Spotlight on Education
Tough night for AHS
McNulty students celebrate diversity by
learning about different cultures.
The boys and girls basketball teams both lost
to Glens Falls in Foothills title games.
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AMSTERDAM, N.Y.
VOL. 136, NO. 155
Wednesday
February 15, 2017
75 CENTS
FPPD interviews
suspect passing
out KKK flyers
By JOSHUA THOMAS
For The Recorder
BARKLEY
John Purcell/Recorder staff
DANCES
William H. Barkley MicroSociety Magnet School music teacher Christopher Stefani leads fifth-grade
students in a dance during the King/Queen of Hearts Assembly held Tuesday morning. At the
assembly, a staff member was crowned to be royalty for a day. From Feb. 1 to 13, students purchased hearts to give to a teacher, administrator or support staff member. Proceeds from the heart
sale went to purchase items for a gift basket donated to New York Oncology Hematology in
Amsterdam to be given to its patients, along with supporting the school’s Positive Behavioral
Interventions and Supports program. Third-grade teacher Alison Miller was crowned queen for
receiving the most hearts and fourth-grade teacher Joshua Hodge was runner up.
Town assessment error decreases
county’s projected yearly revenue
assessor for the town of Amsterdam “erroneously”
placed a $2 million assessed value on a vacant piece
of land, which should have had an assessed value of
$5,000. Pepe said this led to inaccurate tax bill for
this fiscal year totaling $308,075, but the corrected
tax bill will be $770.
Sandy Frasier, director of county Real Property,
said the $2 million assessed value placed on the
vacant parcel was meant to have been placed on an
By JOHN PURCELL
Recorder News Staff
Montgomery County will not be receiving quite as
much property tax revenue for this fiscal year as
anticipated after it was found two properties in the
town of Amsterdam were assessed erroneously,
with one too high and another too low, according to
officials.
County Budget & Finance Committee Chairman
Michael Pepe, legislator for District 6, said the
Golf commission
proposes changes
to Muni rates, fees
By JOHN PURCELL
Recorder News Staff
Amsterdam Municipal Golf
Commission members are proposing two modifications to its
recently approved rates and fees
for this season.
Muni
Golf
Commission
Chairman Matthew Ossenfort
said after the Common Council
approved the rates and fees last
week, the commission received
feedback and have since decided
to propose two amendments.
Golf Commission members are
Please see MUNI
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FORT PLAIN — The Fort
Plain Police Department, working with the New York State
Police Department, identified
and interviewed a suspect who
allegedly distributed Ku Klux
Klan recruitment flyers in the
village last week.
The unidentified caucasian
male, a 30-something resident of
Gloversville, admitted to leaving
flyers on vehicles in the village
parking lot adjacent to Haslett
Park. The single-sheet flyers
were adorned with images of
interlocking hearts containing
the statements, “Love your own
race!” and “Stop homosexuality
and race mixing.”
The flyer, also containing a
graphic of a hooded KKK member, was labelled “Loyal White
Knights KKK,” and contained a
phone number and website
address, inviting viewers to “Join
the KKK today.”
The bottom of the flyer — turned
over to the police by a resident who
found it on their vehicle — continued, “God’s laws don’t forget.”
The website listed on the flyer
identifies the accompanying
phone number as the official
“Klan Hotline.”
Several residents who contacted the number said they reached
FORT PLAIN — An unidentified male, 33, and female, 45,
were found dead in the village
on Feb. 3, each the likely victim of a drug overdose.
Interim Police Chief Ryan
Austin said he doesn’t want to
speculate regarding the victims’ cause of death until toxicology reports have been
reviewed, but evidence gathered at the scene, including
drug paraphernalia, led attending officers to conclude the
victims overdosed.
On the morning of Feb. 3,
Emergency Medical Service personnels and police responded to a
call of a possible “unattended”
person at 32 Orchard St. and
noticed the subjects appeared to
be deceased, Austin said.
Austin said the Fort Plain
Police Department is currently
unsure of the relationship
between the victims and an
investigation is ongoing.
Please see KKK,
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Please see DEATHS,
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Please see ASSESSMENT, Page 5
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Comics . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Entertainment . . . . . . .11
Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Happenings . . . . . . . .2-3
Lottery numbers . . . . . .4
Nation/world . . . . . . .9-10
Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . .4
Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Sports . . . . . . . . . .18-24
Chance of
snow. High
near 38.
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Likely drug
overdoses kill
two in village
By JOSHUA THOMAS
For The Recorder
Rumor has it
German shepherd wins Westminster’s Best in Show
By BEN WALKER
AP Sports Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Quite a rally for
Rumor — a commanding comeback for
German shepherds, too.
Rumor was crowned America’s top dog
Tuesday night when, a year after a near
miss on the very same green carpet, she
came out of retirement to win best in
show at the Westminster Kennel Club.
Cheered loudly all around the ring by a
packed crowd at Madison Square
Garden, she’s just the second German
shepherd champion at the event that
began in 1877.
Please see RUMOR,
Page 5
The Associated Press
Rumor, a German shepherd, poses for photographs after winning Best in Show at the 141st Westminster Kennel Club Dog
Show on Tuesday in New York.
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LOCAL
The Recorder, Amsterdam, N.Y.
WHAT’S HAPPENING
Today
AMSTERDAM
The Horace J. Inman Senior
Center, 53 Guy Park Ave., will
host bingo from 1:45 to 3:45
p.m. Lunch will be available
for purchase.
AMSTERDAM
St. Mary’s Hospital will host
Joint School at 5 p.m. for
those having, or considering
joint replacement surgery.
Call 842-2663 ext. 234 for
more information.
MAYFIELD
The Paul Nigra Center for
Creative Arts, 2736 Route 30,
will hold an art class, Moonlight
in Snow, from 6 to 8 p.m. The
class is $30 for those who preregister and $40 at the door.
For more information, log on to
pncreativeartscenter.org or call
661-9932.
TOWN OF AMSTERDAM
A Diabetes Busters Support
Group will meet at the
Memorial Campus, Burgess
Room, from 5 to 6 p.m. Topic
will be Stress and Its Effect on
Blood Sugar Control. For more
information, contact the
Diabetes and Nutrition
Education Center at 841-3717.
TOWN OF AMSTERDAM
The February meeting of the
Amsterdam-GloversvilleJohnstown branch of the
American Association of
Univery Women (AAUW) will
focus on health with a tour of
the St. Mary’s Healthcare RAO
Outpatient Pavilion, 4950
Route 30, at 5 p.m. Following
the tour, the group will have
dinner at Nicolino’s restaurant,
4515 Route 30. Reservations
required. To RSVP, contact
Sandy Maceyka at 736-5130
or email [email protected].
Thursday
AMSTERDAM
An Alzheimer’s caregiver support group will meet at the River
Ridge Living Center, 100 Sandy
under the age of 5.
AMSTERDAM
The Amsterdam Free
Library, 28 Church St., will
hold its Sunday Book Club at
2 p.m. The book is “The Year
of Magical Thinking,” by Joan
Didion.
Monday
GLOVERSVILLE
A blood drive will be held at
the Fulton Center, 847 Route
122, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Walk-ins welcome or schedule an appointment by calling
1-800-red-cross or log onto
redcrossblood.org.
Tuesday
Photo submitted
First-grade teacher Sandy Sullivan, who was nominated for the Friends of Education Award.
B-P teacher nominated for
Friends of Education Award
BROADALBIN Ð Sandy Sullivan, a first-grade
literacy specialist at The Learning Community at
Broadalbin-Perth, has been nominated to receive
CASDA’s Friends of Education Award.
The award was introduced in 2015 to recognize
the diverse contributions of dedicated individuals
from all parts of the school community. Terry
LaFountain, director of curriculum and instruction
at Broadalbin-Perth, nominated Sullivan for the
award.
“Sandy puts her heart and soul into her work with
students,’ LaFountain said. “In recent years, she has
Drive, from 3 to 4 p.m. For
more information, contact
Meagan DeMento at 867-4999.
AMSTERDAM
The Amsterdam Free Library,
28 Church St., will show “The
Vikings,” as part of the second
annual Kirk Douglas Film
Festival, at 6 p.m.
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CANAJOHARIE
The Canajoharie Seniors
Citizens will hold a
Valentine’s Bingo at 1:30 p.m.
Donation is $1.
General Manager
Stacey Menendez
Retail Manager
Lori Hinkle
Controller
Staff Reporter
AMSTERDAM
The Walter Elwood Nature
Club will meet at 7 p.m. at the
Horace J. Inman Senior
Center, 53 Guy Park Ave.
Author Anita Sanchez will
speak about her latest book “In
Praise of Poison Ivy.” Sanchez
will discuss the many roles of
poison ivy in both human and
natural history.
NELLISTON
A support group for the
National Alliance on Mental
Illness of Montgomery, Fulton
and Hamilton County will
meet at 8 River St., from 5:30
to 7 p.m. For more information, contact Rebecca
Cardinale at 843-3261.
Friday
Brian Krohn
Morgan Frisch
moved from several years’ service as a classroom
teacher to a literacy specialist in an effort to further
help struggling students. Sandy has led several different after-school clubs, expanding the learning
opportunities and educational engagement of multiple students.”
Sullivan will be honored, along with other local
nominees, at the CASDA Friends of Education dinner on Thursday. CASDA, the Center for School
Improvement at the University at Albany’s School
of Education, is one of the premier school study
councils in New York State.
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Editor
Staff Reporter
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Editor
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Saturday
AMSTERDAM
A mental health family support
group will meet at St. Mary’s
Healthcare, 427 Guy Park Ave.,
third floor, group room D, from
1 to 3 p.m. For more information, contact facilitator Mary Lou
Barry, of St. Mary’s Behavioral
Health, at 841-7468.
GLOVERSVILLE
The second annual Soupurr
Cook-off will be held at 53
Church St., from 4:30 to 7 p.m.
The event includes samples of
soups from the area, 50/50 raffle and door prizes. All proceeds
go to benefit the Cat Sanctuary
and Information Center.
MAYFIELD
The Paul Nigra Center, 2736
Route 30, will hold a Kids
Cooking Class on french
bread rolls and mini apple
strudels from 9 to 11 a.m.
The class is $25 for those
who pre-register and $35 at
the door. For more information, call 661-9932.
ST. JOHNSVILLE
The Chapter 3:High School
Havoc wrestling event will be
held at Oppenheim-EphratahSt. Johnsville Junior/Senior
High School. The event is a
fundraiser for the seventh and
eighth grades and will feature
famous wrestlers such as
Swoggle. To purchase tickets,
log on to http://chateriii.bpt.me.
TOWN OF AMSTERDAM
A free cancer health screening
will be held at St. Mary’s Breast
Health Center in the Rao
Outpatient Pavilion, 4950 Route
30, from 9 a.m. to noon. To preregister, contact Suzanne
Hagadorn at 841-3726.
TRIBES HILL
The Montgomery County
Public Health Department will
hold a rabies vaccination clinic
at the Tribes Hill Fire
Department, 280 Mohawk
Drive, from 9 to 11 a.m.
Vaccination is available free of
charge but donations will be
accepted to help defray program costs. Suggested donation is $10. Other vaccines will
be available at additional fees.
For more information, contact
Montgomery County Public
Health at 853-3531.
Sunday
AMES
The Ames Volunteer Fire
Department will host an allyou-can-eat pancake breakfast from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. at
the Ames Firehouse, 595
Latimer Hill Road. Adults are
$8, children are $4 and free if
AMSTERDAM
The Walter Elwood Museum,
100 Church St., will hold a
camp day focused on portrait
painting from 9:30 a.m. to
noon. Participants will look at
the presidential portraits in the
museum collection and then
try one of their own.
