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‘We knowwhat’s coming’Defense experts warn about military costs of climate change
BY DAVID CHOI
Stars and Stripes
Leaders from defense institutes worldwide
converged in Seoul, South Korea, last week
to raise the alarm on military threats posed
by“irreversible and abrupt climate change.”
Global temperatures are expected to reach or
surpass a warming threshold of 2.7 degrees Fah-
renheit in the next 20 years, United Nations cli-
mate change experts reported in August, “unless
there are immediate, rapid and large-scale reduc-
tions in greenhouse emissions.”
Without action, the planet is in store for increas-
ing heat waves, longer warm seasons and contin-
ued sea-level rise, contributing to coastal flooding
and erosion, according to the report.
Panelists from the United States, France, Swit-
zerland, Netherlands, India and Bangladesh gave
their assessment of these threats during a three-
day seminar hosted by South Korea’s Ministry of
Severe heat patterns have already begun havinga direct impact on military equipment used byUnited Nations’ peacekeeping forces as globaltemperatures continue to rise.
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DALLAS — The CEO of Sales-
force said the company will help
employees leave Texas, and he did
so while retweeting a story linking
the offer to concern about Texas’
new anti-abortion law.
Salesforce, which sells custom-
er-management software, joins a
small number of companies that
have reacted against the Texas
law.
CNBC reported that the San
Francisco-based company told
employees in a Slack message it
will help them move “if you have
concerns about access to repro-
ductive healthcare in your state.”
On Friday night, CEO Marc Be-
nioff retweeted a post about the
story, adding, “Ohana if you want
to move we’ll help you exit TX.
Your choice.” Ohana is a Hawai-
ian term for family.
The company did not return
messages for comment.
The Texas law passed the Re-
publican-controlled state Legisla-
ture and was signed by Republi-
can Gov. Greg Abbott in May but
didn’t go into effect until this
month. It bans most abortions af-
ter six weeks, before many women
know they are pregnant, and lets
private residents sue anyone who
helps a woman get an abortion.
Ride-hailing companies Uber
and Lyft, both based in San Fran-
cisco, have said they will pay legal
fees for any drivers who are sued
for taking a woman to an abortion
clinic. Dating-app provider Bum-
ble, which is based in Texas, said it
will create a relief fund for people
affected by the law.
Salesforce to help employees leave TexasAssociated Press
Monday, September 13, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 3
DODEA seeks feedback on dress code updateBY ERICA EARL
Stars and Stripes The proposed dress code can be found at:https://www.dodea.edu/ HQ/upload/Proposed-Student-Dress-Code.pdf
Marines preparing to head home from
Australia showed off their gear and thanked
Darwin residents Friday as their six
months of field training Down Under comes
to an end.
Thousands attended a community event
at Robertson Barracks, the Marines’ home
away from home in Australia’s Northern
Territory, according to an email Friday
from a spokesman for Marine Corps Rota-
tional Force – Darwin.
Capt. Thomas deVries said the Marines
and Australian Defence Force brought out
Humvees, 7-ton trucks, armored personnel
carriers, M777 howitzers, a High Mobility
Artillery Rocket System, a sniper display,
military working dogs and a robot dog.
They also showed off AH-1Z Viper,
UH-1Y Venoms and Tiger helicopters, an
MV-22B Osprey tilt-rotor and RQ-21 Black-
jack drones.
Marines were thanking the community
for their support and talking about the gear,
deVries said.
The 2,200 Marines started arriving in
Australia in April for their 10th rotation
Down Under since 2012. They quarantined
for two weeks to prevent the spread of the
coronavirus.
They spent the summer in field exercises
that began with humanitarian and disaster
response operations and ended in August
with an island-seizing drill, deVries said.
The Marines finished the two-week Exer-
cise Koolendong, their last field training
event, on Aug. 31 at Bradshaw Field Train-
ing Area, he said.
The event involved more than 1,000 Ma-
rines working with 1,000 Australian sol-
diers in a task force commanded by Austra-
lian Army Brigadier Ash Collingburn, deV-
ries said.
The rotational force for the first time was
part of a combined task force, he said.
“It was definitely the largest exercise that
has taken place for us this rotation,” deV-
ries said.
During Koolendong, the task force simu-
lated the destruction of an enemy anti-ship
missile positioned on a fictional island, he
said.
Marines will head home to bases in the
United States and on Okinawa over the next
six weeks, deVries said.
Marines stage a departing display for locals in Australia
JOEY HOLEMAN/U.S. Marine Corps
Marines assigned to the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment rush aboard a CH53E Super Stallion during Exercise Koolendong inAustralia’s Northern Territory on Aug. 16.
Air Force site tomake 3D printingof jets available
BY CHAD GARLAND
Stars and Stripes
MATTHEW LUMBATIS/Defense Media Activity
An F16 Fighting Falcon model was printed from a file that the Air Force plans to publish on its website inOctober. While the site is expected to launch with 10 models, the library will keep expanding, officials said.
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences graduate student Emma Steinhardt studies how themantis shrimp generates extremely high acceleration in these short duration movements.
Build: Military researchers studypowerful punches from mantis shrimpFROM PAGE 1
TOKYO — Japan detected a
submarine believed to be Chinese
off a southern Japanese island,
the defense ministry said Sunday,
heightening Japan’s caution lev-
els in the East China Sea as China
increases its military activities.
The submarine remained sub-
merged, but the ministry said in a
statement that it believes the sub-
marine is Chinese because a Chi-
nese Luyang III-class guided
missile destroyer is near the sub-
marine.
The submarine moved north-
west off the eastern coast of the
Amamioshima Island, about 420
miles northeast of the disputed
East China Sea islands controlled
by Japan but also claimed by
Beijing, the ministry said.
The submarine on Sunday
morning was heading west in the
East China Sea.
Neither the submarine or the
ship entered Japanese territorial
water. Under international law,
submarines passing off the coast
of another country are required
to surface and show a national
flag inside territorial waters.
Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense
Force sent three reconnaissance
aircraft and two destroyers to the
area for early warning and infor-
mation gathering to analyze Chi-
na’s intentions.
A submarine believed to be
Chinese also was spotted in the
area in June 2020.
China has defended its mari-
time activities and says it has the
right to defend its sovereignty, se-
curity and development inter-
ests.
Japan, alarmed by China’s
growing naval activities in the
East and South China seas, has
been stepping up defense in the
country’s southwestern regions
and islands north of the disputed
islands.
Tokyo says it opposes China’s
unilateral attempts to change the
status quo in the region, and regu-
larly protests the Chinese coast
guard’s growing presence near
the disputed islands.
Japan detects suspected China sub near southern islandBY MARI YAMAGUCHI
Associated Press
PAGE 6 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • Monday, September 13, 2021
20 YEARS AFTER 9/11
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Ger-
many — American service mem-
bers, veterans and civilians in
Germany marked 20 years since
9/11 on Friday and vowed to carry
on the memory of the thousands
killed that day and in the wars that
followed.
At ceremonies at Ramstein Air
Base, Daenner Kaserne in Kaiser-
slautern and Clay Kaserne in
Wiesbaden, scores of people re-
membered those who died when
hijacked planes crashed into the
Twin Towers in New York, the
Pentagon in Arlington, Va., and a
field near Shanksville, Pa.
They also paid homage to the
emergency workers who rushed
in to try to save lives and to the
troops who gave theirs while fight-
ing the anti-terrorism campaigns
that followed the attacks.
Standing in front of an enor-
mous American flag and hun-
dreds of firefighters’ helmets and
other equipment arranged in a tri-
angle in a field at Ramstein Air
Base, Maj. Gen. Randall Reed,
commander of the Third Air
Force, spoke of one of his abiding
memories from 20 years ago.
“It was the picture of a New
York City firefighter, standing
amidst the rubble of Ground Zero,
lifting the American flag out of the
rubble and passing it to a hand
waiting above,” he told the crowd
of around 100 airmen, first respon-
ders and civilians.
“That hand waiting above was
an American soldier, who said five
words: ‘I’ve got it from here.’”
The U.S. military took that flag
from the first responders and
“carried it forward,” he said, tak-
ing it to Afghanistan, where they
gave hope to the oppressed, in-
spired children to pursue an edu-
cation and helped their parents
provide better lives for them.
But throughout America’s long-
est war, “we knew that flag that
went forward would come home,”
he said, alluding to the end of U.S.
involvement in the war in Afghan-
istan, where around 2,200 Amer-
ican troops and hundreds of thou-
sands of civilians lost their lives
over the past 20 years.
President Joe Biden earlier this
year set Sept. 11 as the deadline for
U.S. troops to leave Afghanistan.
They completed their pullout
weeks ago amid chaotic scenes in
Kabul as Afghans scrambled to be
evacuated and a suicide bomber
killed 13 U.S. troops and scores of
Afghans.
But the flag came home, Reed
said, “a piece carried by each of
the 122,000 people who fled Af-
ghanistan.”
More than 30,000 of those Af-
ghan evacuees were given tempo-
rary shelter at Ramstein before
moving on to new lives in the U.S.
They are “part of a new gener-
ation who will carry the flag and
say as Afghan-Americans, ‘We’ll
take it from here,’” Reed said.
At U.S. Army Garrison Wiesba-
den’s Clay Kaserne, officials laid a
wreath to first responders who 20
years ago helped in the aftermath
of the attacks.
“They knew full well that the
gravity of the situation … would
affect the entire country and civi-
lized world,” said Lt. Col. John
Jackson from the Wiesbaden Di-
rectorate of Emergency Services.
Of the 2,753 people who died in
New York that day, 403 were first
responders, according to a tally
compiled by CNN.
A further 184 people were killed
at the Pentagon, and 40 passen-
gers and crew members died
when the plane they were on
crashed into a field in Pennsylva-
nia.
About 7,000 U.S. troops died in
the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq,
according to Defense Department
data.
People from 77 countries died in
the attacks, Army Col. Douglas
Levien, the deputy commanding
officer of the 21st Theater Sustain-
ment Command, said at a ceremo-
ny at Daenner Kaserne.
He recalled that after the at-
tacks, German troops and police
manned the gates at American
bases, standing shoulder to shoul-
der with U.S. troops.
“We are stronger together,”
said the Brooklyn native, urging
the dozens of people in the audi-
ence to never forget the events of
9/11.
Levien lost five close friends in
the attack on the World Trade
Center in New York and later de-
ployed to Afghanistan.
Gold Star mother Mary
Aguirre-Garza, whose son Army
medic Cpl. Nathaniel Aaron
Aguirre was killed in Iraq in 2006,
choked back tears as he spoke.
“Sometimes these events be-
come piercing,” she told Stars and
Stripes afterward. “The pain nev-
er goes away.”
Americans in Germany commemorate 9/11BY DAVID EDGE,
PHILLIP WALTER WELLMAN
AND KARIN ZEITVOGEL
Stars and Stripes
PHOTOS BY PHILLIP WALTER WELLMAN/Stars and Stripes
Gold Star mother Mary AguirreGarza attends a 9/11 memorial at Daenner Chapel in Kaiserslautern,Germany, on Friday. AguirreGarza’s son Army Cpl. Nathaniel Aaron Aguirre died in Iraq in 2006.
U.S. service members outside Daenner Chapel in Kaiserslautern,Germany, fire into the air Friday, to commemorate the 20thanniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the U.S.
SHANKSVILLE, Pa. — Warning that
the nation was falling into division and ex-
tremism, former President George W.
Bush appealed Saturday for a return to
the spirit of cooperation that emerged —
almost instantaneously — after the 9/11
attacks 20 years ago.
Delivering the keynote address at the
national memorial to the victims of Flight
93, who forced down their airplane hi-
jacked by al-Qaida terrorists before it
could be used as a weapon against the na-
tion’s capital, Bush warned of “violence
that gathers within.”
“There is little cultural overlap be-
tween violent extremists abroad and vio-
lent extremists at home,” he said. “But in
their disdain for pluralism, in their disre-
gard for human life, in their determina-
tion to defile national symbols, they are
children of the same foul spirit. And it is
our continuing duty to confront them.”
Bush’s warning came barely eight
months after the violent insurrection at
the U.S. Capitol by supporters of then-
President Donald Trump attempting to
overturn the results of the 2020 election.
It marked some of Bush’s sharpest criti-
cism of that attack and appeared to be an
implicit criticism of Trump’s brand of pol-
itics.
Bush lamented that “so much of our pol-
itics has become a naked appeal to anger,
fear and resentment.”
He admitted he had no easy solutions.
Instead, he channeled the heroism of the
Flight 93 victims, and the determined
spirit of a wounded nation to emerge from
the tragedy stronger.
“On America’s day of trial and grief, I
saw millions of people instinctively grab
for a neighbor’s hand and rally to the
cause of one another,” Bush said. “That is
the America I know.”
He added that in the aftermath of the at-
tacks Islamophobia, nativism or selfish-
ness could have risen to the fore, but the
country rejected them, and said, “That is
the nation I know.”
“This is not mere nostalgia, it is the
truest version of ourselves,” Bush said. “It
is what we have been, and what we can be
again.”
Bush’s appeal for unity drew plaudits
from President Joe Biden, who visited
Shanksville not long after Bush spoke,
having watched his speech aboard Air
Force One on the flight from 9/11 com-
memoration events in New York.
“I thought that President Bush made a
really good speech today,” Biden said.
“Genuinely.”
Biden too has prioritized national unity,
telling reporters Saturday, “That’s the
thing that’s going to affect our well-being
more than anything else.”
Bush warns of domestic extremism, appeals to ‘nation I know’BY ZEKE MILLER
Associated Press
Monday, September 13, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 7
AFGHANISTAN
BEIRUT — Al-Qaida leader
Ayman al-Zawahri appeared in a
new video marking the 20th anni-
versary of the Sept. 11, attacks,
months after rumors spread that
he was dead.
The SITE Intelligence Group
that monitors jihadi websites said
the video was released Saturday.
In it, al-Zawahri said that “Jeru-
salem Will Never be Judaized,”
and praised al-Qaida attacks in-
cluding one that targeted Russian
troops in Syria in January.
SITE said al-Zawahri also noted
the U.S. military’s withdrawal
from Afghanistan after 20 years
of war.
It added that his comments do
not necessarily indicate a recent
recording, as the withdrawal
agreement with the Taliban was
signed in February 2020.
Al-Zawahri made no mention of
the Taliban’s takeover of Afghan-
istan and the capital Kabul last
month, SITE added. But he did
mention a Jan. 1 attack that tar-
geted Russian troops on the edge
of the northern Syrian city of Raq-
qa.
Rumors have spread since late
2020 that al-Zawahri had died
from illness. Since then, no video
or proof of life surfaced, until Sat-
urday.
“He could still be dead, though
if so, it would have been at some
point in or after Jan 2021,” tweet-
ed Rita Katz, SITE’s director.
Al-Zawahri’s speech was re-
corded in a 61-minute, 37-second
video produced by the group’s as-
Sahab Media Foundation.
Al-Zawahri, an Egyptian, be-
came leader of al-Qaida following
the 2011 killing of Osama bin La-
den in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by
U.S. Navy SEALs.
Al-Qaida chief appears in 9/11 video amid rumors he is deadAssociated Press
KABUL — Women in Afghanis-
tan can continue to study in uni-
versities, including at post-gradu-
ate levels, but classrooms will be
gender-segregated and Islamic
dress is compulsory, the higher
education minister in the new Ta-
liban government said Sunday.
The minister, Abdul Baqi Haq-
qani, laid out the new policies at a
news conference, several days af-
ter Afghanistan’s new rulers
formed an all-male government.
On Saturday, the Taliban had
raised their flag over the presiden-
tial palace, signaling the start of
the work of the new government.
The world has been watching
closely to see to what extent the
Taliban might act differently from
their first time in power, in the late
1990s. During that era, girls and
women were denied an education,
and were excluded from public
life.
The Taliban have suggested
they have changed, including in
their attitudes toward women.
Women have been banned from
sports, however, and the Taliban
have used violence in recent days
against female protesters de-
manding equal rights.
Haqqani said the Taliban did
not want to turn the clock back 20
years. “We will start building on
what exists today,” he said.
Female university students will
face restrictions, however, includ-
ing a compulsory dress code. Haq-
qani said hijabs will be mandatory,
but did not specify if this meant
compulsory headscarves or also
compulsory face coverings.
Gender segregation will also be
enforced, he said. “We will not al-
low boys and girls to study togeth-
er,” he said. “We will not allow co-
education.”
Haqqani said the subjects being
taught would also be reviewed.
While he did not elaborate, he said
he wanted graduates of Afghanis-
tan’s universities to be competi-
tive with university graduates in
the region and the rest of the
world.
The Taliban, who subscribe to a
strict interpretation of Islam,
banned music and art during their
previous time in power. Television
has remained this time around and
news channels still show women
presenters, but the Taliban mess-
aging has been erratic.
