contracts. Chargers last season.
North W L Pct GB Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 5 p.m. BOSTON RED SOX: Placed LHP Chris Sale and two-year deal with former Chicago defensive
Utah
Denver
42
42
26
28
.618
.600
—
1
Buffalo at Edmonton, 6 p.m.
Detroit at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
LHP James Paxton on the 60-day IL. Agreed to tackle Bilal Nichols. 1 Running back James Conner agreed to a
terms with LHP Jake Diekman on a two-year con-
Minnesota 40 30 .571 3 San Jose at Los Angeles, 7 p.m. tract. Jones, 32, leads the NFL with 1071⁄2 sacks three-year, $21 million deal to remain with
Florida at Vegas, 7:30 p.m.
Portland
Oklahoma City
26
20
42
48
.382
.294
16
22 Friday’s games
KANSAS CITY ROYALS: Acquired LHP Amir Gar-
rett from Cincinnati in exchange for LHP Mike Mi- since entering the league in 2012 and has seven Arizona, NFL Network reported.
Philadelphia at Ottawa, 4 p.m.
Pacific W L Pct GB
Washington at Carolina, 4 p.m.
nor and a conditional cash consideration.
NEW YORK YANKEES: Agreed to terms with
double-digit sack seasons. He bounced back 1 After agreeing to a two-year, $7 million deal
x-Phoenix 56 14 .800 —
Golden State 47 22 .681 8½
Boston at Winnipeg, 5 p.m.
Buffalo at Calgary, 6 p.m.
INF/OF Phillip Evans, INF Ronald Guzman and OF from an injury-plagued 2020 season to get 101⁄2 with Buffalo, free-agent running back J.D.
Ryan LaMarre on minor league contracts.
L.A. Clippers
L.A. Lakers
36
29
35
39
.507 20½
.426 26
Florida at Anaheim, 7 p.m. OAKLAND ATHLETICS: Acquired RHP Gunnar sacks last season in Arizona. McKissic reversed course and decided to stay
Colorado at San Jose, 7:30 p.m.
Sacramento 25 45 .357 31 Saturday’s games
Hoglund, LHPs Zach Lohue, Kirby Snead and INF
Kevin Smith from Toronto in exchange for 3B
NFL Network reported his contract will be with Washington under the same terms.
x-clinched playoff spot
Tuesday’s games
Chicago at Minnesota, 11 a.m.
Dallas at N.Y. Islanders, 11 a.m.
Matt Chapman. Claimed INF Sheldon Neuse off worth about $51 million. 1 Punt returner Jakeem Grant, a Pro Bowler
waivers from Los Angeles Dodgers.
Memphis 135, Indiana 102
Brooklyn 150, Orlando 108
New Jersey at Edmonton, noon
Los Angeles at Vegas, 1 p.m.
SEATTLE MARINERS: Agreed to terms with OF
Steven Souza Jr. and C Chance Sisco on minor Miller’s mega pact: Linebacker Von Miller, a for Chicago last season, agreed with Cleveland
Miami 105, Detroit 98 Pittsburgh at Arizona, 2 p.m. league contracts.
three-time All-Pro who helped the Rams win on a three-year deal worth up to $13.8 million,
Phoenix 131, New Orleans 115 St. Louis at Columbus, 2 p.m.
Wednesday’s games Ottawa at Montreal, 4 p.m. National League
the Super Bowl in February, agreed to a six- cleveland.com reported.
Charlotte 116, Atlanta 106 Toronto at Nashville, 4 p.m. ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS: Agreed to terms
Denver 127, Washington 109 N.Y. Rangers at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m. with RHP Ian Kennedy on a one-year contract. year, $120 million contract with Buffalo, 1 Quarterback Joe Flacco agreed on a one-
Calgary at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
Philadelphia 118, Cleveland 114
New York 128, Portland 98 Detroit at Seattle, 7 p.m.
ATLANTA BRAVES: Agreed to terms with OF Ed-
die Rosario on a two-year contract. Agreed to NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport reported. year contract to remain with the Jets.
Dallas 113, Brooklyn 111
Phoenix 129, Houston 112 Columbus 4, Ottawa 1
terms with OF Alex Dickerson on a one-year con-
tract. Placed RHP Mike Soroka on the 60-day IL.
Miller, 32, finished the 2021 season with 91⁄2 Budget cuts: Former Stanford tight end Aus-
L.A. Lakers at Minnesota, late Columbus 1 2 1 — 4 CHICAGO CUBS: Agreed to terms with RHP David sacks and 50 tackles in 15 regular-season tin Hooper, a De La Salle-Concord alum, was
Oklahoma City at San Antonio, late Ottawa 1 0 0 — 1 Robertson on a one-year contract. Placed RHP
Chicago at Utah, late First Period: 1, Ottawa, Ennis 7 (Chabot, Tier- Codi Heuer on the 60-day IL. games with Denver and Los Angeles. released by Cleveland. The move will save the
Boston at Golden State, late ney), 9:48. 2, Columbus, Roslovic 11 (Laine, We- COLORADO ROCKIES: Agreed to terms with INF
Milwaukee at Sacramento, late renski), 15:13. Jose Iglesias and RHP Chad Kuhl on one-year con-
It’s a deal: Former Rams cornerback Darious Browns $9.5 million against the salary cap,
Toronto at L.A. Clippers, late Second Period: 3, Columbus, Robinson 8 (We- tracts.
Thursday’s games renski, Merzlikins), 2:40. 4, Columbus, Roslovic12 MILWAUKEE BREWERS: Agreed to terms with Williams agreed to a three-year, $30 million ESPN.com reported.
Detroit at Orlando, 4 p.m. (Carlsson, Laine), 14:21. OF Andrew McCutchen on a one-year contract.
Friday’s games Third Period: 5, Columbus, Kuraly10,18:23 (en). PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES: Agreed to terms with contract with Jacksonville, one of seven deals 1 Washington released guard Ereck Flowers,
OF Odubel Herrera on a one-year contract.
Dallas at Philadelphia, 4 p.m. Shots on Goal: Columbus 15-14-8—37. Ottawa the Jaguars made at a potential cost of $260 defensive tackle Matt Ioannidis and safety
Denver at Cleveland, 4:30 p.m. 8-15-8—31. BASKETBALL
L.A. Lakers at Toronto, 4:30 p.m. Power-play opportunities: Columbus 0 of 2; Ot- million. Deshazor Everett, which saves $19 million
Memphis at Atlanta, 4:30 p.m. tawa 0 of 2. NBA
Portland at Brooklyn, 4:30 p.m. Goalies: Columbus, Merzlikins 22-15-3 (31 TORONTO RAPTORS: Signed G Armoni Brooks
Jacksonville also added wide receivers against the salary cap in 2022.
Washington at New York, 4:30 p.m.
Indiana at Houston, 5 p.m.
shots-30 saves). Ottawa, Forsberg 13-12-2 (36-
33).
to a 10-day contract. Christian Kirk (four years, $72 million) and 1 Pittsburgh cut tackle Zach Banner, a move
A: 10,087 (18,572). T: 2:24. FOOTBALL Zay Jones (three years, $24 million), guard
Oklahoma City at Miami, 5 p.m.
New Orleans at San Antonio, 5:30 p.m. Referees: Marc Joannette, Furman South. National Football League
that saves the team $5 million against the cap.
L.A. Clippers at Utah, 6 p.m. Linesmen: David Brisebois, Julien Fournier. Brandon Scherff (three years, $49.5 million),
Boston at Sacramento, 7 p.m. ARIZONA CARDINALS: Re-signed TE Maxx Wil-
tight end Evan Engram (one year, $9 million), Briefly: Several deals that had been agreed to
Chicago at Phoenix, 7 p.m. Colleges liams to a one-year contract. Signed CB Jeff Glad-
Saturday’s games Men’s basketball
ney to a two-year contract. Released DT Jordan
linebacker Foyesade Oluokun (three years, $45 in recent weeks became official, including
Phillips.
Milwaukee at Minnesota, 2 p.m.
Dallas at Charlotte, 4 p.m. NCAA BALTIMORE RAVENS: Agreed to terms with S million) and defensive tackle Folorunso “Fo- trades that sent quarterback Russell Wilson
Marcus Williams on five-year contract. Agreed to
Detroit at Cleveland, 5 p.m. FIRST FOUR terms with T Morgan Moses on a three-year con- ley” Fatukasi (three years, $30 million). from Seattle to Denver, QB Carson Wentz
L.A. Lakers at Washington, 5 p.m.
Tuesday’s results tract. from Indianapolis to Washington and wide
Suns 129, Rockets 112 At Dayton, Ohio CHICAGO BEARS: Signed LS Patrick Scales and
OL Lachovious Simmons to one-year contracts.
1 Former New Orleans safety Marcus Wil- receiver Amari Cooper from Dallas to Cleve-
Texas Southern 76, Texas A&M-CC Islanders 67
Phoenix: Bridges 10-17 3-4 26, Craig 8-8 2-2 21,
Ayton 10-19 3-4 23, Booker 15-24 1-1 36, Payne Indiana 66, Wyoming 58 Released LB Danny Trevathan. liams, who has 15 career interceptions, signed land. ... ESPN made official its hiring of Joe
CINCINNATI BENGALS: Signed LS Clark Harris to
3-10 0-0 6, Wainright 0-3 0-0 0, McGee 4-6 0-0 8,
Biyombo 1-3 0-0 2, Holiday 0-1 0-0 0, Payton 0-0
Wednesday’s results
a one-year contract. a five-year, $70 million contract with Balti- Buck and Troy Aikman as its announcers for
At Dayton, Ohio
0-0 0, Shamet 2-4 1-2 7. Totals 53-95 10-13 129. Wright St. 93, Bryant 82
CLEVELAND BROWNS: Acquired WR Amari Coo-
per and 2022 6th round pick from Dallas for a
more. “Monday Night Football.” Buck and Aikman,
Houston: Mathews 1-4 0-0 3, Tate 4-6 2-3 10, Rutgers vs. Notre Dame, late
2022 5th and 6th round picks. Traded LB Mack
Wood 5-12 6-9 18, Green 9-15 0-0 22, Porter Jr.
7-15 2-2 21, Martin Jr. 5-6 0-111, Sengun 2-5 1-2
NIT Wilson to New England for DE Chase Winovich. 1 Atlanta left tackle Jake Matthews signed a who have been doing games together for Fox
5, Christopher 2-6 0-0 4, Nix 0-3 1-2 1, Schroder First round
Agreed to terms with DT Taven Bryan, WR Ja-
keem Grant, T Chris Hubbard and LB Anthony
three-year, $55 million extension through the since 2002, succeed Steve Levy, Brian Griese
7-13 0-0 17. Totals 42-85 12-19 112.
Phoenix 35 24 36 34 — 129
Tuesday’s results Walker Jr. 2026 season. and Louis Riddick as the MNF team.
Texas A&M 74, Alcorn St. 62 DENVER BRONCOS: Signed OLB Malik Reed to a
Houston 31 27 24 30 — 112 Oklahoma 89, Missouri St. 72 tendered contract.
3-point goals: Phoenix13-33 (Booker 5-12, Craig Oregon 83, Utah St. 72 INDIANAPOLIS COLTS: Signed LB Zaire Franklin,