BROADALBIN
The Broadalbin Library,
Wilkinson Memorial Book
Station, 25 N. Main St., will
offer a two-session Beginner
Knitting Group for children in
grade 4 through 6, from 9 a.m.
to noon. A fee of $5 will cover
the cost of knitting needles
and yarn which will be provided to each participant. Preregistration and a signed
release from a parent or adult
required. To register, call the
library at 883-5976 or email us
[email protected]
r.com.
BROADALBIN
St. Joseph’s Church will host
bingo in the parish center at 7
p.m. Doors open at 5 p.m. and
tickets are sold at 6:15 p.m.
BROADALBIN
The Broadalbin Kennyetto
Historical Society will meet at
the First Presbyterian Church
on West Main Street. The
guest speaker will be Jonas
Kover, history professor from
Fulton-Montgomery
Community College.
MAYFIELD
The Paul Nigra Center for
Creative Arts, 2736 Route 30,
will hold a Kid Cooking Camp
from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The
camp is $130 for those who
pre-register and $155 at the
door. To register, log on to
www.pncreativeartscenter.org
or call 661-9932.
Wednesday
AMSTERDAM
The Walter Elwood
Museum, 100 Church St., will
hold a camp day focused on
letter writing from 9:30 to
noon. Participants will try writing with quill and ink.
AMSTERDAM
The Horace J. Inman Senior
Center, 53 Guy Park Ave., will
host bingo starting at 1:30 p.m.
AMSTERDAM
Survivors of a Loved One’s
Suicide Support Group will
meet at 7 p.m. at St. Mary’s
Healthcare. Contact Bob
Martin at 669-8229 or
[email protected] for
more information and meeting
location.
ST. JOHNSVILLE
Nifty Needles will meet at
the Margaret Reaney
Memorial Library, 19 Kinsbury
Ave., at 10 a.m. For more
information, contact the Dawn
Lamphere at 568-7822.
The Recorder, Amsterdam, N.Y.
Ossenfort to deliver State
of the County March 1
JOHNSTOWN — The Fulton Montgomery Regional Chamber of
Commerce will hold an evening event with Montgomery County
Executive Matthew Ossenfort, on Wednesday, March 1, from 5 to
7 p.m. The event will take place at Fulton-Montgomery
Community College, 2805 Route 67, F-MCC Theatre and reception areas in the Visual Arts & Communications Building on the
campus. At the event, Ossenfort will deliver his State of the
County address in the theatre, and there will be light refreshments
in the reception areas.
The event is sponsored by C.T. Male Associates, PC and is open
to chamber members, their employees, and to the
public. Admission is free, but RSVP is required for planning purposes. Contact the chamber at [email protected] or
call 725-0641.
Galway School board
to appoint new Jr./Sr.
High School principal
GALWAY — The Galway Central School District Board of
Education is pleased to announce its intent to appoint Michael Miller
as its new Jr/Sr High School principal at its next board meeting on
Thursday.
“We are pleased to announce that after a rigorous and highly collaborative hiring process, Mr. Michael Miller has officially
accepted the position as our new Jr./Sr. High School principal,”
said Galway Central School District Superintendent Shannon
Shine. “We would like to thank everyone who contributed to the
hiring process and especially Mrs. Brita Donovan for serving as
interim principal and ensuring a smooth transition for students
and parents.”
Miller currently teaches social studies at Saratoga Springs High
School, where he has been employed for 18 years. He has been the
student council advisor for 16 years, chaperone coordinator for all athletics, and graduation marshall. He also serves as president of the
Saratoga Springs Teachers Association.
“I graduated from a small high school in Endwell, N.Y., and I always
wanted to be a principal at a smaller junior/senior high school where
I can connect with the students,” said Miller, whose hobbies include
planning and attending extracurricular activities at school. “I am looking forward to being active within the Galway community.”
Miller earned his bachelor’s degree in history education from
LeMoyne College and his master’s degree in curriculum from the
University at Albany. He earned his administrator certification from
SUNY Plattsburgh.
Miller and his wife, Meghan, live in Ballston Spa with their two children, Catherine (10) and Andrew (7). He is a history buff who also follows baseball and the Yankees.
Miller’s tentative first day at Galway Jr/Sr High School will
be Friday, March 17.
LOCAL
Wednesday, February 15, 2017 / 3
AREA NEWS IN BRIEF
City Hall closed for President’s
Day
Amsterdam City Hall will be closed on
Monday, Feb. 20, in observance of
President’s Day and will reopen on Tuesday,
Feb. 21, at 8 a.m.
Driver education pre-licensing
course set for March 7
CANAJOHARIE — A driver education prelicensing course will be held at the
Canajoharie High School on Tuesday, March
7, from 4 to 9 p.m. Pre-registration is
required by sending a check or money order
payable to Canajoharie Central School, c/o
Pat Van Heusen, Canajoharie Central School,
136 Scholastic Way, Canajoharie, NY 13317.
This course fulfills the New York State law
requiring proof of satisfactory completion of five
hours of classroom driver training and highway
safety instruction prior to the issuing of a license.
All persons enrolled must bring their learner's
permit. The fee for the course is $20.
F-FCS to hold committee
meeting Thursday
FONDA — The Fonda- Fultonville Central
School District’s Board of Education has scheduled a Building and Grounds Committee meeting
on Thursday at noon in the superintendent’s
office.
Galway library receives $9K
grant
GALWAY — The Galway Public Library,
5264 Sacandaga Road, has received a 2017
Seed Challenge Grant from SALS (Southern
Adirondack Library System.) The $9,638 grant
is designated for the expansion of the library’s
popular bi-weekly newsletter, the Galway Get
Together, into a comprehensive online community resource. The grant will enable the
library to fill two temporary, part-time positions. The new Galway Get Together website
will include a business directory, local news
and community announcements.
Department of Solid Waste
Announces Holiday Closing
JOHNSTOWN – The Fulton County
Department of Solid Waste has released the
President’s Day holiday schedule. The Mud
Road Landfill and Transfer Station will be
open from 7:15 to 11:30 a.m. on Monday and
resume regular hours on Tuesday. All other
transfer stations will be closed Monday.
East Fulton Street Ext., Broadalbin,
Northampton and Oppenheim Transfer Stations
will be open regular hours on Tuesday.
There are no changes or cancellations to
curbside recycling pick-up due to the holiday.
For questions, call the Recycling Info-Line at
736-5504.
STFSL events set for March
NORTHVILLE — The Sacandaga Task
Force for Senior Living’s Red Rooster Cafe
has announced the following events for
March:
March 9 — There is no program at the Red
Rooster. Instead the bus will be leaving at
noon for a movie day in Amsterdam. To
reserve a seat, call STFSL at 752-8737 and
leave a message.
March 16 — The Edinburg Central School’s
Service Club members will join for lunch and
enjoy a St. Patrick’s Day cook decorating project. Becky White, of the Fulton County Office
for Aging will be on hand from 11:30 a.m. to
meet with any seniors with question or needs.
March 23 — The Red Rooster Cafe will
present Larry Cramer as Uncle Josh, with seldom heard stories. This program has been
rescheduled from Feb. 9. The monthly blood
pressure clinic, sponsored by Home Health
Care Partners, will also be held.
March 30 — Meagan DeMento, Western
Program manager of the Alzheimer’s
Association will present, “Maintaining a
Healthy Lifestyle for your Brain Health.”
All programs follow the weekly congregate
meal from 11:30 to 12:30 p.m.
Community Hospice seeks
volunteers
TOWN OF AMSTERDAM — The Community
Hospice, 246 Manny’s Corners Road, is seeking volunteers.
Volunteers provide companionship, respite for
the caregiver, emotional support, errands and
vigil. Volunteers can provide a quiet presence or
friendly conversation, play table games, assist
with life review, read books, pet care and more.
Volunteers are interview, undergo a background check and receive holistic training
before being qualified for assignment with
patients and their families.
If interested in become a Hospice volunteer
or would like more information, contact
Veronica Parks, coordinator of volunteers at
843-5412.
4 / Wednesday, February 15, 2017
LOCAL
In Memoriam
Robert M. Cosmer
8/2/32-2/15/13
Another year gone by,
Missing you.
Love, wife Louise
and family
SETTING IT STRAIGHT
The story “Fonda, Fultonville
meet to discuss shared services” in Tuesday’s edition stated
the “villages of Fonda and
Fultonville met to hear a presentation on ways to consolidate resources and the possibility of consolidating municipalities.” To clarify, interim
Fultonville Mayor George
Donaldson and Fultonville
Trustee Linda Denton attended
the meeting, as noted in the
story, but it was not an official
meeting for Fultonville nor
could it be without a quorum.
The Village of Fonda, however,
had posted on its website it
would be holding a “special
meeting with the Village of
Fultonville” prior to the Monday
meeting. Donaldson and
Denton said they only became
aware of the meeting after
being contacted by someone
who was not a Fonda official.
Deaths
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He also noted there were other
individuals present at the time
the bodies were discovered.
If toxicology results indicate
overdoses, Austin said the police
will attempt to track down the
source of the drugs, noting that
the department is already
engaged in drug-related investigations in the village, the goal
being to curtail local use.
“Unfortunately, it is an epidemic, and it’s tough to fight,” Austin
said. “We’ll double down on our
efforts to track down who is selling this stuff.”
He said the goal is to arrest
them and bring them to justice.
Fort Plain Police officers receive
continuing drug-related education,
which includes information about
what to look for in tracking down
drugs, interview tactics, and methods to root out the main source to,
according to Austin, “cut the head
off the snake, if you will.”
“It’s very unfortunate that people lost their lives,” Austin said.
“But, we will continue to educate
the public and the people the best
that we can.”
Police release
names of 2
missing NY
snowmobilers
LIVONIA (AP) — Authorities
have released the names of
the two men who haven’t been
seen since they ventured onto
a frozen western New York
lake on a snowmobile.
The Livingston County
Sheriff’s Office says
Christopher Copeland, of
Livonia, and Jason Fluet, of
Rochester, both 40, went
snowmobiling on the north end
of Conesus Lake early
Saturday morning.
A family member alerted the
sheriff’s office early Sunday
morning that the men hadn’t
returned since setting out from
Copeland’s lakeside home in
Livonia, 20 mile south of
Rochester. A search launched
Sunday turned up a snowmobile’s tracks on the ice and two
helmets in the lake.
The Recorder, Amsterdam, N.Y.
OBITUARIES
James Francis Heath Jr.
Joann M. Hudyncia
February 9, 2017
February 13, 2017
James Francis Heath Jr., 79, passed away peacefully
on Feb. 9, 2017, at his Burnt Hills home with family at
his side. Jim was born on July 9, 1937, in Amsterdam,
N.Y., to James F. Heath and Ralphea (Hoffman).
Jim graduated from Fonda High School in 1955,
and earned a degree in mechanical engineering from
Clarkson College in 1959. Later in his career, Jim
earned his master’s degree at Union College. His first
job was at Lockheed Aircraft Corp. in LA, Calif. He
returned back to the east and started working for
HEATH
General Electric in Pittsfield Mass., starting his long
career with the company. He transferred to Schenectady for an engineering job for Flight Test Operations. Still working for GE, Jim and his wife
and infant son, transferred to the Test Support Department (for the space
program) in Mississippi. While living in Huntsville, Alabama and Long
Beach, Mississippi for three years, they had their second son. In 1967,
The family moved to Burnt Hills, N.Y., and Jim started working for
Machinery Apparatus Operations (MAO). He was a well-respected manager for MAO at GE for 30 years, which later became a division for
Westinghouse, CBS, Viacom, and finally Bechtel (BPMI).
