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Trump plan stirs global health fears Proposed cuts in aid could endanger millions worldwide and jeopardize U.S. clout, experts say. By Noam N. Levey

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BACSSY GARCIA OSEGUERA, her daughter and a boy are questioned by the Border Patrol in Hidalgo,

Texas. The number of illegal crossings along the Southwest border dropped to a 17-year low in March.

From rush to hush on the Texas border Illegal crossings have fallen for several reasons

By Jenny Jarvie HIDALGO, Texas — Slowly, the Border Patrol truck cut through the darkness, its headlights illuminating a deserted, sandy road framed by long grass and yellow mesquite trees. “This area used to be really hot,” said Marlene Castro, a supervisory Border Patrol agent, as she scanned the path ahead for immigrants who had crossed the Rio Grande illegally into the United States. “You couldn’t move. Every time you turned a corner, you’d run into group after group.” At 10 p.m. on a Friday, this once-bustling crossing point — a stretch of wild brush land between the Rio Grande and the sprawling Texas border cities of Hidalgo and McAllen — is desolate. The only signs of life, apart from the odd wildcat stalking prey, are Border Patrol agents lurking by the roadside in pickups and SUVs. [See Border, A11] Across the

MARLENE CASTRO, a supervisory Border Patrol agent, keeps

watch in Hidalgo. “This area used to be really hot,” she said.

WASHINGTON — Half a century after the United States led a global expansion of international efforts to combat infectious disease and promote family planning, the Trump administration has embarked on a historic retrenchment that many fear threatens the health of millions and jeopardizes America’s standing in the world. Since taking office, President Trump has proposed dramatic cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development, which has historically spearheaded U.S. efforts to improve women’s and children’s health. The White House is urging reductions this year to major international heath initiatives, including the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, which provides lifesaving medicines to millions of AIDS patients in developing nations. The Trump administration has imposed tough new restrictions on U.S. support for aid organizations that provide family planning and other health services. And last week, the White House announced it is cutting all U.S. contributions to the United Nations Population Fund, or UNFPA, the lead international agency dedicated to promoting family planning and child and maternal health. Cuts on the scale proposed by the president could be devastating, said former Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a

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WASHINGTON — Pivoting off what the White House considers a successful U.S. missile strike in Syria, the Trump administration sent a not-so-subtle message Sunday to North Korea: Don’t risk being next. With growing signs that the government in Pyongyang may be preparing a sixth nuclear test, a U.S. aircraft carrier strike force near Singapore was diverted north toward the Korean peninsula, President Trump spoke to leaders in Tokyo and Seoul, and senior administration officials made pointed note of the “full range of options” available to counter threats to the United States or its allies. [See North Korea, A11]

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surgeon who has worked extensively on global health since retiring from Congress in 2007. “If the U.S. chooses to drastically cut its foreign assistance, including for HIV/ AIDS, nutrition and family planning, we risk reversing our strides over the past 25 years to reduce extreme poverty and disease worldwide,” he said. “That potentially creates a domino effect, which could lead to nation [See Aid, A6]

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Egypt, where the first of the two suicide bombings on Palm Sunday occurred.

Egypt in state of emergency after two church bombings

By Makarios Nassar, Omar Medhat and Molly Hennessy-Fiske TANTA, Egypt — Islamic State claimed responsibility for suicide bombings that hit Egyptian Coptic Christian churches in two cities Sunday, killing at least 44 people and wounding more

than 100 others. In response, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi declared a three-month state of emergency in the country, which has already seen a major clampdown on dissent and political expression. The claim of responsibility was published by Islamic State’s Amaq news agency

after the attacks, which targeted large crowds gathered to celebrate Palm Sunday. The twin bombings, the latest in a string of attacks against Christians in Egypt, came less than a week after Sisi and President Trump met at the White House and pledged to work together to fight radical groups such as [See Egypt, A4]

SACRAMENTO — More than 20 times in the last 15 years, political leaders looking to control California’s fast-growing public pension costs have tried to put reform initiatives before the voters. None of the proposals has made it onto the ballot. Often, advocates could not raise enough money for signature gathering, advertising and other costs. Some of the efforts, however, ran into a different kind of obstacle: an official summary, written by the state attorney general, that described the initiative in terms likely to be unpopular with voters. Facing bleak prospects at the polls, the sponsors abandoned the campaigns. Taxpayer advocates contend that the attorneys general — Democrats elected with robust support from organized labor — put a finger on the scale, distilling the initiatives in language that echoed labor’s rhetoric. Labor leaders and their Democratic allies say the summaries were neutral and accurate, and that the problem lay with the initiatives — which, they contend, would have diluted benefits al[See Measures, A8]

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New fear and grave doubts Missile tests by North Korea raise questions about U.S. defense system

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WASHINGTON — A flurry of recent missile tests by North Korea has set nerves on edge and stirred fresh concern about whether U.S. defenses could protect Americans against a sneak attack. North Korea has detonated nuclear devices and is trying to develop long-range missiles capable of reaching the United States. The Pentagon has spent more than $40 billion on the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system — GMD for short. It’s designed specifically to thwart a nuclear strike by North Korea or Iran. Yet there are grave doubts about whether it’s up to the task. Here is a look at the system’s origins, how it’s supposed to work and the technical problems that have bedeviled it:

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2004. To speed things along, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld exempted the program from the Pentagon’s normal procurement and testing standards. Analysts trace GMD’s problems to these early decisions to prioritize speed above meticulous engineering and development of proven capabilities.

By David Willman

What exactly is GMD supposed to do? It’s designed to defend the United States against a “limited” nuclear attack. That means a strike with a handful of missiles, as opposed to a massive assault of the kind that Russia or China could launch. The United States relies on deterrence — the threat of overwhelming retaliation — to prevent Russia or China from ever unleashing missiles against us. In the case of North Korea or Iran, the U.S. would rely on GMD to knock incoming warheads out of the sky. How would GMD do that? By intercepting incoming warheads in space, just as they’re about to begin their reentry into the atmosphere. That’s the approximate “midcourse” point in a warhead’s journey from launch pad to target. What’s an interceptor, and how does it work? The GMD interceptors are 60-foot-tall, three-stage rockets. Each has a 5-foot, 150-pound “kill vehicle” at its tip. In the event of an attack, interceptors would be launched from their underground silos. Once in space, the kill vehicles would separate from their boost rockets and fly independently toward their targets, at speeds up to 4 miles per second. How many interceptors are there, and where are they based? There are 37 operational interceptors — four at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County and 33 at Ft. Greely, Alaska. How would the kill vehicle destroy an incoming warhead? By blowing it up? The kill vehicles carry no explosives. They’re designed to destroy enemy warheads with kinetic energy, or energy of motion — in other words, by crashing into them.

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closed location. The country is trying to develop longrange missiles capable of reaching the United States. How would the kill vehicle find the incoming warhead? Satellites and powerful radars, stationed on land and at sea, track airborne objects. The GMD system receives data from these and other sources and would use it to guide the interceptors. The kill vehicle also has an on-board navigation system to help it zero in on its target.

Why are there doubts about GMD’s reliability? Intercepting a warhead traveling at hypersonic speed is a supreme technical challenge. It’s been compared to hitting one speeding bullet with another. GMD has not shown that it could do that dependably. The system has performed poorly in flight tests, and technical problems keep cropping up. In nine simulated attacks since GMD was deployed in 2004, interceptors have failed to take out their targets six times. And the flight tests are much less challenging than an actual attack would be. They’re carefully scripted for success: The operating personnel know ahead of time when mock warheads will be launched, as well as their size, speed and approximate trajectory. Given that test record, why do Pentagon officials assume the system could knock out all the incoming warheads if an enemy attacked? They don’t assume that. To the contrary, defense planners assume that four or five GMD interceptors would have to be launched for every incoming warhead to have a good chance of destroying them all, according to current and former government officials. That’s called the “shot doctrine,” and it reflects GMD’s shortcomings. It means that if an adversary launched multiple missiles, our inventory of interceptors could be quickly depleted. What caused the failures in the GMD test flights? It’s no single problem — it’s a variety of causes. And that’s what so concerns experts who’ve studied the system. In some cases, divert thrusters were

blamed. These are small rocket motors, four of which are attached to each kill vehicle. They’re supposed to fire rapidly to make course corrections and keep the kill vehicle on course once it’s in space and flying on its own. In some tests, the thrusters’ “rough combustion” of fuel was found to have thrown off the kill vehicles’ onboard guidance system. A lot of time and money was spent redesigning the thrusters to eliminate this problem. In January 2016, a flight test was initiated from Vandenberg Air Force Base to check out the new thrusters. The Missile Defense Agency and its lead contractors pronounced the test a success. But as The Times later reported, it wasn’t. Partway through the exercise, one of the new thrusters stopped working, and the kill vehicle veered far off course. A review overseen by the missile agency found that the thruster “most likely” malfunctioned because of a glitch in the circuit board that powered it. As The Times reported, circuit boards in most of the kill vehicles now in the GMD fleet are vulnerable to the same kind of mishap. Bottom line: The kill vehicles are tremendously complex machines. Each one has more than 1,000 components. And because of the speed with which they’ve been produced and deployed, no two are identical. Why the rush? American scientists had been working on missile defense technology for decades, with the aim of creating a reliable shield for the U.S. President Clinton, whose administration supported and funded such research, concluded that the technology wasn’t ready for prime time. But his successor, President George W. Bush, had campaigned on a promise to deploy a missile defense system quickly, asserting that the country was in imminent danger of a sneak attack by a “rogue state” such as North Korea or Iran. In late 2002, Bush ordered the Pentagon to field a “set of missile defense capabilities” by the end of

What kind of marks has GMD gotten from experts? The Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan investigative arm of Congress, reported last year that GMD’s test record had been “insufficient to demonstrate that an operationally useful defense capability exists.” In July, a team of missile defense experts who studied GMD for the Union of Concerned Scientists said the system was “simply unable to protect the U.S. public.” In January, the Pentagon’s Operational Test and Evaluation office, in its annual report on U.S. defense programs, rated GMD’s reliability as “low.” It said the day-to-day “availability,” or readiness, of the system’s interceptors was also “low.” The report added that flight tests had revealed unspecified “new failure modes.” What does the Missile Defense Agency say? The agency says it is “absolutely confident” in GMD’s ability to protect the U.S. Who built the interceptors and other components of GMD? A handful of defense contractors have produced the system’s major elements. Raytheon Co. has built the kill vehicles and radars. Orbital ATK Inc. has made the boost rockets. Northrop Grumman Corp. has provided the worldwide communications links. Boeing Co. has managed GMD as the government’s prime contractor. Is there any sign that the Pentagon is reconsidering this entire approach to missile defense? Some generals have said the cost of an interceptorbased system is unsustainable, and that the U.S. needs to give greater thought to a “left of launch” strategy. That’s military-speak for taking out missiles before they could be launched, as opposed to trying to shoot them out of the sky. Yet for now the Pentagon is expanding GMD to 44 interceptors, with bipartisan support from Congress. (This is not a President Trump initiative; it started under President Obama.) The government is also studying possible sites for a third interceptor field, in the eastern half of the U.S. That would add up to 60 interceptors to the GMD fleet. david.willman @latimes.com

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Russia’s return to Afghanistan Analysts say Moscow is further challenging the U.S. by reaching out to the Taliban. By Maija Liuhto and Shashank Bengali KABUL, Afghanistan — Late one night in February, villagers in the Dasht-eArchi district of northern Afghanistan heard strange sounds from the nearby Panj river, which marks the border with Tajikistan. One farmer said he saw the bright lights of planes landing close to the riverbank, just inside Afghan territory in an area controlled by Taliban militants. Word of American airstrikes or raids against insurgents travels fast in Kunduz province, but the next morning no one had any information about such an operation. The villagers concluded that the planes belonged to another powerful country seeking to press its influence in Afghanistan. “It would have had to be the Russians,” said the farmer, who asked to be identified as Gul Agha. “These areas are outside government control so the question is raised, why were the planes landing there?” Reports have swirled for months across northern Afghanistan that Russia is increasing its support for the Taliban, providing weapons and financing to the militant group that has battled U.S. and international forces since 2001. If true, it would be a sharp reversal of Moscow’s troubled Cold War adventures in Afghanistan, where leaders of what became the Taliban helped drive out Soviet soldiers who invaded in 1979 to

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AFGHAN Ambassador Qayyum Kochai, left, with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow.

prop up a communist government in Kabul. Back then, it was the U.S. under President Reagan that backed the Afghan mujahideen, who referred to themselves as freedom fighters, against the Soviets. Russia’s return to Afghanistan, according to analysts and Western diplomats in Kabul, is intended to counter the spread of Islamic State-affiliated militants

in Central Asia and further challenge the United States at a time when the Trump administration has failed to articulate a plan for ending the Afghan war. Trump has not appointed an ambassador to Kabul and has barely spoken about the longest conflict in U.S. history, although commanders have said they want to add to the 8,400 American troops still

stationed here. “The U.S. has become less active while Russia has increased its activities,” said a Western diplomat in Kabul, who spoke on condition of anonymity under diplomatic protocol. U.S. and Afghan officials have reacted with alarm since Alexander Mantytskiy, the Russian ambassador to Kabul, acknowledged in December that Moscow main-

Quieter new year may spell trouble for Iran’s president The economic crunch has taken on added significance as the May 19 election nears. By Ramin Mostaghim and Shashank Bengali TEHRAN — Usually in the weeks before Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, downtown Tehran is jammed with traffic as shoppers pick up gifts in the brightly lighted shops surrounding the British and German embassies. But this year, the streets were noticeably quieter, the popular clothing and home appliance stores reporting much less business around the holiday in March. “Compared to last year, our sales were down at least 10%,” said Mehdi Mosavi, 27, standing idle in his father’s menswear shop. “In fact, in the past five years our sales have been plunging.” The ongoing financial crunch in Iran, always the No. 1 topic on many Tehran residents’ minds, has taken on added significance ahead of next month’s presidential election, a test of voters’ support for President Hassan Rouhani’s efforts to stabilize an economy battered by international sanctions and official mismanagement. Moderates and reformminded Iranians, who back Rouhani’s reelection, argue that macroeconomic trends have improved and that inflation has dropped from stratospheric levels since he took office in 2013. “Bringing down 44% inflation to less than 8% in less than four years is an economic miracle,” Majid Ansari, the vice president for legal affairs, said recently. But conservatives who oppose the president argue that ordinary Iranians have seen their purchasing power drop. They find plenty of evidence among city dwellers, who make up 70% of Iran’s 80

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conservatives say. Given the slack job market, people are spending significantly less on nonessential items. million-plus population and report a slack job market and significantly less spending on nonessential items. Ali Rezavand, who owns a barbershop near Tehran University, said clients who used to come for haircuts every two weeks now wait six to seven weeks between visits. “Haircuts are like sunglasses — it is an elastic good, not a staple,” said Rezavand, 40. “I can tell you that my income has been diminishing year in and year out.” Mohammad Moradi, a 23-year-old working behind the counter at a small grocery, said he has lost nearly a third of his business. “People simply cannot afford to buy anything but their staple foods,” he said, cracking open sunflower seeds in his empty shop. “When it comes to ice cream or biscuits, or anything to eat for fun, they think twice.” The Nowruz holiday served as a moment of stocktaking as the Persian calendar year drew to a close and campaigning for the May 19 election heated up. Although most international sanctions against Iran were lifted more than a year ago, after Rouhani’s government agreed to curbs on its nuclear program, some unilateral U.S. restrictions remain and have ham-

pered economic recovery. Conservatives seeking to unseat Rouhani, a relative moderate who has tried to mend ties with the West, have mounted a political offensive, saying the president misled Iranians into believing the nuclear deal would bring economic relief. Even conservative former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has joined the anti-Rouhani chorus. Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has told him not to run again, so the rabble-rousing Ahmadinejad is instead backing the candidacy of his former vice president, Hamid Baghaei, who served seven months in jail on corruption charges. A populist who retains a following among the working class, Ahmadinejad has called on Rouhani to restore cash payments to civilians that the president discontinued because they contributed to runaway inflation. At a recent news conference in Tehran, his first in years, Ahmadinejad rattled off a list of economic problems he ascribed to the current administration. “Our people are suffering from soaring prices, severe diminishing of purchasing power, unprecedented weakness in [factory] production, a widening gap between the haves and have-

nots, widespread corruption and discrimination, unemployment and a reduction of social capital,” Ahmadinejad said, accusing the government of manipulating figures. Sayyid Laylaz, an economist close to the reformist camp, said Ahmadinejad’s policies were so detrimental to Iran’s economy that remedial measures will take four or five years. Under Rouhani, Iran has all but ended costly gasoline imports and increased sales of Persian carpets to other countries, Laylaz said. “If people are patient, purchasing power will return to what it was more than 12 years ago, before President Ahmadinejad came into office,” he said. Rouhani remains popular, especially in urban areas, and the fractious conservatives lack a widely respected challenger. Although the hard-line Guardian Council has the final say on the slate of candidates, many analysts believe Khamenei will support Rouhani’s candidacy so as to preserve continuity amid growing tensions with the Trump administration. But the economy will remain the key issue in the campaign. Ali Amiri, a retired primary school principal who now sells imported cars, said his income has dropped by more than 50% as more Iranians opt to lease domestic vehicles. Luxury car sales have all but dried up, the 60year-old said, and some of his remaining customers have tried to cheat him. “I have survived two heart attacks because of my clients’ bounced checks,” he said, joking. shashank.bengali @latimes.com Twitter: @SBengali Special correspondent Mostaghim reported from Tehran and Times staff writer Bengali from Mumbai, India.

tained contact with the Taliban. This month, Gen. Joseph Votel, head of U.S. Central Command, told Congress that it was “fair to assume” Russia was supporting the Taliban, although he did not disclose details. Russia denies supplying the Taliban with weapons and insists its contacts are solely aimed at bringing the insurgents to the negotiating table. Zamir Kabulov, President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy to Afghanistan, has called the allegations of material support to the insurgents “absolute lies ... aimed at justifying the failure of the U.S. military and politicians.” Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid also denied that the group received money or arms from Russia. But an official with the National Directorate of Security, the Afghan intelligence agency, said Russian intelligence agents were providing the Taliban with strategic advice, money and weapons, including old antiaircraft rockets. The Russian support has played a role in the Taliban’s advances in Kunduz, where they have twice briefly seized the provincial capital, Afghanistan’s fifth-largest city, said the official, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. It also represents another effort by Putin to exert power globally while weakening the United States. Russia has intervened in the Syrian war on behalf of President Bashar Assad, and U.S. intelligence officials believe Putin directed a secret campaign to tilt the 2016 presidential election in Trump’s favor. U.S. officials see Russia as a threat to an already struggling government in Kabul — which is losing an increasing amount of territory and troops to Taliban advances — and to Afghan civilians, who are being killed and injured in record numbers, mainly in Taliban attacks. “We know that actions by Russia in Afghanistan are meant to undermine the work of the United States and NATO to support the Afghan government,” said Capt. William Salvin, spokesman for the U.S.-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization coalition in Afghanistan. The Afghan official said Russian intelligence agents have held meetings with Taliban representatives in Tajikistan and Moscow, and occasionally enter Afghan territory in border provinces such as Kunduz. He added that Russians were serving as “creative minds and strategists for the Taliban” at a kind of academy in Iran. Northern Afghanistan, particularly Kunduz, is of particular interest to Russia because Kabul’s control in the area is limited and the

province borders Tajikistan, a Russian ally that has helped mediate contacts with the Taliban. In northern Afghanistan, Russian activity “is wellknown to everybody,” said Haroun Mir, a political analyst who regularly travels to the area. Mir said Russia has increased contacts with the Taliban over the last year, coinciding with the spread of Islamic State militants. Afghan and Western officials believe that many of the militants fled an army crackdown in Pakistan’s tribal belt and are of Central Asian origin, raising fears in Moscow that they could strike Russian interests. Waheed Muzhda, a former official in the Taliban government that ruled Kabul until the 2001 U.S.-led invasion, said Russian outreach to the Taliban began a decade ago, when it twice invited insurgent representatives to Moscow to express concern over Uzbek militants fighting alongside them. Tayyab Agha, head of the Taliban’s political wing, assured Moscow that the militants would not create problems for Russia in Central Asia, Muzhda said. Russia now appears to be using those contacts to portray itself as a peacemaker. Moscow has held two multinational meetings on Afghanistan since December and scheduled a third for mid-April, which representatives from 12 countries, including China, Pakistan, Iran, India and Afghanistan, are expected to attend. The United States — which has failed repeatedly to goad the Taliban into talks — declined to participate, saying it had not been consulted in advance. Although the Russian initiative is seen as a long shot, analysts said it could emerge as a counterweight to U.S. influence in Afghanistan. “When we had increasing contacts with the Taliban, Russia was very suspicious, and now that they are, we don’t like it,” said Barnett Rubin, a former State Department official in Afghanistan during the Obama administration who is now at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University. “For whatever motive, [Russia] is doing what should be done, which is trying to bring the Taliban into a regional political solution to the conflict in Afghanistan.” shashank.bengali @latimes.com Twitter: @SBengali Special correspondent Liuhto reported from Kabul and Times staff writer Bengali from Mumbai, India. Special correspondent Mansur Mirovalev in Moscow contributed to this report.

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[Egypt, from A1] Islamic State. Three days after that, Trump stepped more directly into the maelstrom of Middle Eastern geopolitics by hitting Syria with a U.S. airstrike in punishment after a chemical weapons attack. But the latest horror in Egypt, the largest recipient of U.S. aid in the Arab world, offers a reminder of how deeply entrenched the region’s problems are, and how even an autocratic U.S. ally like Sisi is unable to keep a lid on Islamist extremism. The first of the two bombings occurred about 9:30 a.m. at St. George’s Church in the Nile Delta town of Tanta, killing 27 people and wounding 78, according to Sharif Wadih, an aide to the country’s health minister. “I was inside the church at that time and suddenly, the church was bombed,” said Makaram Kamal Rateb, 58, tearing up as he described the attack in Tanta, about 50 miles north of Cairo. “There were bodies and blood everywhere.” Rateb, who worships at the church, said there was no security to protect churchgoers from the attacker, who died in the bombing. Among the wounded was a 7-month-old who suffered severe burns, authorities said. The second explosion occurred Sunday afternoon at St. Mark’s Cathedral in the coastal city of Alexandria, where the patriarch of the Egyptian Coptic Church, Pope Tawadros II, had earlier celebrated Palm Sunday. It killed 17 people and wounded at least 48 others, according to Wadih. Tawadros was in the Alexandria church at the time of the bombing but was not injured, the Interior Ministry said. The ministry said the blast was caused by a suicide bomber who tried to storm the entrance before being stopped by police. It said three police officers were among those killed. Egyptian security officials said they found and defused explosive devices at several other locations Sunday, including at a prominent Sufi Muslim shrine in Tanta and at the College Saint Marc, an all-boys school in downtown Alexandria. Christians make up about 10% of Egypt’s population of 85 million, and they are especially visible during Palm Sunday, one week before Easter, when they tote palm fronds in the streets. They have repeatedly been targeted by Islamist extremists in recent years: Last week, local media reported a bomb was found at St. George’s Church and defused. The Coptic Church is the dominant Christian de-

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II, the patriarch of the Egyptian Coptic Church, was at the cathedral but was not injured, officials said.

nomination in Egypt, where it is said to have been established in the 1st century by the Apostle Mark. The bombings occurred weeks before a scheduled visit to Egypt by Pope Francis, raising questions about security for that trip. Police were stationed at St. George’s Church after the attack, emptying the building and clearing the scene to investigate as mourners stood outside clutching flowers and growing increasingly upset about what they viewed as lax security that allowed the attacks. On Sunday night, the bodies of some of the dead were carried through the church in simple wooden coffins as hundreds clapped, sang and cheered them as heroes. Sisi released a statement calling for the convening of the National Defense Council and condemning the attacks as “treacherous terrorism.” He offered condolences to victims’ families, and promised to investigate and bring those responsible to justice. He ordered immediate deployment of troops to assist police in protecting vital facilities across the country, according to a statement released by his spokesman. Such terrorism, Sisi said, “will never affect the determination of Egyptians and their true willpower to oppose the forces of evil. Rather, it will increase their determination to move past obstacles and achieve security.” Trump responded to the

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attacks on Twitter, writing: “So sad to hear of the terrorist attack in Egypt. U.S. strongly condemns. I have great confidence that President Al Sisi will handle the situation properly.” In the wake of the attacks, the Tanta area security chief Hossam Din Khalifa was relieved of duty, according to state-owned Al Ahram news. Witnesses posted photographs online showing victims being loaded into ambulances, civilians evacuating the wounded near stone pillars spattered with blood and bodies scattered among the pews. A nun stood beside police tape strung across blood-soaked pews, holding her face in her hands. During his Palm Sunday address in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis expressed his “deep condolences” to Tawadros II, whom he called “my brother,” and to the Coptic Church and “all of the dear Egyptian nation.” Francis said he was praying for the dead and injured. The Roman Catholic

pontiff, whose authority does not extend to the Coptic Church, asked that God “convert the hearts of those who spread terror, violence and death, and also the hearts of those who make, and traffic in, weapons.” The pope has called for an end to what he terms a “genocide” against Christians in the Middle East, but has also said it’s wrong to equate Islam with violence. He was invited to come to Egypt this month by Sisi to help mend ties with Muslims. Grand Sheik Ahmed Tayeb, head of Egypt’s Al Azhar University, the leading center of learning in Sunni Islam, condemned the attack in Tanta, calling it a “despicable terrorist bombing that targeted the lives of innocents.” Al Azhar has plans to host the pope during his visit. Egypt has struggled to combat militancy since the military overthrow of an elected Islamist president in 2013. An Islamic State affiliate based in the Sinai Peninsula

claimed responsibility for a December suicide bombing at a chapel next to St. Mark’s Coptic Cathedral in Cairo that killed 29 people and wounded 47, and vowed more attacks on Christians. In February, a series of killings on the northern Sinai Peninsula caused hundreds of Christians to flee as militants threatened further attacks. Although the Egyptian military has also been attacked in the area as it fights Islamic State, some human rights activists complained Sisi had failed to protect the religious minority. “Christian Egyptians are being targeted by radical groups in Egypt, like all Egyptians opposed to ISIS and the like — but Christians are targeted twice. As Egyptians, but also as Christians,” said H.A. Hellyer, a fellow at the Atlantic Council and the Royal United Services Institute in London, referring to Islamic State by an acronym. Hellyer said the attacks will probably be a topic of discussion during the pope’s

visit. “He may bring up the issue of sectarianism in Egypt, which Cairo will respond is already being targeted,” Hellyer said. Sisi has tried to reach out to Coptic Christians, who have supported him in the past, attending services at St. Mark’s in Cairo after the bombing there and promising to step up security in the capital. But some Copts said Sunday that the government’s efforts were not enough. “The police didn’t care about protecting the churches in Egypt,” said Hani Ezzat, 42, who manages a government gas company and has a relative who was wounded in Tanta. “This is a very important day for Christians and Copts in Egypt. Thousands of Christians go to church to celebrate Palm Sunday. The police know that, and they didn’t take any measures to protect them. ISIS knows that, so they’re bombing more than one church.” Others said that they didn’t blame police and that the attack was an affront to all Egyptians. George Mansour said the attack in Tanta claimed the life of his cousin, Raouf Mansour, 55, who sold books in front of the church and served as a deacon. But Mansour, 35, said he still felt safe. “The people who bomb the churches like the cathedral last December and now, they want to destroy the whole country: Muslim, Christians, the economy” and not just Coptic Christians, he said. He said he was hopeful that police would step up protections for all Egyptians. “I am not afraid. Egypt’s enemies won’t destroy the country,” Mansour said, standing outside the hospital Sunday as ambulances arrived and paramedics emerged bearing more victims on stretchers. molly.hennessy-fiske @latimes.com Special correspondents Nassar reported from Tanta and Medhat from Cairo. Times staff writer Hennessy-Fiske reported from Irbil, Iraq. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Trump’s plan for Syria unclear His team delivers mixed messages about militants and Assad. By Laura King The Trump administration gave mixed messages about its goals in Syria on Sunday, with top officials stressing different priorities after a U.S. airstrike that marked a deepening involvement in the country’s bitter conflict. Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said that the departure of Syrian President Bashar Assad is a U.S. priority, just as it was under the Obama administration, and that peace in Syria was probably impossible while he remained in power. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson took a more nuanced view, asserting that Assad had undermined his legitimacy as a leader but declaring that defeating Islamic State remains the top U.S. goal in Syria. President Trump’s longterm intentions in Syria thus remained unclear in the days since 59 Tomahawk missiles tore into a Syrian air base that U.S. officials said was used to launch a deadly poison gas attack on April 4 that killed about 80 Syrian civilians and injured dozens

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back to Syria after being treated at a hospital in neighboring Turkey. more. The retaliatory airstrike marked a policy reversal for Trump, who had declared throughout his campaign that the United States should not involve itself in local conflicts, an isolationist view consistent with his “America first” policy prism. On Sunday, Tillerson emphasized that the administration considers defeating the Sunni militants of Islamic State the most pressing concern in Syria, not ousting

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Assad. “First and foremost, we must defeat ISIS,” Tillerson said on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” using an acronym for Islamic State. Assad’s eventual fate, he said, “is something that we will be working [on] with allies and others in the coalition.” That marked an apparent shift from his comments to reporters Thursday night, when he said, “It would seem there would be no role for him to govern the Syrian people.” Haley was harsher on CNN’s “State of the Union.” As long as Assad stays in power, she said, “there’s not any sort of option where a political solution is going to happen.” “If you look at his actions, if you look at the situation, it’s going to be hard to see a government that’s peaceful and stable with Assad,” she added. The U.S. envoy said “regime change is something that we think is going to happen” in Syria, but she stopped short of suggesting

Washington would directly seek that outcome. Taken together, the comments of Haley and Tillerson suggested senior members of Trump’s foreign policy team may be seeking to shape the president’s views, with Haley more opposed than Tillerson to Assad remaining in power. Tillerson’s more restrained language may reflect his plans to visit Moscow for meetings this week, however, where he hopes to ease the latest tensions in ties. Russia’s government has angrily denounced the missile strike as an act of unwarranted aggression, and denied that Assad’s forces carried out the attack with the banned nerve gas sarin. But President Vladimir Putin has not personally condemned the U.S. airstrike, and some reports suggest he is unhappy that Assad has boxed him into defending what many consider a war crime. [email protected]

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‘Unmasking’ story reveals 2 worlds The mainstream and conservative media offer widely divergent takes on Susan Rice. By Matt Pearce and Michael Finnegan The story about former Obama administration official Susan Rice and purported Russia surveillance leaks that came to briefly dominate the national conversation last week had its genesis in, of all places, the suburbs of Orange County. The first tidbit emerged from the primordial media soup thanks to a lifestyle blogger and conservative social media personality named Mike Cernovich. “Nobody in media and journalism knows more about ‘deep state’ than I do,” Cernovich, who has almost 250,000 Twitter followers, gloated in a live-stream broadcast April 2, appearing at home in a hoodie and downing a glass of red wine. Cernovich’s big exclusive ? He said Rice, Obama’s former national security advisor, had requested “unmasking” the names of Donald Trump’s associates who were caught up in U.S. surveillance of foreign officials. Cernovich — and other conservatives who quickly took the ball and ran — saw it as a partial validation of President Trump’s incendiary claim on Twitter a month ago that “Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower” before the election. “Way to break the story mike!” wrote a viewer, one of many quickly commenting in approval of Cernovich’s broadcast. “Huge story Mike!” another said. One commenter typed out and sent a question, which popped up on the broadcast and then quickly disappeared: “What’s unmasking and why is it wrong?” That’s a question any news consumer might ask of any story: What is this, and is it bad? Yet when it came to Rice, Americans were about to see conservative and mainstream news outlets come up with two very different answers to that question — a symptom of the increasing extent to which Americans often seem to live in one nation but inhabit two widely divergent realities. One version these days typically comes from Fox News and other outlets that echo the Trump White House line. A much different one can often be found on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, the New York Times and the rest of the mainstream media. So it was with the Rice “story,” which for nearly two days the mainstream media largely ignored and, when it couldn’t any longer, dismissed as irrelevant. “It’s a huge problem,” said Tom Hollinan, a professor of political communication at the USC Annenberg School. “One of the things that a healthy democracy and a deliberating public need is the ability to participate in a common conversation. They should be able to share news and understand facts in a way that helps them make sense of the world around them and make good decisions.” The story seriously got rolling Monday morning after Trump tweeted about Fox News’ “amazing reporting” on a “crooked scheme” by an unknown Obama official to spy on him by “unmasking” his associates. Cernovich’s scoop was mostly overlooked, until Bloomberg columnist Eli Lake published a story identifying the official as Rice. (He later said he was unaware of Cernovich’s report.) Lake, a respected reporter on national security issues based in Washington, delivered a relatively straight-ahead report: He said Rice had requested the names of Americans involved in certain monitored conversations, which were “primarily between foreign officials discussing the Trump transition, but also in some cases direct contact between members of the Trump team and monitored foreign officials.” The names of Americans are typically redacted from U.S. intelli-

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Trump and his associates, or was she just doing her job? It depends on where you are getting your news. gence reports on surveillance of foreigners, and “unmasking” them is permitted only under certain circumstances. The question of who in the Trump transition team was talking to Russian officials was of major political significance: Both houses of Congress had launched investigations of Russian political activities in the U.S., and Trump’s initial national security advisor, Michael Flynn, had been fired for dissembling about his contacts with Russia’s U.S. ambassador. Lake, when he published his story, wasn’t taking Cernovich’s line. He noted that the new details about Rice “do not vindicate” Trump’s claims about wiretapping, and he wrote that the evidence suggested “Rice’s unmasking requests were likely within the law” — because revealing names in a classified surveillance report to the country’s national security advisor isn’t necessarily the same as disclosing them to the public. Yet the story surged through conservative media, whose pundits were concerned that the unmasking was done for political purposes, not national security. “BOMBSHELL REPORT,” wrote conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, who concluded that “the only scandal here is the apparent targeting and leaking of names from the Trump team in order to smear them by high-ranking Obama officials.” (Rice later said, “I leaked nothing to nobody, and never have.”) Radio host Rush Limbaugh, breaking the news to his massive daily audience, attacked Rice as untrustworthy because of inaccurate comments about the 2012 attack at a U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. But then Limbaugh also went after another familiar target, accusing the New York Times of sitting on the Rice story — he noted Cernovich’s claim that the mainstream media was engaging in a cover-up of the story to protect Obama. The day after his report, Cernovich was basking in his scoop, gloating and insulting other conservative outlets on social media, accusing them of plagiarizing him for not crediting him with getting the story first. (He also publicly wondered whether the government was going to assassinate him.) By then, he was ready to reveal, sort of, how he had been handed the story. “I didn’t get it from the intelligence community,” Cernovich said in a video. “That’s the big joke about this. Everybody’s trying to figure out where I got it from. I got it from somebody who works in one of those media companies ... who said, ‘Cernovich, they’re sitting on this story, they’re not going to run it. You can run it.’ ” Cernovich added: “It was maybe an intern, an IT guy. All I’m gonna say is … if you’re in the fake news, I’m reading your emails.” Perhaps that’s how Cernovich had correctly predic-

ted, on the day he broke the story, that Bloomberg was working on a similar story about Rice. But Cernovich also accused New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman of having the story and sitting on it for political reasons. (“Cernovich’s claim regarding Maggie Haberman is 100% false,” a Times spokeswoman said.) Nonetheless, many conservatives believed the Rice story was a smoking gun pointing to partisan bias in the mainstream media. They began scrutinizing the mainstream media for its coverage — which, on April 3, mostly didn’t exist. “Susan Rice’s husband works at ABC News — so, of course, they don’t cover the story at all,” tweeted radio personality Mark Simone the next morning, earning almost 3,000 retweets. (Rice’s husband left ABC News in 2010, and ABC News published its first story on Rice later that day.) Early mainstream media stories that did report on Rice often described the “unmasking” as “normal” and “justified,” as the New York Times did when it published a story on April 3. CNN’s chief national security correspondent, Jim Sciutto, tweeted that the story was “overblown.” Other members of the mainstream media, in turn, believed the Rice controversy was a very different story: about partisan bias in the conservative media. A critical piece by Washington Post blogger Paul Waldman, posted shortly after Rice was identified as the official who had asked for the unmasking of some of the names in the surveillance reports, called it a “fake scandal, ginned up by right-wing media and Trump.” Ryan Lizza of the New Yorker wrote a story calling the scandal “bogus.” CNN host Don Lemon was equally blunt. “There is no evidence whatsoever that the Trump team … was spied on illegally,” Lemon said on April 3. “There is no evidence that backs up the president’s original claim. And on this program tonight, we will not insult your intelligence by pretending otherwise, nor will we aid and abet the people who are trying to misinform you, the American people, by creating a diversion. Not gonna do it.” Lemon’s statement left Fox News analyst Brit Hume aghast. “This is just amazing,” Hume tweeted. “The story is clearly news and refusing to report it is not the behavior of a news organization.” White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer jumped in Tuesday, saying that he was “somewhat intrigued by the lack of interest” by mainstream media. The outcome, by midweek: Millions of viewers of CNN might assume there was no Susan Rice scandal. Millions of viewers of Fox were led to believe that Rice might be proof of Obama administration spying on Trump transition operatives for political ends. And any semblance of a

bipartisan conversation about what the laws of surveillance ought to be, what should be the scope of public officials’ dealings with foreign governments, what is the appropriate exchange of information among the White House, Congress and the security agencies — none of that was likely. Because no one could agree on the facts. Conservative media writers were convinced they had caught Rice in a lie, pointing to an interview Rice had done with PBS in March saying, “I know nothing,” when she was asked about Trump associates being caught up in surveillance. (Politifact, evaluating the remarks in

context, said that “it’s not 100% clear that Rice made an intentionally false statement,” and Rice defended herself on Twitter.) Trump’s son Donald Jr., happy with the turn of events, tweeted: “Congrats to @Cernovich for breaking the #SusanRice story. In a long gone time of unbiased journalism he’d win the Pulitzer, but not today!” After ignoring the initial story, mainstream outlets began to talk about it, but with a tone of skepticism. The New York Times on Tuesday took a bird’s-eye political look at the controversy, not buying the “scoop” factor. “Republicans see a partisan who mined intelli-

gence reports to spy on Mr. Trump’s team. Democrats see a scapegoat tarred for doing her job and used as a distraction from an FBI investigation into Mr. Trump’s associates,” the paper said. The Washington Post wrote the same day about Rice denying that she compiled or leaked any names from Trump’s transition team. The Los Angeles Times didn’t publish a full staff story until Wednesday — three days after Cernovich’s report from the newspaper’s backyard — an explainer on the controversy about unmasking. It was published the day Trump invited two New York Times reporters into the Oval Office to talk about the issue. “I think the Susan Rice thing is a massive story,” Trump said, according to a transcript published by the newspaper. “I think it’s a massive, massive story. All over the world, I mean other than the New York Times.” “We’ve written about it twice,” replied Haberman, one of the reporters. “Huh?” Trump said. “We’ve written about it twice,” Haberman said. Trump then said he thought Rice had committed a crime. It was a stunning statement: a sitting president accusing a former public servant of being a criminal. As a result, Trump succeeded in getting another Rice story into the New York Times. The headline? The paper told its readers that he’d called Rice a criminal. Except the paper also said the president hadn’t given any evidence. And that was the truth. [email protected] michael.finnegan @latimes.com