Mostert exits; Garoppolo stays

3-3, Bridges 3-6, Shamet 2-4, Wainright 0-3,
Payne 0-5), Houston16-39 (Porter Jr. 5-10, Green
4-6, Schroder 3-7, Wood 2-7, Martin Jr. 1-1,
Mathews 1-4, Nix 0-1, Christopher 0-3). Re-
bounds:Phoenix 49 (Craig 14), Houston 33
(Wood 9). Assists: Phoenix 32 (Payne11), Hous-
ton 26 (Porter Jr. 8). Total fouls: Phoenix 18,
Houston 13. A: 18,055 (18,500)
Mavericks 113, Nets 111
Dallas: Dinwiddie 6-14 8-8 22, Finney-Smith 3-6
2-2 9, Powell 5-7 2-2 12, Brunson 8-15 1-1 18,
Doncic 14-26 4-4 37, Bertans1-10-0 3, Kleber 1-5
2-2 4, S.Brown 1-3 0-0 2, Green 2-6 0-0 6, Ntiliki-
na 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 41-83 19-19 113.
Brooklyn: B.Brown 7-16 2-3 17, Durant 8-20 5-5
23, Drummond 7-8 0-1 14, Dragic 9-16 2-2 21,
Mills 3-11 0-0 9, Edwards 4-7 2-2 12, Johnson 1-4
0-12, Claxton 6-81-113, Thomas 0-10-0 0. Totals
45-91 12-15 111.
Dallas 23 35 21 34 — 113
Brooklyn 30 31 30 20 — 111
3-point goals: Dallas 12-34 (Doncic 5-12, Green
2-4, Dinwiddie 2-6, Bertans1-1, Brunson1-3, Fin-
ney-Smith 1-3, S.Brown 0-1, Kleber 0-4), Brook-
lyn 9-26 (Mills 3-9, Edwards 2-4, Durant 2-5,
B.Brown 1-2, Dragic 1-4, Johnson 0-1, Thomas
0-1). Rebounds: Dallas 37 (Doncic 9), Brooklyn
45 (Drummond 17). Assists: Dallas 21 (Doncic
9), Brooklyn 28 (Durant 10). Total fouls: Dallas
17, Brooklyn 21. A: 17,981 (17,732)
76ers 118, Cavaliers 114
Philadelphia: Harris 8-13 0-0 19, Thybulle 2-7
0-0 5, Embiid13-19 8-10 35, Harden 5-1210-12 21,
Maxey 9-15 4-4 25, Niang1-5 0-0 3, Milton 0-0 0-0
0, Jordan1-2 2-2 4, Green 2-5 0-0 6, Joe 0-10-0 0.
Totals 41-79 24-28 118.
Cleveland: Markkanen 4-9 3-4 13, Stevens 4-6
0-0 8, Mobley 5-7 3-3 13, Garland 5-15 11-12 22,
Okoro 5-9 4-4 17, Love 4-10 0-0 10, Windler 0-1
0-0 0, Brown 4-6 0-0 8, Goodwin 2-2 3-5 8, LeVert
6-15 3-4 15. Totals 39-80 27-32 114.
Philadelphia
Cleveland
30 42 13 33 — 118
23 36 31 24 — 114
3-point goals: Philadelphia 12-32 (Harris 3-6,
Maxey 3-6, Green 2-5, Thybulle 1-2, Embiid 1-3,
Niang 1-4, Harden 1-6), Cleveland 9-28 (Okoro
3-5, Markkanen 2-6, Love 2-7, Goodwin 1-1, Gar-
land 1-4, Mobley 0-1, Windler 0-1, LeVert 0-3).
Fouled out: Philadelphia 1 (Harris), Cleveland
None. Rebounds: Philadelphia 39 (Embiid 17),
Cleveland 39 (Mobley 9). Assists:Philadelphia
24 (Harden11), Cleveland 25 (Garland, LeVert 7).
Total fouls: Philadelphia 25, Cleveland 17. A:
19,432 (19,432)
Knicks 128, Trail Blazers 98
Portland: Watford 4-11 3-4 11, Winslow 3-10 0-0
7, Eubanks 5-8 0-0 10, Hart 6-15 3-4 17, Williams
6-15 0-2 14, Brown III 1-3 0-2 2, Elleby 3-5 1-2 8,
Blevins 0-2 0-0 0, Dunn 6-9 0-013, Hughes1-3 0-0
3, Johnson 3-5 0-0 7, McLemore 2-5 0-0 6. Totals
40-91 7-14 98.
New York: Barrett 10-20 6-7 31, Randle 5-18 10-
12 20, Robinson 3-31-2 7, Burks 3-9 3-310, Four-
nier 5-10 0-114, Toppin 6-10 0-0 13, Sims 2-3 1-2
5, Arcidiacono1-10-0 3, McBride1-14-4 7, Quick-
ley 4-5 7-8 18. Totals 40-80 32-39 128.
Portland 29 26 19 24 — 98
New York 37 29 28 34 — 128
3-point goals: Portland 11-34 (McLemore 2-3,
Hart 2-6, Williams 2-6, Dunn 1-1, Elleby 1-2,
Johnson 1-2, Hughes 1-3, Winslow 1-6, Blevins
0-1, Brown III 0-1, Watford 0-3), New York 16-38
Vanderbilt 82, Belmont 71
St. Bonaventure 76, Colorado 68
Washington St. 63, Santa Clara 50
VCU 90, Princeton 79
Xavier 72, Cleveland St. 68
North Texas 67, Texas St. 63 (OT)
Wednesday’s results
Dayton 74, Toledo 55
Virginia 60, Mississippi St. 57
Wake Forest 74, Towson 64
N. Iowa 80, Saint Louis 68
SMU 68, Nicholls 58
Iona at Florida, late
Long Beach St. at BYU, late
CBI
First round
Saturday’s games
At Daytona Beach, Fla.
Fort Wayne vs. Drake, 11 a.m.
UNC-Asheville vs. Stephen F. Austin, 1:30 p.m.
Cal Baptist vs. Middle Tennessee,4 p.m.
Rice vs. Ohio, 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday’s game
Washington St. 63
Santa Clara 50
SANTA CLARA (21-12)
Justice 0-6 0-0 0, Vrankic 7-13 5-819, Bediako 0-3
0-0 0, Pipes 1-11 0-0 3, J.Williams 6-16 6-7 19,
Braun 2-5 0-0 4, Stewart1-2 0-0 2, Holt1-10-0 3,
G.Williams 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 18-60 11-15 50.
WASHINGTON ST. (20-14)
Jakimovski 0-2 0-0 0, Abogidi 4-7 4-4 13, Bamba
1-6 1-2 3, Flowers 2-9 3-4 9, Roberts 8-21 0-0 23,
Rodman 1-3 1-2 3, Jackson 4-7 0-0 8, N.Williams
2-7 0-1 4, Gueye 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 22-64 9-13 63.
Halftime: Washington St. 27-23. 3-Point Goals:
Santa Clara 3-23 (Holt 1-1, J.Williams 1-5, Pipes
1-7, G.Williams 0-1, Braun 0-2, Vrankic 0-2, Jus-
tice 0-5), Washington St. 10-29 (Roberts 7-16,
Flowers 2-7, Abogidi 1-1, Gueye 0-1, Jakimovski
0-1, N.Williams 0-1, Rodman 0-2). Fouled Out:
Abogidi. Rebounds: Santa Clara 40 (J.Williams
15), Washington St. 41(Jackson 8). Assists: San-
ta Clara 13 (J.Williams 4), Washington St. 12
(Flowers 5). Total Fouls: Santa Clara 17, Wash-
ington St. 15. A: 1,389 (11,671).
Women’s basketball
WNIT
First round
Wednesday’s results
Kent St. 68, Youngstown St. 59
Purdue 82, S. Illinois 60
Liberty 50, Campbell 44
Columbia 80, Holy Cross 69
Marquette 93, Ball St. 70
Grand Canyon at New Mexico, late
Ball St. at Marquette, late
WBI
First round
Friday’s games
At Lexington, Ky.
Bowling Green vs. Furman, 11 a.m.
Saint Mary’s (Calif.) vs. Austin Peay, 1:30 p.m.
Davidson vs. Nevada, 4 p.m.
Cleveland St. vs. Northeastern, 6:30 p.m.
T Matt Pryor and DE Tyquan Lewis to contract
extensions.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS: Signed CB Darious
Williams to a three-year contract.
KANSAS CITY CHIEFS: Re-signed QB Chad
Henne to a one-year contract.
LAS VEGAS RAIDERS: Signed DL Bilal Nichols to
a two-year contract.
LOS ANGELES RAMS: Signed LB Travin Howard 49ers from page B1 history to have 200 rushing yards and four
to a tendered contract.
MIAMI DOLPHINS: Re-signed LB Sam Egua- touchdowns in a postseason game in a 37-20
voen. Re-signed S Sheldrick Redwine to a one-
year contract.
Ridgeway hit the books. win over the Packers in the NFC Champi-
MINNESOTA VIKINGS:Signed P Jordan Berry. That’s not much wriggle room. But the onship Game in January 2020.
Agreed to terms with DT Harrison Phillips and TE
Johnny Mundt. 49ers can exhale once they deal Garoppolo, a Without Mostert, the 49ers’ running backs
NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS: Signed CB Terrance
Mitchell to a one-year contract.
transaction that will supply them with $25.55 under contract are Elijah Mitchell, Trey Ser-
NEW ORLEANS SAINTS: Signed DT Shy Tuttle to million in cap room. mon and JaMycal Hasty.
a tendered contract.
NEW YORK GIANTS: Re-signed CB Jarren Wil- So when is that finally happening? They The 49ers did conduct some business
liams to a one-year contract.
NEW YORK JETS: Signed K Eddy Pineiro to a ten- will hope a suitor shakes free after the Tex- Wednesday beyond restructuring deals by
dered contract. Re-signed OL Dan Feeney to a
one-year contract. Signed DE Tim Ward, WR Jeff
ans trade QB Deshaun Watson to one of the placing tenders on restricted free agents who
Smith and CB Javelin Guidry to tendered con- four teams that have met with him this week: were 2021 starters.
tracts.
PITTSBURGH STEELERS: Signed QB Dwayne New Orleans, Carolina, Atlanta and Cleve- They placed a second-rounder tender,
Haskins to a one-year, restricted free agent ten-
dered contract.
land. If the Browns don’t land Watson, they worth $3.99 million in 2022, on linebacker
SEATTLE SEAHAWKS: Signed CB Artie Burns to will have a screaming need for a QB because Azeez Al-Shaair. And they placed the right-
a one-year contract. Signed OLB Uchenna Nwosu
to a two-year contract. Traded QB Russel Wilson they reportedly plan to trade their current of-first-refusal tender on right guard Daniel
and a 2022 4th round pick to Denver for a 2022
1st, 2nd and 5th round pick and a 2023 1st and
starter, Baker Mayfield. Brunskill, which is worth $2.43 million.
2nd round pick along with TE Noah Fant, DE Though Garoppolo stayed for at least an- The tender on Al-Shaair almost assures
Shelby Harris and QB Drew Lock.
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS: Re-signed CB Carl- other day, the 49ers bid farewell Wednesday he’ll remain with the team after a breakout
ton Davis III and WR Breshad Perriman to one-
year contracts.
to running back Raheem Mostert, who season that included 102 tackles. Al-Shaair
WASHINGTON COMMANDERS: Released Ss signed a one-year, $3.125 million deal with can negotiate with other teams, but the 49ers
Landon Collins and Deshazor Everett, OL Ereck
Flowers and DL Matthew Ioannidis. the Dolphins, his agent said. can match any offer he receives and would
HOCKEY Mostert, a native of New Smyrna Beach, get a second-round pick if he signs else-
National Hockey League Fla., will reconnect with former 49ers offen- where.
BOSTON BRUINS: Reassigned C Marc McLaugh-
lin to Providence (AHL) on loan. Recalled C Jack
sive coordinator Mike McDaniel, who was The 49ers can match any offer Brunskill
Studnicka from Providence. hired as Miami’s head coach in February. receives, but they wouldn’t receive compen-
DETROIT RED WINGS: Reassigned D Seth Bar-
ton from Grand Rapids (AHL) to Toledo (ECHL). Mostert joined the Dolphins after an injury- sation if he signs elsewhere.
Signed LW Cross Hanas to a three-year, entry-lev-
el contract. riddled six-season 49ers’ tenure in which he The 49ers did not tender an offer to defen-
EDMONTON OILERS: Reassigned D Philip Brob-
erg to Bakersfield (AHL) on loan.
enlivened the offense when he was healthy. sive tackle Kentavius Street, who becomes an
FLORIDA PANTHERS: Signed D Zachary Uens to Mostert has averaged 5.7 yards on 287 unrestricted free agent. Street’s potential exit
a three-year, entry-level contract. Acquired a
fourth-round selection from the New York Rang- carries since 2018, the highest average among comes after the 49ers lost nose guard D.J.
ers in exchange for F Frank Vatrano.
LOS ANGELES KINGS: Reassigned D Christian
running backs with at least 250 attempts Jones, who signed his three-year, $30 million
Wolanin to Ontario (AHL) on loan. over that span. However, he will turn 30 in contract with the Broncos on Wednesday.
MONTREAL CANADIENS: Reinstated G Jake Al-
len from injured reserve. April, is coming off a serious knee injury Ridgeway, 27, figures to provide interior
PHILADELPHIA FLYERS: Recalled LW Max Will-
man from Lehigh Valley (AHL) from loan.
that limited him to one game and two carries depth. The six-year veteran has 80 tackles
TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING: Signed D Declan Carlile last season and has missed 31 games because and 9.5 sacks in a 65-game career that in-
to a two-year, entry-level contract.
VANCOUVER CANUCKS: Reassigned D Noah Ju- of injuries over the past four seasons. cludes 12 starts.
ulsen, RW Sheldon Rempal to Abbotsford (AHL)
on loan.
Mostert leaves behind a legacy that in-
WASHINGTON CAPITALS: Re-signed F Joe Sniv- cludes one of the most dominating playoff Eric Branch covers the 49ers for
ely to a two-year contract.
WINNIPEG JETS: Reassigned D Ville Heinola to performances in franchise history. He The San Francisco Chronicle.
Manitoba (AHL).
rushed for 220 yards, a playoff franchise Email: ebranch@sfchronicle.com
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Is S.F. getting good value from cops?