Jim and Nancy met on a blind date, on a snowy Feb. 9 day. Jim brought
his new ‘Vette,’ thinking to impress his date. Nancy wasn’t impressed by
the donuts he did in the snow, but was impressed by Jim. Together they
belong to the Vettes in Perfection, sharing their love of Corvettes.
Jim liked his work, but lived for his family. He was always there for them.
He was a member of Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church. Jim was actively
involved in Boy Scouts of America from childhood and obtained Life Scout.
As an adult, he was a Weblos leader, as well as an assistant and Scout Master.
Even after he helped his boys achieve their goals in scouting, he helped other
scouts to achieve merit badges in bugling, canoeing, skating and bicycling.
He was always available to attend and help with the sports that all five of his
children played: tennis, soccer, baseball, football, volleyball, and hockey. Jim
started an adult ice hockey league at Center Ice in Schenectady. Even after
he retired from playing hockey, the league continued. Jim loved biking and
rode his bike to work for many years, logging over 20,000 miles. Jim and his
wife played Pinochle almost every weekend for more than 40 years with
their best friends, Marlin and Claudia Stanley. His love for music started
early with his friends, the Jims. Jamie Goody, Jim Allison and James Heath
started a band as teenagers. Later he played trumpet and taught his sons to
play. Whenever he went camping his harmonica came too. His love for
camping was passed down from his mother’s parents, and the
Hoffman/Heath love of the Adirondacks was born and continues to this day.
Jim was survived by his loving wife of 53 years, Nancy (Dufur)
Heath; their four sons and one daughter, James Francis III (Mechelle
Sellers), John Edwin (Gray Chapman), Joseph Mark (Melissa
Olshefsky), Mary Elizabeth, Jason David (Margaret Mahony); and 10
grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Jim was always close to his
sister, Ethel, and her husband, Harry Fear and their children. He spent
many happy moments with his brother-in-law, Edwin and his wife,
Cecelia Dufur and their children, and his sister-in-law Sue Dufur and
her children, and loving cousins Ernest Lefavour and Adam
Dangerfield (Jessica Legg) and all the Hoffman cousins.
Jim was smart, honest, and loyal. He worked hard so he could give freely.
A memorial service will be held in the summer, date to be announced.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in memory of Jim to
Schenectady Youth Hockey Association, SYHA., PO Box 2618, Glenville
NY 12325 or Community Hospice-(Saratoga office), 310 S. Manning
Blvd., Albany, NY 12208 who gave wonderful support and care.
With confidence, the family has placed their trust in the loving care
of the Townley & Wheeler Funeral Home, 21 Midline Road, Ballston
Lake, and they encourage you to view and leave messages on Jim’s
Book of Memories at www.TownleyWheelerFH.com
Mrs. Joann M. Hudyncia, 76, of Main Street, Fort Plain, N.Y., died
Monday, Feb. 13, 2017, at St. Mary's Healthcare in Amsterdam, following a brief illness.
Born on July 17, 1940, in Fort Plain, N.Y., she was the daughter of
Charles Scabar and Beatrice Trembley. She was a graduate of Fort
Plain High School, Class of 1957. She received her associates degree
from Albany Business College and was a lifetime area resident.
Mrs. Hudyncia worked for Visiting Nurses Home Care for almost 20
years. Prior to that, she and her husband ran the family farm for over
32 years. She was a communicant of Our Lady of Hope Catholic
Church in Fort Plain. Joann enjoyed flowers, gardening, completing
word puzzles, and spending time with her grandchildren and adored
pets.
On June 25, 1960, at the Former St. James Roman Catholic Church
in Fort Plain, N.Y., Joann was married to Alex Hudyncia.
Mrs. Hudyncia is survived by her husband, Alex Hudyncia of Fort
Plain, N.Y.; two sons, Charles and Tina Hudyncia of Fort Plain, N.Y.,
Richard and MaryBeth Hudyncia of Fort Plain, N.Y.; two daughters,
Kathy and Adam Swartz of Fort Plain, N.Y., Karen Hudyncia of
Albany, N.Y.; four grandchildren, Charles Hudyncia and Emily
Canary, Liza Hudyncia, Brianna Swartz, and Tyler Swartz.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Saturday, Feb. 18,
2017, at 10:30 a.m. at Our Lady of Hope Catholic Church, Reid
Street, Fort Plain, N.Y., with the Rev. Jim Davis officiating. The family will receive relatives and friends on Friday, Feb. 17, 2017, from 4
to 7 p.m. at Gray-Houghtaling & Smith Funeral Home, 34 Center St.,
Fort Plain, NY 13339. Burial will take place in the spring at Fort Plain
Cemetery. Contributions in memory of Mrs. Joann Hudyncia may be
made to The Ayres Memorial Animal Shelter, Inc., 133 Hilltop Road,
Sprakers, NY 12166. Please sign the online guest book for Mrs.
Hudyncia at www.houghtalingandsmith.com
Helen Warshona
February 11, 2017
Helen Warshona, 92, of Union Mills Road, Broadalbin died
Saturday evening Feb. 11, 2017, at Capstone Center for Rehabilitation
& Nursing, Amsterdam.
She was born in Brooklyn on June 10, 1924, a daughter of Michael
and Mary Zajaceskowski Mysyk and moved to Broadalbin at age 5.
Helen was educated locally. She was a local resident before moving to
Gouldsboro, Pa., where she lived for 13 years. Mrs. Warshona
returned to Broadalbin in 1980.
She was employed as a seamtress at THBM Maufacturing in
Tobyhanna, Pa. until 1978.
Helen was a communicant of St. Joseph’s Church in Broadalbin.
She was a member of the former Crafter’s Group at church.
She was married to Steven Warshona on June 4, 1960. He died July
30, 2010. In addition to her husband, she was predeceased by a brother, Dymetro “Mike” Mysyk; and two sisters, Sophie Zabawczuk Pres
and Mary Regilski.
Survivors include her son, Thomas S. Warshona of Broadalbin; and
several nieces and nephews.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Friday at 11:30 a.m.
at St. Joseph’s Church, 7 North St., Broadalbin with the Rev. Jun
Segura officiating. Burial will be in St. Basil’s Cemetery in the spring.
Calling hours will be held on Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Robert
M. Halgas Funeral Home, Inc. 111 County Highway 106 (Corner of
Route 29 & Black Street) Johnstown. Memorial contributions may be
made to the Brennan Memorial Humane Society or to the Ronald
McDonald House, both in care of the funeral home.
Robert M. Halgas Funeral Home Inc.
111 Cty. Hwy. 106 (cr. Rte. 29 and Black St.)
Roberto Rivera
February 11, 2017
Roberto Rivera, 59, of East Main Street,
Amsterdam, N.Y., passed away on Saturday, Feb.
11, 2017, with his loving family by his side.
Born on March 4, 1957, in Manhattan, N.Y., he
was the son of the late Eva Martinez and Amado
Rivera. Roberto worked various jobs but his true
passion resided with contracting. He was selfemployed and had a diverse knowledge and extensive experience within the field.
Roberto relocated to the area with his family in
RIVERA
November of 2006. He was a very sociable, outgoing, and charismatic person. It wasn't long before he became well
known, admired, and respected within his community. Roberto was a
mentor to many and often filled the role as a mediator to those close
to him. He believed in fairness and always doing the right thing. He
loved to dance and spend time around his family and close friends. On
his free time, he could be found building various things to keep his
grandkids and the neighborhood kids entertained. He was an avid fan
of Scarface and all the Cheech and Chong movies. Roberto was a
strong advocate for the legalization of marijuana for patients who
could medicinally benefit from it. He was an incredible individual
who will be deeply missed by many.
Roberto is survived by his longtime companion Katrina Ney; his former companion and mother to his children, Debbie Valentine; his
daughters, Hidania Eve Valentine, Evita S. Valentine, Beatriz
Valentine, Debbie Valentine, Aida D. Roman, and Bella Ney; his sons,
Ismael Valentine, Roberto J.Rivera Jr., and Jovan Valentine; his 28
grandchildren, including an unborn baby boy that he sadly did not get
meet who is expected in April 2017; and his two great-grandchildren.
Many loving nieces, nephews, and cousins also survive.
A Funeral Service for Roberto will take place on Thursday, Feb. 16,
2017, at noon at Betz, Rossi, & Bellinger Family Funeral Home, 171
Guy Park Ave., Amsterdam. Family and friends are invited to attend
calling hours from 11 a.m. to noon prior to the service at the funeral
home. Interment will immediately follow and will take place at
Fairview Cemetery, Upper Steadwell Ave., Amsterdam. Those wishing to express their condolences to the family may do so by signing
our online memorial at www.brbsfuneral.com.
BETZ, ROSSI & BELLINGER
FAMILY FUNERAL HOME
171 Guy Park Avenue, Amsterdam, NY 12010
518-843-1920 • www.brbsfuneral.com
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KKK
from page 1
“Unbelievable,” handler and co-owner Kent
Boyles said.
In a year that’s seen lots of late, startling twists in
sports — think Patriots, Cubs and Cavaliers —
Rumor pulled something of a shocker. She’d been
at home in Wisconsin for months, a house pet headed toward having puppies, when she suddenly
jumped back into the show ring in January.
Boyles is a fan of the Packers and star quarterback
Aaron Rodgers. Seeing a pet go from the couch to
this top prize, heck, that’s a dog world Hail Mary.
The 5-year-old Rumor beat out a Norwegian
elkhound, a Pekingese, a miniature poodle, an
Irish setter, a boxer and a Norwich terrier in the
final ring. The Irish setter called Adrian finished
second.
“The German shepherd standard talks about
quality and nobility,” judge Thomas Bradley III
said. “When you recognize it, it hits you at home,
and that’s what it really is. She is just magnificent.”
Rumor is named for the hit song “Rumor Has It”
by Adele, a champion herself after sweeping the
major categories at the Grammy Awards on Sunday.
This was the 104th career win for Rumor, and earlier in the day, Boyles said that this would definitely, for real, be her last major show.
“She’s going to be relaxing for a while,” Boyles
said after the win, but ultimately, there are “puppies
in her future.”
Clearly the crowd favorite, Rumor came out flying into the best-of-seven final ring to fans
whistling and calling her name.
Rumor raised up for a well-deserved treat right
after the win. Moments later, as Boyles did postshow interviews, Rumor spotted him and ran
toward the man who guided her to victory.
Rumor joined the fittingly named Manhattan in
1987 as the only German shepherds to go best in
show at the Garden.
There were nearly 2,800 dogs entered in the 141st
Westminster canine competition, spread across the
202 eligible breeds and varieties.
The moment any German shepherd steps into the
Muni
LOCAL
ring at the Garden, the crowd goes crazy.
New Yorkers just love ‘em.
Some say it’s because rooting for a German shepherd is the same as putting on an NYPD or FDNY
hat, standing up for a dog that stood tall at a time of
the city’s greatest need.
“My sentiments, exactly,” Boyles said.
While German shepherds hadn’t won a lot here,
many of them were on the green carpet of the center ring in 2002 when Westminster honored search
and rescue dogs for their tireless work at the World
Trade Center and Pentagon following the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks. The solemn tribute is considered
by many the most cherished memory ever at
Westminster.
“They’re loyal, dependable dogs that you can
count on,” Boyles said.
Rumor nearly won Westminster last year. She
came to town as the nation’s No. 1 show dog with
more than 100 overall ribbons but was beaten in a
surprise by a German shorthaired pointer named CJ.