In an interview on Afghanis-
tan’s popular TOLO News, Tali-
ban spokesman Syed Zekrullah
Hashmi said women should give
birth and raise children, and while
the Taliban have not ruled out
eventual participation of women
in government, the spokesman
said “it’s not necessary that wom-
en be in the Cabinet.”
The Taliban seized power on
Aug. 15, the day they overran the
capital of Kabul after capturing
outlying provinces in a rapid mil-
itary campaign. They initially
promised inclusiveness and a gen-
eral amnesty for their former op-
ponents, but many Afghans re-
main deeply fearful of the new rul-
ers. Taliban police officials have
beaten Afghan journalists, vio-
lently dispersed women’s protests
and formed an all-male govern-
ment despite saying initially they
would invite broader representa-
tion.
The new higher education poli-
cy signals a change from the ac-
cepted practice before the Taliban
takeover. Universities were co-ed,
with men and women studying
side by side, and female students
did not have to abide by a dress
code. The vast majority of female
university students, however, opt-
ed to wear headscarves in line
with traditions.
Taliban put restrictions on women at universitiesBY KATHY GANNON
Associated Press
FELIPE DANA/AP
Girls prepare for class at a school in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday.
PAGE 8 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • Monday, September 13, 2021
VIRUS OUTBREAK
WASHINGTON — The reaction
of federal employee organizations
to President Joe Biden’s new vac-
cine mandate demonstrates it is
not a simple yea or nay proposi-
tion.
A key element in his far-reac-
hing, aggressive assault against
COVID-19 is a requirement for “all
executive branch federal employ-
ees to be vaccinated,” he said
Thursday, repeating “all” for em-
phasis. “And I’ve signed another
executive order that will require
federal contractors to do the
same.”
Biden has the authority to order
jabs for the 2.1 million civilian feds,
noting, despite his repetition, “ex-
ceptions only as required by law.”
But should he, and how should he,
are issues raised by employee
groups, whose reactions range
from welcoming to flat-out oppos-
ing the mandate.
The reaction of federal worker
groups, so far, mirrors that of
American society. Those repre-
senting higher-wage earners —
who tend to be more vaccine posi-
tive — have come out strongly in
favor of the mandate, while organi-
zations of lower-income workers
have been less likely to embrace it
outright.
While the largest federal union,
the American Federation of Gov-
ernment Employees (AFGE), has
“strongly encouraged” vaccina-
tions for its members, it doesn’t
want Biden’s executive order
mandate to override collective
bargaining prerogatives.
Shortly before Biden spoke, the
second largest federal labor orga-
nization, the National Treasury
Employees Union (NTEU), urged
employee vaccinations, but did so
in an indecisive statement reflect-
ing a divide among its members.
Acknowledging Biden’s “legal
right” to issue the order, NTEU
President Tony Reardon said his
“members, like American society
at large, will have differing reac-
tions to the new policy. Some em-
ployees will disagree. Others will
welcome the additional security
that comes with knowing that all of
their co-workers are vaccinated.”
Other employee organizations
were more direct and affirmative.
The Senior Executives Associ-
ation, which represents top-level
civil servants, “fully supports
President Biden’s action,” said its
president, Bob Corsi. The Profes-
sional Managers Association, rep-
resenting Internal Revenue Ser-
vice supervisors, welcomed the
vaccine mandate as “clear, consis-
tent guidance to all employees.
For any vaccine-hesitant em-
ployees, Hooper said they “should
defer to the expertise of our peers
across government. As we would
expect our colleagues at the CDC
and FDA to trust our tax expertise,
so too we expect the IRS workforce
to trust their medical expertise.”
That’s logic the Federal Law En-
forcement Officers Association
(FLEOA) does not embrace.
Saying “vaccination should be
promoted through education and
encouragement — not coercion,”
FLEOA President Larry Cosme
said the “government should trust
its employees to make their own
medical decision under consulta-
tion with their doctor, not mandat-
ed by their employer.”
“This executive order villainiz-
es employees for reasonable con-
cerns and hesitancies and inserts
the federal government into indi-
vidual medical decisions,” he said.
“People should not be made to feel
uncomfortable for making a rea-
sonable medical choice.”
Federal workergroups differon shot order
BY JOE DAVIDSON
The Washington Post
YUCAIPA, Calif. — The hus-
band of a Southern California
nurse who died of complications
from COVID-19 more than two
weeks ago has died after battling
the disease himself, leaving be-
hind five young children includ-
ing a newborn girl.
Daniel Macias of Yucaipa died
on Thursday, a family member
told KTLA-TV.
“I don’t know anyone who
loved their kids as much as they
did, and they made sure they told
them every day,” Terri Serey,
Daniel’s sister-in-law, told the
station. “I want them to be aware
of how much they’re loved. And I
want them to know how much
their parents loved them.”
Daniel and his wife, Davy,
were admitted to a hospital in-
tensive care unit days apart last
month after being diagnosed
with COVID-19. A doctor deliv-
ered the couple’s daughter eight
days before Davy Macias died.
The parents never got the
chance to meet or name their
daughter, according to family
members.
“It’s absolutely heartbreak-
ing. We were really pulling for
Daniel after Davy died. We
wanted him to wake up and name
his baby girl,” Terri Serey told
KTLA.
The couple developed symp-
toms after going on a family trip
to the beach and an indoor water
park at the end of July, family
members said.
Macias’ brother, Vong Serey,
told the San Bernardino Sun last
month that his sister was not vac-
cinated against COVID-19, and
was hesitant to get the shot be-
cause she was pregnant. She was
a nurse in the labor and delivery
ward at Kaiser Fontana Medical
Center and had worked through-
out the pandemic, he said.
Serey did not know whether
his brother-in-law had been vac-
cinated.
The couple’s children, who are
7 and under, are under the care
of their grandparents, according
to family members.
California parents of 5 children, including a newborn, die weeks apartAssociated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya — Several
hundred people line up every
morning, starting before dawn, on
a grassy area outside Nairobi’s
largest hospital hoping to get the
COVID-19 vaccine. Sometimes
the line moves smoothly, while on
other days, the staff tells them
there’s nothing available, and they
should come back tomorrow.
Halfway around the world, at a
church in Atlanta, two workers
with plenty of vaccine doses wait-
ed hours Wednesday for anyone to
show up, whiling away the time by
listening to music from a laptop.
Over a six-hour period, only one
person came through the door.
The dramatic contrast high-
lights the vast disparity around
the world. In richer countries,
people can often pick and choose
from multiple available vaccines,
walk into a site near their homes
and get a shot in minutes. Pop-up
clinics, such as the one in Atlanta,
bring vaccines into rural areas
and urban neighborhoods, but it is
common for them to get very few
takers.
In the developing world, supply
is limited and uncertain. Just over
3% of people across Africa have
been fully vaccinated, and health
officials and citizens often have
little idea what will be available
from one day to the next. More
vaccines have been flowing in re-
cent weeks, but the World Health
Organization’s director in Africa
said Thursday that the continent
will get 25% fewer doses than an-
ticipated by the end of the year, in
part because of the rollout of
booster shots in wealthier coun-
ties such as the United States.
Bidian Okoth recalled spending
more than three hours in line at a
Nairobi hospital, only to be told to
go home because there weren’t
enough doses. But a friend who
traveled to the U.S. got a shot al-
most immediately after his arrival
there with a vaccine of his choice,
“like candy,” he said.
“We’re struggling with what
time in the morning we need to
wake up to get the first shot. Then
you hear people choosing their
vaccines. That’s super, super ex-
cessive,” he said.
The disparity comes as the U.S.
is moving closer to offering boost-
er shots to large segments of the
population even as it struggles to
persuade Americans to get vacci-
nated in the first place.
The head of the WHO, Tedros
Adhanom Ghebreyesus, insisted
Wednesday that rich countries
with large supplies of coronavirus
vaccines should hold off on offer-
ing booster shots through the end
of the year and make the doses
available to poorer countries.
BRIAN INGANGA/AP
A Maasai woman receives the AstraZeneca vaccine at a clinic in Kimana, southern Kenya, on Aug. 28.
A tale of two clinics: lines inKenya, few takers in Atlanta
Associated Press
HYOSUB SHIN, ATLANTA JOURNALCONSTITUTION/AP
Douglas Ruano, left, and Jim Zvikas, R.N., wait at North SpringsUnited Methodist Church for people coming in for COVID19vaccinations in Sandy Springs, Ga., on July 8.
Monday, September 13, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 9
VIRUS OUTBREAK
Japan last Friday extended the ongoing
state of emergency in Tokyo and 18 other ar-
eas until Sept. 30. It had been scheduled to
end Sunday. The measures focus on requests
for eateries to close early and not serve alco-
hol.
Japan has done much better than other de-
veloped countries in curbing illnesses and
deaths without a lockdown. It has counted
more than 1.65 million cases and 16,700
deaths.
TOKYO— Japan’s government says more
than 50% of the population has been fully
vaccinated.
Japan’s vaccine rollouts began in mid-
February, months behind many wealthy
countries due to its lengthy clinical testing
requirement and approval process. Inocula-
tions for elderly patients, which started in
April, were also slowed by supply shortages
of imported vaccines, but the pace picked up
in late May and has since achieved 1 million
doses per day.
Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura,
who is in charge of COVID-19 measures, told
NHK public television’s weekly talk show
Sunday that about 60% of the population is
expected to be fully vaccinated by the end of
September, on par with current levels in Eu-
rope.
The government is studying a road map
for easing restrictions around November
when a large majority of the population is ex-
pected to be fully vaccinated. That would al-
low fully vaccinated people and those who
test negative to travel, gather for parties or
attend mass events.
The progress of vaccinations has helped
reduce serious cases and deaths among older
people, but infections from virus variants
spread explosively in August among young-
er generations still largely unvaccinated, se-
verely straining health care systems.
Japan passes 50% vaccination rate, eyes Nov. to ease limitsAssociated Press
LONDON— Britain’s health sec-
retary said Sunday that authorities
have decided not to require vaccine
passports for entry into nightclubs
and other crowded events in En-
gland, reversing course amid oppo-
sition from some of the Conserva-
tive government’s supporters in
Parliament.
Sajid Javid said the government
has shelved the idea of vaccine pass-
ports for now but could reconsider
the decision if COVID-19 cases rise
exponentially once again.
“We’ve looked at it properly and
whilst we should keep it in reserve
as a potential option, I’m pleased to
say that we will not be going ahead
with plans for vaccine passports,’’
Javid told the BBC.
The U-turn came just days after
the government’s vaccines minister
and the culture secretary suggested
that vaccine passports would still be
necessary, despite growing opposi-
tion from lawmakers. Such pass-
ports are required in other Europe-
an countries, such as France.
In particular, members of the
governing Conservative Party have
objected to such passports as an un-
acceptable burden on businesses
and an infringement on residents’
human rights.
The idea of requiring people to
show proof of vaccination or a re-
cent negative test for COVID-19 has
been uncomfortable for many in
Britain, where people generally
aren’t required to carry identifica-
tion documents.
The hospitality sector said the de-
cision would make it possible to
move forward.
“We hope that businesses will
now be able to plan for the future
with some degree of certainty, re-
gain confidence from customers
and the workforce, and start to re-
build a sector that has consistently
been at the sharp end of this pan-
demic,” said Michael Kill, chief ex-
ecutive of the Night Time Industries
Association.
SCOTT GARFITT/AP
A member of security hands out water to the crowd at the Wireless Music Festival on Saturday in London’s Crystal Palace Park.
UK shelves vaccine passports for nowAssociated Press
BEIJING — A city in southern
China that is trying to contain a
coronavirus outbreak told the
public Sunday not to leave town,
suspended bus and train service
and closed cinemas, bars and oth-
er facilities.
Anyone who needs to leave Pu-
tian, a city of 2.9 million people in
Fujian province south of Shang-
hai, for an essential trip must
have proof of a negative corona-
virus test within the past 48
hours, the city government an-
nounced.
China declared the coronavi-
rus under control in early 2020
but has suffered outbreaks of the
more contagious delta variant.
Authorities say most cases are
traced to travelers arriving from
Russia, Myanmar and other
countries.
In Putian, 19 new infections
that were believed to have been
acquired locally were reported in
the 24 hours through midnight
Saturday, according to the Na-
tional Health Commission. One
was reported in Quanzhou, also
in Fujian.
The first cases in Putian were
students from Xianyou county,
but experts suspect the outbreak
might have originated with the
father of one student who return-
ed from Singapore on Aug. 4, ac-
cording to the official Global
Times newspaper.
The traveler, identified by the
surname Lin, underwent a 14-day
quarantine and nine nucleic acid
and serologic tests, all of which
were negative, the Global Times
said, citing local authorities. It
said he tested positive on Friday.
Residents of villages in Xia-
nyou where infections were
found were barred from leaving,
the newspaper said.
Bus and train service to Putian
was suspended Saturday, Global
Times said.
Elsewhere in Putian, cinemas,
card rooms, gyms, tourist sites
and other facilities were ordered
closed, the city government an-
nounced. Restaurants and super-
markets were told to “strictly
control” customer numbers and
to check for fevers. Schools were
ordered to require students to
wear masks in class.
Experts were sent to Putian to
oversee disease-control work,
the Health Commission an-
nounced Saturday.
Chinese city with virus outbreakstops bus and train service
Associated Press
CHINATOPIX/AP
Medical workers send off their colleagues leaving Sunday to help withan outbreak of COVID19 in Putian from a provincial hospital inFuzhou in southeast China’s Fujian province.
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NATION
RICHMOND, Va. — Workers at
the site in Virginia’s capital where
a statue of Confederate Gen. Rob-
ert E. Lee was taken down this
week installed a new time capsule
Saturday within the statue’s mas-
sive pedestal, after efforts to lo-
cate an 1887 capsule were sus-
pended.
The capsule’s installation,
which a state government official
confirmed was completed Satur-
day morning, contains remem-
brances of current events, includ-
ing those related to COVID-19 and
protests over racial injustice.
It was demonstrations last year
over racism and police brutality
nationwide — including in Rich-
mond — following the police kill-
ing of George Floyd in Minneapo-
lis that led Virginia Gov. Ralph
Northam to order the removal of
the enormous Lee statue. The stat-
ue was taken down Wednesday,
almost a week after the Virginia
Supreme Court cleared the way
with a decision involving litigation
that had blocked the removal.
Crews had spent much of
Thursday seeking without success
the late-19th century capsule that
state officials believe was buried
within the pedestal, removing
massive stones. The search didn’t
continue. The reassembly of the
pedestal was completed by Satur-
day afternoon, according to Dena
Potter, a spokeswoman for the
state agency managing the job.
The Lee statue was one of five
Confederate tributes along Rich-
mond’s Monument Avenue and
the only one that belonged to the
state. The four city-owned statues
were taken down last summer.
State officials plan to leave the Lee
pedestal in place, at least for now,
with the expectation that a com-
munity-involved rethinking of
Monument Avenue will kick off
soon.
The new capsule contained
items such as an expired vial of the
Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, a Black
Lives Matter sticker and a photo-
graph of a Black ballerina with her
fist raised near the Lee statue dur-
ing last summer’s protests in
Richmond.
SHABAN ATHUMAN/AP
Devon Henry, owner of the construction company that removed the Confederate Gen. Robert E. Leestatue, center, looks on as crews work on retrieving a 134yearold time capsule at Monument Avenue onThursday in Richmond, Va. A new time capsule was placed Saturday.
Bishop Megan Rohrer speaks to the press before their installationceremony at Grace Cathedral Saturday in San Francisco. The Rev. Dr.Rohrer is the first openly transgender person elected as bishop in theEvangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. — Democrat-
ic allies of California Gov. Gavin
Newsom continued to express
confidence Saturday in his chanc-
es of beating back a recall but
warned his supporters not to let up
on urging people to vote as they
seek a decisive win, while Repub-
licans said the contest is far from
settled.
“We don’t need to just win by a
little, we need to win by a lot. We
need to send a message: Hands off
our democracy, hands off our Cal-
ifornia,” said April Verrett, presi-
dent of the SEIU Local 2015, as she
rallied union members who have
been among Newsom’s biggest
supporters.
Newsom joined the Oakland ral-
ly as his Republican rivals made
their cases up and down the state
and both major parties sent volun-
teers out to knock on doors and
urge their supporters to vote. The
race concludes Tuesday, and
more than a third of voters have
already mailed in their ballot or
voted early in person.
A recent poll from the Public
Policy Institute of California
shows Newsom likely to survive,
and Democrats are making a
stronger showing in early voting.
But the GOP is expecting a larger
turnout on Election Day, given
many Republicans are skeptical
of voting by mail.
“Anyone who is counting the re-
call out at this point is not really in
touch with what’s actually going
on with this movement,” said Re-
publican Assemblyman Kevin Ki-
ley, who is running to unseat
Newsom and is favored by some of
the recall’s original supporters.