By Joshua Sharpe
A new report contends that
San Franciscans pay more and
get less — a good bit less —
from their Police Department.
The findings by the Center
on Juvenile and Criminal Jus-
tice put the annual cost of
police service at around $700
per resident. That’s more than
any other California city with a
population over 500,000 pays
except Los Angeles, whose
police report solving crimes at
twice the rate as in San Fran-
cisco, according to the analy-
sis.
City police also dispropor-
tionately arrest Black residents
at a higher rate than the other
cities and “flagrantly” fail to
keep comprehensive arrest
data, says the nonprofit, whose
mission is decreasing incarcer-
ation and finding long-term
solutions to crime.
Police called the report mis-
leading and a hit job omitting
key factors, including that San
Francisco sees huge numbers
of tourists — 15 million in 2021.
The report doesn’t appear to
factor in tourism for any juris-
diction it studied, including
Los Angeles, which also sees
millions of visitors per year.
“The San Francisco Police
Department is responsible to
protect and serve our city’s
residents and its millions of
visitors, of course. CJCJ knows
that — or should know it —
but misleadingly chose to ig-
nore it to heighten the impact
of its PR stunt,” police spokes-
person Matt Dorsey said in an
emailed statement. “Sadly, the
timing, tenor, questionable and
purposive methodology, and
utter lack of collaboration by
CJCJ renders its brief politi-
cally suspect and factually
misleading.”
Dorsey also said the report
failed to note that $80 million
of the department’s nearly
$700 million budget funds the
police airport bureau.
Mayor London Breed’s office
didn’t respond to a request for
comment Tuesday.
The report’s author was
confident in his findings after
years of researching police.
Mike Males is a former UC
Santa Cruz professor who’s
published extensively on juve-
nile justice. He said other de-
Police continues on C3

Restaurants
in city get
reprieve on
parklet rules
By J.D. Morris

San Francisco restaurants and bars that built

parklets to stay afloat during the pandemic will
not be fined for running afoul of new city reg-
ulations until next spring, with some excep-
tions.
Under an ordinance passed unanimously
Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors, the city
will not issue fines to enforce its permanent
Shared Spaces parklet program until April 1,
2023.
Supervisors voted in July to make the par-
klets a permanent fixture of San Francisco,
enabling businesses to keep using public side-
walks and parking spots for outdoor dining and
drinking under a new set of city rules.
The city’s battered restaurant industry hailed
the decision to make parklets permanent but
Jessica Christian / The Chronicle
later balked once city staff had fleshed out the
Atherton Police Sgt. Jon Fong meets with Sandy Crittenden (left), dog Bella and Joan Sanders while on patrol. new rules and begun to enforce them.
A chorus of businesses complained about

Is spate of burglaries
onerous rules and hefty fines that threatened as
much as 90% of the city’s parklets with removal
or renovation, according to an estimate from the
Golden Gate Restaurant Association trade

‘criminal tourism’?
group.
The association said after Tuesday’s board
Parklets continues on C5

Police say crime California

ring from Chile is
targeting mansions
By Rachel Swan
Max Schenk was playing video
games in the den above his parents’
garage in Hillsborough when he
heard an iron gate jangling outside,
followed by a frantic rustle of bush-
es. Somebody was breaking into
the house.
It was a crisp Saturday night in
late October, and Schenk was un-
aware of the rash of burglaries in
wealthy Peninsula towns flourish-
ing at the time. Nor had the 22-
year-old college student heard the
elaborate, controversial theory
police would circulate to explain
this trend: that an international
crime operation rooted in South
America had infiltrated tony neigh-
borhoods in the Bay Area.
The thieves left a trail of clues
that night, after they smashed
through a window in Schenk’s
bedroom, crept down the hall and
ripped a safe from the master bed-
room, pried it open and pilfered
about $300,000 worth of jewelry —
Kellie Meyers’ Hillsborough home was among those in a string of
burglaries in wealthy neighborhoods; $375,000 worth of goods was taken.
diamond earrings, a wedding ring,
a limited-edition Franck Muller
watch, and a diamond and enamel
necklace — scattering his mother’s
cheaper costume jewelry on the
floor.
As Schenk descended the stairs
and walked to the kitchen, dialing
911 and grabbing the largest knife
he could find, he heard two men
Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle
speaking Spanish, he said in an
interview with The Chronicle. He
ran to a neighbor’s house, clutching
the knife, his sneakers and his
phone.
“When the police got there, they
literally saw one of the burglars in
my mom’s room,” Schenk said,
recalling how the man sprinted out
Burglaries continues on C5
firms to grow
strawberries
in Northeast
By Tara Duggan
South San Francisco vertical farming compa-
ny Plenty and Watsonville’s Driscoll’s are team-
ing up to transport the work of growing straw-
berries from California fields to a huge indoor
vertical farm in the Northeast.
The facility, due to begin selling plump red
berries to East Coast supermarkets in 2024, will
be the first foray into vertical farming for Dris-
coll’s and Plenty’s first farm devoted only to
berries, as well as its first outside California. The
companies did not announce a specific location
for the vertical farm in their announcement
Tuesday, but Plenty CEO Arama Kukutai said it
would be within a day’s drive of a major metro
area.
“This one-day reach is a really great opportu-
nity,” said Scott Komar, senior vice president of
global R&D at Driscoll’s. “Because that plays into
the freshness. Having an indoor environment
allows us to deliver that ideal climate day in and
Farm continues on C5

Breed eyes permanent car ban

for Golden Gate Park street
By J.D. Morris
Mayor London Breed in-
troduced legislation Tuesday
that would permanently ban
cars along 1.5 miles of John
F. Kennedy Drive in San
Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.
Breed’s legislation moves
the city one step closer to a
Board of Supervisors vote as
soon as next month on the
future of the road, which has
been closed to cars since the
delman, Matt Haney and
Dean Preston are co-sponsor-
ing the legislation, which
builds off a proposal en-
dorsed by the board of the
San Francisco Municipal
Transportation Agency and
the Recreation and Park
Commission.
The closure of JFK Drive
to vehicle traffic has been
widely popular among San
Franciscans who have walked
or biked there over the past
including park museum lead-
ers and certain advocates for
people with disabilities.
Breed’s office acknowledged
some of the oft-repeated con-
cerns about keeping cars
blocked from most of JFK
Drive forever, saying that the
city will try to make sure
that institutions such as the
de Young Museum and Cali-
fornia Academy of Sciences
remain publicly accessible.
The mayor’s office also said Nick Otto / Special to The Chronicle