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[Aid, from A1] destabilization, conflict and catastrophic loss of life.” The U.S. is the largest funder of global health programs, including family planning. The Trump administration has defended the rollback as necessary to address domestic needs, such as repairing aging bridges and airports, and constructing a new wall along the border with Mexico. Conservatives also want to ensure the U.S. is not funding abortion services. “These steps to reduce foreign assistance free up funding for critical priorities here at home and put America first,” the administration said in its 2018 budget proposal released last month. But across the world, there are growing fears the U.S. will no longer be a reliable ally in tackling major global health challenges, including combating HIV/ AIDS, malaria and future pandemics such as Ebola. Last month, more than 100 evangelical and Catholic leaders who work on international aid sent a letter to Trump, imploring him not to cut U.S. aid. “From Genesis to Revelation, the Scriptures compel us to care for the marginalized,” the leaders wrote. “If we can protect the lives of mothers and children, we can intervene not just to save lives but also to establish a foundation of health and wellness to uplift communities, societies and nations.” Several international aid groups, speaking on condition of anonymity to avoid being seen as criticizing the new administration, said they had already been told by U.S. government officials to expect a major shift away from global healthcare assistance. The stakes in this retrenchment are high. Although maternal and child mortality rates have been falling globally, more than 300,000 women died in 2015 from complications dur-

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Development. The Trump administration says drastic cuts to USAID are necessary to fund domestic needs.

ing pregnancy and childbirth, and nearly 6 million children died before the age of 5 because of disease and malnutrition, according to World Health Organization and United Nations estimates. In sub-Saharan Africa, a mother is nearly 40 times more likely to die in childbirth than in the U.S. At the same time, infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria and HIV/ AIDS still claim the lives of hundreds of thousands of people every year. For decades, the U.S. played a crucial role in addressing major global health challenges, even though foreign aid has remained a small fraction of the overall federal budget. The George W. Bush administration’s campaign to address the AIDS epidemic in the developing world —

spearheaded by PEPFAR — is widely credited with helping to turn the tide against the deadly disease. “President Bush changed the face of Africa,” said Jennifer Kates, who oversees global health research for the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation. Total U.S. spending on global health topped $10 billion in 2016, more than half of which is committed to HIV/ AIDS, according to a Kaiser analysis. Support for global family planning has waxed and waned over the years, as Republican presidents, including Bush, have been less supportive. But the Obama administration made family planning a major priority, seeing access to contraception as key to improving the health of mothers and children, empowering women and sup-

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porting economic development. The U.S. is still one of the largest contraceptive purchasers, and last year contributed more than $600 million to global family planning and reproductive health efforts, Kaiser’s analysis found. In Guatemala, USAID money helped build the country’s largest provider of family planning services, known as APROFAM, which now operates a network of hospitals and clinics that last year provided 1.2 million family planning services in a country of 16 million people. In the Philippines, USAID has worked with the government to ensure family planning services are available in more than 400 clinics and hospitals in a region of the country where an estimated 2 million women

and girls have unwanted pregnancies every year. And in Mozambique, the agency has supported a network of community health workers who go door to door in rural areas of the country to provide information on family planning. The Trump administration’s proposed budget, released last month, would cut about 30% of the State Department and USAID budget in 2018. And although the White House said it would continue support for PEPFAR and other global health funds, it has proposed a series of substantial cuts this year to PEPFAR as well as programs targeting polio, tuberculosis and malnutrition, according to budget documents sent to lawmakers last month and first reported by Politico. Cuts to PEPFAR would

be generated, among other ways, by “requiring PEPFAR to begin slowing the rate of new patients on treatment,” the White House proposed. At the same time, the Trump administration has substantially expanded a restriction on U.S. aid to organizations that counsel women about abortion services. U.S. law already bars funding for abortion, but Republican presidents since Ronald Reagan have added a restriction that requires recipients of family planning assistance to attest that they will not even discuss the procedure with patients. When Trump reinstated this ban — commonly called the global gag rule — he said it would apply to all U.S. global health aid, not just family planning funding, which could affect many more aid groups. The United Nations’ ability to provide family planning assistance also took a hit when the Trump administration announced last week that it would pull more than $32 million in funding for UNFPA. The administration cited UNFPA’s work with China, which has engaged in forced sterilizations and abortions, although there is no evidence that UNFPA supports or participates in these activities. Since January, several European countries have indicated they will step up support for global family planning efforts in the wake of the U.S. retreat. But that is doing little to assuage concerns that Trump’s family planning moves are harbingers of other cuts to come. “It is very troubling, especially when you think of the pivotal role the U.S. has played over the years in global health,” said Lawrence Gostin, a global health expert at Georgetown University. “The world is lost without U.S. leadership.” [email protected] Twitter: @noamlevey

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[Measures, from A1] ready promised to public employees. The attorney general’s title and summary, which appear on petitions and in the official voter guide, can powerfully shape attitudes toward a ballot measure. The language has emerged as a battleground between those seeking to overhaul California’s public retirement system and those determined to defend it. “It’s the one thing every voter will see, and it’s the last thing every voter will see,” said Thomas W. Hiltachk, a lawyer who specializes in California initiatives and has run campaigns in support of Republican ballot measures, including some targeting public pensions. “Whether you have a wellfunded campaign or an underfunded campaign, those words are critically important.” Retirement benefits are the fastest-growing expense in many municipal budgets. In Los Angeles and other cities, they account for 20% or more of general fund spending. The burden has pushed some cities to the edge of bankruptcy. Yet a string of court rulings, known collectively as “the California Rule,” has posed a formidable barrier to change. It prohibits cuts in pension benefits already granted or promised. Under the rule, pensions are considered binding contracts protected by the state Constitution. For that reason, many of the cost-saving measures passed by the Legislature in recent years, including later retirement ages and smaller monthly pension checks, did not affect employees already on the payroll. They applied only to newly hired workers. As a result, the savings will not kick in for many years. Pension reform advocates say that achieving real relief in the near term will require reductions in benefits already granted to current employees. Because of the California Rule, that can be done only by amending the Constitution. And that requires a ballot initiative. A wide majority of California voters surveyed have favored changing the pension system to save money. Support drops sharply when the change is framed as reducing benefits for teachers, police and firefighters. That’s why the attorney general’s choice of words is so important. By law, the title and summary “shall be true and impartial” and not likely to “create prejudice for or against the proposed measure.” Disputes over the language have figured prominently in several major reform attempts. The most recent, in 2013-14, was led by then-San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed and former San Diego City Councilman Carl DeMaio. Reed, a Democrat, and

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AS MAYOR of San Jose, Chuck Reed, left, with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, helped lead a measure to alter

the “California Rule.” The bid was abandoned after then-Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris issued her ballot summary. DeMaio, a Republican, proposed a constitutional amendment to alter the California Rule by targeting future benefits of current employees. Workers would keep retirement benefits they had earned, but future benefits would no longer be guaranteed; they would be determined through collective bargaining or public referendum. A survey conducted for labor groups opposed to the initiative found that majority support for pension reform collapsed if it was described as “eliminating police, firefighters, and other public employees’ vested pension benefits” or “eliminating state constitutional protections.” The word “eliminate” “fosters a visceral negative response from voters,” according to a memo by the labor coalition’s Washington pollsters. The Sacramento Bee published an article about the memo in December 2013. Three weeks later, thenAtty. Gen. Kamala Harris issued her summary of the initiative. It said the Reed-DeMaio measure “eliminates constitutional protections for vested pension and retiree healthcare benefits for current public employees, including teachers, nurses, and peace officers, for future work performed.” Reed and DeMaio sued the attorney general, accusing her of modeling her ballot language on the labor survey. The suit suggested an alternative summary: “Amends California constitution to allow government employers to negotiate with

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ries using words that are “operative for everyone.” government employees to modify pension and retiree healthcare benefits for future work performed.” In response, Harris said her summary was accurate and fair. “Voters may or may not like the idea of eliminating vested pension rights for public employees … but that is what the measure does and voters should be told,” Harris wrote in a court filing. A Superior Court judge in Sacramento dismissed the suit, ruling that on each of the initiative’s key points, there was “nothing false or misleading” about Harris’ summary. Reed and DeMaio dropped the initiative in March 2014. “I personally didn’t think she would be so obviously, egregiously negative,” Reed, now special counsel at Hopkins & Carley, a Silicon Valley law firm, said of Harris. Harris did not respond to requests to be interviewed

for this article. She was elected attorney general in 2010 with strong financial support from labor: more than $600,000 in donations to her campaign and to independent expenditure committees, according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics. She raised a total of $7.5 million that year. Harris received an additional $400,000 from labor for her 2014 reelection effort, and she collected $73,102 from public employee unions in her successful $14million campaign for the U.S. Senate last year. Steve Maviglio, a spokesman for Californians for Retirement Security, the labor coalition that opposed the Reed-DeMaio initiative, said the campaign contributions to Harris don’t prove anything. He said the labor survey indicated that the initiative would lose “regardless of how the ballot

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language is written.” Maviglio said recent pension initiatives have simply been too extreme for voters to support. “I think that’s just a lame excuse for their political malpractice,” he said. The Reed-DeMaio measure marked the second time Harris had approved summary language that proponents of pension reform regarded as unfair. California Pension Reform, a Republican-led advocacy group, proposed an initiative for the 2012 ballot that would have reduced benefits for current and newly hired public workers. It called for imposing caps on how much government employers could contribute toward workers’ retirements. The attorney general’s summary stated that the initiative “eliminates constitutional protections for current and future public employees’ vested pension benefits.” California Pension Reform dropped the initiative, asserting that the “false and misleading title and summary make it nearly impossible to pass.” Harris’ office rejected the criticism, saying the title and summary accurately described “the initiative’s chief points and purposes.” Dan Pellissier, president of the advocacy group and a former aide to Assembly Republicans, said there wasn’t enough time to challenge the attorney general in court and still collect enough signatures to meet the ballot deadline. He said the summary was unfair because it stated as fact that pension benefits are constitutionally protected when the issue is in dispute. One of Harris’ predecessors, Democratic Atty. Gen. Bill Lockyer, was accused of writing politically charged language for a pension measure in 2005. The initiative, proposed by thenGov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, would have given future state workers 401(k)-style retirement accounts instead of traditional pensions. Schwarzenegger said in his State of the State address that year that California’s pension obligations had risen from $160 million in 2000 to $2.6 billion, “threatening our state.” But the Republican governor abandoned the initiative in April 2005, after Lockyer’s office issued a title and

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An aggressive bid to better compete in e-commerce Wal-Mart beefs up online as shoppers shift more of their buying to the Internet By James F. Peltz Dissenters were quick to react when ModCloth, an online seller of trendy women’s clothes and accessories, was acquired by retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. last month. “You have disappointed us all,” one reader commented under a blog post by ModCloth co-founder Susan Gregg Koger announcing the sale — the notion being that ModCloth would lose its cache as part of a discount mass merchant. “I’m done shopping with you,” wrote another. But Gregg Koger noted that Wal-Mart would give ModCloth “the necessary resources and support that we need as a business to grow.” ModCloth is one example of how Wal-Mart is belatedly but aggressively expanding its e-commerce business to keep pace with the seismic shift in consumer shopping from bricks-and-mortar stores to the Internet. With nearly half-a-trillion dollars in annual sales and 4,700 U.S. stores, Wal-Mart has been buying online retailers, slashing shipping rates and rolling out new ways for in-store customers to do more of their shopping at Walmart.com and its other websites. While traditional U.S. in-store retailing is growing less than 2% a year, forcing many retailers to close stores, e-commerce is growing 16% annually, the research firm EMarketer Inc. reports. E-commerce sales this year will hit $462 billion and soar to $789 billion by 2021, the firm estimates. Wal-Mart’s effort to tap that online growth often is portrayed as a direct attack on Amazon.com Inc., the online-retailing behemoth. Wal-Mart prefers to frame its strategy as capturing more of the e-commerce market by blending its in-store, online and mobile-app offerings so that customers can easily move from one to the other to make purchases. If it snatches business from Amazon in the process, all the better. One of Wal-Mart’s key acquisitions was Jet.com Inc., which also sells a wide variety of consumer products and groceries. Wal-Mart paid $3.3 billion for Jet.com last year and then named Jet.com Chairman Marc Lore to head its entire U.S. e-commerce operation. “It was a radical signal to everyone that the biggest retailer in the world was willing to put $3.3 billion into the [online] market,” said Adrien Nussenbaum, chief executive of Mirakl, a developer of software products for retailers and other firms. Under Lore and Wal-Mart Chief Executive Doug McMillon, WalMart has taken several other steps to bolster its e-commerce sales, including: 8 Acquiring Shoebuy.com, an online footwear retailer, and Moosejaw.com, an online seller of outdoor apparel and gear. Those retailers and ModCloth continue operating as separate websites. 8 Launching free two-day shipping for orders of $35 or more at Walmart.com, Jet.com and many of its other sites. 8 Boosting the stock on its virtual shelves. At the start of 2016, Walmart.com had 8 million items for sale; today it has more than 35 million items. 8 Launching a program that allows in-store customers to go online or check their phone app to see

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WAL-MART aims to capture more of the e-commerce market by blending its in-store, online and

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MARC LORE , right, head of Wal-Mart’s U.S. e-commerce operation, at a ‘15 conference. “We need

to catch up. There are some big things we have in the works,” he said at a recent tech gathering. a list of items they have bought, then reorder those items online. 8 Rolling out a groceries program whereby customers order items online and then have the groceries loaded into their vehicle at a Wal-Mart store. 8 Forming a division called Store No. 8 that’s intended to hatch new online retail approaches and businesses. Wal-Mart said in October that it was going to slow the pace of new store openings this year, in good part to shift investments to its ecommerce business. “We’re being pretty active,” Lore said during a recent tech gathering, called Code Commerce, in Las Vegas. “We’re behind. We need to catch up. There are some big things we

have in the works,” said Lore, who spent two years with Amazon after it bought his previous online venture, the parent of Diapers.com and other sites. Wal-Mart is the second-largest online mass merchandiser behind Amazon, but it’s a distant second. Amazon’s product sales totaled $94.7 billion last year while WalMart’s tallied $14.4 billion, according to EMarketer. Amazon, with $136 billion in total sales last year, has other assets and services as well, namely a variety of video, entertainment and other services available through its Prime membership. Prime also provides free shipping on Amazon purchases, and analysts estimate about 65 million Amazon customers subscribe to

Prime for $99 a year. (Amazon doesn’t disclose the number except to say it has “tens of millions” of subscribers.) Stephen Beck, founder of the management consulting firm Cg42, said Prime gives Amazon customers more incentive to shop at the site. Prime customers spend an average of $270 a year above what they were spending at Amazon before subscribing, he said. “One of the things Amazon does really well is to highlight the value of the Prime subscription,” Beck said. “Wal-Mart is a retailer and proudly so, but Amazon is more than that.” Amazon spokeswoman Sally Fouts would not comment about Wal-Mart’s specific online ventures, but she said, “We’ve had

competition every day of our existence at Amazon, and it’s never changed our approach. “We obsess over customers and the things we believe customers will always care about — low prices, vast selection and fast delivery.” Amazon’s efforts extend to a grocery delivery service in certain areas, including Los Angeles, called Amazon Fresh. It’s also begun testing its own grocery pickup service in Seattle, where Amazon is headquartered. Although Wal-Mart is well behind Amazon in e-commerce, WalMart has the scale and resources to make a much bigger splash in online shopping. The Bentonville, Ark., company, which also owns the Sam’s Club chain, posted total sales of $482 billion in its fiscal year that ended Jan. 31. The company says its 4,700 U.S. stores are located within five miles of 70% of the U.S. population, and it has an enormous distribution network in place. More than 140 million people shop at its stores and Walmart.com in the U.S. every week. Wal-Mart doesn’t break out dollar sales for its U.S. e-commerce group. But the company began reporting year-over-year percentage changes in the group’s sales with the fourth quarter that ended Jan. 31, and in that quarter sales jumped 29% from a year earlier. The gain included results from Jet.com, which Wal-Mart bought last September. In the groceries sector, “the [online] battle for supremacy is still undecided” so it makes sense for Wal-Mart to be aggressive because it’s “an area where Amazon has not dominated,” EMarketer analyst Yoram Wurmser said. Even if Wal-Mart never catches Amazon overall, “I think they can live very well alongside Amazon because they have so many stores, access to so many products and great logistics” for moving goods to consumers while keeping prices low, Nussenbaum said. When asked about competing with Amazon’s Prime membership, Lore told the conference that “we’re offering two-day free delivery [with a $35 minimum] on 2 million products. We think that’s a really compelling-value proposition, given the prices we’re offering, and we feel like we’re wellpositioned to target that mass customer.” Wal-Mart is eyeing the broader goal of making it easy for customers to shift from shopping in its stores to shopping online or with their smartphones. “We believe the future of commerce is a blend of stores, online and mobile seamlessly coming together, allowing customers to shop how, when and where they want,” Wal-Mart spokesman Ravi Jariwala said. As for those ModCloth customers who grumbled that the operation is now owned by Wal-Mart, Lore had this response: “If we were going, tomorrow, to take the products of ModCloth and put them on Wal-Mart and discontinue investments in them as an independent brand, absolutely I get it, I’d be complaining too,” he said. “We’re not doing that. We’re keeping them as a fully independent subsidiary, and we’re going to invest aggressively in the business, and the business and the customer are going to be better off.” [email protected]

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Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is aggressively beefing up its e-commerce efforts to keep pace with the shift to online shopping and to better compete with the likes of Amazon.com Inc. Here’s a look at the U.S. e-commerce market and its players: Biggest U.S. e-commerce retailers based on 2016 global sales

U.S. e-commerce sales**

(in billions)

(in billions)

Amazon.com

$696

$16.8

Wal-Mart

$5.6 $4.8

Macy’s

$4.6

Costco

$4.2 $4

*Excludes media/advertising services Source: EMarketer Inc.

$398 billion

$462

Apparel/accessories

$86 billion

Computer/electronics

$610

$14.4

Best Buy

QVC

(in billions)

$789

$94.7 billion*

Apple

Home Depot

Estimated e-commerce sales by product category in 2017

$77

Auto and parts

$532

$49

Books/music/videos

$39

Furniture/home furnishing

$37

Health/personal care Toys/hobby

Estimated

’16

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’18

’19

’20

’21

$33 $20

Office equipment/supplies

$12

Food/beverage

$11

Other

$97

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Illegal crossings down to a trickle [Border, from A1] Southwest border, the number of immigrants caught crossing illegally into the United States has dropped dramatically. Fewer than 12,200 people were apprehended in March, a 64% decrease from the same time last year, and the lowest monthly number in at least 17 years. Here in the Rio Grande Valley, ground zero since 2014 for the flow of asylum seekers fleeing violence and persecution in Central America, the number of families and unaccompanied children caught entering the United States has plummeted, from about 291 a day in January to just 37 a day in March. Migration experts, Border Patrol agents and advocates offer plenty of reasons for the sharp decline in people crossing over, including President Trump’s aggressive stance on securing the border, media coverage of recent immigration raids, and heightened security on Mexico’s southern border. A rise in smuggling fees could also be a factor. “We don’t really have a normal anymore,” said Castro, who has worked for Customs and Border Protection for nearly 20 years. She insists that agents are not doing anything differently; the Trump administration’s executive orders are simply enforcing laws already on the books. “Are you going to risk a 1,000-mile journey and pay $8,000 to be smuggled if you’re not sure you’ll get to stay?” Castro said, offering a reason she thinks fewer asylum seekers are crossing over. “I wouldn’t.” The Trump administration has been quick to take credit for the drop in apprehensions. On Wednesday, Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly testified to a Senate committee that the decline in immigrants caught crossing the border is “no accident,” acknowledging the “support of our leadership in the White House.” The White House, in turn, said in a statement that “the president’s commitment to securing our border and supporting law enforcement is already showing results.” Yet while President Trump has delivered strong rhetoric, there have been few official changes in border enforcement. Amassing the funds to construct an expanded border wall is likely to take years, if it happens at all. Although Homeland Security officials were reported last month to be exploring a plan to separate adults and children caught illegally crossing the border, Kelly ruled that out Wednesday, telling a Senate committee he had ordered that mothers should not be separated from children unless a life was at risk. Still, Trump’s strident

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BORDER PATROL Agent Marlene Castro approaches an 18-foot levee wall built to block illegal crossers in Granjeno, Texas. Migration

experts say it is too early to detect a long-term pattern in the drop in crossings. “People may just be biding their time,” one said. stance on illegal immigration appears to have made some immigrants hesitant to make the journey. “There’s a perception that it’s going to be very difficult for immigrants to cross into the U.S. and stay in the U.S.,” said Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, an associate professor of public affairs and security studies at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. “It makes them think twice because the commitment is too big.” Within Central America, news spread quickly of Trump’s plans to build a border wall and deport immigrants living illegally in the United States, Correa-Cabrera said. Many are calculating whether it’s worth paying smugglers as much as $7,000 to $11,000 to lead them on often perilous routes north. Another factor, some analysts say, is that smugglers took advantage of the political climate in the United States toward the end of last year, encouraging more people to cross the border before Trump took office. “Their sales pitch to people in Central America was: ‘If you want to get into the U.S., you better come now, before the wall is built, and before the U.S. starts massively ramping up deportations,’ ” said Eric L. Olson, associate director of the Latin American program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington. “Now that’s died off some.” Although the number of people crossing the border is significantly down — and not just a seasonal fluctuation — many migration experts agree it is too early to detect a long-term pattern. “People may just be biding their time and putting off a journey for a few months,” said Faye Hipsman, a policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute. Long term, the number of immigrants

AGENTS on the Rio Grande in Mission, Texas. News of President Trump’s plans

appears to have persuaded Central Americans to think twice about going north.

caught crossing the border had already plunged from a peak of about 1.6 million in 2000 to 415,000 in 2016. Yet within that time, there have been constant ebbs and flows: In 2015, numbers dropped when Mexico stepped up enforcement and the U.S. warned people in Central America that they would not be allowed to stay in the U.S. Yet the numbers eventually climbed back up in 2016. “This is a wait-and-see period for everyone — children, families, more traditional migrants, smugglers,” Hipsman said. “If policies don’t change and if nothing changes in people’s lives, the numbers will likely will go up again.” More than 3,000 Border Patrol agents already monitor the Rio Grande Valley sector’s 315-mile border, and concrete levy walls and metal fences cut through some of the most highly populated areas. There is also a virtual wall: a string of radar blimps, cameras and ground sensors positioned at hot spots to detect people moving across the land. Yet Manuel Padilla, chief

of the Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley sector, would like to see Texas’ southernmost tip benefit from the massive spending that transformed California, Arizona and New Mexico. “We need the wall — or wall and fence combination, whatever that ends up looking like — in order to stop the people from coming over,” he said. “People will say, ‘Well, it doesn’t stop people.’ But it slows it down in order for us to be able to respond.” In McAllen, just north of Hidalgo, Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, has watched the number of immigrants passing through her shelter at Sacred Heart Church drop from about 150 a day to 50 a week. Contemplating her almost vacant shelter, piled high with neat stacks of toothpaste, T-shirts, tennis shoes, baby bottles and diapers, Pimentel worries about families facing violence in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador: Are they staying home in Central America? Are they stuck in Mexico? Are they taking more remote routes and ex-

posing themselves to more danger? “People are afraid,” she said. “Mothers are living in fear of gangs and they fear for the lives of their children. That hasn’t changed. Not having that certainty of having a safer place to go to just puts everything on hold for them.” Still, a trickle of migrants continues to make the crossing. As Castro scoured the flat brush land near the Rio Grande in Hidalgo, her headlights eventually settled on a woman and a young girl and boy a few yards ahead. Wide-eyed, they walked toward her patrol vehicle. Castro hit the brakes and climbed down from her white-and-green Chevy Tahoe. “De donde es, señora?” she asked, handing over a bottle of water. Rubbing her belly, Bacssy Garcia Oseguera, 27, a petite woman with goldenbrown hair swept up in a ponytail, told Castro she’s three months pregnant. She and her 6-year-old daughter, Joyce, traveled 1,500 miles from San Lorenzo, Honduras, to escape her abusive

husband and gangs and seek asylum in the United States. The boy was no relation, she said. They bumped into him after they crossed the river. As Castro fired off questions, Darwin, 11, stood with his brow furrowed and his legs a little apart, as if trying to mentally summon the strength of the hulking anime robot emblazoned on his T-shirt. Reaching into his stonewashed jeans to pull out a folded copy of his birth certificate, he told Castro he’s trying to join his father in New York. Oseguera also handed over her ID card and three copies of Joyce’s birth certificate, saying she hoped to join her cousin in Houston. “How much did you pay to get here?” Castro asked. Oseguera shook her head, indicating she didn’t pay anyone. “Señora,” Castro said sternly, raising her voice. “Por favor!” Again, Oseguera insisted she didn’t pay anyone, exasperating Castro. “Por favor!” Castro repeated, glaring. “You cannot cross from Mexico without one of the cartels. Nothing is free.” Oseguera started to cry. Her stomach hurt, she said, and she’d been walking in the darkness for more than an hour. “Just let me call my cousin and I’ll get to work,” she pleaded. Eventually, all three were patted down and asked to remove their shoelaces. Then they stepped up into a white transport van to be whisked off to a processing center a few miles north in McAllen. With a sigh, Castro stepped up into her Chevy and weaved back along the rutted road, passing no one but other Border Patrol agents. Jarvie is a special correspondent.

U.S. warning to ‘rogue regime’ [North Korea, from A1] The sudden flurry of action centering on North Korea comes on the heels of Trump’s summit in Florida on Friday with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The two leaders publicly played down their economic and political disputes and addressed their common interest in reining in North Korea’s mercurial leader, Kim Jong Un. Pyongyang has repeatedly warned that it aims to test an intercontinental ballistic missile or conduct another underground nuclear test. Analysts say one could come as soon as April 15, the 105th birthday of North Korea’s founder and celebrated annually as the Day of the Sun. The spotlight’s turn from Syria to North Korea carries benefits as well as risks for the Trump administration, now nearing its 100-day mark. With a limited but decisive response to Syrian President Bashar Assad’s apparent use of banned sarin nerve gas on Syrian civilians, Trump won plaudits from previously skeptical U.S. allies in Europe, as well as from some of his harshest critics at home. But even as Trump basked in generally favorable reviews of the first direct U.S. military strike aimed at Assad, the president and his lieutenants seemed far less

eager to engage knotty longer-term policy questions about the grinding multisided Syrian war, now in its seventh year. With North Korea, the underlying issues are just as complex, but the threat of a nuclear conflict — or even a devastating conventional military attack on South Korea and Japan — makes the stakes far higher. Perhaps mindful of parallels that could be drawn over defiance of international norms, North Korea denounced the U.S. missile strike on Syria as “intolerable,” and reiterated its own right to self-defense. The U.S. Navy’s 3rd Fleet, in turn, publicly announced that the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier Carl Vinson and a strike force that includes two missile destroyers and a guided-missile cruiser were being diverted north from scheduled port calls in Australia to “maintain readiness and presence in the western Pacific.” “The No. 1 threat in the region continues to be North Korea due to its reckless, irresponsible and destabilizing program of missile tests and pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability,” U.S. Pacific Command spokesman Dave Benham told reporters. North Korea has a long history of defying United Nations resolutions and other attempts to prevent it from

developing nuclear arms in conjunction with its growing ballistic-missile capabilities. Kim’s government has conducted five underground nuclear tests, two of them in 2016, and is working to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles that ultimately could deliver a warhead to U.S. territory. “If we judge that they have perfected that type of delivery system, then that becomes a very serious stage of their further development,” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” At closer range, Japan has been rattled by North Korea’s repeated recent test-firings of short- and medium-range ballistic missiles in its direction, the latest just two days before Trump sat down with Xi. That test came a month after Pyongyang simultaneously launched four medium-range missiles into the ocean in what it said was proof it could hit U.S. military bases in Japan. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, seeking assurances of U.S. protection, was an early visitor to both the White House and Trump’s Florida resort Mar-a-Lago. On Sunday, the White House announced that Trump had spoken by phone with Abe about Syria and “a range of regional issues, including the threat posed by North Korea.” A

similar call took place Friday with South Korea’s acting president, Hwang Kyoahn, the White House said. Adding to the barrage of cautionary language aimed at Pyongyang, Tillerson framed the Syria missile strike as a more general warning against international outliers, even those whose actions did not pose a direct security threat to the United States. “If you violate international agreements, if you fail to live up to commitments, if you become a threat to others, at some point a response is likely to be undertaken,” he said. The White House national security advisor, H.R. McMaster, cited a “pattern of provocative behavior” on North Korea’s part. “This is a rogue regime that is now a nuclear-capable regime,” he said on “Fox News Sunday.” McMaster said that Trump had asked aides to prepare “a full range of options to remove that threat to the American people and to our allies and partners in the region.” North Korea, for its part, denounced what it called Washington’s “reckless moves” toward war, according to a statement carried by its official Korean Central News Agency. [email protected] Twitter: @laurakingLAT

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hen Congress and the Obama administration sought to reform the healthcare system in 2009, they focused on insuring more people, lowering the cost of care and raising the quality. The Trump administration appears to be aiming at a different target: reducing the cost of insurance for healthy people. That may sound like a fine goal, but the administration is going about it the wrong way — by returning us to the bad old days when sick people had to pay exorbitant premiums, if they could get coverage at all. That’s the upshot of the proposal the administration put in front of House conservatives last week after they blocked the GOP leadership’s proposal to “repeal and replace” Obamacare, arguing that it didn’t remove enough of the law’s insurance regulations. Those regulations, members of the arch-conservative Freedom Caucus complained, force healthy people to pick up too much of the costs imposed by the ill and the injured. They’re not inventing the complaint out of whole cloth. Obamacare (also known as the Affordable Care Act) sought to insure millions of uninsured Americans by providing the same protections in the non-group market that Congress extended to employer plans in 1996: Insurers couldn’t deny any applicants, nor could they charge higher premiums for those with preexisting conditions. The ACA also required new insurance policies to cover 10 essential health benefits, such as hospitalization and maternity care, that were commonly covered in employer plans. Those changes aimed to spread the risk and cost of insurance broadly across each state. But for a number of reasons, insurers in some regions racked up big losses, leading to large premium increases. Although the vast majority of the people shopping at state insurance exchanges received subsidies that dulled or eliminated the pain of the premium increases, millions of others who bought individual policies in and out of the exchanges did not. Those are the people hit hardest by the premium increase, especially in states that took a hands-off approach to insurers’ rates and policy offerings. There are plenty of things Congress and the states could do to try to help those consumers, including offering more tax breaks, creating reinsurance funds to mitigate insurers’ risks and doing more to persuade younger, healthier people to buy insurance. What the House GOP leadership proposed, however, was to let insurers sell plans that covered a lower percentage of medical costs — in other words, shift more costs onto those who need care. According to the Congressional Budget Office, that would cause premiums to go up more than the current approach for the first few years, although the increases would eventually be lower by comparison. After the Freedom Caucus balked, Vice President Mike Pence tried to bring its members back on board last week by proposing to let states waive the ACA provisions barring insurers from denying coverage or charging higher premiums based on preexisting conditions, as well as the one requiring policies to cover the 10 essential health benefits. In any state that did waive those rules, insurers would likely offer lower-cost policies designed to attract the sort of people insurers like to cover: the ones who don’t need care. Residents there would face the same obstacles they did in the days before the ACA, when insurers sold exemption-laden policies that shifted the risk of hefty medical bills onto their customers. They’d also be free to deny coverage to people with expensive chronic conditions or risky lines of work. Supporters of this approach argue that states could institute “high-risk pools” to cover anyone shunned by private insurers. That’s not a new idea, though — many states (California included) had high-risk pools before the ACA, and the pools proved so costly that states ended up denying coverage to some applicants and for some conditions. In other words, the pools provided little help to the people who needed them most. Pence’s talks with the Freedom Caucus didn’t bear fruit, so Congress broke for spring recess with the matter still up in the air. While lawmakers are back in their districts, Americans with preexisting conditions who couldn’t get insurance before the ACA, or who couldn’t get the kind of coverage they needed, need to tell their representatives not to sacrifice their coverage to “solve” the problem of high premiums.

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y mother said, “Don’t forget to defrost the brisket,” and closed her eyes. Those turned out to be her last coherent words, uttered on the eve of Passover, in the throes of hospice-administered morphine, in the final hours of a very full life. These six words tell you almost all you need to know about my mother. If it hadn’t been Passover, I think she would have let the brisket go. She had made it a few weeks earlier, slow-cooked in RC Cola, a recipe that will not be unfamiliar to her peers: Reform Jewish women of the Greatest Generation. She often cooked the brisket well before the holiday so she could cross something off her list. That year she made it despite being just weeks away from death, the colon cancer none of us knew about already having spread. My mother was born in Cleveland in 1931 just as Reform Judaism was starting to boom. Its flexibility appealed to a generation escaping the rigid practices of their immigrant parents. My mother’s family, though, had been Reform Jewish from way back. Her father’s family had changed their name from Wolinsky to West, and her mother grew up without having to separate milk from meat. Jewish life was the life for my mother, and if that meant she had to put up with a bit of religion, she would. She loved the rhythms and traditions of Judaism, all the occasions that required her to gather her family together. About God and the Torah, she was neutral. She suffered through the High Holidays, ignored Sukkot and T’bishvat and baked her way through Hanukkah and Purim. She did, however, go all in for Passover. A

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My mother made the brisket ahead, weeks before her death. Seder for 20 or more every year. Putting on a proper Seder is not a feat for the faint of heart. You cook for days. You put out every dish you own. And then you spend most of the eight-day holiday cleaning up. Twelve days before Passover in 2008, my mother called and asked if I could drop her off some ibuprofen. When I found her napping at 6:15 p.m., I knew something was wrong. My mother was not just the sum of her flesh-and-bone parts. She was also made of something stronger, a will that resisted stress and made a mockery of cancer. That was the conclusion of the oncologist who tried to explain how she could have possibly hidden stage 4 cancer from all of us for so long. We had detected a slight

decline of energy, abnormal for her but certainly not unusual for a 76-year-old woman. She was staying up till midnight instead of 2 a.m. She was occasionally saying words we had never heard from her before: “I’m tired.” And she was eating less, claiming to be on a diet. She must have known, but she didn’t want to stop doing the things she loved. She also wasn’t crazy about doctors, once going 30 years between appointments. And so we did what we had to do: We defrosted the brisket. Then we gathered around her bed, her two grown sons, our wives and her seven grandchildren, ages 11 to 23. Around 2 a.m. she stopped breathing. She was in her own room in her own home, where company would be arriving for the Seder dinner in

15 hours. A few days earlier, we had called the guests and told them the Seder must go on. That’s what my mother wanted. We assumed she’d still be alive. I’d made the chicken soup ahead. We mixed the matzo, boiled the eggs, roasted the chicken, cut the parsley, put out bowls of salt water and set the table. In between all the chopping and boiling, we called the funeral home and all 600 of her friends. I’m not exaggerating. More than 700 people would attend her funeral two days later. In my mother’s kitchen my brother worked the Rolodex for a half hour or so and then my sister-in-law took a turn while he made the charoset (the apple-walnut mixture that represents the mortar the Jewish slaves used to build the pyramids). My wife peeled the hard-boiled eggs and polished the silver, too emotional to take a turn on the phones. The kids stayed close all day, telling Grandma stories. It was the perfect way to spend that day. The Seder dinner is an oral history lesson, with props. Jews all over the world are instructed to tell their children the story of our ancestors’ exodus from Egypt. We dip our finger in wine 10 times as we retell the 10 plagues God visited on the Egyptians. The wine is red and meant to remind us that blood was spilled. We dip parsley in salt water, which represents tears. We eat bitter herbs (horseradish) to remind us of the bitterness of slavery. That night in my mother’s dining room, we told her story, too. It was like Passover itself, a story told by survivors lucky enough to have had an ancestor who did amazing things so that we might thrive. Jim Sollisch is the creative director at a Cleveland ad agency.

An end to corporate tax loopholes By Dean Baker

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resident Trump and Congress will soon take up the job of reforming the tax code, with particular attention to corporate taxes. Since a substantial portion of the corporate income tax is paid by wealthy shareholders, many of us are concerned that “reform” actually means reducing the tax burden for the 1% — and leaving a larger burden for the rest of us. But the need for true reform is real. Although the corporate tax rate is 35%, companies generally pay around 23%. Giant loopholes save companies money, deprive the government of money, and create money for people in the tax avoidance industry. Exotic schemes to game the system are constantly in the news. Take, for example, the corporate inversion strategy, in which a U.S. company arranges to be taken over by a foreign company in order to eliminate its liability on overseas profits. These takeovers generate large fees for the accountants and lawyers who engineer the process without improving the broader economy. “Dead peasant” insurance policies, made famous by the documentarian Michael Moore, are another example. In that scheme, huge companies like Wal-Mart take out insurance policies on their front line workers, such as checkout clerks, to smooth out their profit flows and reduce their tax liability. If a

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corporations give the government a portion of their stock. worker dies, the company gets the payout, not the individual or his family. Someone undoubtedly got very rich dreaming up dead peasant policies but, again, this financial innovation does not contribute to economic growth. Perhaps the greatest scheme of all is the private equity industry, which loads firms with debt. Because the interest on that debt is tax deductible, private equity firms can make large profits even if they’ve done nothing to improve a company’s performance. Incidentally, many of the richest people in the country made their fortune in private equity, including folks like Mitt Romney, Pete Peterson, and many other prominent billionaires or nearbillionaires. If the tax reformers are serious, and I hope they are, here’s

one simple way to largely eliminate the gaming opportunities that have made these people rich. Instead of traditional taxes, the government could require corporations to turn over a portion of their stock, say 25%, in the form of non-voting shares. The government would benefit from any dividends or share buybacks but would have no voice in running the company. This system would eliminate almost all opportunities for gaming since a company would not be able to deny the government its share of profits unless it also withheld profits from its other shareholders. And we would not call that “tax avoidance” but outright theft — the sort of thing that gets people sent to jail. Many companies might actually embrace this system.

They would save a huge amount of money on accounting and bookkeeping, and they wouldn’t have to take the tax code into consideration when they decided their accounting procedures for long-term investments. They could simply do what makes the most sense for them. (Publicly traded companies could be required to give the government non-voting shares, with private companies allowed to choose between this system or a higher tax rate.) Don’t bet on the Republicans looking in this direction — the potential losers from these reforms, after all, are probably rich people who vote Republican. It is likely that they have more interest in reducing the taxes corporations owe than in reducing waste and increasing economic growth. But the rest of us should have a clear idea of what is at stake. The corporate tax code is badly in need of reform and there are ways to make it better. Dean Baker is the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and the author of “Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer.”