In fact, when the judge began to announce his
champion pick with “German sh...,” Boyles took a
step forward, anticipating the prize.
“I was thinking,” Boyles said.
That was supposed to be Rumor’s last show, and
she was set to head home with Boyles to Edgerton,
Wisconsin, to be a house pet and have puppies. She
didn’t conceive and late in the year, Boyles thought
twice about Rumor’s retirement.
“She liked to show and was in good shape, so we
thought, why not?” he said.
Rumor went back on the circuit in January for 10
shows. She won the herding group Monday night at
the Garden, beating top show favorite Preston the
puli.
She topped that with the ultimate win at America’s
most prestigious dog show, rewarding the faith
German shepherd fans always show in them.
“It’s a recognizable dog, people have liked them
for a long, long time,” WKC President Sean
McCarthy said earlier. “I think it goes back to Rin
Tin Tin.”
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proposing to add a new member’s guest rate during “prime rate”
times at the course, which would be $30 for 18 holes under the new
category. This would allow a member to bring a guest at any of these
times, with the guest using the member’s cart, at the reduced rate.
There is no reduced member’s guest rate for nine holes, according to
Ossenfort.
The greens and cart fees were simplified this year for non-members to new “prime” and “non-prime” rates, which attempts to
encourage more players to use the course when it’s typically less
busy.
The prime rate, during traditionally busier times, will be $28 for nine
holes and $40 for 18 holes all day Tuesday, Friday and holidays, along
with weekends before 2 p.m.
“The goal was never to make it more expensive for anyone to golf
and there are a number of weekend type golfers that previously would
pay $31 and ride with a member,” Ossenfort said. “We just thought
that this would be the best path forward.”
The non-prime rates, during traditionally less busy times, would be
$20 for nine holes and $28 for 18 holes all day Monday, Wednesday
and Thursday, along with weekends after 2 p.m. The prime and nonprime rates include cart rental usage, even if not needed. There are no
trail fees.
The prime and non-prime rates were based off the successful fall
special the course held last season, which would extend it throughout
the entire season this year. These two rates replace the greens and cart
fees non-members previously paid.
The second amendment involves returning tournament fees to what
had been done last year.
There are already three tournaments booked later this year at the
course, so golf commission members are recommending to maintain
last season’s fee.
The proposed amendment would return to a flat $1,700 fee for hosting a tournament at the golf course. Any additional carts needed
beyond the city’s 30 carts would also be subject to additional fee,
which would be equal to exact cost paid by the course to rent additional carts.
“We were in a situation where there was a few tournaments that had
already been booked, so we felt it would be difficult to charge people
different structures of payment for a tournament in the same,”
Ossenfort said. “We decided rather than doing that we’ll just keep it
what it was last year and then we can look to make some changes earlier next year before anyone books.”
Aldermen approved last week a per person rate for tournaments,
which would have been $25 per person.
Ossenfort said he still supported having a per person fee for tournaments to simplify the process. He said the delayed implementation,
however, would allow more time to review what other courses are
charging.
“When you’re looking to book a tournament you want to know what
the rate is per person for golf and what the rate is per person for food,”
Ossenfort said.
Aldermen will have to approve the proposed amendments before
they go into effect.
Assessment
from page 1
a man identifying himself as
KKK Grand Dragon Will
Quigg.
During the police interview
with the person of interest, it was
revealed, according to Interim
Police Chief Ryan Austin, that
the suspect is campaigning for
the KKK, but is not affiliated
with the KKK.
He printed the flyer after finding the information online, then
distributed it in Fort Plain and
Gloversville, his goal being “to
stir the pot,” Austin said.
The man was not charged with
a crime.
“Those are his beliefs, and
however misguided I believe
they are, it’s not illegal,”
Austin said but added that the
suspect was advised that if he
continues to place flyers on village vehicles, he could be
charged with an existing vehicle and traffic law barring such
distribution.
Though the suspect didn’t state
whether he intended to leave further flyers in Fort Plain, Austin
said based on the interview, “I
don’t surmise that he will.”
Austin said in his seven years
working for the FPPD, he’s never
witnessed a situation like this,
noting that the suspect was successful in his “sole purpose to stir
the pot,” though not in the way
he likely hoped.
The distribution of the flyers
elicited a strong reaction from
community members.
“We have a mixed race community, where everybody seems to
A copy of the KKK flyer, which
was distributed in Fort Plain
last week.
get along. People, in their reactions, have not expressed the
views of the KKK,” Austin said.
“I don’t believe the reaction he
was looking for was the one that
he got. People were outraged and
upset.”
It’s important, Austin said,
not to engage with an individual disseminating KKK rhetoric, noting that the goal of the
FPPD in this instance was to
effectively shut down potential
hate speech before it gained
traction, as the individuals
propagating it often “thrive” on
such attention.
Austin assured the community
that, despite resident worry that a
KKK chapter is forming locally,
that’s not the case.
“The Klan is not going to
descend on Fort Plain, because
the people of Fort Plain aren’t
racist;” he said, adding they’re
largely community-minded individuals with one another’s best
interests at heart.
from page 1
adjacent parcel holding the Wallins Corners
Apartments. The $2 million value meant to be
placed on the apartments, however, should actually
be an assessed value of $200,000.
The lot with the apartments currently holds an
assessed value of $5,500, with it erroneously
assessed as vacant land, according to Frasier.
While the property taxes for the vacant parcel will
be reduced and result in less tax revenue coming
into the county, Frasier said the county has no
recourse to collect the additional revenue for the
parcel holding the apartments.
The Hagaman Fire District will also be receiving
approximately $44,000 less than expected after the
vacant parcel’s assessed value is reduced.
County Legislature Chairman Roy Dimond said
the county could tap fund balance to make up for
the decrease in projected revenue to county.
“Last year in our budget we had about half a million dollars leftover in our fund balance,” Dimond
said.
Frasier said the Greater Amsterdam School
District will be able to correct the error before it’s
included in the actual levy, but she said the district
will have to determine whether the larger assessment for the apartments could be included in the latest tax bill.
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF
Ambulance crash kills
passenger en route to nursing
home
NYC officials: 1 person dies, 2
ill from rat-related disease
DUNKIRK (AP) — Authorities say a 77-year-old
western New York man has died after the ambulance transporting him from a Pennsylvania hospital to a nursing home crashed into a ditch.
New York State Police say an EmergyCare
ambulance left the road at about 5:40 p.m.
Tuesday, entered a ditch and hit a culvert in the
Chautauqua County town of Dunkirk, 35 miles
southwest of Buffalo.
Troopers say the ambulance was taking Arthur
McArthur, of Dunkirk, from the University of
Pittsburgh Medical Center in Erie to a nursing
home in Chautauqua County. Police say
McArthur suffered fatal injuries in the crash and
was pronounced dead at the scene.
The ambulance’s 49-year-old driver was treated
at a local hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City health
department says one person has died and two
others have become severely ill after they contracted a rare disease transmitted by rats.
The three cases occurred in the last two months
in a Bronx neighborhood. City officials say it’s the
first time a cluster of cases has been identified.
The disease is called leptospirosis.
Infections commonly occur through exposure to
rat urine. The disease is rarely spread from person to person. It can be treated with antibiotics.
The city says it’s reducing the rat population in
the area and educating residents about the disease.
The New York Times says that from 2006 to
2016, 26 cases were reported in the city; the
Bronx had the highest number with eight.
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SPOTLIGHT ON EDUCATION: R.J. MCNULTY ACADEMY FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES AND LITERACY MAGNET SCHOOL
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Pre-K students in Emily Reed’s class celebrate diversity in the United States of America. Pictured
from left, Devin Canales, Julianna Reynicke, Audrina Morrone, Ava Morley, Isabella Greco, Kenneth
Orsini, Xavy Schwantes.
Students celebrate
diversity, learn of
different cultures
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Madison Ruiz holds up a Venetian Carnival mask she made in
Mary Reed’s third-grade class.
First-graders learn about Mexico
First-grade students rotated through each teachers’ class and learned about Mexico with an
accompanying craft. With Suzanne Fedullo, students learned about sombreros, which are
traditional hats worn in Mexico. With Megan Togaila, students learned about the flag of
Mexico and made Mexican tin folkart called Hojalata. With Michella Zyzes, students learned
about the migration of Monarch butterflies to Mexico.
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Fourth-grade student Meadow McVeigh, from Jennifer Marshall’s
class, and her family researched her family tree, and brought in
Native American artifacts from her heritage to share with everyone at our first annual McNulty Heritage Night.
Kindergartners
learn of Africa
Kindergarteners at McNulty
Academy studied the beautiful
continent of Africa for
Heritage Night presentations.
Students in Tara Ponzi’s class
focused on African animals and
learned many new interesting
facts! Did you know that lions
hate swimming and sleep for
over 20 hours a day or that a
giraffe’s tongue is blue? After
learning such neat information,
students chose their favorite
animal and painted a beautiful
sun setting behind them.
The
students
in
Lisa
Schultz’class read the story: “The
Village of Round and Square
Houses” by Ann Grialconi. This
folktale was about how women
and children lived in round houses and men lived in square houses. The class then constructed
round houses (girls) and square
houses (boys) using milk cartons
from lunch time.
The students in Theresa
Hayes’ class read “Bringing the
Rain to Kapiti Plain” by Verna
Aardema. It is a story about KiPat and how he ended the
drought on the African plain.
The students designed and created a rain stick as a follow-up
activity to the story.
Fifth-graders
travel to South
America
For Heritage Night, fifthgraders learned about South
America. We worked with partners and each pair researched
one country in South America.
We learned about the different
languages spoken, the holidays celebrated, the food
enjoyed and more! In class we
made brigadeiro, a Brazilian
dessert to share with everyone
who came to Heritage Night.
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Pictured are fourth-graders showing off the flag of France at the Heritage kickoff assembly. Fourthgrade classes studied French culture for Heritage Night. Robyn Kowalczyk’s class learned polite
sayings in the French language. Jennifer Marshall’s class studied Claude Monet and Renaissance
artists. They created versions of his famous “Water Lillies” painting. Jennifer Towne and Dana
DiGiansante’s classes studied famous French landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de
Triumph. They also took a “virtual field trip” to Paris.
Spagnola s class
sails to Galapagos
Islands
Elicia Spagnola’s class went
sailing to the Galápagos
Islands which are made from
volcanic eruptions! We
researched the geography,
weather, languages, animals
that are not found anywhere
else in the world and enjoyed
eating a plantain snack.
Would you ever like to walk
through a lava tunnel, meet a
tortoise that is over 100 years
old or stand next to seafaringlizard? If your answer is yes,
maybe you would like to
explore the Galápagos
Islands. Te vas! Off you go!
Photo submitted
Johnathan and Joshua Corley, both fourth grade students at McNulty, independently researched
their Jamaican heritage and shared their culture with the rest of the school with a trifold display
board and delicious Jamaican food. Pictured is their mother, Nicole Corley-Morris and aunts who
helped with their project.
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Eric Walker, his son Ren, 3, from Cohoes watch as Engineer Dave Brownell runs the train.
TRAINS,
PLANES, BOATS
AND CARS
The Century Club held its
Planes, Trains, Boats and Fast
Cars event on Saturday.
Activities included racing
pedal and wooden cars,
designing and flying paper airplanes, make thread spool racers and more.