beginning of the pandemic. two years but fiercely op- the city wants to work on People hold signs while attending a Walk SF-organized Feb. 12
Supervisors Rafael Man- posed by some vocal critics, Cars continues on C6 “Save JFK” rally on John F. Kennedy Drive in Golden Gate Park.
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BAY AREA & BUSINESS
Oakland appeals to revive NFL suit
By Bob Egelko
Oakland has asked the
U.S. Supreme Court to
revive its antitrust suit
against the National Foot-
ball League over the Raid-
ers’ move to Las Vegas,
describing the league as a
“cartel” whose rules prof-
ited its teams while drain-
ing the city’s coffers.
The suit was filed in
2018, a year after NFL
teams voted 31-1 to ap-
prove the team’s reloca-
tion to Las Vegas. Oak-
land did not challenge the
move, which took place
before the 2020-21 season,
but claimed damages of
more than $240 million,
plus loss of tax revenue
and reductions in the
property value of the
Oakland-Alameda Coun-
ty Coliseum.
A federal appeals court
ruled last December that
the city had failed to show
it was harmed by the
league’s refusal to add
more teams or other alleg-
edly anti-competitive
practices, upholding a
federal magistrate’s dis-
missal of the suit. But
lawyers for Oakland told
the Supreme Court the
NFL and its teams were
violating antitrust laws
by limiting competition
for their own benefit.
The NFL is “an un-
ambiguous cartel” whose
rules “restrict the supply
of new teams to prospec-
tive cities,” the city said in
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a March 10 filing by at-
torney Thomas Goldstein
and City Attorney Barba-
ra Parker’s office.
The city noted that the
Raiders, under the
league’s rules, paid $378
million to owners of the
other NFL teams before
the vote on relocation,
which required three-
fourths approval.
The rules create “exor-
bitant amounts of public
financing for luxurious
stadiums” while leaving
Oakland with “an empty
stadium and millions of
dollars in financial loss-
es,” the city said. It said
the NFL has not expand-
ed in 20 years, “even as
research suggests that fan
demand would support
up to 10 more teams.”
In court filings, the
NFL and its teams denied
any lawbreaking and said
the league had no legal
obligation to expand.
“Antitrust law does not
govern or second-guess a
sports league’s decisions
about the number of its
member clubs,” they told
the appeals court.
In the December rul-
ing, the Ninth U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals said
Oakland had not shown it
was suffering any tangi-
Body of missing girl found
By Lauren Hernández
A missing 8-year-old
Hayward girl who was
last seen by relatives in
December has been iden-
tified as the deceased
child found in a Merced
home on Friday, author-
ities said on Tuesday.
Merced police discov-
ered a child’s body —
identified by Merced
County sheriff’s officials
on Tuesday as 8-year-old
Sophia Mason — last
week while serving a
search warrant on a home
in the 500 block of Bar-
clay Way in Merced, more
than 100 miles away from
Hayward. Police received
information that Sophia
was last seen at the Cen-
tral Valley residence and
searched the home in
connection with the
search for the missing
girl, police said.
Sophia’s mother, 30-
year-old Samantha John-
son of Hayward, has been
arrested on suspicion of
DILBERT By Scott Adams
ble harm because of the
NFL’s policies.
“The city has not al-
leged — and there is no
way of knowing — what
would have occurred in a
more competitive market-
place,” Judge A. Wallace
Tashima said in the 3-0
ruling. “Would new
teams have joined the
NFL? Would they have
found Oakland attrac-
tive? Would the Raiders
have left Oakland in any
event? ... There are too
many speculative links in
the chain of causation”
between the league’s
actions and the city’s
claimed financial losses,
Tashima said.
But Oakland’s lawyers
said that the city had
suffered financial losses
and that a 2014 Supreme
Court ruling allowed
anyone harmed by mo-
nopolistic practices to file
suit. The Supreme Court
asked the league and its
teams to respond by April
13.
The case is Oakland vs.
Oakland Raiders, 21-1243.
Bob Egelko is a San
Francisco Chronicle staff
writer. Email: begelko@
sfchronicle.com Twitter:
@BobEgelko
murder, and police have
issued an arrest warrant
for her boyfriend, 34-
year-old Dhante Jackson,
on suspicion of murder.
Jackson lives at the home
where the child’s body
was discovered, police
said on Saturday.
Police said that Jackson
“went on the run” shortly
after he heard that his
residence in Merced was
being searched as part of
the investigation, Merced
police said on Saturday.
A family member of the
girl reported Sophia
missing on March 8,
telling Hayward police
officers that she had “re-
ceived information that
caused her to believe the
juvenile could be missing
and wanted to ascertain
the child’s welfare.”
Lauren Hernández
(she/her) is a San Francisco
Chronicle staff writer.
Email: lauren.hernandez@
sfchronicle.com Twitter:
@ByLHernandez
BUSINESS IN BRIEF
RETAIL SALES Networks, succeeded
Schultz as CEO in 2017.
Inflation starts In an open letter to
to take its toll Starbucks’ employees,
Johnson, 61, said he told
Retail sales rose 0.3% the company’s board last
in February from the year that he was consid-
prior month, the Com- ering retirement. His
merce Department re- most obvious successor
ported on Wednesday, a had been Roz Brewer, the
slowdown in the pace of company’s chief operat-
spending that suggested ing officer, but Brewer
inflation was taking its left the company in Feb-
toll on American con- ruary to become the top
sumers. executive at Walgreens.
The slower pace of Starbucks expects to
growth in February — name a permanent CEO
January’s retail sales had by this fall. While
increased 4.9%, revised Schultz leads the compa-
data showed — follows ny, he will get $1 in com-
other indications that pensation.
consumers were growing Schultz, 68, bought
more pessimistic as they Starbucks — then 11
faced persistently rising stores and 100 employees
prices with no end in — in 1987. Four years
sight. Last week, the later, when Starbucks
government said the went public, the chain
Consumer Price Index, a had grown to more than
widely watched inflation 100 stores. Starbucks
gauge, rose 7.9% in the now has more than
year through February, 34,000 stores worldwide.
the fastest pace of annual
inflation in 40 years. ALABAMA
Wednesday’s report
did not reflect the full
Mercedes opens
effects of the Russian battery plant
invasion of Ukraine, The auto industry’s
which began on Feb. 24 shift to battery power is
and triggered a surge in expected to lead to job
global energy costs. In losses because it takes
the United States, gaso- fewer workers to build
line prices have soared an electric vehicle than it
past highs last seen in does to build a car with a
2008, an increase that gasoline engine. But that
will eat into consumers’ probably won’t be the
ability to spend on other
goods.
case in Alabama.
The state this week
The University of became the beneficiary
Michigan’s Index of Con- of a factory that will
sumer Sentiment re- build battery packs for a
leased this month Mercedes-Benz electric
showed that consumers SUV. The German car-
were pessimistic about maker has a large factory
the year ahead because complex near Tuscaloo-
of inflation and the po- sa, Ala., where it has
tential impact of the built conventional SUVs
Russian invasion of since the 1990s.
Ukraine. Mercedes has supplied
STARBUCKS those factories with in-
ternal combustion en-
Schultz returns gines made primarily in
to lead firm Europe. Now those im-
ported components will
Longtime Starbucks be replaced by batteries
CEO Howard Schultz is made in the U.S.
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partments have airport
divisions, too. “Every city
could claim contingen-
cies that boost its costs,”
he said.
“San Franciscans are
just not getting their
money’s worth out of the
Police Department,” said
Males, senior research
fellow at the San Francis-
co-based Center on Juve-
nile and Criminal Justice.
The report comes at a
time when crime is on
the minds of San Fran-
ciscans and residents of
other large cities that
have seen rises amid the
COVID pandemic. The
Police Department and
District Attorney Chesa
Boudin find themselves
at odds over how best to
S.F. faculty ruling rejected
By Bob Egelko
A faculty panel at San
Francisco State has found
that the school broke its
promise to the head of a
fledgling program in
Arab-American studies in
2006 to hire two full-time
teachers for the program.
But the university’s presi-
dent says any such prom-
ise was not binding and
has vetoed the panel’s
decision that new teach-
ers should be hired.
Professor Rabab Ab-
dulhadi has struggled to
maintain the AMED
program, or Arab and
Muslim Ethnicity and
Diasporas studies, with-
out the two additional
faculty members she was
promised by Kenneth
Monteiro, then the dean
of ethnic studies. But in a
veto messageFriday, San
Selby backs Campos
in Assembly race
By Joe Garofoli
Thea Selby, who fin-
ished fourth in the 17th
Assembly District race in
February, endorsed her
former rival David Cam-
pos Tuesday in the April
19 runoff.
Selby, a City College of
San Francisco trustee
who garnered nearly 6%
of the vote in the Feb. 15
election, said she chose
Campos over San Francis-
co Supervisor Matt Haney
after speaking with both
candidates.
Selby was impressed
with how Campos, a vice
chair of the California
Democratic Party, pushed
for the party to reject
campaign contributions
from fossil fuel compa-
nies. He was a lone voice
among the party’s leaders
in criticizing its decision
protect people and prop-
erty. National media,
especially conservative
outlets, have descended
to cover the fight and
showcase the city’s
grinding inequality and
challenges.
Boudin, who faces a
June 7 recall, is a favorite
target for his more pro-
gressive policies, such as
greater use of pretrial
diversion. Boudin has
blamed the police, saying
he’d prosecute people if
officers would arrest
them. Breed recently
pledged to add new offi-
cers while still pursuing
alternatives to traditional
policing. She promised
as well to invest in pro-
grams that address the
root causes of crime.
Males said the impetus
Francisco State President
Lynn Mahoney said the
reported promise was
inconsistent with the
university’s agreement
with its faculty union and
therefore “unenforce-
able.”
“Former Dean Mon-
teiro did not have the
authority to bind the
University” or sidestep
the collective-bargaining
agreement, Mahoney
said, without spelling out
any inconsistencies be-
tween Monteiro’s commit-
ment and the union con-
tract. She said university
officials have “determined
that AMED’s current
enrollments do not justify
additional faculty hiring
at this time.”
In its Feb. 18 decision,
the three-member faculty
panel also agreed with
Abdulhadi’s claim that
to accept contributions
from some companies.
“To me, this is critical,”
said Selby, a longtime
transportation advocate
who also endorsed Cam-
pos in his 2014 run for the
Assembly, when he lost to
David Chiu. The open
Assembly seat was creat-
ed after Chiu stepped
down when San Francisco
Mayor London Breed
appointed him to be San
Francisco’s city attorney.
Selby recalled working
with Campos in one of his
signature achievements
while he served on the
San Francisco Board of
Supervisors: a program to
fund free Muni rides for
youth.
“He supports women,
working families and the
most vulnerable, and I
just really believe that that
is the leader that I want in
for conducting the re-
search was the narrative
that’s emerged of San
Francisco as a hellscape
of liberal policies gone
sideways. Males, who’s
studied police for de-
cades, wanted to know
what the data said.
Males said the data
suggest the Police De-
partment, whose leaders
complain of understaff-
ing, has failed to improve
as it’s added more per-
sonnel.
The report compared
San Francisco stats from
the past decade with
ones from Fresno, Los
Angeles, Sacramento,
San Diego and San Jose.
In Los Angeles, which
spends more than San
Francisco on police,
police reported a 16%
she was experiencing
“hostility in the work-
place” as a result of her
long-running battle with
university officials. Ma-
honey did not address
that finding directly, but
said in her decision that
the fact that “SFSU has
disputed and continues to
dispute the enforceability
and validity of (the dean’s
promise) does not amount
to a hostile work environ-
ment.”
There was no immedi-
ate comment from Abdul-
hadi. The teachers’ union,
the California Faculty
Association, supports her
and says she has filed an
appeal of Mahoney’s veto
to an arbitration panel
that would be jointly
selected by the union and
the university for a final
decision in the case.
“We are fairly confident
the Assembly,” Selby said.
Campos said Tuesday
that he appreciated “this
very important endorse-
ment” — noting that it
came from the only parent
and only woman in the
four-person field. The
other candidate in the
February race, tech en-
trepreneur and philan-
thropist Bilal Mahmood,
endorsed Haney.
Campos said every
piece of support will be
critical in what he expects
to be a tight runoff. Haney
edged Campos by less
than 1% of the vote in
February.
“A lot of parents have a
connection with the work
that (Selby) has done
around education and
transportation,” Campos
said. “I do think that
women are going to be the
deciding vote in this race.”
Joe Garofoli is The San
Francisco Chronicle’s senior
political writer. Email:
jgarofoli@sfchronicle.com
Twitter: @joegarofoli
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A report says S.F. pays more than other big cities
for police who solve comparatively fewer crimes.
rate of clearing serious
cases by arrest in 2020,
one point better than the
national average. In San
Francisco, the rate was
9%, lower than any other
major California city.
Dorsey sent clearance
rate data showing San
Francisco has, in certain
categories, maintained
better clearance rates
than some other major
departments. In 2020, for
instance, the agency
reported a 75% homicide
that we will win because
it’s (we think) pretty open
and shut,” James Martel,
the union’s campus presi-
dent, said by email Tues-
day.
The dispute reflects
ongoing tensions about
Middle Eastern studies at
San Francisco State. In
2017, a group of Jewish
students accused the
school of encouraging
anti-Semitism, citing
protests that had halted a
campus speech by the
mayor of Jerusalem, and
alleged that Abdulhadi
had instigated prejudice
with anti-Zionist state-
ments. But a federal judge
found no evidence of
discrimination by the
university and dismissed
the suit in 2018.
Last year, Abdulhadi
and a faculty colleague
scheduled a remote class-
room talk by Leila Khalid,
a Palestinian activist who
had taken part in an air-
plane hijacking in 1969,
but Zoom canceled the
broadcast at the urging of
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clearance rate, which is
better than the typical
national average of
around 65%. L.A.’s rate
was 55%.
The report faults local
police for record-keeping
issues that make analyz-
ing crime and arrests
more difficult. The Police
Department does not
specify an offense in
most youth arrests and
doesn’t list whether ar-
restees of any age are of
Hispanic origin.
pro-Israel advocates.
Another faculty panel
found that San Francisco
State had violated the
teachers’ academic free-
dom by failing to defend
them, but Mahoney ve-
toed that decision as well.
The College of Ethnic
Studies, home to the pro-
gram, was the first such
institution in the nation,
established in 1969 after a
months-long strike led by
Black students protesting
the absence of minorities
in San Francisco State’s
curriculum.
The recent faculty
panel ruling cited Abdul-
hadi’s testimony that she
had left a previous teach-
ing position only after
Monteiro, the dean,
promised to hire two
additional full-time teach-
ers — a promise that Mon-
teiro said had been ap-
proved by Robert Corri-
gan, then the university’s
president. Over the next
decade, the panel said,
S.F. State hired 10 new
teachers for other ethnic
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The spokesperson
disputed those allega-
tions and said Males may
be cherrypicking to call
out the agency’s record-
keeping.
Dorsey didn’t specifi-
cally respond to the find-
ing that San Francisco
police arrest Black peo-
ple at a rate almost 10
times higher than for
non-Black people. But he
pointed out steps the
agency has taken to com-
bat profiling and encour-
age equity in policing.
He said San Francisco
police maintain relation-
ships with experts in
academia and advocacy
organizations as part of
its “commitment to 21st
century police reforms.”
Joshua Sharpe is a San
Francisco Chronicle staff
writer. Email: joshua.
sharpe@sfchronicle.com
Twitter: @joshuawsharpe
studies programs but
none for AMED.
“The lack of hires has
resulted in intellectual
isolation for Dr. Abdul-
hadi,” the three panel
members said. Although
Monteiro is no longer
dean, they said, “change
in leadership does not
revoke the promise.” The
panel called on the uni-
versity to hire the addi-
tional teachers and to
apologize to Abdulhadi.
Abdulhadi told The
Chronicle after the panel
decision that she felt
“vindicated” and hoped
Mahoney would uphold
it. But Mahoney said
Friday that the university
had not made any binding
promises to Abdulhadi or
her program and was
entitled to determine its
own hiring policy, based
on enrollment.
Bob Egelko is a San
Francisco Chronicle staff
writer. Email: begelko@
sfchronicle.com Twitter:
@BobEgelko
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CARROLL, Thomas
Thomas Carroll
September 19, 1949 - February 28, 2022
Thomas Edwin Carroll, 72,
of Sacramento passed away
on Feb 28, 2022. He was
born Sep 19, 1949, in San
Francisco. Tom graduated
in 1967 from Sunset HS in
Hayward.
Tom was an Usher
Supervisor for the SF
Giants and SF 49ers for
over 30 years. He was a
supportive boss whose
knowledge and experience
were appreciated by
management and admired
by the many staff whom he
mentored.
In the 1970’s and 80’s,
Tom was a professional
dart player, travelling
around the country to dart
tournaments. He was a past
president of the SF Dart
Assn, SF Dart League, and
North Bay Dart Assn, where
he was a founding member.
He is survived by his wife
of 40 years, Nancy Hall
Carroll, and daughter, Sarah
Pecota (Andrew); siblings,
Dolores Bronn (Steve) of
Montrose, CO, Warren
Weichmann (Elizabeth) of
Frank Jameson Rees
August 28, 1941 - March 2, 2022
Frank Jameson Rees
passed away unexpectedly
on March 2, 2022 at the age
of 80. After a great day of
tennis, he died in the arms
of his loving wife Marlo
Rees at home in Montecito,
California. Frank was an en-
ergetic, vivacious friend and
mentor with a laser-sharp
mind and contagious laugh
who loved business and
enjoyed helping others.
Born August 28,1941
in Lexington, Kentucky
to Frank Jameson Rees,
Sr., and Margaret Evelyn
Combs, Frank was the big
brother to four siblings. He
graduated from Beverly Hills
High School and received
his BS in Engineering from
CalTech in 1963.
In 1964 he received his
MS in Aeronautics and As-
tronautics and completed a
PhD in Applied Mechanics at
Stanford University in 1968.
He married Diane Jones in
1964, and they welcomed
daughter Nicole in 1968. In
1972 he married Ruth Andre
and they moved to Atlanta,
Georgia where son Brandon
was born in 1974 and
daughter Danielle in 1976.
Rodney Washburn
Rodney Harper Washburn
died peacefully on February
13 at his home in Atherton,
California, after a 2-year
battle with cancer. Rod
was born on November 10,
1929, in Washington, DC to
Daniel W. and Edna Harper
Washburn. His three older
siblings Paul Washburn,
Nancy Binkley and Emory
Washburn have predeceased
him.
In the early 1940s, the
family moved to New
Mexico and then later to
California. After graduating
from Sequoia High School in
Redwood City, Rod joined
the Air Force. Stationed in
US-occupied Germany, Rod
was part of the team that
provided logistical support
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Stockton, and Elaine Foley
(Casey) of Green Valley, AZ;
and grandchildren, Owen
and Alice Pecota. He was
preceded in death by his
sister Mary Klett.
Interment services will
be held on Mar 31, 2022 at
11am at Cypress Lawn 1370
El Camino Real, Colma,
CA 94014, followed by a
reception at the South SF
Elks Lodge 920 Stonegate
Drive, South SF, CA 94080.
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In 1975, Frank co-founded
Energy Management As-
sociates, with partner James
M. Goodrich. Under his
leadership as President and
CEO, EMA dominated its
software niche as a software
and management consulting
firm serving the electric and
gas utility industry. He sold
the company to Electronic
Data Systems in 1992.
In the 1980’s he joined
Young Presidents Organiza-
tion and continued in the
more recent YPO GOLD
organization (formerly
known as WPO). He deeply
valued and was enriched by
the friendships in his YPO
GOLD NorCal Forum.
In 2000, with nephew
John Berlin, Frank co-
founded Devastudios, a Film
Graphic Design firm, whose
clients include major motion
picture studios and video
streaming companies. Frank
was actively involved in the
company until his death. He
volunteered at the Stanford
Business School and men-
tored numerous entrepre-
neurs over his lifetime.
In 2003 Frank moved
from Atherton, California to
for the Berlin Airlift. After his
service, Rod completed his
undergraduate degree from
the University of California
at Berkeley, then went on
to take a law degree from
Harvard Law School. Rod
practiced law for a time in
San Francisco, then spent
most of his career with the
US Postal Service.
Rod met his beloved wife
of 50 years, Jane Elizabeth
Caldwell, while working in
San Francisco. They lived
there until 1980, when they
settled in Atherton. Rod and
Jane were very active in the
community, taking a special
interest in the development
of Atherton’s Holbrook-
Palmer Park. Rod was also
active in the Civic Interest
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Marie Anne Franza
Marie Anne (Gollbach)
Franza passed away
peacefully at her home at
My Father’s Retirement
Ranch in Wickenburg, AZ,
on March 8, 2022. Born
on March 3, 1925 in East
Nicolaus, CA, to Joseph
and Anna Gollbach, Marie
lived to celebrate her 97th
birthday. She attended
McClatchey High School in
Sacramento and completed
her schooling to become
a registered nurse at St.
Mary’s Hospital in San
Francisco. Marie was proud
to say she worked until she