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A lot of people in this Sierra foothills town start sentences with “used to be.” There used to be sawmill jobs. Used to be mining. Used to be a plaque that marked this as the exact center of California — until someone stole it last year. But so far, the Gnarly Carrot has escaped past tense. The organic market, which recently celebrated its first anniversary, has joined a farm and school garden as the latest step in one family’s attempt to change the local food supply. “We’ve got everyone in these hills: yogis, loggers, old cattle ranchers, home-schoolers of every kind. I’m always looking for commonalities. And if it’s not access to needing healthy food, then what is it?” Kern Farm patriarch Hansel Kern said. Wearing overalls and sporting a beard that would be the envy of any hipster, Kern, 60, walked with a bit of a limp through the school garden where he spends every Friday. A gout flare-up, he figured, caused by the years he spent as a stone mason who liked his steaks and beer. Although thinking of it as simply a garden might be a slight: There is a farm behind the playground at North Fork Ele[See Farm, B5] mentary that stocks

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Administrators expressed disappointment and threatened discipline in the wake of a demonstration that disrupted a planned public event last week featuring conservative commentator and author Heather MacDonald at Claremont McKenna College. The campus demonstration was among the latest nationwide to impede the appearance of a conservative speaker. Perhaps the most notable occurred two months ago at UC Berkeley, where violent protesters prevented then-Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos from speaking. Those protests were condemned by both UC administrators and President Trump. At Claremont McKenna, about 250 protesters on Thursday blocked the entrance to the Athenaeum, where MacDonald was scheduled to appear. Many chanted “black lives matter” and “black lives — they matter here.” Campus officials and security decided not to force entry into the venue on behalf of those who came to hear MacDonald speak. “Based on the judgment of the Claremont Police Department, we jointly concluded that any forced interventions or arrests would have created unsafe conditions for students, faculty, staff, and guests,” Claremont McKenna College President Hiram E. Chodosh said in a statement. “I take full responsibility for the decision to err on the side of these overriding safety considerations.” Instead, MacDonald spoke before a handful of observers while the college livestreamed the event to a viewing audience that Chodosh estimated at 250 — about the same number as those protesting outside, authorities said. [See Speech, B5]

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From the start of the school year, Janet Landon was almost certain that the charter school she founded would close. In less than four years, Westchester Secondary Charter School had moved twice in an endless search for the right home. First, the school settled in a church that was sold, then another church that later was deemed unsuitable, and then finally it shared the campus of a traditional public school. All the upheaval proved too much for some families. By the time the school that

originally opened in Westchester had found its way most recently to South L.A., it had lost more than three-quarters of its students, Landon said. As she predicted, Westchester Secondary will close this summer after graduating its first and last senior class. “We never got the opportunity to fulfill our mission,” said Landon, the charter school’s principal. “We certainly have not been given a fair shake.” [See Charter, B5]

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Why do some humans engage in expensive ventures to hunt lions, elephants and other big-game species that often are endangered or otherwise threatened? The cost, according to a trio of scientists, is exactly the point: These pricey big-game hunts are meant to show off men’s high social status to competitors and potential mates. The findings, published in Biology Letters, offer an evolutionary hypothesis for why humans kill animals they don’t need for sustenance — and hint at a possible tactic for discouraging that behavior. The death in 2015 of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe by an American recreational hunter triggered waves of international outrage. Trophy hunting is not new; in fact, many countries have tried to tie it economically to their conservation efforts. But the rise of the Internet and social media — where hunters often share photos of themselves smiling next to their kills — has brought the practice to the forefront, particularly at a time when large predators are suffering precipitous population declines. “The killing of Cecil the lion (Panthera leo) ignited enduring and increasingly global discussion about trophy hunting,” the study authors wrote. “Yet, policy debate about its benefits and costs focuses only on the hunted species and biodiversity, not the unique behaviour of hunters.” And much of human hunting behavior is indeed unique. Lead author Chris Darimont, Hakai-Raincoast

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researchers say is driven by social status. Though social media amplified Palmer’s act, he also was criticized. professor at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, and his colleagues have described humans as “superpredators” who don’t follow the typical rules of other carnivores in the animal kingdom — which can have devastating consequences for wildlife populations. The average lion, hyena or wolf “typically picks prey that are newly born (the juveniles) or nearly dead (the sick and weak animals, the substandard animals in populations) and they eat them,” the conservation scientist said. “And this really bizarre, unique predator, [the] human being, kind of does the opposite. We target the large; we target animals for characteristics that have nothing to do with their nutritional value; we target animals with big horns or antlers.” They also are more dangerous animals, which means a human hunter is raising his risk to life and limb. Attacking a large

animal with big horns doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense. But puzzling behaviors often have an evolutionary driver, so the scientists set out to see whether they could find a logical explanation for this human practice. The researchers began by considering the subsistence hunting habits of “traditional hunter-gatherers” — modern-day populations whose lifestyles more closely mirror those of ancient humans. Darimont pointed to the indigenous Meriam population of Australia as an example. Men and women both hunt for green turtles but employ different methods. Women nab the turtles when they come ashore to lay eggs — an efficient, low-cost way to get a meal. But men take boats to sea and dive into dangerous waters to pursue the same turtles. The hunt is both costlier and riskier than the ostensibly far more effective method used by the women.

In addition, men who return home with a big animal end up having to share it with their community rather than feeding it only to their families. And yet the men continue to hunt in that manner because there is another advantage: Hunting turtles at sea falls into what scientists call “costly signaling behavior.” Men show they have the resources to take on such a costly task — and if they have the resources to do that, the thinking goes, then they must have plenty to devote to offspring, making them more attractive to potential mates. In fact, the male Meriam turtle hunters gain social status in their communities, get married earlier to “higher quality” mates and have more surviving children (which, in many ways, may be the ultimate measure of reproductive success). “For such behavior to be maintained, even the attempted hunt must signal that the hunter can sustain

the handicap of high-cost, low-consumption activity, providing honest evidence of underlying phenotypic quality,” the study authors wrote. So the behaviors aren’t about bringing home the bacon. They’re about bragging rights and the social stature that comes with them. Although this seems to be a particularly human trait, it may not be unique. Chimpanzees also spend more time and effort hunting “without commensurate food consumption gains.” “Similarly, some seabirds like the pigeon guillemot (Cepphus columba) show off ‘display fish,’ sometimes for hours,” the authors wrote. “Often discarding them, the behaviour is likewise thought to be social, related to site-ownership display.” With big guns and professional guides often helping them find targets from a safe distance, big-game recreational hunters aren’t

spending a lot of physical effort hunting their quarry, compared with our ancestors, and they aren’t risking life and limb in the same way either. But they are spending lots of money to kill the animals, they’re choosing species typically not eaten and they engage in display behavior — having photos taken next to their fallen prey. The overall effect emanates a costly signaling behavior: Look at me! I can spend this much on an expensive activity I don’t really need to do to survive. I would make a good mate, ladies — and you other males stay away from my turf, if you know what’s good for you. Social media has amplified the hunters’ ability to signal their perceived social status. Such networking also could explain why some women hunt big game, even though it isn’t a traditional evolutionary driver for them. “We speculate that such behaviour, counter to expected gender norms (and their evolution), might allow for increased attention in an increasingly competitive social media and marketing world,” the study authors wrote. But social media is a double-edged sword. Just as it might fuel enthusiasm for big-game hunting, it also opens hunters up to shaming by critics (as Cecil’s hunter, Walter Palmer, discovered). Such public outcry, Darimont and his colleagues point out, may be a key tactic among those who want to reduce the killing of such targets. “If these hunters are hunting for status essentially, there’s nothing like shame to erode status,” Darimont said. “So where the Internet might fuel this kill-and-tell generation, it might also provide a vehicle for those opposed to trophy hunting to emerge with a powerful strategy.” [email protected]

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plan to pay for Trump’s proposed border wall: Charge 50,000 wealthy foreigners a year $1 million each to become citizens. “We have 50,000 people come into the country every year chosen by a lottery, which is ridiculous. If we’re going to have people come in, OK, let’s choose the people coming in,” the Republican said Wednesday. The 50,000 visas Rohrabacher referred to are granted each year largely to people from Eastern Europe and Africa. To qualify, a person must have a high school diploma and be from a country few people emigrate from. Unlike the hundreds of thousands of other visas the U.S. grants each year, which are based on specific factors such as working in a high-demand field or having family in the country, the lottery is the only visa program based on a willingness to drop everything and move to the U.S. Under Rohrabacher’s plan, the visa lottery would end and wealthy visa applicants would pay to become citizens within two years of their application. Such an effort would require legislation, which Rohrabacher says he hasn’t finished yet. Rohrabacher said Trump was so interested in the idea he called in White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and senior strategist Steve Bannon to join the 45-minute conversation, which lasted three times longer than scheduled. The White House did not respond to a request for comment on the meeting. Rohrabacher said he and Trump also touched on a variety of foreign and domestic policies during their Tuesday meeting. Rohrabacher has been a vocal defender of the new president and his foreign policy proposals, including improving relations with Russia. Rohrabacher’s pro-Russia stance has long put him at odds with the majority of the Republican

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Party but has gained the congressman new standing with Trump. Rohrabacher said Trump’s invitation to the White House came just after he defended the president on Fox News on April 1. He didn’t believe the invitation was real because it was April Fools’ Day. “It was a lively discussion on Fox News and I was my normal aggressive self, and when I got off the interview ... my phone rang and it was the White House operator saying the president’s on the line for you,” Rohrabacher said. “It turned out this wasn’t a prank from one of my friends.” Democrats have announced plans to target Rohrabacher in 2018, and he’s drawn two opponents already. Although the congressman was elected to a 15th term with 58.32% of the vote, the district narrowly chose Hillary Clinton for president. “Congressman Dana Rohrabacher has existed on the fringe of American politics for decades but now has the ear of the president and the ability to push his dangerous views inside the Trump administration,” Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spokesperson Tyler Law said in a statement. [email protected]

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CITY & STATE Marines punish two for online insults Camp Pendleton pair demoted after probe into cyberbullying on covert Facebook page. By Carl Prine SAN DIEGO — Two Camp Pendleton Marines have been disciplined for posting disparaging remarks in an online forum about one of their colleagues. It was the first such action taken in the wake of the Defense Department’s announcement last month that it was investigating reports that hundreds of Marines had shared nude photos of female service members on a secret Facebook page. A noncommissioned officer and a lower-ranking enlisted member of the 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Re-

giment at the base pleaded guilty and received nonjudicial punishment, instead of going to trial in military court, for comments they made on United States Grunt Corps. That’s an online community created after Facebook closed the Marines United private page after allegations that some members swapped salacious images of female service members — often without the women’s knowledge or consent — and openly derided them. Camp Pendleton officials were alerted Wednesday that the two Marines had used the Grunt Corps site to make derogatory remarks against a person in their chain of command. Lt. Col. Warren Cook, the Marines’ battalion commander, initiated an investigation and the pair admitted their guilt. Both Marines were demoted by one pay grade,

sentenced to 45 days of restriction to their barracks and given 45 days of punitive duties concurrent to the other punishments. No other details about the case were disclosed. In a statement released by the Camp Pendleton-based 1st Marine Division to the San Diego Union-Tribune, Cook said the case proved that his unit refuses “to tolerate personal attacks on their Marines, online or elsewhere.” “This kind of behavior flies in the face of our service’s core values, and this organization refuses to condone it. Each member of this battalion is a valued part of a storied and effective combat unit, and our success is based on trust, mutual respect and teamwork,” Cook said. The case was first reported Friday by the Washington Post. Since March 22, service

members in Marine units worldwide have signed counseling statements — called “Page 11s” — that are then added to their permanent records indicating that they understand and will follow the Corps’ revamped guidelines on cyberbullying. Those tougher standards were created after the Marines United scandal. At its peak in February, Marines United counted nearly 30,000 members — active-duty or reserve Marines and sailors, along with veterans who served in those military branches. The criminal investigation has focused on an estimated 500 men who shared inappropriate images or cast slurs against female service members. The investigation involves the Marine Corps, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, the FBI, the U.S. Justice Department and law enforcement agen-

cies in various states. During a Pentagon roundtable with reporters Friday, Gen. Glenn Walters, assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, vowed to continue going after online wrongdoing by Marines while enacting deeper reforms to root out an often toxic culture in the military that vilifies women. “Our Marines and the American people deserve nothing less. Marines don’t fail. The vast majority of Marines live our ethos, and a part of that ethos is to correct or hold appropriately accountable those Marines who don’t,” Walters said. “The Marine Corps owns this problem, and we are committed to addressing it for the long term.” Walters pointed to NCIS innovations that have increased information sharing and streamlined reporting of incidents to track online misconduct. NCIS agents can now ship investigative material on minor offenses

or noncriminal actions to a “fusion cell” within the larger task force investigating the Marines United scandal. The information is then routed to local commanders to punish the online scofflaws, such as the two Marines at Camp Pendleton. Part of the task force, which is led by Marine Col. Cheryl Blackstone, continues to study more than 150 potential changes to the way the Corps recruits, trains and retains personnel to clean up an institution long deemed by critics to be corrosive to women. Blackstone has commissioned studies exploring whether to increase the number of events in which male and female Marines train together while looking at recent changes to the training of Marine recruits, Walters said. cprine @sduniontribune.com Prine writes for the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Top Democrats join rally to cut child poverty Reps. Pelosi and Lewis take jabs at Trump during South L.A. event to support bill. By James Queally

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Standoff in Covina A man suspected of shooting at L.A. County sheriff’s deputies and barricading himself in a home in the 4600 block of Roxburgh Avenue was taken into custody Sunday afternoon, officials said. The deputies were not injured. After nearby homes were evacuated, the suspect safely emerged about 1:15 p.m. and was arrested.

Initiative idea echoes Prop. 187 Activist seeks to bar kids in U.S. illegally from attending Inland Empire schools. By Jeff Landa While President Trump awaits the authorization and funds to construct his promised 2,000-mile U.S.Mexico border wall, an organization has proposed a local initiative that would keep immigrants who are in the country illegally out of some Inland Empire schools. Voters in the YucaipaCalimesa Joint Unified School District — a district split by San Bernardino and Riverside counties — may soon be able to vote on whether immigrants living here illegally should be prohibited from attending K-12 public schools, and whether American-born children of immigrants here illegally should be charged “nonresident” tuition. The legality of such policies, however, would probably be challenged in court. Joseph Turner, a former San Bernardino resident now living in Torrance, filed a notice of intent last week with the San Bernardino County registrar of voters to circulate a petition for the

proposed ballot measure. “We can no longer subjugate the education and future of our children,” Turner wrote in the filing on behalf of his nonprofit group, American Children First. “We will no longer take care of those who have broken our laws and seek to prosper at the expense of our children.” Turner founded American Children First last month. The group advocates for “anti-illegal immigration” reform among other issues, including free trade and education. Turner has long pushed for changes in immigration policies toward those here illegally, most recently founding a similar immigration nonprofit in 2004, Save Our State, and authoring the “City of San Bernardino Illegal Immigration Relief Act” in 2006. That measure would have barred landlords from renting to immigrants in the country illegally and prohibited business owners from receiving permits if they employed them. A San Bernardino County Superior Court judge determined Turner had not collected enough signatures to qualify the measure for the city ballot. Now, Turner said he’s been “reinvigorated” by Trump and plans to bring his initiatives to a national

level by first targeting a small school district. “Trump did very well [in the Inland Empire] and I’m hoping the audience will be very receptive” to his proposal, Turner said. The school district serves nearly 10,000 students in the cities of Yucaipa and Calimesa, and has more than 32,000 registered voters. Turner would need about 3,200 signatures for his initiative to qualify for the ballot. In the 2016 presidential election, 42% of San Bernardino County voters selected Trump, while 44% of Riverside County voters did. Turner’s latest proposed initiative shares components of California Proposition 187, which left those here in the country illegally ineligible for public benefits. Although voters approved it in 1994, legal challenges after its passing led to a federal district court declaring the initiative unconstitutional. Niels Frenzen, an expert in immigration and refugee law at USC, said the implications of a 1982 Supreme Court Decision, Plyler v. Doe, played a major part in Proposition 187’s fate and would also weigh heavily on Turner’s proposed measure should voters pass it. Plyler v. Doe struck down a Texas statute that restricted free K-12 education to citizens, as

well as an attempt to impose an annual fee on students in the country illegally. “It’s not surprising, of course, that there are individuals who feel this way, but given this well established legal principle [of Plyler v. Doe] that’s of constitutional significance, it would really be irresponsible for a politician, conservative or not, to call for noncompliance,” Frenzen said. Turner takes umbrage with the past decision, claiming that it undermines the quality of education for the children of American taxpayers. “I think we have a lot of fake Americans in Sacramento that say they are for educating all children but what that really means is they’re for compromising the education that American citizens receive so we can pay for illegal aliens,” Turner said. Cali Binks, superintendent of the Yucaipa-Mesa district, said the district does not plan to change how it treats students in the country illegally while the proposed initiative makes its way through the process. “We have a very tight-knit community and we care for everybody,” Binks said. jeff.landa @latimes.com Twitter: @JeffLanda

Civil rights hero John Lewis and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi lent some star power to a South L.A. rally Sunday aimed at drastically reducing child poverty in California and across the nation. The event — in support of a California Assembly bill that seeks to increase funding for childcare, afterschool service, job-placement programs and other antipoverty initiatives — was part block party and part progressive pep rally, as lawmakers took potshots at President Trump and danced to pop songs as they took the stage. Lewis, a House Democrat from Georgia, spoke of his days fighting for voting rights and equality in the segregation-era South, encouraging the crowd of nearly 200 people to raise their voices and urge legislators to push the bill to Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk. “Here in California, you must get in trouble, good trouble, necessary trouble, and pass this bill,” said Lewis, whose wife grew up in Los Angeles. Assembly Bill 1520, introduced this year by Assemblywoman Autumn Burke (D-Marina del Rey), seeks to reduce the percentage of children living below the poverty line in California by half by fiscal year 2039. One in five children in California lives below the federal poverty line, according to the bill, including 30% of African American and Latino children. “This bill is not based on politics. It’s not based on assumptions. It is based on research,” said Burke, adding that much of the legislation was drafted in response to Stanford University studies. Pelosi (D-San Francisco) invoked Trump’s decision to take military action in Syria

last week after children were killed in a poison gas attack, nudging the administration not to cut funding to programs that provide services to low-income families in the U.S. “If you care about the children in Syria, and we all do … let that be a message to care for all of the children in the world,” she said. Ilene Garcia, a teenage student at the Stem Academy in Hollywood, drew loud cheers when she spoke of her experience growing up poor in Los Angeles. Born to a single mother who has worked

‘If you care about the children in Syria, and we all do … let that be a message to care for all of the children in the world.’ — Nancy Pelosi,

Democratic leader, calling on President Trump to act

as a janitor in the city for two decades, Garcia said her family has been forced to move at least five times in recent years while struggling to cover rent. “I come home from work and do the cooking and cleaning before I even get to my homework and studies,” said Garcia, who plans to study biology when she attends UCLA next year. Lewis also touched on his childhood in rural Alabama, where he said he grew up “very, very poor,” but his family was able to survive with the help of relatives. He urged the California Legislature to aid struggling families. “If it hadn’t been for people helping out, I wouldn’t be the person that I am today,” he said. “So we must never, ever, give up on any child. Ever.” james.queally @latimes.com

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Department of Justice Antitrust Division Take notice that the United States has filed a proposed Final Judgment in a civil antitrust case in the United States District Court for the Central District of California (Western Division), United States of America v. DIRECTV Group Holdings, LLC, and AT&T, Inc., Civil Action No. 2:16-cv-08150-MWF-E. On November 2, 2016, the United States filed a Complaint against DIRECTV and its corporate successor, AT&T, alleging that DIRECTV was the ringleader of a series of unlawful information exchanges between DIRECTV and three of its competitors – Cox Communications Inc., Charter Communications Inc. and AT&T (before it acquired DIRECTV) – during the companies’ negotiations to carry the SportsNet LA “Dodgers Channel,” in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1. The proposed Final Judgment, filed on March 23, 2017, requires the Defendants to stop illegally sharing competitively-sensitive information with their rivals, to monitor certain communications their programming executives have with their rivals, and to implement antitrust training and compliance programs. A Competitive Impact Statement filed by the United States describes the Complaint, the proposed Final Judgment, the industry, and the remedies available to private litigants who may have been injured by the alleged violation.

NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE AND REQUEST FOR OVERBIDS In the action pending in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Case No. 16-CV-07425-RGK-PLA, Securities and Exchange Commission v. Steve Chen et al., notice is hereby given that the courtappointed receiver will conduct a public auction for the residential real property located at 919 Fairview Avenue, Unit B, Arcadia, California. Sale is subject to Court confirmation after the auction is held. Minimum bid price is $835,000. The auction will take place on April 24, 2017, at 9:00 a.m. in Courtroom 850 to the United States Courthouse, 255 East Temple Street, Los Angeles, California. To be allowed to participate in the auction, prospective purchasers must meet certain bid qualification requirements, including submitting a signed purchase and sale agreement, an earnest money deposit of $23,670, and proof of funds. All bidders must be qualified by 5:00 p.m. PST on April 14, 2017, by submitting the required materials to the Thomas Seaman at 3 Park Place, Suite 550, Irvine California, 92614. If interested in qualifying as a bidder, please contact Alexis Kim at (213) 200-5882 or akim@securedproperties. com.

Copies of the Complaint, proposed Final Judgment, and Competitive Impact Statement are available for inspection on the Antitrust Division’s website at http://www. justice.gov/atr and at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the Central District of California (Western Division).

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Interested persons may address comments to Scott A. Scheele, Chief, Telecommunications and Media Section, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice, 450 Fifth Street NW, Suite 7000, Washington, DC 20530 (telephone: 202-514-5621) within 60 days of the date of this notice. Such comments, including the name of the submitter, and responses thereto, will be posted on the Antitrust Division’s website, filed with the Court, and, under certain circumstances, published in the Federal Register.

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: Norbert Westheimer 17STPBO1916 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Norbert Westheimer A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by James R. Westheimer in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that James R. Westheimer be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held on May 3, 2017 at 8:30 a.m. in Dept. 9, Room 244 located at 111 N. Hill St Los Angeles, CA 90012 IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: John W. Cronin, Esq P.O. Box 4649 Oceanside, CA 92052-4649 (760) 945-1586 Published The Los Angeles Times 3/27, 4/3, 4/10/2017

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A more healthful garden variety [Farm, from B1] the school salad bar. There are terraced arbors, fruit trees, revolving row crops, compost piles and usually a lot of work to be done by even the youngest farmhands. But on this day, Kern had something easier in mind for Mrs. G’s kindergarten class. “Who wants to play with baby goats?” he asked a group of children. William Beighey, 6, sighed as he cradled a 10day-old kid. “It used to be the best thing I ever saw was fire ants,” he said. “But I love goats even better. I’ve always dreamed of having a goat, because if I did, I would name him Elliot.” Chances are that if they weren’t growing their own fruits and vegetables, the children at this school would not be eating produce at all. North Fork, just above the agriculture-rich Central Valley, is in a rural food desert — defined as anyplace more than 10 miles from a grocery store or any low-income area where families are unlikely to be able to afford fresh produce. About 85% of North Fork Elementary students come from families who live below the poverty line, school officials said. “That we have a system where pesticide-free, local food is elitist is upside down,” Kern said before shouting a reminder to the children to snack on the organic orange slices laid out on a table. Mia Grifalconi, one of a group of mothers who volunteer at the school, said she loves to watch students pick handfuls of kale and eat it. (Kern said he’s never had a child refuse to try something they helped grow.) “A lot of these kids — they live in trailers, they don’t have warm enough clothes. It’s amazing to see them dig in at the garden,” Grifalconi said. There is one little girl, she said, who always runs and clings to Kern, saying: “Hansel, I want to live here. I want to live in the garden forever.” When Kern, “a new old farmer” by his own description, decided to try to grow crops in the foothills more than two decades ago, his mentor, Madera farmer Tom Willey, told him he was either brave or crazy.

Photographs by Tomas Ovalle For The Times

THERE USED to be sawmill jobs in North Fork. And mining. And, until it was stolen, a plaque that marked it as California’s exact center.

PRODUCE for sale at Hansel Kern’s Gnarly Carrot

market. He worked for years as a stonemason. “I told him I was a little of both,” said Kern, who became a full-time farmer in 1998. By doing so, he was embracing a family legacy. His father, Ken, had been a leader of the back-to-theland movement in the 1970s. It was a time when up to a million young people, mostly middle-class, moved to rural areas to protest corporate America by growing their own food and living simply. The local John Birch Society, Hansel Kern said, had his family on its list of whom to kill first if the communists took over — a point of pride

Author is latest speaker to face student backlash [Speech, from B1] Her 30-minute talk also was made available for later viewing. “Her presentation that is posted on our CMC homepage has already been viewed over 1,400 times,” Chodosh said. “In the end, the effort to silence her voice effectively amplified it to a much larger audience.” Chodosh also threatened disciplinary action against any students from the Claremont colleges who blocked the entrances, calling it a violation of college policy. The election of Trump has sparked a wave of campus activism directed at the appearances of outspoken conservatives, especially those supporting Trump. In February, UC Berkeley authorities canceled a speech by Yiannopoulos, a conservative provocateur. Two hours before he was to speak, more than 1,500 people had gathered in protest. Some smashed windows and set a small fire. Protests also forced the cancellation of a Yiannopoulos speech at UC Davis. MacDonald’s books include last year’s “The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe.” She has criticized the Black Lives Matter movement, whose supporters have denounced her. A statement from a group that defined itself as “students of color at the Claremont Colleges” called MacDonald a “notorious white supremacist fascist.” MacDonald recounted the experience in comments published by “The College Fix,” which describes itself

Claremont McKenna College

HEATHER MacDonald

also drew flak from UCLA protesters.

as providing a “daily dose” of student-reported “rightminded news and commentary.” “I was hustled from my guest suite by several police officers from Claremont PD into the lecture hall,” MacDonald said. “It was decided that I would give the speech for live-streaming to a largely empty hall. “An escape plan through the kitchen into an unmarked police van was devised,” she continued. “I was surrounded by about four cops. Protesters were sitting on the stoop outside the door through which I exited, but we had taken them by surprise and we got through them.” The day before, protesters also disrupted MacDonald’s appearance at UCLA. There, she gave her talk and took some questions, including one or more from protesters, with answers that sometimes led to angry reactions, according to accounts of the event. howard.blume @latimes.com

for his father. From age 8, Hansel had his own little garden where he spent much of his time. But he dreamed of a more conventional, stable life than that of his childhood, with 13 step- and half-siblings and revolving stepmothers after his own mother left. He married his high school sweetheart and settled into masonry. But his wife left him with two little girls. A single father living on inherited rustic farmland, Kern would drive to jobs

with his daughters, Ariana and Connie, tagging along in the back of a station wagon. After a few years, friends introduced him to what seemed an unlikely match: Sue Wasserman, a New York City law student. The day she passed the bar, he picked her up and they drove cross-country to his no-frills spread. “The people around here had bets on how long I would last. They’re like that,” Wasserman said, pushing her waist-length silver hair over one shoulder as she sorted through her mail at the post office. “But I’d been an organizer in Brooklyn. We would have 70 people to one apartment with one bathroom. Hansel had an outhouse, but at least there wasn’t a line.” They’ve been married 27 years now. They have two grown children, Becky and Aaron, who have stayed in North Fork to help run the store and farm — and, maybe one day, an organic dairy. The Gnarly Carrot sells Kern Farm products as well as those from a loose network of organic farmers. Next to the oranges and spinach and honey are photos of the families that produced them.

The little store’s tri-colored carrots, organic banana chips and $7 nutritional yeast seasoning are pricey for an area where so many families round out government food boxes with bulk grocery shopping. Across the street, Daniel Tilden sat on the porch of his auto parts store with his dog Thor, where they are most afternoons. Tilden was born in North Fork in1964 and has been here since. His father was a Forest Service entomologist who studied the bark beetle, an insect that has left this area dotted with stumps and dead trees. Tilden said his favorite meal was a cigarette, now that he’s trying to quit. (He’s down to a few a day.) Next to that, it’s a cheeseburger. He said he was unlikely to shop at the Gnarly Carrot, even though he was one of those in town who could afford it. “I love Hansel to death. He’s good people, and we all know each other here,” he said. “But I’m not spending that much of my income on food.” Tilden said he has had four heart attacks, the first when he was 42. That evening, the local Pizza Factory was packed. A band was playing “Folsom Prison Blues.” Families had

brought in grocery store chocolate cakes and pies in plastic packages for dessert after pepperoni pizza and beer. Outside, Tanner Ashe and Alex Sandoval were under a stairwell listening to the music. They said they were both the sons of single mothers who had moved to North Fork to be closer to family members. They have been best friends and worked in the school garden since kindergarten. They weren’t eating pizza. They said they were there because it’s where Tanner’s older sister works and they like Johnny Cash songs. “To tell you the truth, I don’t really like going out for food,” Alex said. “I think it’s the school garden. It’s what you get used to.” Tanner, 13, said his favorite part of the garden was the grape arbor. “We planted it in fifth grade, and now in seventh it makes perfect shade,” he said. Alex likes the radishes. “Oh, wow, have you ever had a fresh-picked radish?” the 12-year-old asked outside the pizza parlor. diana.marcum @latimes.com

First senior class also the last [Charter, from B1] On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Board of Education voted not to renew the school’s charter for another five-year term. Its enrollment, now at fewer than 220 students spread among grades 6-12, peaked in 2014 and never recovered. Its students’ scores on state exams were comparable to those at nearby schools such as Crenshaw High School and Westchester Enriched Sciences Magnets (formerly Westchester High School), but a county report found it hadn’t met any of its other academic goals. “The educational program at Westchester is not likely to be of educational benefit to the pupils who attend,” the report said. Landon decided not to appeal to the state Board of Education, having missed a deadline to have her petition considered at the board’s July meeting. If she waited any longer, the school would have to start the new year in a continued state of uncertainty. Charter schools have thrived in L.A., in part because a state law gives them the right to open inside traditional public schools that are under-enrolled. But Landon said this law ultimately hurt Westchester Secondary, which she had hoped to open on the Westchester High campus. When that space was offered to another charter school, Landon’s school was given space on the Horace Mann Junior High School campus, miles from where many of her students lived. She sued the school district, but that didn’t fix anything. “From then on, I knew we were in trouble,” she said. “Clearly, the district didn’t want us.” Landon largely blames her school’s closure on

Mark Boster Los Angeles Times

PRINCIPAL JANET Landon, right, is hugged at the 2013 opening of Westchester

Secondary Charter School. After two moves, it now has fewer than 220 students.

school board President Steve Zimmer, who represents a district that stretches from West L.A. to the west San Fernando Valley. She has accused him of playing favorites in choosing which charter schools share which public school campuses. Zimmer said Thursday that he had no role in the allocations of classrooms, a process overseen by school district employees. “The notion that there’s any personal animus or personal involvement in any type of efforts against this school is just simply not true,” he said. “The struggles that Westchester Secondary has had in terms of facility space are not unique to this one charter school.” [email protected] Twitter: @annamphillips

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Kaye, Helen M.

February 26, 1922 - April 6, 2017

Helen Kaye passed away on April 6, 2017 at the age of 95, in Los Angeles, CA. Helen was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and moved to California with her beloved husband, Ralph, in 1944. They were married for 61 years. She is survived by her loving children, Irv Kaye, Marc Kaye, Debbie Rosen, son-in-law, Howie Rosen and grandchildren, Kimme Jackson, husband, Richie Jackson, Jonathan Kaye, and Rachel Kaye. Contributions can be made in Helen’s memory to the charity of your choice.

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Northern U.S. snow: A weak system moving into the Northwest will bring rain showers, with snow for the higher terrain. A storm in the Midwest will bring a mix of rain and snow from the Dakotas to Michigan. Thunderstorms will stretch from Chicago to Texas.

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Air quality

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Unlike Congress, Legislature gets job done [Skelton, from B1] irritates voters.” But the tax hike to pay for repairing California’s sorry roads was long overdue and showed guts, at least by the Democrats and one deal-making Republican who voted for it Thursday night. Unlike the gridlocked, Republican-controlled Congress, the Democratdominated state Legislature exhibited an ability to pass significant, controversial legislation that required a supermajority vote. “It’s the most important bill we’ll have before us this session,” Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Paramount) told colleagues during the floor debate. DiCamillo’s UC poll, reported last week, found that 57% of California’s registered voters approve of the Legislature’s job performance, with 43% disapproving. That’s almost up there in the Gov. Jerry Brown stratosphere. His numbers were 61% approval, 39% disapproval — the highest DiCamillo has recorded for Brown during his second gubernatorial reign. For the Legislature, it’s the highest popularity rating found by DiCamillo since 1988. Its standing was down to 14% approval, 76% disapproval just seven years ago during the recession. Another poll, by the Public Policy Institute of California, found numbers similar to UC Berkeley’s last month. It reported 51% job

Rich Pedroncelli Associated Press

GOV. JERRY BROWN , who urged legislators to pass a major transportation bill,

enjoys 61% approval in a UC Berkeley poll — the highest since his 2011 swearing-in. approval for the Legislature. The poll results mirror current political polarization. In the UC survey, 77% of Democrats approved of the Legislature’s performance, as did 56% of independents. But 77% of Republicans disapproved. The overall numbers reflect how far the GOP has fallen in this former swing state. Democrats outnumber Republicans by roughly 45% to 26% in voter registration, with independents approaching 25%. That largely explains why President Trump, in the UC poll, had the lowest initial job approval among Californians of any new president in many decades.

It was 39% approval, 61% disapproval. In the PPIC survey, it was worse: 35%62% among likely voters. Congress’ rating was even more pathetic in the policy institute’s poll: 27% approval, 68% disapproval. All these ugly images of the Republican president and Congress as seen by blue-state Californians have enhanced their positive view of the Democratic Legislature. At least that’s my theory. Trump’s contentious actions and egocentric behavior have crystallized government and politics in the minds of Californians and focused more attention on Washington and, to a

lesser degree, Sacramento. The contrast is accentuated whenever a California Democrat speaks out against the divisive president. And there are plenty resisting him, especially on illegal immigration. “The single most effective way to become a popular politician in California is to not be named ‘Trump,’ ” says former Republican strategist-turned-independent professor Dan Schnur of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. “No one is completely satisfied with their lot in life, so the natural tendency is to blame the politicians,” he says. “But when those politi-

cians are criticizing Donald Trump, the voter feels a little bit better about them.” Mark Baldassare, president and pollster for the PPIC, points out that not even California Republicans are wild about Congress. Meanwhile, Democrats and independents are really sour on it. “There’s a positive comparison for the Legislature,” he says. But UC Berkeley’s DiCamillo calls all this “speculative” and says, “I wouldn’t go too far.” Both he and Baldassare point out that the economy is performing well and that Californians — at least Democrats — feel good about the state’s direction. That makes them happier about the Legislature and governor. Also — arguably most important — the Legislature has quit shaming itself with summerlong bickering budget brawls. In 2010, Californians approved a ballot initiative allowing the Legislature to pass a state budget on a simple majority vote, rather than two-thirds. And it required lawmakers to pass a spending plan by June 15 or lose their pay. That took care of the procrastination and paralysis. And passage of the highway tax bill showed an ability to play old-fashioned, practical politics. Backroom deals have always been the backbone of effective legislating. In this case, the deal was cut in the governor’s historic

mansion with Brown, Rendon and Senate leader Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) negotiating with Sen. Anthony Cannella of Ceres, a moderate Republican whose vote was needed for passage. What Cannella wrangled out of those Democratic leaders was good for the northern San Joaquin Valley and, in fact, was a model for the entire state. Cannella got $400 million to extend a Bay Area commuter train roughly 30 miles southward from just below Stockton to Merced. That will allow people to live in the senator’s relatively low-cost district and commute by rail to jobs in unaffordable San Jose and Silicon Valley. During floor debates in both houses, there were the usual eye-roll-inducing trite recitations of political talking points, interjected with a few thoughtful observations. One of the latter came from Assemblyman Adam Gray (D-Merced), whose district will benefit from the commuter train. After accusing both sides of being “intellectually dishonest,” Gray concluded: “Is this a perfect bill? No. But we have to make imperfect choices and compromise.” That’s how effective democracy works. And one reason this Legislature is outshining Congress. george.skelton @latimes.com Twitter: @LATimesSkelton

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Pennington caps unlikely comeback

T H E M ASTER S SPAIN’S SERGIO GARCIA WINS HIS FIRST MAJOR TITLE IN HIS 74TH TRY

His single drives in the winning run in a seven-run ninth inning for Angels. ANGELS 10, SEATTLE 9 By Steve Dilbeck These things happen. Happen like a superhero movie flops at the box office or teenagers act all appreciative. Crazy, implausible, stupid comebacks happen in sports. Just not often. Not like the wild ride the Angels went on to score seven runs in the bottom of the ninth to stun the Seattle Mariners 10-9 on Sunday afternoon. The Angels looked like roadkill after trailing 8-1 in

the seventh inning. The crowd thinned. Realists puffed their chests. And then had jaws drop as the Angels went about their comeback. They trailed 9-3 going into the bottom of the ninth when the earth shook beneath the Mariners. There were four walks and five hits, the last coming from unlikely hero Cliff Pennington, who shot his first pitch for a single into center field to drive in the winning run and complete the improbable comeback. “That’s one of those magical wins that will probably only happen a couple times a year,” Pennington said, “but it’s a good one.” The game looked highly forgettable throughout most of the afternoon. Start[See Angels, D5]

Matt Slocum Associated Press

THE CLINCHING birdie on the first playoff hole elicited 18 years’ worth of emotion from Sergio Garcia.

But the pivotal hole may have been No. 13, where he took a penalty but saved par to stay in contention.

GREAT FIRST QUENCHER

Garcia beats Rose in playoff at Augusta to finally shed best-player-never-to-win-a-major tag in thrilling finish Masters leaderboard

By John Cherwa

Augusta National Golf Club | Par-72 | 7,435 yards

AUGUSTA, Ga. — The record will show that Sergio Garcia won his first major championship in his 74th try on the 73rd hole of the 81st Masters tournament. But most who were watching on Sunday will tell you that he won the tournament on the 13th hole when he and Justin Rose both made pars. Two pars decided the tournament? It makes sense if you relive Sunday’s final round, which turned out to be match play between Garcia and Rose. In the end, it was the only pairing that mattered. Garcia led by three strokes after five holes. Rose led by two after 11 holes. They were tied at nine under after the 17th hole . . . and the 18th. “I knew I was playing well,” Garcia said. “I was very calm, much calmer than [Saturday], much calmer than I’ve felt in any major championship on Sunday.” [See Masters, D8] The first and only playoff

Rounds Sergio Garcia* Justin Rose Charl Schwartzel Matt Kuchar Thomas Pieters

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Spieth unable to repeat 2015 feat Former champion falls out of contention after six holes, then makes another unwanted splash. D8

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Christine Cotter Associated Press

CLIFF PENNINGTON signals victory after hitting a

walk-off single in the Angels’ seven-run ninth inning.

A gust-busting win for Dodgers They trash Rockies’ pitchers — even the left-hander! — on a windy day at Coors. DODGERS 10 COLORADO 6 By Andy McCullough DENVER — As the Dodgers’ 10-6 victory over Colorado approached the fourhour mark, the wind overtook Coors Field. From his spot at second base, Logan Forsythe noted how the atmosphere at the ballpark “got colder, windier, trashier — all the above.” He was not talking about sleaze. He meant actual

garbage. The detritus of a Sunday afternoon crowd whipped across the diamond and the outfield, powered by a frigid wind. It was unsightly and uncomfortable — but the Dodgers (4-3) were not complaining after staving off a sweep by the Rockies and delivering their first quality performance against a left-handed starting pitcher this season. One outing by one man cannot shatter a hardearned narrative. But Forsythe played a crucial role in a five-run flurry against Colorado lefthander Tyler Anderson. Forysthe led off the first inning with a double and scored on a two-run double by Justin Turner. He coaxed [See Dodgers, D5]

Ducks clinch Pacific title

It’s Russell to L.A.’s rescue

Theodore scores in overtime to defeat the Kings, and Anaheim wins division for fifth straight year.

Lakers guard sinks game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer, setting off a celebration on and off the court.

DUCKS 4, KINGS 3 (OT)

LAKERS 110, MINNESOTA 109

By Curtis Zupke

By Tania Ganguli

A sense of relief, mixed with exhaustion, came from the Ducks’ dressing room after it finally ended. The Ducks have talked strictly about getting to the playoffs, so their fifth straight Pacific Division title earned with a 4-3 win against the Kings on a drama-filled Sunday finale was gravy. They fought off a die-hard Kings team in announcer Bob Miller’s final game, clinched the division just by going to overtime and got Shea Theodore’s overtime goal for good measure. The Ducks will play the Calgary Flames on Thursday in the first round, but not without some reflection. “We went through a lot of ups and downs this year,” forward [See Ducks, D3]

After he hit the shot, when the game ended with the Lakers on top, D’Angelo Russell ran amid all the joyous cacophony, through the shimmering streamers falling from the rafters, past nearly 19,000 screaming people who had no idea what this meant to him. He ran right into his brothers’ arms and they stayed there, celebrating and mourning Pamela Russell. She was their granny. They woke up Sunday morning to the news that she had died. This was for her. “She was a strong woman,” Russell said in the locker room, still overcome. “She did a great job raising my dad. Piggybacking off that my dad did a [See Lakers, D6]

Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times

THE KINGS’ Jarome Iginla trips while trying to get a shot on goal against Ducks

goalie Jonathan Bernier during the second period.