Joe and Ann Phelps, of Amsterdam, with Jack , 6 and Sam, 4 with
their rubberband cars
Zephyr
Ramos,
3,
of
Amsterdam, colors his car
before the race
Skylar Rodriguez,4, Pattersonville gets help cutting and pasting
from Century Club volunteer Ann Thane
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Perfetti/For The
Recorder
John Boschi serves as the ticket taker.
Joey Sagarese, 9, of Amsterdam, gets a cookie from volunteer
Brittany Dwyer.
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OPINION
The Recorder, Amsterdam, N.Y.
EDITORIAL
Recovering from
the Flynn fiasco
will test Trump
Michael Flynn had everything President
Donald Trump was looking for in a senior White
House national security adviser. He is a retired
lieutenant general and though Trump was
deferred from military service, he has been enamored of generals. He is a tough-talking, AmericaFirst true believer. And, he was a critic of
President Barack Obama. Flynn fit the Trump
mold of wanting to get in-your-face to Democrats
and career government officials. In most of his
appointments, from the Energy Department to
Education to Labor to senior advisers, Trump has
delighted in going against the mainstream.
But now, with Flynn’s resignation after embarrassing and potentially damaging revelations
about his pre-inaugural contacts with Russia,
Trump is in the first major crisis of his presidency
— less than two months after taking office. The
fun of thumbing his nose at the establishment
with appointments like that of right-wing nationalist Steve Bannon as senior strategist is over.
Replacing Flynn and restoring confidence in
Flynn’s position and confidence in the president
himself, in addition to clarifying the U.S. position
with regard to Russia, is a test Trump must pass or
he risks losing support in Congress and the confidence of the people. Indications already show a
drop in Trump’s approval ratings, and a president
without significant public support, even if it is less
than a majority, cannot govern effectively.
There will be time for Congress to investigate
just what Flynn told a Russian ambassador
about Trump’s views of the sanctions President
Obama imposed after intelligence agencies
found a likelihood that Russia was hacking
emails to help Trump with the presidency.
What he said, and whether he made guarantees
of some kind that Trump would lift the sanctions, are questions that must be answered.
The Flynn scandal likely diminishes the possibility that the sanctions will be lifted — though
with Trump, anything is possible — but it’s
important for the people to know what happened
here, and for all of Trump’s connections to
Russia, such as they are, to be thoroughly vetted.
Let this be a serious realization to the president as well that the business of governing is
not ideological, and that those who are chosen
by the chief executive for important positions
must be measured first in competence, reason,
integrity and experience. Partisan factors can
have a place on the list, but not the first place.
President Obama, for example, kept Robert
Gates in his administration as secretary of
defense. It was a good choice, though Gates
had worked for Republican presidents.
The people must hope that Flynn’s extremely
poor judgment, in both his contacts with Russia
and his misinformation to Vice President Pence
about those contacts — whereupon Pence
defended him — is an aberration. And they must
hope as well that if Trump is learning on the job,
he’s keeping careful notes from this experience.
Flynn’s successor will need to be someone
with impeccable credentials and without strong
ideological leanings. A national security adviser wields tremendous authority at the president’s right hand, and his or her view of the
world must be clear-eyed and calm.
— THE NEWS & OBSERVER
(RALEIGH, N.C.)
COMMENTARY
Relax, Mr President
Donald Trump is driving everyone in
Washington nuts with his mad presidential
style.
Republicans in Congress are getting jumpy.
The powerless Democrats are so desperate they actually think Senator Elizabeth
Warren is the future of their party.
The mainstream liberal media are overacting to Trump’s dumb daily morning
tweets like they are official edicts coming
By
from the ghost of Joe Stalin.
The media are so hysterical they see Trump’s
MICHAEL
comments
about “so-called” judges or his
REAGAN
complaints about a biased judiciary as signs
that he is a despotic imperial president intent
on blowing up the federal government’s balance of powers.
Meanwhile, Time magazine has Trump’s evil rightwing
guru Steven Bannon on the cover looking like Darth Vader.
And David Frum’s cover story in the Atlantic about
President Trump — 20 minutes into his presidency — is
headlined “How to Build an Autocracy.”
Let’s all relax.
Let’s all take a deep breath.
Let’s all get a grip.
Rome wasn’t made in a day and America is not going to
be saved or destroyed by President Trump in a month.
The most important relaxing needs to start at the top with
President Trump.
He’s been acting like he has four days left in office, not
four years.
He’s been issuing executive orders and making ten
announcements a day about trade, terrorism, immigration,
oil pipelines, the border wall, relations with Russian,
Israel, Mexico and who knows what.
For your own good, Mr. Trump, you have to slow down
the pace of making America great again to a gentle sprint.
I don’t agree with everything you are doing, Mr.
President, but you need some friendly advice.
First, you need to stop trying to do so many things so
quickly.
You need to give the public and everyone else time to
absorb and understand what you are doing, so you’ll have
more people on your side.
You wouldn’t be having a problem with the so-called
Muslim ban if you not done the rollout so quickly.
Second, you need to know that Washington is like a $4
trillion aircraft carrier. It can’t be stopped, turned around
or sunk quickly or easily ---- and maybe not at all.
Third, you knew from the start that the mainstream
media were not going to be on your team.
Now, one of your most important jobs is to not give the media
any free ammo to fire back at you or your administration.
So, President Trump, that means stop talking about illegal voters.
Stop picking fights with federal judges ---- especially
three hours after you file an appeal with them.
Stop talking about whether the murder rate is up or down
unless you actually know what you’re talking about.
And if you are going to refer to certain networks as purveyors of “fake news,” even when they are exactly that,
don’t be surprised if they fact-check everything you say
and start referring to you as “The fake president.”
The danger in the long run is that you’re spending all
your political capital in the first month.
Your base is secure ---- and happy with whatever you say
or do. But you’re trying to do stuff so fast you’re missing
the most important thing ---- communicating with the rest
of the country about what your doing and why.
So choose your words and tweets wisely, Mr. President.
Cool it and start acting like the president of the United
States. You were elected by all 50 states and their people.
I know it’s not your style, and I know you got to be president in part because you shoot your mouth off so well.
But you need to take some advice from my mother, Jane
Wyman, who told me many a time, “If you have nothing
good to say, keep your mouth shut.”
Meanwhile, Mr. President, you’ve been working too
hard. It’s time you took a mini-vacation or at least took a
weekend off.
Maybe you could call up Mr. Obama and join him for a
round of golf or have him show you how to kite surf.
I can guarantee no one working in Washington’s
swamped news media would complain that you were
dodging your duties.
Michael Reagan is the son of President Ronald Reagan,
a political consultant, and author. Send comments to
[email protected].
TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Wednesday, Feb. 15, the 46th day of 2017.
There are 319 days left in the year.
ON THIS DATE:
In 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine mysteriously blew up
in Havana Harbor, killing more than 260 crew members
and bringing the United States closer to war with Spain.
In 1933, President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt
escaped an assassination attempt in Miami that mortally wounded Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak; gunman Giuseppe Zangara was executed weeks later.
In 1961, 73 people, including an 18-member U.S. figure skating team en route to the World Championships
in Czechoslovakia, were killed in the crash of a
Sabena Airlines Boeing 707 in Belgium.
In 1992, a Milwaukee jury found that Jeffrey Dahmer
was sane when he killed and mutilated 15 men and boys.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Actress Claire Bloom is 86.
Actress Jane Seymour is 66. Singer Melissa
Manchester is 66. Actress Sarah Wynter is 44.
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Officials: Trump knew Flynn misled WH weeks before ouster
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just six days into his presidency, Donald Trump was informed his national security adviser had misled his vice president about contacts with Russia.
Trump kept his No. 2 in the dark and waited nearly three
weeks before ousting the aide, Michael Flynn, citing a slow
but steady erosion of trust, White House officials said.
Flynn was interviewed by the FBI about his telephone
conversations with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S., a
sign his ties to Russia had caught the attention of law
enforcement officials.
But in the White House’s retelling of Flynn’s stunning
downfall, his error was not that he discussed U.S. sanctions with the Russian before the inauguration — a potential violation of a rarely enforced law — but the fact that
he denied it for weeks, apparently misleading Vice
President Mike Pence and other senior Trump aides about
the nature of the conversations. White House officials said
they conducted a thorough review of Flynn’s interactions,
including transcripts of calls secretly recorded by U.S.
intelligence officials, but found nothing illegal.
Pence, who had vouched for Flynn in a televised interview, is said to have been angry and deeply frustrated.
And Trump lashed out at the news media this morning,
sending out a tweet berating some news organizations for
focusing on “This Russian connection non-sense.” In a
post on his verified Twitter account, Trump said, “The
fake news media is going crazy with their conspiracy theories and blind hatred.”
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
Evacuation lifted for 200K Californians
living below dam
OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities lifted an evacuation order
Tuesday for nearly 200,000 California residents who live below
the nation’s tallest dam after declaring that the risk of catastrophic
collapse of a damaged spillway had been significantly reduced.
Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said residents can return home
immediately. State water officials said they have drained enough of
the lake behind Oroville Dam so that its earthen emergency spillway
will not be needed to handle runoff from an approaching storm.
But, the sheriff said, the region would remain under an evacuation warning, meaning that residents need to be ready to flee
again if conditions worsen.
Crews also dropped giant sandbags, cement blocks and boulders on damaged areas Tuesday.
Officials had ordered residents to flee to higher ground Sunday after
fearing a never-before-used emergency spillway was close to failing
and sending a 30-foot wall of water into communities downstream.
Man to plead guilty to aiding San
Bernardino attack
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The only man to be criminally charged
in the San Bernardino terror attack has agreed to plead guilty to
providing the high-powered rifles used to kill 14 people and injure
nearly two dozen others and to plotting a mass killing with the
gunman that they never carried out, court records say.
Enrique Marquez Jr., 25, of Riverside, admitted in a plea agreement released Tuesday that he bought the assault rifles used by
Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, in the Dec. 2,
2015, attack at a public health agency. Farook and Malik were
later killed in a gunfight with authorities.
Marquez also agreed to plead guilty to making false statements
when he purchased the firearms used in the attack.
Revised US tally: HIV infections fell 18
percent in 6 years
NEW YORK (AP) — New calculations to better track HIV infections confirm that the U.S. is seeing a strong and steady decline.
The number of new cases has been falling for years. But health officials wanted a clearer picture of how the epidemic was behaving. They
count people when they were diagnosed with the AIDS virus — not
when they actually contracted it, which can be months or years earlier.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used blood test
results to help date the infections. Their calculations showed new
infections dropped by nearly 18 percent over six years, the CDC
reported Tuesday. Though health experts expected a decline,
they welcomed the confirmation.
Report: More than 55,000 US bridges
structurally deficient
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new report says the Brooklyn Bridge
and Washington’s Arlington Memorial Bridge are among thousands of spans considered structurally deficient.
Although the numbers of deficient bridges have declined in recent
years, the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s
analysis of transportation department data shows more than
55,000 bridges in the U.S. have been deemed deficient.
ARBTA says deficient bridges are crossed about 185 million times a
day. The top 14 most-traveled deficient bridges are located in California.
Bridges labeled structurally deficient aren’t necessarily in immediate danger of collapse. The term is applied when spans need
rehabilitation or replacement because at least one major component has advanced deterioration or other problems.
Arrest in live-round shooting at Wyoming
gunfight show
CODY, Wyo. (AP) — Police have arrested a man they say
wounded three people by firing live rounds instead of blanks during a Wyoming gunfighter show last summer.
The shooting happened at the height of tourist season in Cody,
a city named for the wild West showman Buffalo Bill Cody.
Bullets struck one spectator in the legs and another in the chest
as he held his 3-year-old daughter. The girl was wounded in the
arm during the nightly Cody Gunfighters show July 29.