The ballot includes two ques-
tions: Should Newsom be recalled
from office and, if so, who should
replace him? If a majority of vot-
ers want him gone, he would be re-
placed by whoever gets the most
votes among the 46 candidates on
the replacement ballot.
Newsom has encouraged his
supporters to vote “no” on the first
question and skip the second one
all together, something Republi-
can rival Kevin Faulconer criti-
cized as he cast his own ballot in
San Diego, where he previously
served as mayor.
“It’s very important that folks
get out and vote. The fact that the
Governor doesn’t want people to
vote on question two, that is voter
disenfranchisement,” he said, ac-
cording to CBS News 8 in San Die-
go.
More than 7.7 million people
have already voted, according to
ballot tracking data compiled by
Political Data Inc., a data firm that
works with Democrats.
Newsom, GOP rivals seek votes in recall’s final weekendAssociated Press
Monday, September 13, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 11
AMERICAN ROUNDUP
Court: Catholic schoolwrongfully fired gay sub
NC CHARLOTTE— A gay
substitute teacher was
wrongfully fired by a Roman Ca-
tholic school in North Carolina af-
ter he announced in 2014 on social
media that he was going to marry
his longtime partner, a federal
judge has ruled.
U.S. District Judge Max Cog-
burn ruled that Charlotte Catholic
High School and the Roman Ca-
tholic Archdiocese of Charlotte vi-
olated Lonnie Billard’s federal
protections against sex discrimi-
nation under Title VII of the Civil
Rights Act. Cogburn granted sum-
mary judgment to Billard and said
a trial must still be held to deter-
mine appropriate relief for him.
“After all this time, I have a
sense of relief and a sense of vindi-
cation. I wish I could have re-
mained teaching all this time,”
Billard said in a statement re-
leased Friday by the American
Civil Liberties Union, which rep-
resented him in court. “Today’s
decision validates that I did noth-
ing wrong by being a gay man.”
Suspect arrested, officeron leave after shooting
MD TOWSON — Towson
University has
placed a veteran campus police of-
ficer on paid leave after a triple
shooting on campus, the universi-
ty announced.
Baltimore County Police an-
nounced in a news release that a
19-year-old had been arrested in
the case. The suspect’s identity
was not released.
After an initial review, the offi-
cer was suspended pending a full
investigation into whether “estab-
lished procedures” were perform-
ed during an unsanctioned gather-
ing on campus that attracted hun-
dreds of people and where three
people, including one student,
were shot, the university said in a
news release.
Students and teachers’9/11 images displayed
KY BOWLING GREEN —
Images captured by
students and teachers from West-
ern Kentucky University’s photo-
journalism program in the after-
math of the 9/11 World Trade Cen-
ter attack will be displayed this
month in Bowling Green, the
school said.
Ridley and Hull Wealth Man-
agement Group of Stifel and the
WKU School of Media are having
an open house at the Pushin Build-
ing. The exhibit of 28 images will
be open to the public this month,
the school said in a news release.
The students headed to the site
of the World Trade Center attack
soon after the towers fell 20 years
ago. By the end of the week, two
faculty members had joined them.
Together they discovered sto-
ries of the people who had worked
in the buildings, their families and
friends and the people who were
trying to rescue them.
State troopers accused infake vaccine cards resign
VT WATERBURY —
Three Vermont state
troopers who are accused of being
involved in a scheme to create
fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination
cards have resigned, state police
said.
Troopers Shawn Sommers and
Raymond Witkowski resigned af-
ter a fellow trooper told supervi-
sors about the alleged scheme.
Trooper David Pfindel resigned
following further investigation,
according to a state police news
release.
The three ex-troopers are sus-
pected of having varying roles in
the making of fraudulent vaccina-
tion cards, according to the re-
lease.
Sommers and Witkowski both
joined the Vermont State Police in
July 2016. Pfindel was hired in Ja-
nuary 2014, police said.
Algae bloom reachesdanger level at reservoir
CA LOS BANOS — A
bloom of toxic blue-
green algae in a Central California
reservoir has reached the danger
level, the state Department of Wa-
ter Resource said.
Lab results from tests showed
an increase in toxin levels at San
Luis Reservoir in Merced County,
the department said.
Boating is allowed but people
and pets should avoid physical
contact with the water and algal
scum. Fish and shellfish from the
lake should also be avoided.
Toxic blue-green algae is also
known as cyanobacteria. It can
cause eye irritation, allergic skin
rash, mouth ulcers, vomiting,
diarrhea and cold- and flu-like
symptoms.
Pandemic a factor invillage relocation efforts
AK BETHEL — The CO-
VID-19 pandemic has
affected the pace of moving resi-
dents from Newtok, an Alaska
community threatened by ero-
sion, to another village, officials
said. Money also has been an is-
sue.
Nine homes in the new village of
Mertarvik that were started last
year remain unfinished, and no
one has moved from Newtok to
Mertarvik since 2019, KYUK Pub-
lic Media reported. Newtok had an
estimated 220 residents last year.
Patrick LeMay, who is leading
the building effort in Mertarvik,
said shortages for materials have
persisted.
Many of the workers building
homes in Mertarvik are Newtok
residents. LeMay said three work-
ers from Newtok contracted CO-
VID-19 in August. Many remain-
ing laborers chose to stop working
due to concerns over an outbreak,
KYUK reported.
Carl said Newtok lost over 100
feet of its coast since April.
Police may be exemptfrom vaccine mandate
OR PORTLAND — Por-
tland city officials be-
cause of new guidance may need
to exempt the police bureau from
an order that all employees be ful-
ly vaccinated against COVID-19
or risk losing their jobs.
The city attorney’s office said
the order requiring police to be
vaccinated is now legally dubious
because of new guidance from the
Oregon Health Authority, Oregon
Public Broadcasting reported.
Under Oregon law, local munic-
ipalities can only issue vaccine
mandates for police officers if a
federal or state rule requires it.
The city believed Gov. Kate
Brown’s vaccination mandate is-
sued last month for state health
care workers covered officers be-
cause they receive some medical
training.
But the new guidance said law
enforcement was “probably not”
subject to the governor’s orders as
providing medical care was “like-
ly not a fundamental part of their
job.”
Redistricting commissionsued over deadline
MI LANSING — A Michi-
gan commission draw-
ing new maps for seats in Con-
gress and the Legislature is being
sued over its plan to skip a Nov. 1
deadline to create the districts.
The lawsuit by a Detroit-area
activist means the Michigan Su-
preme Court could ultimately get
involved. The court earlier this
year turned down the commis-
sion’s request for new deadlines
and legal cover from lawsuits.
The commission hopes to have
maps ready for a final vote by Dec.
30, citing a delay in detailed cen-
sus data.
“Despite having the required
2020 census data, the defendant
has chosen to deliberately ignore
the clear mandate” in the constitu-
tion, Robert Davis said in a law-
suit.
J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/AP
Workmen with the Architect of the Capitol clean skylights that provide natural light to the visitor center beneath the East Plaza, at the U.S.Capitol in Washington, on Friday.
Getting a clear view
THE CENSUS
170 The number of ongoing COVID-19 clusters found in North Car-olina schools or child care settings. While the state Depart-
ment of Health and Human Services said it does not have data on the number ofpupils quarantined statewide or the share of those forced to miss school with-out a remote learning option, districts without mask wearing requirements areseeing substantially more spread of the virus and hours of lost learning amongstudents.
From The Associated Press
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NATION
The storms that rolled through
Thursday night into Friday were
followed by weekend forecasts of
clear weather and a warming
trend in fire areas into next week.
The National Weather Service
said there were more than 1,100
cloud-to-ground lightning strikes
in California between Thursday
evening and Friday morning.
Fire officials said lightning
strikes ignited at least 17 fires.
Firefighters were diverted
from the huge Caldor Fire south
CASTIAC, Calif. — A wildfire
near Castaic on Saturday has led
to the closure of part of a major
freeway in Southern California,
officials told local media.
The fire, known as the Route
Fire, reached 392 acres, or a little
more than half a square mile, as
of 6:28 p.m. and forced the shut-
down of a section of Interstate 5,
the Angeles National Forest told
KTLA-TV.
KTLA reported that the Route
Fire is threatening structures, ac-
cording to the Los Angeles Coun-
ty Sheriff’s Department Santa
Clarita Valley station.
The fire was uncontained as of
6:30 p.m., authorities said.
Elsewhere in California, thun-
derstorms that dropped light rain
gave some breathing room to
crews struggling to quench the
state’s massive wildfires but
lightning sparked several new
blazes in the drought-stricken
north, fire officials said.
of Lake Tahoe to fight multiple
overnight lightning fires through-
out El Dorado County, fire offi-
cials said. Most of the blazes,
however, were kept to under 10
acres.
Three new fires were reported
in Sequoia and Kings Canyon na-
tional parks in steep, dense forest
areas of the Sierra Nevada.
Up to a half-inch of rain fell on
portions of the Dixie Fire, which
began in mid-July and has
burned through huge swaths of
the northern Sierra Nevada and
southern Cascades. The second-
largest fire in California history
has burned 1,490 square miles of
land and more than 1,300 homes
and other buildings. It was 59%
contained.
The rain wet tinder-dry vegeta-
tion and will cool down the fire
for one or two days, which fire-
fighters hoped to use to strength-
en and expand fire lines in an ef-
fort to finally surround the blaze,
fire officials said.
Wildfire forces closure of part of Calif. freewayAssociated Press
LULING, La. — Tara Williams’
three little boys run shirtless, be-
cause most of their clothes were
swept away, and they stack milk
crates beneath a blazing sun be-
cause their toys are all gone too.
Their apartment is barely more
than a door dangling from a
frame, so they crowd into a Ford
Fusion for shelter.
And as if Hurricane Ida didn’t
take enough, it has also put the
boys’ education on hold.
“They’re ready to get inside, go
to school, get some air condition-
ing,” said 32-year-old Williams,
who has twin 5-year-olds and a 7-
year-old and is more pessimistic
than officials about when they
might be back in class. “The way
it’s looking like now, it’s going to
be next August.”
After a year and a half of pan-
demic disruptions that drove
children from schools and pulled
down test scores, at least 169,000
Louisiana children are out of
class again, their studies derailed
by the storm. The hurricane fol-
lowed a rocky reopening in Au-
gust that led to more COVID-19
infections and classroom clo-
sures, and now it will be weeks
before some students go back
again.
“How concerned am I? If you
pick up a thesaurus, whatever’s
the word for ‘most concerned,’ ”
said Jarod Martin, superintend-
ent of schools in hard-hit La-
fourche Parish, southwest of New
Orleans. “We were brimming
with optimism and confident that
we were going to defeat COVID,
confident we were on a better
path. And now we’ve got another
setback.”
In the most devastated areas,
returning to class requires not on-
ly schools be repaired or tempo-
rary classrooms set up, but for
students and staff scattered
around the country to come back.
That means they must have
homes with electricity and run-
ning water. Buses must run, cafe-
terias must be stocked with food
and on and on.
After the storm destroyed their
house in Dulac, a stretch of Cajun
country swampland, 43-year-old
Penny Verdin’s two children and
a nephew she cares for began liv-
ing in their car, along with a
gecko, a hamster and a squirrel
named Honey. They hope to use
some lumber and tin from the
carcass of their home to fashion a
new shack.
After a year in which nearly the
whole family fell sick with CO-
VID-19 and Verdin’s disability
checks were suddenly halted,
she’s worried about them falling
behind in their studies.
“It’s going to be a big catch-up,”
she says.
Some children arrived back in
class last month for the first time
since the shutdowns began, but
the return led to nearly 7,000 in-
fections of students and teachers
in the opening weeks. More quar-
antines, shutdowns and disrup-
tions resulted.
The latest state standardized
test scores, released in August,
showed a 5% drop in proficiency
among students across Louisiana.
The state’s education superin-
tendent, Cade Brumley, acknowl-
edged that students “did lose a lit-
tle bit” and that Ida dealt another
blow, but he said all students
would likely be back in a matter of
weeks.
“We need to get those kids back
with us as soon as we possibly
can,” he said.
When the pandemic first raged
and students were forced to learn
on screens at home, some observ-
ers warned of a “lost generation”
of children falling through the
cracks. The opening of the school
year gave some teachers their
first chance to fully assess the ef-
fects on pupils, only to have stu-
dents forced out again.
Lauren Jewett, a 34-year-old
special education teacher in New
Orleans, already had students
who were dealing with family
deaths from COVID; now she’s
hearing about their collapsed
roofs, swamped homes and dwin-
dling resources. She had just
been starting to evaluate any re-
gression due to the pandemic’s
disruptions when the storm hit.
“We couldn’t cover all of the
things that are supposed to be
covered because of all the disrup-
tions,” she said.
Many people remain without
power or running water, and in
several parishes, no reopening
dates have been announced for
schools. They are simply closed
until further notice.
Inevitably, as parents ponder
what’s next for their children,
2005’s monster Hurricane Katri-
na is invoked. When researchers
at Columbia University and the
Children’s Health Fund tried to
determine that storm’s impact on
children five years after landfall,
they found unstable living condi-
tions persisted, serious emotional
and behavioral issues were ram-
pant and one-third of students in
affected areas were behind in
schooling for their age.
“We don’t have to go back that
far to see the outright and ulti-
mate failure of our children,” said
Kevin Griffin-Clark, a 36-year-
old entrepreneur and father of
three who is now running for City
Council in New Orleans. “Now
the children are going to suffer
even more.”
Douglas Harris, a Tulane Uni-
versity economist whose work fo-
cuses on education, said he ex-
pects test scores will eventually
recover, as they did after Katrina,
but they won’t be a true reflection
of the harm.
“In both cases, it’s a significant
amount of learning loss, a signif-
icant amount of trauma, a signif-
icant amount of anxiousness and
disruption to life and school,”
Harris said, comparing the post-
Katrina landscape with today.
“But the disruption has been so
much longer now. We’re talking
about 18 months of COVID, so the
effects are going to be bigger here
and the amount of time it takes to
rebound will be greater.”
New Orleans’ schools superin-
tendent, Henderson Lewis Jr.,
flatly rejects comparisons to Ka-
trina, saying physical damage to
schools is minimal. He said some
will be able to return to class on
Wednesday and all should be
back by Sept. 22. But he acknowl-
edges the hardships for students
since COVID-19 first shuttered
schools on March 13, 2020, and
everything that’s happened since.
“It’s one more thing com-
pounded,” he said.
Ida deals blows to La. schools trying to reopenBY MATT SEDENSKY
Associated Press
JOHN LOCHER/AP
Aiden Locobon, left, and Rogelio Paredes look through the remnants of their family’s home destroyed byHurricane Ida in Dulac, La., on Sept. 4.
Monday, September 13, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 13
WORLD
Typhoon pours 5 inchesof rain on Taiwan
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Typhoon
Chanthu drenched Taiwan with
heavy rain Sunday as the storm’s
center passed the island’s east
coast heading for Shanghai.
On the Chinese mainland, the
government issued a typhoon
warning for Shanghai and warned
of possible torrential rains.
Airline flights and train service
in Taiwan were suspended Satur-
day as the storm approached. The
Central News Agency reported
more than 2,000 people were
evacuated from flood-prone areas
of the east coast county of Hualien.
At midday Sunday, Chanthu’s
center was about 70 kilometers off
Taiwan’s northeast coast, with
winds of 162 kph and gusts up to
198 kph, according to the Central
Weather Bureau.
Up to 5 inches of rain fell Sun-
day in some areas, the Weather
Bureau said.
Chanthu is forecast to head
north and dump rain on Shanghai
before turning east toward South
Korea and Japan, the Weather Bu-
reau said.
Associated Press
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran agreed
Sunday to allow international in-
spectors to install new memory
cards into surveillance cameras at
its sensitive nuclear sites and to con-
tinue filming there, averting a diplo-
matic showdown this week.
The announcement by Moham-
mad Eslami of the Atomic Energy
Organization of Iran after a meeting
with the director-general of the In-
ternational Atomic Energy Agency,
Rafael Grossi, in Tehran leaves the
watchdog in the same position it has
faced since February, however.
Tehran holds all recordings at its
sites as negotiations over the U.S.
and Iran returning to the 2015 nucle-
ar deal remain stalled. Meanwhile,
Iran is now enriching small
amounts of uranium to its closest-
ever levels to weapons-grade purity
as its stockpile continues to grow.
“Today [we] were able to have a
very constructive result, which has
to do with the continuity of the oper-
ation of the agency’s equipment
here,” Grossi said. It “is indispens-
able for us to provide the necessary
guarantee and information to the …
world that everything is in order.”
Iran nuclear site cameras get new cardsAssociated Press
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Pope
Francis arrived in Hungary on
Sunday on his first foreign trip
since undergoing intestinal sur-
gery in July, kicking off a four-day
pilgrimage with an awkward
meeting with Prime Minister Vik-
tor Orban, who represents the
type of populist, nationalist leader
Francis frequently criticizes.