Kings need to get up to speed They must get younger, faster to reverse sliding fortunes, Helene Elliott writes. D3

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INDYCAR DRIVER James Hinchcliffe, right, celebrates inside victory circle after winning the 43rd Toyota

TODAY ON THE AIR TIME BASEBALL 10 a.m. 1:30 p.m. 5 p.m.

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Jeff Chiu Associated Press

ANDRELTON SIMMONS anchors the infield at

shortstop for the Angels, who have a solid defense.

Angels have plenty of defense, too The Angels have a loaded offense with Mike Trout and Albert Pujols in the middle of the lineup, but manager Mike Scioscia says the defense is the best it has been during his tenure. Read more about it on our Angels web page.

Hinchcliffe is victorious cial event.” In that Indianapolis practice session, a piece of the suspension on Hinchcliffe’s car pierced his leg, which caused massive blood loss. He missed the rest of the season, but returned in 2016. “Everyone knows James’ story at Indianapolis — it’s an amazing story,” Josef Newgarden said. “It’s a huge credit to what type of racer he is. He’s a die-hard racer through and through, and no one can really question that.” Right off the start, polesitter Helio Castroneves fell back to sixth, unable to hold off such top qualifiers as Scott Dixon and Ryan Hunter-Reay. Attention quickly turned to Will Power and Charlie Kimball, who bumped into each other before Turn 5 of the first lap, causing Kimball to collide into the wall (he was not injured). It was the second straight race in which Kimball couldn’t complete the course. Castroneves, meanwhile, came up short after winning the pole at Long Beach for a third straight season (he was unsuccessful in those attempts, too). With 19 laps remaining, he was ordered to the back for a second pit speed violation, which essentially ruined his chances. He finished ninth. There were a few caution flags interspersed through-

The IndyCar driver wins the Grand Prix of Long Beach for first victory in two years. By Alex Shultz Almost two years to the day he won his last IndyCar race, James Hinchcliffe returned to the podium with an unlikely victory at the 43rd Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. Hinchcliffe had never finished better than third at Long Beach as part of the IndyCar circuit, and Sunday marked his fifth win overall. He started from the fourth position and stayed in the mix when other drivers made aggressive moves or fell off, culminating in a relatively stress-free 1.494-second margin of victory after 25 laps led. Hinchcliffe’s two-year dry spell was largely the result of a catastrophic injury during a practice at the 2015 Indianapolis 500 that almost took his life. “A lot has changed since the last time we were sitting up here, and it’s just so nice to be back,” Hinchcliffe said. “To do it here and finally hit this place, a track that I love so much, a track that has been very good to me and my career and one that I think is the Indy 500 of street tracks … it makes this a really spe-

out the 85 laps (a five-lap increase), but no major crashes. J.R. Hildebrand, who took 11th place, sustained a broken bone in his left hand on the last lap when his car knocked against the car of Mikhail Aleshin. That there were any slowdowns is a contrast to 2016, in which there were no yellows at Long Beach for the first time since 1989. “Everyone was kind of on the same strategy last year, which let it play out to not much action, unfortunately,” Newgarden said. “This year, it was a lot more mixed up, I feel like there was more passing. I did way more passing than I’ve done around here in a couple years. I thought it was an exciting race.” Sebastien Bourdais, the unlikely winner at the season opener in St. Petersburg, Fla., had warned before Long Beach that expectations for his team might have ballooned out of control. But it’s looking increasingly like he’s underestimating himself, as he nailed a second-place finish to help him maintain his early points lead in the IndyCar standings. “We’re a smaller group and it’s fairly recent, so we’re trying to build something and hopefully we can repeat and create some upsets as much as possible,” Bourdais said.

Newgarden grabbed his best finish at Long Beach in third, followed by Dixon and Simon Pagenaud, the latter of whom took the title here in 2016. Pagenaud’s run on Sunday was particularly remarkable, considering he started in the back of the pack after incurring a penalty for making contact with Castroneves during qualifying. But fifth place will hardly provide Pagenaud with the jubilation Hinchcliffe — born and raised near Toronto — expressed after emerging from his No. 5 Honda. “When I came into this sport, I felt a huge responsibility, to be honest, to keep up the good name that Canadian drivers have had in IndyCar,” Hinchcliffe said. “There haven’t been a ton of us, but the ones that have been here have been race winners and contenders week in and week out, year in and year out. I wanted to maintain that record for Canada and not be the guy that lets us down.”

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Ducks vs. Flames Red is the operative word for this playoff series. The Ducks still see red when they think about Mark Giordano’s knee-on-knee hit last week that injured defenseman Cam Fowler. And they aim to keep Calgary’s red jerseys from flying into their zone. History doesn’t count, but it puts the Ducks in the black: They’ve won both previous playoff series against the Flames, in 2015 and 2006.

Ducks offense vs. Flames defense

All four Ducks lines have identity and strong center men, and Patrick Eaves is perhaps the best trade deadline move in the NHL. Rickard Rakell and Jakob Silfverberg possess deadly hands. Defensemen Giordano, T.J. Brodie and Dougie Hamilton are the Flames’ horses, and Dennis Wideman and Deryk Engelland also play significant minutes. Mikael Backlund is considered a Selke Trophy candidate as best defensive forward.

Ducks defense vs. Flames offense

The Ducks are without their minutes leader Fowler, at least to start, and will need Hampus Lindholm, Sami Vatanen and others to collectively fill his absence. Silfverberg, Ryan Kesler and Andrew Cogliano are probably the best defensive line in the NHL. Johnny Gaudreau and Sean Monahan drive the Flames, and Calgary boasts 10 forwards with double-digit goal totals, including Kris Versteeg.

Goalies

This remains the strength of the Ducks with John Gibson and Jonathan Bernier. Gibson carried most of the mail in his first full NHL season and Bernier ran with the job when Gibson got hurt. Veteran Brian Elliott overcame a rough start in his first season with Calgary and went 17-6-1 after the All-Star break.

Special teams

The Ducks’ power play dropped from first in the NHL last season to middle of the pack, and it will have to adjust slightly without Fowler. Penalty killing remains strong, with Cogliano and Silfverberg as short-handed threats. Calgary’s power play ranked in the top third. Its penalty kill improved from 30th to 12th.

Home ice

Expect the “You can’t win here!” chant in Honda Center like there was last Tuesday. Postseason is different, but the Ducks have won an NHL-record 25 regular-season home games against the Flames, who last won in Anaheim in the 2006 playoffs. Calgary fills the Scotiabank Saddledome with a fervent fan base eager for the playoffs after the Flames missed them last season. — Curtis Zupke

First-round NHL playoff schedule WESTERN CONFERENCE 1 Chicago vs. 4 Nashville

EASTERN CONFERENCE 1 Washington vs. 4 Toronto

Gm 1 Gm 2 Gm 3 Gm 4 Gm 5 Gm 6 Gm 7

Gm 1 Gm 2 Gm 3 Gm 4 Gm 5 Gm 6 Gm 7

Thursday at Chicago, 5 Saturday at Chicago, 5 April 17 at Nashville, 6:30 April 20 at Nashville, TBD April 22 at Chicago, TBD* April 24 at Nashville, TBD* April 26 at Chicago, TBD*

Thursday at Washington, 4 Saturday at Washington, 4 April 17 at Toronto, 4 April 19 at Toronto, 4 April 21 at Wash., TBD* April 23 at Toronto, TBD* April 25 at Wash., TBD*

2 Minnesota vs. 3 St. Louis

2 Pittsburgh vs. 3 Columbus

Gm 1 Gm 2 Gm 3 Gm 4 Gm 5 Gm 6 Gm 7

Gm 1 Gm 2 Gm 3 Gm 4 Gm 5 Gm 6 Gm 7

Wed. at Minnesota, 6:30 Friday at Minnesota, 5 Sunday at St. Louis, noon April 19 at St. Louis, 6:30 April 22 at Minn., TBD* April 24 at St. Louis, TBD* April 26 at Minn., TBD*

Wed. at Pittsburgh, 4:30 Friday at Pittsburgh, 4 Sunday at Columbus, 3 April 18 at Columbus, 4:30 April 20 at Pitt., TBD* April 23 at Columbus, TBD* April 25 at Pitt., TBD*

1 DUCKS vs. 4 Calgary

1 Montreal vs. 4 N.Y. Rangers

Gm 1 Gm 2 Gm 3 Gm 4 Gm 5 Gm 6 Gm 7

Gm 1 Gm 2 Gm 3 Gm 4 Gm 5 Gm 6 Gm 7

Thursday at DUCKS, 7:30 Saturday at DUCKS, 7:30 April 17 at Calgary, 7 April 19 at Calgary, 7 April 21 at DUCKS, TBD* April 23 at Calgary, TBD* April 25 at DUCKS, TBD*

Wednesday at Montreal, 4 Friday at Montreal, 4 Sunday at New York, 4 April 18 at New York, 4 April 20 at Montreal, TBD* April 22 at New York, TBD* April 24 at Montreal, TBD*

2 Edmonton vs. 3 San Jose

2 Ottawa vs. 3 Boston

Gm 1 Gm 2 Gm 3 Gm 4 Gm 5 Gm 6 Gm 7

Gm 1 Gm 2 Gm 3 Gm 4 Gm 5 Gm 6 Gm 7

Wednesday at Edmonton, 7 Friday at Edmonton, 7:30 Sunday at San Jose, 7 April 18 at San Jose, 7 April 20 at Edmon., TBD* April 22 at San Jose, TBD* April 24 at Edmonton, TBD*

* Games 5-7 if necessary

Wednesday at Ottawa, 4 Saturday at Ottawa, noon April 17 at Boston., 4 April 19 at Boston, 4:30 April 21 at Ottawa, TBD* April 23 at Boston, TBD* April 25 at Ottawa, TBD*

All times PDT, p.m.

FINAL STANDINGS WESTERN CONFERENCE

Pacific y-DUCKS x-Edmonton x-San Jose x-Calgary KINGS Arizona Vancouver Central z-Chicago x-Minnesota x-St. Louis x-Nashville Winnipeg Dallas Colorado

W 46 47 46 45 39 30 30 W 50 49 46 41 40 34 22

L 23 26 29 33 35 42 42 L 23 25 29 29 35 37 56

OL 13 9 7 4 8 10 9 OL 9 8 7 12 7 11 4

Pts 105 103 99 94 86 70 69 Pts 109 106 99 94 87 79 48

GF 223 242 221 226 201 197 180 GF 244 266 235 240 249 223 166

GA 200 210 201 221 205 260 238 GA 213 208 218 224 256 262 278

Note: Overtime or shootout losses are worth one point.

RESULTS AT DUCKS 4 KINGS 3 (OT) AT DETROIT 4 NEW JERSEY 1 AT ST. LOUIS 3 COLORADO 2 CAROLINA 4 AT PHILADELPHIA 3 (SO) FLORIDA 2 AT WASHINGTON 0 AT N.Y. ISLANDERS 4 OTTAWA 2 AT TAMPA BAY 4 BUFFALO 2 COLUMBUS 3 AT TORONTO 2 AT N.Y. RANGERS 3 PITTSBURGH 2 AT EDMONTON 5 VANCOUVER 2

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Metropolitan z-Washington x-Pittsburgh x-Columbus x-N.Y. Rangers N.Y. Islanders Philadelphia Carolina New Jersey Atlantic y-Montreal x-Ottawa x-Boston x-Toronto Tampa Bay Florida Detroit Buffalo

W 55 50 50 48 41 39 36 28 W 47 44 44 40 42 35 33 33

L 19 21 24 28 29 33 31 40 L 26 28 31 27 30 36 36 37

OL 8 11 8 6 12 10 15 14 OL 9 10 7 15 10 11 13 12

Pts 118 111 108 102 94 88 87 70 Pts 103 98 95 95 94 81 79 78

GF 263 282 249 256 241 219 215 183 GF 226 212 234 251 234 210 207 201

GA 182 234 195 220 242 236 236 244 GA 200 214 212 242 227 237 244 237

x-clinched playoffs; y-clinched division; z-clinched conference

Shea Theodore scores on a breakaway goal in overtime as Ducks clinch fifth straight Pacific Division title. The Red Wings’ Riley Sheahan gets two goals in the final game at historic Joe Lewis Arena. Vladimir Tarasenko scores go-ahead goal for Blues in third period, 19 seconds after Vladimir Sobotka’s goal. The Hurricanes’ Bryan Bickell scores in the shootout of his final game before retiring because of multiple sclerosis. The Panthers’ James Reimer makes 29 saves against the Capitals, who rest several of their regulars. Anders Lee and Brock Nelson score in second period as Islanders close their season with six straight wins. Brayden Point scores two goals, including the winner with 1:24 left, as Lightning top Sabres in finale for both teams. Matt Calvert, Josh Anderson and Cam Atkinson score for Blue Jackets in comeback win over Maple Leafs. The Rangers’ Jimmy Vesey scores his 16th goal of the season with game winner at 7:23 of third period. Connor McDavid hits the 100-point mark and Jordan Eberle records a hat trick as Oilers top Canucks.

For complete NHL summaries, go to latimes.com/sports/scores

Darryl Dyck Associated Press

KINGS COACH Darryl Sutter’s future with a franchise he led to Stanley Cup titles in 2012 and ’14 is unclear.

The team needs youth, speed and scoring; Sutter prefers veterans and has won with a defense-based system.

Kings must get better, and fast, but there’s no quick fix Former champs fell behind in league built on speed and catching up won’t be easy. HELENE ELLIOTT

In an instant the Kings went from the tension of overtime to the end of their season, veering from the giddy notion that they could prevent the Ducks from winning the Pacific Division title to the realization that their next important decision will be when to schedule their tee times. The Kings’ playoff hopes expired a week ago but the finality of an underachieving season hit them hard Sunday after their 4-3 overtime loss to the Ducks at Honda Center. While the Ducks prepare to face the Calgary Flames, the Kings will go through exit meetings with team executives and try to figure out where it all went wrong. “It sucks. That’s one thing we talked about after the game. Brownie addressed it,” defenseman Drew Doughty said of forward Dustin Brown, whose leadership was still captainlike even though he was stripped of the “C” on his uniform. “Remember this feeling and how crappy this feeling

is,” Doughty said of Brown’s message. “This team that we just played, obviously they beat us tonight, but they’re going on to bigger and better things and we’re done and we’re going home to our hometowns or whatever. It sucks. I don’t want to be at home watching Stanley Cup playoffs without us in it, and yeah, it hurts.” This will be a summer of change for the Kings. It must be, if they are to catch up in a swift league that has left them behind. Those changes must result in more scoring, more skill, more fire beyond the ever-competitive Doughty, goaltender Jonathan Quick and Brown. Will those changes bring a new coach to replace Darryl Sutter, a coach more amenable to playing kids? Sutter scratched youngsters Jonny Brodzinski, Paul LaDue and Adrian Kempe on Sunday in a game that would have given them valuable experience. He inexplicably played Marian Gaborik, whose albatross of a contract is the only reason he wasn’t banished sooner. “We certainly didn’t score as many goals as we wanted to,” said center Anze Kopitar, who said there was no injury to explain his drop-off from 25 goals last season to 12 this season. “I think each and every one of us has got to look himself in the mirror and figure out what went wrong and how can we improve on scoring goals and bring it next year.” To Sutter, the problem was obvious.

“We didn’t score enough goals this year. I think we were 20 or 25 goals off our last two years,” he said of their decline from 225 last season to 205. “We just didn’t have enough in our lineup. You could see it in a lot of locations.” The question is how that can change. Sutter didn’t really answer. “We lost a lot of goals out of our lineup last year. I think we added a bunch of kids in our lineup but they weren’t really looked on as goal scorers,” Sutter said, although Brodzinski had 25 goals in 56 minor league games and Kempe had 11 in 43 American Hockey League games. “There were a couple of guys that didn’t work out, that’s for sure.” Missing the playoffs for the second time in three seasons also raises questions about the future of general manager Dean Lombardi, who rebuilt the organization into a two-time Stanley Cup champion but has since made a series of questionable decisions in his trade dealings and freeagent moves. His acquisition of goaltender Ben Bishop when the Kings so badly needed scoring stands out as the wrong move at the wrong time, although adding Jarome Iginla as a rental player brought better results. Iginla, who will be 40 on July 1, had six goals and nine points in 19 games, including his 1,300th career point with an assist Sunday. He said he’s leaning toward coming

back for another season, but the Kings might not be able to afford him because they’ll have to give raises to restricted free-agent forwards Tyler Toffoli and Tanner Pearson. Besides, they must get younger and faster. Iginla wouldn’t help there. “I’m hoping to play again,” Iginla said, adding how much he enjoyed being in meaningful games. “It doesn’t feel like I want that to be the last one.” It might have been the last one as Kings for some players, with an expansion draft looming and salary cap issues to face. Doughty acknowledged the sadness of losing teammates he considers brothers, but he knows staying the same will mean going backward. “We didn’t lose this season at the last three weeks of the season. We lost it at the middle of the season when we weren’t good enough,” Doughty said. “We actually had a poor start to the season as well. A lot of fingers can be pointed.” That will happen soon. In the meantime, the Kings will be golfing and the Ducks will be competing, though Doughty is dubious about the Ducks’ chances to go far. “I’m not going to say no,” he said, “but I think that there’s better teams in the Western Conference, for sure.” The Kings weren’t one of those better teams. They’ll have a lot of time to think about that. [email protected] Twitter: @helenenothelen

Ducks turn focus to playoffs, Flames [Ducks, from D1] Ryan Getzlaf said. “We grew as a group as we went along, and that was a good sign. I thought the second half of the year, we did a lot better job with our composure, with our game, and we built toward this.” The Ducks will enter the postseason on a 14-game point streak (11-0-3). They are the first team to do so since the Pittsburgh Penguins took an 18-game streak into the 1993 playoffs. “Everyone’s buying in right now,” goalie Jonathan Bernier said. Ducks coach Randy Carlyle said the slate is wiped clean, though, and he noted that the real hockey begins soon. His players weren’t keen on talking about hanging another division banner. “We’ve won a few here and we don’t get too excited anymore, really,” wing Andrew Cogliano said. “We’ve come back a long way. We’ve deserved where we are. We wanted to win to finish off the season on the right note. That’s what it came down to. It’s fitting that we won in overtime.” The Ducks couldn’t get through Game 82 unscathed. Patrick Eaves exited in the second period after he fell into a tangled

DUCKS 4, KINGS 3 KINGS ..............................1 DUCKS .............................1

Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times

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FIRST PERIOD: 1. DUCKS, Eaves 32 (Getzlaf), 0:27. 2. KINGS, Doughty 12 (Martinez, Pearson), 11:20 (pp). Penalties—Lewis,KINGS, (illegal check to head), 6:54. Eaves, ANA, (tripping), 8:14. Carter, KINGS, (cross checking), 8:35. Theodore, ANA, (holding), 10:25. SECOND PERIOD: 3. DUCKS, Vermette 9 (Getzlaf, Rakell), 9:53 (pp). 4. KINGS, Clifford 6 (Dowd, Gravel), 15:56. Penalties—Vatanen, ANA, (delay of game), 1:51. KINGS bench, served by Dowd (too many men on the ice), 8:24. Kase, ANA, (interference), 11:14. Doughty, KINGS, (slashing), 12:40. Carter, KINGS, (interference), 17:32. THIRD PERIOD: 5. KINGS, Brown 14 (Forbort, Iginla), 7:55. 6. DUCKS, Thompson 1 (Lindholm, Montour), 11:34. Penalties—Perry, ANA, (interference), 3:26. OVERTIME: 7. DUCKS, Theodore 2 (Rakell, Getzlaf), 0:53. Penalties—None. SHOTS ON GOAL: KINGS 5-7-6—18. DUCKS 10-8-51—24. Power-play Conversions—KINGS 1 of 4. DUCKS 1 of 5. GOALIES: KINGS, Quick 8-5-2 (24 shots-20 saves). DUCKS, Bernier 21-7-4 (18-15). Att—16,564 (17,174). T—2:39.

SHEA THEODORE of the Ducks scores the winning

goal in overtime against Kings goalie Jonathan Quick. heap with Kings defenseman Brayden McNabb. “He’s got an upper-body injury, but I saw him after the game walking around,” Carlyle said. “He’s fine.” Theodore beat Kings goalie Jonathan Quick high 53 seconds into overtime. It ended a strange, yet special game in which Ducks fans gave Miller a standing ovation and Ducks players tapped their sticks during a video tribute at Honda Center. Miller’s broadcast booth was decorated with photos, and a banner in Kings colors with his name was hung outside of it.

Miller called seven goals and possibly Jarome Iginla’s last game. Iginla became the 34th player in NHL history to record 1,300 points, with an assist on Dustin Brown’s goal. Eaves scored 27 seconds in, his 32nd goal, and the Ducks also got scores from Antoine Vermette and Nate Thompson — his first this season. Drew Doughty and Kyle Clifford also scored for the Kings, who played a regular lineup, including Quick on consecutive days to end the season. While the Kings do soulsearching, the Ducks turn to

Calgary. They have won three straight against the Flames since an 8-3 Calgary win in December that Carlyle said “embarrassed” them. There is also last week’s brouhaha in which Cam Fowler was taken out by a knee-on-knee hit against the Flames. But Carlyle wants to refocus. “We’re going to have to earn everything that we get, and I would expect Calgary’s going to have a few surprises,” he said. “They won’t be the same hockey club we played the last two times here.” [email protected]

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M O N DAY , A P R I L 10 , 2 017

L ATI M E S . C O M/ SP O RTS

BASEBALL DODGERS ROCKIES

NL STANDINGS GB

L10

Arizona

6

1

.857

—

6-1

Colorado

5

2

.714

1

5-2

DODGERS

4

3

.571

2

4-3

San Diego

3

4

.429

3

3-4

San Francisco

2

5

.286

4

2-5

GB

L10

West

L

W

Central

W

L

Pct.

Pct.

Cincinnati

4

2

.667

—

4-2

Chicago

4

2

.667

—

4-2

Pittsburgh

3

2

.600

1

⁄2

3-2

St. Louis

2

4

.333

2

2-4

Milwaukee

2

5

.286 21⁄2

East

W

L

Pct.

2-5

GB

L10

Philadelphia

3

3

.500

—

3-3

New York

3

3

.500

—

3-3

Miami

3

3

.500

—

3-3

Washington

3

3

.500

—

3-3

Atlanta

1

5

.167

2

1-5

Sunday’s results DODGERS 10, at Colorado 6 at Philadelphia 4, Washington 3 at Pittsburgh 6, Atlanta 5, 10 innings Chicago 7, at Milwaukee 4 Cincinnati 8, at St. Louis 0 at Arizona 3, Cleveland 2 at San Francisco 5, San Diego 3 at New York 5, Miami 2

AL STANDINGS GB

L10

ANGELS

West

5

W

2

.714

—

5-2

Houston

4

3

.571

1

4-3

Oakland

3

4

.429

2

3-4

Texas

2

4

.333

21⁄2

2-4

Seattle

1

6

.143

Central

L

W

L

Pct.

Pct.

4

1-6

GB

L10

5-1

Minnesota

5

1

.833

—

Detroit

3

2

.600

11⁄2

3-2

Cleveland

3

3

.500

2

3-3

Chicago

2

3

.400

2 ⁄2

2-3

Kansas City

2

4

.333

3

2-4

East

W

L

Pct.

1

GB

L10

Baltimore

4

1

.800

—

4-1

Tampa Bay

5

2

.714

—

5-2 3-2

Boston

3

2

.600

1

New York

2

4

.333

21⁄2

2-4

Toronto

1

5

.167

3 ⁄2

1-5

1

Sunday’s results at ANGELS 10, Seattle 9 Boston 7, at Detroit 5 at Tampa Bay 7, Toronto 2 New York 7, at Baltimore 3 at Houston 5, Kansas City 4, 12 innings Minnesota 4, at Chicago 1 at Texas 8, Oakland 1 at Arizona 3, Cleveland 2

TODAY’S GAMES NATIONAL LEAGUE >>> MATCHUP Dodgers/Wood (L) CHI/Lester (L) ARI/Walker (R) SF/Moore (L) STL/Wainwright (R) WAS/Roark (R) CIN/Finnegan (L) PIT/Glasnow (R) NY/deGrom (R) PHI/Eickhoff (R) SD/Cosart (R) COL/Chatwood (R)

W-L 0-0 0-0 1-0 0-1 0-1 1-0 1-0 — 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-1

ERA TIME 0.00 5 p.m. 1.80 ESPN 6.00 1:30 p.m. 5.06 MLB 3.60 4 p.m. 3.00 0.00 4 p.m. — 0.00 4 p.m. 2.70 27.00 5:30 p.m. 6.00

AMERICAN LEAGUE >>> MATCHUP TB/Cobb (R) NY/Pineda (R) BOS/Sale (L) DET/Verlander (R) OAK/Cotton (R) KC/Kennedy (R) HOU/Morton (R) SEA/Paxton (L)

W-L 1-0 0-1 0-0 1-0 0-1 0-1 0-0 0-0

ERA 1.59 9.82 0.00 2.84 10.39 5.40 3.00 0.00

TIME 10 a.m. MLB 10 a.m. 1:15 p.m. 2 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE >>>

Player G AB R H Avg. Realmuto, Miami.................5 22 6 11 .500 Murphy, Washington.............6 25 5 12 .480 Drury, Arizona .....................6 21 4 10 .476 Cozart, Cincinnati ................6 20 1 9 .450 Parra, Colorado...................7 25 2 11 .440 Kendrick, Philadelphia .........5 21 2 9 .429 Panik, San Francisco ...........6 20 5 8 .400 Turner, DODGERS ................6 25 3 10 .400 Marte, Pittsburgh ................5 21 4 8 .381 Ozuna, Miami .....................6 24 3 9 .375 Wieters, Washington ............6 16 1 6 .375 Home Runs Zimmerman, Washington ..................................................... 3 Reynolds, Colorado ............................................................ 3 Belt, San Francisco ............................................................ 3 Puig, DODGERS ................................................................. 3 Runs Batted In Solarte, San Diego ............................................................. 8

AMERICAN LEAGUE >>>

Player G AB R H Avg. Garcia, Chicago ..................5 19 4 9 .474 Leon, Boston......................4 16 3 7 .438 Mazara, Texas .....................6 24 6 10 .417 Souza Jr., Tampa Bay ...........7 24 3 10 .417 Escobar, ANGELS ................7 29 8 12 .414 Simmons, ANGELS ..............7 25 4 10 .400 Polanco, Minnesota .............5 18 3 7 .389 Kinsler, Detroit....................5 16 4 6 .375 Ellsbury, New York ...............6 19 4 7 .368 K. Davis, Oakland................7 25 6 9 .360 Dickerson, Tampa Bay ..........7 25 4 9 .360 Home Runs Springer, Houston............................................................... 4 Perez, Kansas City .............................................................. 4 Runs Batted In Mazara, Texas.................................................................... 9

SATURDAY’S LATE ANGELS BOX

Seattle AB R H BI Avg. Angels AB Segura ss 4 2 3 0 .333 Escobar 3b 4 Haniger rf 4 1 1 2 .208 Calhoun rf 4 Cano 2b 4 0 1 0 .208 Trout cf 4 Cruz dh 3 0 0 1 .091 Pujols dh 4 4 Seager 3b 4 1 1 0 .150 Simns ss 4 Valencia 1b 4 0 1 0 .167 Maybin lf Martin cf 4 0 0 0 .050 Marte 1b 3 Zunino c 4 0 1 1 .190 Espnsa 2b 4 Dyson lf 2 0 0 0 .136 Maldndo c 4 Totals 33 4 8 4 Totals 35 Seattle Angels

Streak Won 1 This month Home 3-1 Road Division 4-3 Interleague Next: Tonight at Chicago Cubs, 5 PDT TV/Radio: ESPN, ESPND/570, 1020 Dodgers Frsythe 2b Seager ss Turner 3b Gutrrz lf Puig rf A.Gnzlz 1b Hrnndz cf b-Pdrsn cf Barnes c Maeda p c-Toles Avilan p VnSlyke Totals Dodgers Colorado

R 3 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 5

H 3 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 13

200 000 110 —4 011 010 20x —5

BI 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 5

Avg. .417 .348 .318 .167 .391 .263 .333 .158 .278

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Walks—Seattle 1: Dyson 1. Angels 1: Marte 1. Strikeouts—Seattle 8: Haniger 1, Cruz 2, Seager 1, Valencia 1, Martin 1, Zunino 2. Angels 7: Calhoun 1, Trout 2, Maybin 1, Marte 1, Espinosa 2. E—Dyson (1). LOB—Seattle 4, Angels 7. 2B—Seager (1), Valencia (1), Escobar (1), Pujols (1). HR—Haniger (2), off Nolasco; Escobar (1), off Hernandez; Trout (2), off Scribner. RBIs—Haniger 2 (3), Cruz (2), Zunino (1), Escobar (2), Calhoun (3), Trout 2 (7), Espinosa (6). SF—Cruz. DP—Seattle 1 (Segura, Cano, Valencia); Angels 1 (Marte, Simmons). Seattle IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Hernandez ...................6 10 3 3 0 6 100 4.09 Scribner L, 0-1 .............1 3 2 2 0 0 18 21.60 Pazos..........................1 0 0 0 1 1 16 0.00 Angels IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Nolasco ......................6 4 2 2 1 3 87 3.86 Ramirez W, 2-0 ..........11⁄3 3 2 2 0 1 21 5.40 Bedrosian S, 2-2 ........12⁄3 1 0 0 0 4 31 0.00 Inherited runners-scored—Bedrosian 1-1. WP—Hernandez. U—Tim Timmons, Jim Wolf, D.J. Reyburn, Greg Gibson. T—3:05. Tickets sold—42,668 (43,250).

AB 5 4 4 5 5 4 1 3 5 1 1 1 1 40

R 2 2 1 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 10

H 3 2 2 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 1 0 1 15

BI 1 2 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 9

Avg. .250 .308 .400 .231 .292 .350 .167 .250 .222 .000 .250 .000 .250

ANGELS MARINERS

4-3 1-2 0-0

Colorado AB R H BI Avg. Blckmn cf 5 2 2 3 .214 Parra lf 5 0 3 1 .440 C.Gnzlz rf 4 0 0 1 .167 Arenado 3b 4 0 0 0 .308 Story ss 3 0 0 0 .167 Reynlds 1b 4 0 0 0 .346 Amrista 2b 3 0 0 0 .200 Cardllo 1 0 0 0 .000 Wolters c 3 3 2 0 .308 Admes 1 0 0 0 .000 LeMhieu 2b 2 1 2 1 .160 Totals 35 6 9 6 220 101 301 —10 002 020 002 — 6

15 9

PIRATES BRAVES

1 2

Seattle Segura ss Hniger rf Cano 2b Cruz dh Seager 3b Vlncia 1b Martin cf Ruiz c Motter lf Totals

Seattle Angels

AB 3 4 5 3 3 4 4 4 3 33

R 3 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 9

H 1 1 2 0 0 0 1 2 0 7

BI 0 1 5 0 1 0 0 1 0 8

Avg. .333 .214 .241 .080 .130 .143 .083 .333 .000

Angels Escbr 3b Clhn rf Trout cf Pujols dh Smns ss Pnngtn ss Cron 1b Revere lf Espsa 2b Perez c a-Marte Mldndo c Totals

AB 5 3 3 5 2 1 4 3 4 2 1 1 34

R 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 10

H 2 1 0 2 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 11

103 030 110 — 9 010 000 207 —10

BI 2 0 0 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 10

Avg. .414 .346 .280 .207 .400 .333 .316 .250 .130 .000 .429 .263

7 11

0 2

PHILLIES NATIONALS

Cesar Hernandez hit a walk-off single with two outs in the ninth inning after Ryan Zimmerman delivered a tying, three-run homer with two outs in the top of the inning.

Atlanta AB R H BI Avg. Pittsbrgh Incrte cf 5 0 0 0 .143 Frazier 3b Swansn ss 5 1 1 1 .179 Marte cf Freemn 1b 5 3 4 2 .346 McCthn rf Garcia 3b 4 0 1 0 .174 Polnco lf Mrkkis rf 5 1 2 1 .304 Bell 1b Phillips 2b 5 0 2 0 .292 Hsn 2b Flowers c 5 0 2 1 .357 Mercer ss Petrsn lf 3 0 1 0 .333 Gossln 2b d’Arnd lf 1 0 0 0 .333 Jaso Theran p 1 0 0 0 .000 Frse 1b Bnfacio 1 0 0 0 .000 Stewart c Jhnsn p 0 0 0 0 --- Crvlli c Suzuki 1 0 0 0 .111 Cole p Totals 41 5 13 5 Harrsn 3b Totals

Washington AB R H BI Avg. Philadelphia Eaton cf 4 0 1 0 .250 Hrnndz 2b Rendon 3b 4 0 0 0 .158 Kndrck lf Harper rf 4 0 0 0 .273 Hrrera cf Murphy 2b 4 0 1 0 .480 Franco 3b Lind 1b 4 1 2 0 .375 Saundrs rf Glover p 0 0 0 0 --- Joseph 1b Werth lf 2 1 0 0 .333 Neshek p Drew ss 4 0 0 0 .091 Neris p Lobaton c 3 0 0 0 .000 Gomez p b-Zmrmn 1b 1 1 1 3 .333 d-Nava Strsbrg p 2 0 0 0 .000 Knapp c a-Difo 0 0 0 0 .333 Galvis ss Solis p 0 0 0 0 --- Hllcksn p c-Wietrs c 1 0 1 0 .375 Stassi 1b Totals 33 3 6 3 Totals

Atlanta Pittsburgh

H 3 4 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 11

BI 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 5

200 010 100 1 —5 000 200 011 2 —6

Avg. .353 .381 .150 .273 .231 1.000 .250 .000 .000 .364 .333 .235 .000 .235

13 11

2 0

No outs when winning run scored. Walks—Atlanta 2: Garcia 1, Peterson 1. Pittsburgh 3: Bell 2, Freese 1. Strikeouts—Atlanta 7: Inciarte 2, Swanson 1, Freeman 1, Garcia 1, Markakis 1, Peterson 1. Pittsburgh 4: McCutchen 2, Jaso 1, Cole 1. E—Freeman (1), Peterson (1). LOB—Atlanta 10, Pittsburgh 5. 2B—Freeman (1), Peterson (1), Frazier (1), Bell (2). HR—Swanson (1), off Cole; Freeman (1), off Cole; Freeman (2), off Bastardo; Marte (1), off Ramirez. RBIs—Swanson (1), Freeman 2 (2), Markakis (2), Flowers (1), Marte 2 (5), Bell (1), Mercer (3), Cervelli (2). SB—Freeman (1). CS—Frazier (1), Marte (1). S—Teheran 2, Cole. RISP—Atlanta 1 for 10; Pittsburgh 4 for 12. DP—Atlanta 2. Atlanta ......................IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Teheran .......................7 6 2 0 1 4 87 0.00 Vizcaino H, 1 ...............1 2 1 0 0 0 12 0.00 Johnson ......................1 1 1 1 2 0 20 3.00 Ramirez L, 0-1..............0 2 2 2 0 0 7 4.15 Pittsburgh..................IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Cole ...........................6 8 3 3 2 4 98 6.55 Bastardo .....................1 2 1 1 0 0 19 27.00 Williams ......................2 1 0 0 0 3 24 0.00 Rivero W, 1-0 ...............1 2 1 1 0 0 12 1.80 HBP—Vizcaino (Harrison). PB—Flowers (2). U—Phil Cuzzi, Vic Carapazza, Mark Ripperger, Tom Hallion. T—3:14. Tickets sold—22,713 (38,362).

REDS CARDINALS

Washington Philadelphia

AB 5 3 4 2 4 3 0 0 0 0 3 4 2 2 32

R 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 4

000 000 003 —3 010 020 001 —4

H 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 7

BI 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4

Avg. .269 .429 .364 .136 .211 .100 ------.500 .200 .286 .200 .000

6 7

0 0

Two outs when winning run scored. a-walked for Strasburg in the 8th. b-homered for Lobaton in the 9th. c-doubled for Solis in the 9th. d-walked for Gomez in the 9th. Walks—Washington 4: Eaton 1, Werth 2, Difo 1. Philadelphia 5: Kendrick 1, Franco 2, Nava 1, Knapp 1. Strikeouts—Washington 6: Eaton 1, Harper 2, Werth 1, Drew 1, Strasburg 1. Philadelphia 8: Hernandez 1, Kendrick 2, Herrera 2, Saunders 1, Joseph 1, Stassi 1. LOB—Washington 7, Philadelphia 7. 2B—Lind (1), Wieters (3), Kendrick (3), Knapp (1). HR—Zimmerman (3), off Gomez. RBIs—Zimmerman 3 (6), Hernandez 2 (4), Kendrick (5), Galvis (6). SB—Joseph (1). CS—Herrera (1). RISP—Washington 1 for 6; Philadelphia 3 for 11. Washington ................IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Strasburg ....................7 5 3 3 3 8 105 3.21 Solis...........................1 0 0 0 1 0 13 9.00 Glover L, 0-1................2⁄3 2 1 1 1 0 21 3.38 Philadelphia...............IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Hellickson....................5 1 0 0 1 2 70 0.90 Benoit H, 2 ..................1 1 0 0 0 1 16 0.00 Neshek H, 1 ................2⁄3 1 0 0 1 0 15 0.00 Neris H, 2 .........1 ......... 0 0 0 1 2 19 0.00 Gomez W, 1-0 ..............1 3 3 3 1 1 30 15.00 Inherited runners-scored—Neris 2-0. U—James Hoye, Will Little, Clint Fagan, Jeff Kellogg. T—03:24. Tickets sold—36,917 (43,651).

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ASTROS ROYALS

5 4

Scott Feldman (1-1) gave up four hits and struck out six batters in six innings, and Cincinnati won only its fifth series out of the last 40 at Busch Stadium.

Jake Marisnick hit a tying home run against Kelvin Herrera in the ninth inning and Evan Gattis drew a basesloaded walk from Matt Strahm (0-2) in the 12th to lift Houston.