Police arrested 51-year-old Steve Winsor, of Cody, on Monday. He
is charged with five misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment.
He remained jailed Tuesday on $7,500 bond. A police affidavit says
Winsor told investigators live rounds got mixed up with his blanks.
Trump also asserted in a tweet: “Information is being
illegally given to the failing (at)nytimes & (at)washingtonpost by the intelligence community (NSA and FBI?).
Just like Russia.”
At the White House Tuesday, press secretary Sean
Spicer told reporters: “The evolving and eroding level of
trust as a result of this situation and a series of other questionable incidents is what led the president to ask General
Flynn for his resignation.”
The explanation of the episode left many questions unanswered, including why Trump didn’t alert Pence to the matter and why Trump allowed Flynn to keep accessing classified information and taking part in the president’s discussions with world leaders up until the day he was fired.
US: Airlines had fewer canceled
flights, bags getting lost in 2016
By The Associated Press
The government says U.S. airlines canceled fewer flights in
2016 than any year on record
while also posting record-low
numbers for lost bags and passengers getting bumped off oversold flights.
And it says airlines had one of
their best years for on-time
arrivals, although it wasn’t a
record and December was worse
than the same month a year earlier.
The Transportation Department
reported Tuesday that the 12
leading U.S. airlines canceled
1.17 percent of flights last year,
the lowest rate among comparable figures going back to 1995.
The previous best was 1.24 percent in 2002, when travel
decreased after the terror attacks
of Sept. 11, 2001.
So you might think it’s all
upgrades and free snacks in the
air. Travelers know better.
Airlines have added extra fees
for many things that used to be
included in the ticket price.
Changing a ticket? That will cost
you up to $200, depending on the
airline, and even more for international flights.
Average legroom has been
shrinking for years. To squeeze in
more seats, the cushions are getting thinner. Air travel is less
egalitarian — the biggest airlines
boast about fancy new seats and
other amenities for passengers in
the premium cabins, but they are
also introducing “basic economy” fares that in some cases
don’t let coach passengers use
the overhead bins.
Still, air travel is first about getting quickly from one place to
another. And the airlines seem to
be doing a better job of that.
The Transportation Department
says 81.4 percent of domestic
flights arrived on-time, which the
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Hawaiian, Alaska and Delta top latest
on-time rankings
Here are the government’s rankings of the leading U.S. airlines and their on-time performance for December. The federal
government counts a flight as on time if it arrives no more than
14 minutes behind the scheduled time.
1. Hawaiian Airlines, 85.1 percent
2. Delta Air Lines, 81.4 percent
3. American Airlines, 79.1 percent
4. Alaska Airlines, 76.1 percent
5. United Airlines, 76.0 percent
6. Southwest Airlines, 74.9 percent
7. ExpressJet, 73.5 percent
8. Spirit Airlines, 72.1 percent
9. JetBlue Airways, 71.3 percent
10. SkyWest, 69.8 percent
11. Virgin America, 68.3 percent
12. Frontier Airlines, 62.4 percent
Total for all covered airlines: 75.6 percent
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Source: U.S. Department of Transportation
The report does not cover smaller airlines including Allegiant
Air and some regional carriers.
government defines as within 15
minutes of the scheduled time.
That was the fourth-best year
since 1995. But December’s ontime rate of 75.6 percent was
down from 77.8 percent in the
previous December.
The bad news was that there
were more long delays in any
year since 2013. There were 84
domestic flights last year that sat
on the ground for more than three
hours, and 36 international
flights that waited at least four
hours — long enough on all those
flights that the government could
fine the airlines.
The airlines reported that one
bag was lost, stolen or delayed
for every 370 passengers, the best
rate since the Transportation
Department started tracking the
figure in 1987. Virgin America
had the lowest rate of mishandled
bags in 2016, while ExpressJet
mishandled bags most often.
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Woman arrested in killing of N. Korean leader’s half brother
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) —
Malaysian police arrested a woman today
in connection with the death of North
Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s half brother.
Police released a statement saying the
woman was carrying Vietnamese travel
documents when she was arrested at Kuala
Lumpur International Airport.
Kim Jong Nam died Monday after suddenly falling ill at the budget terminal of
Kuala Lumpur International Airport, said a
senior Malaysian government official, who
spoke on condition of anonymity because
the case involves sensitive diplomacy.
Kim, who died on the way to a hospital,
told medical workers that he had been
attacked with a chemical spray, the official
said.
Malaysian officials have provided few
other details. Police said an autopsy was
planned to determine the cause of death.
Since taking power in late 2011, Kim
Jong Un has executed or purged a slew of
high-level government officials in what
the South Korean government has
described as a “reign of terror.”
South Korea’s spy service said today that
North Korea had been trying for five years
to kill Kim. But the National Intelligence
Service did not definitively say that North
Korea was behind the killing, just that it
was presumed to be a North Korean operation, according to lawmakers who briefed
reporters about the closed door meeting
with the spy officials.
The NIS cited Kim Jong Un’s alleged
“paranoia” about his half brother. Still, the
agency has a history of botching intelligence on North Korea and has long sought
Did a South Korean
news report doom Kim
Jong Un’s brother?
The Associated Press
In this Feb. 11, 2007, file photo, a man believed to be Kim Jong Nam, eldest son of
then North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, is surrounded by the media upon arrival
from Macau at Beijing airport in Beijing. Kim was assassinated at an airport in
Kuala Lumpur, telling medical workers before he died that he had been attacked
with a chemical spray a Malaysian official said Tuesday.
to portray the country’s leaders as mentally unstable.
Multiple South Korean media reports,
citing unidentified sources, said Kim Jong
Nam was killed at the airport by two
women believed to be North Korean
agents. They fled in a taxi and were being
sought by Malaysian police, the reports
said.
Police were searching for clues in the
closed circuit television footage from the
airport, said Selangor police chief Abdul
Samah Mat. The airport is in Selangor,
near Kuala Lumpur.
According to the Malaysian government
official, Kim Jong Nam was in a shopping
concourse and had not yet gone through
security for a planned flight to Macau
when the incident occurred.
Kim was estranged from his half brother,
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) —
Intelligence officials believe North Korean
agents assassinated leader Kim Jong Un’s
exiled half brother, but if the whodunit
seems settled, a very big question still
looms: Why now?
Kim Jong Nam, reportedly killed by two
female agents in a cloak-and-dagger operation in a Malaysian airport, had long been
an embarrassment to North Korea’s government — humiliated during a failed
attempt to sneak into Japan to visit
Disneyland and outspoken in opposing the
rise to power of his brother, who had his
uncle executed after taking over.
But the overweight gambler and fading
playboy had kept his head down in recent
years from his base in Macau. Kim Jong
Nam was seen by many outsiders as only a
minor distraction for North Korea’s leaders, and certainly not an existential threat
worth the risk of a potentially embarrassing assassination caper on foreign soil.
The spotty South Korean intelligence
community ascribed the North’s motivation
in killing Kim Jong Nam, without any elaboration, simply to Kim Jong Un’s “paranoia.” There is a more intriguing possibility
floating around Seoul, however: The tipping point in North Korea’s bloody calculations may have been a largely ignored
South Korean news story from last week.
China awards Trump valuable new trademark
The Associated Press
A Pakistani security officer stands alert at the site of a bombing
in Ghalanai in the Pakistan’s tribal region of Mohmand today. A
Taliban suicide bombing targeted the administrative headquarters of a tribal region in northwestern Pakistan today, killing
scores of policemen and two passers-by, according to officials.
Suicide bombings kill 6 in
northwestern Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Two suicide bombings in northwestern Pakistan killed at least six people today following an almost threemonth-long lull in the volatile region.
A breakaway Taliban faction claimed responsibility for one of the
attacks — a bombing that targeted the area’s administrative tribal
headquarters. Three policemen and two passers-by died in that attack,
which took place in the Mohmand tribal region near the Afghan border.
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, or Freedom Movement, claimed the attack in a text
message sent to The Associated Press. The same militant faction had
said it was behind a deadly suicide bombing earlier this week in
Lahore.
The explosion went off at the main gate of the tribal headquarters in
Ghalanai in the Mohmand tribal region, just as the workday was about
to start, said Hameedullah Khan, a local government official.
Khan, whose office is inside the compound, said the grounds are
home to residences, offices and training facilities for the local administration and police employees. Hundreds of local residents come
daily on business to the tribal headquarters, located 45 kilometers (28
miles) outside Peshawar, the provincial capital.
The bombing was followed by gunshots, Khan added. The Pakistani
army said the bomber was accompanied by another militant, who tried
to force his way into the compound after the explosion went off but
that security guards opened fire and killed him.
The army statement said there was a higher level of vigilance among
the local security forces following intelligence that would-be attackers had infiltrated the area from neighboring Afghanistan.
Hours later, a suicide bomber struck a vehicle carrying local judges
and judicial officials in the northwestern city of Peshawar. Police official Sajjad Khan said a driver was killed and five others were wounded in that explosion.
SHANGHAI (AP) — The government of China
awarded U.S. President Donald Trump valuable
rights to his own name this week, in the form of a
10-year trademark for construction services.
The registration became official on Feb. 14 and
was published in a trademark registration
announcement on the website of China’s Trademark
Office today.
This may well be the first foreign trademark to be
handed to Trump during his presidency, but is
unlikely to be the last. In China alone he has 49
pending trademark applications and 77 marks
already registered in his own name, most of which
will come up for renewal during his term.
Critics say Trump’s global intellectual property
interests could be used by foreign states as leverage
over the president and may violate the emoluments
clause of the U.S. Constitution, which bars public
servants from accepting anything of value from foreign governments unless explicitly approved by
Congress. These concerns are particularly sharp in
China, where the courts and bureaucracy reflect the
will of the ruling Communist Party.
The registration this week came as a surprise win
for Trump after a decade of trying — and failing —
to wrest the rights to his name back from a man
named Dong Wei. The abrupt turn in Trump’s
bureaucratic fortunes once he declared his candidacy has raised questions about the extent to which his
political status may be helping his family business.
Any special treatment from China would mean that
Trump effectively accepted a present from Beijing,
an act that would violate the Constitution, Richard
Painter, chief White House ethics lawyer under
President George W. Bush, said in an email. “A different conclusion might be reached if Trump had
been treated like everyone else seeking a trademark,
but the evidence does not point in that direction.”
Alan Garten, chief legal officer of The Trump
Organization, said Trump’s trademark activity in
China predates his election. Trump has turned management of his company over to his children and a
team of executives in order to remove himself from
his business and its trademark portfolio, he added.
WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF
NATO chief says
Russia missile
reports a concern
BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO’s
chief says the military alliance
would be concerned if reports
that Russia has violated a Cold
War-era treaty by deploying a
cruise missile prove true.
U.S. intelligence agencies have
assessed that the missile became
operational late last year, possibly
violating the 1987 IntermediateRange Nuclear Forces Treaty on
the development and testing of
cruise missiles.
NATO Secretary General
Jens Stoltenberg said today
that “compliance with arms
control agreements is of great
importance and especially
when it comes to treaties covering nuclear weapons.”
He said that “any non-compliance of Russia with the INF
Treaty would be a serious concern for the alliance.”
His remarks in Brussels came
before chairing the first meeting of NATO defense ministers
with U.S. Defense Secretary
Jim Mattis.
2 Dominican
journalists killed
during live
transmission
SANTO DOMINGO,
Dominican Republic (AP) — A
radio producer and an
announcer have been fatally
shot in the Dominican Republic
while one of them was reading
the news during a live transmission on Facebook.
