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By ANNE M. PETERSON, AP Sports Writer

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Damian Lillard did not hesitate

when asked about how well the Portland Trail Blazers have been

playing recently.

“It’s the best place I think we’ve been in years,” he said.

Lillard had 26 points and 12 assists, and the Blazers won their

fourth straight with a 116-99 victory over the Sacramento Kings

on Tuesday night.

Jusuf Nurkic added 17 points and nine rebounds for Portland,

which sits in  fth place in the Western Conference — a game

back of San Antonio — after winning  ve of its last six games.

The current four-game winning streak matched the team’s longest

of the season.

“We can’t be satis ed with where we are and what we’ve been

doing,” Lillard said. “It’s got to be on to the next thing, and keep

trying to take it to the next level.”

Zach Randolph had 20 points for the Kings, who lost their  fth

straight overall. Sacramento has dropped 10 straight games at

Portland’s Moda Center.

With just 18 wins, Sacramento is in second-to-last place in

the West, above only the Phoenix Suns. The Kings have lost four

straight and six of their last seven.

“We gave ourselves a chance multiple times tonight but when

you have a team that’s played with each other for a while, when

things get chaotic and you need to settle down they know where to

get the ball and they do a great job of that,” Kings veteran Vince

Carter said.

The Kings were playing the second of a back-to-back, after

losing to Minnesota 118-100 on Monday night. Randolph sat out

that game but returned against the Blazers. Randolph played six

seasons in Portland.

Lillard had scored 197 points in the past  ve games, the most

points for a Blazer over a  ve-game stretch in franchise history.

He had 15 points and  ve assists in the opening quarter against

the Kings, including three 3-pointers, to give Portland a 36-26

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Sacramento Kings guard De’Aaron Fox, center,

shoots over Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian

Lillard, right, guard CJ McCollum, second from le ,

and forward Al-Farouq Aminu, le , during the  rst

half of an NBA basketball game in Portland, Ore.,

Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018.

(AP Photo/Craig Mitchelldyer)

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, Wednesday, February 28, 2018

By SIMMI BUTTAR, AP Sports Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — Of all the clubs that

made deals before the NHL’s trade deadline, a

surprise team took perhaps the biggest gamble.

The expansion Vegas Golden Knights.

They rolled the dice by trading three high

draft picks for Red Wings left wing Tomas Tatar.

Vegas has set records for wins and points by

a rst-year team and is tied with Nashville atop

the Western Conference at 87 points. Because of

that, the Golden Knights were unexpected buyers

at Monday’s deadline. General manager George

McPhee said the move made sense because the

picks are spread out over four drafts and Tatar is

under team control through the 2020-21 season.

One high-prole player who didn’t get dealt

was Ottawa Senators star Erik Karlsson. The

defenseman, who can become an unrestricted

free agent after the 2018-19 season, said he hopes

to sign a new deal to stay in Ottawa. Talks on an

extension can begin July 1.

“I’ve been here for a long time,” he said before

Ottawa’s game at Washington on Tuesday night.

“I’ve made Ottawa my home and it’s always

going to be my home.”

In all, NHL teams made 18 trades involving

37 players before the deadline on Monday

afternoon.

Contending teams such as Tampa Bay, Nash-

ville and Boston all gave up rst-round draft

picks for a chance to upgrade and make a run at

the Stanley Cup.The Bruins made the rst big

move on Sunday when they acquired forward

Rick Nash from the New York Rangers. Nash

could be counted on for immediate offensive help

after the team announced Tuesday that top center

and leading goal-scorer Patrice Bergeron is out a

minimum of two weeks with a broken right foot.

The Lightning, the Bruins’ rival in the

Atlantic Division, also made a major deal with

the rebuilding Rangers. Tampa Bay acquired

defenseman Ryan McDonagh and forward J.T.

Miller for Vladimir Namestnikov, two prospects

and two high draft picks. McDonagh and Miller

will join former New York teammates Anton

Stralman, Ryan Callahan and Dan Girardi with

Tampa Bay.

The Rangers will now focus on their rebuild.

They have three rst-round picks, two second-

round picks, two third-round picks, a fourth, a

fth and a sixth for a total of 10 picks in the June

draft.

In the Western Conference, the Predators,

trying to return to the Stanley Cup Final, acquired

Ryan Hartman from the Central Division-rival

Blackhawks for a prospect and two draft picks.

The price was considered steep for Hartman,

who had eight goals and 25 points and will be a

restricted free agent at the end of the season.

Hartman paid immediate dividends, though,

scoring the winning goal with a minute left

Tuesday night in a 6-5 victory over second-place

Winnipeg.

“I’m going to a team that has a real chance this

year,” Hartman said Monday. “They made it all

the way to the nals last year and made a really

good run. I’m just excited to get down there and

to get playing.”

Winnipeg, four points behind the Predators,

also made a deal with a division rival when the

Jets acquired forward Paul Stastny from the St.

Louis Blues. The current Jets have never won a

playoff game, but have a deep and talented roster

capable of making a serious playoff run this

spring.“When I rst caught wind of that it was

a possibility, even just the possibility was really

exciting,” Jets forward Blake Wheeler said after

the deal was announced.

“I think what he brings to our team is some-

thing that will be really helpful for us, plug a

number of holes.”

The move was surprising for St. Louis, which

despite entering the deadline on a six-game

losing streak, began Tuesday only one point out

of a playoff spot.Among the contending teams

that were quiet on Monday were the surging Phil-

adelphia Flyers. They added goalie Petr Mrazek

last week in a trade with the Detroit Red Wings.

The Flyers, who had a 10-game losing streak

(0-5-5) earlier this season, are one point behind

rst-place Washington in the Metropolitan Divi-

sion. The Flyers are 10-0-1 since the Eagles won

the Super Bowl in an upset over the New Eng-

land Patriots.

“You’ve got a chemistry in your room, so to

make a deal, it’s got to be the right player, it’s

got to be the right price, and it’s got to be a clear

upgrade,” Flyers general manager Ron Hextall

said Monday. “Otherwise you’re affecting the

chemistry in your room. So for a number of rea-

sons, we had some conversations, but nothing

made sense for us.”

The two-time defending champion Penguins

bolstered their forward group by acquiring center

Derick Brassard in a three-team deal last week.

However, the Penguins will now have to get by

without starting goalie Matt Murray, who is out

with a concussion.

THEY SAID IT

“Every year it seems the last year a couple

teams traded rst-round picks and maybe they

didn’t win doing that and (you think), ‘No one’s

going to do that again.’ Well, they did. It’s the

parity of the league, it’s the competition, and

teams want to win.” — New Jersey Devils gen-

eral manager Ray Shero on teams giving up rst-

round draft picks at the trade deadline.

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Vegas takes a bit of a

gamble with Tatar deal

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hockey game against the Bualo Sabres, Sunday, Feb. 25, 2018, in Bualo, N.Y.

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DENVER (AP) — The Los Angeles Clippers drew on their

reserves to mount an unlikely comeback.

Lou Williams scored 25 points and Boban Marjanovic added

a season-high 18 as the Clippers overcame a 19-point decit in

the third quarter to beat the Denver Nuggets 122-120 on Tuesday

night.

Austin Rivers added 17 points and Montrezl Harrell had 15 for

the Clippers, whose bench outscored Denver’s reserves 54-4 in

the second half.

“It’s a great example why you play the games,” Clippers coach

Doc Rivers said. “There are things that happen that you don’t

account for. We get down and we put that (all-reserve) lineup on

the oor that I guarantee they never scouted because we never

used it and it worked for us.

“We had the entire bench on the oor and the entire starting

lineup was up cheering and giving guys water. That’s what teams

are and it was nice to see,” Rivers added.

Williams said the novel combination just seemed to mesh

on the court quickly and the players seized on the change in

momentum.

“Sometimes you have different lineups in that get the job done,

so tonight was like that,” Williams said.

From the other side though, it was hard to watch.

“We had control of the game,” Nuggets coach Michael Malone

said. “Doc cleared his bench, put his bench in the game but give

those guys credit. Those guys kept competing, kept playing hard

and we stopped playing the way we did to get us the lead. We saw

tonight a great example of what can happen when you do that —

you take a tough loss.”

Gary Harris had 23 points to lead the Nuggets, who lost con-

secutive games at home for the rst time this season. Paul Millsap

had nine points and seven rebounds in 23:26 minutes of play in

his return from a left wrist injury that had sidelined him for the

last three months.

“It went pretty well, felt pretty good,” Millsap said. “So I’ll

just keep pushing, trying to get a rhythm.”

Williams helps Clippers

rally from 19 down to

beat Nuggets

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, Wednesday, February 28, 2018 Page B3

By BERNIE WILSON, AP Sports

Writer

SAN DIEGO (AP) —

Tuesday turned out to be a

pretty good day overall for San

Diego State’s Malik Pope.

The senior forward got the

news in the afternoon that he

could play against Boise State,

and then scored 12 points and

had some big plays in the nal

minutes to help the Aztecs beat

the Broncos 72-64, their season-

high fth straight victory.

“Malik breathed a big sigh of

relief when I told him he could

play this afternoon,” coach

Brian Dutcher said. “We are

grateful to have him back and

on the oor.”

Pope, the team’s leading

scorer and rebounder, was held

out of Saturday night’s game at

San Jose State after his name

appeared in documents that are

part of a federal investigation

into college basketball corrup-

tion. SDSU said an internal

investigation cleared Pope.

“I knew everything would be

taken care of eventually,” Pope

said “It was more, let’s get this

process completed. There were

some nerves at rst. It was a

beautiful feeling. You always

knew SDSU was amazing and

just to know they had my back

was great. It was motivating and

I really enjoyed it.”

Redshirt freshman Jalen

McDaniels had 15 points and

10 rebounds for SDSU (18-10,

10-7 Mountain West), which

played smothering defense late

in the rst half and again in the

second half to take control. The

Aztecs, who came in tied for

fth with Wyoming, are facing

the Mountain West’s top two

teams in the nal week as they

try to improve their seed for the

conference tournament. SDSU

hosts rst-place and No. 21

Nevada on Saturday night.

The Aztecs held Chandler

Hutchison to 18 points after

he scorched them for a school-

record 44 points earlier this

season.