was 90 years old!
She was an incredible oil
painter, top notch gardener,
great cook (learned from
her Italian mother-in-law),
proficient jigsaw puzzle
aficionado, and loved to
read. In her later years at
My Father’s she watched
the Hallmark channel daily,
and loved any and all British
series or movies – can you
say Downton Abbey?
She loved her Friday
lunches with family and
friends in California. In her
years at “the ranch” she
enjoyed playing Bingo and
cards, and she never missed
her weekly hair and monthly
nail appointments.
Marie is survived by
Santa Monica, and married
the love of his life, Marlo
Coleman Rees. They moved
to Portland, Oregon in 2003
and to Montecito, California
in 2021.
An avid tennis player
throughout his life - Frank
was ranked number 3 in
Northern California in
senior men’s doubles in
1998 and 1999. He and his
Portland tennis teams won
2nd and 3rd places in the
USTA National Senior Tennis
Championships of 2010 and
2016.
Frank is survived by his
wife Marlo, daughter Nicole
(wife Lisa Bell and daughter
Ava), son Brandon (wife
Sara Mayman and daughters
League, attended Atherton
City Council meetings, and
was head of the Friends of
the Atherton Library. They
also travelled extensively
– Rod particularly liked to
trace his family origins in
England and Scotland. Jane
passed away in 2013.
Later in life, Rod was
blessed to have a family
of live-in caregivers,
Ana Hala’api’api, Miloni
Tuitupou, and their son
William Hala’api’api. In
addition to helping with
day-to-day tasks, they kept
Rod active and enriched his
life tremendously.
Rod had a voracious
appetite for knowledge in all
subjects, and especially liked
to keep up with current
events and the mercurial
fortunes of Bay Area sports
teams. His memory and
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REES, Frank
her children Tom (Bev)
Franza, Chris (Frank)
Salmen, and Cathy Pallari
(David), grandson Chris
Pallari (Ashlee) and great-
granddaughter Ravyn Marie.
Preceded in death by Gene,
her loving husband of 57
years, parents Joseph and
Anna Gollbach, and her
brother Larry.
Many thanks to My
Father’s Retirement Ranch
and Hospice of the Valley
for their excellent care and
loving support.
A Rosary will be held
at Holy Cross Catholic
Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission
Rd., Colma, CA on Friday,
March 18, at 10:00 am.
Viewing begins at 9:30 am.
Dalia and Zoey), daughter
Danielle (husband Zach
Tolby). He is also survived
by sisters Michelle Berne
and Caroline Berlin, nephew
John Berlin, niece Jennifer
Berlin, nephew Clayton Ka-
rush, and grandniece Sierra
Sutherland. He is preceded
in death by sister Serena
Sutherland and brother
“Gopher” Curtis.
A private celebration of
life will be held this spring.
Donations may be made
in his name to the UN
Refugee Agency at https://
give.unrefugees.org/ or
World Central Kitchen, both
of which are assisting with
the Ukrainian refugees.
storytelling abilities were
legendary. No glassware on
the table was safe from his
energetic hand gestures.
Rod is survived by six
nieces and nephews,
numerous great- and
great-great-nieces and
nephews, and goddaughter
Anne-Marie “Punky” Witt.
Rod will be interred in a
private ceremony next to
his beloved Jane at the
Mountain View Cemetery
in Oakland. There will be
a public memorial at 11:00
AM Saturday, March 19, at
the Main House in Holbrook-
Palmer Park, Atherton.
Contributions in Rod’s name
may be made to the Division
of Rheumatology at UCSF,
or to the American Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals.
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WASHBURN, Rodney
Patrick Louis Goudy
Patrick passed away at
home Sunday evening,
February 27th surrounded
by his wife and sons. He
had privately and tena-
ciously been in a battle with
pancreatic cancer, praying
to be the 1% that would
survive the disease. He was
64 years old.
He was born in Wichita,
Kansas to Dolores and Bill
Goudy. The family moved to
Denver, CO which became
home base for the fam-
ily. He was number 6 of 8
children and had a terrific
childhood playing golf in
summers and skiing in the
winter, always trying to
keep up with 4 older broth-
ers. At age 16 he lost his
father, an event that greatly
impacted him. He went on
to graduate from Cherry
Creek HS and was lucky
enough to be a recipient of
the Evans Scholar Golf Cad-
dy Scholarship, a gift he be-
lieved changed the course
of his life. This allowed
him to attend college and
become a proud alumnus of
the University of Colorado
at Boulder. After complet-
ing college, he left Colorado
and started his career in
business, eventually landing
in San Diego where he could
play golf year-round. While
on a cruise in 1988 he met
the love of his life, Cheri
Balistreri a nurse from San
Francisco. Love was instant
and profound, and they
married in 1989. Pat and
Cheri were blessed with two
sons, Paul, and Peter. Pat
loved being a husband and
father and San Francisco
became his home. He spent
as much time as he could
with his boys, never missing
a game or an opportunity
to encourage them. He was
their CYO soccer coach,
volunteer chaperone for
numerous field trips, and
active in all events of St.
Stephen School. He could
be seen flipping burgers
for hot lunch, pancakes for
the Christmas breakfast,
or chairing the annual golf
tournament. He served as
President of the Men’s Club.
The many hours dedicated
to the school and church
allowed him to foster the
friendships he has today. Al-
ways willing to host a party;
he was known for great cos-
tumes, endless laughs, and
decorative themes. Holidays
with family or events with
friends especially those in
his ‘lodge’ were legendary.
He next went on to take his
time and talent to volunteer
at St. Ignatius Prep where
the boys went to HS. He
became a member of the
Fathers Club Board in
various positions eventu-
ally becoming President. In
2010 he was asked to chair
the auction that provides
scholarships for students.
He felt it was his duty to
give back. He hosted a
successful and fun event,
raising funds for kids and
building more friendships.
He considered this one of
his greatest honors and
achievements.
Aside from giving back
to his children’s schools, he
loved to ski and golf. He
was an avid golfer known
for his smooth swing and
ability to find the fairway.
He insisted both boys learn
to ski, and to play the game
of golf as it was a life skill.
His best family vacations
were road trips, especially
visiting National Parks, of-
ten including both his mom
and mother-in-law in the
adventure. When the boys
IN MEMORIAM
Donald Hofvendahl
Donald Hofvendahl
died on February 18,
2022. Donald was a loving
Son, Brother and caring
friend to many as well as a
dedicated teacher at Balboa
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spotted a pink or orange
sunset, he magically pulled
‘lollipops from the sky’.
Times spent with his family
were his true passion.
Though his family came
1st, he built a Financial
Advisory Practice from the
ground up. Not being a
native San Franciscan, it was
no small task. Never one to
shy away from hard work,
his dedication created a suc-
cessful business where he
treated his clients as friends.
He worked diligently until
his death to be assured his
clients would be taken care
of the way he expected. He
honestly enjoyed his work
and the benefits it provided
his family.
He was a man of great
conviction and integrity; his
word was his promise. He
was a solid guy who was the
ultimate husband, father,
grandfather, son, brother,
uncle, coach and friend. He
dedicated his life to his fam-
ily, work, and his Catholic
faith. He was rarely without
a smile. Understanding
he had a short window to
travel, he fulfilled a dream
trip to France where he
and Cheri toasted to a life
and a love like no other.
He played his last round of
golf in December at Pebble
Beach while undergoing
chemotherapy. He shot an
85 and was disappointed,
but happy he parred the
18th hole. The lessons he
taught us were to respect
yourself and others, never
give up, pray, and live every
day as if it were your last.
We miss his presence
already and will never forget
him. Perhaps he was not the
1% who survived the cancer,
but Heaven has a new
angel, 100%.
He is survived by Cheri,
his sons – Paul (wife
Kassidy), and Peter, his
granddaughter – Gianna,
siblings, Margaret (Jim),
Richard (Joanne), Dan, Steve
(Carol), Tom (Deedee), Linda
(Neal), and Carol. Mother-
in-law – Rosemary Balistreri,
his brothers in law, Mario
(Theresa), Albert, and a host
of nieces and nephews and
extended family, and friends
who became family. He was
predeceased by his parents
and Father-in-law - Albert
Balistreri.
We thank the host of peo-
ple who helped shepherd
us during this difficult time.
Our gratitude is endless.
A Memorial Mass will be
held to honor Pat’s life at St.
Ignatius Church at 650 Park-
er Ave. San Francisco, CA
94118 on March 19th, 2022,
at 11am. In lieu of flowers
(none allowed in church
during Lent), a donation
would be appreciated to
help other children attend
college and can be made to
the Evans Scholar Founda-
tion. (By Check Payable to:
Evans Scholars Foundation -
2501 Patriot Blvd. Glenview,
IL 60026-8022 In memoriam
of Patrick Goudy)
High School for 37 years
and adored his students.
The funeral will be held at
Mountain View Cemetery in
Oakland CA on March 25,
2022 @ 12:45 pm.
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of the house and scrabbled
across a creek that borders the
family’s property, evading
officers, who have not made an
arrest in connection with the
case.
Police would later describe
the features of this burglary as
typical of a pattern, one where
“tourists” enter the U.S.
through a visa waiver pro-
gram, stake out homes in af-
fluent communities, shatter a
window to get inside and flee
with a safe, designer handbags
or high-end jewelry, ignoring
electronics and other items
easier to trace. Given the skill
and alacrity required to get
away with these crimes, police
think the perpetrators may
have extensive training.
“The way they’re doing it is
textbook — the same every
time,” Atherton Police Cmdr.
Dan Larsen said of the burgla-
ry spree in his nearby town,
the most expensive in the Bay
Area, known for its sprawling
mansions with long driveways
and tall gates, some even pro-
tected by private security
guards. Residents reported a
string of eight burglaries in
January, and police attributed
six of them to thieves they
believe arrived from Chile.
“People are definitely on
edge,” Atherton Mayor Rick
DeGolia said, noting that a
town public safety meeting in
February drew more than 100
participants on Zoom. In near-
by Hillsborough, burglaries
grew from 27 reported in 2018
to 36 last year, police records
show.
In Atherton, the rise of
break-ins is “the biggest issue
in town,” DeGolia said. “The
police are very focused on it.”
So far, however, law en-
forcement in San Mateo Coun-
ty has made no arrests, and
San Mateo County District
Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe’s
office is not prosecuting any
burglary cases with fact pat-
terns like the ones described
by police. Law enforcement
officials say they have some
evidence to support their hy-
pothesis. But without any
arrests or prosecutions, pub-
licly available information
about the thieves remains
scarce.
Hillsborough Police Capt.
Nelson Corteway cited one
San Francisco will not issue fines to enforce its permanent
Shared Spaces parklet program until April 1, 2023.
Companies team up
to grow indoor fruit
Farm from page C1
day out for the fruit.”
While Driscoll’s has roots in
the Watsonville area going back
to the 1860s (and a more recent
history of labor disputes), Plen-
ty first began selling leafy
greens from its South San Fran-
cisco farm in 2018. With $941
million in funding, Plenty
grows food hydroponically,
using LED lighting to precisely
control light and automation in
harvesting and packing.
The two companies have
been developing the new grow-
ing system by experimenting
with strawberries in Plenty’s
test facility in Laramie, Wyo.
Plenty grows its leafy greens
on a vertical plane, their tender
leaves appearing on the walls
like duckweed covering a pond.
The strawberry plants also
grow vertically but in a ter-
Atherton Police Chief Steven McCulley (center) with dispatcher Sharon K. The department is
investigating several home burglaries it believes is tied to organized groups in South America.
incident in May 2019. A sport
utility vehicle captured on
surveillance video in Hills-
burough was later caught on
camera in Los Angeles, where
a person in the vehicle
dumped a safe. Investigators
found that the person who
rented the vehicle was alleged-
ly in the U.S. on a Chilean
tourist visa waiver and had
allegedly used a stolen credit
card for the transaction, Corte-
way said. The suspect was
never caught.
Around the country, police
and federal authorities are
investigating heists that re-
semble those in the Bay Area.
Detectives in Fairfax County,
Va., uncovered a cell with ties
to South America and linked it
to hundreds of burglaries in
2020, while deputies from the
Ventura County Sheriff’s
Office in Southern California
have apprehended several
burglars they said were associ-
ated with “South American
theft groups.”
Jaime Alliende, consul gen-
eral at the Chilean consulate in
San Francisco, said Chilean
and U.S. officials were “active-
ly and permanently collaborat-
ing in sharing information to
tackle the problem.”
But some residents and
experts are skeptical, pointing
to gaps in the evidence and
Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The Chronicle 2021
raced format, each plant in a
pot-like nook. In the Laramie
test facility, they look like bou-
quets in a florist’s sidewalk
display that seems to stretch
endlessly.
The companies haven’t de-
termined a retail price for the
berries, but they will be a “pre-
mium product,” said Komar.
The companies also would not
disclose specifics about the size
of the new farm, but Kukutai
said its output would be similar
to the farm it’s opening later
this year in Compton (Los An-
geles County), which will boast
200 to 300 acres of production
for every acre of square footage
in the facility, Kukutai said.
Plenty is one of several dozen
vertical farming companies
worldwide that promise to
bring the type of delicate fresh
produce California is known
for to places where the climate
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raising concerns about the
haste to blame South Amer-
icans.
There is no real public safe-
ty rationale for identifying a
perpetrator group by their
immigration status, Santa
Clara University School of Law
Professor Pratheepan Gula-
sekaram said, “unless your
goal is to either reduce im-
migration to the United States,
or for some reason you’re
interested in stoking xenopho-
bia or anti-foreigner bias.”
Historically, police have
often relied on conjecture to
fill in an information vacuum,
UC Berkeley Law Professor
Jonathan Simon said. Narra-
tives like that of the South
American theft groups are
“like catnip” for law enforce-
ment, Simon said, often
spawning when a set of facts
aligns with long-held beliefs
about immigrants in an envi-
ronment where police depart-
ments easily exchange in-
formation on social media.
When local police discuss
the Peninsula burglary sprees,
they frequently cite a visa
waiver program in Chile that
Atherton Police Chief Steven
McCulley believes thieves are
exploiting in order to target
upscale communities in the
U.S. He refers to the perpetra-
tors as “Chilean gangs” but
S.F. pushes back parklet fines
Parklets from page C1
vote that it was grateful for
supervisors’ decision to let
pandemic-era parklet permits
stay in place for another year.
“With our industry still
recovering from two years of
extreme hardship, including
the most recent three months
of additional financial burdens
caused by Omicron, this addi-
tional time is critical for busi-
nesses to find the money and
contractors to make necessary
modifications to adapt to the
permanent program’s sub-
Strawberries grown by Plenty in a vertical test farm in
Laramie, Wyo. Plenty is joining forces with Driscoll’s.
makes growing them difficult,
if not impossible.
Energy usage is the biggest
downside, though Kukutai said
the LED lighting they use and
design continues to be more
efficient, and they plan to rely
on renewable energy for the
new facility. The benefits of
vertical farming include its
much smaller water and fertil-
San Francisco Chronicle and SFChronicle.com |
Jessica Christian / The Chronicle
vigorously denies that officers
are singling out suspects be-
cause of their ethnicity or
immigration status.
Corteway, the captain from
Hillsborough, said his depart-
ment is sensitive about being
perceived as anti-immigrant
and has softened its language
over time, replacing terms
such as “Chilean burglary
crews” with the more general
“criminal tourism.”
“For us it’s not about im-
migration and where people
are coming from, it’s about
having people protect and
harden their homes and look
for suspicious behavior,” Cor-
teway said.
All the while, burglary vic-
tims are growing frustrated.
Among them is Hillsborough
resident Kellie Meyers, who
said thieves busted through
the double-paned glass of her
master bathroom last month
while she was on vacation.
Meyers has a high-tech
alarm system to gird her
home, plus motion sensors in
the stairway, halls and living
area, as well as a house clean-
er who brought in the mail
every other day and parked
her SUV in the parking strip
to make the house look occu-
pied.
The burglars came anyway,
circumventing the alarm,
stantial new guidelines,” the
association said in its state-
ment.
To help small business own-
ers, supervisors have addition-
ally asked city departments to
review parklet permit applica-
tions within 30 days and allow
permits issued during the
pandemic to stay valid until
March 31, 2023.
While many fines were
pushed back, the new ordi-
nance has exceptions for vio-
lations that pertain to access
requirements for emergency
responders or people with
disabilities, as well as vio-
Provided by Plenty
izer use and lack of weeds or
pests. Bringing the farm close
to shoppers cuts down on some
environmental and financial
costs of transporting it across
the country.
Advocates also say vertical
farming plays an important
role in light of California’s
mega-droughts and the other
threats that global warming
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which would have been visible
in the master bedroom closet,
Meyers said, flashing a red
light and the word “armed” on
the digital display of its key-
pad.
After breaking “every single
infinitesimal piece of glass” of
the bathroom window, they
snatched a safe that was bolted
into the wall with a stud, Mey-
ers said, stealing four Rolex
watches, diamond studded
earrings, cannabis, a diamond
platinum bangle bracelet, the
key to Meyers’ gun safe and
several designer purses — a
haul worth at least $375,000.
Meyers arrived home Feb. 19
to find her bedroom door inex-
plicably locked. She called the
police, who arrived with rifles
drawn and broke through the
bedroom door but found no
one. The scene inside the bed-
room was “mayhem,” Meyers
said, with the floor opened,
the drywall damaged, the bits
of splintered glass and wood
and the closet “ripped apart.”
“I was traumatized,” Meyers
said. For the next three days,
she placed a piece of plywood
over her bedroom window,
fearing the thieves would
come back. She kept a loaded
weapon beside her and avoid-
ed showering, terrified of be-
ing ambushed.
“It was the most horrifying
time period,” she said. “I’ve
never been so deliriously ex-
hausted and traumatized. It
wasn’t the jewelry — it was the
thought that this could have
happened when I was home.”
Last week, Meyers sent a
distraught letter to the mayor
and the Hillsborough City
Council, speculating that crim-
inal tourists share information
about “vulnerable, lucrative
towns, and Hillsborough,
California is currently” on top
of their list.
Although burglaries have
abated in Atherton, police
have still ramped up patrols in
marked and unmarked cars,
McCulley said, wary that the
town could be a target.
“It’s affluent neighbor-
hoods,” he told The Chronicle.
Thieves “run the odds and
know there’s a bigger cake,” he
said.
Rachel Swan is a San Francisco
Chronicle staff writer. Email:
rswan@sfchronicle.com Twitter:
@rachelswan
lations related to when a park-
let has been abandoned.
“This is the next step in
ensuring the success of the
Shared Spaces program, which
is designed to provide some
stability and certainty to small
businesses who are still choos-
ing to avail themselves of this
use of public space,” said Su-
pervisor Aaron Peskin, who
sponsored the ordinance.
J.D. Morris is a San Francisco
Chronicle staff writer. Email:
jd.morris@sfchronicle.com
Twitter: @thejdmorris
poses to global agriculture.
“We’re only one really bad
fire season away from having
major disruption of our fruit
and produce,” said Kukutai. “I
don’t think field growing is
going to go away. But I do think
we are going to increasingly
have more options for indoor
(growing).”
Still, people may wonder if
something essential is lost in
the move from fog-swept Cen-
tral Coast fields to a climate-
controlled warehouse, and
whether such massive indoor
farms will take away from
California’s role growing so
much of the country’s fresh
produce.
“We know that our roots will
always be here,” said Komar.
“But we do see that these new
technologies and growing sys-
tems help us. They complement
this large production format
that we have in the field.”
Tara Duggan (she/her/hers) is a
San Francisco Chronicle staff
writer. Email: tduggan@
sfchronicle.com Twitter:
@taraduggan
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70 60/47 65/43 68/45 0.00 67/42
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Livermore
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2 ft 58/47 Fremont
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EBMUD2 69 72 —— Los Gatos
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and Santa Clara counties. 2 Alameda and Contra 17
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California and national locations show s = sunny pc = partly cloudy c = cloudy Tulsa 77/43 0.00 77/42 pc 54/36 pc rises at 5:13 a.m. Jupiter rises at 7:00 a.m.
Wednesday’s high and low temperatures and sh = showers t = thunderstorms r = rain Washington, D.C. 73/45 0.00 60/50 r 76/59 pc Saturn rises at 5:49 a.m.
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Breed eyes permanent car ban on JFK Drive