Cincinnati AB R H BI Avg. St. Louis Hmltn cf 5 1 1 0 .286 Fowler cf Peraza 2b 4 1 1 1 .227 Martnz rf Votto 1b 4 2 1 1 .227 Diaz ss Duvall lf 4 2 3 2 .348 Carpntr 1b Suarez 3b 4 1 2 0 .333 Adams lf Schblr rf 3 1 1 1 .250 Molina c b-Alcntra 1 0 0 0 .000 c-Wong Cozart ss 4 0 1 1 .450 Peralta 3b Turner c 4 0 1 0 .125 Gyorko 2b Feldmn p 2 0 0 0 .000 Grichk cf Kivlhan rf 1 0 0 0 .143 Martnz p Totals 36 8 11 6 a-Garcia Fryer c Totals

Kansas City AB R H BI Avg. Houston AB R H BI Avg. Gordon lf 5 0 2 0 .240 Springer rf 6 2 2 1 .250 Mstakas 3b 5 1 2 1 .348 Brgmn 3b 5 0 0 0 .167 Cain cf 5 0 0 0 .200 Altuve 2b 5 0 2 0 .200 Hosmr 1b 5 0 1 0 .200 Correa ss 5 0 2 0 .240 Perez c 5 1 1 1 .292 McCnn c 4 0 1 0 .278 Moss dh 5 1 1 1 .077 Gttis dh 3 1 2 1 .357 Orlando rf 4 1 1 0 .143 Rddick rf 1 0 1 0 .278 Escobr ss 5 0 1 0 .190 Grriel 1b 3 0 0 0 .095 Mondsi 2b 3 0 0 1 .111 Gonzlz lf 4 1 1 2 .333 Cthbrt 2b 1 0 0 0 .286 Aoki lf 2 0 0 0 .250 Totals 43 4 9 4 Beltrn 1 0 0 0 .280 Marsnck cf 2 1 1 1 .222 Totals 41 5 12 5

AB 3 1 4 3 4 3 1 3 3 3 1 1 1 31

R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

010 014 101 —8 000 000 000 —0

H 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 6

BI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Avg. .174 .333 .296 .150 .200 .278 .188 .143 .167 .217 .000 .000 .500

11 6

0 3

a-struck out for Cecil in the 6th. b-popped out for Wood in the 9th. c-grounded out for Oh in the 9th. Walks—Cincinnati 4: Votto 1, Duvall 1, Suarez1, Cozart 1. St. Louis 1: Carpenter 1. Strikeouts—Cincinnati 3: Hamilton 1, Suarez 1, Turner 1. St. Louis 9: Fowler 1, Martinez 1, Diaz 1, Carpenter 2, Adams 1, Peralta 1, Grichuk 1, Garcia 1. E—Peralta 2 (2), Grichuk (2). LOB—Cincinnati 8, St. Louis 5. 2B—Hamilton (1), Schebler (1), Turner (1), Grichuk (1), Fryer (1). 3B—Cozart (2). HR—Duvall (2), off Martinez; Votto (2), off Oh. RBIs—Peraza (1), Votto (3), Duvall 2 (4), Schebler (4), Cozart (4). CS—Duvall (1). S—Feldman. RISP—Cincinnati 3 for 15; St. Louis 0 for 4. DP—Cincinnati 2 ; St. Louis 2. Cincinnati ..................IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Feldman W, 1-1............6 4 0 0 1 6 101 2.53 Wood..........................2 1 0 0 0 1 24 2.25 Cingrani ......................1 1 0 0 0 2 9 0.00 St. Louis ....................IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Martinez L, 0-1.............5 6 6 5 1 3 89 3.65 Cecil...........................1 1 0 0 0 0 8 18.00 Socolovich...................1 2 1 1 1 0 23 3.00 Tuivailala .....................1 0 0 0 1 0 11 3.00 Oh..............................1 2 1 1 1 0 23 13.50 HBP—Martinez 2 (Schebler,Peraza). WP—Martinez. U—Andy Fletcher, Alan Porter, Joe West, Hunter Wendelstedt. T—2:44. Tickets sold—45,200 (43,975).

RAYS BLUE JAYS

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9 12

0 0

YANKEES ORIOLES

1 0

Walks—Toronto 1: Bautista 1. Tampa Bay 5: Dickerson 1, Miller 2, Souza Jr. 2. Strikeouts—Toronto 4: Donaldson 1, Martin 1, Carrera 2. Tampa Bay 8: Dickerson 2, Kiermaier 1, Longoria 2, Miller 1, Morrison 1, Robertson 1. E—Tulowitzki (1). LOB—Toronto 2, Tampa Bay 6. 2B—Bautista (1), Morales (2). 3B—Kiermaier (1). HR—Donaldson (2), off Odorizzi; Dickerson (2), off Estrada; Souza Jr. (1), off Estrada; Sucre (1), off Estrada. RBIs—Donaldson (3), Tulowitzki (6), Dickerson (4), Souza Jr. 3 (6), Sucre 3 (3). RISP—Toronto 0 for 3; Tampa Bay 3 for 9. Runners moved up—Tulowitzki, Souza Jr.. GIDP—Tulowitzki, Souza Jr., Morrison. DP—Toronto 2 (Smoak, Tulowitzki), (Tulowitzki, Travis, Smoak); Tampa Bay 1 (Robertson, Miller, Morrison). Toronto ......................IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Estrada L, 0-1 ..............5 7 5 5 2 5 99 5.73 Tepera.........................1 0 0 0 0 1 12 2.25 Loup ..........................2⁄3 0 0 0 1 1 21 3.38 Lawrence..................1 1⁄3 2 2 2 2 1 30 13.50 Tampa Bay .................IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Odorizzi W, 1-1 .............6 2 2 2 1 4 101 4.50 Diaz H, 2.....................2 0 0 0 0 0 32 0.00 Hunter ........................1 1 0 0 0 0 11 0.00 Inherited runners-scored—Lawrence 1-0. HBP—Odorizzi (Morales). U—Mike Muchlinski, Stu Scheurwater, Mike Winters, Mark Wegner. T—2:57. Tickets sold—15,341 (31,042).

New York AB R H BI Avg. Baltimore AB R H BI Avg. Gardner lf 5 0 0 0 .280 Gentry lf 4 0 0 0 .000 Hicks cf 5 0 1 0 .300 Jones cf 4 1 1 0 .263 1-Ellsbry dh 0 1 0 0 .368 Mchado 3b 3 0 0 0 .235 Carter 1b 3 0 1 0 .111 Trmbo rf 3 1 2 1 .263 2-Kozma ss 0 1 0 0 .000 Davis 1b 4 0 2 0 .333 Castro 2b 5 1 1 1 .320 Mncini dh 4 1 0 1 .125 Headley 1b 4 1 0 0 .333 Schoop 2b 3 0 0 0 .125 Judge rf 4 2 2 2 .211 Hardy ss 3 0 1 1 .125 Rmine c 3 1 1 1 .200 Joseph c 4 0 0 0 .000 Torrys 3b 5 0 3 2 .300 Totals 32 3 6 3 Totals 34 7 9 6 New York Baltimore

R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2

H 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 7

BI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1

Avg. .269 .292 .222 .308 --.217 .182 .217 .071 .273 .500 ----.250

Cleveland Arizona

000 002 014 —7 020 010 000 —3

9 6

0 2

1-ran for Holliday in the 9th. 2-ran for Carter in the 9th. Walks—New York 11: Gardner 1, Holliday 5, Carter 2, Headley 1, Judge 1, Romine 1. Baltimore 4: Machado 1, Trumbo 1, Schoop 1, Hardy 1. Strikeouts—New York 8: Gardner 3, Hicks 1, Carter 1, Castro 1, Headley 1, Torreyes 1. Baltimore 8: Gentry 1, Jones 1, Davis 1, Mancini 1, Schoop 1, Hardy 2, Joseph 1. E—Miley (1), Schoop (1). LOB—New York 12, Baltimore 6. 3B—Torreyes (1). HR—Judge (1), off Givens. RBIs—Castro (2), Judge 2 (3), Romine (1), Torreyes 2 (7), Trumbo (5), Mancini (1), Hardy (1). SB—Ellsbury (1). SF—Romine. RISP—New York 2 for 10; Baltimore 3 for 8. GIDP—Mancini. DP—New York 1 (Torreyes, Castro, Carter). New York....................IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Sabathia .....................6 6 3 2 4 3 98 1.64 Clippard ......................1 0 0 0 0 1 14 3.00 Betances W, 1-1...........1 0 0 0 0 2 13 3.86 Chapman ....................1 0 0 0 0 2 12 0.00 Baltimore...................IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Miley ..........................5 1 0 0 7 5 100 0.00 Wilson H, 1 ..............1 1⁄3 3 2 2 0 2 37 7.71 Givens BS, 2-2 .............1 3 1 1 1 0 27 2.45 Hart ...........................2⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 7 0.00 O’Day L, 0-1 ................2⁄3 2 4 4 3 0 27 18.00 Nuno..........................1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 4 0.00 Inherited runners-scored—Nuno 1-0. WP—Sabathia. PB—Romine (1). U—Brian Gorman, Dan Iassogna, Mike DiMuro, Tripp Gibson. T—3:22. Tickets sold—42,487 (45,971).

Arizona AB R H BI Avg. Pollck cf 4 0 0 0 .286 Peralta rf 4 0 1 0 .231 Gldsmdt 1b 4 0 2 0 .346 Lamb 3b 4 1 1 0 .250 Owings ss 4 2 3 1 .360 Descalso lf 3 0 1 1 .273 Bradley p 0 0 0 0 .000 c-Ianntta 1 0 0 0 .111 Rodney p 0 0 0 0 --Drury 2b 2 0 0 0 .476 Hrrmnn c 3 0 0 0 .375 Corbin p 2 0 0 0 .000 Chafin p 0 0 0 0 --Hzlbkr lf 1 0 0 0 .857 Totals 32 3 8 2 000 000 101 —2 000 201 00x —3

7 8

1 3

a-out on sacrifice bunt for Kluber in the 7th. b-struck out for Guyer in the 8th. c-popped out for Bradley in the 8th. Walks—Cleveland 3: Encarnacion 1, Gomes 2. Arizona 1: Drury 1. Strikeouts—Cleveland 5: Lindor 2, Naquin 1, Encarnacion 1, Jackson 1. Arizona 6: Pollock 1, Goldschmidt 1, Lamb 1, Drury 1, Corbin 1, Hazelbaker 1. E—Gomes (1), Lamb (1), Owings 2 (3). LOB—Cleveland 9, Arizona 6. 2B—Jackson (1), Goldschmidt (3). HR—Owings (1), off Kluber. RBIs—Almonte (2), Owings (5), Descalso (3). SB—Peralta (1), Owings 2 (4), Descalso (1). S—Martinez. RISP—Cleveland 1 for 10; Arizona 2 for 6. Runners moved up—Santana, Jackson. GIDP—Santana. DP—Arizona 1 (Drury, Owings, Goldschmidt). Cleveland...................IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Kluber L, 0-1................6 6 3 2 1 4 90 5.25 Miller.......................1 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 2 20 0.00 Allen ..........................2⁄3 2 0 0 0 0 9 3.38 Arizona ......................IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Corbin W, 1-1...............6 4 0 0 2 3 94 1.80 Chafin.........................0 1 1 0 1 0 15 4.50 Bradley H, 1.................2 1 0 0 0 1 31 0.00 Rodney S, 2-2 ..............1 1 1 0 0 1 12 3.00 Chafin pitched to 3 batters in the 7th. Inherited runners-scored—Bradley 2-0. WP—Chafin. U—Lance Barksdale, John Tumpane, Ted Barrett, Angel Hernandez. T—3:02. Tickets sold—30,191 (48,633).

METS MARLINS

Miami Gordon 2b Rlmuto c Yelich cf Stanton rf Bour 1b Ozuna lf Dietrch 3b Rojas ss Volquez p Tazawa p a-Suzuki McGwn p Totals

AB 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 1 0 1 0 30

R 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2

H 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 5

BI 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2

Avg. .208 .500 .214 .280 .100 .375 .313 .300 .667 --.250 .000

Miami New York

New York Reyes 3b Cbrera ss Cspds lf Bruce rf Walkr 2b Duda 1b Confrto cf Rivera c Syndrgrd p Salas p Reed p Totals

AB 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 0 0 33

R 0 1 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 5

H 0 1 1 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 8

002 000 000 —2 300 011 00x —5

BI 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 4

Avg. .043 .280 .182 .250 .167 .250 .333 .333 .400 -----

5 8

1 1

a-flied out for Tazawa in the 8th. Walks— New York 1: Conforto 1. Strikeouts—Miami 11: Gordon 2, Realmuto 1, Yelich 2, Stanton 2, Bour 2, Ozuna 1, Volquez 1. New York 8: Reyes 1, Cabrera 1, Cespedes 1, Bruce 1, Walker 1, Duda 1, Rivera 1, Syndergaard 1. E—Realmuto (1), Cespedes (1). LOB—Miami 2, New York 5. 2B—Gordon (1), Dietrich (1). HR—Bruce (2), off Volquez; Conforto (1), off Volquez. RBIs—Gordon 2 (3), Bruce (3), Walker (1), Conforto 2 (2). CS—Gordon (1), Realmuto (1). S—Volquez. RISP—Miami 1 for 4; New York 2 for 5. Miami .......................IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Volquez L, 0-1 ..............6 7 5 4 1 7 92 3.27 Tazawa ........................1 0 0 0 0 0 13 9.00 McGowan ....................1 1 0 0 0 1 12 0.00 New York....................IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Syndergaard W, 1-0 ......7 5 2 1 0 9 103 0.69 Salas H, 1 ...................1 0 0 0 0 0 18 0.00 Reed S, 1-1 .................1 0 0 0 0 2 10 0.00 WP—Syndergaard. U—Tony Randazzo, Rob Drake, Pat Hoberg, Gerry Davis. T—2:44. Tickets sold—27,420 (41,922).

RANGERS ATHLETICS

8 1

Joey Gallo hit a three-run home run and had a career-high five RBIs to back left-hander Martin Perez (1-1), who struck out six batters and gave up six hits in 51⁄3 scoreless innings. Oakland Semien ss R.Davis cf Healy 1b K.Davis dh Lwrie 2b Plffe 3b Canha lf Phgley c Rsales lf a-Jyce rf Totals

AB 5 3 5 4 3 4 3 4 1 2 34

R 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

H 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 2 1 0 8

BI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Avg. .227 .148 .143 .360 .333 .174 .083 .286 .500 .158

Oakland Texas

Texas Gomez cf Andrus ss Mazara rf Napoli dh Odor 2b Rua 1b Chrnos c Gallo 3b DeShlds lf Totals

AB 4 4 3 4 4 3 3 4 4 33

R 0 0 1 0 1 3 2 1 0 8

000 000 010 —1 030 003 02x —8

H 0 1 0 0 0 2 2 2 0 7

BI 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 0 8

Avg. .136 .286 .417 .091 .318 .222 .333 .200 .000

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3 0

a-flied out for Rosales in the 6th. Walks—Oakland 4: R.Davis 2, Lowrie 1, Rosales 1. Texas 5: Andrus 1, Mazara 1, Napoli 1, Rua 1, Chirinos 1. Strikeouts—Oakland 11: Semien 2, R.Davis 1, K.Davis 2, Lowrie 1, Plouffe 2, Canha 1, Phegley 1, Joyce 1. Texas 12: Gomez 2, Mazara 1, Napoli 3, Odor 1, Rua 1, Chirinos 1, Gallo 1, DeShields 2. E—Manaea (1), Semien (1), Healy (1). LOB—Oakland 11, Texas 8. 2B—Canha (1). HR—Gallo (2), off Manaea; Chirinos (1), off Coulombe. RBIs—Chirinos 3 (3), Gallo 5 (7). SB—DeShields (1). RISP—Oakland 1 for 10; Texas 2 for 8. GIDP—Healy. DP—Texas 1 (Andrus, Odor, Rua). Oakland.....................IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Manaea L, 0-1 ..........5 1⁄3 3 6 5 2 10 86 7.15 Montas ....................1 2⁄3 1 0 0 2 1 29 0.00 Coulombe....................1 3 2 2 1 1 33 6.00 Texas.........................IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Perez W, 1-1 .............5 1⁄3 6 0 0 3 6 92 2.38 Leclerc H, 1.................2⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 9 0.00 Jeffress .......................1 0 0 0 0 0 10 7.71 Bush...........................1 2 1 1 0 3 29 4.91 Dyson .........................1 0 0 0 1 1 12 36.00 Inherited runners-scored—Montas 3-3, Leclerc 2-0. HBP_Manaea 2 (Gomez,Mazara), Bush (Canha). WP—Manaea, Bush. U— Ron Kulpa, Ed Hickox, Chris Conroy, Jerry Meals. T—3:16. Tickets sold—36,905 (48,114).

TWINS WHITE SOX

4 1

Jorge Polanco hit a home run against Jose Quintana (0-2) and Miguel Sano hit one against Nate Jones to back Ervin Santana (2-0), who gave up only two singles in six scoreless innings. Minnesota Dozier 2b Grssmn dh Mauer 1b Sano 3b Castro c Polanco ss Rosario lf Buxton cf Kepler rf Totals

Minnesota Chicago

AB 4 4 4 4 3 4 4 4 3 34

R 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 4

H 1 2 1 2 0 2 0 0 0 8

BI 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 4

Avg. .240 .267 .167 .350 .308 .389 .150 .077 .217

Chicago AB R H BI Avg. Cabrera lf 4 1 0 0 .263 Andrsn ss 5 0 1 0 .227 Abreu 1b 3 0 1 0 .300 Frazier 3b 2 0 0 0 .059 Asche dh 2 0 1 0 .111 a-Dvdsn dh 2 0 0 0 .375 A.Grcia rf 3 0 1 1 .474 Sanchz 2b 4 0 1 0 .250 Narvz c 2 0 0 0 .000 b-Soto c 1 0 0 0 .273 May cf 3 0 0 0 .000 c-L.Grcia 1 0 0 0 .200 Totals 32 1 5 1 001 000 120 —4 000 000 010 —1

8 5

0 0

a-struck out for Asche in the 7th. b-lined out for Narvaez in the 7th. c-out on fielder’s choice for May in the 9th. Walks—Minnesota 1: Castro 1. Chicago 5: Cabrera 1, Abreu 1, Frazier 2, Soto 1. Strikeouts—Minnesota 9: Dozier 1, Grossman 1, Sano 1, Polanco 2, Rosario 2, Buxton 1, Kepler 1. Chicago 7: Anderson 1, Asche 1, Davidson 2, A.Garcia 1, Sanchez 1, May 1. LOB—Minnesota 4, Chicago 10. 2B—Grossman (2), Sano (2). HR—Polanco (1), off Quintana; Sano (2), off Jones. RBIs—Mauer (2), Sano 2 (8), Polanco (4), A.Garcia (5). SB—L.Garcia (1). RISP—Minnesota 2 for 6; Chicago 0 for 10. GIDP—Mauer. DP—Chicago 1 (Anderson, Abreu). Minnesota .................IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Santana W, 2-0 ............6 2 0 0 2 4 87 0.69 Rogers H, 2 .................1⁄3 2 0 0 0 1 11 0.00 Pressly H, 1................. 2⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 5 0.00 Belisle .....................2/3 1 1 1 2 1 23 2.70 Kintzler S, 3-3 ...........1 1⁄3 0 0 0 1 1 24 0.00 Chicago .....................IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Quintana L, 0-2.........6 1⁄3 5 2 2 1 7 100 6.17 Jones.......................1 1⁄3 3 2 2 0 0 19 7.71 Jennings .....................1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 3 0.00 Robertson....................1 0 0 0 0 2 9 0.00 HBP—Kintzler (A.Garcia). WP—Belisle. PB_Narvaez (1). U—Dana DeMuth, Paul Nauert, Chris Guccione, Carlos Torres. T—3:07. Tickets sold—24,074 (40,615).

5 3

Hunter Pence hit a two-run home run in the third inning against Clayton Richard (1-1), Buster Posey followed with an opposite-field shot to right and Johnny Cueto (2-0) struck out seven batters in seven innings to help San Francisco avoid a three-game sweep. San Fran Span cf Belt 1b Pence rf Posey c Crwfrd ss Nnez 3b Mrrero lf Law p Mlncon p Hill 2b Cueto p Hrnndz lf Totals

AB 5 3 5 3 4 3 4 0 0 4 3 1 35

R 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5

H 1 0 1 2 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 8

BI 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4

Avg. .214 .250 .250 .333 .370 .333 .077 ----.182 .167 .100

San Francisco San Diego

San Diego Margot cf Jnkwski lf Myers 1b Solarte 2b Schmpf 3b Rnfroe rf Hedges c Aybar ss Stmmn p a-Bthncrt Torres p Richrd p Sardnas ss Totals

AB 5 3 5 4 2 4 3 3 0 1 0 2 1 33

R 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3

023 000 000 —5 000 002 010 —3

H 1 0 2 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 7

BI 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3

Avg. .286 .158 .300 .370 .176 .250 .000 .250 --.000 --.000 .143

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0 1

a-flied out for Stammen in the 8th. Walks—San Francisco 4: Belt 2, Posey 1, Nunez 1. San Diego 5: Jankowski 2, Schimpf 2, Sardinas 1. Strikeouts—San Francisco 5: Span 1, Belt 2, Marrero 1, Cueto 1. San Diego 8: Margot 2, Jankowski 2, Schimpf 1, Renfroe 1, Hedges 2. E—Renfroe (1). LOB—San Francisco 7, San Diego 9. 2B—Span (1). HR—Pence (1), off Richard; Posey (1), off Richard; Myers (2), off Cueto; Solarte (2), off Law. RBIs—Pence 2 (3), Posey (2), Marrero (2), Myers 2 (5), Solarte (8). SB—Nunez (4). RISP—San Francisco 1 for 9; San Diego 0 for 4. Runners moved up—Myers. GIDP—Myers. DP—San Francisco 1 (Hill, Crawford, Belt). San Francisco ............IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Cueto W, 2-0 ...............7 5 2 2 3 7 109 4.50 Law H, 1 .....................1 1 1 1 1 1 20 5.40 Melancon S, 1-2...........1 1 0 0 1 0 14 10.80 San Diego ..................IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Richard L, 1-1 ..............6 5 5 4 3 3 91 2.57 Stammen ....................2 2 0 0 1 1 35 0.00 Torres..........................1 1 0 0 0 1 19 4.15 HBP—Cueto (Hedges). PB—Hedges (1). U—Brian O’Nora, Quinn Wolcott, Chris Segal, Paul Emmel. T—2:57. Tickets sold—40,537 (42,302).

5 2

Right-hander Noah Syndergaard (1-0), forced to leave the season opener against Atlanta after six scoreless innings because of a finger blister, struck out nine batters and gave up two runs and five hits in seven innings to improve to 3-0 with a 1.67 ERA and 38 strikeouts in 27 innings against Miami. Edinson Volquez (0-1) gave up three runs in a first inning prolonged by catcher J.T. Realmuto’s error.

7 3

Aaron Judge hit a tying home run, Starlin Castro’s run-scoring single keyed a four-run top of the ninth inning and New York rallied to avert a threegame sweep.

Toronto AB R H BI Avg. Tampa Bay AB R H BI Avg. Travis 2b 4 0 0 0 .130 Dckrsn dh 4 1 1 1 .360 Dnldsn 3b 3 1 1 1 .348 Krmaier cf 4 1 3 0 .296 Goins 3b 1 0 0 0 .000 Bourjos cf 0 0 0 0 .000 Bautsta rf 3 1 1 0 .136 Lngria 3b 4 0 0 0 .231 Morales dh 3 0 1 0 .208 Miller 2b 2 1 0 0 .192 Tulwtzki ss 3 0 0 1 .125 SouzaJr rf 2 2 1 3 .417 Martin c 3 0 0 0 .000 Morrsn 1b 4 0 0 0 .333 Smoak 1b 3 0 0 0 .278 Rbrtsn ss 4 1 2 0 .300 Pillar cf 3 0 0 0 .273 Smith lf 4 0 0 0 .250 Carrra lf 3 0 0 0 .250 Sucre c 4 1 2 3 .286 Totals 29 2 3 2 Totals 32 7 9 7 200 000 000 —2 004 100 02x —7

010 011 001 000 —4 100 000 201 001 —5

Walks— Houston 8: Altuve 1, McCann 2, Gattis 3, Reddick 1, Gonzalez 1. Strikeouts—Kansas City 17: Moustakas 1, Cain 3, Hosmer 1, Perez 2, Moss 3, Orlando 2, Escobar 2, Mondesi 2, Cuthbert 1. Houston 7: Springer 2, Bregman 1, McCann 1, Gonzalez 2, Marisnick 1. LOB—Kansas City 5, Houston 11. HR—Perez (4), off McCullers; Moustakas (3), off McCullers; Moss (1), off Devenski; Springer (4), off Karns; Gonzalez (3), off Wood; Marisnick (1), off Herrera. RBIs—Moustakas (3), Perez (4), Moss (1), Mondesi (1), Springer (8), Gattis (1), Gonzalez 2 (6), Marisnick (1). SB—Altuve (1). CS—Reddick (1). S—Mondesi, Bregman. RISP—Kansas City 0 for 1; Houston 2 for 6. GIDP—McCann, Aoki. DP—Kansas City 3 (Perez, Escobar), (Mondesi, Hosmer), (Soria, Escobar, Hosmer). Kansas City................IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Karns ......................5 2⁄3 6 1 1 2 3 86 7.11 Wood..........................1 1 2 2 1 0 25 18.00 Young ......................1 1⁄3 2 0 0 1 1 18 0.00 Herrera .......................1 1 1 1 0 1 15 4.50 Soria ..........................2 1 0 0 1 2 27 0.00 Strahm L, 0-2 ..............2⁄3 1 1 1 3 0 22 47.25 Houston.....................IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA McCullers ....................7 6 3 3 0 10 99 2.77 Harris .........................1 0 0 0 0 0 7 0.00 Devenski W, 1-0 ...........4 3 1 1 0 7 60 1.12 HBP—Karns (Correa), McCullers (Orlando). WP—Wood. U—Chad Fairchild, Dave Rackley, Larry Vanover, Alfonso Marquez. T—3:49. Tickets sold—32,411 (42,060).

7 2

Steven Souza Jr. hit a three-run home run, Jake Odorizzi (1-1) gave up two runs and two hits in six innings, and Tampa Bay won three of four games in the series. The Rays have won 23 of their last 30 home series against Toronto, going 61-33 in that span.

Toronto Tampa Bay

Kansas City Houston

AB 5 5 3 1 0 3 4 4 2 4 2 0 0 1 34

4 3

Starling Marte hit a two-run home run against Jose Ramirez (0-1) in the 10th inning after Atlanta had taken the lead in the top of the inning on a run-scoring groundout by Tyler Flowers. R 1 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6

Cleveland Santna rf Lindor ss Guyer lf b-Nquin cf Allen p Encrnacn 1b Ramrz 2b Diaz 3b Gmes c Jcksn cf Kluber p a-Mrtnz Miller p Almnte lf Totals

GIANTS PADRES

3 2

Patrick Corbin (1-1) threw six scoreless innings, Chris Owings hit a home run and two singles, and Arizona (6-1) matched its best seven-game start in franchise history, set in 2000.

Two outs when winning run scored. a-singled, out at 2nd for Perez in the 7th. Walks—Seattle 2: Cruz 1, Motter 1. Angels 7: Calhoun 2, Trout 2, Simmons 1, Pennington 1, Revere 1. Strikeouts—Seattle 5: Segura 2, Haniger 1, Motter 2. Angels 5: Trout 2, Cron 1, Espinosa 1, Maldonado 1. E—Escobar (2), Perez (1). LOB—Seattle 3, Angels 5. 2B—Cano (2), Ruiz (1), Escobar (2), Revere (1). HR—Cano (1), off Shoemaker; Haniger (3), off Morin; Simmons (1), off Iwakuma; Pujols (1), off Fien. RBIs—Haniger (4), Cano 5 (5), Seager (3), Ruiz (1), Escobar 2 (4), Pujols 3 (6), Simmons (2), Espinosa (7), Marte 2 (2), Pennington (1). SB—Segura (3). CS—Martin (1). SF—Seager. RISP—Seattle 3 for 8; Angels 4 for 9. DP—Seattle 2. Seattle ......................IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Iwakuma .....................6 2 1 1 3 2 89 2.25 Vincent .......................1 3 2 2 0 1 14 7.36 Rzepczynski .................2⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 8 0.00 Altavilla.......................1⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 5 0.00 Fien............................0 2 4 4 2 0 14 14.73 Diaz L, 0-1 ..................2⁄3 3 3 3 2 1 23 7.36 AngelsIP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Shoemaker...............4 1⁄3 5 7 6 2 1 74 7.71 Morin.......................2 2⁄3 1 1 1 0 2 39 3.38 Parker .........................1 1 1 0 0 1 22 4.50 Bailey W, 2-0 ...............1 0 0 0 0 1 13 0.00 HBP—Shoemaker 2 (Segura,Haniger). WP—Iwakuma, Diaz. U—Jim Wolf, D.J. Reyburn, Greg Gibson, Tim Timmons. T—3:27. Tickets sold—37,175 (43,250).

6 5

AB 5 5 4 4 2 0 4 2 1 0 3 1 1 1 33

D-BACKS INDIANS

10 9

Streak Won 3 This month 5-2 Home 3-0 Road 2-2 Division 5-2 Interleague 0-0 Next: Tuesday vs. Texas, Angel Stadium, 7 p.m. TV/Radio: FS West/830

Walks—Dodgers 5: Forsythe 1, Seager 1, Turner 1, A.Gonzalez 1, Hernandez 1. Colorado 2: Story 1, Wolters 1. Strikeouts—Dodgers 8: Seager 1, Puig 2, A.Gonzalez 1, Pederson 1, Barnes 2, Avilan 1. Colorado 11: Parra 1, C.Gonzalez 2, Arenado 1, Story 2, Reynolds 3, Amarista 1, Cardullo 1. E—Forsythe (1), Story (1), Wolters (1). LOB—Dodgers 9, Colorado 6. 2B—Forsythe (1), Turner (5), Gutierrez (2). 3B—Barnes (1), LeMahieu (1). HR—Seager (2), off Anderson; Blackmon (1), off Maeda. RBIs—Forsythe (1), Seager 2 (7), Turner 2 (3), A.Gonzalez (3), Pederson (6), Toles (3), Van Slyke (1), Blackmon 3 (5), Parra (6), C.Gonzalez (1), LeMahieu (1). SB—Barnes (1). SF—C.Gonzalez. S—Maeda, Anderson. RISP—Dodgers 6 for 18; Colorado 2 for 3. DP—Forsythe. DP—Colorado 2. Dodgers.....................IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Maeda W, 1-1 ..............5 5 4 4 1 5 83 6.30 Fields H, 1 ..................1⁄3 0 0 0 1 1 9 0.00 Avilan H, 1 ...............1 2⁄3 1 0 0 0 2 27 0.00 Romo .........................1 0 0 0 0 2 12 0.00 Jansen ........................1 3 2 2 0 1 17 9.00 Colorado....................IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Anderson L, 1-1............5 5 5 5 4 3 95 8.44 Oberg .........................1 2 1 1 0 1 18 3.00 Lyles...........................1 4 3 3 1 2 42 15.00 Rusin..........................2 4 1 0 0 2 35 0.00 WP—Anderson, Lyles. PB—Wolters (1). U—Gary Cederstrom, Eric Cooper, Adrian Johnson, Gabe Morales. T—3:49. Tickets sold—33,529 (50,398).

Cincinnati St. Louis

LEADERS

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Chicago scored four runs in the top of the first inning against Zach Davies (0-2), and Jake Arrieta (2-0) gave up only three hits and struck out 10 batters in seven innings. Chicago AB R H BI Avg. Schwrbr lf 5 2 2 1 .231 Rondon p 0 0 0 0 --Almora lf 0 0 0 0 .571 Bryant 3b 4 1 3 0 .269 Rizzo 1b 5 0 0 0 .160 Zobrist lf 3 2 1 1 .211 Rssell ss 5 2 2 2 .296 Hyward rf 5 0 2 3 .333 Mntro c 3 0 0 0 .000 Arrieta p 3 0 0 0 .200 b-La Stella 0 0 0 0 .000 Jay cf 4 0 1 0 .364 Totals 37 7 11 7

Milwaukee AB R H BI Avg. Villar 2b 4 0 0 0 .167 Thames 1b 2 1 1 0 .333 c-Frnkln 1 0 0 0 .250 Braun lf 4 1 1 3 .250 Shaw 3b 4 0 0 0 .280 Santna rf 3 1 1 1 .111 Perez ss 4 0 0 0 .095 Broxtn cf 3 0 0 0 .091 Bandy c 3 1 1 0 .278 Davies p 1 0 0 0 .000 a-Nwnhuis 1 0 0 0 .077 Aguilar 1b 1 0 0 0 .438 Totals 31 4 4 4

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a-struck out for Davies in the 5th. b-walked for Arrieta in the 8th. c-grounded out for Barnes in the 8th. Walks—Chicago 5: Bryant 1, Zobrist 2, Montero 1, La Stella 1. Milwaukee 2: Thames 1, Santana 1. Strikeouts—Chicago 8: Schwarber 1, Rizzo 1, Zobrist 1, Russell 1, Montero 1, Arrieta 1, Jay 2. Milwaukee 13: Villar 3, Thames 1, Braun 3, Shaw 2, Santana 1, Broxton 1, Nieuwenhuis 1, Aguilar 1. E—Villar (2), Perez (1). LOB—Chicago 8, Milwaukee 2. 2B—Russell (4), Thames (2), Bandy (1). 3B—Heyward (1). HR—Schwarber (2), off Davies; Zobrist (2), off Torres; Braun (2), off Arrieta; Santana (1), off Rondon. RBIs—Schwarber (4), Zobrist (3), Russell 2 (4), Heyward 3 (4), Braun 3 (4), Santana (1). SB—Bryant (2), Montero (1). RISP—Chicago 3 for 12; Milwaukee 1 for 6. DP—Milwaukee 2 (Perez, Thames), (Villar, Perez, Aguilar). Chicago .....................IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Arrieta W, 2-0...............7 3 3 3 2 10 98 2.08 Edwards ......................1 0 0 0 0 1 12 0.00 Rondon.......................2⁄3 1 1 1 0 2 17 3.38 Davis..........................1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.00 Milwaukee .................IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Davies L, 0-2 ...............5 7 5 5 2 6 92 10.61 Torres ......................1 2⁄3 3 2 1 1 1 32 1.42 Barnes.....................1 1⁄3 1 0 0 1 1 21 0.00 Goforth .......................1 0 0 0 1 0 17 0.00 WP—Arrieta. U—Doug Eddings, Cory Blaser, Jeff Nelson, Laz Diaz. T—3:00. Tickets sold—38,483 (41,900).

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Sandy Leon ended an eighth-inning tie with a two-run single, part of a four-run rally. Boston rallied four times from one-run deficits, finally taking the lead against the bullpen. Boston AB R H BI Avg. Detroit AB R H BI Avg. Pedroia 2b 5 0 1 0 .286 Kinsler 2b 4 1 2 2 .375 Bnntndi cf 5 0 1 1 .200 Castllns 3b 4 2 2 1 .263 Betts rf 3 1 0 0 .167 Cabrera 1b 5 0 2 0 .118 Young dh 4 2 2 0 .250 Mrtnez dh 5 0 2 1 .250 Mrland 1b 2 1 1 1 .250 1-Jones dh 0 0 0 0 .250 Selsky cf 3 0 1 0 .167 Upton lf 5 0 1 1 .143 a-Holt lf 0 1 0 1 .200 Cllins rf 5 0 1 0 .308 Leon c 4 1 2 2 .438 Avila c 3 0 1 0 .500 Sandval 3b 4 0 0 0 .150 Rmine cf 4 2 2 0 .400 Hrnndz ss 4 1 3 1 .364 Iglsias ss 4 0 0 0 .105 Totals 34 7 11 6 Totals 39 5 13 5 Boston Detroit

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a-walked for Selsky in the 8th. 1-ran for Martinez in the 9th. Walks—Boston 6: Betts 2, Young 1, Moreland 2, Holt 1. Detroit 3: Kinsler 1, Castellanos 1, Avila 1. Strikeouts—Boston 3: Pedroia 1, Benintendi 1, Selsky 1. Detroit 14: Kinsler 2, Cabrera 2, Martinez 2, Upton 2, Collins 2, Avila 2, Romine 1, Iglesias 1. E—Hernandez (1), Upton (1). LOB—Boston 6, Detroit 10. 2B—Moreland (3), Selsky (1), Leon (2), Avila (2), Romine (1). HR—Castellanos (2), off Porcello. RBIs—Benintendi (4), Moreland (1), Leon 2 (5), Hernandez (1), Holt (1), Kinsler 2 (4), Castellanos (3), Martinez (3), Upton (1). CS—Pedroia (1), Cabrera (1). RISP—Boston 3 for 8; Detroit 4 for 14. Runners moved up—Pedroia, Sandoval, Iglesias. GIDP—Moreland, Sandoval. DP—Detroit 3 (Iglesias, Kinsler, Cabrera), (Iglesias, Kinsler, Cabrera), (Castellanos, Kinsler, Cabrera). Boston ......................IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Porcello.......................6 11 4 3 1 8 102 4.38 Barnes W, 1-0 ..............2 1 0 0 0 3 24 0.00 Kimbrel S, 2-2..............1 1 1 1 2 3 25 3.00 Detroit.......................IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Norris ......................6 1⁄3 7 3 3 3 2 97 4.26 Wilson ........................2⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 7 9.00 Rondon L, 0-1..............0 1 3 3 2 0 7 40.50 Ryan...........................1 2 1 1 1 0 14 4.50 Sanchez ......................1 0 0 0 0 1 9 9.64 Inherited runners-scored—Barnes 1-0, Wilson 1-1, Ryan 3-3. U—Marvin Hudson, Dan Bellino, Mike Estabrook, Jerry Layne. T—3:27. Tickets sold—33,662 (41,681).

AROUND THE MAJORS

Cahill is put on DL by Padres Right-hander Trevor Cahill was put on the 10-day disabled list by the San Diego Padres because of a lower back strain, a move retroactive to Thursday. San Diego recalled righthander Zach Lee from triple-A El Paso on Sunday. Cahill lost 3-1 against the Dodgers on Wednesday night.

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Outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr. said he is hopeful he can avoid the disabled list after sitting out Boston’s game at Detroit on Sunday because of an injured right knee. Bradley fell after rounding first base when he hit a flyout against the Tigers on Saturday. He was able to walk off but manager John Farrell said Sunday that Bradley was dealing with some soreness and swelling, so he had an MRI exam. ... Miami shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria was put on the10-day DL because of a strained left oblique muscle. — associated press

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BASEBALL DODGERS REPORT

There’s no dodging Wrigley celebration

By Andy McCullough

Christine Cotter Associated Press

ALBERT PUJOLS connects in front of Seattle catcher Carlos Ruiz for a two-run

single in the ninth inning, when the Angels scored seven runs for a 10-9 victory.

ANGELS REPORT

Pujols makes a strong statement with bat

By Steve Dilbeck Albert Pujols had apparently read enough about his one-for-20 start. He sat at his cubicle, sneering and raising an eyebrow at those who felt obligated to point it out. This, of course, after he had homered and later singled in two runs to tie the score in the same implausible ninth inning in which the Angels scored seven times to beat the Seattle Mariners 10-9. Pujols said he hadn’t been any more comfortable Sunday than in any other game this season. “I’ve been comfortable since the season started in Oakland,” he said. “You guys just like to start pointing fingers with 10 at-bats into a season. “I’ve been in this situation before. I know what I can do. This is not a sprint, it’s a marathon. I try to stay positive all the time and do the best I can do to help the team win.” Pujols is in his 17th season. The home run was his 592nd and it was the first of the seven runs the Angels

scored in the ninth. “He got the one to get us going, but the much bigger hit … he went with it and drove it into right field to tie the game,” manager Mike Scioscia said. Scioscia had played it cool before Saturday’s game when Pujols’ one-for-20 start had been mentioned, saying he was far from worried that the majors’ active RBI and home run leader was off to a slow start. Saturday night Pujols went three for four with a double, all prelude to his Sunday production in the ninth. “You could easily have come in the ninth inning and said, ‘Oh, six runs. They have a great closer, a great bullpen.’ But you just go out and battle,” Pujols said. “One thing I learned from [former St. Louis Cardinals manager] Tony La Russa is when a game is like that you don’t ever want to give your at-bats away. And that’s how everybody takes it.” Anyway, Pujols figured everything now is something of a bonus for him. When he had foot surgery last December, doctors originally said he could be out up to four

months. “The big thing is I’m blessed to be here playing when I was supposed to miss the first two months of the season,” he said.