“We forced the middle and

packed the paint on him and it

was tough for him to get a shot

off,” McDaniels said. “Trying

to take charges, meeting them

at the rim, nothing was easy.

The last time we were late on

help and not building a wall on

transition so he could get easy

buckets.”

After BSU pulled to 66-62

on Lexus Williams’ 3-pointer

with two minutes to go, Trey

Kell fed Pope for a dunk that

pushed the lead to six with 1:20

to go. Hutchison made one of

two free throws.

After McDaniels missed

a 3-pointer, Pope swooped in

for the rebound, Matt Mitchell

was fouled and made both free

throws to give SDSU a seven-

point lead.

Devin Watson scored 13 for

SDSU and Mitchell had 11.

Justinian Jessup had 11

points and Zach Haney had 11

rebounds for Boise State (22-7,

12-5), which is assured of being

the No. 2 tournament seed.

SDSU’s defense, particu-

larly on Hutchison, was the dif-

ference between this game and

the Broncos’ 83-80 victory in

Boise in January.

“Every time he got the ball

there was ve sets of eyes on

him, and that makes it tough,”

BSU coach Leon Rice said.

“And ve sets of good, athletic

eyes. That opened some things

up for us in the rst half to make

some 3s, and we didn’t make

them in the second half.”

McDaniels was whistled for

a agrant foul when he tripped

Chris Sengfelder with 4½ min-

utes to go, negating a break-

away layup by Mitchell. Sen-

gfelder made one of two free

throws to pull the Broncos to

63-56.On the ensuing posses-

sion, Hutchison was fouled and

made 1 of 2 free throws.

BSU led 43-42 on Hutchi-

son’s basket three minutes into

the second half before SDSU

tightened up on defense and

went ahead.

SDSU led 38-37 at halftime.

BIG PICTURE

Boise State: Hutchison had

a completely different game

than on Jan. 13 when he went

off for 44 points against SDSU.

In that game, he went 15 of 21

from the eld, including 7 of

10 from 3-point range. But he

made only 4 of 14 eld goals

Tuesday night and missed all

four 3-pointers. He did make 10

of 15 free throws Tuesday.

San Diego State: Pope was

cleared to play earlier in the day

after the school said it deter-

mined he didn’t receive imper-

missible benets. Pope’s name

appeared in documents that are

part of a federal investigation

into college basketball corrup-

tion. SDSU said an investigation

led by associate athletic director

of compliance Andy Humes

found no evidence that Pope

received any impermissible

benets or violated any NCAA

rules. “Based on everything that

we learned, we felt very com-

fortable that Malik was telling

the truth,” athletic director John

David Wicker said.

UP NEXT

Boise State hosts Wyoming

on Saturday night in the regular-

season nale.

San Diego State hosts No.

21 Nevada on Saturday night to

end the regular season.

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Application under Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

as amended in 2004 for Federal Fiscal Year 2018 is available for public

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McDaniels, Pope lead SDSU

to 72-64 win vs Boise State

Los Angeles Clippers forward Tobias Harris, le, knocks the ball away from Denver Nuggets

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half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018, in Denver. e Clippers won 122-120.

(AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

By The Associated Press

BASKETBALL

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An iconic Nike logo of a leaping

Michael Jordan that the company has used to market billions of

dollars of merchandise didn’t violate the copyright of an earlier

photograph of the basketball star, a federal appeals court ruled

Tuesday.

The logo was based on a photograph taken by someone Nike

hired. That photo was “obviously inspired” by a 1984 photo by

Jacobus Rentmeester, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said.

But the court in a 2-1 decision said the photos are unmistakably

different in key elements.

Both show Jordan leaping with his legs extended outward

toward a basketball hoop with a ball above his head.

Nike used its photo for the “Jumpman” logo — a silhouetted

image of Jordan in the leaping pose in its photograph.

Rentmeester photographed Jordan while he played at the Uni-

versity of North Carolina. His photograph appeared in Life Mag-

azine in a photo essay featuring U.S. athletes competing in the

1984 Summer Olympics.

An email to a law rm representing Rentmeester wasn’t imme-

diately returned.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Next month’s NIT games will use

experimental rules that include an extended 3-point line, a wider

free-throw lane and 10-minute quarters instead of 20-minute

halves.

The NCAA announced the changes Tuesday.

The 3-point arc will move to roughly 22 feet, which is used by

FIBA for international competition. The lane will expand from 12

feet to the NBA’s 16 feet.

Also, the shot clock will reset to 20 seconds after offensive

rebounds instead of the full 30 seconds.

The NCAA says in its release that ofcials will review whether

widened lanes “reduce physicality and create more driving oppor-

tunities,” as well as the impact of the rule changes on “the pace

and ow of the game.”

The NIT begins March 13 and ends March 29 in New York’s

Madison Square Garden.

SOCCER

MADRID (AP) — Enrique Castro “Quini,” the former Spain

striker who played for Barcelona and thrived in a long career with

Sporting Gijon, has died of a heart attack. He was 68.

Sporting said Castro collapsed while walking near his house in

the northern city of Gijon.

Known as “The Wizard,” Castro played in the 1978 and 1982

World Cups with Spain.

His career was also notable for a kidnapping incident during

his rst year with Barcelona, when he was abducted at gunpoint

after a home game, spending 25 days in captivity before being

rescued by police.

Castro also survived throat cancer that required surgery in

2008.

He played for Barcelona until 1984, making 178 appearances

Tuesday Sports In Brief

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, Wednesday, February 28, 2018

CLEVELAND (AP) — LeBron James scored

31 points and  nished a month averaging a triple-

double for the  rst time in his career, and the

Cleveland Cavaliers defeated the Brooklyn Nets

129-123 on Tuesday night.

James had 12 rebounds and 11 assists for his

12th triple-double of the season and 67th of his

career. He also reached 8,000 assists and became

the  rst player in NBA history to reach that

milestone, along with 30,000 points and 8,000

rebounds.

Rodney Hood’s three-point play with 40 sec-

onds remaining gave Cleveland a 123-121 lead.

James and George Hill hit two free throws each

in the  nal 16 seconds to seal the win.

Jarrett Allen’s two free throws gave Brooklyn

a 119-117 lead with 1:18 to play. Jordan Clark-

son’s 3-pointer put Cleveland ahead, but Allen

Crabbe’s runner in the lane put the Nets up

121-120.

Hood hit a jumper from the wing and made

the foul shot that gave Cleveland a two-point

lead. D’Angelo Russell attempted to draw a foul

but barely got off a wild shot from the corner,

which led to James’ foul shots.

HEAT 102, 76ERS 101

MIAMI (AP) — Dwyane Wade scored a

season-high 27 points, the last of those coming

on a jumper that gave Miami its only lead of the

fourth quarter with 5.9 seconds left, and the Heat

rallied to beat the 76ers.

Wade had 15 of his points in the fourth quarter,

and the Heat won a game where they never led by

more than three.

Goran Dragic scored 21 for the Heat, who got

16 points from Tyler Johnson and 15 points and

11 rebounds from Hassan Whiteside.

Joel Embiid scored 23 points for Philadelphia,

which got 21 from Dario Saric. The 76ers led

by as many as 10 in the fourth and had a chance

to win at the buzzer, but JJ Redick’s wide-open

3-point try bounced off the rim.

Redick  nished with 15 for the 76ers.

HORNETS 118, BULLS 103

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Kemba Walker

scored 31 points and Dwight Howard added 24

after returning from a  rst-quarter back injury as

the Hornets knocked off the Bulls to win their

season-best  fth game in a row.

Zach LaVine led seven Bulls players in

double-digits with 21 points as Chicago (20-41)

dropped its  fth consecutive game.

The Hornets improved to 28-33 as their sud-

denly hot shooting helped them continue their

push to make the playoffs. In all, Charlotte sank

53.7 percent of its  eld-goal attempts, and 42.9

percent from 3-point range.

Walker hit 11-of-19 attempts -- including

6-of-10 of 3-pointers -- while Howard missed

only two shots in 12 attempts. Nicolas Batum also

added 10 points, 12 assist and seven rebounds.

WIZARDS 107, BUCKS 104

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Bradley Beal scored

21 points, hitting a clutch 3-pointer and a free

throw down the stretch, to help the Wizards hang

on for a victory over the Bucks.

Otto Porter Jr. added 17 points and Markieff

Morris 14 for Washington which stayed hot after

snapping the Philadelphia 76ers’ seven-game

winning streak Sunday with a 109-94 victory.

The Bucks lost a chance at clinching the season

series with the Wizards who hold the fourth spot

in the Eastern Conference. Washington improved

to 2 1/2 games ahead of the sixth-place Bucks.

The road team won both games of the series.

Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 23 points and

grabbed 13 rebounds and Jabbari Parker had a

season-high 19 points for Milwaukee.

CLIPPERS 122, NUGGETS 120

DENVER (AP) — Lou Williams scored 25

points and Boban Marjanovic added a season-

high 18 as the Clippers overcame a 19-point def-

icit in the third quarter to beat the Nuggets.

Austin Rivers added 17 points and Montrezl

Harrell had 15 for the Clippers, whose bench out-

scored Denver’s reserves 54-4 in the second half.

Gary Harris had 23 points to lead the Nuggets,

who lost consecutive games at home for the  rst

time this season. Paul Millsap had nine points

and seven rebounds in 23:26 minutes of play in

his return from a left wrist injury that had side-

lined him for the last three months.

Leading by six at the half, the Nuggets

stretched their lead to 19 points on a layup by

Harris but the Clippers fought back to within

seven points going into the fourth quarter, out-

scoring the Nuggets 18-6 over the last 4 1-2 min-

utes of the third.

TRAIL BLAZERS 116, KINGS 99

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Damian Lillard

had 26 points and 12 assists, and the Trail Blazers

won their fourth straight with a victory over the

Kings.

Jusuf Nurkic added 17 points and nine

rebounds for Portland, which sits in  fth place

in the Western Conference — a game back of

San Antonio — after winning  ve of its last six

games. The current four-game winning streak

matched the team’s longest of the season.

Zach Randolph had 20 points for the Kings,

who lost their  fth straight overall. Sacramento

has dropped 10 straight games at Portland’s

Moda Center.