Police said the shooting
occurred Tuesday in San
Pedro de Macoris, just east of
the capital of Santo Domingo.
Three men have been
detained, but no one has been
charged.
Gunfire is heard during the
Facebook Live video, along
with a woman yelling “Shots!
Shots! Shots!” before the transmission cuts off. Police say
they don’t yet have a motive.
The victims were identified as
announcer Luis Manuel Medina
and producer and director Leo
Martinez at radio station 103.5
HICC. Police say a secretary
was injured and is undergoing
surgery.
Suspects charged
in thwarted French
terrorism attack
PARIS (AP) — Paris’ prosecutor’s office says that three
suspects in a thwarted attack
last week in the southern
French city of Montpellier have
been handed preliminary terrorism charges.
Authorities gave only the suspects’ first names. A teenage
girl, Sara, and a man called
Thomas were charged with terrorist association and possessing explosives Tuesday night.
Another man, Malik, was also
charged with justifying terrorism.
Last week, anti-terrorism
forces uncovered a makeshift
laboratory for fabricating a
bomb. France’s top security
official Friday said the raid
thwarted an “imminent attack.”
A police official said the
teenage girl — among several
arrested — had pledged loyalty
to the Islamic State group in a
recent video.
France is still under a state of
emergency after several deadly
attacks in 2015 and 2016.
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TV review: ‘Doubt’ plays like ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ in a courtroom
By VERNE GAY
Newsday
THE SERIES: “Doubt”
WHEN, WHERE: Premieres tonight at
10 p.m. on CBS
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Sadie Ellis
(Katherine Heigl) is a workaholic defense
attorney who almost believes,
word for word, the ideals of
her firm’s “lefty” founder,
Isaiah Roth (Elliott Gould),
who insists that he has always
“stood by someone accused
so that he or she would not
have to stand alone.” Almost,
until her feelings for a client,
HEIGL
Billy
Brennan
(Steven
Pasquale) — accused of killing his girlfriend
when both were teens — gets in the way.
Meanwhile, Sadie’s colleague Albert
Cobb (Dule Hill) wants the guy to accept a
plea deal, and move on with his life.
Another colleague, Tiffany Simon (Dreama
Walker), is a newbie, and still learning the
Isaiah way. The firm’s other top attorney,
Cameron Wirth (Laverne Cox), knows it
cold, and knows injustice, too. She’s a selfidentified transgender person.
MY SAY: The big news with “Doubt”
isn’t just reasonably big, but reasonably
historic. This is the first prime-time series
on a major broadcast network with a transgender person in a leading role playing a
trans character. A key word here is “leading” because trans characters in minor
roles have also appeared on “Glee” and
“Grey’s Anatomy,” while cable (“The
Fosters”) and streaming (“Transparent”)
have long been in the forefront of trans
characters and issues. Cox, of course, was
the pioneer on “Orange Is the New Black,”
once again the pioneer here.
Big news, but a big deal? Consider that
most CBS viewers have never seen “The
Fosters” or “Transparent,” and if they had,
Freeform and Amazon would have alerted
us to that remarkable fact years ago. This
is as radically new for them as it is for the
trans community.
Cox’s character, Cameron Wirth, quickly
establishes that she was once a man, now a
woman, and, with that out of the way, gets
down to business. She’s a competent
defense attorney, with a brisk courtroom
style. That she is a trans person is irrelevant, except that it is not, and during summation for her defendant client, says: “Do
we see him, or do we turn away?”
More gauntlet than question, that’s
addressed to viewers as much as jury. Do
we see her and millions of other trans persons, or turn away? “Doubt” insists that
we see. So yes, a big deal.
Oh, and by the way, have we even mentioned “Doubt” is another Heigl attempt to
escape the long shadow of “Grey’s,” and
the lesser one of “State of Affairs”? Her
character is first among equals in the
ensemble cast, but Heigl also benefits from
being part of that ensemble, much as she
did in “Grey’s.” This isn’t “State,” where
she’s saving the world while trying to save
herself. Heigl’s good here, and “Doubt” is
better for the fact that the whole enterprise
isn’t necessarily riding on her, either.
That could change, but at least “Doubt’s”
pedigree hints that the ensemble stays. Cocreators Joan Rater and Tony Phelan earned
their TV PhDs at “Grey’s,” where they once
ran the show and learned that more is more.
More characters mean more stories, more
conflict, more drama, more detours.
With a New York setting and all those
tangents, “Doubt” probably won’t mind if
viewers mistake this for “The Good Wife.”
But that would be a mistake. Instead, think
of this as “Grey’s” in a courtroom, with a
good New York cast, two legends (Gould
and Bill Irwin, who plays a judge), a TV
star and a TV pioneer. Add some boilerplate workplace/romantic TV tropes, top it
all off with a pilot-ending reveal, mix ‘em
all together, then hope for the best.
At least Wednesday’s episode does make
the better case for hope than — apologies
in advance for the bad pun — doubt.
BOTTOM LINE: Decent courtroom/workplace drama, also a pioneering one.
GRADE: B
12 / Wednesday, February 15, 2017
FOOD
Simple cooking
The Recorder, Amsterdam, N.Y.
Fabulous recipes with just five ingredients or fewer
By DANIEL NEMAN
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Simplicity is key.
Life can be difficult. It can even be
daunting. When you come home from a
hard day of wrangling penguins, the last
thing you want to do is put together a meal
with 27 different ingredients.
So you reach into the larder (does anyone
even have a larder anymore? When’s the last
time you saw the word “larder”?) and pull
out a handful of ingredients. No more than
five. And you make a meal, or at least a dish.
It may not be as complexly flavored as
the one with 27 ingredients, but on the
other hand, there is less to go wrong, too.
It’s clean. Efficient. Simple.
Simplicity is key.
And from such simplicity can come bold
flavors. I made a pot roast out of five ingredients, and it is so roundly delectable that I
am calling it Five-Ingredient Bourguignon.
That may be stretching the point, but only a
little. I began with a hunk of meat (top or bot-
tom round; I used top) and I braised it until
tender in red wine with onions and thyme.
The key is to cook the meat at a low simmer for a long time (mine took a little
under two hours). This not only makes
what is typically a tough piece of meat
deliciously tender, but it also gives a
chance for the acidity in the wine to mellow out as the alcohol cooks away.
It’s a breeze to make, and the result is a
hearty roast, just right for a cold winter’s night.
For a side dish to stand up to the beef —
or an excellent vegetarian main course —
you might want to consider White Beans
With Rosemary and Garlic.
Naturally, this is a dish of white beans
that has been flavored with rosemary and
garlic, plus olive oil and salt. But the
recipe comes from Alice Waters, who revolutionized American cooking with her
world-famous restaurant Chez Panisse, so
you know it is going to be extra good.
And so it is. Beans, garlic and rosemary
combine to bring out an almost unworldly
earthiness in each other; it is a truly great
CRISPY-COATED LEMON-PEPPER SALMON
Yield: 4 servings
4 tablespoons butter, divided
1/2 cup lemon-pepper panko bread crumbs
1/4 cup buttermilk
1 (1 1/2-pound) salmon fillet, cut into 4 serving pieces
Note: Can also be grilled over medium heat, covered.
1. In a small saucepan, melt 3 tablespoons of the butter. Mix with the bread crumbs.
Place buttermilk in a shallow dish. Dip salmon in buttermilk and press crumb mixture
evenly on top of salmon pieces.
2. Melt remaining 1 tablespoon butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Place
salmon, skin-side down, on pan, cover, and cook until fish flakes easily with a fork,
about 10 to 14 minutes.
Per serving: 465 calories; 30 g fat; 11 g saturated fat; 123 mg cholesterol; 35 g
protein; 11 g carbohydrate; 12 g sugar; 1 g fiber; 396 mg sodium; 74 mg calcium.
Nutrition analysis used salted butter & 2 percent fat buttermilk.
FIVE-INGREDIENT BOURGUIGNON
Yield: 6 servings
2 1/2 pounds beef, chuck roast, top round or bottom round
Salt
2 cups red wine
1/2 onion, in lengthwise slices
1 teaspoon dried thyme or 1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme
1. Generously season beef on all sides with salt. Place meat in Dutch oven or
large, heavy-bottomed pot with the wine, onion and thyme.
2. Bring to a boil, cover, lower temperature and cook at a low simmer, turning
occasionally, until meat is cooked through, about 1 3/4 to 2 hours.
Per serving: 725 calories; 46 g fat; 18 g saturated fat; 189 mg cholesterol; 49 g
protein; 5 g carbohydrate; 1 g sugar; no fiber; 995 mg sodium, 41 mg calcium.
Nutrition analysis used beef, chuck roast, with no fat trimmed.
WHITE BEANS WITH ROSEMARY AND GARLIC
Yield: 3 servings
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 garlic cloves, coarsely chopped
1/2 teaspoon fresh rosemary leaves, coarsely chopped
2 cans white beans, rinsed and drained
Salt
In a heavy-bottomed saucepan or skillet, heat oil over medium heat and add garlic
and rosemary. Cook just until garlic is soft, about 2 minutes. Add the beans, taste for
salt and adjust if needed. Let the dish sit for a few minutes before serving to allow
the flavors to marry.
Per serving: 415 calories; 10 g fat; 2 g saturated fat; no cholesterol; 22 g protein; 62 g carbohydrate; 4 g sugar; 14 g fiber; 570 mg sodium, 159 mg calcium.
Nutrition analysis used 15.5-ounce canned beans.
grouping of flavors. Waters’ recipe calls for
soaking beans overnight and then simmering
them for a couple of hours, but I took the
easy way out and used beans from a can.
It was superb. I’m sure her way is better,
but this was superb.
And so was Teriyaki Chicken With Bok
Choy, a dish that embarrasses me a little
because it breaks an unwritten law. I generally try not to cook with premade or
processed ingredients (the “SemiHomemade” way) such as teriyaki sauce.
And yet, here is a recipe calling for chicken thighs marinated in bottled teriyaki
sauce and garlic, and it was wonderful.
How could it not be? The people who
make bottled teriyaki sauce know what they
are doing. It adds just the right sweet-spicy
notes to chicken that play beautifully off the
mildly bitter taste of the bok choy. Serve it
on rice and you have a satisfying, easy meal.
Even faster and easier, though, is CrispyCoated Lemon-Pepper Salmon. The secret
to this is lemon-pepper-flavored panko
bread crumbs which, admittedly, is also
sort of semi-homemade.
But they add a snap of lemon and a hint
of black pepper to salmon, which goes perfectly with them. And the panko bread
crumbs add a bit of texture to it, though
maybe not the crunch the name implies.
The only other ingredients needed are
buttermilk and melted butter, both of
which help the bread crumbs adhere to the
fish. It all takes the salmon, which is
already great, and makes it better.
And all of this could only be topped with
dessert. Something simple (simplicity is key).
Something elegant. Something blissful.
In fact, something exactly like Vanilla
Pots de Creme, which is to say a light vanilla custard. It’s just a gentle combination of
milk — you don’t even have to use cream
— sugar, egg yolks and vanilla. Cook until
it’s thickened, then cook some more in a
water bath to regulate the temperature.
It’s so good, so creamy on your tongue,
you’ll find yourself wondering: How can
something this amazing be made from
only four ingredients?
TERIYAKI CHICKEN
WITH BOK CHOY
Yield: 4 servings
1 clove garlic, chopped
1/4 cup plus 1/3 cup
teriyaki sauce
8 bone-in chicken
thighs (21/2 pounds)
1 cup long-grain white
rice
2 bunches baby bok
choy, quartered
1. Preheat oven to 450
degrees. Line a rimmed
baking sheet with aluminum foil. In a large bowl,
combine the garlic and 1/4
cup of the teriyaki sauce.