Uneventful meeting

Matt Shoemaker faced Seattle’s Kyle Seager for the first time since the third baseman lined a drive that fractured the pitcher’s skull and required surgery. Seager grounded out twice, although outfielder Leonys Martin sent a liner at Shoemaker in the second inning that the right-hander had to duck to avoid. The drive went off his glove and Shoemaker recovered to throw out Martin.

Short hops

Sunday marked the team’s first walk-off win of the season. It was the sixth walk-off hit for Cliff Pennington. … The Angels have started the season 5-2 for the first time since 2007. They won 94 games that season and lost in a division playoff series to the Boston Red Sox. … Andrelton Simmons has hit in all seven games. [email protected]

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CLIFF PENNINGTON gets his jersey ripped off by Albert Pujols after delivering

the game-winning hit for the Angels.

Angels take advantage of Mariners’ bullpen issues [Angels, from D1] er Matt Shoemaker was less than sharp, giving up seven runs in 41⁄3 innings. The Angels managed only two hits against Hisashi Iwakuma in six innings, one an Andrelton Simmons home run. There was little to indicate what was to come. “That was unbelievable,” Shoemaker said. “That was absolutely awesome. Those guys picked me up huge. I had a really, really sour day turn out sweet.” The Angels started to chip away at the Mariners bullpen, picking up two runs on Jefry Marte’s single in the seventh inning. Still, nothing really hinted at the ninth. Not even when Albert Pujols, who had twice flied out to the warning track, led off with his first home run of the season. Then Pennington walked and reliever Casey Fien was looking highly vulnerable. C.J. Cron singled and Ben

Revere walked to load the bases. Seattle’s lead still at five runs, manager Scott Servais had seen enough and summoned closer Edwin Diaz. It briefly seemed as if Diaz would restore order. He quickly got two outs, Danny Espinosa bouncing out to second base to drive in a run. But the third out would never arrive. Yunel Escobar lined a double into right field to drive in two runs. The Angels trailed 9-7 with the heart of their order up. “When we got to that point it was like, ‘OK, here we go,’ ” Pennington said. “The pressure is shifting back on them.” Diaz wavered. He threw a wild pitch to advance Escobar to third base and walked Kole Calhoun and Mike Trout to load the bases for Pujols, who hit a single past diving first baseman Danny Valencia to drive in two runs and tie the score 9-9.

Diaz had been struggling, throwing pitches in the dirt, but Pennington lined the first-pitch fastball for a single to drive in Trout with the winning run. “Those are guys he’s being a little more careful with, trying to respect a little more,” Pennington said. “He was trying to make sure he made his pitch and he was missing. “When I got up there I was expecting him to come right at me. I wasn’t expecting the same treatment. I was ready for a heater.” It was the first time since Aug. 28, 1986, that the Angels scored at least seven runs in the ninth inning to win. “We found some holes, those guys helped us with a couple of walks and we just had good at-bats all the way through,” manager Mike Scioscia said. “There was some incredible clutch hitting at the end.” [email protected]

DENVER — The Dodgers will attend a party thrown partly at their expense on Monday at the Chicago Cubs’ home opener. After 108 years without a World Series championship, the Cubs will raise the banner they earned in October, after blazing a path that included defeating the Dodgers in the National League Championship Series. Two days later, the Dodgers will be subjected to another ceremony when the members of the 2016 Cubs will be awarded their World Series rings. Manager Dave Roberts admitted he was not exactly looking forward to watching the festivities. “Is it good to see, inspiring? No,” Roberts said. “I don’t think it’s inspiring. I

think it’s great for the Cubs. It’s great for their fans. It’s been a long time coming. I think it’s great for baseball. “But for our players, I think it’s individual. You’ve got to ask each guy. To be on the line for 45 minutes, to watch the ring ceremony, when it’s 40 degrees, I don’t know how comfortable or inspiring that will be.” The Dodgers held a 2-1 lead in the NLCS after a pair of strong starts by Clayton Kershaw and Rich Hill. But the team stumbled through the next three games, and the Cubs waffled Kershaw in Game 6 at Wrigley Field. The Dodgers felt enough confidence in their team to bring back for this season 21 members of the 25man roster from that series.

Baez update

Pedro Baez pitched on Friday and Saturday as he

began a rehabilitation assignment for his right wrist contusion. Roberts had indicated on Saturday that he expected Baez to rejoin the Dodgers during this series against the Cubs. On Sunday, he altered the team’s stance, explaining how Baez may need to complete a multi-inning stint before he leaves the disabled list. The decision will depend on how much Roberts taxes his bullpen on Sunday and Monday. Alex Wood is slated to start on Monday in place of Hill, who is disabled because of a blister on his left middle finger. Roberts said Baez likely would not be activated until Wednesday, or perhaps as late as next weekend against the Arizona Diamondbacks. [email protected] Twitter: @McCulloughTimes

Forsythe jump-starts offense [Dodgers, from D1] a walk out of Anderson in the second and scored on a tworun homer by Corey Seager. In the fourth, Forsythe provided an RBI single. The lead shrank after the Rockies scored four runs off Kenta Maeda in five innings. But the Dodgers kept steady pressure on the Rockies bullpen, and capitalized on a series of miscues by their hosts to score three runs in the seventh. “We needed to get a win today,” manager Dave Roberts said, especially heading into three games with the World Series champion Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. As they did this weekend, the Dodgers will see two lefthanded starters. On Sunday, the offense resembled the unit the front office envisioned when the team acquired Forsythe from Tampa Bay in the winter. “It was big to get a win today, salvage the series and get out of here on that note,” Turner said. “For whatever reason, we always seem to have a tough time playing here.” During the first18 innings at Coors Field, the offense produced three runs. It needed three plate appearances on Sunday to score twice, and the sequence offered hope about the group’s prospects going forward. Up first was Forsythe, who was hitting .158 with nine strikeouts in his first week as a Dodger. His acquisition was the organization’s signature maneuver designed to improve production against left-handed pitchers. He showed his capability in his first at-bat. Anderson could not locate the zone, until a 3-1 fastball cut the plate in two. Forsythe pounded it off the center-field wall for a double. He credited recent film study for helping him rediscover his stroke. “It was definitely more of a feel thing,” Forsythe said. “Mechanically, it wasn’t anything too different. I just had to try and find that feel again.” Seager also benefited from Anderson’s inexact command, working a fourpitch walk. Two runners were aboard for Turner. With his fastball still unreliable, Anderson tried to fool Turner with a changeup. Turner maintained his balance as he roped a double to left. An inning later, Forsythe sparked another rally, this one with two outs. His walk set the table for Seager. Anderson tried a first-pitch cutter. The choice did not fool Seager, who volleyed the ball back over the fence in center. “He just made some mistakes, and we capitalized,” Seager said. “We didn’t really miss the mistake today. That’s what you’re looking for.” In the fourth inning, after Maeda had allowed a tworun homer to center fielder Charlie Blackmon, Forsythe came up with a runner at second and two out. He flared a single into right to bring home Enrique Hernandez. Up three runs, Maeda faded in the fifth. He issued a leadoff walk to the No. 8 hitter, backup catcher Tony

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LEFT FIELDER Franklin Gutierrez scores on Adri-

an Gonzalez’s hit for an 8-4 Dodgers lead in seventh. Wolters. Blackmon singled. A single by outfielder Gerardo Parra brought home Wolters. A sacrifice fly from outfielder Carlos Gonzalez cut the lead to one. Maeda managed to escape when third baseman Nolan Arenado lined a slider into Yasiel Puig’s glove in right field. “I thought he pitched well,” Roberts said. “But I think that leadoff walk got him off-track.” The seventh inning removed the tension from the afternoon. Anderson had departed after five. Jordan Lyles, a former Rockies starter now toiling in middle relief, entered in the seventh, the Dodgers leading 6-4 after scoring once against Scott Oberg in the sixth.

Lyles gave up a leadoff single to Seager. Turner walked. Both men advanced on a passed ball. Seager was cut down at the plate on a ground out, but Turner scored on a throwing error by Wolters, whose pickoff attempt hit him in the back. Adrian Gonzalez and Joc Pederson added RBI singles to pad the advantage. All that was left was surviving the wind. “It got a little cold and windy and there was stuff flying all over the place,” Turner said. “But they have to be out there, too. You’ve just got to try to keep your concentration, catch the ball and take good at-bats.” [email protected] Twitter: @McCulloughTimes

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NBA LAKERS REPORT

STANDINGS Standings have been arranged to reflect how the teams will be determined for the playoffs. Teams are ranked 1-15 by record. Division standing no longer has any bearing on the rankings. The top eight teams in each conference make the playoffs, and the topseeded team would play the eighth-seeded team, the seventh team would play the second, etc. Head-to-head competition is the first of several tiebreakers, followed by conference record. (Western Conference divisions: S-Southwest; P-Pacific; N-Northwest; Eastern Conference divisions: A-Atlantic; C-Central; S-Southeast).

WESTERN CONFERENCE Team 1. z-Golden State 2. y-San Antonio 3. x-Houston 4. x-CLIPPERS 4. y-Utah 6. x-Oklahoma City 7. x-Memphis 8. x-Portland

W 66 61 54 49 49 46 43 40

L 14 19 26 31 31 34 38 40

PCT .825 .763 .675 .613 .613 .575 .531 .500

GB L10 10-0 5 7-3 12 6-4 17 8-2 17 6-4 20 6-4 231⁄2 3-7 26 8-2

9. Denver 10. New Orleans 11. Dallas 12. Minnesota 12. Sacramento 14. LAKERS 15. Phoenix

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EASTERN CONFERENCE Team 1. x-Boston 1. y-Cleveland 3. x-Toronto 4. y-Washington 5. x-Atlanta 6. x-Milwaukee 7. Indiana 8. Chicago 8. Miami

W 51 51 50 48 42 41 40 39 39

L 29 29 31 32 38 39 40 41 41

PCT .638 .638 .617 .600 .525 .513 .500 .488 .488

10. Detroit 11. Charlotte 12. New York 13. Orlando 13. Philadelphia 15. Brooklyn

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Jockeying for draft position

By Tania Ganguli The Lakers had a chance to close the gap between themselves and the Phoenix Suns, and position themselves to at least tie for the second-worst record in the NBA entering Sunday’s game. Their110-109 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves kept them 11⁄2 games better than the Suns, who also won on Sunday. The Timberwolves are 24-57 while the Lakers are 25-55 and on a four-game winning streak. The Suns are the Lakers’ only threat for lottery positioning and they could still catch them. Phoenix beat the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday, and

is 24-57. They have one game left in the season. If the Lakers lose their last two games and the Suns lose their last game, Phoenix will finish with the second-worst record in the NBA and Los Angeles will finish with the third-worst. That will give the Lakers about a 47% chance to get a lottery pick in the top three in next month’s draft lottery. If the Lakers’ first firstround pick falls out of the top three they will surrender it to the Philadelphia 76ers and they will also have to give up an unprotected 2019 first-round pick to the Orlando Magic. If their pick remains in the top three, they will give next year’s first-round pick to Philadelphia and two

second-round picks to Orlando.

Curtain call

Back when Metta World Peace was first a Laker, playing on a team trying to repeat as champions, fans often booed when it seemed he was ready to shoot the ball. “A lot of people don’t understand,” World Peace said. “You miss but you gotta keep shooting. Lot of fans on the professional level. Lot of fans don’t have the pressure. I knew when I was in the Finals I would miss a lot of shots but if I didn’t keep shooting we wouldn’t have had a chance. “They used to boo. I’d hear that [stuff]. For me I don’t care. I’m gonna con-

tinue to shoot as long as I’m on the … floor. You just never know which one’s gonna go in.” On Sunday fans heartily cheered World Peace’s shooting opportunities. Lakers coach Luke Walton seeks opportunities to play World Peace these days. World Peace will get what could be a curtain call on Tuesday at Staples Center. It will be the Lakers’ last home game of the season and could be his last at Staples — at least in a Lakers uniform. “They love him for what he is, for what he’s done for this franchise,” Walton said. “His shot was looking good. Leaving his hands it was looking like it was going in tonight. He took a couple rushed ones that he

Underdog Houston at Philadelphia Cleveland Brooklyn at Detroit Orlando Charlotte San Antonio Utah

Time 7:30 p.m. 4 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 5 p.m. 5 p.m. 5 p.m. 7 p.m. 7:30 p.m.

at Atlanta 126, Cleveland 125 (OT): Paul Millsap scored 22 points and the Hawks took advantage of Cleveland’s fourth-quarter collapse to overcome a 26-point deficit and stun the Cavaliers. Kyrie Irving scored 45 points for Cleveland, and LeBron James had a triple-double with 32 points, 16 rebounds and 10 assists before he fouled out in overtime. Houston 135, at Sacramento 128: James Harden had 35 points, 15 assists and 11 rebounds for his 21st triple-double of the season, leading the Rockets to a victory over the Kings. Detroit103, at Memphis 90: Reggie Bullock and Boban Marjanovic each scored 14 points and the Pistons used a three-point shooting barrage in the fourth quarter to defeat the Grizzlies. Toronto 110, at New York 97: DeMar DeRozan scored 35 points and the Raptors wrapped up at least the No. 3 seed in the East. at Phoenix 124, Dallas 111: T.J. Warren and Devin Booker each scored 21 points to help the Suns beat the Mavericks in their home finale. at Lakers 110, Minnesota 109 — associated press

Raptors 110, Knicks 97

Hawks 126, Cavaliers 125, OT

...............Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Carroll........22 1-6 1-1 0-2 1 2 3 Ibaka .........27 5-10 1-2 0-4 0 1 12 Valanciunas 19 3-8 0-0 3-7 0 1 6 DeRozan.....29 11-15 13-15 0-2 0 2 35 Lowry.........37 5-10 3-3 0-7 11 0 17 Patterson ....28 6-9 0-0 0-3 1 0 15 Tucker ........26 2-5 2-2 0-7 1 3 8 Joseph .......24 2-6 0-0 0-0 5 2 4 Poeltl .........14 4-4 0-0 1-7 0 2 8 Wright ..........3 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Powell ..........3 1-2 0-0 0-1 0 1 2 VanVleet.......1 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 0 0 Totals 40-76 20-23 4-40 20 14 110 Shooting: Field goals, 52.6%; free throws, 87.0% Three-point goals: 10-31 (Lowry 4-9, Patterson 3-6, Tucker 2-5, Ibaka 1-4, Powell 0-1, Wright 0-1, Joseph 0-2, Carroll 0-3). Team Rebounds: 4. Team Turnovers: 10 (13 PTS). Blocked Shots: 1 (Lowry). Turnovers: 10 (Lowry 4, DeRozan 2, Joseph 2, Poeltl, Valanciunas). Steals: 8 (Lowry 3, Joseph, Patterson, Powell, Tucker, Valanciunas). Technical Fouls: None.

...............Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Frye ...........24 5-8 0-0 1-8 0 2 12 James ........46 11-21 9-10 3-16 10 6 32 Love...........42 4-14 2-4 6-15 5 5 11 Irving .........44 16-30 5-6 0-2 9 3 45 Smith.........34 3-10 0-0 1-4 2 3 9 Korver ........28 4-9 0-0 1-3 1 3 11 Jefferson.....18 0-1 0-0 1-2 1 3 0 Shumpert ...17 1-3 0-0 0-2 0 1 2 Dero.Williams8 1-2 0-0 0-1 0 1 3 Totals 45-98 16-20 13-53 28 27 125 Shooting: Field goals, 45.9%; free throws, 80.0% Three-point goals: 19-46 (Irving 8-12, Korver 3-7, Smith 3-10, Frye 2-5, Dero.Williams 1-2, James 1-3, Love 1-5, Jefferson 0-1, Shumpert 0-1). Team Rebounds: 8. Team Turnovers: 14 (0 PTS). Blocked Shots: 3 (Frye 2, Love). Turnovers: 14 (Love 4, Irving 3, James 3, Dero.Williams 2, Jefferson, Shumpert). Steals: 4 (Frye, Irving, James, Jefferson). Technical Fouls: None.

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Westbrook makes triple-double history

Russell Westbrook broke Oscar Robertson’s 56-year-old record with his 42nd triple-double of the season Sunday, then he broke the Denver Nuggets’ hearts with a buzzer-beating three-pointer for a 106-105 victory. That eliminated the Nuggets from playoff contention. Westbrook had 50 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists in breaking Robertson’s record of 41 tripledoubles that stood since the1961-62 season. Westbrook’s record-breaking assist came with 4:17 remaining after a series of missed shots delayed his historic moment. With his triple-double in the books, Westbrook scored his team’s final 13 points, including a three-pointer as the buzzer sounded after a timeout with 2.9 seconds left. Kyle Single inbounded the ball to Steven Adams, who fed Westbrook for the winner. Danilo Gallinari scored 22 of his season-high 34 points in the third quarter to lead the Nuggets, who were hoping to take the race with Portland for the final Western Conference playoff spot down to the final two games.

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...............Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T N’dour........24 2-4 2-2 0-2 1 3 6 Hrnngmz.....30 9-15 5-6 3-11 5 3 24 Baker.........38 5-12 0-0 0-8 8 3 11 Holiday.......40 4-13 0-0 1-5 5 1 10 Lee............32 6-13 0-0 1-1 3 3 14 Kzmnsks.....21 5-10 0-0 0-1 0 1 12 Vujacic .......17 1-4 0-0 1-3 3 2 2 O’Quinn......17 3-7 1-1 0-2 0 0 7 Randle .......14 1-3 6-6 0-3 2 2 9 Plumlee........3 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 2 Totals 37-82 14-15 6-36 27 18 97 Shooting: Field goals, 45.1%; free throws, 93.3% Three-point goals: 9-28 (Lee 2-5, Holiday 2-6, Kuzminskas 2-6, Hernangomez 1-1, Randle 1-3, Baker 1-5, Vujacic 0-2). Team Rebounds: 5. Team Turnovers: 11 (12 PTS). Blocked Shots: 1 (Holiday). Turnovers: 11 (Randle 3, Baker 2, Hernangomez 2, Lee 2, Kuzminskas, O’Quinn). Steals: 6 (Hernangomez 3, Baker, Holiday, Lee). Technical Fouls: None. Toronto 23 29 24 34— 110 New York 29 26 20 22— 97

RESULTS

OKLAHOMA CITY 106 DENVER 105

was quick to come to the bench and apologize for, but for the most part those were all good shots. It’s awesome the standing ‘O’ he gets, I’m looking forward to hearing. I can only imagine Tuesday’s game when he gets out there is going to be loud.”

TORONTO

C5 S4 A3 S5 A4 A5

TODAY’S GAMES Line 5 71⁄2 OFF 10 21⁄2 OFF OFF OFF OFF

Peace could be about to close Lakers career.

BOX SCORES

x-clinched playoffs; y-clinched division; z-clinched conference

Favorite at CLIPPERS Indiana at Miami at Boston Washington at Chicago at Milwaukee at Portland at Golden State

Darren Abate Associated Press

METTA WORLD

A—19,812. T—2:06. O—Brett Nansel, Sean Wright, Mark Lindsay

Mark J. Terrill Associated Press

THE LAKERS’ D’Angelo Russell, center, celebrates with teammates after mak-

ing a game-winning three-pointer against the Timberwolves.

Special moment follows thrilling victory for Lakers [Lakers, from D1] great job raising his sons and his kids in general. Being a great father. That’s what she was put on this Earth for.” Russell played the hero Sunday night for the Lakers as they beat the Minnesota Timberwolves, 110-109, on Russell’s buzzer-beating three-pointer. His shot came off a rebound from a miss by Metta World Peace. It sailed through the air, bounced on the rim, then hung suspended in the air for a beat before falling through the net as if someone pulled it. “That’s just God, honestly,” Russell said. “... For me to win the game with a game-winning shot, that’s just God putting the cherry on top. A win would’ve been good enough.” Russell finished with 16 points on six-for-19 shooting. Tyler Ennis led the Lakers with 20 points as they improved to 25-55. The Timberwolves’ Andrew Wiggins scored 41 while Karl-Anthony Towns scored 40. It was the first time in Timberwolves history that two players had eclipsed 40 points each in a game, and all Towns could do when it ended was wave his hand in frustration. Russell wasn’t even sure he’d play on Sunday. He woke up that morning to a phone call from his father with their solemn family news. Russell wanted to fly home to Louisville, Ky., in the afternoon. He didn’t want to use basketball to take his mind off it. He just wanted to go home. His family convinced him it was what she would have wanted. Ultimately he agreed. He and Lakers Coach Luke Walton arrived simultaneously at Staples Center two hours before tipoff and walked into the arena together. Walton listened as Russell told him how much

his grandmother meant to him. “You could tell he was hurt,” Walton said. “You could tell it was painful for him. It wasn’t easy to talk about but you could see how much love he had for her when he was speaking about her, which was kind of awesome to see. I don’t know if he realized it or not. There was a lot of love he had for that woman.” Walton offered Russell whatever solace he could. He told him the team would do whatever he wanted. If the game grew too much to bear, he could come out at any time. Russell never asked for that. His shot wasn’t falling early in the game, but he stayed active defensively, even drawing a charge. Neither of the Timberwolves

LAKERS 110, TIMBERWOLVES 109 MINNESOTA

......................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Towns................41 17-22 5-8 3-21 4 3 40 Wiggins .............38 13-26 13-14 1-2 1 2 41 Dieng................37 4-6 4-4 2-7 4 2 12 Rubio................33 1-10 0-0 0-3 11 4 2 Rush.................30 0-2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Muhmmd...........17 4-9 4-5 1-2 0 0 12 Casspi ..............17 1-4 0-0 0-0 1 1 2 Dunn ................14 0-1 0-0 1-4 3 3 0 Jones..................9 0-1 0-0 0-2 3 1 0 Totals 40-81 26-31 8-41 27 16 109 Shooting: Field goals, 49.4%; free throws, 83.9% Three-point goals: 3-16 (Wiggins 2-5, Towns 1-2, Casspi 0-1, Rubio 0-2, Rush 0-2, Muhammad 0-4). Team Rebounds: 9. Team Turnovers: 14 (15 PTS). Blocked Shots: 6 (Dieng 3, Casspi, Rush, Towns). Turnovers: 14 (Rubio 4, Towns 3, Muhammad 2, Wiggins 2, Dieng, Dunn, Rush). Steals: 8 (Rubio 3, Casspi 2, Dieng, Jones, Towns). Technical Fouls: None.

LAKERS

......................Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Ingram ..............29 3-10 3-5 2-2 1 4 10 Nance...............33 5-7 0-0 6-10 6 3 10 Randle ..............27 5-9 3-5 3-8 2 3 13 Clarkson............31 7-13 2-2 0-4 3 2 17 Russell..............34 6-19 2-2 1-4 4 2 16 Ennis ................22 7-9 2-2 0-2 5 3 20 Robinson...........17 3-6 1-1 0-7 1 3 7 Black ................17 2-3 3-3 0-2 0 2 7 Brewer ..............15 1-2 0-0 0-0 3 1 2 World Peace.......10 3-8 0-0 0-1 1 0 8 Totals 42-86 16-20 12-40 26 23 110 Shooting: Field goals, 48.8%; free throws, 80.0% Three-point goals: 10-27 (Ennis 4-5, World Peace 2-5, Russell 2-8, Ingram 1-1, Clarkson 1-4, Brewer 0-1, Nance 0-1, Randle 0-2). Team Rebounds: 4. Team Turnovers: 16 (19 PTS). Blocked Shots: 8 (Black 3, Nance 2, Ennis, Ingram, Randle). Turnovers: 16 (Russell 5, Robinson 3, Clarkson 2, Ingram 2, Nance 2, Randle 2). Steals: 10 (Russell 3, Black 2, Ingram 2, Nance, Randle, World Peace). Technical Fouls: None. Minnesota 21 30 28 30— 109 LAKERS 29 24 25 32— 110 A—18,997. T—2:09. O—Tom Washington, J.T. Orr, Eric Lewis.

guards scored in the first half. The Lakers led by eight points after one quarter, but only two at halftime. The Timberwolves opened the third quarter on a run; the Lakers recovered, and by the start of the fourth quarter, the Lakers trailed by two. That’s when World Peace entered the game to a raucous ovation. The crowed piqued in anticipation every time he seemed poised to shoot and he didn’t disappoint them. World Peace made two three pointers and quickly had eight points. The Lakers trailed by four with 33.8 seconds left. A Julius Randle dunk cut that to two. It was World Peace’s chance, first, to play the hero on what might be his second-to-last game in a Lakers uniform, or perhaps the NBA after spending two decades in the league. He was open in the corner right in front of the Timberwolves’ bench. He got the ball and shook his leg several times before taking a shot. “I was thinking, ‘How perfect is this?’ ” Walton said. “Metta World Peace is going to hit a game-winning shot.” World Peace missed, but what happened instead was even more perfect. Randle grabbed the rebound. He kicked it out to Russell. Russell scored as time expired and ignited euphoria. “I get goosebumps even talking about the way the game ended,” Walton said. Said Russell: “With the grace of God I made the shot.” His teammates engulfed him, and then he ran into the stands toward the people who mattered most. He knew then they were right; he was glad he played. [email protected] Twitter @taniaganguli

CLEVELAND

ATLANTA

...............Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Millsap.......36 5-11 11-11 1-9 2 4 22 Prince ........25 2-6 1-2 0-0 3 2 7 Howard ......23 9-12 1-3 1-5 2 2 19 Hardaway Jr.36 7-15 6-8 1-9 4 1 21 Schroder.....27 6-13 0-0 0-3 5 2 13 Bazemore ...29 4-8 4-5 2-2 4 2 13 Muscala .....25 5-6 0-0 0-5 4 3 12 Ilyasova ......20 2-10 2-3 4-8 0 2 6 Dunleavy ....15 2-5 2-3 0-0 2 3 7 Delaney......12 1-4 2-2 0-1 2 1 4 Calderon.....11 1-4 0-0 1-3 3 0 2 Bembry ........0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Totals 44-94 29-37 10-45 31 22 126 Shooting: Field goals, 46.8%; free throws, 78.4% Three-point goals: 9-31 (Muscala 2-2, Prince 2-4, Dunleavy 1-2, Millsap 1-3, Bazemore 1-4, Hardaway Jr. 1-4, Schroder 1-4, Delaney 0-1, Calderon 0-2, Ilyasova 0-5). Team Rebounds: 9. Team Turnovers: 12 (0 PTS). Blocked Shots: 4 (Howard, Muscala, Prince, Schroder). Turnovers: 12 (Millsap 4, Bazemore 2, Howard 2, Ilyasova 2, Muscala, Prince). Steals: 8 (Bazemore 4, Dunleavy, Ilyasova, Millsap, Schroder). Technical Fouls: None. Cleveland 38 27 28 18 14— 125 Atlanta 21 25 21 44 15— 126 O—Bill Kennedy, Derrick Collins, Leroy Richardson.

Suns 124, Mavericks 111

Thunder 106, Nuggets 105

...............Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Fnny-Smth ..30 2-9 2-2 7-11 3 4 6 Noel ............9 1-2 1-1 1-1 2 1 3 Nowitzki......20 4-12 2-2 0-3 3 2 11 Ferrell ........32 8-16 2-2 2-4 4 2 21 Matthews....19 3-10 0-0 0-1 2 1 7 Brussino.....33 4-12 1-2 0-5 5 4 11 Powell ........32 8-14 1-3 0-5 2 2 21 Uthoff ........26 4-8 2-3 5-9 1 3 12 Hammons...18 2-7 1-2 0-1 0 2 5 Mejri............9 2-2 1-2 2-3 0 1 5 Harris...........8 3-5 0-0 0-1 1 1 9 Totals 41-97 13-19 17-44 23 23 111 Shooting: Field goals, 42.3%; free throws, 68.4% Three-point goals: 16-45 (Powell 4-8, Harris 3-5, Ferrell 3-6, Uthoff 2-3, Brussino 2-10, Nowitzki 1-2, Matthews 1-8, Hammons 0-1, FinneySmith 0-2). Team Rebounds: 7. Team Turnovers: 10 (10 PTS). Blocked Shots: 2 (Hammons, Powell). Turnovers: 10 (Ferrell 2, Powell 2, Brussino, Hammons, Harris, Matthews, Nowitzki, Uthoff). Steals: 5 (Powell 2, Finney-Smith, Noel, Uthoff). Technical Fouls: None.

...............Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Gibson .......17 3-9 2-2 1-3 0 1 8 Adams .......26 4-9 2-2 6-10 2 4 10 Oladipo ......32 3-15 2-2 0-6 2 1 8 Roberson....17 1-1 0-0 0-2 1 4 2 Westbrook...36 17-32 11-11 2-16 10 1 50 Singler .......34 4-8 0-0 2-4 3 3 8 Christon......22 1-3 0-0 0-1 0 1 3 Grant .........22 1-2 0-0 0-1 0 2 2 Kanter........16 6-13 3-5 6-8 1 1 15 Sabonis......12 0-4 0-0 1-3 0 1 0 Totals 40-96 20-22 18-54 19 19 106 Shooting: Field goals, 41.7%; free throws, 90.9% Three-point goals: 6-25 (Westbrook 5-12, Christon 1-2, Sabonis 0-1, Singler 0-4, Oladipo 0-6). Team Rebounds: 5. Team Turnovers: 12 (0 PTS). Blocked Shots: 3 (Grant, Sabonis, Singler). Turnovers: 12 (Oladipo 3, Gibson 2, Kanter 2, Sabonis 2, Westbrook 2, Adams). Steals: 7 (Singler 3, Adams, Grant, Sabonis, Westbrook). Technical Fouls: None.

OKLAHOMA CITY

DALLAS

PHOENIX

...............Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Chriss ........17 3-4 2-2 0-4 3 1 9 Warren .......29 8-8 3-3 0-7 0 1 21 Len............28 5-7 4-5 3-10 1 2 14 Booker .......22 8-15 4-5 0-2 3 1 21 Ulis............33 7-13 4-4 0-3 10 0 20 Bender .......35 4-10 0-0 2-8 3 4 9 Jones .........27 5-11 4-4 2-3 0 4 15 Price ..........18 0-0 0-0 0-1 3 2 0 Williams .....12 4-7 5-7 1-2 1 1 13 Millsap.......12 0-5 0-0 0-2 1 2 0 Dudley .........2 0-0 2-2 0-1 1 0 2 Totals 44-80 28-32 8-43 26 18 124 Shooting: Field goals, 55.0%; free throws, 87.5% Three-point goals: 8-19 (Warren 2-2, Ulis 2-3, Chriss 1-1, Jones 1-1, Booker 1-4, Bender 1-6, Millsap 0-2). Team Rebounds: 8. Team Turnovers: 12 (21 PTS). Blocked Shots: 4 (Len 2, Bender, Ulis). Turnovers: 12 (Bender 3, Ulis 3, Booker 2, Jones 2, Len, Millsap). Steals: 6 (Jones 3, Warren 2, Bender). Technical Fouls: None. Dallas 29 36 20 26— 111 Phoenix 40 28 36 20— 124 A—18,055. T—2:03. O—Josh Tiven, Tre Maddox, Tony Brothers.

DENVER

...............Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Chandler.....41 6-11 0-0 0-10 2 2 17 Gallinari .....37 12-20 6-6 0-10 3 2 34 Jokic ..........31 8-16 6-6 1-6 3 5 23 Harris.........35 1-8 0-0 0-0 5 1 2 Murray .......35 3-9 0-0 0-6 5 1 6 Mudiay .......24 7-10 0-0 1-5 3 1 14 Plumlee......18 2-6 2-3 1-3 1 4 6 Hrnngmz.....13 1-4 0-0 1-2 0 0 3 Hibbert.........1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Totals 40-84 14-15 4-42 22 16 105 Shooting: Field goals, 47.6%; free throws, 93.3% Three-point goals: 11-34 (Chandler 5-10, Gallinari 4-9, Hernangomez 1-3, Jokic 1-5, Mudiay 0-1, Harris 0-3, Murray 0-3). Team Rebounds: 2. Team Turnovers: 12 (0 PTS). Blocked Shots: 4 (Plumlee 2, Chandler, Jokic). Turnovers: 12 (Jokic 3, Mudiay 3, Gallinari 2, Chandler, Harris, Murray, Plumlee). Steals: 6 (Gallinari 2, Plumlee 2, Jokic, Mudiay). Technical Fouls: coach Michael Malone, 1:56 fourth. Oklahoma City 27 25 29 25— 106 Denver 26 27 38 14— 105 O—Ken Mauer, Derek Richardson, Karl Lane.

Pistons 103, Grizzlies 90 DETROIT

Rockets 135, Kings 128 ...............Min Anderson....23 T.Williams ...36 Capela .......23 Beverley .....28 Harden.......36 L.Williams...31 Brown ........24 Harrell........12 Onuaku ......12 Taylor .........11

HOUSTON

FG-A FT-A OR-T 7-9 1-1 0-1 5-9 1-1 4-9 8-8 2-2 0-6 4-6 0-3 0-3 9-22 12-13 0-11 5-14 7-7 0-4 5-9 2-2 0-1 1-1 0-0 1-4 1-1 2-2 0-1 0-1 0-0 0-1

A 0 2 0 4 15 2 2 0 1 0

P 0 3 2 4 2 1 2 4 1 3

T 21 12 18 9 35 18 16 2 4 0

Totals 45-80 27-31 5-41 26 22 135 Shooting: Field goals, 56.3%; free throws, 87.1% Three-point goals: 18-43 (Anderson 6-8, Harden 5-13, Brown 4-7, Beverley 1-2, T.Williams 1-4, L.Williams 1-8, Taylor 0-1). Team Rebounds: 7. Team Turnovers: 16 (0 PTS). Blocked Shots: 2 (Capela, L.Williams). Turnovers: 16 (Harden 10, L.Williams 3, Beverley, Brown, Capela). Steals: 3 (Anderson, Beverley, Harden). Technical Fouls: None.

Min Labssre ......31 Cauley-Stn ..25 Hield..........32 Lawson.......28 Temple .......35 Galloway.....26 McLemore...24 Tolliver........24 Papagnns ...13

SACRAMENTO FG-A 10-12 6-12 4-16 7-12 5-12 4-6 6-15 2-6 3-3

FT-A OR-T A P T 5-6 2-6 3 3 25 4-4 2-10 0 2 16 3-4 1-6 3 3 12 6-6 0-2 11 1 20 0-0 0-5 1 2 13 0-0 1-2 3 1 10 3-4 0-3 0 2 18 4-6 0-1 2 2 8 0-0 1-3 3 2 6

Totals 47-94 25-30 7-38 26 18 128 Shooting: Field goals, 50.0%; free throws, 83.3% Three-point goals: 9-31 (McLemore 3-7, Temple 3-8, Galloway 2-3, Hield 1-8, Lawson 0-1, Tolliver 0-4). Team Rebounds: 5. Team Turnovers: 5 (0 PTS). Blocked Shots: 2 (Cauley-Stein, Hield). Turnovers: 5 (Lawson 2, Hield, Papagiannis, Tolliver). Steals: 8 (Labissiere 3, Temple 3, Lawson, Papagiannis). Technical Fouls: None. Houston 42 36 29 28— 135 Sacramento 27 35 27 39— 128 O—Zach Zarba, David Guthrie, Tyler Ford.

...............Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Bullock.......22 5-8 0-0 1-4 0 2 14 Harris.........25 5-9 1-1 1-3 2 0 12 Leuer .........20 3-8 2-4 1-1 0 0 9 Drmmnd.....25 2-6 1-2 6-11 2 2 5 Smith.........26 5-12 1-2 0-2 7 1 11 Ellenson .....27 3-11 0-0 2-9 2 1 9 Johnson......26 2-8 0-0 0-4 3 0 5 Marjnvc ......22 4-6 6-7 4-10 0 2 14 Hilliard .......21 5-7 0-0 0-0 0 3 13 Udrih .........21 5-7 0-0 0-2 5 1 11 Totals 39-82 11-16 15-46 21 12 103 Shooting: Field goals, 47.6%; free throws, 68.8% Three-point goals: 14-28 (Bullock 4-7, Hilliard 3-5, Ellenson 3-6, Udrih 1-1, Johnson 1-2, Harris 1-3, Leuer 1-3, Smith 0-1). Team Rebounds: 7. Team Turnovers: 18 (18 PTS). Blocked Shots: 2 (Drummond, Hilliard). Turnovers: 18 (Ellenson 3, Hilliard 3, Smith 3, Drummond 2, Harris 2, Udrih 2, Johnson, Leuer, Marjanovic). Steals: 8 (Harris 2, Bullock, Drummond, Hilliard, Johnson, Leuer, Marjanovic). Technical Fouls: None.

MEMPHIS

...............Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Green.........24 5-7 0-0 2-7 2 2 12 Gasol.........24 5-9 2-2 0-2 5 2 13 Allen ..........20 2-5 1-2 1-4 2 0 5 Carter ........22 2-4 0-0 0-1 0 1 6 Conley........23 5-8 4-5 0-2 3 3 15 Selden .......27 2-9 1-2 0-1 2 0 5 Ennis .........21 2-4 0-0 1-6 1 1 5 Davis .........15 1-2 0-0 0-0 0 2 2 Martin ........14 3-4 0-0 0-2 1 1 6 Daniels.......13 3-9 0-0 0-0 0 1 8 Harrison .....12 2-3 0-0 0-1 5 0 4 Baldwin ......12 3-8 0-0 1-1 1 0 6 Wright ..........8 1-3 1-2 1-3 1 3 3 Totals 36-75 9-13 6-30 23 16 90 Shooting: Field goals, 48.0%; free throws, 69.2% Three-point goals: 9-21 (Green 2-2, Carter 2-3, Daniels 2-4, Conley 1-2, Gasol 1-2, Ennis 1-3, Allen 0-1, Harrison 0-1, Selden 0-3). Team Rebounds: 8. Team Turnovers: 15 (17 PTS). Blocked Shots: 3 (Gasol, Martin, Wright). Turnovers: 15 (Green 5, Gasol 3, Carter 2, Conley 2, Ennis, Harrison, Wright). Steals: 12 (Allen 2, Davis 2, Gasol 2, Martin 2, Baldwin, Conley, Ennis, Harrison). Technical Fouls: None. Detroit 24 24 27 28— 103 Memphis 28 29 10 23— 90 A—16,521. T—1:58. O—Ed Malloy, Michael Smith, Leon Wood.

L AT I ME S . CO M / S P O RT S

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AUTO RACING

PRO SOCCER

NASCAR STOCK CARS Monster Energy Cup-O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 At Fort Worth, Texas Lap length: 1.50 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (24) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 334 laps, 0 rating, 49 points. 2. (32) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 334, 0, 47. 3. (4) Joey Logano, Ford, 334, 0, 36. 4. (1) Kevin Harvick, Ford, 334, 0, 44. 5. (37) Dale Earnhardt Jr, Chevrolet, 334, 0, 34. 6. (5) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 334, 0, 40. 7. (6) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 334, 0, 46. 8. (7) Martin Truex Jr, Toyota, 334, 0, 39. 9. (33) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 334, 0, 34. 10. (10) Kurt Busch, Ford, 334, 0, 32. 11. (3) Clint Bowyer, Ford, 334, 0, 30. 12. (2) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 334, 0, 45. 13. (12) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 334, 0, 24. 14. (11) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Ford, 334, 0, 26. 15. (34) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 334, 0, 23. 16. (8) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 334, 0, 21. 17. (14) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 334, 0, 20. 18. (18) Aric Almirola, Ford, 334, 0, 19. 19. (20) Daniel Suarez, Toyota, 334, 0, 18. 20. (16) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 334, 0, 17. 21. (38) Chris Buescher, Chevrolet, 333, 0, 16. 22. (36) Erik Jones, Toyota, 333, 0, 15. 23. (13) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet, 333, 0, 14. 24. (19) Danica Patrick, Ford, 333, 0, 13. 25. (17) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 333, 0, 12. 26. (9) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 332, 0, 11. 27. (27) JJ Yeley, Chevrolet, 330, 0, 0. 28. (21) David Ragan, Ford, 329, 0, 9. 29. (15) Landon Cassill, Ford, 329, 0, 8. 30. (28) Cole Whitt, Ford, 327, 0, 7. 31. (26) Matt DiBenedetto, Ford, 327, 0, 6. 32. (23) Corey LaJoie, Toyota, 326, 0, 5. 33. (25) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 322, 0, 4. 34. (29) Gray Gaulding, Toyota, 322, 0, 3. 35. (30) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet, 319, 0, 2. 36. (22) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 314, 0, 1. 37. (40) Derrike Cope, Chevrolet, 313, 0, 1. 38. (35) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 303, 0, 1. 39. (39) Timmy Hill, Chevrolet, engine, 104, 0, 0. 40. (31) Jeffrey Earnhardt, Chevrolet, accident, 9, 0, 1.

MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER Pts GF WEST ............W L T Portland .........4 1 1 13 16 FC Dallas........3 0 1 10 6 Houston .........3 2 0 9 11 Sporting KC.....2 0 3 9 5 San Jose ........2 2 1 7 7 GALAXY ..........2 3 0 6 7 Seattle ...........1 1 3 6 7 Real Salt Lake .1 3 2 5 6 Colorado ........1 2 1 4 4 Vancouver .......1 3 1 4 6 Minnesota U ...1 4 1 4 10 Pts GF EAST.............W L T Columbus .......3 2 1 10 9 Orlando City ....3 1 0 9 4 Atlanta United .2 1 2 8 13 Chicago..........2 1 2 8 6 New England ...2 2 1 7 9 NYC FC...........2 2 1 7 8 New York ........2 3 1 7 5 D.C. United .....2 2 1 7 4 Toronto FC ......1 0 4 7 6 Montreal.........0 2 3 3 5 Philadelphia....0 3 2 2 5 Three points for victory, one point for tie.

FORMULA 1 At Shanghai Lap length: 3.39 miles 1. (1) Lewis Hamilton, Britain, Mercedes, 56 laps, 1 hour, 37 minutes, 36.158 seconds, 25 points. 2. (2) Sebastian Vettel, Germany, Ferrari, 56, +6.250 seconds, 18. 3. (17) Max Verstappen, Netherlands, Red Bull Racing Tag Heuer, 56, +45.192, 15. 4. (5) Daniel Ricciardo, Australia, Red Bull Racing Tag Heuer, 56, +46.035, 12. 5. (4) Kimi Raikkonen, Finland, Ferrari, 56, +48.076, 10. 6. (3) Valtteri Bottas, Finland, Mercedes, 56, +48.808, 8. 7. (11) Carlos Sainz, Spain, Toro Rosso, 56, +72.893, 6. 8. (12) Kevin Magnussen, Denmark, Haas Ferrari, 55, +1 lap, 4. 9. (8) Sergio Perez, Mexico, Force India Mercedes, 55, +1 lap, 2. 10. (18) Esteban Ocon, France, Force India Mercedes, 55, +1 lap, 1. 11. (19) Romain Grosjean, France, Haas Ferrari, 55, +1 lap, 0. 12. (7) Nico Hulkenberg, Germany, Renault, 55, +1 lap, 0. 13. (20) Jolyon Palmer, Britain, Renault, 55, +1 lap, 0. 14. (6) Felipe Massa, Brazil, Williams Mercedes, 55, +1 lap, 0. 15. (14) Marcus Ericsson, Sweden, Sauber Ferrari, 55, +1 lap, 0. Not classified (13) Fernando Alonso, Spain, McLaren Honda, 33, did not finish, 0. (9) Daniil Kvyat, Russia, Toro Rosso, 18, did not finish, 0. (16) Stoffel Vandoorne, Belgium, McLaren Honda, 17, did not finish, 0. (15) Antonio Giovinazzi, Italy, Sauber Ferrari, 3, did not finish, 0. (10) Lance Stroll, Canada, Williams Mercedes, 0, did not finish, 0.

MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE Sunday’s results Memphis 8, New Orleans 4 Round Rock 7, Nashville 1 Oklahoma City 12, Iowa 1 El Paso 7, Las Vegas 2 Omaha 8, Colorado Springs 3 Albuquerque 8, Salt Lake 5 Fresno 5, Reno 3 Sacramento 5, Tacoma 1 CALIFORNIA LEAGUE Sunday’s results Modesto 6, Lake Elsinore 2 San Jose 15, Inland Empire 4 Visalia 4, Lancaster 2 Stockton 2, Rancho Cucamonga 1

COLLEGE BASEBALL PAC-12 UCLA 6, Washington 5 BIG WEST CS Fullerton 8, UC Davis 5 CS Northridge 10, UC Santa Barbara 8 Long Beach State 3, UC Riverside 0 Cal Poly 7, Hawaii 1 WEST COAST Portland 2, Pepperdine 1 Loyola Marymount 5, Santa Clara 1 NONCONFERENCE Oregon 7, UC Irvine 2

SOCCER GA 8 2 9 2 7 8 6 8 6 10 22 GA 7 3 5 7 6 5 9 8 4 8 9

Sunday’s results Sporting Kansas City 3, Colorado 1 Orlando City 1, New York Red Bulls 0 Friday's schedule New York City FC at Philadelphia, 4 p.m. Seattle at Vancouver, 7 p.m. FC Dallas at San Jose, 8 p.m. Saturday's schedule GALAXY at Orlando City SC, 11:30 a.m. Atlanta United at Montreal, 10 a.m. New England at Chicago, 2 p.m. D.C. United at New York Red Bulls, 4:30 p.m. Toronto FC at Columbus Crew, 5 p.m. Minnesota United at Houston, 5:30 p.m. Real Salt Lake at Colorado, 6 p.m. Sporting Kansas City at Portland, 7:30 p.m.

COLLEGE TENNIS MEN UCLA 4, Stanford 2 Pepperdine 4, Santa Clara 1 Cal Poly 5, UC Irvine 2 WOMEN Auburn 3, USC 2 UC Santa Barbara 5, UC Irvine 0

INTERNATIONAL ENGLAND Premier League Sunderland 0, Manchester United 3 Everton 4, Leicester 2 SPAIN La Liga Granada CF 1, Valencia 3 Celta Vigo 0, Eibar 2 Osasuna 2, Leganes 1 Las Palmas 4, Betis 1 ITALY Serie A Sampdoria 2, Fiorentina 2 AC Milan 4, Palermo 0 Bologna 0, AS Roma 3 Cagliari 2, Torino 3 Crotone 2, Inter 1 Udinese 3, Genoa 0 Lazio 0, Napoli 3 FRANCE Ligue 1 Toulouse 0, Marseille 0 St. Etienne 1, Nantes 1 Paris Saint-Germain 4, Guingamp 0 GERMANY Bundesliga Hertha Berlin 2, FC Augsburg 0 Ingolstadt 3, Darmstadt 2

SOFTBALL PAC-12 Oregon 11, UCLA 4 BIG WEST Cal Poly 7, CS Fullerton 2 UC Santa Barbara 11, UC Riverside 0 UC Davis 5, Long Beach St. 0

FIGHT SCHEDULE Friday’s schedule At MGM National Harbor, Oxon Hill, Md. (SHO), Dmitry Bivol vs. Samuel Clarkson, 12, for Bivol's WBA interim light-heavyweight title. Saturday’s schedule At Glasgow, Scotland, Ricky Burns vs. Julius Indongo, 12, for Burns' WBA Super World and Indongo's IBF and IBO super-lightweight titles; Callum Johnson vs. Schiller Hyppolite, 12, for Johnson's Commonwealth light-heavyweight title; Charlie Edwards vs. Iain Butcher, 12, for vacant British junior-bantamweight title; Scott Cardle vs. Robbie Barrett, 12, for Cardle's British lightweight title; Charlie Flynn vs. Ryan Collins, 10, lightweights.

TENNIS $710,900 VOLVO CAR OPEN At Charleston, S.C. Surface: Green Clay-Outdoor SINGLES (final)—Daria Kasatkina, Russia, d. Jelena Ostapenko, Latvia, 6-3, 6-1. DOUBLES (final)—Bethanie Mattek-Sands, U.S., and Lucie Safarova (1), Czech Republic, d. Lucie Hradecka and Katerina Siniakova (4), Czech Republic, 6-1, 4-6, 10-7. $226,750 ABIERTO GNP SEGUROS At Monterrey, Mexico Surface: Hard-Outdoor SINGLES (final)—Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (2), Russia, d. Angelique Kerber (1), Germany, 6-4, 2-6, 6-1. DOUBLES (final)—Nao Hibino, Japan, and Alicja Rosolska (1), Poland, d. Dalila Jakupovic, Slovenia, and Nadiia Kichenok, Ukraine, 6-2, 7-6 (4). DAVIS CUP World Group Quarterfinals Winners to semifinals, Sept. 15-17 Australia 3, United States 2 At Brisbane, Australia Surface: Hard-Outdoor REVERSE SINGLES—Nick Kyrgios, Australia, d. Sam Querrey, U.S., 7-6 (4), 6-3, 6-4. John Isner, U.S., d. Sam Groth, Australia, 7-6 (5), 6-3. Belgium 3, Italy 2 At Charleroi, Belgium Surface: Hard-Indoor REVERSE SINGLES—David Goffin, Belgium d. Paolo Lorenzi, Italy, 6-3, 6-3, 6-2. Alessandro Giannessi, Italy, d. Joris De Loore, Belgium, 6-4, 7-6 (9). France 4, Britain 1 At Rouen, France Surface: Clay-Indoor REVERSE SINGLES—Dan Evans, Britain, d. Julien Benneteau, France, 6-1, 6-2. Jeremy Chardy, France, d. Kyle Edmund, Britain, 6-4, 6-4. Serbia 4, Spain 1 At Belgrade, Serbia Surface: Hard-Indoor REVERSE SINGLES—Dusan Lajovic, Serbia, d. Jaume Munar, Spain, 2-6, 6-1, 6-4. Albert Ramos-Vinolas, Spain, d. Nenad Zimonjic, Serbia, 6-2, 6-1.

PREP BASEBALL TOP 25 By Eric Sondheimer Rk. School (W-L)

Next (last week’s ranking)

1

SOUTH HILLS (13-3)

vs. Mater Dei, Tuesday (3)

2

ST. JOHN BOSCO (13-3)

at La Palma Kennedy, today (12)

3

CHATSWORTH (15-2)

vs. Miami SLAM Charter at Las Vegas Durango, today (5)

4

HUNTINGTON BEACH (13-3)

vs. Edison, Tuesday (2)

5

SHERMAN OAKS NOTRE DAME (13-3)

vs. Aliso Niguel at Mater Dei, April 18 (7)

6

ORANGE LUTHERAN (12-4)

vs. Gahr at JSerra, April 18 (1)

7

HARVARD-WESTLAKE (13-3-1)

vs. Pembroke Pines (Fla.) Flanagan at IMG Academy, today (8)

8

NEWBURY PARK (12-2)

vs. El Camino Real at San Diego Torrey Pines, today (16)

9

SIMI VALLEY (14-3)

vs. Moorpark, Thursday (13)

10

MISSION VIEJO (11-4)

vs. Henderson (Nev.) Basic at Esperanza, today (9)

11

LA MIRADA (13-2)

vs. Glenn, Tuesday (15)

12

CORONA (11-4)

at Norco, Tuesday (11)

13

WEST RANCH (12-4)

at Moorpark, today (17)

14

THOUSAND OAKS (11-3)

at Santee West Hills, Tuesday (10)

15

GLENDORA (14-4)

vs. Diamond Bar, Wednesday (18)

16

ETIWANDA (13-2)

at Los Osos, Wednesday (19)

17

SERVITE (11-7)

at Beckman, today (4)

18

BONITA (11-5)

at Ayala, Wednesday (20)

19

VISTA MURRIETA (11-3)

vs. Murrieta Valley, Tuesday (22)

20

BECKMAN (12-4)

vs. Servite, today (6)

21

VALENCIA (13-5)

at Hart, Wednesday (21)

22

EL TORO (10-5-1)

at San Clemente, Thursday (23)

23

MATER DEI (10-5)

at South Hills, Tuesday (24)

24

CRESCENTA VALLEY (15-1)

vs. Pasadena, Tuesday (NR)

25

MOORPARK (15-2)

vs. West Ranch, today (NR)

Clippers make progress going into the playoffs

Johnson wins at Texas, as usual

staff and wire reports

Jimmie Johnson still knows how to get to Victory Lane at Texas Motor Speedway, even from far back in the field on a track that had changed significantly. And even while heating up in the cockpit because of an issue with getting fluids during the race. “I'm not feeling the best, but we got into Victory Lane,” Johnson said before going to the infield care center to get treatment for apparent dehydration after his 81st career victory. Crew chief Chad Knaus said there was some kind of malfunction with the system in the car, but was unsure what the problem was. Johnson, who last year won his record-tying seventh NASCAR Cup Series season championship, started Sunday’s race 24th in the 40-car field. But he charged under Joey Logano with 16 laps to go to take the lead, and the Hendrick Motorsports driver kept his No. 48 Chevrolet in front. This was the first Cup race in Texas since the 11⁄2-mile facility was repaved and changes were made to Turns 1 and 2 this year. It was Johnson’s seventh win at the Fort Worth track, six in the last 10 races there. Kyle Larson, the season points leader who won two weeks earlier at Fontana, finished second for the fourth time this year. Logano, polesitter Kevin Harvick and Dale Earnhardt Jr. rounded out the top five. Lewis Hamilton negotiated a chaotic start on a wet track and easily won the Chinese Grand Prix, his fifth title in Shanghai and first of the Formula One season. Starting from the pole position for the long-dominant Mercedes team, Hamilton led all the way to pull even atop the drivers’ standings with Sebastian Vettel of the newly competitive Ferrari team. Vettel was second, 6.2 seconds behind, and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen was an impressive third, moving up from 16th on the starting grid. ETC.

Lopez beats Corral Veteran Riverside welterweight Josesito Lopez scored a 10th-round knockdown en route to a decisive unanimous-decision victory over journeyman Saul Corral of Mexico in

a boxing card at the Novo at L.A. Live, near Staples Center. It was only the second fight in the last two years for Lopez (35-7), who stunned Victor Ortiz in 2012 at Staples Center before suffering losses in stiffer tests against Canelo Alvarez, Marcos Maidana and Andre Berto. Corral is 21-9. — Lance Pugmire Crystal Dunn had two goals for the second straight game, helping the United States women’s soccer team cruise to a 5-1 win over Russia in an international friendly at Houston. Carli Lloyd and Rose Lavelle also scored in a dominant performance by the Americans, who had a 21-2 advantage in shots and attempted15 corner kicks to one by Russia. In tennis, Australia advanced to the Davis Cup semifinals with a 3-2 victory over the U.S. Nick Kyrgios beat late substitute Sam Querrey 7-6 (4), 6-3, 6-4 in the first reverse singles to clinch it, giving host Australia an insurmountable 3-1 lead at Brisbane. The Australians had won the first two singles matches Friday before the U.S. won the doubles Saturday. Querrey was supposed to have played doubles, but American captain Jim Courier pulled a swap, putting Jack Sock, who lost in singles Friday, into doubles and allowing Querrey to be fresh for Sunday. But he was no match for Kyrgios. Rising 19-year-old Russian Daria Kasatkina won her first WTA tour title, beating fellow teen Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia 6-3, 6-1 in the Volvo Car Open at Charleston, S.C. Kasatkina, who owns two wins over top-ranked Angelique Kerber this year, was playing in her first final, and it was the first final between two teens on the tour in eight years. Russia’s Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova upset Germany’s Kerber, 6-4, 2-6, 6-1, in the final of a women’s tournament at Monterrey, Mexico. The Rams informed four members of their scouting department that their contracts will not be renewed, a person with knowledge of the situation said. Ran Carthon, director of pro personnel, and scouts Evan Ardoin, Danton Barto and Sean Gustus will not be retained, the person said. — Gary Klein

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"HOW OLD ARE THESE FRIES?"

THE CLIPPERS are playing well, but Blake Griffin

says they’re not at level they were to start the season.

was unbelievable. When teams would make a run, or it would be a close game, might not be a blowout, but we’d still kind of keep playing the same way and keep that spirit. So that’s what we’ve got to get back to.” The Clippers have two games left in the regular season to see whether they reclaim the entire force they

Clippers tonight VS. HOUSTON When: 7:30. Where: Staples Center. On the air: TV: TNT; Radio: 570. Records: Clippers 49-31, Rockets 54-26. Records vs. Rockets: 0-2. Update: The Clippers allowed 131 points per game in the first two losses to the Rockets. James Harden, a most-valuable-player candidate, is second in the league in scoring (29.3 points) after getting 35 on Sunday against Sacramento. The Rockets are second in the league in scoring (115.5). — Broderick Turner

played with in November. “I think we’re close, for sure,” J.J. Redick said Saturday night. “I don’t want to look too much into winning streaks. I think it’s just how you feel, sort of the spirit, and I feel like our spirit has gotten a lot better in the last couple of weeks. “We had some bad losses there and then the Sacramento game and another one. But we’ve responded since that game.” The Clippers have put themselves in position to have the home-court advantage in the Western Conference playoffs against postseason foe Utah. L.A. only has to win its last two games and the Clippers will host Games 1 and 2 at Staples Center when the playoffs start next weekend. “I think we had too many guys that care and too many guys that are good basketball players to not eventually start playing well,” Redick said. “I said this a couple of times last week. I don’t read anything like going into the playoffs. You’re playing well, but it doesn’t guarantee you anything in the playoffs. But I’d much rather be playing well than the opposite heading into the playoffs.” [email protected] Twitter: @BA_Turner

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"NO FOOD ALLOWED."

By Broderick Turner Doc Rivers insisted yet again on Saturday night that the media have refused to pay heed to his message and to buy into his selling points on how his team has lifted its play in recent times. So the Clippers coach felt it was best to reiterate those thoughts during his opening remarks following his team’s impressive victory over the San Antonio Spurs. The Clippers pushed their winning streak to five consecutive games and have won nine of their last 11 games. And Rivers wanted to make sure the media gathered around him at the AT&T Center in San Antonio acknowledged those feats that have put the Clippers in a good place. “I’ve been saying it for 10 games. Some guys haven’t been hearing it,” said Rivers, referring to the media. “Really.” It’s not that Rivers’ comments have been challenged by any means. It’s just that some of the wins during the streak even made his players pause and the losses were cause for alarm. And then there is the benchmark of the season, when the Clippers started off 14-2. That was when they played their best basketball of the season, and it’s a level they are still striving to get back to. Perhaps, it was suggested to some of the Clippers, they are now edging toward that seemingly long ago time when they had the best record in the NBA. “No, I don’t think so. We’re closer,” Blake Griffin said Saturday night. “I thought defensively at the beginning of the season is really what set us apart. We’ve been better this stretch, but we can still be better. “I thought our resolve at the beginning of the season

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GOLF: THE MASTERS COMMENTARY

Garcia’s pain is history at last

LEADERS’ SCORECARDS FRONT NINE KEY — Eagle:

HOLE Yardage Avg Par

Birdie:

Bogey:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 OUT 445 575 350 240 455 180 450 570 4603,725 4.2 4.8 4.1 3.2 4.2 3.2 4.1 4.7 4.0 36.5 4 5 4 3 4 3 4 5 4 36

Garcia Rose

3 4

5 5

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4 5

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BACK NINE HOLE Yardage Avg Par Garcia Rose

10 11 12 495 505 155 4 4.1 3.1 4 4 3 5 4

5 4

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13 14 15 16 17 18 IN TOTAL 510 440530 170 440465 3,710 7,435 4.6 4.0 4.7 3.3 4.1 4.3 36.2 72.7 72 5 4 5 3 4 4 36 5 5

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Heartbreak on course is over for Masters champ, who is popular with fans and players.

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PLAYOFF (SUDDEN DEATH)

By Teddy Greenstein

HOLE 18 (Par 4) Garcia: Birdie Rose: Bogey

David Cannon Getty Images

JORDAN SPIETH shoots from a bunker on the 10th hole during the final round

of the Masters. The 2015 champion finished tied for 11th place.

FINAL-ROUND SCORES At Augusta, Ga. — Par: 72 279 (-9)—$1,980,000 x-Sergio Garcia (600)..........................71-69-70-69 279 (-9)—$1,188,000 Justin Rose (330) ...............................71-72-67-69 282 (-6)—$748,000 Charl Schwartzel (210) ........................74-72-68-68 283 (-5)—$484,000 Matt Kuchar (135) ..............................72-73-71-67 Thomas Pieters...................................72-68-75-68 284 (-4)—$396,000 Paul Casey (110)................................72-75-69-68 285 (-3)—$354,750 Kevin Chappell (97) ............................71-76-70-68 Rory McIlroy (97)................................72-73-71-69 286 (-2)—$308,000 Ryan Moore (85) ................................74-69-69-74 Adam Scott (85) ................................75-69-69-73 287 (-1)—$233,200 Rickie Fowler (68)...............................73-67-71-76 Russell Henley (68).............................71-76-71-69 Brooks Koepka (68)............................74-73-71-69 Hideki Matsuyama (68) .......................76-70-74-67 Jordan Spieth (68)..............................75-69-68-75 288 (E)—$181,500 Martin Kaymer....................................78-68-74-68 Steve Stricker (58)..............................75-73-72-68 289 (+1)—$148,500 Fred Couples (52)...............................73-70-74-72 Pat Perez (52) ....................................74-74-70-71 Jimmy Walker (52) ..............................76-71-70-72 Lee Westwood ....................................70-77-68-74 290 (+2)—$105,600 Jason Day (42)...................................74-76-69-71 Charley Hoffman (42)..........................65-75-72-78 William McGirt (42) ............................69-73-74-74 Phil Mickelson (42).............................71-73-74-72 Justin Thomas (42) .............................73-76-71-70 291 (+3)—$78,100 Daniel Berger (33) ..............................77-73-72-69

NOTES

Branden Grace (33) ............................76-74-71-70 Jon Rahm (33) ...................................73-70-73-75 Brandt Snedeker (33)..........................75-74-69-73 Brendan Steele (33) ...........................74-73-75-69 292 (+4)—$68,200 Matthew Fitzpatrick .............................71-78-73-70 293 (+5)—$62,150 Byeong Hun An (25)............................76-73-74-70 Jason Dufner (25)...............................71-76-70-76 Francesco Molinari (25).......................78-72-71-72 294 (+6)—$52,938 Bill Haas (20) ....................................75-72-71-76 Adam Hadwin (20) .............................75-74-75-70 Soren Kjeldsen (20)............................72-73-71-78 Brian Stuard (20) ...............................77-70-74-73 294 (+6)—$0 a-Stewart Hagestad.............................74-73-74-73 295 (+7)—$46,200 Ross Fisher........................................76-74-74-71 Louis Oosthuizen (16) .........................77-71-76-71 296 (+8)—$40,700 Kevin Kisner (14)................................74-75-74-73 Marc Leishman (14)............................73-74-78-71 Bernd Wiesberger ...............................77-72-76-71 297 (+9)—$36,300 Daniel Summerhays (12) .....................74-75-75-73 297 (+9)—$0 a-Curtis Luck......................................78-72-75-72 298 (+10)—$33,000 James Hahn (10)................................75-75-75-73 Andy Sullivan .....................................71-78-76-73 299 (+11)—$30,140 J.B. Holmes (10).................................78-72-73-76 300 (+12)—$28,600 Emiliano Grillo (9)...............................79-70-73-78 305 (+17)—$27,720 Larry Mize (9) ....................................74-76-79-76 308 (+20)—$27,060 Ernie Els (8) ......................................72-75-83-78 x-won in playoff a-amateur

FINAL ROUND AT A GLANCE WINNER: Sergio Garcia captured the first major championship of his career with a birdie putt on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff with Justin Rose. The Spaniard's victory came nearly 18 years after a runner-up finish to Tiger Woods at the PGA Championship, and after 22 top-10 finishes in major tournaments without winning. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

RUNNER-UP: Rose had a chance to capture his second major title eight months after winning the Olympic gold medal in Brazil, but three missed putts inside 10 feet over the final six holes of regulation doomed his chances. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

KEY MOMENT: After two bogeys to start the back nine, Garcia was two shots back and in big trouble when he drove under an azalea bush at the par-five 13th and had to take a one-stroke penalty. He managed to save par with an eight-foot putt, Rose missed a fourfoot birdie try, and Garcia erased the deficit over the next two holes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

SHOT OF THE DAY: Matt Kuchar’s hole in one at the 170-yard 16th briefly gave him hope of challenging the leaders. He closed with two pars, finishing four shots back in a tie for fourth. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

REMEMBERING SEVE: Garcia became the third Spaniard to capture the green jacket, on the anniversary of the 60th birthday of the first one to do it. Seve Ballesteros, who won the Masters in1980 and 1983, died in 2011 from a brain tumor. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

KEY STATISTIC: Garcia became the first player since fellow Spaniard Jose Maria Olazabal in1994 to win the Masters after making an eagle on Sunday at the 15th hole.

Spieth feeling upbeat despite a closing 75 Veteran perspective

By John Cherwa and Teddy Greenstein AUGUSTA, Ga. — Jordan Spieth joked Saturday that Augusta National officials couldn’t “Jordan proof ” the course because he doesn’t hit it straight enough off the tee. It’s a moot point now. Spieth did himself in Sunday, dropping from contention after six holes and hitting the water with his tee shot on No. 12, a moment of déjà vu from last year’s final round. Spieth limped in with a three-over 75 and tied for 11th place, but the 2015 champion was somehow upbeat after what transpired. “I’m not going to beat myself up whatsoever,” he said. “I shot 75 but, boy, I felt great over the ball.” Huh? “Out here, distance control is so key,” he said. “I was two yards into the rough so many times, and it makes a huge difference on controlling the distance out of the rough. It's a coin flip. Is it going to jump or come out spinning? And I missed those coin flips all five times, I guess.”

Top amateur

Stewart Hagestad, a Newport Beach kid who ended up in New York as a financial analyst, was the low amateur in the tournament. He not only won that honor

Chris Carlson Associated Press

THE MASTERS’ top

amateur was Newport Beach’s Stewart Hagestad, a financial analyst. but was the first Mid-Am champion to even make the cut. He shot 74-73-74-73 for a final score of six over. Walking up the 18th fairway, Hagestad was told by his caddie that he had a three-stroke lead for low amateur. “I had chills from about 75 yards out and to have everyone here to support me, what an honor,” Hagestad said. “This is absolutely why you play the game and why you practice. It’s a really, really special week for me and I’m sure the emotions will hit me here at some point.” He said he thinks he’ll start graduate school at USC on July 24. “Most likely,” he said. “Unless anything crazy happens between now and then.”

Ernie Els was playing in his 23rd Masters — not playing particularly well, but he did last all four rounds. After opening with a 72 and 75, he played 83 and 78 on the weekend. The 47year-old with four major wins, but never the Masters, looked back fondly. “The negative is just that my play was atrocious and that’s the hard part to take,” Els said. “But if I look back at the 23, 24 years here, how many professional golfers get the chance to play the Masters 23 times? “And having the chance to win it a couple times was special and this tournament is not just for me. I’ve won a lot of events around the world, but this one just eluded me and that’s fine.”

In the hole Until Matt Kuchar’s hole in one on 16, Russell Henley might have had the shot of the tournament on the fifth hole. From 185 yards his approach shot didn’t hit the green, it flew right into the hole for an eagle. It moved him into the red numbers at one under. The force with which the ball entered the hole damaged the dirt part at the top of the hole. Two groups played through before officials repaired the hole. [email protected] Twitter: @jcherwa

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NOTEWORTHY: Garcia won the Masters in his 19th appearance, the most for any first-time champion. Mark O’Meara previously held the record, winning in 1998 on his 15th try. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

QUOTEWORTHY: “I felt a calmness that I never felt on a major Sunday. Even after making a couple of bogeys, I was still very positive.” — Garcia.

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Winning playoff is a major breakthrough for Garcia [Masters, from D1] hole started when Rose pushed his drive to the right on No. 18, landing in the pine straw with a yawning tree branch blocking a natural route to the hole. All he could do was punch out and it wasn’t that good of a punch. “If I had any option to try and do something creative, I certainly would have done so,” Rose said. “But I had a little pine cone behind the ball which meant I couldn’t really spin the ball. . . . So I really had nothing.” Garcia had knocked his drive straight, almost 300 yards down the fairway. He put his second shot to about 12 feet. Rose put his third to 14 feet. Rose missed his putt to the left. All Garcia had to do was two-putt. He only needed one, draining it for birdie. Garcia fell into a crouch clenching his fists, showing the kind of emotion that has been a trademark of his 18year pro career. At 37, he was no longer the best player never to have won a major. Sunday started with Garcia and Rose tied for the lead and playing in the last group. The smart money was on Jordan Spieth, two shots back, who was playing with Rickie Fowler, who began one shot behind. Spieth shot a 75, Fowler a 76. Garcia moved out to a quick lead by birdieing the first and third holes. Rose bogeyed the fifth and the difference was three. Then Rose made three birdies in a row, sinking putts of 12, four and 15 feet. They were even at the turn.

The 10th was where Garcia’s game went awry. He took a bogey when he put his second shot right of the green and hit his third through the green. Then he bogeyed the 11th when he needed three shots to make the green and then twoputted from 14 feet. Rose was up by two. “Barring a great comeback from Sergio, it was mine to cruise to the house,” Rose said. “But it’s not always that easy. At the end of the day . . . you’re going to win majors and you’re going to lose majors but you’ve got to be willing to lose them.” Both parred the 12th. Then came No. 13, a par five. Garcia put his drive to the left and underneath an azalea bush. He had to take a one-shot penalty for an unplayable lie. “In the past I would have been going, you know, [complaining] at my caddie,” Garcia said. “You know, why doesn’t [the shot] go through and whatever. “But I was like, well, if that’s what is supposed to happen, let it happen. Let’s try to make a great five here and see if we can put a hell of a finish to have a chance. And if not, we’ll shake Justin’s hand and congratulate him for winning.” Garcia got about 110 yards on his third shot, a punch-out, leaving him 90 yards short of the pin. Rose hit a perfect drive and was slightly over the back of the green about 25 yards from the hole on his second shot.

This looked like a potential two-shot swing putting Rose up by four. But then . . . Garcia’s fourth shot hit inches from the cup and spun eight feet away. Rose’s third shot went past the hole by four feet. Garcia made his putt. Rose missed his. Par. Par. Advantage, Garcia. Momentum, Garcia. “I knew I need to make that putt to stay with it,” Garcia said. “I knew what I could do, what I did on 14, 15,16. That putt really turned the clock for me. Got me more confident.” Rose was well aware. “That little two-shot swing was kind of when he was back in the tournament,” Rose said. “I feel like if he misses at that point, I’m four clear and got my eye on Thomas Pieters and Matt Kuchar.” Garcia then birdied the 14th and made a 15-foot putt for an eagle on the 15th. In 13, 14 and 15, Garcia had found his Amen Corner. Rose birdied the16th hole and bogeyed the 17th. On the final hole of regulation, Rose missed a seven-foot putt and Garcia missed a five-footer. On to the playoff and the vanquishing of some demons. “It’s been an amazing week and I’m going to enjoy it for the rest of my life,” Garcia said. Golf fans will just store it away as another memorable Masters. [email protected] Twitter: @jcherwa

AUGUSTA, Ga. — At half-past 7, with the sun fading and jubilant fans chanting “Ole ole ole ole,” a tournament official told Sergio Garcia: “We’re heading to Butler.” Have sweeter words ever been uttered at Augusta National? Butler Cabin is where players go to join golf ’s greatest club. After slipping on a green jacket, the new Masters champion said, “It’s been such a long time coming.” A prodigy in Spain, Garcia was a scratch golfer at 13. He played in the British Open at 16. At 19 he scissor-kicked onto the American scene with an impossible, eyesclosed slash from the trunk of a tree to the right of Medinah’s 16th fairway. Such joy. Now 37, with a receding hairline and salt-and-pepper scruff, Garcia finally is a major champion. Took him 74 tries. He beat Northwestern by five. Asked about shedding the label as the best player without a major, Garcia replied: “The way I looked at it, at least ‘best player’ was there. Now I don’t have to answer that. Now maybe I’m the best player to win only one major.” He smiled. “I can live with that.” So can everyone else. Garcia is a popular champion. As he knifed through the gallery from the ninth green to 10th tee Sunday, a 13-yearold boy hollered: “Vamos, Señor Garcia!” A young Spaniard? “No, I'm from Atlanta but speak some Spanish,” said Jackson Nicholson. Said Justin Rose, whom Garcia defeated on the first playoff hole: “If there's anyone to lose to, it would be Sergio. He has had his fair share of heartbreak.” PGA Tour veteran Brandt Snedeker called Garcia “probably one of the most caring, fun, funny people around — when he’s not in between the ropes. And even in between the ropes he’s great — when it’s not a major. When it’s a major, he kind of gets uptight and gets in his own way. “I feel like the game of golf will be in a better place if he wins a major instead of the other way around. He deserves to win. He is so exceptional at hitting a golf ball. His ball makes a different sound than anybody out here.” That sweet sound contrasted with all the rubbish that has tumbled from his lips over the years. In 2009 he whined about Augusta National, saying, “I don’t like it, to tell you the truth. I don’t think it’s fair, and it’s just too tricky. Even when it’s dry, you still get mud balls in the middle of the fairway. ... They can do whatever. It is not my problem. I just come here, play golf and go home.” He complained about bad breaks and verbally sparred with Tiger Woods, a spat that turned ugly when Garcia made a dumb “fried chicken” joke at an awards banquet in 2013. He apologized within hours. Garcia remains an interesting study, a self-described “hardheaded man.” While he expressed joy regarding his breakthrough victory, he also said, “To be brutally honest, I don’t feel any different. I’m obviously thrilled with what happened here today, but I’m still the same guy, the same goofy guy. … I have a beautiful life, major or no major.” And asked if he might wear the green jacket during his upcoming nuptials, he expressed a twinge of discomfort: “This one is a little bit too big.” [email protected]

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Rock Hall greets ’17 class Snoop recalls Tupac; Baez, Pearl Jam sound off; Journey stays split; ELO and Yes’ Brit wit. By Steve Zeitchik BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Since he died more than 20 years ago, Tupac Shakur has become an icon, an influence and, as his pal Snoop Dogg reminded at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony Friday, a hologram. Too often overlooked, Snoop noted, was something more elemental. “Many of you remember the thugged-out superhero,” the West Coast hip-hop artist told the Barclays Center audience. “The one thought that [keeps] coming back to me is Tupac the human being — strong and vulnerable, courageous and afraid.” Love for California rap was only one hallmark of an eventful night. Though lacking the hoped-for musical reunion among members of inductee Journey, the ceremony provided plenty of twisting roads through political terrain. Inductees Joan Baez and Pearl Jam, two of music’s more socially conscious acts, took advantage of the moment to go activist. “In the new political and cultural reality, there’s much work to be done,” said Baez, 76. “When sharing has been usurped by greed and a thirst for power … I want my granddaughter to know I fought against an evil tide and had the masses on my [See Hall, E8]

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‘Sexto’ on art, liberty in Cuba Dissident graffiti artist Danilo Maldonado Machado uses humor to push civil rights. By Carolina A. Miranda At the end of 2014, Danilo Maldonado Machado, the graffiti artist known as “El Sexto,” was detained by the authorities as he made his way to a public park in Havana to stage a work of protest art. In his vehicle, he was carrying a pair of pigs that he had painted with the names of the Castro brothers — one “Raul,” the other “Fidel.” His plan was to release them and let members of the public catch them and take them home. But the piece, titled “Rebelión en la granja” (after George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”) never happened. Instead, Maldonado spent 10 months in jail. His case drew [See Artist, E5]

Most female directors don’t like to talk about gender. They’d rather just get on with their work. “I never think of myself as just being a female director,” says France’s Julia Ducournau, whose recent film “Raw” tells the story of a lifelong vegetarian who develops a taste for raw flesh after a hazing at her veterinary college. “I see myself as being a director, and that’s it. It just so happens that I’m a woman.” But sometimes, things happen that don’t let them forget Hollywood’s gender disparity. For some, the reminder might come after they’re mistaken for a production assistant for the umpteenth time. For others, it’s during the meeting with the studio head who says he just doesn’t think she’s ready to make the “budget leap.” But for Ry Russo-Young, it was while making small talk in a studio lobby that she first felt the whisper-soft tentacles of gender discrimination. “I get there, and I’m talking to this person and he’s a white guy with less experience than me,” she recalls. “Quite a bit less. I’ve been in the industry for 13 years, he’s been in it for five. And I find out he’s meeting with the head of the company, the top person. Sounds like it’s a meeting between just the two of them.” Russo-Young herself was there to meet

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with four of the female executives who answered to the company head. “It’s not that these women aren’t powerful, but they couldn’t do anything without that guy’s say-so,” she says. “So I still have to meet that guy. And if I had just sat down with that guy, it probably would have been a better use of my time and my likelihood of getting hired would’ve been higher because we’d had face time. But the guy gets an hourlong meeting with the top dog where they’re bonding, and I never get that meeting. And I don’t understand why not. Do I think if I was a white guy I would get that meeting? Absolutely.” Last month, more than 80 narrative and documentary films were released in the U.S. Of the 82 films reviewed by The Times in March, 11 were directed or co-directed by women. Seven were narrative films directed by women who received solo credit for their work. Russo-Young and Ducournau are two of four directors we talked with recently about their films and careers. “The Zookeeper’s Wife” by New Zealand native Niki Caro is based on the true story of Antonina Zabinski, a woman who helped save hundreds of Jews by hiding them in her zoo during the German invasion of Poland. Starring Jessica Chastain as Antonina, the film operated on a $20million budget. Caro is also slated to direct a live-action “Mulan” for Disney. British director Hope Dickson Leach’s [See Directors, E3] “The Lev-

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Stephen Kovacevich finds expressive nuances. At Disney Hall, they made it work.

It now has been well over a half-century since Martha Argerich’s captivating debut recital recording, most of which was made in 1960 when she was 19, created an instant mystique for an Argentine pianist with the sultry beauty of a film star. That was, of course, something. But what has become much more than something is that over the ensuing five decades, not only have Argerich’s allure and mystique never diminished, they have

continued, along with her unerring artistry, to increase. Even Garbo couldn’t boast such a run. Argerich’s appearances can be rare — she is so notorious for canceling that presenters must have a plan B. Moreover, even a seemingly normal performance, say, a warhorse concerto with an orchestra, is likely to be unpredictable. Saturday night when Argerich appeared in a twopiano recital with Stephen Kovacevich at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the occasion was rare, strange and, as always, special. It was rare in that it was Argerich’s only U.S. concert appearance this season (she was in Washington in December to accept a Kennedy Center honor). [See Argerich, E4]

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NORMA MILLER, who became known as the Queen of Swing and was an able practitioner of the Lindy Hop, appears in the documentary “Alive and Kicking.”