With just 18 wins, Sacramento is in second-

to-last place in the West, above only the Phoenix

Suns. The Kings have lost four straight and six of

their last seven.

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By RALPH D. RUSSO, AP College Football Writer

Deon Cain knows the questions are coming and he is looking

forward to answering them this week at the NFL draft combine.

Cain played three seasons at Clemson and was productive

receiver for a team that made three playoff appearances and

played in two national championship games. Cain played in only

one of those national championship games. After the regular

season of his freshman year, he was suspended for the College

Football Playoff by Tigers coach Dabo Swinney for failing a drug

test for marijuana.

For the last six weeks, Cain has been training at the Exos per-

formance center in Phoenix. He has added about 10 pounds of

lean muscle to his 6-foot-1 frame, thanks to a high protein diet.

He believes he could run a sub-4.4-second 40-yard dash after all

the speed work he did at Exos. But none of that will likely be as

important as how he answers questions from NFL executives and

coaches in Indianapolis about that suspension.

Cain has a simple plan: “Just to be honest. Just got to face the

facts. I know I did it.”

Cain is projected to be a second-day selection during the NFL’s

three-day draft, which starts April 26. Bleacher Report draft ana-

lyst Matt Miller said Cain currently has a solid round-two grade.

Dane Brugler from NFL Draft Scout.com said he had Cain going

in round three. Lance Zierlein of NFL.com gives Cain a second-

round projection and compares him to former Atlanta Falcons

receiver RoWednesday, February 28, 2018 White, who made the

Pro Bowl four times in an 11-year career.

A  ve-star prospect out of Tampa Bay Technical High School

in Florida when he came to Clemson, enrolling early with an eye

toward early graduation. He had 34 catches for 582 yards and

 ve touchdowns in 13 games as a freshman, helping the Tigers

overcome the loss of star receiver Mike Williams to injury in the

season opener.

Two days before Clemson played Oklahoma in the College

Football Playoff semi nal at the Orange Bowl, he was sent home

for violating team rules. He had failed a drug test.

Draft diary: Clem-

son’s Cain welcomes

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, Wednesday, February 28, 2018 Page B5

By The Associated Press

A look at things to watch this

week in the Pac-12 Conference:

GAME OF THE WEEK:

UCLA at USC, Saturday.

Rivalry games are always

intense. This one could have

an intensity boost with both

teams on the NCAA Tour-

nament bubble. The Trojans

(21-9, 12-5) appear to be in

decent shape after winning their

past four games, including a

Utah-Colorado road sweep.

The Bruins (19-10, 10-7) may

still have some work to do

after losing to Utah and Colo-

rado. UCLA won the Southern

California rivals’ rst meeting

on Feb. 3, edging the Trojans

82-79 after Aaron Holiday and

Thomas Welsh combined for 44

points. USC also is playing for

a coveted rst-round bye in next

week’s Pac-12 tournament and

is a half-game behind Arizona

for the conference lead.

LOOKING AHEAD: Ari-

zona has become a program in

disarray. Coach Sean Miller

has not coached the team or

been to practice since an ESPN

report said the FBI has him on

a wiretap discussing a $100,000

payment to current freshman

Deandre Ayton. Lorenzo Romar

has lled in to lead the Wild-

cats and it’s unclear if Miller

will return or be red. Arizona

star guard Allonzo Trier also

has been eligible the past two

games after testing positive for

the same banned substance that

cost him 19 games last season.

The Wildcats still have the

Pac-12 lead, but face an uncer-

tain future. They play Stanford

and Cal this week.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS:

Ayton is on pace to become the

rst freshman and sixth player

overall to lead the Pac-12 in

scoring and rebounding. He is

tops with 19.9 points and 11.2

rebounds. ... Washington State

has made 313 3-pointers this

season, becoming the seventh

team in conference history to

hit at least 300 3s in a season.

... Arizona State’s Tra Holder

is 11 free throws made and 15

attempts of entering the Pac-

12’s top 10 in both categories.

PLAYER TO WATCH:

Reid Travis, Stanford. Ayton

and UCLA’s Aaron Holiday

appear to be the frontrunners for

Pac-12 player of the year, but

don’t count out Travis. The Car-

dinal forward is having a stellar

junior season, averaging 19.3

points on 53 percent shooting

and 7.9 rebounds per game. He

scored a career-high 33 points

and grabbed nine rebounds

against Washington on his way

to becoming the Pac-12 player

of the week.

ON THE WOMEN’S SIDE:

No. 6 Oregon won its rst

Pac-12 title since 2000 by

sweeping the Arizona schools

alst week. That gave the Ducks

the top seed and a rst-round

bye in this week’s conference

tournament in Seattle. Oregon

is the favorite to win the tour-

nament, which starts Thursday,

but the bracket will not be easy

with No. 10 Oregon State, No.

9 UCLA, No. 16 Stanford and

Arizona State in the way.

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e. Resolve customer food complaints and ensure customer

satisfaction

f. Verify cashier shift takings are balanced against receipts.

Application forms are to be picked up from the Front Desk at

Tradewinds Hotel.

Rivalry game between USC and UCLA has

bubble implications

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defend in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Sunday, Feb. 25, 2018, in Boulder, Colo.

(AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

lead. He was up to 19 points by the half, when the Blazers led

66-53. None of the Kings players were in double gures.

The Blazers led by as many as 17 points in the rst half, but

the Kings closed the gap in the third quarter, closing within 88-80

to start the fourth.

But CJ McCollum’ jumper from out front extended the lead

for Portland to 105-88 with 6:40 left. The Blazers led by as many

as 19 points down the stretch.

Shabazz Napier had 20 points off the bench for Portland.

“I thought we had good energy, our ball movement was good,

defensively we were physical, we got our hands on some balls.

But I think most important we were just connected,” Lillard said.

“For the start of the game we were all on the same page once

again — just knew what we needed to get done. And we got it

done.”

When he reached 17 points, Lillard clinched the highest-

scoring average for any month in Portland history. He passed

Geoff Petrie who averaged 30.4 points in March, 1971. Lillard

averaged 31.4 points for the month.

Lillard had 40 points in the Portland’s 106-104 victory over

the Suns on Saturday.

TIP INS:

Kings: It was the fourth meeting between the two teams. Sac-

ramento’s lone win came in the rst. ... Willie Cauley-Stein had

17 points and 10 rebounds.

Trail Blazers: Lillard has made a 3-pointer in 43 straight

games. ... Blazers coach Terry Stotts is the reigning Western

Conference Coach of the Month. ... Portland had a season-high

20 fast-break points.

PRAISE: “Coach Stotts is a mastermind with how he runs his

offense. He gets his guys to buy into their role.

➧

Lillard…

Continued from page B1

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, Wednesday, February 28, 2018

By DAVID BAUDER, AP Media

Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — NBC

 nished the Pyeongchang

Olympics by averaging just

under 20 million viewers with

its prime-time coverage on the

network, NBCSN cable and

live streaming, which was a 7

percent decline from the Winter

Olympics of 2014.

The Nielsen company said

that the NBC-only average in

prime time was 17.8 million,

or a 17 percent decline from

Sochi. In 2014, NBC only

offered prime-time coverage on

the network, and did not have

simultaneous programming on

cable and online.

NBC said the viewership

helped make the Olympics

pro table. Viewership started

out stronger than executives

expected at the beginning of the

Olympics and faded toward the

end.

One growth area in

Pyeongchang was in the late-

night time period. Because of

the time difference, post-11:30

p.m. was  lled with live com-

petition. NBC’s late-night show

averaged 8.4 million viewers,

up from 5.6 million in Sochi

and more than any other Winter

Olympics since 1988.

In a re ection of how tra-

ditional television viewership

is changing, NBC said the

prime-time Olympic coverage

throughout the Olympics (19.8

million) essentially doubled

the viewership of ABC, CBS

and Fox combined during that

period. The Olympics domi-

nated TV: No other program

beat it in the ratings while the

games were on. In contrast,

during the 2006 Olympics, the

games were the night’s top-

rated program on only eight of

17 nights.

NBC averaged 14.2 million

viewers for the week. CBS had

4.8 million, ABC had 3.5 mil-

lion, Fox had 2 million, Uni-

vision had 1.8 million, ION

Television had 1.5 million, Tel-

emundo had 1.2 million and the

CW had 840,000.

Fox News Channel was the

week’s most popular cable net-

work, averaging 2.23 million

viewers in prime time. MSNBC

had 1.74 million, NBCSN had

1.68 million, USA had 1.4 mil-

lion and AMC had 1.39 million.

While the “Today” show

bathed in the Olympic glow

to beat its morning rivals, the

opposite thing happened in

the evening. NBC’s “Nightly

News” was broadcast in the

mid-afternoon on the West

Coast because of the Olym-

pics, and it led to that broad-

cast being crushed by ABC.

ABC’s “World News Tonight”

averaged 9.3 million viewers,

“Nightly News” had 8.3 million

and the “CBS Evening News”

had 6.6 million.

For the week of Feb. 19-25,

the top 10 shows, their net-

works and viewerships: Winter

Olympics (Tuesday), NBC,

17.53 million; Winter Olympics

(Monday), NBC, 16.37 million;

Winter Olympics (Thursday),

NBC, 15.24 million; Winter

Olympics Closing Ceremony,

NBC, 14.78 million; Winter

Olympics (Wednesday), NBC,

14.17 million; Winter Olympics

(Friday), NBC, 12.9 million;

Winter Olympics (Saturday,

9-10 p.m.), NBC, 11.69 million;

Winter Olympics Gala (Sat-

urday, 10-11 p.m.), NBC, 10.85

million; “60 Minutes,” CBS,

8.33 million; “The Walking

Dead,” AMC, 8.28 million.

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By TIM REYNOLDS, AP Basket-

ball Writer

MIAMI (AP) — Joaquin

Oliver was buried in a jersey

bearing Dwyane Wade’s name.

So perhaps it was  tting that

Wade’s best game this season

came in sneakers with Oliver’s

name scrawled on them.