Orban, whose anti-migration
policies clash with Francis’ call
for refugee welcome, greeted the
Argentine pope at the Museum of
Fine Arts and the two went into a
private meeting attended also by
the Hungarian president and Vat-
ican officials. Hungary’s hard-line
stand on migration apparently
didn’t come up.
“I asked Pope Francis not to let
Christian Hungary perish,” Or-
ban wrote on Facebook.
Video footage of the encounter
showed Francis shaking hands
with President Janos Ader, Orban
and deputy Prime Minister Zsolt
Semjen and smiling, and then the
Hungarian and Vatican sides sit-
ting apart in a cavernous room of
the museum.
The Vatican said the meeting
was held in a “cordial atmo-
sphere” and lasted longer than ex-
pected — 40 minutes.
Pope meets Hungary’s Orban at start of 4-day Europe tripAssociated Press
VATICAN MEDIA/AP
Pope Francis exchanges gifts with Hungarian Prime Minister ViktorOrban on Sunday at Budapest’s Museum of Fine Arts.
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FACES
As the creator of HBO’s seminal
Mafia series “The Sopranos,”
David Chase is keenly aware that
heavy lies the head that wears the
crown. It was mob kingpin Tony Soprano
himself who told his consigliere Silvio, “All
due respect, you got no ... idea what it’s like
to be number one.”
Revisiting the series many consider the
greatest of all time wasn’t a decision Chase
made lightly. He actually resisted it entire-
ly, until conceiving of a feature film prequel
—“The Many Saints of Newark,” scheduled
to hit theaters and HBO Max on Oct. 1.
“A lot of well-meaning people said to me,
‘Aren’t you afraid you’re going to s— all
over the show, this great thing you creat-
ed?’” Chase, 75, says recently over Zoom
from Santa Monica, Calif. “Of course, I said,
‘I hope not.’ But you feel like punching them
in the face. What are you saying that to me
for?”
Arriving nearly 14 years after “The So-
pranos” finale’s smash-cut to black, the film
— directed by series veteran Alan Taylor —
is set in the late 1960s, as Newark, N.J., is
roiled by racial violence and rival gangs go
to war for dominance. Against that turbu-
lent backdrop a young Tony gets an early
education in a life in crime as he follows in
the footsteps of his mentor, Dickie Molti-
santi, a soldier in the DiMeo crime family.
“When I first started ‘The Sopranos,’
what I really wanted to do was to make a re-
ally good gangster movie,” Chase says.
“And that’s what we wanted to do with this
more than anything else.”
The Los Angeles Times spoke with Chase
and his producing partner, Nicole Lambert,
about how the film’s ensemble reimagined
familiar characters and added new ones to
the “Sopranos” universe.
Dickie Moltisanti
Played by Alessandro Nivola
A Mafia soldier and the father of Michael
Imperioli’s pivotal series regular Chris-
topher Moltisanti, Dickie was always a
somewhat mysterious figure in “Sopranos”
lore. On the show, Tony spoke of him being a
mentor, a friend and “a legend.” But details
of his life were scant, and fans have long de-
bated whether the story Tony told Chris-
topher of how he died in the 1970s — gunned
down outside his home by a police detective
— was true.
In centering the prequel on the story of
Dickie, Chase and Konner saw the opportu-
nity to fill in those blanks and create a por-
trait of the man who set Tony on his path to
becoming a crime boss.
Tony Soprano
Played by Michael Gandolfini
Michael Gandolfini was not necessarily
the obvious choice to step into the iconic
character played by his father, who died of a
heart attack in 2013 at age 51. For starters,
he had little acting experience. And he had
never actually watched “The Sopranos.”
Beyond his physical resemblance to his
father, Chase was struck by how the young-
er Gandolfini captured the charming side of
the future mob boss.
“He had that sweetness and earnest-
ness,” Chase says. “I believe that’s probably
why the show was successful. Had Tony just
been a terrible, lunatic scumbag killer, I
don’t think it would have worked.”
Johnny Soprano
Played by Jon Bernthal
Seen in a number of flashbacks and
dream sequences during the series, Tony’s
father was a well-liked mob captain who
spent time in prison when Tony was a boy.
(Joseph Siravo, who played him in the show,
died this year at age 66.)
In Bernthal, Chase saw an actor who
could bring the right combination of men-
ace and charisma to the role. “It’s really al-
ways the same thing: Is this somebody who
you think can do the job physically?” Chase
says. “Is this somebody who can hold a gun
and do all that naturally and is also a really
good actor? That’s all you’re really looking
for, and Jon is that.”
Junior Soprano
Played by Corey Stoll
To play Tony’s scheming, perpetually ag-
grieved uncle, portrayed in the original se-
ries by Dominic Chianese, Chase was
drawn to Stoll, who had caught his eye on an
episode of the Amazon drama series “The
Romanoffs.”
Junior has long been one of Chase’s favor-
ite characters. “All the writers loved writing
for Junior,” he says. “There was something
that Dominic brought to him — the partic-
ular way he whined — that made it so won-
derful.”
Aldo ‘Hollywood Dick’ Moltisanti
Played by Ray Liotta
During its six seasons, “The Sopranos”
featured a number of actors who had ap-
peared in Martin Scorsese’s 1990 mob clas-
sic “Goodfellas.” But Liotta was a notable
exception — until Chase found a role for
him in the prequel as the patriarch of the
Moltisanti (translation: “many saints”)
family.
“I’ve been a fan of his actually since [Liot-
ta’s 1986 breakout] ‘Something Wild,’”
Chase says. “Finally, we got him. And he
looks like he belongs there — because he
does belong there.”
Silvio Dante
Played by John Magaro
To play the younger version of Silvio —
who will later become Tony’s consigliere
and manager of the Bada Bing strip club —
Chase turned to Magaro, who had starred in
his 2012 feature directorial debut “Not Fade
Away.”
“I don’t think John copied Stevie so much
as he just knew ‘The Sopranos,’” says Lam-
bert. “He has Silvio’s mannerisms down.”
Paulie ‘Walnuts’ Gualtieri
Played by Billy Magnussen
One of the most quotable characters from
the series, Tony Sirico’s fastidious and im-
peccably coiffured capo is also one of the
most tempting to impersonate. But in cast-
ing the prequel, Chase was adamant that
none of the actors simply mimic what their
predecessors had done on the show. “That
was the mandate,” Chase says. “No impres-
sions.”
Magnussen did avail himself of some re-
cordings of Sirico to help get his distinctive
patter down. “Tony recorded some tapes
because his little things were so particular
and we wanted those to sound accurate,”
says Lambert. “But nobody did a caricature
of the people who came before. It just felt
like a natural sort of progression with them
stepping into the world.”
BARRY WETCHER, WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT/TNS
New faces for “The Many Saints of Newark”: Billy Magnussen (left) as Paulie Walnuts, Jon Bernthal as Johnny Soprano, Corey Stoll asJunior Soprano, John Magaro as Silvio Dante, Ray Liotta as “Hollywood Dick” Moltisanti and Alessandro Nivola as Dickie Moltisanti.
REIMAGINING THE MOB‘Sopranos’ prequel reinvents some characters, introduces new ones
BY JOSH ROTTENBERG
Los Angeles Times
William Petersen and Jorja Fox are re-
united and, yes, it feels so good.
The actors who first starred together on
“CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” in the
early aughts are back together for “CSI: Ve-
gas,” premiering Oct. 7 on AFN-Prime.
“It is at once just this sort of familiar thing
in my mind and also brand new,” Fox told a
virtual Television Critics gathering on Sept.
9. “The world, weirdly enough, is even more
topsy-turvy than it was in 2000, so there’s so
much new happening and yet it was sort of
great to be grounded with William Peter-
sen.”
Like the original, the new show is set in
Las Vegas. Wallace Langham and Paul
Guilfoyle return in their roles, too. But there
are new characters joining Petersen as Gil
Grissom and Fox as Sara Sidle and updated
technology to solve crimes.
“I was a little rusty on all the science,”
Fox said.
Petersen said he had trouble keeping his
hand steady using a lab tool that transports
liquid. “Billy and I used to be really good at
that stuff,” Fox said, laughing.
Petersen added, “Age caught up with
me.”
Petersen left the original show in 2010;
Fox had departed three years earlier. Both
made return guest appearances.
Drake tapped to curate music
for ‘Monday Night Football’Drake has signed on for a seasonal gig
with ESPN as a music curator. The Gram-
my-winning hip-hop superstar will work
closely with the sports network throughout
the NFL season to deliver music to fans.
Drake will help curate the playlist that
will be heard during certain “Monday Night
Football” games, selecting music that the
network said “encapsulates both the energy
and mood” of the stadium. He will choose
music from his own catalog as well as songs
from artists he identifies.
The selections will play during promo
spots, pregame shows and live telecasts.
Other news■ Judge Judy Sheindlin is returning to
television Nov. 1 with a new show, “Judy
Justice.” The show will be available week-
days on IMDb TV, a free streaming service
offered by Amazon.
■ Michael Constantine, an Emmy-win-
ning character actor who played a wry high
school principal on the TV series “Room
222” and starred three decades later as the
Windex-obsessed, endearingly overbear-
ing dad in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,”
died Aug. 31 at his home in Reading, Pa. He
was 94.
■ Tony Award-winning producer Eliza-
beth Ireland McCann,whose hits on Broad-
way and in London included “The Elephant
Man,” “Morning’s at Seven,” “Amadeus,”
“The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nick-
leby” and “Copenhagen,” died Sept. 10 of
cancer in New York City. She was 90.
McCann was a managing producer of the
Tony Awards telecast for many years and
won nine Tonys during her career, includ-
ing for the revivals of “Hair” in 2009 and “A
View from the Bridge” in 1998.
Petersen, Foxbrush off rustfor ‘CSI: Vegas’
From wire reports
Monday, September 13, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 15
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20 years on, the war born of 9/11 enduresBY DAVID VON DREHLE
The Washington Post
Washington Post columnist David Von Drehle is the author offour books, including “Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln andAmerica’s Most Perilous Year.”
For years after President John F.
Kennedy’s assassination in No-
vember 1963, people would ask,
“Where were you when you heard
the news?” For a younger generation, it’s
“Where were you on 9/11?”
Most everyone over the age of 30 can tell
you. But 20 years later, a more apt question
for each of us might be: Where are we as a
nation? What has happened to us? Who are
we?
On Sept. 11, 2001, I was in my office in Co-
lumbia, S.C., as I watched the video of the
plane hitting the first tower. I knew what it
meant and I said it out loud: “Oh, my God,
we’re at war.” Something inside me sank to
the bottom of my core, and I had a feeling of
overwhelming sadness and weariness. It
was as though I was seeing all the wars
through human history coalesce into a sin-
gle image.
When the second plane hit, no one else
doubted what was happening, either. Our
country, like others around the world, was
drawn into an unimaginable but all-too-real
apocalyptic drama. How could this be hap-
pening? All those people. Oh my God.
What we witnessed that day changed us.
And I submit that we’re only now beginning
to fully grasp the collateral damage of that
day. I don’t mean the agony of those who
perished, the incalculable loss to their fam-
ilies, or the images forever etched in our
collective memory, though all are worthy of
continued reverence.
I mean the spiritual and psychological
cost to us as a people. These unquantifiable
drains on our strength and resilience and
confidence have contributed greatly, I
think, to a dissolution of our union.
The image and impact of the planes pierc-
ing those monuments to American power
and wealth deeply penetrated our commu-
nal psyche. Everything we believed about
our Greatest-Nation-on-Earth turned to
ash. We weren’t invulnerable after all. We
weren’t beyond the reach of cave-dwelling
barbarians, who were as alien to us as the
idea that we could be destroyed. This, I be-
lieve, was the essential message of 9/11.
The only way I know to put it is that we
were knocked way off balance. We lost our
center. Our identity and the shared sense of
our exceptional, some say divinely inspired,
place on the planet came undone, and we’re
unraveling still.
Though briefly united by grief and shock,
extreme emotion is an unsustainable condi-
tion. We were mostly united when Presi-
dent George W. Bush ordered the counter-
attack in Afghanistan, another anniversary
acknowledged with the U.S. withdrawal
from that country last month. Osama bin
Laden may have entertained the expecta-
tion that his attack would destroy more than
buildings and lives, but even he couldn’t
have foreseen what has happened here in
the span of a generation. We are constantly
at war — against ourselves.
Division and hyperpartisanship didn’t
begin with 9/11. We can trace their begin-
nings through multiple, historic move-
ments, including the Civil War. A pastel-
hued period of genuine unity perhaps never
existed, but timing was certainly on bin La-
den’s side. By 2001, Democrats and Repub-
licans rarely bothered to sheath their sab-
ers. Every political disagreement was a
fight to the death of comity. By the time Do-
nald Trump came along, the country was
ripe for pillaging.
It’s fair to say that, with each president
following George H.W. Bush, division be-
came an end in itself, a self-righteous vision
that culminated in the Jan. 6 siege of the
U.S. Capitol. While the fringes terrorize the
center with fear tactics and racial division,
is it any surprise that we’re divided about
whether to accept a lifesaving vaccine?
I sometimes wonder whether societies
don’t suffer from an unconscious death
wish. Is there an instinct for self-destruc-
tion equal to the instinct for progress and
survival? I worry about that. But I also know
that societies are made up of human beings
with free will. We have a choice whether to
continue our downward path or change di-
rection and head for the mountaintop.
We are not our brother’s enemy, as most
one-on-one conversations reveal. We are
more — far more — than our divisions. But
our technology-driven balkanization re-
quires extra effort and commitment to
change now. The 20th anniversary of 9/11
seems a proper time to abandon our own
caves, work to re-center ourselves, and as-
pire to a better answer on the 30th anniver-
sary, when replays of the devastation will
again force us to ask: Who are we?
9/11 broke us. And we are far from healed.BY KATHLEEN PARKER
Washington Post Writers Group
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ACROSS
1 Pronto
5 Tummy muscles
8 Sportscaster
Collinsworth
12 Back door
14 Coop group
15 Wall scrawl
16 Deserve
17 TGIF part
18 Vineyard harvest
20 Big Dipper points
23 Latin 101 word
24 Soccer star Mia
25 Pasture growth
28 Singer DiFranco
29 Diner seating
30 Poetic
contraction
32 Yogurt topping
34 Wee
35 Marquis de —
36 Villain’s look
37 NYC’s —
Mansion
40 Parking place
41 Took the train
42 School alumnus
47 Bard’s river
48 Shared rumors
49 Optimum
50 Drunkard
51 Low digits
DOWN
1 S.A. nation
2 Sun. talk
3 Bond rating
4 Spin doctor’s
employer
5 Pivot line
6 Iota
7 Crucifixion
wounds
8 Cons
9 Harvest
10 Concerning
11 Taxpayer IDs
13 New newts
19 Impetuous
20 — Na Na
21 Tart flavor
22 “Star Wars”
actor El-Masry
23 Play — in
(affect)
25 Decent folks
26 Diminutive suffix
27 Locale
29 — B’rith
31 Neighbor
of Leb.