Her swing was always a home run Norma Miller recalls thrilling, earlier days of a dance style that a new film addresses. By Susan King On YouTube there are clips of the Queen of Swing, Norma Miller, performing the Lindy Hop with her fellow members of Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers in the Marx Brothers’ 1937 comedy “A Day at the Races” and the 1941 Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson comedy “Hellzapoppin’.” Miller, a wisp of a young woman with rubber-band legs, dances at lightning speed as she gets tossed over her partner’s head, among many gravity-defying stunts. It’s exhilarating to watch. Now 97, she’s the only surviving member of the group but very much a force of nature in the new documentary “Alive and Kicking,” which looks at the revival of swing dancing. Interspersed with footage and interviews of dancers are clips of Miller in her prime as well as recent interviews with the funny and outspoken legend who has written several books and even took a spin as a stand-up comedian. The film opened Friday. “Alive and Kicking” director and swing dancer Susan Glatzer said she had met

Miller, “but I really didn’t get to know her until I started doing the film — and to know her is to love her. Swing dancers in general revere her crowd and her era.” Despite recovering from a broken patella, the petite Miller was full of pep as she arrived at a Mid-Wilshire taco bar and dance hall to chat about her life.

the Flamingo. The only person who didn’t have to go in the back was Louis Armstrong. We came in with Bugsy Siegel. We were there when the gangsters were there. Do you know how many bodies are buried out there in Vegas? You became a stand-up comic in the 1970s, working with Redd Foxx. That must have been fun. I hated stand-up. I played the greatest theaters in the world, and when you are doing stand-up you were in joints — people were in jeans and raggedy clothes.

You were discovered at age 12 dancing outside the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem, near where you lived. Why did you go there? The windows were open and an 18-piece band was playing on the bandstand. You could just stand downstairs [and dance]. That’s what kids did. That is what everybody was doing.

You must be thrilled that swing dancing has made a comeback It is the greatest social dance in the world. Swing is what we gave the world. We had Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Chick Webb. This was the foursome who created this. Duke Ellington was the black Mozart. In his dressing room there always had to be a piano. Between shows that’s where he sat, at the piano.

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DANCERS raise spirits in Susan Glatzer’s “Alive and Kicking.” It opened Friday.

You danced the Lindy Hop there, a dance named after Charles Lindbergh. Well, it became [the Lindy Hop] after Charles Lindbergh made the [solo transatlantic] flight. Jazz was going from Dixieland and was moving into swing. So you had the first big bands coming in. That was the excitement. There was new music, and remember, everybody came to this one place. This was the first time dance music was being played. I saw Leopold Stokowski watching. Benny Goodman was there and Artie Shaw. They were hearing new music. Every-

body wanted to be on the bandstand.

ers in the world. Only the best went to Europe.

Did the Savoy have a house band? The house band was Chick Webb, whose singer was Ella Fitzgerald. She was the epitome of great swing.

How were you and the rest of Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers treated in Hollywood? We were given star treatment. You know what Olsen and Johnson did? They had us in a limo and were driving us, showing us the stars.

You were only around 15 when Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers went to Europe. How did that happen? We won a contest and took Lindy around the world. They wanted to see what the Lindy looked like, so we were the ones who brought it over to show it. We were the greatest danc-

You worked with the Marx Brothers. How did that come about? We did “Day at the Races” because we had been at the Paramount Theater in Los Angeles with Ethel Waters. That’s the first time the West Coast had seen

swing. They had finished the movie and they brought the movie back to put our act in there. You also performed and lived in Las Vegas for a decade when racism was rampant. You weren’t allowed to stay at the casinos but cabins on the west side of town. Vegas was the Mississippi of the West.

I know you don’t dance anymore, but you certainly haven’t stopped working. I talk. I write books. I’ll be 98 in December. And I’m booked up until my 100th birthday.

Is it true you had to go in the back way to perform? We went in the kitchen. Nat King Cole had to go in the back. Dinah Washington had a trailer in the back of

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Female directors talk of challenges in their work [Directors, from E1] elling” explores how a woman (played by Ellie Kendrick) reconnects with her father and hometown in the wake of tragedy. It operated on a budget of $1.2 million. Russo-Young’s “Before I Fall” is an adaptation of a young adult novel and stars Zoey Deutch as Sam, a teenager who is forced to relive her last day on Earth several times over the course of a week. The movie, filmed in 24 days, operated on a $5million budget. Ducournau’s 99-minute film “Raw” was made with a budget of $3.8 million. All four talked of the importance of strong female protagonists and films that explore the female point of view. What are some of the biggest challenges you face as a female director? Niki Caro: I think the biggest challenge clearly is getting hired. I get the sense that it’s still considered to be something of a risk to hire a woman. As a woman and a director, I find that completely absurd. Ry Russo-Young: Getting hired is a challenge. I think as the budgets get bigger, it’s more competitive and it’s intense. There’s a lot of factors that contribute to what makes someone hire who they hire, and there’s a lot of subconscious bias. Hope Dickson Leach: People don’t necessarily have the confidence in you that maybe they have with men. I think men get the benefit of the doubt. I think women have to be three times as good and 10 times as confident. Julia Ducournau: When you get on set, most of the time the biggest part of your crew is going to be male. It definitely is a challenge to be taken seriously as a director as a woman. [But] it’s not something that comes into [consideration] when I’m working. But of course, like every other realm of work in the whole world, discrimination against women is something that happens everywhere. It did not happen to me on this movie, fortunately. But it’s true that as a woman you have to somehow come up as stronger. What slights do you experience on set or while trying to get films green-lighted? HDL: There are certainly questions about decisionmaking abilities. I think also because I’m a writer-director, one of the strongest things I come up against is the likability of the female characters that I write. To this day I still don’t understand why that’s such a big issue, given that the question is never asked about male characters. N.C.: Directing was always something I felt I could do. I didn’t feel that anyone was going to try to stop me from doing that. Because of course in New Zealand we have a female prime minister, I felt very secure and confident as a filmmaker and as a person in the world who happens to be female. So I don’t tend to see everything as because I’m female. I just don’t do that. Which is not to say that that isn’t part of it. RRY: I’ve heard recently from people who are potentially hiring me that they’re afraid of me being able to make the budget leap to a bigger budget. That’s something you hear a lot of the time when you’re talking about women. It’s a very gendered comment because there’s a thousand examples about men who make the budget leap from $1 million to $50 million and you just repeatedly never see women able to make those kinds of jumps. It all comes down to money. That budgetary jump is really a leap of faith. Like, “We believe in you, you made a great last movie, now we’re going to give you the keys to the castle,” or getting those franchises that are already established. So hearing “We’re worried about you making the jump” is basically saying, “We don’t trust you.” And I think we saw this with the election, where women aren’t seen as trustworthy as men. And that comes down to budgets and that comes down to these micro-aggressions.

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‘Boss Baby’ is in charge again The family flick joins ‘Beauty and the Beast’ in fending off the weekend’s new films. By Tre’vell Anderson

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Luckily, the box-office beating “The Boss Baby” and “Beauty and the Beast” put on Sony’s new release “Smurfs: The Lost Village” couldn’t make the animated gnomes any more blue. The Alec Baldwin-voiced baby with a briefcase took the No. 1 spot for the second week in a row with an estimated $26.3 million in the U.S. and Canada, beating analyst expectations of $25 million. Disney’s “Beast” came in second with $25 million in its third weekend. Performing the best of the new releases was “Smurfs: The Lost Village,” with $14.1 million, good for third place. Analysts projected less than $20 million. “I think it’s within the realm of where we were hoping to be,” said Rory Bruer, the studio’s distribution chief. Sony Pictures returned to its “Smurfs” franchise, this time with an all-animated version (the first two movies combined computer graphics and live action). In a feminist turn for “The Lost Village,” the Smurf gang meets an all-female tribe led by SmurfWillow, voiced by Julia Roberts.

While “Smurfs” did receive an “A” CinemaScore from moviegoers, it got only a 39% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The second-best performing new release was Warner Bros., New Line Cinema and Village Roadshow’s “Going in Style” with $12.5 million. A remake of the1979 heist film of the same name, the film stars Alan Arkin, Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine as geriatric friends who turn to criminal activity when they fall on hard times. The $24-million movie was directed by Zach Braff, best known for the 2004 indie hit “Garden State” and the TV show “Scrubs.” While the picture received an average B-plus CinemaScore, it nabbed an A-minus from from moviegoers 50 and older, or 72% of the total audience. Critics were less pleased; the comedy has a 43% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes. In fifth place was Paramount’s “Ghost in the Shell” with $7.4 million in its second week. The fantastical tale, at the center of a “whitewashing” controversy for its casting of Scarlett Johansson, has pulled $31.6 million. The final major new release, Pure Flix’s “The Case for Christ,” debuted to $3.9 million. Analysts projected a less than $10-million take. trevell.anderson @latimes.com

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What measures could be taken to make it easier for women to break into the industry? RRY: I don’t believe that we should hire people who aren’t up for the job, but the point is, we’ve been doing the opposite. We’ve been not hiring people who are right for the job. She mentioned Ryan Murphy’s efforts with Half, a foundation started by his production company that aims to fill 50% of all director slots on his shows with women, people of color and members of the LGBT community. Now those women probably have more opportunities because someone that high profile helped them get hired. So I think it really does have to come from the people doing the hiring. HDL: I do think quotas are useful and important. I think people should be fighting for gender equality, and I think that will make a difference. And I think being proactive about that actually is one of the only things that can actually make a difference at this point. She pointed out director Ava Duvernay’s dedication to hiring only female directors for the entire first season of her OWN drama “Queen Sugar.” The numbers are bad for us in Hollywood. The numbers are bad for us in the industry. You get someone incredible like Ava Duvernay, who’s taken the power that she’s got and is actually living up to it and saying, “OK, I’m going to make a difference because I have the power now,” and she’s actually doing it. It’s totally possible to do it. You just need the gatekeepers to open the doors. J.D.: I’m not sure about the idea of quotas. I don’t want anyone to tell me that I’m there just because there are some quotas. I want to be making movies because

people like what I do. N.C.: I think the most effective thing I can do is to make successful films to kick that door open so many, many female filmmakers can rush in through the open door. As a female director who is working, if I can make successful films that come in on time and on budget, then I hope that gives people more confidence that there’s really nothing to be afraid of [in hiring a woman]. What is the significance, in your opinion, in a film directed from a female point of view? N.C.: It’s a subtle point of difference in the storytelling. With this movie, particularly so. I felt like being a woman telling this story was quite appropriate. I think in terms of female protagonists, we’re just starting out and exploring those things onscreen. HDL: I think we all tell stories in different ways. I think our lived experiences are always going to contribute to the way that we tell stories and the priorities that we have in terms of what we put out. J.D.: I would never consider myself as a woman making movies. I just happen to make movies, and I’m a woman. So for me, it’s never in my mind like, “I’m going to direct my movie from a female point of view.” I just make movies. RRY: To me, what’s really important is the diversity of perspective. That’s the most important thing. So it’s actually not just about a female perspective, it’s about a queer perspective, it’s about a trans perspective. It’s about a Mexican perspective, an Asian perspective. A heavy person, a mentally challenged person. It’s just having more diversity of perspective because we’re all so different from each other and we’re all so differ-

ent as people in the world. And everybody deserves to be seen. As audience members, you crave to see yourself on screen because you need models of how to be in the world. We’ve seen a lot of depictions of a certain kind of person and we need to open up the floodgates and see more perspectives and different kinds of people on screen.” How much more progress do we need to make before we reach parity with men? N.C.: Statistically? We need to make 46% more progress. A really shameful statistic. It horrifies me. HDL: From a numbers point of view, I think it’s pretty shocking. We’re still in the teens I think for most of the world. So there’s a huge amount of progress that we need to make there. We’re 50% of the population. There’s no reason why we shouldn’t be equal in any of the professions we choose to be. It’s 2017. The more people you bring into the industry, the better it does. There’s plenty of room for everybody. RRY: I think sometimes the numbers go up and then they go down again and it feels really disappointing and disheartening because it feels like one step forward, two steps back. But I am definitely encouraged by all the conversation. I think there’s an awareness right now that there’s a problem, and that’s the first step. N.C.: Obviously, the situation needs to improve. When it improves, we will only have better movies. We are right on the edge of something great which is to open up storytelling to the other half of humanity. And this isn’t just female directors, it’s the roles that we’re offering audiences to consume. sonaiya.kelley @latimes.com Twitter: @sonaiyak

Percentage 3-day change from Total gross (millions) last weekend (millions)

Days in release

$26.3 -48% $89.4 10 (Fox) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------2 Beauty and the Beast $25 -45% $432.3 24 (Disney) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------3 Smurfs: The Lost Village $14.1 NA $14.1 3 (Sony) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------4 Going in Style $12.5 NA $12.5 3 (Warner Bros.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------5 Ghost in the Shell $7.4 -61% $31.6 10 (Paramount) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------6 Power Rangers $6.2 -56% $75.1 17 (Lionsgate) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------7 Kong: Skull Island $5.8 -32% $156.6 31 (Warner Bros.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------8 Logan $4.1 -34% $218.1 38 (Fox) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------9 Get Out $4 -29% $162.9 45 (Universal) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------10 The Case for Christ $3.9 NA $3.9 3 (Pure Flix) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Industry totals 3-day gross (in millions)

Change from 2016

$121

15.2%

Year-to-date gross (in billions)

$3.2

Change from 2016

Change in attendance from 2016

5.5%

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‘Case for Christ’ skimps on facts

By Noel Murray Lee Strobel became a fundamentalist Christian hero thanks to his 1998 book, “The Case for Christ,” chronicling how his dogged research into Jesus’ resurrection helped convert him from atheism. Director Jon Gunn and screenwriter Brian Bird’s film version emphasizes Stobel’s personal drama over his academic investigation, which makes for a watchable movie but thin theology. Mike Vogel plays Strobel, who at the start of the 1980s was an award-winning Chicago journalist with a happy marriage and a bright future until his wife, Leslie (played by Erika Christensen), found God. Anxious to get their life back to the way things were, he started interviewing scholars in various disciplines, hoping that by presenting Leslie with the facts, she’d back down. Gunn and Bird pull a lot from the book’s intro and brief asides, telling parallel stories about Strobel’s marriage, his career and a newspaper crime story that he botched. The subplots keep the

film moving, giving something for even nonbelievers to latch on to. But the meat of the movie is in the evidence the reporter amasses, and it’s here that both the devout and the doubters may be disappointed. Unlike the detailed arguments in the source material, the adaptation skims the surface of what Strobel found, presenting it in the vaguest terms. Give credit to the filmmakers for making a faithaffirming picture that aims to be more thoughtful than maudlin. But what they’ve ended up with is a fairly rote Christian redemption narrative — albeit with more charts and graphs. [email protected]

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[Argerich, from E1] But elsewhere, Argerich has been particularly active of late. By the lucky chance of being in the right place at the right time, I heard her in August at the Lucerne Festival play a Liszt Concerto that she toured with Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra of young Israeli and Arab musicians and last month perform with Gidon Kremer in a Berlin celebration of the violinist’s 70th birthday. The only thing peculiar about these consummate performances was that at 75, Argerich’s vitality and facility remain as arresting as ever. At Disney, however, there were indications that a little something might be up. The pianos on the stage were placed side by side rather than facing each other. Then there was an inexplicable announcement that since one pianist had hurt a hand and the other broken a tooth, Rachmaninoff ’s Symphonic Dances would come before three Debussy pieces, not after, the original order. What might also seem a little odd is that Argerich was briefly married to the American pianist, from San Pedro and known then as Stephen Bishop, in the1970s. They have a daughter, Stephanie Argerich, who made an unflinchingly per-

sonal film about her mother called “Bloody Daughter.” There are explanations. The pianists couldn’t face each other because, though a man of normal height, Kovacevich prefers to sit so low to the ground (the legs of his stool had to be cut) that he couldn’t otherwise see Argerich over his music stand. He is the one who hurt his hand. She broke her tooth the night before. They thus wanted to play the most demanding work first, when they felt strongest. As for playing with an ex, that too happens to be the Argerich way; another former husband, Charles Dutoit, is a regular accompanist. What made Saturday’s recital curious was that it would be hard to imagine two more different pianists than Argerich and Kovacevich. He is introspective. He plays quietly, able to find hundreds of subtly expressive dynamic nuances in mezzo forte, the normally boring neither loud nor soft. Revealing little of Argerich’s flair, he gives the impression of having probed the essence of every note he plays. She, on the other hand, might seem driven by adrenaline. She doesn’t need to think about technique. The music is inside her, and making a piano speak appears as natural to her as song is to a

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vacevich’s lyrical touch was as limpid as the solo flute it mimicked; Argerich surrounded that by fashioning a fount of Debussyan orchestral colors. After switching pianos (and stools!), they replaced the insistent dance of seduction that characterizes Debussy’s early “Lindaraja” with a more interesting refined seduction. Nor was “En Blanc et Noir” black and white. The three movements, written three years before Debussy’s death in 1915, are haunted by World War I. Vivid piano sonorities had the brilliance of bright red blood; explosions left in their wake only pastels and grays. They turned the middle section, dedicated to a French officer, into an antiwar statement by making visceral the horror of loss. The three encores continued unpredictably. Tchaikovsky’s “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies” glittered like it might with a dozen harps. They tried a different approach, a new seduction with Debussy’s “Lindaraja.” Finally these former lovers left an indelibly touching image, seated at the same piano — she on her high bench, he on his low one, like Mutt and Jeff — playing a Brahms love song with exquisite tenderness. [email protected]

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[Artist, from E1] international headlines. As did a subsequent detention after he publicly celebrated the death of Fidel Castro on a Havana street. Maldonado now finds himself in the United States, where he is promoting human rights in Cuba in collaboration with the Human Rights Foundation, which helped sponsor his trip. He is also at work on a pop-up exhibition that lands in San Francisco in mid-May. “It will feature a variety of things, like a reconstruction of the cell I was in in Cuba,” he says. “There will be drawings and paintings.” The artist was in Los Angeles recently for a one-night show of his prison drawings at the Stay Gallery in Downey. He also participated in a panel at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, in conjunction with a screening of the documentary “Patria o Muerte: Cuba, Fatherland or Death,” directed by Olatz Lopez Garmendia and executive produced by Julian Schnabel, that looks at the difficult economic and political circumstances facing everyday people in Cuba. (Maldonado is featured in the film.) In this edited conversation, he discusses why he is drawn to graffiti, what inspired him to attempt to release a pair of pigs in Havana, and the children’s book he would one day like to write for his daughter. You have made your reputation as a street artist. How did you get your start? I always drew as a kid — always. And I had lessons because my uncle was an art critic. As an adolescent, though, I got bored with the formal education in school and wanted to get away from that. I started noticing the importance of visuals, of propaganda, of how those things can affect people. [The Cuban government] has appropriated everything. All of the TV shows are by the government. All of the newspapers are by the government. All of the billboards are by the government. I wanted my art to relate to that. I was interested in graffiti because it was a type of street propaganda. What were your earliest actions? “Rewind” — I used to paint the rewind symbol, the two little arrows, using a stencil. I put it all over the place and they started to erase it, so I could tell they were keeping an eye on the streets. But I still chose the street because I didn’t have to ask anybody’s permission. How did the name “El Sexto” come about? It’s a joke. Like I said, I’m interested in publicity and propaganda. In Cuba [in the 1990s], there was this gigantic publicity over this group called the “Five Heroes” [the Cuban Five] — these five spies that were arrested

Schnabel [who spoke out on my case]. These are people who have international recognition and they managed to spread the news of what was happening to me in Cuba. That’s what people like Tania can do: They can draw attention to the cause. Cuba needs the solidarity of the world. When the dictator died and they picked me up, everyone got right on social media supporting me. It was really beautiful.

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“I’M ALWAYS looking for a way of grabbing visual space,” says graffiti artist Danilo Maldonado Machado.

Alexandra Martinez "El Sexto" (Danilo Maldonado Mac

Alexandra Martinez “El Sexto” (Danilo Maldonado Machado)

TWO DRAWINGS created by Maldonado during his detention in Cuba, recently shown at a Downey gallery.

in the United States. I thought, if they are the Five Heroes, then the sixth hero is the people. So I became “El Sexto” — the Sixth. I started putting it all over as a joke, as propaganda. What inspired “Rebelión en la granja,” the performance piece with the pigs? I’m always looking for a way of grabbing visual space, not just by graffiti. That’s why I do things like transmit live on social media. I’m trying to invade the visual spaces of others. Well, in Cuba they do this thing with pigs where it’s like a game. They release some pigs and you pay 20 pesos and you go into this area and whoever gets the pig, gets the pig. I was like, “I’m going to paint these

pigs green and write their names ‘Raúl’ and ‘Fidel’ on them.” I had them in the truck on my way to the park. I told a friend to get on the phone and publicize it, so they found out about it and they picked me up. They accused me of desacato — having a lack of respect for maximum authority. And well, the maximum authorities are the Castros. They talked about putting me away for three years. I did 10 months. Your work has a sharp political message but also humor. For me, the humor is so important. People want to laugh. And with humor, you can demystify these people. They have these uniforms they’ve invented for them-

selves, this status; with humor you can pick it apart. How do you and your work fit into the broader art scene in Cuba? What connections do you have to some of the island’s betterknown artists? The only thing that is recognized as art there are the things that are within government institutions. If you are outside of that, it’s not art, it’s not anything. The galleries are theirs, the museums are theirs, the institutions — the ones who will do the paperwork so you can travel — those all belong to the government. I have some relationships with some of the “official” artists, but given my condition, as someone who has been a prisoner, they

can’t expose themselves too much by helping me out. I don’t judge the decisions that someone makes in this regard. They have families that they have to take care of. Everyone has stuff they need to do. I also have family, but I choose to be free. How connected are you with Cuban artist Tania Bruguera (who was also detained for attempting to stage a performance in Havana)? And how do you feel about international artists becoming involved in Cuban politics? She’s a friend. I worked in a school that she created in Havana [Instar, the Instituto de Artivismo Hannah Arendt]. The level of what she represents, it’s so important. It’s like Julian

As Cuba and the U.S. reestablish diplomatic relations, has there been an economic and political opening in your view? Not really. You have all of these foreign investors, but it doesn’t make much of a difference in the life of the average Cuban. If some company comes and opens a cafe, they don’t pay the employees directly. They pay the Cuban government, and the government pays the people. And the official average wage is still $20, $25 a month. People say, “Oh, we have relations with Cuba now.” No, you have relations with the government of Cuba, not the people. What works were you exhibiting in Downey? I was showing some drawings I did in prison — some from the first time around, when I was arrested for painting the two pigs. There are some drawings from this last time I was in jail, when [Castro] died. I had gone out into the street and written “Se fué” (He’s gone) as a graffiti on the building where the revolutionaries had installed themselves after the revolution triumphed. It was the Hotel Habana Libre, which before was the Havana Hilton. That graffiti cost me two months of jail time. And there were drawings from a small book I started making for children — for Renata María, my precious girl. She will turn 4 in July. A political book? No. It’s not about inserting politics. It’s very imaginative. Where I live there is the issue of propaganda and dogma, and they start it from the youngest age. They are constantly manipulating — there are these books with drawings that say things like “En manos buenas, un fusil es bueno” (In good hands, a rifle is good) and feature images of people dressed in fatigues. I wanted to do something different. This features magical elements. It has things about flying through the clouds. It has things that are childlike. What did being in prison teach you about Cuba? It’s that the majority of people who are in jail, even though they wouldn’t consider themselves political prisoners, they are political prisoners. carolina.miranda @latimes.com

‘Ellis Island’ an immigrant experience Peter Boyer’s moving work, headed to PBS, has flaws in Pacific Symphony rendering.

Pacific Symphony Where: Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa When: 8 p.m. Friday (sold out) and Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday (“Ellis Island” only) Tickets: $25-$195 Information: (714) 556-5799 or www.pacificsymphony.org

By Richard S. Ginell Composer Peter Boyer’s “Ellis Island: The Dream of America” seems tailor-made for PBS. The piece traces the experiences of seven immigrants from seven countries on their way to America, using monologues from actors with orchestral underscoring and interludes. The texts are taken directly from recordings made for the Ellis Island Oral History Project, and you can just imagine the folks at PBS licking their chops at the visual possibilities. The Pacific Symphony started planning performances of “Ellis Island” as part of its recurring American Composers Festival some 18 months ago. (They first performed it at what is now the Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre in 2005.) But when PBS reportedly signed on in February, the project became a really big deal for the orchestra — its first exposure on PBS’ prestigious Great Performances series.

ACTORS Kira Sternbach and Barry Bostwick performed at Segerstrom Concert

Hall during “Ellis Island: The Dream of America,” composed by Peter Boyer, right.

On top of that, immigration has been top of mind since President Trump took office, and judging from murmuring overheard Thursday night, the audience in Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall had no trouble making the connection. It’s easy to see why “Ellis Island” has had legs since its premiere in 2002. (Boyer, who likes statistics, said that this was its 168th performance.) The piece makes its appeal emotionally and directly, mainly through the immigrants’ words, which

tug at the family ties that so many of us have. Whatever the degree of their individual suffering, these immigrants had in common the unbridled joy of seeing the Manhattan skyline for the first time and believing they were in the promised land. Boyer deftly heightens the emotions of the text as good underscoring should do, while the interludes set the scenes for the monologues to follow. There are generic Hollywood gestures — the trumpet theme in the Prologue sounds like it was destined for a television

miniseries — as well as a few flecks of humor, some suave ragtimey music for the Irish segment, and a vicious storm at sea. You hear it once and you get it immediately. For this performance, period photographs were cross-faded Ken Burns style during the orchestral passages on a giant 72-by-24foot curved screen in back of the orchestra. The actors — Barry Bostwick, Lesley Fera, Johnathan McClain, Samantha Sloyan, Dean Chekvala, Kira Sternbach, Lyn Greene — came out one at a

time, some mimicking the accents of the characters, some not. Carl St.Clair conducted with his usual fervor, pounding home the grandiose Copland-style coda to sum up. Unfortunately, the amplification and the hall’s reverberation made a good deal of the text nearly unintelligible. (The women fared better than the men.) That dampened the emotional impact of the immigrants’ testimonies that comes through on the piece’s Naxos recording. Also, bright lights aimed at the audience hindered the view of the screen. Presumably things will be clearer on the PBS broad-

cast, which will be aired during the 2017-18 season. (Only the Friday and Saturday performances are being filmed; Camryn Manheim, Michael Nouri and Lucas Near-Verbrugghe rotate into the cast for some performances.) The theme of the evening was California composers, of which there were four. In the lobby before the concert, 16 students from Chapman University did their loosejointed take on Terry Riley’s “In C” that lasted nearly 27 minutes. Doing their part to observe John Adams’ 70th birthday, the Pacific Symphony brought electric violinist Tracy Silverman in to reprise his performance of “The Dharma at Big Sur,” the most Asiatic-flavored piece Adams has written, now taken at a more leisurely, polished pace. And Frank Ticheli, formerly the Pacific Symphony’s composer-in-residence, was represented by his engagingly spunky, syncopated, bluenote-strewn workout, “Blue Shades.” Interestingly — given the thrust of “Ellis Island” — Riley is the only native-born Californian of the four. [email protected]

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By Frank Stewart Here lies the body of Hannah Thurber. Once she talked, none could curb her. Three husbands had she, all are dead. They died of earache, so ’tis said. — on a Vermont tombstone Some players are apt to criticize. They are more intent on winning the postmortem than the deal. Successful players try to save their partner from error. In today’s deal, West led a spade against 3NT, and South won with the jack and led the king and a low diamond. West discarded a low club. When East took the ace, he returned a spade, and South claimed 10 tricks.

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HOROSCOPE By Holiday Mathis Aries (March 21-April 19): There is so much that you don’t need to worry about, including what value you are adding to today’s situation. Taurus (April 20-May 20): Doing well will mostly be a function of relaxing and getting out of your own way. Gemini (May 21-June 21): What you want is best for everyone involved, yet if you make a big deal about it, you’ll most likely be met with resistance. Cancer (June 22-July 22): The ancient oracle cautions that when you boil water over an open flame, there’s a chance that one will extinguish the other. There’s a balance here to respect. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): It’s almost comical how many times you’ve been thwarted from a certain action. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s typical for you to nurture others in need as if you were

feeding yourself. These days, you actually care for them better than that. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): With the current zeitgeist possessing so many celebrity showoffs and egos, sometimes it’s difficult to speak colloquially and humbly at the same time. Try. Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): If it’s not working, add more compassion and see what that does. If that doesn’t fix it, go down the list and try the next virtue. Sagittarius (Nov. 22Dec. 21): Compromise will be better than confrontation in today’s case. The others need to feel listened to. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Some would have you believe that life is about sensual experiences, insider knowledge and generally making other people jealous. Ignore them today. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You don’t want to drift into the background, nor do you think that you’re the

most interesting person in the room. You just aim to hold your own. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): You are well-matched today, as your partners and opponents (often the same person) will have equal but very different strengths. Today’s birthday (April 10): Harmony and healing grace the social sector of your life at the start of this solar return. Be proactive in creating memories with loved ones in May and June. The money you spend will be forgotten; the memories will remain. The investment you made to learn will pay you in August, but that’s just the start. Cancer and Pisces adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 4, 40, 8, 12 and 1. Holiday Mathis writes her column for Creators Syndicate Inc. The horoscope should be read for entertainment. Previous forecasts are at latimes.com/horoscope.

West showed no concern for his partner’s problems. Since West knows a spade return won’t beat 3NT, he must discard the queen of spades on the second diamond, canceling his interest in spades. East will have a chance to find the killing shift to the queen of hearts, giving the defense five tricks. Even if your partner is world-class, try to make life easy for him. This week: saving partner. Question: You hold: ♠ Q 9 7 3 2 ♥ A J 8 4 ♦ 10 ♣ 9 7 3. Your partner opens one diamond, you bid one spade, he rebids two diamonds. Now what? Answer: To bid two hearts is tempting. Partner might take a spade preference, or his pattern might be 2-4-6-1. But to bid a new suit would be forcing and might

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isn’t necessarily mean, although when you do so, you are deliberately refusing an opportunity to connect with them. On the other hand, not inviting one’s daughter to family gatherings (including important holidays) because she is single is also mean. Your folks shouldn’t be too surprised if you’re not itching to spend time with them now. Think of this as an opportunity to reach out to your sister. She is going to see how disheartening it can be to experience loss on many fronts. Dear Amy: I am getting married in a few months, and so many aspects of the wedding have become dictated by others. One aunt has asked me if she could wear an ivory-colored dress. I explained to her that I would prefer it if she found something else, because my dress is ivory. Etiquette states that guests should not wear white. Even after I told her no, she continued to seek permission from other family members because she “really wants to wear that dress and hasn’t had an opportunity.” My wedding dress was one of the few things I had

explicit control over, and now I feel like every aspect of this wedding has become someone else’s vision. Whose Wedding? Dear Whose: Breathe in. And out. You have politely answered your aunt that she should find something else to wear. She asked you in the first place because she senses she is treading very close to a fashion “ don’t.” But you don’t own the color ivory. This fact is one more thing about your wedding that you cannot control. Which brings us to the tough truth about weddings: Weddings would be perfect, if only it weren’t for other people. After all of the warnings about her attire, what if your aunt still shows up on your wedding day looking foolishly bride-ish? Prepare for this inevitability, and realize that it doesn’t reflect poorly (or at all) on you, but on her. Your aunt can’t ruin your wedding day unless you let her. Send questions for Amy Dickinson to askamy@ amydickinson.com or to Tribune Content Agency, 16650 Westgrove Drive, Suite 175, Addison, TX 75001.

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Rock Hall ceremonies have political tone [Hall, from E1] side.” The statement earned a spirited reaction. The Rock Hall invites a handful of artists every year to enshrine in its Cleveland museum, polling several hundred experts to make the final selections. It commemorates the occasion with a marathon ceremony (nearly five hours this year) of speeches and songs. The 2017 event — in Brooklyn for the third straight year before an alternating OhioNew York schedule begins in 2018 — saw six acts inducted. (HBO will air an edited version of the ceremony on April 29.) Also among the inductees were the Jeff Lynne-led ELO (Electric Light Orchestra) and prog-rock staples Yes. Super-producer Nile Rodgers was presented by the Hall with a special award for “musical excellence,” a kind of prize for under-theradar work that in the past went to the likes of the E Street Band. The award was both an honor and, to some eyes, a rebuff after Rodgers’ disco band Chic failed to get in to the Hall despite 11 nominations as performers. The musician had questioned that decision in an interview leading up to the show, saying he was “perplexed” by the Chic snub. But Rodgers was gracious on the stage Friday, noting that the role of the producer was to remain behind the scenes. He reminisced about producing Madonna’s 1984 smash album “Like a Virgin,” which contained some of the singer’s biggest hits, including the title song, “Material Girl” and “Angel.” “I remember saying to Madonna, ‘When we finish this record, it’s going to say “Madonna” [in big letters] and “produced by Nile Rodgers” [in small letters],’ ” said Rodgers. “My name is going to be this big,” he said, making a small gesture with his hands. It was a night when artists loomed large, perhaps none bigger than Shakur. Snoop alternately displayed humor and gravitas in de-

scribing the poet-activist and Death Row labelmates who were so close they once lived near each other in Wilshire Boulevard penthouses during a halcyon time before Shakur was killed in a drive-by shooting at a Las Vegas intersection in September 1996. “We had no peers besides one another,” the rapper said. “Just two black boys struggling to become men.” Snoop then led a musical tribute to the late artist, only the sixth hip-hop act to be invited to the Rock Hall. Framed by shots of Shakur’s face in various poses of contemplation and defiance, Alicia Keys played piano and sang on numbers such as “Changes” and “I Ain’t Mad at Cha” while rappers joined Snoop on stage to perform pieces of Shakur’s bestknown tracks. There was YG (“2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted”), Treach (“Hail Mary”) and T.I. (“Keep Ya Head Up”). “He made history, he is hip-hop history, he is American history,” Snoop told the audience. Other West Coast acts feted in this East Coast metropolis included San Francisco’s Journey (inducted by fellow Bay Area native Pat Monahan of Train) and Seattle’s Pearl Jam. They joined musicians from much farther away — the British ELO and Yes, who flashed their country’s deadpan wit. “When I was growing up, my father said, ‘Don’t go to sleazy strip clubs,’ ” recounted former Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman. “You’ll see things you don’t want to see. So of course I went.” Pause. “And I saw my dad.” The ceremony lacked — overtly, at least — the kvetching that marked last year, when rocker Steve Miller of the Steve Miller Band took issue with how the hall inducts members. Politics, however, crept in often. When George Harrison’s son, Dhani Harrison, in inducting ELO, recalled the performance of the otherworldly oriented rockers at the Hollywood Bowl just after the election in No-

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Shakur; above, Niles Rodgers accepts special honor. vember, he noted, “Trust me when I say everyone in L.A. was staring at the spaceship, saying, ‘Take me with you.’ ” The return to 1960s activism was most apparent with Baez. The folk singer was inducted by Jackson Browne, who described a childhood filled with revolution in the precincts of his conservative Fullerton. “To paraphrase Langston Hughes, ‘America has never been and yet must be,’ ” Browne said, as he drew a connection between the sit-in culture of his early days and the present moment. “Injustices we opposed then,” he said, “we must still oppose.” Performing with the Indigo Girls, Baez sang a cover of “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.” As she sang the lyrics of

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redemption — about being carried home by angels — she interpolated “even Donald.” The protest singer said relevance for her these days comes in unusual ways. “I’m aware that I’m speaking to many young people, who without this induction would have no clue who I am,” said the folk singer, 76. “My granddaughter had no clue who I was until I took her backstage at a Taylor Swift concert. She got a selfie, an autograph, a Tshirt and a newfound respect for her grandmother.” The Rock Hall induction ceremony is one-part industry toast and one-part arena spectacle — a distinction made visual this year by the catered-dinner tables on the floor, where some of the business’ most powerful

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SERIES Kevin Can Wait Harry Connick Jr. guest stars as himself on a new episode of the Kevin James sitcom. 8 p.m. CBS 24: Legacy The clock nears its final tick for the season with this next-to-last episode as Carter (Corey Hawkins) tries to find out more about a prominent official. 8 p.m. Fox American Experience The 100th anniversary of America’s entry into World War I is marked by the new three-night miniseries “The Great War.” The opening installment recalls President Woodrow Wilson’s determination to keep the United States neutral in the Europe-based conflict. 9 p.m. KOCE; also Tue.-Wed. Street Outlaws Big Chief returns to Oklahoma City to reassert his dominance the reality series launches a new season. 9 p.m. Discovery Channel American Pickers Mike and Frank try to come up with enough cash to buy an extremely rare motorcycle in the season premiere. 9 p.m. History Channel 2 Broke Girls Ryan Hansen (“Veronica Mars”) reprises his role as Caroline’s (Beth Behrs) exboyfriend Candy Andy on a new episode of the sitcom. 9:30 p.m. CBS Pawn Stars The series set in a pawn shop is back with a pair of new episodes. 10 and 10:30 p.m. History Channel Better Call Saul Bob Odenkirk is back as smalltime lawyer Jimmy McGill for a third season of the “Breaking Bad” prequel; with Michael McKean and Jonathan Banks. 10 p.m. AMC Help My Yelp In this new series, chef and restaurant consultant Monti Carlo helps struggling restaurants make the improvements needed to repair their online rankings. 10 p.m. Food Network House Hunters A Tennessee couple looks for a place in Rochester, N.Y. in the season premiere. 10 p.m. HGTV Explorer This episode visits the recently restored site in Jerusalem thought to

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names mingled, and the deafening fans in the arena’s bowled seating area. That contingent cheered loudest for Pearl Jam, the de facto headliner. Earlier in the week, the group’s scheduled inductor Neil Young withdrew because of illness, prompting longtime Eddie Vedder fan and booster David Letterman to step in. After a quippy introduction by the retired late-night TV talk show host, who looked downright rabbinic in a long white beard, the grunge icons took the stage. “Here we are with our modern technology, advanced technology age and we’ve got a lot of evolving to do. It’s evolution, baby,” Vedder said, citing a hit off the band’s 1998 album “Yield.” “Climate change is real. That is not fake news. And we cannot be the generation the history of the world will look back on and wonder why they didn’t do anything humanly possible to solve the biggest crisis in our time.” But quickly Vedder moved to the personal, offering his brand of poetic intensity to various people in his life, including wife Jill. “It’s so important when that kite gets way higher in the air, you really have to trust the person holding the line,” he said. “And that person has to be loyal and believe in you and have to have the strength to reel you back.” Vedder also gave a shoutout to, of all people, Chance the Rapper, noting that his 13-year-old daughter, Olivia, is a big fan. The gravelly voiced singer concluded with a note of humility “I feel like we’re maybe halfway there to deserving an accolade of this stature,” he said. “But this is very encouraging.” Then he and the band followed it with a miniset of staples such as “Alive,” “Better Man” and “Given to Fly,” which he dedicated to Michael J. Fox, who was in the house. A pair of late musical innovators were also memorialized. ELO began the evening with a Chuck Berry

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medley that included a cover of “Johnny B. Goode,” while Lenny Kravitz took the stage to pay tribute to Prince in a mini-set that included a funkified “When Doves Cry” backed by a gospel choir. Musically, though, the biggest hope for the evening went unrealized. There had been considerable buzz that former Journey vocalist Steve Perry, who performed on the group’s biggest hits, would not only attend the ceremony but sing with his old group. Perry, who has gone 26 years without performing with Journey, was even reported by TMZ on Friday to be picking up the mic. It would have been a major rapprochement after years of public sniping. Perry did accept the honor with his former group and spoke briefly. As the set began a moment later, many in the arena held their breath on whether Perry would sing. The band built the tension as it launched into the instrumental windup of its breakup anthem “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart),” only to have Arnel Pineda, the YouTube find who has fronted Journey for the last decade, bound on stage instead. Veteran Journey guitarist Neal Schon did dedicate the evening to Perry in between songs. It was a returnthe-favor gesture after Perry had, in his acceptance speech, run down the names of his ex-bandmates. “Are you … kidding me?” he said. “Any singer would give his … for that.” If Perry was notable by his stage absence, it was an artist who wasn’t in the building at all who that cast the greatest shadow. During the tribute to Shakur, clips of the late artist flashed on a large screen behind the stage. In words that seemed eerily timed for a Rock Hall occasion, the rapper could be observed offering a mix of the boastful and rueful. “The only thing that could kill me is death,” he said. “And even then, my music can go forever.” [email protected]

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