The Miami area is reeling

right now, and will be for a

while, in the aftermath of the

shooting at Marjory Stoneman

Douglas High. The school will

reopen Wednesday, the  rst

of cial day it will be in session

since 17 students and teachers

were killed in a Valentine’s

Day massacre that only cranked

up the volume on the national

debate over guns.

Oliver was one of the 17 vic-

tims. His parents buried him in

a Wade jersey. Wade is trying

to meet the family, hoping to

thank them, comfort them,

listen to them, help them, hug

them, and almost certainly cry

with them.

“That they thought of me

in that process, as something

that he would have wanted, is

mindboggling,” the Miami Heat

guard said.

So is the fact that, again,

Wade  nds himself trying to

solve a problem that apparently

cannot be solved. He has been

touched by countless tragedies

in recent years, ranging from

the Trayvon Martin shooting,

to the death of his cousin in a

shooting in Chicago shortly

after he decided to join the Bulls

in 2016, and now the senseless

killings at the school about an

hour north of Miami.

In this social media era, ath-

letes have strength in numbers.

The voices of people like Wade,

LeBron James, Colin Kaepe-

rnick and others have more

power than they likely ever

imagined. Wade insists he isn’t

going to be silenced about the

shooting, and that his friends

won’t either.

Put another way, no, as

one national television pundit

recently suggested James

should, he will not ‘shut up and

dribble.’

“Being frustrated isn’t going

to help,” Wade said. “You’ve

got to keep going. You’ve got

to look at the people before you

and understand that nothing

they did happened even close

to overnight. The changes

that Martin Luther King were

trying to make, it took a long

time before we could see them.

Changes that an individual is

trying to make, you do what’s

in your heart. When you’re long

gone, maybe one day it’ll take

hold.”

Wade scored a season-high

27 points Tuesday night, hitting

a gamewinner with 5.9 seconds

left to lift Miami over Phila-

delphia 102-101. On the side

of one of his sneaker heels, he

scrawled Oliver’s name.

“Some due respect to him

and his family,” Wade said .

___

TANK WATCH

The race to be the worst gets

real this week.

If there is one entertaining

thing about Tank Season, it’s

those nights when two teams

that may not necessarily be that

concerned with winning games

go head-to-head — and one,

perhaps sadly, has to emerge

from that contest with more

points than the other.

The next few days offer some

great — or terrible — matchups

in that regard.

Wednesday, there’s Phoenix-

Memphis. Friday brings Dallas-

Chicago. On Saturday, it’s

Memphis-Orlando. And a

tanking twinbill awaits Sunday,

with Phoenix-Atlanta and New

York-Sacramento games on tap.

It’s easy to see why these

teams are playing for the worst

possible record and therefore

the best possible chance of get-

ting the No. 1 pick in June’s

draft. When the new draft lot-

tery system goes into place next

year, the tanking phenomenon

will hopefully lessen.

___

THE WEEK AHEAD

Some of the games to watch

over the coming week:

— Rockets at Clippers,

Wednesday: The last time these

teams met in Los Angeles, a

chippy game was followed by

postgame sparks. Don’t expect

a repeat.

— 76ers at Cavaliers,

Thursday: Philadelphia has lost

18 straight when facing LeBron

James on the road. Its last such

win: 2007, led by Allen Iverson.

— Bucks at Pacers, Friday:

It’s the  rst of two meetings in

a four-day span between these

midpack East contenders, who

split two contests in January.

— Celtics at Rockets, Sat-

urday: Boston led the  rst

meeting by 3 seconds, and

won — rallying from 26 down.

Houston will have plenty of

incentive this time.

— Hornets at Raptors,

Sunday: Charlotte is playing

well, and thinks a playoff spot

is within reach. But Toronto has

routed the Hornets three times

already.

— Suns at Heat, Monday:

A long, critical Miami homes-

tand ends, and it’s always enter-

taining to see Goran Dragic go

up against his former Phoenix

club.

— Nets at Warriors,

Tuesday: An interesting game

for this reason — back in

November, Brooklyn was down

28 in the third and nearly beat

the champions.

___

STAT LINE OF THE WEEK

Anthony Davis, New

Orleans: He has been MVP-

worthy for the Pelicans of late,

and 53 points, 18 rebounds,  ve

blocks and three assists Monday

against Phoenix.

Florida school tragedy

leaves profound effect on

Dwyane Wade

A security person stands near the Olympic  ags during a cer-

emony to mark the arrival of the Olympic  ag and start of the  ag

tour for the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022 at a section of

the Great Wall of China in Beijing Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018.

(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

samoa news

, Wednesday, February 28, 2018 Page B7

By W.G. RAMIREZ, Associated

Press

LAS VEGAS (AP) — In the

heat of a tight playoff race, the

Los Angeles Kings turned to a

little-known goaltender with

one NHL start under his belt.

Boy, did Jack Campbell ever

come through.

Campbell made 41 saves,

Anze Kopitar scored his 27th

goal and Los Angeles defeated

the Vegas Golden Knights 4-1

on Tuesday night.

“It’s always great to win, and

it denitely feels great to do it

with this group. It just means a

lot that it was a big two points,”

Campbell said. “It was a little

bit more than another game. I

wanted to prove to everybody,

but most importantly my team-

mates, that they can count on

me. This was probably the big-

gest game I’ve played in.”

It was the Kings’ second vic-

tory over Vegas in two nights.

The expansion Golden Knights

dropped into a tie with Nash-

ville for the top spot in the

Western Conference.

The 26-year-old Campbell

was making his rst NHL start

since the 2013-14 season, when

he played for the Dallas Stars.

He made one appearance for

Los Angeles last season and got

the nod Tuesday over starter

Jonathan Quick, who beat

Vegas on Monday.

“I remember the day when

he came here,” Kings coach

John Stevens said. “His game

was not in very good shape.

He had been in the East Coast

League, and all he wanted to do

was work and get better. Terric

year in the minors and became

a leader down there. Coming

into this game is a tough spot.

It’s as tough a spot as there is.

I thought Jack was really solid

tonight and I couldn’t be any

happier for the kid.”

Kyle Clifford, Tyler Toffoli

and Jeff Carter also scored for

the Kings, who rank second in

the league with 20 road wins.

Tampa Bay has 22.

Maxime Lagace stopped 26

shots for the Golden Knights

in his rst start since Dec. 9,

when he won at Dallas. William

Karlsson scored the Vegas goal.

Vegas is 0-2 since Monday’s

trade deadline, when the Golden

Knights added slick-skating

forward Tomas Tatar and big-

bodied Ryan Reaves to the

lineup. Reaves played in both

games against Los Angeles,

while Tatar made his debut

Tuesday.

Reaves made his presence

felt for a team with the third-

fewest penalty minutes in the

league. He delivered several big

hits, including two in the third

period that landed him in the

penalty box. He took issue with

those calls.

“Can’t make a call on a reac-

tion on a bench or a big noise,

that’s not how this league

works,” said the 6-foot-1, 225-

pound winger, who arrived

from Pittsburgh in a three-team

trade. “I thought those were

panic calls. (Drew) Doughty

throws his head back like he got

shot — it’s his shoulder pad that

hits his chin. Two bad calls in

a critical time of the game. It’s

hockey. I play hard. It’s what’s

kept me in this league. I’m not

going to apologize for any one

of those penalties. They did

cost us the game, but that’s my

style of play. And that’s going

to continue against every team

we play.”

In what has become a

familiar sequence for the

Golden Knights’ top line, Reilly

Smith fed Jonathan Marches-

sault, who fed Karlsson, who

gave Vegas a 1-0 lead 5:27 into

the game.

Karlsson got his 34th goal of

the season, while Marchessault

and Smith picked up their 41st

and 37th assists, respectively.

But shortly thereafter, Vegas

center Ryan Carpenter com-

mitted a costly turnover with

a terrible pass in the offen-

sive zone, where Clifford took

advantage and beat Lagace

to tie it. Midway through the

second period, Toffoli skated

past Smith and took the puck

with him, then beat Lagace to

give the Kings a 2-1 advantage.

“The mistakes were self-

inicted,” Golden Knights

coach Gerard Gallant said.

“We made some bad mistakes

in the neutral zone and turned

the puck over and they capital-

ized. We had some chances. We

created some chances. We just

didn’t play hard enough. We

didn’t compete hard enough in

the blue paint.”

Kopitar extended the margin

to 3-1 when he skated by Vegas

defenseman Luca Sbisa and

drew Lagace out of the net

before swiftly moving to the

side and putting the puck in.

Carter nished the scoring

on a power-play goal with less

than two minutes remaining.

“We talked as a team before

the game and said if we want

to get in the playoffs,” Stevens

said, “it’s about playing better

this time of year, getting better

every night, and it was good to

see we did that.”

NOTES: Campbell and

Lagace were teammates in the

minors with the Texas Stars

and Idaho Steelheads. ... After

11 consecutive starts, No. 1

goalie Marc-Andre Fleury was

given the night off for Vegas

after losing in Los Angeles

on Monday. ... The crowd of

18,328 was the second-largest

for a Golden Knights home

game. ... Kopitar has points in

each of the last three games.

... Vegas, which had scored on

the power play in 14 of its last

17 games, was 0 for 4 with the

man advantage. ... The Golden

Knights dropped to 14-7 fol-

lowing a loss.

UP NEXT

Kings: Host the Columbus

Blue Jackets on Thursday.

Golden Knights: Host the

Ottawa Senators on Friday.

Campbell stops 41 shots in 2nd start,

Kings beat Vegas 4-1

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and defenseman Alec Martinez during the rst period of an NHL hockey game against the Vegas

Golden Knights Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018, in Las Vegas.

(AP Photo/David Becker)

By STEPHEN WHYNO, AP

Hockey Writer

GANGNEUNG, South

Korea (AP) — The Olympic

anthem was merely background

noise, the doping scandal the

farthest thing from their minds.

As the white  ag with the

 ve Olympic rings rose toward

the rafters Sunday following

the gold medal game in men’s

hockey, the champion Rus-

sians in their nondescript red-

and-white uniforms joined

their fans cloaked in red, white

and blue and belted out the

“State Anthem of the Russian

Federation,” drowning out the

recorded song that was required

as part of International Olympic

Committee sanctions.