33 Climb
34 Sense
36 Lays down
the lawn
37 Seize
38 Wander
39 Big fusses
40 Endure
43 Aussie hopper
44 Mil. address
45 Golf peg
46 Asner and Harris
Answer to Previous Puzzle
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Dilbert
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SCOREBOARD
PRO FOOTBALL
NFL
AMERICAN CONFERENCE
East
W L T Pct PF PA
Buffalo 0 0 0 .000 0 0
Miami 0 0 0 .000 0 0
N.Y. Jets 0 0 0 .000 0 0
New England 0 0 0 .000 0 0
South
W L T Pct PF PA
Houston 0 0 0 .000 0 0
Indianapolis 0 0 0 .000 0 0
Jacksonville 0 0 0 .000 0 0
Tennessee 0 0 0 .000 0 0
North
W L T Pct PF PA
Baltimore 0 0 0 .000 0 0
Cincinnati 0 0 0 .000 0 0
Cleveland 0 0 0 .000 0 0
Pittsburgh 0 0 0 .000 0 0
West
W L T Pct PF PA
Denver 0 0 0 .000 0 0
Kansas City 0 0 0 .000 0 0
L.A. Chargers 0 0 0 .000 0 0
Las Vegas 0 0 0 .000 0 0
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
East
W L T Pct PF PA
N.Y. Giants 0 0 0 .000 0 0
Philadelphia 0 0 0 .000 0 0
Washington 0 0 0 .000 0 0
Dallas 0 1 0 .000 29 31
South
W L T Pct PF PA
Tampa Bay 1 0 0 1.000 31 29
Atlanta 0 0 0 .000 0 0
Carolina 0 0 0 .000 0 0
New Orleans 0 0 0 .000 0 0
North
W L T Pct PF PA
Chicago 0 0 0 .000 0 0
Detroit 0 0 0 .000 0 0
Green Bay 0 0 0 .000 0 0
Minnesota 0 0 0 .000 0 0
West
W L T Pct PF PA
Arizona 0 0 0 .000 0 0
L.A. Rams 0 0 0 .000 0 0
San Francisco 0 0 0 .000 0 0
Seattle 0 0 0 .000 0 0
Thursday’s game
Tampa Bay 31, Dallas 29
Sunday’s games
Arizona at Tennessee Jacksonville at Houston L.A. Chargers at Washington Minnesota at Cincinnati N.Y. Jets at Carolina Philadelphia at Atlanta Pittsburgh at Buffalo San Francisco at Detroit Seattle at Indianapolis Cleveland at Kansas City Denver at N.Y. Giants Green Bay at New Orleans Miami at New England Chicago at L.A. Rams
Monday’s game
Baltimore at Las Vegas
Thursday, Sept. 16
N.Y. Giants at Washington
Injury ReportThe National Football League injury re-port, as provided by the league (OUT: willnot play; DOUBTFUL: doubtful to play;QUESTIONABLE: questionable to play;DNP: did not practice; LIMITED: limitedparticipation; FULL: Full participation):
MONDAYBALTIMORE RAVENS AT LAS VEGAS
RAIDERS: BALTIMORE: OUT: DE DerekWolfe (back, hip). QUESTIONABLE:LB Dae-lin Hayes (knee), CB Jimmy Smith (ankle).DNP: DE Calais Campbell (not injury relat-ed - resting player), T Ronnie Stanley (notinjury related - resting player), DE DerekWolfe (back, hip). LIMITED: CB JimmySmith (ankle). FULL: LB Daelin Hayes(knee). LAS VEGAS: OUT: G Richie Incogni-to (calf). DOUBTFUL: CB Roderic Teamer(shoulder, ankle). LIMITED: RB Josh Jacobs(toe). FULL: DE Clelin Ferrell (back), T AlexLeatherwood (shin), DE Carl Nassib (pec-toral).
PRO BASKETBALL
WNBA
EASTERN CONFERENCE
W L Pct GB
x-Connecticut 24 6 .800 —
x-Chicago 15 14 .517 8½
Washington 11 18 .379 12½
New York 11 19 .367 13
Atlanta 7 22 .241 16½
Indiana 6 22 .214 17
WESTERN CONFERENCE
W L Pct GB
x-Las Vegas 21 8 .724 —
x-Seattle 20 10 .667 1½
x-Minnesota 19 10 .655 2
x-Phoenix 19 11 .633 2½
x-Dallas 13 17 .433 8½
Los Angeles 10 19 .345 11
Friday’s games
Washington 82, Atlanta 74Minnesota 89, Indiana 72
Saturday’s games
Dallas 77, New York 76Connecticut 76, Phoenix 67
Sunday’s games
Washington at ChicagoIndiana at MinnesotaSeattle at Los Angeles
Monday’s game
Dallas at Las Vegas
Tuesday’s game
Indiana at Atlanta
Federated Auto Parts 400NASCAR Cup Series
SaturdayAt Richmond Raceway
Richmond, Va.Lap length: 0.75 miles
(Start position in parentheses)1. (3) Martin Truex Jr, Toyota, 400 laps, 51
tion, 179, 1.40. (39) Cj McLaughlin, Chevrolet, acci-
dent, 111, 0.
Race Statistics
Average Speed of Race Winner: 83.363mph.
Time of Race: 2 hours, 14 minutes, 57seconds.
Margin of Victory: 0.381 seconds.Caution Flags: 9 for 58 laps.Lead Changes: 15 among 8 drivers.Lap Leaders: A.Cindric 0-45; A.Allmend-
inger 46-69; T.Martins 70-74.
AUTO RACING
Saturday’s TransactionsBASEBALL
Major League BaseballAmerican League
BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Recalled RHPDean Kremer from Norfolk (Triple-A East).Recalled RHP Spenser Watkins from Nor-folk. Optioned RHP Marcos Diplan to Nor-folk.
BOSTON RED SOX — Recalled RHP Con-nor Seabold from Worcester (Triple-AEast). Optioned RHP Brad Peacock to Wor-cester. Placed INF/OF Danny Santana onthe reserve/COVID-19 IL. Selected the con-tract of SS Jack Lopez from Worcester.
CLEVELAND INDIANS — Recalled LHPFrancisco Perez from Columbus (Triple-AEast). Optioned RF Daniel Johnson to Co-lumbus.
DETROIT TIGERS — Placed LHP MatthewBoyd on the 10-day IL, retroactive to Sep-tember 9. Selected the contract of LHP IanKrol from Toledo Triple-A East).
KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Recalled RHPScott Blewett from Omaha (Triple-A East).Placed RHP Joel Payamps on the 10-day IL.
MINNESOTA TWINS — Selected the con-tract of LHP Jovani Moran from St. Paul(Triple-A East). Optioned LHP Andrew Al-bers to St. Paul.
NEW YORK YANKEES — Sent CF JonathanDavis outright to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre(Triple-A East).
TAMPA BAY RAYS — Placed SS WanderFranco on the 10-day IL. Optioned CF JoshLowe to Durham (Triple-A East). RecalledSS Taylor Walls from Durham. ReinstatedRF Randy Arozarena from the paternitylist.
TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Recalled RHPThomas Hatch from Buffalo (Triple-AEast). Sent 3B Cavan Biggio to Buffalo on arehab assignment. Recalled RHP AnthonyCastro from Buffalo. Optioned LHP TaylerSaucedo to Buffalo.
National LeagueCOLORADO ROCKIES — Reinstated RHP
Robert Stephenson from the paternity list.Optioned LHP Ben Bowden to Albuquer-que (Triple-A West).
LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Sent RHP Nef-tali Feliz outright to Oklahoma City (Tri-ple-A West).
NEW YORK METS — Sent RHP Corey Os-walt to St. Lucie (Low-A Southeast) on arehab assignment. Sent C Tomas Nido andRHP Jordan Yamamoto to Syracuse (Tri-ple-A East) on rehab assignments.
PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Reinstated LFMatt Joyce from the 60-day IL. RecalledRHP Adonis Medina and CF Mickey Moniakfrom Lehigh Valley (Triple-A East). Op-tioned RHPs Enyel De Los Santos and Ra-
mon Rosso to Lehigh Valley. Placed LF Tra-vis Jankowski on the 10-day IL. DesignatedRHP Vince Velasquez for assignment.
PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Recalled RHPConnor Overton from Indianapolis (Tri-ple-A East). Placed LHP Steven Brault onthe 10-day IL.
ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Reinstated RHPJustin Miller from the 10-day IL. Optioned CAli Sanchez to Memphis (Triple-A East).
SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Sent 2B Do-novan Solano to Sacramento (Triple-AWest) on a rehab assignment. Sent RHPJake Jewell outright to Sacramento.
FOOTBALLNational Football League
ARIZONA CARDINALS — Placed LB Den-nis Gardeck on injured reserve. PromotedLB Kylie Fitts to the active roster from thepractice squad. Elevated CB Antonio Ha-milton to the active roster from the prac-tice squad as a COVID-19 replacement.
ATLANTA FALCONS — Signed K Elliott Fryto the practice squad.
BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed RB Lata-vius Murray.
CLEVELAND BROWNS — Promoted LBElijah Lee and K Chris Naggar from thepractice squad to the active roster.
DETROIT LIONS — Signed OG TommyKraemer. Signed WR Javon McKinley tothe practice squad.
INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed RB Ny-heim Hines to a contract extension.
KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Signed LB ElijahSullivan to the practice squad.
MIAMI DOLPHINS — Reinstated OT Aus-tin Jackson from the reserve/COVID IL.
MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Promoted RBAmeer Abdullah from the practice squadto the active roster.
NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Promoted KNick Folk and QB Brian Hoyer to the activeroster from the practice squad. Placed WRMalcolm Perry on injured reserve.
NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Signed DT Al-bert Huggins and DB Jordan Miller.
NEW YORK JETS — Signed C RossPierschbacher to the practice squad.Placed S Sharrod Neasman on injured re-serve. Promoted S Adrian Colbert and LBDel’Shawn Phillips to the active rosterfrom the practice squad.
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — PromotedWR Jaydon Mickens to the active rosterfrom the practice squad. Waived DB ChrisCooper. Signed WR Jaydon Mickens.
TENNESSEE TITANS — Signed K MikeBadgley.
SOCCERMajor League Soccer
NEW YORK RED BULLS — Signed F OmarSowe and G A.J. Marcucci.
DEALS
TENNIS
U.S. Open
SaturdayAt USTA Billie Jean King National
Tennis CenterNew York
Purse: $27,200,000Surface: Hardcourt outdoor
Women’s SinglesChampionship
Emma Raducanu, Britain, def. Leylah An-nie Fernandez, Canada, 6-4, 6-3.
Mixed DoublesChampionship
Desirae Krawczyk, United States, andJoe Salisbury (2), Britain, def. Marcelo Are-valo-Gonzalez, El Salvador, and GiulianaOlmos, Mexico, 7-5, 6-2.
LA Galaxy 1, Colorado 1, tie Seattle 1, Minnesota 0 D.C. United 1, New York 1, tie New England 2, New York City FC 1 Cincinnati 2, Toronto FC 0 Miami 1, Columbus 0 Nashville 1, CF Montréal 0 Houston 3, Austin FC 0 Sporting Kansas City 2, Chicago 0 San Jose 1, FC Dallas 1, tie
to win his third straight men’s singles titlein the U.S. Open.
1989 — Pat Day breaks the record formost winners in one day when he scoredwith eight of his nine mounts at ArlingtonRacecourse in Illinois.. In his only loss, Dayfinishes second.
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MLB
he came in.”
The right-handed Burnes was in
control from the start, striking out
11 of his first 14 hitters and retiring
the first 18 in order. After walking
Myles Straw to start the seventh,
the 26-year-old got through the
eighth thanks to a diving catch by
center fielder Lorenzo Cain on
Owen Miller’s liner.
“I was definitely on my horse,
ready to go get that one,” Cain
said. “You need a little bit of ev-
erything to go right in a no-hitter.”
The Progressive Field crowd
booed as Hader came on in the
ninth. He overpowered Oscar
Mercado, striking him out to start
the inning. Then, first baseman
Jace Peterson went into foul terri-
tory to make a lunging catch for
the second out.
Hader ended the no-hitter by
getting Straw to flail at a pitch in
the dirt for his 31st save. The
Brewers stormed the field to share
hugs and high-fives with a signa-
ture victory in their runaway sea-
son.
“I had to fight pretty hard (with
Counsell) for the eighth to come
back out, so I knew I had no shot
for the ninth,” Burnes said.
Juan Nieves pitched the Brew-
ers’ previous no-hitter on April 15,
1987, at Baltimore.
Burnes dropped his ERA to 2.25
and has more than doubled his ca-
reer high for strikeouts with 210 in
152 innings. He’s been vying with
Philadelphia’s Zack Wheeler and
the Dodgers’ Max Scherzer for the
NL Cy Young Award. This gem, no
doubt, will have some sway with
voters.
“Corbin felt good after the
eighth, but knowing you’re putting
in Josh Hader to finish it played a
part in the decision,” Counsell
said.
The Brewers improved to a
franchise-record 33 games over
.500 while slimming their magic
number to clinch the division to
eight.
Arizona rookie Tyler Gilbert
had thrown the majors’ most re-
cent no-hitter on Aug. 14, and the
Chicago Cubs threw the only pre-
vious combined effort on June 24.
The other no-hitters this season
were thrown by San Diego’s Joe
Musgrove (April 9), Carlos Rodón
of the Chicago White Sox (April
14), Cincinnati’s Wade Miley
(May 7), Detroit’s Spencer Turn-
bull (May 18) and the Yankees’
Corey Kluber (May 19).
Most of those gems were thrown
before MLB cracked down on the
use of sticky foreign substances by
pitchers in late June.
“I don’t think anyone’s going to
be upset about putting a no-hitter
in the books,” Burnes said.
The no-hitters by Miley and Ro-
dón both came against the Indi-
ans, as did a seven-inning no-hit-
ter by Tampa Bay on July 7 that
didn’t officially count in the MLB
record book. Arizona’s Madison
Bumgarner also had a seven-in-
ning no-hitter in the second game
of a doubleheader at Atlanta on
April 25.
The Brewers completed this bit
of history three days after Minne-
sota rookie Joe Ryan retired the
first 19 Indians batters in a 3-0 win
at Progressive Field.
Plesac couldn’t get his head
around being on the wrong side of
three no-hitters. Prior to Satur-
day, Jim Perry was the only start-
er in baseball history to have his
opponent throw a no-hitter three
times in a career prior to Satur-
day, per Elias.
“I don’t even know if that makes
sense to me,” Plesac said. “That’s
insane. I don’t know if it’s me or
what.”
Indians acting manager De-
Marlo Hale didn’t offer any excus-
es.
“You deal with it, you get up and
play tomorrow,” he said. “The
good thing about no-hitters, it’s
only one loss. I know it’s been
three times, but you deal with it,
you move on, you understand the
level of competition you’re play-
ing against and you move on. I
don’t have an answer for that.”
Plesac allowed three runs, two
earned, over six innings.
Straw had faced Burnes in the
minor leagues but admitted he
had little chance against him on
this late summer evening.
Record: Brewers make history with combined no-hitterFROM PAGE 24
2.25Corbin Burnes’ ERA after Saturday’sseven innings of no-hit ball. Burneshas more than doubled his career highfor strikeouts with 210 in 152 innings,and is considered a top contender forthe NL Cy Young Award.
SOURCE: Associated Press
American League
East Division
W L Pct GB
Tampa Bay 89 53 .627 _
Boston 81 63 .563 9
New York 79 63 .556 10
Toronto 79 63 .556 10
Baltimore 46 96 .324 43
Central Division
W L Pct GB
Chicago 81 61 .570 _
Cleveland 69 71 .493 11
Detroit 67 76 .469 14½
Kansas City 64 78 .451 17
Minnesota 63 79 .444 18
West Division
W L Pct GB
Houston 82 59 .582 _
Oakland 77 65 .542 5½
Seattle 77 65 .542 5½
Los Angeles 70 72 .493 12½
Texas 52 89 .369 30
National LeagueEast Division
W L Pct GB
Atlanta 75 66 .532 _
Philadelphia 72 70 .507 3½
New York 71 72 .497 5
Miami 60 82 .423 15½
Washington 58 84 .408 17½
Central Division
W L Pct GB
Milwaukee 88 55 .615 _
Cincinnati 75 68 .524 13
St. Louis 72 69 .511 15
Chicago 65 78 .455 23
Pittsburgh 52 90 .366 35½
West Division
W L Pct GB
San Francisco 92 50 .648 _
Los Angeles 90 53 .629 2½
San Diego 74 67 .525 17½
Colorado 65 78 .455 27½
Arizona 46 96 .324 46
Saturday’s games
Texas 8, Oakland 6Toronto 11, Baltimore 10, 7 innings, first
gameMilwaukee 3, Cleveland 0Tampa Bay 7, Detroit 2Minnesota 9, Kansas City 2L.A. Angels 4, Houston 2Toronto 11, Baltimore 2, 7 innings, �se
cond gameBoston 9, Chicago White Sox 8, 10 in
ningsN.Y. Yankees 8, N.Y. Mets 7Arizona 7, Seattle 3San Francisco 15, Chicago Cubs 4Philadelphia 6, Colorado 1St. Louis 6, Cincinnati 4Pittsburgh 10, Washington 7Miami 6, Atlanta 4L.A. Dodgers 5, San Diego 4
Sunday’s games
Tampa Bay at DetroitToronto at BaltimoreMilwaukee at ClevelandBoston at Chicago White SoxKansas City at MinnesotaL.A. Angels at HoustonTexas at OaklandArizona at SeattleN.Y. Yankees at N.Y. MetsColorado at PhiladelphiaWashington at PittsburghMiami at AtlantaCincinnati at St. LouisSan Francisco at Chicago CubsSan Diego at L.A. Dodgers
Monday’s games
Minnesota (Gant 59) at N.Y. Yankees(TBD)
Tampa Bay (Yarbrough 84) at Toronto(Manoah 52)
Houston (Odorizzi 67) at Texas (Alexy20)
Boston (Rodríguez 118) at Seattle (Gilbert 55)
Miami (Alcantara 813) at Washington(Espino 44)
St. Louis (Wainwright 157) at N.Y. Mets(Hill 66)
San Diego (Darvish 89) at San Francisco(DeSclafani 116)
Arizona (Gallen 29) at L.A. Dodgers(TBD)
Tuesday’s games
Cleveland at Minnesota, 2Milwaukee at DetroitN.Y. Yankees at BaltimoreTampa Bay at TorontoHouston at TexasL.A. Angels at Chicago White SoxOakland at Kansas CityBoston at SeattleCincinnati at PittsburghChicago Cubs at PhiladelphiaMiami at WashingtonSt. Louis at N.Y. MetsColorado at AtlantaSan Diego at San FranciscoArizona at L.A. Dodgers
Scoreboard
NEW YORK — Aaron Judge tied it with his
second homer of the game in the eighth inning,
Mets infielder Javier Báez gave away the lead
with an error a few at-bats later and the Yan-
kees beat their crosstown rivals 8-7 Saturday at
Citi Field.