Cars from page C1 beautiful city that celebrates vocacy group Walk San Fran- working group that might the coming weeks that she
open space and has the best cisco. potentially result in voters believed would provide “more
maximizing access to the un- park system in the country.” “In a city where it can be weighing in on a ballot mea- information that will guide us
derground Music Concourse Feedback San Francisco life-or-death simply crossing sure this fall. Chan said the on how to ensure equitable
Garage while making some received from thousands of the street, I want to thank measure may be required if access in Golden Gate Park.”
improvements to delivery ac- residents during a public out- Mayor Breed for supporting a officials wanted to use public Mandelman, Haney and
cess at the de Young. reach process demonstrated truly safe space for walking in money to fund improvements Preston, meanwhile, all said
But ultimately, the mayor that the idea of keeping cars our city,” said Jodie Medeiros, at the Music Concourse Gar- that the closure of JFK Drive
said she wants supervisors to off the relevant section of JFK executive director of Walk San age. to cars had made the road
move forward with keeping Drive permanently has wide- Francisco, in a statement. Chan told The Chronicle on safer and that they were con-
JFK Drive a pedestrian and spread support, Breed said. “This 1.5 miles of car-free Tuesday that she was plan- vinced it should remain.
bicyclist promenade in perpe- “I’m excited to embrace this space in our biggest park has ning to “continue my work “It’s a wonderful thing for
tuity. new chapter of Golden Gate proven incredibly important with stakeholders, and work our city that this will continue
“I’ve heard from people all Park and look forward to our for all ages and abilities.” on a compromise solution.” permanently,” Haney said in a
over San Francisco that JFK continued work to improve Supervisor Connie Chan, “This is still work in prog- statement.
Drive is a better place the way access for seniors, people with whose district includes the ress,” she said in a statement.
it is today,” Breed said in a disabilities, and those who park and the Richmond Dis- Chan added that she looked
statement. “It is a place people don’t live nearby,” she said in trict north of it, previously forward to the results of an J.D. Morris is a San Francisco
are drawn to and where they the statement. said she was working on a equity study, being conducted Chronicle staff writer. Email:
can experience the magic of Breed’s legislation was compromise for car-free JFK by the San Francisco County jd.morris@sfchronicle.com
what it means to live in a promptly praised by the ad- Drive, hoping to set up a new Transportation Authority, in Twitter: @thejdmorris
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Opera singer
blurs gender
in bold recital
By Joshua Kosman