This Olympic title meant so

much more to the Russians, no

matter that the tournament was

missing NHL players and the

“Olympic Athletes from Russia”

were all here only after months

of scandal. Joyous players

tossed coach Oleg Znarok in the

air at center ice as fans let out

the same “ROSS-I-YA” chants

that  lled the arena in Sochi

four years ago, where home ice

meant nothing as the Russians

lost in the quarter nals. There

was no such disappointment

this time as the Russians tri-

umphed in the tournament they

were favored to win, capturing

gold with a 4-3 overtime victory

over Germany after Kirill Kapr-

izov’s power-play goal capped a

classic  nal and gave the nation

a jubilant moment following

weeks of disappointment.

“We understood the whole

thing from the start so we were

calm about it,” coach Oleg

Znarok said. “Russia is in our

hearts.”The win came only a

few hours after the IOC decided

against allowing the Russians

to march under their  ag in the

closing ceremony Sunday night

after a curler and a bobsledder

had positive drug tests during the

games.It didn’t seem to matter

to the Russian players that they

couldn’t wear the Russian Coat

of Arms on their chests or that

they won their  rst hockey gold

medal since 1992 under the

same circumstances as 26 years

ago: playing under a neutral  ag

with the NHL opting to stay

home after participating in the

past  ve Olympics.

“The medal is the same

with or without the NHL,” said

defenseman Slava Voynov,

who scored the opening goal

with 0.5 seconds left in the  rst

period. “Maybe the tourna-

ment was a little different, but

the emotions and happiness are

the same.”Russian President

Vladimir Putin made a tele-

phone call to Znarok after the

victory, which gave the country

its second gold and 17th overall

medal of the Olympics.Even

with Alex Ovechkin, Evgeni

Malkin and Sergei Bobrovsky

back in North America, this

gold medal was particularly

sweet because of the backdrop

of sanctions and the Russians’

almost three-decade drought.

After International Ice Hockey

Federation President Rene Fasel

put the  rst Russian hockey

medals of any color since 2002

around the necks of each player,

Russian Hockey Federation

President Vladislav Tretiak — a

three-time Olympic gold med-

alist and Soviet Hall of Fame

goaltender — gave out hand-

shakes and hugs.Winning this

gold medal at his  fth Olympics

meant more to 39-year-old cap-

tain Pavel Datsyuk than the two

times he lifted the Stanley Cup.

“When you play for your

country and I win this medal,

this special time it’s more

important,” Datsyuk said. “I

have accomplished my dream.

Now I have no dream.”

The dream Russia couldn’t

reach with NHL stars  nally

happened with Kaprizov scoring

the winner on the power play

9:40 into overtime as Patrick

Reimer sat in the penalty box

for a high-sticking infraction.

A silver medal gave Ger-

many its best  nish at the Olym-

pics after capturing bronze in

1932 and 1976.“We all thought

we would be sitting at home

watching that  nal on the couch

at home, but here we are,” Ger-

many coach Marco Sturm said.

“The boys are going to bring

silver home, and they should be

very proud.”Beating Germany,

which stunned eventual bronze-

medalist Canada to reach the

 nal , gave the Russians their

 rst gold medal in hockey since

1992 in Albertville when they

competed as the Community of

Independent States.

This one was expected all

along.Stocked with former NHL

players — Datsyuk, Voynov,

Ilya Kovalchuk, Mikhail Gri-

gorenko and Nikita Nesterov

— the Russians were by far the

most talented team in the tourna-

ment. U.S. coach Tony Granato

said they may be as good as 20

of the 31 NHL teams.

Oddsmakers made the Rus-

sians the favorite, and they

showed it after an opening loss

to Slovakia, getting better as the

tournament went on, which was

a complete reversal from Sochi.

“It means a lot,” said Kov-

alchuk, who was voted tour-

nament MVP. “This was my

dream from when I was 5 years

old when I started to play.”

The skill primarily from the

Kontinental Hockey League

was on full display with the

gold medal at stake — and the

Russians needed it against disci-

plined, opportunistic Germany,

which had all of its players from

leagues in its homeland.

Voynov, at the Olympics

because he was banned from

the NHL in 2015 for a domestic

abuse conviction, scored what

could’ve been a back-breaking

goal with 0.5 seconds left in the

 rst period, but Germany got a

good bounce on a  uky tying

goal by Felix Schultz.

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Russians win hockey gold with 4-3

OT win over Germany

Danny Aus den Birken (33), of Germany, and Marcel Goc (57) react a er losing during overtime

of the men’s gold medal hockey game against the Olympic athletes from Russia, 4-3, at the 2018

Winter Olympics, Sunday, Feb. 25, 2018, in Gangneung, South Korea.

(AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

By JIM ARMSTRONG, AP

Sports Writer

TOKYO (AP) — The

schoolchildren have had their

say: A pair of futuristic digital

characters will be the mascots

for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics

and Paralympics.

Organizers unveiled the

winning designs at a school in

Tokyo on Wednesday.

A total of 205,755 classes at

16,769 elementary schools took

part in selecting three short-

listed designs, with their classes

casting a single vote.

The winning pair, clad in

the ‘ichimatsu” checkered pat-

tern of the Games’ of cial logo,

received 109,041 votes.

“The Tokyo 2020 Olympic

and Paralympic Games  nally

have their mascots,” said

Ryohei Miyata, head of the

mascot selection panel. “This

means a lot, especially in Japan.

I cannot wait to see these two

characters coming to life in the

stadiums, on the streets and on

TV.”

Organizers say the mas-

cots combine tradition with

innovation.

Their names will be decided

by copywriters and other pro-

fessionals and announced in

July or August.

The selection process

involving schoolchildren

was introduced to get stu-

dents enthusiastic about the

games while also ensuring

transparency.

The original of cial logo

was hit with plagiarism allega-

tions and scrapped.

The designer of the win-

ning mascots is Ryo Taniguchi,

who graduated as an art major

from Cabrillo College in Cali-

fornia, and is currently active as

a character designer/illustrator.

His work has been featured by

companies and at exhibitions in

Japan.

The Tokyo Olympics are

scheduled for July 24 to Aug.

9, 2020.

If you want to comment

about our fairness, call

Samoa News at 633-5599

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School kids

rule: Digital

designs

are 2020

Olympic

mascots

Ryo Taniguchi, the designer of the characters, shown in the background, which will serve as mascots for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic

Games and Paralympics Games, is celebrated a er his design was selected, in Tokyo, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018.  e mascots has been

selected a er a vote among school children across Japan.

 e sign reads “ Decision! Mascots for the Tokyo 2020. “

(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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By RALPH D. RUSSO, AP Col-

lege Sports Writer

The cracked facade of

NCAA hoops appears to be

crumbling and while LeBron

James, John Calipari and many

agree that college basketball

should be overhauled, there’s

no consensus on how to repair

the system.

A federal investigation has

alleged hundreds of thousands

of dollars in bribes and kick-

backs being funneled to inu-

ence recruits, an FBI probe that

many fans believe reveals just a

tiny slice of potential corruption

in college sports.

In September, the Justice

Department arrested 10 people,

including four assistant coaches

from Arizona, Southern Cali-

fornia, Auburn and Okla-

homa State. Payments of up to

$150,000, supplied by Adidas,

were promised to at least three

top high school recruits to

attend two schools sponsored

by the shoe company, according

to federal prosecutors.

A report last week by Yahoo!

Sports revealed documents

showing dozens of prominent

players, coaches and schools

could be involved in — while

likely not criminal behavior —

breaking NCAA rules. All this

looms over college basketball as

March begins, the month when

championship tournaments and

brackets take center stage across

America. The cash cow of col-

lege sports that brings in hun-

dreds of millions of dollars to

the NCAA annually.

The NCAA has already

announced the formation of the

commission on college basket-

ball , headed by former Secre-

tary of State Condoleezza Rice,

to recommend changes.

“I don’t know if there’s any

xing the NCAA. I don’t think

there is,” said James, who never

played in college, jumping from

high school to the NBA at a

time when that had not yet been

prohibited by the league.

“The NCAA is corrupt —

we know that,” the Cleveland

Cavaliers superstar said.

Fingers point in several

directions about the reasons

for the problems, including the

NCAA itself, the age limit to

enter the NBA, paying college

athletes. Here is a more in depth

look at some of them:

___

THE NCAA IS THE

SCHOOLS

CURRENTLY: The most

common misconception about

college sports’ governing body

is that it is an independent

organization that governors the

schools. The NCAA is a volun-

tary association of the schools

and that membership ultimately

determines the rules — like

what payments to an athlete or

his family members are allow-

able. NCAA President Mark

Emmert is the face and voice of

the association, but — unlike a

commissioner of a professional

league — he has very limited

power beyond being a potential

catalyst for change. Or protector

of the status quo.

THE TALK: There are 351

schools that play Division I bas-

ketball from powerhouse Ken-

tucky to tiny St. Francis College

in Brooklyn, New York. Pri-

orities range far and wide and

what an Atlantic Coast Confer-

ence school sees as a potential

x to the system, an Atlantic

Sun school could see as a threat

to what little competitive bal-

ance exists in D-I. The result is:

Many of the potential remedies

oated for corruption in college

sports don’t actually involve

NCAA changes.

___

ONE-AND-DONE

CURRENTLY: The NBA

instituted a rule 12 years ago

that prohibited players from

entering the draft before they

were at least 19 and a year

removed from high school. The

NCAA has no control over this

rule. The NFL rule — which

requires players be three years

removed from high school —

is also problematic, but high

school aged football players are

not generally as close as basket-

ball players to being pro-ready.

THE TALK: There is much

buzz about change. One option

would be to let pro-ready high

school seniors enter the NBA

draft and make players who

chose to attend college stay at

least two years. The rule only

impacts the top players. Since

2006, 66 one-and-done players

have been NBA draft lottery

picks — and that’s after a record

11 in last year’s draft.

And while age is a hot-

button issue, several players

who played two or more col-

lege seasons were listed in

probe documents as potentially

accepting impermissible pay-

ments, according to Yahoo.

When Pistons coach Stan

Van Gundy slammed the

NCAA recently as “maybe the

worst organization in sports,”

he pivoted to point blame at the

league where he works, even

suggesting the one-and-done

rule was racist in how it limits

black athletes.