The Yankees snapped a seven-game skid
and ended a run of 11 losses in 13 games since a
13-game winning streak pushed them to the AL
wild-card lead. They dropped into a tie with
Toronto for the second wild card. The Mets re-
mained five games behind NL East-leading At-
lanta after the Braves lost to the Marlins.
Giants 15, Cubs 4: Tommy La Stella and
Brandon Belt hit three-run homers and San
Francisco won at Chicago for its sixth straight
victory.
Dodgers 5, Padres 4:Mookie Betts hit a tie-
breaking, three-run homer with two outs in the
fifth inning and host Los Angeles held off San
Diego.
Red Sox 9, White Sox 8 (10): Travis Shaw
hit a tiebreaking single in the 10th inning after
belting a three-run homer in the third and Bos-
ton won at Chicago.
Rangers 8, Athletics 6: Jonah Heim hit a
two-run home run with two outs in the eighth to
cap a five-run rally, lifting Texas to a win at
Oakland.
Blue Jays 1111, Orioles 102: Bo Bichette
and Alejandro Kirk hit a pair of two-run home-
rs in an 11-run seventh and Toronto completed
a doubleheader sweep at Baltimore.
In the opener, George Springer hit a two-out,
two-run homer in the seventh.
Rays 7, Tigers 2: Joey Wendle tripled and
homered, 30-year-old Dietrich Enns won for
the first time in the major leagues and Tampa
Bay won at Detroit.
Cardinals 6, Reds 4: Nolan Arenado hit a
two-run homer in the eighth and had three
RBIs and Paul DeJong had a solo shot to help
host St. Louis beat Cincinnati.
Phillies 6, Rockies 1: Zack Wheeler stead-
ied the slumping Phillies with eight strikeouts
and Bryce Harper homered to lead host Phila-
delphia past Colorado.
Pirates 10, Nationals 7: Bryan Reynolds hit
his 23rd home run of the season and drove in
three runs in Pittsburgh’s victory over visiting
Washington.
Twins 9, Royals 2: Jorge Polanco hit two of
Minnesota’s five home runs, Michael Pineda
pitched five strong innings in his return to the
rotation in a win over visiting Kansas City.
Marlins 6, Braves 4: Bryan De La Cruz and
Jesús Sánchez hit back-to-back home runs in
the eighth inning against Richard Rodríguez in
Miami’s victory at Atlanta.
Angels 4, Astros 2: Luis Rengifo homered
with three RBIs to lead Los Angeles to a win at
Houston.
Diamondbacks 7, Mariners 3:Daulton Var-
sho homered and drove in four runs and Arizo-
na win at Seattle to snap a six-game losing
streak and deal a blow to the Mariners’ wild-
card hopes.
Judge’s 2 HRs lift Yankees past Mets
ADAM HUNGER/AP
The New York Yankees’ Aaron Judge, right, congratulates Brett Gardner on hitting a tworunhomer. Judge had two homers of his own in an 87 win Saturday at the New York Mets.
Associated Press
ROUNDUP
Monday, September 13, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 19
US OPEN/AUTO RACING
RICHMOND, Va, — Martin
Truex Jr. assumed the lead when
Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle
Busch was penalized for speeding
with about 50 laps to go and won the
NASCAR Cup Series race at Rich-
mond Raceway on Saturday night.
The victory was the third for
Truex in the past five races at Rich-
mond. He got the lead when Busch
was caught speeding entering pit
road during green flag pit stops,
causing him to relinquish a big
lead and fall back to 10th.
Truex led a 1-2-3 finish for JGR
— the sixth in its history — with
Denny Hamlin finishing second
and Christopher Bell third.
Truex won despite being black-
flagged on the first lap for beating
Hamlin, the pole-sitter, to the
start-finish line for the start of the
race.
“That was frustrating, I’m not
going to lie, but I knew we had a
good enough car to overcome it,”
Truex said about the penalty.
His car bore a red, white and
blue paint scheme as part of the
daylong tribute to honor the vic-
tims and heroes of the Sept. 11 at-
tacks 20 years ago.
“It’s an important day in our his-
tory and I think all of us here —
yeah, we’re proud to win and this
car’s amazing and there’s so many
people to thank, but what a day to
win on,” Truex said in victory lane.
“It reminds you of the honor it is
and the privilege it is to get to come
out here and do this.”
Hamlin trimmed an 8-second
deficit to 1.4 seconds, but ran out of
time.
Defending series champion
Chase Elliott was fourth, followed
by Joey Logano and points-leader
Kyle Larson, who started the race
at the back of the field after twice
failing pre-race inspection. Larson
clinched his spot in the second
round of the playoffs, which start
after next weekend.
Hamlin won both stages and led
the most laps but failed to follow
his victory last weekend with an-
other one.
Hamlin cut 10 points off Lar-
son’s lead — from 34 to 24 — with
Truex another 14 points back.
They are the only three to have
clinched Round of 12 berths.
“So very good to be able to do this
and go to Bristol without any wor-
ries next week,” Truex said.
Playoff problemsWilliam Byron finished 34th last
week at Darlington and 19th at
Richmond. Michael McDowell
finish 37th — last — last week and
had three speeding penalties and
finished 29th at Richmond.
Byron is 15th in points, 116 be-
hind, and McDowell is 136 behind.
Up nextThe series wraps up the opening
round of the playoffs, and narrows
the championship field from 16 to
12, on another short track with the
annual Saturday night race around
the high banks of Bristol Motor
Speedway.
Truex leads 1-2-3
finish for GibbsBY HANK KURZ JR.
Associated Press
NEW YORK — British teenager
Emma Raducanu arrived in New
York last month with a ranking of
150th, just one Grand Slam appear-
ance to her name and a flight book-
ed to head out of town after the U.S.
Open’s preliminary rounds in case
she failed to win her way into the
main tournament.
And there she was in Arthur
Ashe Stadium on Saturday, cra-
dling the silver trophy to complete
an unlikely — indeed, unpreceden-
ted — and surprisingly dominant
journey from qualifier to major
champion by beating Canadian
teenager Leylah Fernandez 6-4,
6-3 in the final.
“You say, ‘I want to win a Grand
Slam.’ But to have the belief I did,
and actually executing, winning a
Grand Slam,” Raducanu said, “I
can’t believe it.”
Who could?
It’s all so improbable.
Until three months ago, she had
never played in a professional
tour-level event, in part because
she took 18 months for a combina-
tion of reasons: the pandemic and
her parents’ insistence that she
complete her high school degree.
“My dad is definitely very tough
to please,” the 18-year-old Raduca-
nu said with a smile Saturday eve-
ning. “But I managed to today.”
She is the first female qualifier to
reach a Grand Slam final, let alone
win one. She captured 10 matches
in a row at Flushing Meadows —
three in qualifying, seven in the
main draw — and is the first wom-
an to win the U.S. Open title with-
out dropping a set since Serena
Williams in 2014.
Raducanu, who was born in To-
ronto and moved to England with
her family at age 2, also is the first
British woman to win a Grand
Slam singles trophy since Virginia
Wade at Wimbledon in 1977.
There were more firsts, too, em-
blematic of what a rapid rise this
was. For example: Raducanu is the
youngest female Grand Slam
champion since Maria Sharapova
was 17 at Wimbledon in 2004.
This was the first major final be-
tween two teens since Williams, 17,
beat Martina Hingis, 18, at the 1999
U.S. Open; the first between two
unseeded women in the profes-
sional era, which began in 1968.
Fernandez, whose 19th birthday
was Monday and who is ranked
73rd, was asked during a pre-
match interview in the hallway
that leads from the locker room to
the court entrance what she ex-
pected Saturday’s greatest chal-
lenge to be.
“Honestly,” she responded, “I
don’t know.”
Fair. Neither she nor Raducanu
could have.
This was only Fernandez’s sev-
enth major tournament; she hadn’t
made it past the third round before.
As tears welled in her eyes after
the final, she told the Arthur Ashe
Stadium crowd: “I hope to be back
here in the finals and this time with
a trophy — the right one.”
Both she and Raducanu dis-
played the poise and shot-making
of veterans at the U.S. Open — not
two relative newcomers whose
previous head-to-head match
came in the second round of the
Wimbledon juniors event just
three years ago.
The talent and affinity for the big
stage both possess is unmistaka-
ble.
One of the significant differenc-
es on this day: Fernandez put only
58% of her first serves in play and
finished with five double-faults,
helping Raducanu accumulate 18
break points.
“I, unfortunately, made one too
many mistakes in key moments,”
Fernandez said, “and she took ad-
vantage of it.”
Raducanu broke to go up 4-2 in
the second set, held for 5-2 and
twice was a point from winning the
title in the next game. But under
pressure from Fernandez, she let
both of those opportunities slip
away by putting groundstrokes in-
to the net.
Then, while serving for the
match at 5-3, Raducanu slid on the
court chasing a ball to her back-
hand side, bloodying her left knee
while losing a point to give Fernan-
dez break chance. Raducanu was
ordered by chair umpire Marijana
Veljovic to stop playing so a trainer
could put a white bandage on the
cut.
As if she’d been there before, Ra-
ducanu saved a pair of break points
after the resumption, then convert-
ed on her third chance to close it
out with a 108 mph ace. She drop-
ped her racket, landed on her back
and covered her face with both
hands.
Raducanu’s only previous
Grand Slam tournament came at
Wimbledon, where she stopped
playing during the fourth round
because of trouble breathing.
And now? She will rise into the
WTA’s top 25. She earned $2.5 mil-
lion. She is famous in Britain and
the world over. She is now, and for-
ever, a Grand Slam champion.
How quickly everything has
changed.
SETH WENIG/AP
Emma Raducanu reacts after scoring a point against Leylah Fernandez during the final of the US Open onSaturday in New York. Raducanu won to become the first female qualifier to win a Grand Slam final.
Qualifier to champ: Raducanutakes title without dropping a set
BY HOWARD FENDRICH
Associated Press
PAGE 20 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • Monday, September 13, 2021
BASKETBALL/COLLEGE FOOTBALL
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — No matter
the result, this was going to be a
special day to play football for Air
Force or Navy.
Brad Roberts ran for two touch-
downs and Haaziq Daniels added
one, and Air Force held the Mid-
shipmen to one first down before
the fourth quarter in a 23-3 victo-
ry Saturday. The outcome always
matters between these two teams
— but this game was significant
because the two service acade-
mies were playing on the 20th an-
niversary of the 9/11 terrorist at-
tacks.
“For me, it kind of puts every-
thing in perspective,” Navy run-
ning back Chance Warren said.
“I’m sitting here sour and very
upset about a loss, but 20 years
ago today, so many people lost
loved ones. So it just kind of put it
in perspective that ... I’m out here
playing college football with some
of my best friends, and brothers
for life.”
This was the earliest meeting in
series history between these
teams, scheduled with 9/11 in
mind. The pregame pageantry felt
even more meaningful than usual.
The players took the field carry-
ing American flags before the
game. At halftime, the names of
Navy and Air Force grads lost on
9/11 were put on the videoboard.
“I think in the big picture you
come to the Air Force and Naval
Academy to serve,” Air Force
coach Troy Calhoun said. “We’ll
never ever forget, not only those
that perished and their families,
but certainly just the remarkable,
the way they answered the duty,
in terms of our first responders.”
Roberts ran for a 3-yard TD in
the second quarter, and Daniels
scored on a 28-yard run in the fi-
nal minute of the third. That was
plenty of offense for Air Force
(2-0) on a day the Falcons held
Navy (0-2) without a completed
pass through the first three quar-
ters.
“We just stayed aggressive and
just played our keys and played
how we could play,” Air Force li-
nebacker Demonte Meeks said.
“And didn’t go outside of our-
selves at all. I think that was the
key for us.”
Roberts added another touch-
down on a 2-yard run in the
fourth. The Midshipmen changed
quarterbacks after that, and Maa-
sai Maynor immediately threw a
15-yard pass to Mychal Cooper for
Navy’s first completion and sec-
ond first down of the game.
Navy finished with only 68
yards of offense.
It took a while, but the Falcons
finally pulled away to their second
consecutive win over Navy. Air
Force can wrap up the Command-
er-in-Chief’s trophy with a victory
over Army on Nov. 6.
Army 38, Western Kentucky
35: Christian Anderson rushed
for a career-high 119 yards and
passed for a touchdown and the
host Black Knights survived a
Hilltoppers rally.
Trailing 35-14 midway through
the second quarter, WKU (1-1)
closed the gap to seven points on
Bailey Zappe’s 14-yard pass to
Jerreth Sterns with just under
five minutes remaining in the
game. But Army (2-0) recovered a
WKU onside kick and Cole Talley
kicked a 31-yard field goal, giving
the Black Knights the cushion
they needed after the Hilltoppers
scored a touchdown with 21 sec-
onds left.
Jakobi Buchanan ran for a pair
of Army touchdowns. It was Ar-
my’s first victory over WKU in
four meetings since the teams’
first meeting in 2013.
Grad transfer Zappe, the na-
tion’s leading passer last year at
Houston Baptist, was 28-of-40 for
435 yards with three touchdowns
and an interception.
While WKU was dominant in
the air, Army rushed for 339
yards and almost doubled the
Hilltoppers in time of possession.
TERRANCE WILLIAMS/AP
Air Force quarterback Haaziq Daniels runs for a second halftouchdown against Navy on Saturday in Annapolis, Md.
Air Force tops Navy;Army holds on for win
Associated Press
Nine teams passed on Paul
Pierce in the 1998 NBA draft, and if
you think he doesn’t remember
each and every one of them, then
you don’t know Paul Pierce.
The newly inducted basketball
Hall of Famer called out by name
— in order — the teams with the
first nine picks that year and
thanked them for allowing him to
slip to the Boston Celtics.
“I appreciate that. Thank you for
passing on me. It added fuel to my
fire,” Pierce, who had been expect-
ed to go as high as No. 2 overall,
said in his acceptance speech in
Springfield, Mass., on Saturday
night. “To this day I don’t under-
stand how I slipped to No. 10. But
you know everything happened for
a reason. Going to the Celtics, I’m
grateful.”
Four months after the pandem-
ic-delayed induction of the Class of
2020, including Kobe Bryant, the
Hall community gathered to en-
shrine 16 more new members — its
biggest class ever. Many in the
crowd wore masks; three-time
WNBA MVP Lauren Jackson
wasn’t able to attend because she
was back in Australia in lockdown.
Bill Russell, who was inducted
as a player in 1975, was honored for
his coaching career; he is the fifth
person to be inducted as both a
player and a coach. But to former
President Barack Obama his
greatest role was what he accom-
plished off the court during the civ-
il rights movement of the 1960s.
“Bill Russell, perhaps more than
anyone else, knows what it takes to
win, and what it takes to lead,”
Obama said in a video. “As tall as
Bill Russell stands, his example
and his legacy rise far, far higher.”
Others joining the Hall were:
Villanova coach Jay Wright, defen-
sive Pistons star Ben Wallace, two-
time NBA champion Chris Bosh,
longtime Portland and Sacramen-
to coach Rick Adelman, Washing-
ton and Sacramento All-Star Chris
Webber and two-time Olympic
gold medalist Yolanda Griffith.
WNBA President Val Acker-
man, longtime coach Cotton Fitz-
simmons, scouting pioneer Ho-
ward Garfinkel were inducted as
contributors. Clarence “Fats” Jen-
kins was picked by the Early Afri-
can American Pioneers Commit-
tee, Croatia and Chicago Bulls star
Toni Kukoc was tabbed by the In-
ternational Committee, Bob Dan-
dridge by the Veterans Committee
and Pearl Moore from the Wom-
en’s Veterans Committee.
Russell, 87, was honored as the
first Black coach in NBA history.
Taking over the Celtics from Red
Auerbach in 1966 and staying on as
a player-coach for two more years,
Russell guided Boston to NBA ti-
tles in 1968 and ’69.
Russell was present and wear-
ing a Celtics mask at the ceremony,
but his speech was presented as a
prerecorded video.
“Hey, Chris Weber, we’re going
into the Hall of Fame with Bill Rus-
sell, bro,” Chris Bosh said. “That’s
crazy.”