Does music have gender? Maybe it

does, I don’t know — but if so, then just
like people, it operates within a range
beyond simple binaries.
That was the moral of the extraordi-
nary vocal recital given on Tuesday,
March 15, by the gifted and inventive
Bay Area mezzo-soprano Nikola Printz.
Printz, who uses they/them pronouns,
evidently doesn’t care to be constrained
by traditional category boundaries —
whether personal or musical — and the
program they gave in the Taube Atrium
Theater in San Francisco reflected that.
The evening’s program was divided
into three parts, one each for masculine
and feminine material, and a third, after
intermission, for music that blurred the
two. But in truth, the entire evening
boasted a capacious welcoming em-
brace, ranging from Baroque laments to
the pop music of Prince, with stops
along the way for classical offerings by
Ethan Russell
Alma Mahler, Franz Schubert, Ned
Rorem and more.
Keith Richards walks off the Rolling Stones’ tour plane, an image from photographer Ethan Russell’s “The Best By the end of the
Seat in the House” show. Russell toured with the Stones and served as their go-to photographer for several years.
evening, all the Schwabacher
lines of demarca- Recital Series:

A camera aimed
tion that typically 7:30 p.m. April 6
lend structure to and 27. $30. Taube
these events Atrium Theater,
seemed to have 401 Van Ness Ave.,
been swept away. S.F.; 7:30 p.m. July
28. $30. San Fran-

at legends of rock
Photographer shot
Beatles, Stones and
pantheon of icons in
a ‘fairy tale’ career
By Aidin Vaziri
In his brief but prolific career as
rock ’n’ roll’s preeminent photog-
rapher, Ethan Russell toured with
the Rolling Stones, shot album cov-
ers for the Who and captured iconic
images of everyone from Linda Ron-
stadt to Jim Morrison of the Doors.
And, yes, that was him clicking
away in the background of Peter
Jackson’s Beatles documentary “Get
Back” on Disney+.
Russell, who grew up in San Fran-
cisco and lives in Marin County, will
revisit these incredible experiences
as part of his upcoming appearance
at Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga
on Saturday, March 19. The show is
called — what else? — “The Best
Seat in the House.” The 76-year-old
photographer says it will be one of
his last public outings of its kind, a
contractual obligation from before
the coronavirus pandemic.
“The evening is 400 photographs,
and the story’s not so much behind
the photographs, but behind my
travels,” Russell told The Chronicle
by phone. “I think it’s a great story.”
To hear him tell it, Russell fell into
his photography career by accident.
Back in the late ’60s, he was a
Provided by Ethan Russell
Photographer Ethan Russell says he
fell into the career by accident.
shoot the piece.
“I mean, it’s a fairy tale,” said
Russell. “There’s no other way to put
it.”
Two months later, he got a call to
join the Rolling Stones as the official
photographer for their 1969 tour of
the United States — the one that
ended with the disastrous free con-
cert at Altamont Speedway.
For the next few years, Russell
was the band’s go-to photographer.
He took some of the last photos ever
of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian
Jones and the band’s free concert in
Hyde Park that served as his memo-
rial. He photographed the band
through their 1972 tour, capturing
some of the greatest rock ’n’ roll
photos of all time, including the shot
of Keith Richards reposing in cus-
Ethan Russell “The Best Seat in the
House”: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 19.
$48-$52. Carriage House Theater, Mon-
talvo Arts Center, 15400 Montalvo
Road, Saratoga. montalvoarts.org
vited to Twickenham Studios to
document the Beatles’ making of
“Let It Be,” his photographs ending
up on the cover of the group’s last
release. Russell was also among the
handful of photographers at the
Beatles’ final photo session on Aug.
22, 1969. But he continued to work
with John Lennon for years.
He also did the cover photograph
for the Who’s 1971 LP, “Who’s Next,”
and the book accompanying the
band’s 1973 film, “Quadrophenia.”
The band’s guitarist, Pete Town-
shend, once reckoned that Russell’s
photographs “look ready to put up
in the National Gallery. Ethan is the
civilized eye of an uncivilized art
form: rock ’n’ roll.”
Before that, Russell’s only experi-
ence with rock photography was a
handful of shots he did for his
brother’s Haight-Ashbury band, Blue
Cheer. The bands, he said, were
attracted to him for his candid, un-
obtrusive style.
“My parents had a big ranch in
Carmel Valley when I was like 10
years old. I had a .22 rifle, and my
grandmother wanted me to hunt
blue jays for some reason. To do
that, you got to be careful. You got to
be quiet. You got to figure out what
you want to aim at and shoot. You
And Printz and
their accompanists, cisco Conservatory
of Music, 50 Oak
pianist Erica
St., S.F. 415-864-
Xiaoyan Guo and 3330. www.sf
guitarist Jon Men- opera.com
dle, celebrated the
occasion with mu-
sic-making that
was consistently vibrant, thoughtful
and tonally resplendent.
The evening marked the welcome
return, after the long COVID shut-
down, of the Schwabacher Recital Se-
ries, a collaboration between the San
Francisco Opera Center and the Merola
Opera Program. Future events in the
series are slated to feature local artists
Ashley Dixon, Elisa Sunshine, Timothy
Murray, Stefan Egerstrom and Sidney
Outlaw. (Printz is currently a member
of the resident company at Opera San
José.)
But as Opera Center Artistic Director
Carrie-Ann Matheson pointed out in
her introductory remarks, this iteration
of the veneration came with a crucial
difference in planning. In addition to a
vocal audition, singers were now asked
to submit a written proposal for their
program, one that extended beyond
“I’m going to sing a lot of stuff.” In that
light, it was clear why Printz’s project —
which reflected deliberate thought in
Recital continues on D6
Richard DuCree / HBO Max

recent college graduate who moved
to London to become a writer. He
was working as a volunteer at a
school for children with autism and
taking pictures on the side. A friend
who was visiting from Berkeley
introduced him to Jonathan Cott, a
writer for Rolling Stone magazine,
with an assignment to interview
Mick Jagger. Russell was recruited to
toms in front of a sign reading “Pa-
tience Please ... A Drug Free Amer-
ica Comes First!”
“We trusted Ethan as an artist,
which made him invisible to us,”
Jagger says in a testimonial on Rus-
sell’s website, “and which allowed
his photographs to capture our most
intimate moments.”
During the same era, he was in-
get one shot,” Russell said. “And
that’s exactly how I photograph. I
stood on the edge. I didn’t change
anything. I didn’t tell anybody what
to do. If you look at my contact
sheets, you’re not going to see 36
shots of the same thing. They are all
different.”
By the time he returned to Amer-
Russell continues on D6
Rosario Dawson and Benjamin Bratt
star in “DMZ” on HBO Max.
Online extra
The new limited series “DMZ,” star-
ring Rosario Dawson and San Fran-
cisco native Benjamin Bratt, premieres on
HBO Max on Thursday, March 17. For The
Chronicle’s review of the show, go to
datebook.sfchronicle.com.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! S.F. Ballet dazzles

For The Chronicle’s guide to cele-
brating the holiday in the Bay Area,
crowd with ‘Seasons’
go to datebook.sfchronicle.com.
San Francisco Ballet is presenting “The Seasons,” a
co-commission with American Ballet Theatre
choreographed by Russian American
choreographer Alexei Ratmansky, who began his
PUBLIC EAVESDROPPING dance career at the Ukrainian National Ballet. An
By Leah Garchik overflowing spectacle of color and challenging
dancing, it proved an improbable audience hit — and
“This is the most boring job that was just one part of Program Four’s opening
night performances on Tuesday, March 15.
I’ve ever had.” For The Chronicle’s review of “The Seasons” and

H Man to man, picking through trash on California Street

in San Francisco, overheard by Monika Zschaebitz
“Las Sylphide,” plus more information about
Artistic Director Helgi Tommason’s final season
with the Ballet, go to datebook.sfchronicle.com.
> Overheard something? Program Four continues through Sunday, March 20.
Send it to overheard@sfchronicle.com. Erik Tomasson / S.F. Ballet
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COMICS & PUZZLES

The Fusco Brothers J.C. Duffy Doonesbury Garry Trudeau

Bizarro Wayno and Piraro Dennis the Menace Hank Ketcham

Rhymes With Orange Hilary B. Price

Sally Forth Francesco Marciuliano and Jim Keefe

HOROSCOPE By Christopher Renstrom

ARIES (March 20-April 18): Inspired
thinking is always a good thing – espe-
cially when it comes to revisiting a situ-
ation that’s dull and tedious.
TAURUS (April 19-May 19): It’s funny
how it’s a variation on the little things
you do – rather than a complete over-
haul – that brings the innovation you’re
looking for.
GEMINI (May 20-June 20): Did you
fiddle with something one too many
times? It looks like it. Thank heavens
there’s still time to put it back together
again.
CANCER (June 21-July 21): Today
you discover that two people you feel
should meet already have. It will be fun
to see them both realize it for them-
selves.
LEO (July 22-Aug. 21): Moving on means
closing the door behind you unless you
deliberately want to leave things open-
ended. It’s not a bad idea considering
what lies ahead.
VIRGO (Aug. 22-Sept. 21): Try sharing
that baffling concept with someone
whose field of expertise lies in this area.
You’ll like the way they explain it back.
LIBRA (Sept. 22-Oct. 22): You knew
that if you looked hard enough you
would eventually find a fit and today’s
Mercury/Uranus sextile shows you will!
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Today you
hear news about someone you used to
love when. It won’t bring the resolution
Luann Greg Evans
you seek but it will sure fill in a lot of
blanks.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 20):
Changes you were dreading at work
suddenly seem a lot doable now that
they’re here. Next time trust people who
have a clearer idea of what you’re ca-
pable of than you do.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 21-Jan. 18): It’s
funny how certain people from the past
are cycling back into your life. Thank
heavens they’re the good eggs and not
the bad apples.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 19-Feb. 17): You’re all
turned around. Instead of trying to find Zits Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman
your way back to something you lost, try
moving ahead towards something you
haven’t experienced before.
PISCES (Feb. 18-March 19): The Uni-
verse chooses curious mouthpieces
today. You’ll see just how curious when
you see who’s talking.

CRYPTOQUIP
The Cryptoquip is a
substitution cipher in which
one letter stands for another.
If you think X equals O it
will equal O throughout the
Garfield Jim Davis
puzzle. Single letters, short
words and words using an
apostrophe give you clues to
locating vowels. Solution is by
trial and error.
© 2022 by
YESTERDAY’S CRYPTOQUIP: WHAT WERE King Features Today’s
Syndicate, Inc. clue:
SOME LAWS HANDED DOWN TO MOSES
FOR ADOLESCENTS TO FOLLOW? THE TEEN N EQUALS Y
COMMANDMENTS.

CROSSWORD PUZZLE By Julie Bérubé

ACROSS
1 Reduction in Sherman’s Lagoon J.P. Toomey
hostility
5 Kind of palm
9 Like some fall
days
14 Act cautiously
(beginning)
15 Sandwich order
16 Asteroids
producer
17 (End)
19 Ruhr Valley city
20 Kia model
21 “Good __!”
22 Pry
23 Fine restaurants
cater to them
25 Require formality
(beginning) Blondie Dean Young
26 Live mixers
27 (End)
30 Web company
with a bang
33 Lisbon greeting
34 Color of Death’s
dart, in “Venus
and Adonis”
35 Thurman on 61 Classic Callas role 10 “I’ll get this” 38 Incites to attack
screen 62 One left in a 11 Traditional 39 Put down
36 Fragrant Asian cashier’s dish Spanish dance 42 “If you ask
rice 63 Sidewalk lunch derived from a me ... ”
40 Name of 13 popes spots military march 45 “Cats” poet’s
41 First name in raga 64 Meredith in a 12 __ school monogram
43 Vacillate longtime medical 13 Feminine side 47 Skips the
(beginning) drama 18 Mob ceremony
44 Explosive trial 65 Archaeological assignment 48 When some Classic Peanuts Charles Schulz
46 (End) finds 22 Fender guitar diners serve
48 Jenny’s offspring model, familiarly breakfast
49 Ski equipment DOWN 24 Big fuss 50 Musketeer’s
50 Hot-melt 1 Pipsqueak 25 Ward of “The word
adhesive applier 2 __ Sophia: Turkish Fugitive” 51 League of
54 Result of mosque 27 Title in a Dumas Legends fanatic,
rounding, perhaps 3 Computer title e.g.
55 Have financial language family 28 Rejections 52 Sch. founded by
difficulties 4 Cal. units 29 2010 Ringo Starr Franklin
(beginning) 5 Uppsala natives album 53 Loons’ lodgings
56 Zoo draw 6 Van Gogh setting 30 Home on the 54 Purnell of
57 The John B, e.g. 7 Charity event Asian steppes “Churchill”
58 (End) 8 Photo __ 31 Eastern nanny 55 __ trade
60 “Day after day, 9 Dance done to the 32 Stand ready to 57 Pouch
__ on a hill ... ”: 2015 hit “Watch accuse 58 Witch
Beatles Me” 37 Moore co-star 59 Post-op stop
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COMICS & PUZZLES PUZZLE SOLUTIONS ARE ON PAGE D6

Candorville Darrin Bell Non Sequitur Wiley Miller

DEAR ABBY
By Jeanne Phillips
Dear Abby: I have a girl-
friend, “Dawn,” who is one
of my oldest friends. She’s
my only friend who stuck
with me through the growing
pains and different stages in
my life. I married a man who
I think is the love of my life.
He’s very macho and proud.
We have built a life together,
and through stepchildren,
exes and family — through
thick and thin — our love has
endured.
Tundra Chad Carpenter Well, my husband is also
possessive. Dawn recently
asked me to be the god-
mother of her second child,
her son. My husband is of-
fended that I was asked
and he wasn’t. He has never
made an effort to have a
friendship with Dawn and
CHALLENGER her husband, or even met
8 Try to beat today’s challenge time. Enter a number in each her son since his birth many
square, one through nine. months ago. He wants no
8 Rows must add to totals on right. part in the process, which I
8 Columns must add to am very upset about.
totals on bottom. What do I do? Should I ig-
8 Diagonal squares nore my husband’s feelings,
through center should add
be a good friend and god-
Lio Mark Tatulli to totals in upper and lower
right. mother to Dawn’s baby and
CHALLENGE TIME deal with the aftermath with
8 Minutes my husband? — Potential
40 Seconds Godmother In Arizona
Dear Potential Godmother:
YOUR TIME Your husband appears to be
Minutes not only possessive, but also
Seconds somewhat self-centered
and controlling. Because
one spouse is asked to be
SUDOKU PUZZLE
Complete the grid so that
every row, column and 3-by-3
box has every digit, 1 to 9. a godparent does NOT au-
tomatically mean the other
must be. If you wish to be
godmother to Dawn’s baby
boy, go ahead and do it.

Dear Abby: I’m worried my

Carpe Diem Niklas Eriksson
23-year-old son may be in
serious financial trouble.
He has always made clear
that he wants to run a busi-
ness instead of working at
a 9-to-5 job. He has been
working hard trying to start
a consultation business for
the last four or five years,
which sometimes works and
sometimes does not.
He’s dependent on my
credit card, which he was
only supposed to use for
emergencies, but he some-
By David Hoyt & Jeff Knurek times uses it for more than
Get Fuzzy Darby Conley that.He promises to pay it
back, and comes up with the
weirdest excuses when he
can’t. On a number of occa-
sions I have tried to sit him
down and get out of him if
he’s in trouble, but he keeps
insisting that he’s “working
on things and everything will
be OK soon.” I am worried
sick. Please help. — Anxious
Mom In Pennsylvania
Dear Mom: Turn off the
spigot. You have been your
son’s “angel” long enough.
A business that cannot sup-
port itself is a failure. That
Mutts Patrick McDonnell your son would abuse your
generosity and compound
it by lying to you is very sad.
The way to stop this cycle
is to remove him from your
credit card and let the chips
fall where they may.