“I don’t get it. You can get

out of high school, you can turn

18, let’s say, and go to work

anywhere else,” Van Gundy

said.NBA Commissioner Adam

Silver said during the recent All-

Star break his league is “con-

icted” about one-and-done.

The players’ union and teams

both benet from players using

a year of college to develop

skills, mature and grow name

recognition before they enter

the NBA and start pressuring

veteran players.

FARM SYSTEMS

CURRENTLY: The NBA

and NFL essentially set up col-

lege sports to be a de facto farm

system for professional teams

and the people who defend col-

lege sports want no part of that.

THE TALK: James said the

NBA should explore expanding

its developmental G League to

make it more like major league

baseball’s farm systems. He

also wondered why the United

States does not have an ath-

lete development model more

like what exists in Europe,

where elite soccer players, for

example, can get professional

development outside of higher

education.

“We have to gure out a way

that we can shore up our farm

league and if kids feel like they

don’t want to be a part of that

NCAA program, then we have

something here for them to be

able to jump back on and not

have to worry about going over-

seas,” said James, who said he

wants to meet with Silver to dis-

cuss his ideas.

PAYING ALL COLLEGE

PLAYERS

CURRENTLY: Nixing the

one-and-done rule would still

leave some college players

with value to agents, coaches

and shoe companies. And the

NCAA has no means to com-

pensate players at full value.

But facing pressure from anti-

trust lawsuits, NCAA schools

changed rules in 2015 to allow

athletic scholarships to include

a cost-of-attendance stipend.

Those payments range from

about $2,000 to $5,000 per year.

THE TALK: Paying athletes

akin to a salary is nonstarter for

those in college sports, prob-

lematic because of tax issues

and federal Title IX require-

ments. More importantly,

schools could never pay an elite

athlete enough to eliminate the

potential for corruption.

“Whatever you pay them,

there’s somebody who can pay

them more, the guys that they

think will be pro prospects,

because when they leave, they

become a very hot commodity,”

Tennessee coach Rick Barnes

said.

COMPENSATION FOR

THE BEST

CURRENTLY: The NCAA

not only doesn’t allow schools to

pay players beyond the value of

a scholarship, but also prohibits

others from paying athletes for

being athletes. This could be

where a realistic solution lies. A

federal judge ruled in 2014 the

NCAA used the names, images

and likenesses for athletes for

years without proper compen-

sation for things such as video

games and merchandise.

THE TALK: “There may

be something similar to the

Olympic model,” Golden State

Warriors coach Steve Kerr said.

“It used to be the Olympians

couldn’t make a dime. Now you

see Michael Phelps or Lindsay

Vonn in commercials. They’re

still in the Olympics. Still doing

great. People loved the Olym-

pics. So, there’s a way.”

___

AGENTS

CURRENTLY: The

NCAA’s ve wealthiest confer-

ences — the Atlantic Coast Con-

ference, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12

and Southeastern Conference

— recently passed legislation

allowing college hockey players

to be represented by an agent

before entering school. Similar

allowances were already avail-

able to baseball players. In both

those sports, major professional

leagues draft high schoolers.

THE TALK: If the NCAA

allowed athletes to have nan-

cial agreements and business

dealings with agents and com-

panies that wanted to capitalize

on their fame and long-term

earning potential, the current

scandal might not be a scandal

at all.

Plenty of opinions, but few solutions

to ﬁx college hoops

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a news conference in Glendale, Ariz. Emmert is the face and voice of the association, but--unlike a

commissioner of a professional league--he has very limited power beyond being a potential catalyst

for change.

(AP Photo/Matt York, File)

MONTMELO, Spain (AP)

— The start of the third day of

Formula One testing has been

delayed because of snow at the

Circuit de Catalunya-Barcelona

in Spain.

Parts of the track near Barce-

lona were covered in snow when

teams arrived, forcing cars to

stay in the garage indenitely.

Organizers did not say

when the track was expected

to reopen. The red ag would

remain in place at least until vis-

ibility improved and the medial

helicopter was able to y.

Swedish driver Marcus Eric-

sson of the Sauber team said on

Twitter, “Thanks for making

me feel at home, Barcelona.”

Cold weather also affected

the rst two days of testing,

keeping teams from learning

much about the new 2018 cars

as the track remained without

enough grip for proper runs.

There were talks about

adding extra days of testing

in Barcelona, but the decision

would need to be unanimous

among the teams.

Thursday is the last of the

rst four-day test session. The

nal four-day session in Barce-

lona starts Tuesday.

The season opens with the

Australian GP in Melbourne on

March 25.

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American Samoa Government

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Request for Public Comment on

Special Education Funding Application

The American Samoa Department of Education (ASDOE) Special Education Division (SPED) has for public review its application for

funding under Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of the Ofce of Special Education Programs (OSEP) with

the US Department of Education.

These funds are used to provide special education services to all school age children, ages 3 - 21 years, in the territory of American

Samoa who have a disability that adversely affects their classroom achievements. As a condition for granting the funds, each State or

Territory proposing the application must submit the application for public review and comment. The public must be afforded reasonable

opportunities for comment 30 days prior to the submission of the application on May 14, 2018.

The public hearing is scheduled

for April 12, 2018 at the Early Childhood Education (ECE) Conference Room in Utulei at 2:00pm. The Department of

Education must review and give due consideration to all comments and suggestions prior to the submission of the

application for funding.

Copies of the application are available at the Special Education Ofce located in Faga’alu. All persons interested in the application

are encouraged to pick up a copy between the hours of 8:00am and 4:00pm. Written comments will also be taken during these

hours. Comments and suggestions may also be made via email to Faauifono Vaitautolu at [email protected] or Dr. Teresa Le’iato

Atuatasi at [email protected] or may be sent surface mail to Dr. Teresa Lei’ato Atuatasi, Assistant Director Special Education

Division, PO Box ASDOE-SPED, Pago Pago, AS 96799.

Talosagaina Finagalo Lautele mo le Tusi Talosaga mo

Alagatupe Fuafuaina o le Osa o A’oga Fa’apitoa

Ua tu’uina mai e le Matagaluega o A’oga Amerika Samoa (ASDOE) Osa o A’oga Fa’apitoa (SPED) se avanoa e fa’alia ai nagalo

fa’alaua’itele a le mamalu o le atunu’u mo le alagatupe talosaga i lalo o le Maga B Tulafono mo Tagata o iai Manaoga Fa’apitoa

(IDEA) osa o A’oga Fa’apitoa (OSEP) o le Matagaluega o A’oga a le Malo Tele o Amerika (USDOE).

O ia alagatupe ua fuafuaina e fa’atino ai a’oa’oga fa’apitoa tu’uina atu mo tamaiti a’oga uma, e amata mai i le 3 - 21 tausaga, i totonu

o le Teritori o Amerika Samoa o lo’o iai manaoga fa’apitoa ua fa’afaigata ai taumafaiga taua’oa’oga i totonu o potu a’oga. O se tasi

aiaiga mo le taliaina o le talosaga, e tatau i Setete ma Teritori uma o lo’o talosagaina ia alagatupe ona fa’asalalau a latou tusi talosaga

mo se nagalo fa’aalia o tagata lautele. E tatau ona lava se avanoa e silasila lelei ai le atunu’u mo le silaa ma tu’uina mai so latou

nagalo fa’aalia e tusa e 30 aso ae le’i tu’uina atu le tusi talosaga ia Me 14, 2018. O le a faia se fono fa’alaua’itele ia Aperila 12, 2018

i le potu fonotaga i le Osa ASDOE Early Childhood Education i Utulei i le itula e 2:00pm. O le a iloiloina e le Matagaluega a A’oga

Amerika Samoa nagalo ma manatu fa’aalia a le lautele ma tu’uina atu ni fautuaga ae le’i o’o i le aso fa’atapula’aina o tusi talosaga.

O lo’o maua kopi o lenei tusi talosaga i le Osa o A’oga Fa’apitoa i Faga’alu. Mo i latou e mana’omia se kopi o le tusi talosaga,

e avanoa le osa mai le itula 8:00am i le 4:00pm. O manatu fa’aalia e tauala mai i tusitusiga e mafai ona tu’uina mai i taimi ua

fa’atulagaina. A iai nisi manatu ma fautuaga, e mafai ona imeli mai ia Fa’auifono Vaitautolu [email protected] po’o Teresa Le’iato

Atuatasi [email protected] pe tusi mai ia Teresa Le’iato Atuatasi, SPED Assistant Director, PO Box ASDOE-SPED, Pago

Snow delays

start of 3rd day

of Formula 1

testing in Spain

e Catalunya racetrack with snow covered seating before a Formula One pre-season testing ses-

sion in Montmelo, outside Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018.

(AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

UK coroner

blames

Qatar World

Cup site

conditions

for death

LONDON (AP) — A British

coroner has blamed dangerous

working practices for the death

of a worker on a 2022 World

Cup stadium building site in

Qatar.An inquest heard that

Zachary Cox fell nearly 40

meters in January 2017 when a

faulty hoist he was using to put

a suspended walkway in place

broke at the Khalifa Interna-

tional Stadium in Doha.

The 40-year-old Cox’s

safety harness snapped under

the weight. He fell head rst,

sustaining brain injuries and

a broken neck. Cox was born

in South Africa but later lived

in England.Coroner Veronica

Hamilton-Deeley told Brighton

and Hove Coroner’s Court that

site managers “knew or should

have known that they were

effectively requiring a group of

their workers to rely on poten-

tially lethal equipment.”

Hamilton-Deeley described

a new system of hoists intro-

duced to speed up construction

as “downright dangerous.”

The stadium contractor

is Midmac-Six Construct, a

venture between Belgian and

Qatari rms.World Cup orga-

nizers in Doha say four people

employed on the project were

removed from their jobs and

banned from future tournament

work.

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SAINT BONAVENTURE, N.Y. (AP) —

Jaylen Adams, Courtney Stockard and Matt

Mobley combined to score 96 points and hit all

14 of St. Bonaventure’s 3-pointers on Tuesday

night to help the Bonnies beat Davidson 117-113

in triple overtime.