Bosh discussed his arrival in
Miami, when Heat executive Pat
Riley offered one of his NBA cham-
pionship rings and said it could be
returned when they won one to-
gether; they won two, and Bosh fi-
nally returned the bauble on Satur-
day night.
And he discussed his departure,
at the age of 31, when he was forced
to retire because of blood clots.
“After finally making it to the
mountaintop with so much more to
do, in my mind, so much more
work to do, it all stopped,” he said.
“I eventually came to realize that
we all have it in our power to make
the most out of every day despite
what happens, to turn setbacks into
strengths.”
Ackerman was the inaugural
president of the WNBA, the first fe-
male president of USA Basketball
and, since 2013, the commissioner
of the Big East. With few female
role models to look up to in the
business of sports, she found one
elsewhere.
“I’m inspired to this day by the
example set by Billie Jean King,”
Ackerman said, “and the many
strong women and men who fol-
lowed her in the quest to make the
chance to play sports, and to do it
on a big stage, a reality for girls and
women in our country and our
world.”
Kukoc chose Michael Jordan
and Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf
as his presenters and alluded to the
tension over his arrival in Chicago
that was laid bare in the documen-
tary “The Last Dance.”
“I would like to thank this gentle-
man here, Michael Jordan, and
Scottie Pippen, for kicking my butt
during the Olympics in Barcelona,
and that way motivating me to
work even harder to become an
important part of the Chicago
Bulls,” he said.
Wallace was emotional and poet-
ic in describing his upbringing as
an undersized big man who carved
out a role on defense, winning de-
fensive player of the year four
times.
“Basketball was not my life. Bas-
ketball was just in my life. I took
basketball and I created a path for
those who helped me,” he said. “I
took. I received. I gave back.”
He walked off the stage with a
raised fist.
Wright’s speech touched on Phi-
ladelphia basketball history; Web-
ber gave a shoutout to Detroit.
Dandridge said NBA opponents
who went to major colleges looked
down upon him because he went to
Norfolk State, a historically Black
schools.
“My experience in HBCU
schools was not limited to basket-
ball,” he said. “I saw what having
class was like. I witnessed dignity,
and a sense of belonging.”
Most inductees thanked their
families and teammates and the
coaches who helped them along
the way.
And Moore thanked the game it-
self.
“Basketball made it possible for
me to travel the country and over-
seas, to earn a college degree,” she
said. “And from shooting on a ma-
keshift hoop in the yard in South
Carolina to playing in the world’s
most famous arena, Madison
Square Garden.
“And tonight, having my name
enshrined with the likes of those
sitting in the hall is indeed a fairy
tale come true.”
Pierce, Bosh, and Russell(again) inducted into Hall
JESSICA HILL/AP
Inductee Paul Pierce, left, speaks as teammate and presenterKevin Garnett listens during the 2021 Basketball Hall of FameEnshrinement ceremony on Saturday in Springfield, Mass.
BY JIMMY GOLEN
Associated Press
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Saturday’s scores
EAST
Air Force 23, Navy 3Army 38, W. Kentucky 35Bentley 40, Assumption 28Boston College 45, Umass 28Bowie St. 28, Saginaw Valley St. 19Bryant 17, Sacred Heart 6CCSU 21, Wagner 19California (Pa.) 59, Lock Haven 0Case Western 66, Waynesburg 33Castleton 35, Fitchburg St. 0Central St. (Ohio) 19, Lincoln (Pa.) 7Cortland 49, College of NJ 6Curry 21, Coast Guard 18Delaware 27, St. Francis (Pa.) 10Delaware Valley 26, Montclair St. 2FDU-Florham 43, William Paterson 17Frostburg St. 34, W. Virginia St. 21Georgetown 20, Delaware St. 14, OTHartwick 23, Alvernia 14Hobart 41, Morrisville St. 0Husson 10, Plymouth St. 7Indiana (Pa.) 29, Kutztown 26Ithaca 23, Brockport 8Johns Hopkins 49, Ursinus 21Lake Erie 31, Franklin Pierce 20Lycoming 31, Lebanon Valley 6Marshall 44, NC Central 10Maryland 62, Howard 0Mass.-Dartmouth 48, Dean 29McDaniel 27, Juniata 9Merrimack 35, Holy Cross 21Millersville 21, Clarion 10Misericordia 28, Keystone 7Monmouth (NJ) 26, Fordham 23Moravian 16, Gettysburg 13, OTMuhlenberg 34, Dickinson 13New England 23, Bridgewater (Mass.)
20, OTNew Hampshire 26, Towson 14Nichols 27, Anna Maria 23Penn St. 44, Ball St. 13Purdue 49, Uconn 0RPI 14, Stevenson 10Rhode Island 16, Albany (NY) 14Rochester 28, Alfred St. 27Rutgers 17, Syracuse 7Salve Regina 21, MIT 16Seton Hill 13, Bloomsburg 7Shepherd 56, Gannon 26Shippensburg 30, Edinboro 9Slippery Rock 22, East Stroudsburg 7Springfield 46, Rowan 24St. John Fisher 38, Framingham St. 7St. Lawrence 37, Norwich 7Stonehill 54, S. Connecticut 21Stony Brook 24, Colgate 3Susquehanna 30, Franklin & Marshall
28, 5OTUNC-Pembroke 1, WV Wesleyan 0Union (Ky.) 62, Worcester St. 13Union (NY) 62, Worcester St. 13Utica 27, Kean 7Villanova 55, Bucknell 3Washington & Jefferson 64, Thiel 12West Chester 56, Mercyhurst 10West Virginia 66, LIU Brooklyn 0Wis.-Whitewater 31, Salisbury 14
SOUTH
Alabama 48, Mercer 14Albany St. (Ga.) 28, Shorter 12Alcorn St. 13, Northwestern St. 10Allen 20, Johnson C. Smith 19Apprentice 34, Brevard 27, OTAuburn 62, Alabama St. 0Averett 30, Christopher Newport 27, OTBarton 45, Erskine 21Berry 34, Lagrange 21Bluefield South 46, Emory & Henry 45Bluefield State 35, Elizabeth City St. 27Bridgewater (Va.) 35, S. Virginia 17Catawba 28, Winston-Salem 6Centre 40, Maryville (Tenn.) 21Charleston Southern 38, The Citadel 21Charlotte 38, Gardner-Webb 10Chattanooga 20, North Alabama 0Chowan 46, Tusculum 38, 2OTClemson 49, SC State 3Davidson 28, Shaw 26Delta St. 45, McKendree 17ETSU 45, Virginia-Wise 14Elon 24, Campbell 23FAU 38, Georgia Southern 6Florida 42, South Florida 20Florida A&M 34, Fort Valley St. 7Furman 26, Tennessee Tech 0Georgia 56, UAB 7Georgia Tech 45, Kennesaw St. 17Jackson St. 38, Tennessee St. 16Jacksonville St. 20, Florida St. 17James Madison 55, Maine 7Kentucky 35, Missouri 28Kentucky Wesleyan 26, Kentucky St. 25LSU 34, McNeese St. 7Lane 35, Clark Atlanta 26Liberty 21, Troy 13Louisiana Tech 45, SE Louisiana 42Louisiana-Lafayette 27, Nicholls 24Louisville 30, E. Kentucky 3Miami 25, Appalachian St. 23Mississippi 54, Austin Peay 17Mississippi St. 24, NC State 10North Carolina 59, Georgia St. 17North Greenville 24, Newberry 14Old Dominion 47, Hampton 7Pittsburgh 41, Tennessee 34Presbyterian 68, Fort Lauderdale Soar-
ing Eagles 3Randolph Macon 62, Catholic 10Richmond 31, Lehigh 3Savannah St. 50, Livingstone 6Shenandoah 30, NC Wesleyan 21South Carolina 20, East Carolina 17Southern Miss. 37, Grambling St. 0Southern U. 41, Miles 24Stetson 49, Ave Maria 16Texas State 23, FIU 17, OTTulane 69, Morgan St. 20UCF 63, Bethune-Cookman 14UT Martin 33, Samford 27
Valdosta St. 51, Virginia Union 7Virginia 42, Illinois 14Virginia Tech 35, Middle Tennessee 14Wake Forest 41, Norfolk St. 16Washington & Lee 52, Sewanee 0West Alabama 33, Tuskegee 7West Georgia 47, Morehouse 0William & Mary 24, Lafayette 3Wingate 40, Fayetteville St. 21
MIDWEST
Albion 51, Defiance 0Alma 47, Manchester 23Augustana (SD) 43, Mary 20Baldwin Wallace 41, Otterbein 10Bemidji St. 38, Wayne St. (Neb.) 28Bethel (Minn. ) 28, Wis.-Platteville 7Black Hills St. 31, William Jewell 21Butler 49, DePauw 24Carleton 50, Minn.-Morris 13Carroll (Wis.) 35, Benedictine (Ill.) 24Cent. Michigan 45, Robert Morris 0Central 69, Kalamazoo 13Chicago 66, Illinois College 14Cincinnati 42, Murray St. 7Coe 28, Hope 21Concordia (Ill.) 26, Finlandia 2Concordia (Moor.) 55, Presentation 14Concordia (St.P.) 24, Upper Iowa 6Concordia (Wis.) 35, Judson University
Eagles 20Cornell (Iowa) 38, Beloit 7Davenport 10, Walsh 6Dayton 17, E. Illinois 10Denison 31, Allegheny 0Duquesne 28, Ohio 26Ferris St. 45, Ashland 19Franklin 36, Rhodes 29Greenville 57, Rockford 42Gustavus Adolphus 27, Wartburg 18Hanover 21, Adrian 14Indiana 56, Idaho 14Iowa 27, Iowa St. 17Kansas St. 31, S. Illinois 23Kent St. 60, VMI 10Lake Forest 52, Lawrence 26Lakeland 54, Anderson (Ind.) 41Martin Luther 42, Wis. Lutheran 28Michigan 31, Washington 10Michigan St. 42, Youngstown St. 14Minnesota 31, Miami (Ohio) 26Missouri St. 43, Cent. Arkansas 34Monmouth (Ill.) 42, Grinnell 7Mount St. Joseph 33, Alfred 14N. Dakota St. 64, Valparaiso 0Nebraska 28, Buffalo 3Nebraska Wesleyan 20, Augsburg 19Northeastern St. 21, Missouri Southern
17Northwestern 24, Indiana St. 6Notre Dame 32, Toledo 29Ohio Dominican 10, Virginia St. 7Olivet 42, Eureka 23Oregon 35, Ohio St. 28Quincy 59, Iowa Wesleyan 27Ripon 20, Knox 14S. Dakota St. 52, Lindenwood (Mo.) 7Sioux Falls 49, Minot St. 10South Alabama 22, Bowling Green 19South Dakota 34, N. Arizona 7St. Olaf 19, Luther 7St. Thomas (Minn.) 12, Michigan Tech 9St. Vincent 34, Bluffton 14Temple 45, Akron 24Tiffin 40, Northwood (Mich.) 6Truman St. 27, Wayne St. (Mich.) 9W. Michigan 28, Illinois St. 0Wabash 42, Hiram 14West Florida 63, SW Baptist 14West Liberty 24, Alderson-Broaddus 0Winona St. 27, Minn. St. (Moorhead) 13Wis.-Eau Claire 28, Loras 6Wis.-Oshkosh 28, N. Michigan 10Wis.-Stevens Pt 34, Simpson 7Wis.-Stout 34, St. Norbert 14Wisconsin 34, E. Michigan 7Wooster 49, Kenyon 7Wyoming 50, N. Illinois 43
SOUTHWEST
Abilene Christian 62, Louisiana College7
Arkansas 40, Texas 21Baylor 66, Texas Southern 7Houston 44, Rice 7Howard Payne 42, McMurry 36Incarnate Word 40, Prairie View 9Memphis 55, Arkansas St. 50N. Colorado 45, Houston Baptist 13Oklahoma 76, W. Carolina 0Oklahoma St. 28, Tulsa 23Ouachita Baptist 41, S. Nazarene 3SMU 35, North Texas 12Sam Houston St. 52, SE Missouri 14TCU 34, California 32Tarleton St. 54, Fort Lewis 7Texas Lutheran 41, Austin 7Texas Tech 28, Stephen F. Austin 22UTSA 54, Lamar 0
FAR WEST
Angelo St. 28, Chadron St. 24Arizona St. 37, UNLV 10BYU 26, Utah 17Claremont Mudd 34, Lewis & Clark 10Colorado Mines 31, N.M. Highlands 21E. Washington 63, Cent. Washington 14Fresno St. 63, Cal Poly 10Linfield 56, Simon Fraser 20Montana 42, W. Illinois 7Montana St. 45, Drake 7Nevada 49, Idaho St. 10New Mexico 34, New Mexico St. 25Oregon St. 45, Hawaii 27San Diego St. 38, Arizona 14Stanford 42, Southern Cal 28Texas A&M 10, Colorado 7UC Davis 53, San Diego 7Vanderbilt 24, Colorado St. 21Washington St. 44, Portland St. 24Whitworth 31, Lincoln Oaklanders 29
Scoreboard
No. 12 Oregon rolled into No. 3
Ohio State without its best player
available and walked out with a
victory that has the potential to de-
fine a season for both the Ducks
and the Pac-12.
The consensus best team in the
Pac-12 beat the consensus best
team in the Big Ten on Saturday
for the league’s first nonconfer-
ence victory against a top-five
team since Stanford beat Notre
Dame in 2015.
Make no mistake, this was much
bigger than that.
Since 2015, the Pac-12 has made
the College Football Playoff just
once and far too often has come
out on the short end of these types
of marquee games. It has turned
the conference into a punching
bag for the rest of major college
football.
The last two weeks, UCLA
pushed around LSU and then Ore-
gon beat the big, bad Buckeyes in
the Horseshoe, while pass-rush-
ing demon and potential top-five
NFL draft pick Kayvon Thibo-
deaux (foot injury) watched from
the sideline along with star line-
backer Justin Flowe.
With new Commissioner Ge-
orge Kliavkoff at Ohio Stadium,
hanging around with alliance bud-
dy and Big Ten Commissioner Ke-
vin Warren, the Pac-12 got a
chance to puff out its chest.
At least for a few hours.
It was not a banner day across
the conference. No. 21 Utah had its
nine-game winning streak against
BYU snapped. Washington was
crushed by Michigan. Cal let one
get away at TCU. No. 14 USC
looked awful in its conference
opener to a Stanford team that
nearly was shut out by Kansas
State in its opener.
The Ducks’ victory more than
balanced out the bad news.
It was a masterpiece from Ore-
gon’s offense and coordinator Joe
Moorhead. The Ducks sliced up
the Buckeyes for 269 yards rush-
ing and 7.1 yards per pop.
Ryan Day had not yet lost a reg-
ular-season game as Ohio State’s
coach. He now gets a taste of what
that’s like in Columbus. Talk radio
will not be kind to Buckeyes de-
fensive coordinator Kerry
Coombs.
“Hard to express in words the
magnitude of coming out here
down a couple of guys due to inju-
ry and just playing gritty, gutsy
football, executing at a high level,”
Cristobal said. “A tremendous job
of preparation and turning that in-
to game reality by our players, by
our coaching staff.”
Peacock struts The most notable thing about
No. 8 Notre Dame against Toledo
was where the game was available
to be watched. Not NBC, like most
Notre Dame home games. This
one was available only on NBC’s
Peacock subscription streaming
service.
The Rockets, however, gave the
Irish all they could handle and it
felt reminiscent of when Appala-
chian State upset Michigan in
2007 on the newly launched Big
Ten Network. There had to be
more than a few folks wondering if
there was a free trial available for
Peacock somewhere.
Around the CountryLed by BYU, all the teams the
Big 12 invited to the conference on
Friday won on Saturday. No. 7
Cincinnati, UCF and Houston all
blew out overmatched foes. ... The
Cougars seemed to have found an-
other fun quarterback in Jaren
Hall to replace Zach Wilson ... For
all Matt Campbell’s success at Io-
wa State, and it’s remarkable giv-
en the history of the program, the
Cyclones just can’t beat Iowa. Io-
wa becomes the sixth team since
2000 to open a season by beating
two ranked teams, and the first
since LSU in 2015. ... A week after
Florida State was inspiring in a
hopeful loss to Notre Dame, the
Seminoles found a new bottom.
The loss to Jacksonville State on
the final play of the game was
Florida State’s first against an FCS
team. ... Welcome to the SEC, Tex-
as. The Longhorns got thumped by
former Southwest Conference ri-
val and future Southeastern Con-
ference rival Arkansas. The Ra-
zorbacks ran for 333 yards, a
dream performance for Sam Pitt-
man, the former offensive line
coach who has turned around the
Hogs.
JAY LAPRETE / AP
Oregon defensive end DJ Johnson celebrates his sack of Ohio State quarterback C.J. Stroud on the game’sfinal play. The No. 12 Ducks won 3528 Saturday over the No. 3 Buckeyes in Columbus, Ohio.