TODAY’S CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Lumber along
5 Name in fashion
9 Crawling with
13 Angelina Jolie
role
14 Data
15 Cutlass kin
Pearls Before Swine Stephan Pastis 16 Rancor
18 Light bender
19 Mil. rank
20 Top of the head
21 Nap
22 Heston Oscar-
winner (hyph.)
24 Quick letters
26 Dogma
27 Jubilant
31 Huge-antlered
deer
34 Extra dry
35 Garden-pond
fish
36 Suitable
37 Deli order
39 Decorate Easter
eggs
41 “— been
robbed!”
42 Ex-soldier
Wumo Wulff & Morganthaler 43 Scent finder
45 The L in LEM 70 Fictional 11 Celebration 40 “Forgets” a letter
47 Haughty governess 12 Humorist — 44 Thinner
50 Hr. part Bombeck 46 German
51 Port-au-Prince DOWN 15 Sales pitch conjunction
site 1 Backup strategy 17 Musical works 48 Zoo
52 Most unusual (2 wds.) 21 Hit the books heavyweights
56 Orchestra 2 Jousting weapon 23 Casual greetings 49 Mean
member 3 Sky hunter 25 Water or rust 50 Quagmire
59 Stable parent 4 Equine mother 28 Comparable 53 Uplift
61 Morse code 5 Deprive of 29 Smoked salmon 54 Really enjoy
word weapons 30 Amphitheater 55 Objects nearby
62 Aim 6 Rolling — — section 56 Libra’s stone
63 Unemotional (rich) 31 Dallas cagers 57 Tree trunk
65 Metal mixture 7 More frequently 32 Fuel cartel 58 Van Gogh’s
66 Ten-percenters 8 Dale’s favorite 33 Herr von medium
67 Pilots’ sightings cowboy Bismarck 60 Dr.’s visit
68 Fewer 9 Hardest to find 34 Roughly 63 Retiree’s kitty
69 Muses’ domain 10 Nile wader 38 Out of shape 64 Take legal action
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THOMAS JOSEPH CROSSWORD

ACROSS ACROSS
1 Buccaneer 1 Japanese sport
7 Singer Tori 5 Louver parts
11 Maine national park 10 Monk’s music
12 Mall come-on 12 Insertion sign
13 Lease signer 13 Cost as much as
14 Hearty entree 14 Texas player
15 Magical 15 Verb for you
17 Track count 16 Sewing aid
20 Theater worker 18 Dialect
23 In the style of 20 Homer’s
24 Somber bartending pal
26 Hoop attachment 21 Bud holder
27 Chiding sound 23 1040 org.
28 Football’s Marino 24 Tale teller
29 Hour announcers, 26 Mysterious loch
perhaps 28 Dapper fellow
31 Employ 29 Thanksgiving dish
32 Hawke of Hollywood 3 Sprinted 22 Make fresh 31 Hosp. sections DOWN 19 Future embryos
33 Gush 4 Second president 24 Make amends 32 Gizmo protector 1 Throw away 22 As a group
34 Come into view 5 Minute 25 GI-entertaining 36 Some software 2 Colleague of Spock 24 Wyoming city
37 Alan of “M*A*S*H” 6 Puts away org. downloads and Sulu 25 Establish
39 Showy flowers 7 Help out 30 Joe’s veep 39 Bar topic 3 “Olympia” painter 27 Id —
43 Inner being 8 Partnered 33 Paris sight 40 Cornhusker city 4 Toronto’s prov. 28 Train stops
44 “Raging Bull” star 9 Flamenco cheer 35 Frees (of) 41 Barbershop 5 “Get lost!” 30 Gibbon or gorilla
45 Cocoon, for example 10 Attach a patch 36 Got larger offering 6 Ultimate 33 Brighten
46 Norway neighbor 16 Elephant pair 37 Nile serpent 43 Moon of Saturn 7 Goddess of the hunt 34 Belly feature
17 Joust need 38 Singer Rawls 44 Restaurant 8 Real brats 35 Annoying fellow
DOWN 18 Alaskan native 40 Comic Caesar patron 9 Gems 37 Fellow
1 Touch lightly 19 Fixed, in a way 41 Before, in poems 45 Oozes 11 Shaped shrub 38 Painter Holbein
2 Road hazard 21 Make blank 42 Heir, often 46 Squeal 17 Cart puller 42 Cow chow

TIC-TAC LOGIC MICRO CROSSWORD

Each puzzle consists of a grid containing X’s and O’s in various places. The object is to place X or O in remaining squares so that there are no more
than two consecutive X’s or O’s in a row or column, the number of X’s is the same as the number of O’s in each row and column., and•all rows and
all columns are unique.

WUZZLES CRYPTOQUOTE
Directions: Each Wuzzles is a word riddle which creates a AXYDLBAAXR
disguised word, phrase, name, place, saying, etc. For example: is L O N g f e L L O W
NOON GOOD = GOOD AFTERNOON
Directions: One letter stands for another. In this sample, A is used for the three L’s, X for the two O’s, etc. Single letters, apostrophe’s,
the length and formation of the words are all hints. The code is different with each puzzle.

EUGENE SHEFFER CROSSWORD

ACROSS
1 Latin love
5 Monk’s title
SUPER QUIZ 8 Fortas and
Lincoln
12 Brazilian
rubber
13 iPad platform
14 Stir up
15 Noisy wood
cutters
17 Greek pita
sandwich
18 Sailing vessels
19 Parisian
palace
21 Docu-
mentarian
Burns
22 Body powder
23 Bar bill
26 Auction signal
28 Showy flower
31 Detail 58 Muppet eagle 23 Spasm
33 Cry 59 Country singer 24 Sports fig.
35 “Absolutely!” Evans 25 Borscht
36 Tightfisted 27 Speck
38 Light touch DOWN 29 New Deal agcy.
40 Body art, for short 1 SFPD alerts 30 Even so
41 Rip 2 Manhandle 32 Conductor
43 Zodiac animal 3 Rice-shaped pasta 34 Law grad’s test
45 Skirmish 4 Beard remover 37 Bud
47 Plaza Hotel girl 5 Debacles 39 Ashen
51 Gershwin’s “— 6 Squabble 42 Picture puzzle
Rhythm” 7 Plus 44 — operandi
52 DVD collection, 8 Diamond-patterned 45 Mrs. Addams, to
e.g. socks Gomez
54 Insult 9 Troop member 46 Unsightly
55 Sch. founded by 10 Green land 48 Actress Fisher
Jefferson 11 — gin fizz 49 Char
56 — Bator 16 Whirl 50 Sicilian volcano
57 Syringe, for short 20 Napkin’s place 53 Eggs
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SUPER QUIZ EUGENE SHEFFER CROSSWORD

ACROSS
1 Jet speed
measure
5 Ump’s call
9 Saigon soup
12 Body lotion
ingredient
13 Kentucky fort
14 Sound of
delight
15 Harvard’s city
17 Computer
acronym
18 — de corps
19 Wagons
21 Harris or Asner
22 Joe of
“GoodFellas”
24 “Close one!”
27 Curator’s
concern
28 Tosses in
31 100 cts.
32 Red or Black DOWN 25 — polloi
33 Stickum 1 Nutmeg spice 26 “Soul On Ice”
34 Rover’s pal 2 Regrettably author Cleaver
36 Hanoi holiday 3 Freebie 27 Regarding
37 Darned 4 Semitic language 29 Part of DJIA
38 Synthetic fabric 5 “SNL” segment 30 Sean, to Yoko
40 “Sideways” actress 6 Moreover 35 Klutz
Sandra 7 Skyline concealer 37 Seafood order
41 Israeli port 8 Biz bigwigs 39 Marina boat
43 Legal expert 9 Three Bears’ meal 40 Sharing word
47 Central 10 Owl call 41 Med. plan options
48 “Kubla Khan” poet 11 Resistance units 42 Goals
51 Texter’s “Wow!” 16 Abolish 43 “Star Wars”
52 Tackled weeds 20 Obamacare knight
53 Transcending acronym 44 Concept
(Pref.) 22 Gussy up 45 Boot camp VIPs
54 Away from NNW 23 Coup d’— 46 Brewed drinks
55 Singer Braxton 24 Adobe file 49 Tic-tac-toe win
56 Go by format 50 Novelist Deighton

DYNAMIC DOUBLE CROSS PLUS ONES HASHI

Directions: Place each word into the diagra, then read the
circled letters from left to right and top to bottom to find the
hidden answer of the day.
Directions: One letter was insterted into each listed word and
placed in the grid. Circle the new words in all directions; then
read the added letters, in order, for the solution.
Each puzzle is based on a rectangular arrangement of islands
where the number in each island tells how many bridges are
connected to it. The object is to connect all islands according
to the number of bridges so there are no more than two bridges
in the same direction. Bridges can only be vertical or horizon-
tal and are not allowed to cross islands or other bridges. When
completed, all bridges are interconnected, enabling passage
from any island to another.

SOLUTIONS

EUGENE SHEFFER CROSSWORD THOMAS JOSEPH CROSSWORD

CRYPTOQUOTE
MICRO CROSSWORD
I am not the archetypal leading man. This
is mainly for one reason: as you may have
noticed, I have no hair. — Patrick Stewart

For the whole world is Irish on the

seventeenth o’ March! — Thomas Augustine
Daly
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DATEBOOK
The last photograph of the Beatles, an image from
Ethan Russell’s “The Best Seat in the House.”
A camera aimed
at rock’s legends
Russell from page D1
ica, Russell was an in-
demand rock photog-
rapher, recruited to shoot
a diverse list of acts,
including Ronstadt, the
Doors, Rickie Lee Jones,
Rosanne Cash, Jerry Lee
Lewis, Traffic and oth-
ers.
His works are collect-
ed in the 248-page fine
art book “Ethan Russell
Photographs,” which is
available on his website
for $130.
He said he put his
camera down sometime
in the early ’80s when
record companies edged
their way in, restricting
access to the artists and
demanding to own the
rights to the images.
Russell shifted to pro-
ducing and directing
films for musicians like
Emmylou Harris, Joni
Mezzo-soprano Nikola Printz performs with Erica
Xiaoyan Guo in the Schwabacher Recital Series.
Opera singer blurs
gender in bold recital
Recital from page D1
every aspect — would
have stood out from the
crowd.
Each segment of the
program, for which
Printz adopted a differ-
ent outfit, served a dou-
ble purpose. It let listen-
ers revel in the beauty of
Printz’s singing — their
lustrously dark chest
tones, their elegant
phrasing, even the occa-
sional burst of tech-
nically dazzling coloratu-
ra passagework — while
also chewing over the
implications of the reper-
toire itself.
“What does this song
say to that one?” was a
frequent prompt; so was,
“What presumptions are
embedded in this materi-
al that might have passed
unremarked?” The fact
that none of these ques-
tions led to easy answers
only heightened the ex-
perience.
In one characteris-
tically canny double
feature, Printz segued
from Mahler’s weighty,
shadow-ridden “Licht in
der Nacht” (“Nocturnal
Light”) to “I Was a Wom-
an,” a sparse but equally
poignant excerpt from
“Prisoner of the State,”
composer David Lang’s
2019 gloss on Beethoven’s
“Fidelio.” They offered
up a trio of tiny songs by
Rorem, with words by
gay icons Walt Whitman
and Gertrude Stein.
In a pair of Schubert
songs, Mendle’s exquisite
guitar accompaniment
led to a slower tempo
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than usual, which in
turn allowed for a more
probing and emotionally Sudoku Puzzle
resonant performance.
(Mendle was a last-min-
ute substitute for guitar-
ist Tatiana Senderowicz,
who withdrew because
of illness.) Rossini’s trip-
tych “The Venetian Re-
gatta” got an exuberantly
theatrical account, and
Guo took a solo moment
in the spotlight to deliver
Louise Farrenc’s gor- Today’s Crossword
geous Étude in F-Sharp
Minor, Op. 26, No. 10.
Perhaps most arrest-
ing was a pair of songs
associated with the Mex-
ican chanteuse Chavela
Vargas, which prompted
Printz to a performance
of enormous poignancy
and grace. Something
about these songs hit
close to their heart, and Challenger
they let us all feel it.
In truth, the entire
program glowed with a
sense of personal convic-
tion, and that gave the
music an extra charge.
Printz has been a reliably
important presence in
the Bay Area’s musical
life for a decade, but I’ve
never before heard them
sing with such commit-
ment or tonal splendor.
Most debut recitals are
there to show the audi-
ence what an artist can
do. On this occasion,
Printz showed us who
they are, and that made
all the difference.
Joshua Kosman is The San
Francisco Chronicle’s
music critic. Email:
jkosman@sfchronicle.com
Twitter: @JoshuaKosman