The Bonnies (23-6, 13-4 Atlantic 10) have

won 11 in a row — the longest win streak in pro-

gram history — after an 83-73 loss to Davidson

on Jan. 19. St. Bonaventure opened a one-game

lead over the Wildcats for second place in the

conference standings and set a team record for

regular-season wins.

Adams had 34 points, Mobley scored 33 and

Stockard added a career-high 31 points.

Nelson Caputo was fouled on a 3-point shot

from the right wing and hit all three free throws to

make it 108-all and then, on an inbound play, fed

Tshiefu Ngalakulondi, who had slipped around a

screen into the paint, for a dunk. Mobley made 5

of 6 free throws to cap a 10-0 that made it 115-

108 with 30 seconds to go and St. Bonaventure

held on from there.

Peyton Aldridge had a career-best 45 points,

including eight 3-pointers, and 12 rebounds and

Kellan Grady scored a career-high 39 — hitting

all 16 of his free-throw attempts — for Davidson

(17-11, 12-5).

LaDarien Grifn’s layup for the Bonnies

made it 78-all with 4.4 seconds left in regulation.

Grady’s potential winning 3 at the buzzer missed

off the back of the rim.

Grady made two free throws with 3.2 seconds

left in the rst OT to force the second.

St. Bonaventure slips past

Davidson 117-113 in triple OT

By JOSH DUBOW, AP Sports

Writer

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) —

Evander Kane was so excited

about being traded from a last-

place team to one in playoff

contention that he raced to a

cross-country ight in order to

jump right into the lineup.

Kane made an immediate

impact in his San Jose debut by

assisting on two goals during

a four-goal second period

and delivering a few big hits

that helped the Sharks beat

the Edmonton Oilers 5-2 on

Tuesday night.

“I kind of come from not

playing so much meaningful

hockey to playing some mean-

ingful hockey,” he said. “Obvi-

ously, you get a little ramped

up and I just tried to change

the game in any way I can. It’s

good to get on the board and

contribute offensively and also

with some other elements.”

Joe Pavelski had a goal and

three assists while centering

San Jose’s top line with Kane

on his left wing. Justin Braun,

Timo Meier and Logan Cou-

ture also scored in the second

to help the Sharks snap a three-

game losing streak and remain

in sole possession of second

place in the Pacic Division.

Chris Tierney added an empty-

net goal.

But the catalyst was Kane,

whose arrival from Buffalo

allowed coach Peter DeBoer to

play four lines with condence.

“He brings a little bit

of everything to the table,”

DeBoer said. “That’s why

he’s as valuable as he is and

as highly thought of as he is

in the league. I liked his game

tonight. I thought he worked

really hard away from the puck.

The offense and physicality are

things you take for granted, but

I thought defensively and away

from the puck, I thought he

really worked hard.”

Martin Jones allowed a rst-

period goal by Connor McDavid

and a third-period tally by Jesse

Puljujarvi but made 24 saves for

the win.

The Sharks looked like a

different team than the one

that stumbled in the nal three

games of their recent road trip,

getting outscored 13-4. Gen-

eral manager Doug Wilson

provided a big boost Monday

when he dealt two conditional

2019 draft picks and prospect

Danny O’Regan to the strug-

gling Sabres for Kane.

Kane got acclimated at the

morning skate and moved right

onto the top line with Pavelski,

his former teammate in Russia

during the 2012-13 lockout, and

Joonas Donskoi.

That line was San Jose’s

most dangerous right from the

start as Kane had a couple of

wraparound attempts in the

rst period before helping the

Sharks get on the scoreboard in

the second.

Kane hit Matt Benning in the

corner to start the sequence on

San Jose’s rst goal when he

sent a shot from the boards that

Pavelski redirected past Cam

Talbot to tie the game at 1.

“It’s a good element for our

team right now,” Pavelski said.

“That’s one thing that I think

everyone is so excited for, that

edge that he plays with. That

compete level. You see it right

away.”

Kane, who had just seven

points in his nal 26 games with

the Sabres, added a secondary

assist on Braun’s goal that gave

the Sharks the lead and then

got into a scufe with Benning

Kane makes imme-

diate impact in Sharks’

5-2 win over Oilers

and winning ve titles with the Catalan club.

Barcelona said Castro was “a synonym for goals” and “one of

the best strikers in Europe in his time.”

He played with Sporting from 1968 until 1980, and again after

leaving Barcelona to end his career with more than 400 appear-

ances for the club.

The Spanish league said there will be a minute of silence to

honor Castro in matches on Wednesday and Thursday.

Castro was the rst division’s leading scorer ve times.

NFL

NEW YORK (AP) — Papa John’s is ending its recently

stormy role as an ofcial sponsor of the NFL.

Ofcials at the pizza chain said Tuesday that the two sides

agreed to end the relationship, which became strained last year

when its founder John Schnatter criticized NFL leadership over

national anthem protests by players.

But the company based in Louisville, Kentucky, is not

divorcing itself from the league altogether. It says instead it

will focus its football marketing efforts on 22 of the league’s 32

teams and its star players.

Schnatter blamed slowing sales growth at Papa John’s on the

outcry surrounding football players kneeling during the national

anthem. The company later apologized for the remarks and

Schnatter stepped down as CEO at the end of last year.

By The Associated Press

The Cleveland Indians gave

Mike Napoli a much more

familiar uniform.

The Indians reunited with

Napoli on Tuesday, agreeing on

a minor league contract with the

popular slugger whose powerful

swing and clubhouse leadership

were key to Cleveland reaching

the 2016 World Series.

Napoli had been on the roster

to play in Bradenton, Florida,

with a group of free agents still

looking for jobs. Tyler Clippard,

wearing a black jersey with

a white players’ union logo,

pitched two hitless innings in a

2-0 win over amateurs from the

East Japan Railway Company.

“It’s a situation where

a player that is universally

respected in our organization,

he shouldn’t be in that camp,”

Indians manager Terry Fran-

cona said.

Napoli’s deal is contingent

upon him passing a physical at

the Indians’ complex in Good-

year, Arizona. He hit .193 with

29 home runs and 66 RBIs for

Texas last season.

The Indians don’t have a

roster spot for the 36-year-old

Napoli, but Francona wanted

to give him an opportunity to

showcase himself.

Francona spoke to desig-

nated hitter Edwin Encarna-

cion and rst baseman Yonder

Alonso and told them Napoli

wasn’t going to challenge for

their jobs.“If we end up helping

him out, then we’ve done a

good thing,” Francona said. “If

anybody deserves it, it’s Nap.

He did as much as anybody to

help us get to the point we could

play in a World Series.”

Clippard nished last season

with Houston.“We know that

my year last year was a bad

year, but at the end of the day,

how bad was it? And it wasn’t

as bad as some that got signi-

cant contracts,” the 33-year-old

righty said.

Alejandro De Aza, Jarrod

Saltalamacchia and Nolan

Reimold were among those in

the starting lineup. Neil Walker

is taking part, too.

The camp is similar to the

one run by the union at Home-

stead, Florida, following the

end of the 1994-95 players’

strike. Dave Gallagher attended

then as a player and signed with

Philadelphia. Now he is a coach

under manager Bo Porter.

“They start to lose hope,”

Gallagher said. “And it’s a little

bit humiliating.”

Top free agents have skipped

the camp to continue working

out on their own, a group that

includes pitchers Jake Arrieta

and Alex Cobb and third

baseman Mike Moustakas.

AROUND THE GRAPE-

FRUIT AND CACTUS

LEAGUES:

ORIOLES 2, RAYS 1

Tampa Bay starter Nathan

Eovaldi pitched 1 1/3 hitless

innings and struck out two in

his rst game since August

2016, when he had his second

Tommy John surgery. Preston

Palmiero, son of former Ori-

oles star Rafael Palmiero, was a

defensive replacement.

TIGERS 11, PHILLIES 6

Derek Norris went 3 for 3

with his second home run for

Detroit. Rhys Hoskins hit his

second homer for Philadelphia.

MARLINS 2, NATIONALS

2, 9 INNINGS

Miami starter Dan Straily

struck out three in two score-

less innings. Gio Gonzalez gave

up a hit over two innings and

Tommy Milone fanned three

over two fast innings for Wash-

ington. Bryce Harper doubled

for the only extra-base hit.

PIRATES 3, BRAVES 3, 9

INNINGS

Mike Foltynewicz pitched

two hitless innings for Atlanta

and defensive whiz Johan

Camargo homered. Jose Osuna

had two hits for Pittsburgh.

CARDINALS 6, RED SOX

(SS) 1

Shortstop Yairo Munoz got

three hits for St. Louis. Brock

Holt had two hits for a Boston

split squad.

RED SOX (SS) 3, TWINS 2

Sam Travis hit a tiebreaking

double in the ninth for Boston’s

other split squad. Byron Buxton

had two hits for the Twins, and

starter Jose Berrios threw a

scoreless inning.

YANKEES 9, BLUE JAYS 8

Rookie third baseman

Miguel Andujar hit his second

spring homer, Danny Espi-

nosa also connected and Austin

Romine doubled twice for New

York. Former Yankees catcher

Russell Martin homered for

Toronto and Marco Estrada

worked a clean inning.

ASTROS 8, METS 2

Jake Marisnick doubled and

drove in two runs and Brad Pea-

cock had a solid outing in his

two-inning start for Houston.

Mets starter Steven Matz gave

up ve runs in the second

inning. Tim Tebow struck out

and went 0 for 2 as a Mets DH.

GIANTS 14, DIAMOND-

BACKS 12

Brandon Belt got three

hits and Evan Longoria drew

two walks for San Francisco.

Starter Jeff Samardzija gave

up two runs and four hits in 1

1/3 innings. Arizona’s Archie

Bradley allowed four runs on

four hits and three walks in 1

1/3 innings.

CUBS 6, WHITE SOX 5

Jon Lester made his spring

debut and worked 1 2/3 innings,

striking out three allowing a

run on one hit. J.A. Happ hit

the Cubs’ second leadoff home

run of the spring. Hector San-

tiago threw three innings of

clean relief, striking out four.

Jose Abreu doubled and Matt

Davidson hit his second home

run.