Oregon makes statementfor Pac-12 at Ohio State
BY RALPH D. RUSSO
Associated Press
TOP 25 TAKEAWAYS
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL
AMES, Iowa — Iowa defensive
end Zach VanValkenburg and of-
fensive lineman Jack Plumb
marched across the end zone with
the Cy-Hawk Trophy perched on
their shoulders, showing it off to
the Hawkeyes fans who had come
to Jack Trice Stadium to see the
biggest game in the history of the
rivalry with Iowa State.
The trophy checks in at about 90
pounds and for all the progress the
ninth-ranked Cyclone have made
in recent years, they just can’t pry
it away from the Hawkeyes.
Jack Campbell returned a fum-
ble 6 yards for a touchdown and
No. 10 Iowa ran its winning streak
against the Cyclones to six games
with a 27-17 victory Saturday that
ruined the most-anticipated home
game in Iowa State’s history.
In the first Cy-Hawk game
matching ranked teams in 65 total
meetings, the Hawkeyes (2-0)
were not about to play the foil for
the Cyclones’ feel-good story.
Iowa State (1-1) hosted ESPN’s
“GameDay,” and after years of
mediocrity — at best — they came
into this season ranked in the top
10.
Ames was rocking, but the ri-
vals from across the state sucked
the life out of Jack Trice.
Iowa linebacker Jestin Jacobs
said the atmosphere was “crazy.”
“You really can’t describe it un-
til you’re in it,” Jacobs said. “Just
to get that win in hostile territory
fills you with emotion.”
The Hawkeyes turned four
takeaways into 20 points, ran their
overall winning streak to eight
games and their winning streak
against ranked teams to five. Iowa
has not won that many in a row
against ranked opponents since
1960.
“Polls in September, they really
don’t mean a lot,” Hawkeyes
coach Kirk Ferentz said. “But for
us it’s all about building a team.”
This Iowa team looks like a con-
tender in the Big Ten thanks to its
defense.
“You talk about physicality,
that’s what you do at Iowa,” said
Campbell, who had eight tackles
and half a sack.
The Hawkeyes used the same
formula as last week when they
had two defensive touchdowns in
a rout of Indiana, another upstart
program looking to build off
2020’s success.
The Cyclones came into this
season with sky-high expecta-
tions, a loaded and experienced
roster and hot-commodity coach.
One significant milestone has
eluded Iowa State during its pro-
gram renaissance and four
straight winning seasons of under
Matt Campbell: A victory against
Iowa.
Maybe the Cyclones will have
better luck in the Big 12 because
the Hawkeyes remain heart-
breakers.
“Somewhere along the line I
have failed this team to be pre-
pared for this moment,” said
Campbell, who fell to 0-5 against
Iowa. “I think the lack of execu-
tion really falls on my shoulders.”
With Iowa State backed up to its
goal line, All-American Breece
Hall was stripped by Jacobs.
Campbell scooped the bouncing
ball and took a couple of strides in-
to the end zone to make it 21-10
with 5:08 left in the third quarter.
The Hawkeyes celebrated
while Hall was face down on the
turf for a few extra seconds, frus-
trated by a critical mistake. One
that has become so common in this
series for the Cyclones.
Hall was held to 93 total yards
and a touchdown on 20 touches.
Matt Hankins had two of Iowa’s
three interceptions against Brock
Purdy, who was benched for Hun-
ter Dekkers early in the fourth
quarter.
Hankins’ second pick at the end
of the third quarter left the Haw-
keyes in Iowa State territory and
seemed to kill all hope for the Cy-
clones’ sellout crowd of 61,500.
“You could definitely feel it, just
the momentum shift,” Hankins
said. “Definitely feel the energy
change.”
The hype song “Jump Around”
blared inside Jack Trice Stadium
heading into the fourth quarter,
but it hardly caused a stir in the
stands on a hot, mercifully over-
cast day in Ames.
Caleb Shudak hit a 22-yard field
goal to make it 27-10 with 12:53 left
in the fourth and that was pretty
much it. The Hawkeyes’ offense
managed just 173 yards, but it was
good enough.
MATTHEW PUTNEY/AP
Iowa defensive back Matt Hankins, left, makes an interception in front of Iowa State wide receiver XavierHutchinson during the Hawkeyes’ 2717 win Saturday in Ames, Iowa.
No. 9 Iowa runs win streak
to 6 over No. 10 Iowa StateBY RALPH D. RUSSO
Associated Press 65This it the first time in 65 meetingsbetween Iowa and Iowa State in foot-ball that both teams came in ranked inthe Associated Press Top 25.
Source: Associated Press
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Tex-
as hasn’t considered Arkansas to
be a rival for a long time. Judging
by the goal posts coming down Sat-
urday night and with the Long-
horns set to join the Southeastern
Conference soon, that won’t last.
The Razorbacks ran for 333
yards, held Texas to 256 yards of
total offense and beat their former
Southwest Conference nemesis
40-21 on Saturday night. The ninth-
largest crowd in Arkansas history,
74,531 strong, was jubilant all night
and many of them stormed the
field afterward, celebrating their
team’s first win over the Long-
horns in Fayetteville since 1981.
Head coach Sam Pittman was
the Razorbacks’ offensive line
coach the last time they played
Texas in the 2014 Texas Bowl. He
credited his former unit for the big
night. Arkansas was 120th in FBS
last year in sacks allowed.
“Isn’t that something? (Offen-
sive line coach Cody Kennedy)
comes in in June and we rush for
333 yards,” Pittman said. “He’s got
some really hard-working kids.
They took a lot of heat in the past
and will, I’m sure, some in the fu-
ture. But the way they played, to
rush for 333 against a good Texas
squad, is outstanding.”
The Razorbacks led 16-0 at half-
time and dominated from the be-
ginning. The Longhorns (1-1) punt-
ed on six of their first seven drives.
Their seventh resulted in a missed
field goal.
“This was not a performance I
was anticipating,” first-year Texas
coach Steve Sarkisian said. “But
we’ll find out about ourselves and
what we’re made of, because I real-
ly believe this one games not going
to define us. But we’ve got work to
do, that’s for sure.”
Arkansas (2-0) had no such trou-
ble. The Razorbacks punted twice
the whole game, on its first two
drives. Every other series resulted
in a score except one that resulted
in an interception that led to the
Longhorns’ first touchdown.
The five minutes that followed
that score were the only quiet ones
of the night as Texas trimmed Ar-
kansas’ lead to 16-7. When Razor-
backs quarterback KJ Jefferson
connected with Tyson Morris for
46 yards on the ensuing drive, the
volume returned. Arkansas would
cap that series with a 1-yard touch-
down from Trelon Smith.
“That was a big answer right
there and I was hoping he would do
exactly what he did,” Pittman said.
“We could have went in the tank
that series, too. We didn’t. We went
right back down and scored a
touchdown.”
After a Razorbacks field goal,
the Longhorns’ next offensive play
resulted in a strip-sack of quarter-
back Hudson Card. The Razor-
backs recovered at the Texas 26
and Raheim Sanders went that dis-
tance on the next play, practically
ending the visitors’ chances.
Card was pulled on the final
drive of the third quarter with the
Longhorns trailing 33-7. Casey
Thompson led two Texas scoring
drives in the fourth quarter, both
capped by his rushing touch-
downs.
MICHAEL WOODS/AP
Arkansas lineman Luke Jones (70) celebrates as Arkansas fans rushthe field after a 4021 win over Texas on Saturday in Fayetteville, Ark.
Razorbacks routNo. 15 Longhorns,crowd rushes field
BY ERIC W. BOLIN
Associated Press “This was not aperformance Iwasanticipating.”
Steve Sarkisian
Texas football coach
Monday, September 13, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 23
20 YEARS AFTER 9/11
Navy and Air Force
played football Satur-
day on the earliest date
in the calendar for a ri-
valry that dates to 1960. When the
two service academies announced
late last year that the game was
being moved from its usual spot in
early October, no explanation was
needed.
Navy-Air Force took center
stage to some degree as the Amer-
ican sports world observed the
20th anniversary of the 9/11 at-
tacks. Players from both teams
carried flags onto the field before
kickoff. There was a moment of si-
lence before the national anthem,
and then a flyover featuring two
Lockheed Martin F-35B Light-
nings and two Boeing F/A-18
Hornets.
During a halftime signing of
America the Beautiful, midship-
men unfurled a large American
flag, and the names of Navy and
Air Force grads lost on 9/11 were
put on the videoboard.
“It hits us very closely,” Navy
coach Ken Niumatalolo said.
“Have some players on our team
— I think all of us in this room
knows somebody that was there,
or a relative or a friend. And so, I
thought the great thing for just this
day, we were just all Americans.
And just remembering people
from 9/11.”
Elsewhere, Army’s players also
carried flags onto the field for
their home game against Western
Kentucky.
Subway Series shifted for
anniversaryShoulder to shoulder and inter-
spersed, players from the New
York Mets and Yankees shared
the diamond during the national
anthem Saturday night at Citi
Field with first responders, for-
mer players and a giant ribbon im-
printed with the American flag.
“As one unified New York,” said
public address announcer Mary-
sol Castro.
The city’s baseball teams held a
Subway Series game on Sept. 11
for the first time on the 20th anni-
versary of the 9/11 attacks, as sta-
dium’s around the country paid
tribute to the nearly 3,000 killed in
the terrorist attacks. A raucous,
emotional crowd packed the stadi-
um in Flushing 45 minutes before
first pitch, waving American flags
and holding signs promising to
“Never Forget” during a ceremo-
ny that included over a dozen Mets
players from the 2001 team and
representatives from several or-
ganizations and charities related
to first responders and victims.
“Very emotional night,” Yan-
kees star Aaron Judge said. “But it
was good to have everybody to-
gether for the city. It was a great
game.”
The sellout crowd of 43,144
buzzed in a way it hasn’t since be-
fore the coronavirus pandemic as
Mike Piazza, John Franco and oth-
er Mets alumni accompanied
members of New York’s fire, po-
lice, EMT, sanitation, correction
and court officers along the out-
field warning track.
The loudest cheers came for
Piazza, a Hall of Famer who mem-
orably hit the go-ahead homer in
the eighth inning when the Mets
beat the Atlanta Braves on Sept.
21, 2001, in the team’s first game
back at Shea Stadium. Highlights
of that game were played on the
video board before Bobby Valen-
tine and Joe Torre — the 2001
managers of the Mets and Yan-
kees, respectively — threw the
ceremonial first pitches.
“For me, especially when this
date comes by every year, it is dif-
ficult to kind of look back, and the
images, for me and I’m sure a lot of
people, are still very vivid in their
minds,” Piazza said. “I think it’s a
wonderful thing that we do, con-
tinue to honor them.”
Both teams wore hats repre-
senting New York’s first respon-
ders, two years after Mets slugger
Pete Alonso said the league reject-
ed his proposal for specially de-
signed caps doing the same. Alon-
so instead had custom cleats made
for each of his teammates — with-
out asking MLB for permission —
and later donated his shoes to the
National September 11 Memorial
& Museum.
Alonso, who was 6 years old and
living in Tampa, Fla., at the time of
the attacks, has made multiple vis-
its to the museum and was at
Ground Zero on Saturday morn-
ing, part of ongoing work he’s
done to benefit 9/11 survivors still
plagued by health woes caused by
exposure to the rubble.
“Today is a day of remem-
brance,” Alonso said. “Not just
that day, but there’s still people
being impacted every single day.”
College football, other
sports honor deadNebraska coach Scott Frost pre-
sented the family of fallen Marine
Cpl. Daegan Page with a Corn-
huskers jersey before the game.
Page was one of 13 U.S. service
members killed Aug. 26 in a ter-
rorist bombing at the Kabul air-
port in Afghanistan. The 23-year-
old Page was from Omaha.
At Minnesota’s game against
Miami of Ohio, the family of the
late Tom Burnett Jr. was honored
on the field after the first quarter.
Burnett, a native of Minnesota,
was one of the passengers on
Flight 93, which crash-landed in
rural Pennsylvania on 9/11.
In a ceremony before its game
against Kennesaw State, Georgia
Tech recognized Atlanta police of-
ficer and former New York City
paramedic Jay Pagan, who
worked at the Twin Towers on
search and rescue following the
attacks and was trapped in debris.
Pagan was presented the game
ball in a pregame Heroes Day cer-
emony.
Boston College wore its red ban-
dana uniforms against Massachu-
setts, and names were replaced by
“For Welles.” Since 2014, the Ea-
gles have occasionally worn uni-
forms with red bandana trim in
memory of Welles Crowther, a
former BC lacrosse player who
died helping to rescue people from
the World Trade Center during
the 2001 attack. Survivors identi-
fied Crowther by the red bandana
that he was known for wearing at
all times.
At the U.S. Open in Queens be-
fore the start of a women’s final
between two players who weren’t
even born yet on 9/11, female ca-
dets from the U.S. Military Acade-
my unfurled a giant American flag
that covered almost the entire
court at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
While Britain’s Emma Raducanu,
18, beat Canada’s Leylah Fernan-
dez, 19, “9/11/01” was stenciled on
the side of the court.
Afterward, Fernandez asked for
the microphone back during the
post-match trophy to address the
crowd of 23,703.
“I know on this day it was espe-
cially hard for New York and ev-
eryone around the United States. I
just want to say that I hope I can be
as strong and as resilient as New
York has been the last 20 years,”
said Fernandez, who was born in
September 2002. “Thank you for
always having my back, thank you
for cheering for me. I love you
New York and hope to see you next
year.”
At Richmond Raceway in Vir-
ginia, an 1,100-pound piece of steel
from the Twin Towers was on dis-
play on the midway, along with a
Wall of Remembrance. Cub
Scouts led the Pledge of Alle-
giance before the afternoon NAS-
CAR Xfinity race kicked off a rac-
ing doubleheader.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. was racing
in the Xfinity race for his only race
of the year before moving to the
NBC booth for the Cup race later
Saturday. Earnhardt won NAS-
CAR’s first Cup race back when
the series resumed after the week
off for 9/11.
Earnhardt, who had also lost his
father in February of that year,
held the American flag out his car
window during the celebratory
burnouts.
“I feel kind of connected to that
date because of what happened in
our sport when we went back to
Dover and with what was going on
in my own life that year,” Earn-
hardt Jr. said Friday. “It was a ve-
ry challenging year. I think it’s im-
portant that we continue to re-
member and honor everyone af-
fected by (9/11) all these years
later.”
Service academies, others pay tributeSports observe 9/11 anniversary with silence, fly
overs, ceremonies and somber remembrances
TERRANCE WILLIAMS/AP
The Brigade of Midshipmen stand at attention during the National Anthem before Navy’s football gamewith the Air Force on Saturday in Annapolis, Md.
ADAM HUNGER/AP
New York Mets fans wear jerseys to remember the 20th anniversaryof the 9/11 terrorist attacks before a game against the Yankees.
BY NOAH TRISTER
AND JAKE SEINER
Associated Press
STEVE HELBER/AP
Dale Earnhardt Jr., comforts hisdaughter Isla, 3, during driverintroductions prior to the start ofthe NASCAR Xfinity race inRichmond, Va., Saturday.
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SPORTSTeen dream
18-year-old Raducanu wins1st major title ›› US Open, Page 19
Air Force knocks off struggling Navy ›› Colllege football, Page 20
In a sometimes sticky season, Corbin
Burnes got a grip on history.
Milwaukee’s ace combined with re-
liever Josh Hader to pitch baseball’s
record ninth no-hitter this season,
breaking a mark set when pitchers began
throwing overhand in 1884 as the Brewers
beat the Indians 3-0 on Saturday night in Cle-
veland.
Months after Major League Baseball
clamped down on pitchers’ use of illicit for-
eign substances following a rash of early no-
hitters, Burnes cemented 2021 as the Season
of the No-No with just the second no-hitter in
Brewers history.
“It was a masterpiece,” Milwaukee manag-
er Craig Counsell said.
Burnes (10-4) struck out 14 with a career-
high 115 pitches over eight innings, taking a
perfect game into the seventh while overpow-
ering the Indians, who were no-hit for a re-
cord third time in 2021. All of those came with
starter Zach Plesac on the mound.
This time, Cleveland was stymied by
Burnes — who has become a Cy Young con-
tender as the Brewers run away with the NL
Central — and Hader, one of the game’s top
closers.
“Anyone would want to keep pitching in
that situation, but if there was anyone I would
want out there for the ninth, it would be Josh
Hader,” Burnes said. “There were no nerves
with him. It was more like a done deal when
Top: Milwaukee Brewers starter Corbin Burnes (39) hugs reliever Josh Hader in celebration after pitching a combined nohitter against the Indians in Cleveland on Saturday.Teammate Kolten Wong (16) celebrates alongside following baseball’s record ninth nohitter this season.