BREWERS 6, REDS 3

Adam Duvall hit a two-

run homer for Cincinnati. Eric

Thames got his rst hit of the

spring for Milwaukee and Eric

Sogard and Nick Franklin each

drove in three runs.

INDIANS 16, A’S 8

Corey Kluber struck out

three and gave up a run over

two innings in his spring debut.

Jason Kipnis homered twice and

drove in four runs and newly

signed Yonder Alonso doubled

for Cleveland. Oakland reliever

Yusmeiro Petit gave up a home

Spring training roundup: Napoli

joins Indians, others wait

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OFF-AND-ON RELATIONSHIP MAY BE OFF AGAIN AFTER CONFESSION

DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend, “Al,” and I have been together for two years off and on. We dated

casually for six months before we decided to be exclusive. Unbeknownst to him, I was also sleeping

with someone else, “Brandon.” Al and I had a ﬁ ght and broke up for a few months, and during that

time I slept with another good friend of mine, “Marc.” When Marc and I decided it wasn’t serious

and moved on, Al and I got back together. I didn’t feel obligated to tell Al about it at the time, since

“technically” I did nothing wrong. But as we became more and more serious, it occurred to me that it

was a lie of omission, since we interact with both men on a social level. I told Al, and he isn’t handling

it well, so now I’m at a loss about what to do. Honesty and time are key, I know, but he is distancing

himself from me. Do I let him go? I am ﬁ ghting hard right now, but I’m feeling beaten down at every

turn. -- WRONG IN THE EAST

DEAR WRONG: Not all relationships last forever. It’s possible that this one has run its course.

If you and Al had agreed you would both be abstinent after the separation, he has reason to

be upset. If you had promised each other there would be an accounting of who each of you had been

with and you didn’t live up to it, I can see why he would be distancing. However, if an understanding

wasn’t in place, then you were free to be with others and you did nothing wrong. If Al no longer wants

to be with you -- for whatever reason -- you have no choice but to let him go. For your sake, quit

allowing yourself to be beaten down and make it as painless for yourself as possible.

DEAR ABBY: Is it wrong to paint my 2 1/2-year-old boy’s ﬁ ngernails when he begs me to? I’m a

stay-at-home mom and very close with my son. When I paint my nails (I paint them pink), my son sees

me and insists I paint his toes and ﬁ ngers “just like Mommy.” I see it as all in fun, but my mother-in-

law makes snide comments about him being a boy and that boys shouldn’t have their nails painted.

My husband has also said I should stop. I know my son will want me to paint his nails only a little while

longer. It’s not harming anyone, and I’m sick of all the gender barriers. Am I wrong here? -- PRETTY

IN PINK

DEAR PRETTY: Your mother-in-law appears to think that polishing your 2-year-old’s nails will

“make” him effeminate. It’s no more valid than her not doing it has “made” your husband masculine.

Ignore the snide remarks because you are not going to change her.

Whether your little boy wants you to continue painting his nails pink -- or, for that matter, to wear

something pink -- is far less important than making sure he knows you love and support him and it’s

OK to be HIMSELF. That’s the way parents raise conﬁ dent and successful children.

DEAR ABBY: What is your opinion about elderly parents who no longer drive having to pay their

children to drive them to appointments, grocery, etc.? Think of all the times parents drove them when

they were growing up. -- RETURNING THE FAVOR

DEAR RETURNING THE FAVOR: Most adult children with a memory would never dream of

asking to be paid for driving their elderly parents. A child who would do this must be desperate for

money. In my opinion, because they are paying for it anyway, the parents should make other arrange-

ments for transportation.

Happy Birthday: Opportunities will require a little work to discover. They will be available to you,

but you will miss out if you don’t do your part and follow through. Channel your energy into getting

ahead personally and professionally. Making special efforts to increase your income or to spend more

time with people who have something to offer in return will allow you to explore what’s available. Your

numbers are 9, 13, 21, 27, 34, 36, 43.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Short trips, exercise and learning are all favored. The more you do,

the greater the overall change will be to the way you live life and the people you choose to share your

thoughts and ideas with. Explore new interests.

✸✸✸✸✸

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Try to do what you can to help others. The satisfaction you get and

the difference you make will give you greater incentive to do more and complain less. Less talk and

more action will bring the highest returns.

✸✸

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The simpler, the better. If matters become too convoluted, you will

end up confused and trying to compensate for something you shouldn’t. Stick close to home and

concentrate on making personal improvements. Don’t put up with someone’s mind games. 4 stars

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Watch what your peers do and consider how to best make use of

your skills to complement what others are offering. Doing your best to ﬁ t in will lead to greater popu-

larity and the chance to move into a key position.

✸✸✸

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Change can be good if you think matters through before you lay your

money on the table. Don’t trust anyone to look out for you. Negotiate on your own behalf and be

prepared to walk away from unfair situations.

✸✸✸

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Keep costs in mind. Downsizing or making your living arrangements

more efﬁ cient and affordable is a good place to begin. Don’t get angry or keep secrets that will need

to be revealed in order to bring about change.

✸✸✸

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You’ll have a change of heart. Look at the pros and cons before you

disrupt your home and personal life. Try to ﬁ nd ways to combine others’ talents rather than being

divisive in the way you handle situations and people.

✸✸✸✸

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Put in the hours and don’t stop until you have taken care of busi-

ness. The changes you implement will be helpful when dealing with people you want to incorporate

into your plans. Embrace change and don’t be afraid to be unique.

✸✸✸

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You can make personal changes that will improve your life and

your health. Get into a ﬁ tness routine and start paying more attention to what you eat. Being the best

you can be will translate into personal success.

✸✸✸✸✸

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You’ll be pulled in two different directions. Your common sense

will take you one way and your desire and impulse will take you another. If you ﬁ nd that you are

drifting into uncomfortable territory, stop, regroup and rethink your options.

✸✸✸

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Try your hand at helping others or giving back to your community.

You’ll be pleasantly surprised by the way it makes you feel and the friendships you develop. Exercise,

proper diet and a positive attitude should be a priority.

✸✸✸

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Take the time to ﬁ ne-tune whatever job you are given. Your attention

to detail will make a difference when presenting what you have accomplished. Update your look and

engage in events that are conducive to working with people you can learn from.

✸✸✸

ACROSS

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the drill

5 Deserve

Word with

“family”

Anna

Netrebko

solo

Author

Jong

Acorn

droppers

Performer’s

anxiety

Crooked

Checked

the books

Gravy

soaker-

uppers

“Winkle”

start

Stickball

obstacle

Street

alternative

Director

Van Peebles

“___ you

listening?”

Jeter of

baseball

Legendary

Turner

They’re

canceled

and

collected

“Love”

attachment

17-syllable

verse

Word with

“well”

Grassy

hills

River of

Hades

50 Prodigal

Son’s lowest

place

51 Awed

exhalations

53 End of

a loaf

55 Court type

58 Drench,

as a ﬁre

62 Some

Wall Street

companies

65 Pinkish

shade

66 Bring

jubilation to

67 Bird sound

68 Way off

yonder

69 Roomy

family car

70 Wet vortex

DOWN

1 “___

O’Riley”

(rock song)

2 Some bank

offerings

3 Checkmark

4 “For good-

ness ___”

5 Joined up

with

6 History unit

7 Latvia’s

capital

8 Freeze, as a

windshield

9 Duo’s bike

10 Tex-Mex

order

11 Rowdy

dance party

12 ___ out

(barely

achieved)

13 Sufﬁx with

“baron”

18 Fencing

weapons

19 Dublin’s isle

23 Coffeehouse

performer

24 Actress

Jessica

Parker

26 Make

watertight

27 Pyroma-

niac’s crime

28 Not an

original

30 Painter

Edgar

32 Buffy’s

slayees

33 Concerns,

suggestions,

etc.

34 Wet and

frigid, as

weather

37 Richards

on guitar

40 Gawker

41 Kind of

terrier

42 Promgoer’s

rental

47 Cerebellum

part

48 Isn’t a hog

52 Overfamiliar

54 Jeweler’s

magniﬁer

55 Univ.

employee

56 Parks in

the front of

the bus

57 “Good

heavens!”

59 Thrift shop

condition

60 Thing lower

than dirt

61 TV sports

award

62 Lingerie

item

63 In-ﬂight info

64 Chick

watcher

Universal Crossword

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 e visiting presenters for the Keep Exemplary Educators Enriched Program [KEEEP] are Dr. Tom Grano , PhD., from Pepperdine University who is also the presi-

dent and founder of the Grano Corporation; and Dr. Marilyn Simon, PhD., faculty advisor at Walden University and also president and co-founder of Best Prep. Inc.

Simon spent four years teaching in the Kingdom of Tonga.

DOE Director Dr. Ruth Matagi To ga joined the duo yesterday in kicking o the week-long KEEEP Program training workshop for local educators at the Gov. H. Rex

Lee Auditorium in Utulei.

[photo: Leua Aiono Frost]

run in his inning of relief.

ROYALS 14, MARINERS

(SS) 9

Kansas City starter Wily

Peralta gave up four earned

runs and four hits in one inning.

Whit Merri eld tripled and

doubled. Andrew Moore, vying

for a spot in the Seattle rota-

tion, had a rough spring debut,

giving up six runs on seven hits

in 1 1/3 innings.

RANGERS 4, DODGERS 4,

9 INNINGS

Rougned Odor doubled,

walked and stole his second

base of the spring. Joey Gallo

doubled in a run and scored for

Texas. Kenta Maeda debuted

with two solid innings for Los

Angeles.

ANGELS 5, ROCKIES 2

Shohei Ohtani went 0 for 3

in his second game as the DH

for Los Angeles. Matt Shoe-

maker worked 2 1/3 innings,

scattering three hits and a run.

Colorado starter Jon Gray

allowed three hits and two runs

over two innings.

PADRES 11, MARINERS

(SS) 6

Eric Hosmer made his debut

in a Padres uniform and had

a hit in three at-bats. Clayton

Richard gave up two runs on

two hits in the start. Austin

Hedges hit his second home run

of the spring. Seattle’s James

Paxton made his spring debut

and allowed a hit and a walk

over two innings. Jean Segura

homered and drove in three

runs with two hits.

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Spring…

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