Add the chicken and marinate for 30 minutes.
2. Meanwhile, cook the
rice according to the package directions.
3. Roast the chicken on
the prepared baking sheet,
basting with the remaining 1/3 cup of teriyaki sauce , until cooked through, 25 to 30
minutes. Add the bok choy 10 minutes before the chicken is done. Serve over rice.
Per serving: 538 calories; 45 g fat; 6 g saturated fat; 199 mg cholesterol; 45 g
protein; 39 g carbohydrate; 12 g sugar; 5 g fiber; 2,233 mg sodium; 477 mg calcium
VANILLA POTS DE
CRÈME
Yield: 4 servings
4 eggs
2 cups whole milk
3 tablespoons sugar
1 (2-inch) piece vanilla
bean
1. Preheat the oven to
350 degrees. Separate the
eggs. In a medium bowl,
whisk the yolks just enough
to break them up (reserve
the whites for another use).
Set a strainer over a different medium heat-proof
bowl. Set a kettle of water on the stove to boil.
2. Pour milk and sugar into a heavy-bottomed pot. Slice the piece of vanilla bean
lengthwise and scrape the tiny seeds from each side into the milk mixture. Add the
pieces of bean to the mixture, and heat the pot on medium heat, stirring occasionally
to dissolve the sugar. When the milk is hot, whisk a little bit of it at a time into the egg
yolks. When you have added 1/4 of the milk to the yolks, pour the mixture back into
the hot milk.
3. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture thickens just
enough to coat the back of a spoon; if you draw your finger across the coating on
the spoon you will be able to see the trail it made. Do not let the mixture boil.
Remove from the heat and quickly strain into the heatproof bowl.
4. Pour the custard equally into 4 ramekins and set the ramekins in a large baking pan. Place the pan in the oven and fill the pan with the boiling water at least
halfway to the level of the custard, taking care not to spill water into the custards.
Cook until the sides are set but the center of the custard is still loose and jiggly,
about 30 to 45 minutes. Remove the baked custards from the water to cool, then
refrigerate.
Per serving: 186 calories; 9 g fat; 4 g saturated fat; 198 mg cholesterol; 10 g
protein; 16 g carbohydrate; 16 g sugar; no fiber; 124 mg sodium; 166 mg calcium.
Nutrition analysis used large eggs.
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BUSINESS/WEATHER
Wednesday, February 15, 2017 / 13
Aetna, Humana call
off $34 billion deal
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Aetna
and Humana are calling off a
$34 billion deal to combine the
two major health insurers after a
federal judge, citing antitrust
concerns, shot down the deal.
Humana is entitled to a $1 billion breakup fee after the mutual decision to call off the tie-up,
first announced in the summer
of 2015.
It was the second major deal
shot down in federal courts in
as many months. Another federal judge rejected Blue CrossBlue Shield carrier Anthem’s
bid to buy Cigna. Anthem is
appealing that decision.
UPTON
Kate Upton threepeats as SI’s
swimsuit queen
NEW YORK (AP) — She’s
once, twice, three times a
Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover
lady.
Kate Upton is once again gracing the cover of the annual
issue, becoming only the fourth
woman to do so three times.
This year, she’s making the
splash with three different covers.
Other women who did the
cover three times include Tyra
Banks, Heidi Klum and Christie
Brinkley, who also is featured in
this year’s edition with her two
daughters. Elle Macpherson
holds the record with five cover
appearances.
Other notables in this year’s
edition include former cover girl
Chrissy Teigen, an expectant
mother and athletes including
tennis champ Serena Williams
and Olympic gold medal gymnast Simone Biles.
Sargento recalls
cheese due to
possible
contamination
T-Mobile one-ups
Verizon’s new
unlimited data plan
SEATTLE (TNS) — T-Mobile
US has added new features to its
unlimited data plan to one-up
competitor Verizon, just hours
after the larger carrier announced
its own unlimited plan.
Tomorrow’s weather
Forecast for Thursday, February 16, 2017
CANADA
Watertown
26/13
Toronto
26/14
Rochester
27/20
Syracuse
26/18
Lake Placid
26/10
VT.
N.H.
Albany
32/18
Binghamton
25/17
Buffalo
27/19
MASS.
New York
37/26
PA.
Montauk
39/26
Mohawk Valley forecast
Today: A chance of snow showers. Cloudy, with a
high near 37. Total daytime snow accumulation of less
than one inch possible.
Tonight: A slight chance of snow. Cloudy, with a low
around 23. Breezy, with a west wind 15 to 21 mph, with
gusts as high as 36 mph.
Thursday: A chance of snow, mainly between 11 a.m.
and 3 p.m. Cloudy, with a high near 28. Breezy, with a
west wind 17 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph.
Thursday night: Cloudy, then gradually becoming
partly cloudy, with a low around 16.
Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 27.
Friday night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 14.
Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 36.
Saturday night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 27.
Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 44.
Sunday night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 29.
Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 42.
Moon
phases
First
Mar. 5
Full
Mar. 12
Last
Feb. 18
New
Feb. 26
T-Mobile, headquartered outside Seattle, will allow customers to stream videos in HD
quality by default beginning
Friday, addressing the major
criticism of its unlimited TMobile One plan. Customers
will also be able to use 10 GB
of data as a mobile hot spot.
Outspoken CEO John Legere
announced the additions in a
series of tweets Monday, first
calling out Verizon for “caving”
when it announced its own
unlimited plan.
T-Mobile beat analyst expectations, reporting quarterly revenue of $10.2 billion, a 23 percent increase from the last period of 2015.
PLYMOUTH, Wis. (AP) —
Wisconsin-based cheesemaker
Sargento Foods Inc. is recalling
a specialty cheese because of
possible bacterial contamination.
Deutsch Kase Haus, LLC of
Middlebury, Indiana, notified
Sargento that it supplied the
company with a Longhorn
Colby cheese that may be contaminated with Listeria monocyctogenes. No illnesses have
been reported.
The recalled products are
6.84-ounce packages of
Sargento Ultra Thin Sliced
Longhorn Colby with sell-by
dates of April 12 and May 10,
2017, and 8-ounce packages
of Sargento Chef Blends
Shredded Nacho & Taco
Cheese with sell-by dates of
June 14 and July 12, 2017.
14 / Wednesday, February 15, 2017
YOUR LIFE
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GARFIELD / By Jim Davis
DILBERT / By Scott Adams
JEFF MACNELLY’S SHOE / By Chris Cassatt & Gary Brookins
B.C. / By Mastroianni & Hart
HAGAR THE HORRIBLE / By Chris Browne
BLONDIE / By Dean Young & Denis LeBrun
MUTTS / By Patrick McDonnell
LUANN / By Greg Evans
Affair could be about money
DEAR ABBY: I am 68
and my husband is 80. I
just found out he is
involved with a 40-yearold woman. He says it is
not an affair because
they haven’t actually
had sex. I don’t know
what to do. Can you
help me? – HEARTBy
BROKEN IN NEW
MEXICO
ABIGAIL
DEAR HEARTBROVAN BUREN
KEN: Your husband may
not be having an affair in
the physical sense, but he IS having an emotional affair. He may be flattered by the
attention he’s receiving from a younger
woman, or he may think he’s actually in
love with her. Whether she is in love with
HIM is open to question.
However, if your husband is giving her
money, you might have an argument that he
is being manipulated into it, which could
qualify as elder abuse. Remember, too, if
you are a longtime wife in a community
property state, half of the assets acquired
during your marriage are yours. If he doesn’t
agree to end the relationship, this is something you might want to discuss with a
lawyer.
DEAR ABBY: My 7-year-old daughter,
“Jessie,” has a best friend who lives next
door. The neighbor, “Laurie,” has an
older brother, “Jason,” who is 13.
Recently, Jessie played at Laurie’s
house, and when she came home she told
me Jason had said some nasty things to
her. When I asked what they were, she
told me that one time Jason told her to
pull down her underwear, and another
time he told her to pull down his pants
and do something that can’t be mentioned
in a family newspaper.
When I heard it, I was livid. I told his
mother about it, and now she will not let
my daughter play with Laurie. She
DEAR ABBY
believes Jessie made it all up. My daughter is inconsolable because she no longer
has a playmate. She believes it is her fault
that Laurie can’t play with her because
she told me. I don’t know what to do so
the girls can play together. – NEEDS A
PLAYMATE
DEAR NEEDS: It is important that you
make Jessie understand that none of this was
her fault – it was JASON’S fault – and that
she did the right thing by telling you. What
you need to do now is help your daughter
find other playmates, preferably some whose
parents supervise when children play in their
home.
While Jason’s mother may not want to
believe what her son did, it’s highly unlikely
your daughter made it up. Dealing with a
problem like that by putting her head in the
sand will only invite more trouble, because
Jason is sure to repeat it with some other little girl.
DEAR ABBY: Today I called my church
to cancel my attendance at a retreat a
month from now. I had paid $25 to hold
my spot. When I stated my reason for
calling, the church secretary said, “Do
you want a refund or would you like to
donate toward tithes?” I thought this was
nervy. I told her to refund the money.
What is your thought on this? – WANTS
A REFUND IN BRENTWOOD, CALIF.
DEAR WANTS: Just this: You were
offered an option, and you chose the one
you preferred. Let it go.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van
Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and
was founded by her mother, Pauline
Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at
www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440,
Los Angeles, CA 90069.
HOROSCOPE
BY FRANCIS DRAKE
King Features Syndicate
For Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017
ARIES
(March 21 to April 19)
Talk to groups or classes today,
especially with younger people. This
also is a good day to do some goal
setting for the future.
TAURUS
(April 20 to May 20)
You are mentally energetic today,
which is why you will make a good
impression talking to bosses, parents
and VIPs. Don’t hesitate to share
your ideas.
GEMINI
(May 21 to June 20)
It is easy to study today or learn
anything new. You also will love to
make travel plans and have discussions about philosophy, religion, politics and metaphysics.
CANCER
(June 21 to July 22)
This is a good day to discuss
shared property, inheritances, taxes
and debt. You have the mental energy to plow through a lot of red-tape
details.
LEO
(July 23 to Aug. 22)
Discussions with partners and close
friends will be lively and dynamic
today. Everyone is full of bright ideas,
and of course, you are quick to see
the bottom line and grasp the big picture.
VIRGO
(Aug. 23 to Sept. 22)
This will be a productive day at
work because you can communicate
well with others. In addition, you have
the energy to work with your hands
and accomplish something.
LIBRA
(Sept. 23 to Oct. 22)
You are creative today. Get busy
working in the arts, the entertainment
world, the hospitality industry or anything to do with sports or children.
SCORPIO
(Oct. 23 to Nov. 21)
This is an excellent day to tackle
home repairs. It’s also a great day for
family discussions, because you
have a desire to communicate.
SAGITTARIUS
(Nov. 22 to Dec. 21)
Writers, salespeople, actors and
teachers are empowered today. You
are keen to communicate and you
have great ideas. This is because
your mental energy is strong.
CAPRICORN
(Dec. 22 to Jan. 19)
You’re full of moneymaking ideas
today. It’s a good idea to write them
down in case you want to act on one
of them later. (It’s not every day that
we have bright ideas.)
AQUARIUS
(Jan. 20 to Feb. 18)
Mercury is in your sign now, which
is why you are so keen to communicate to others. You have ideas and
dreams, and you want to enlighten
others by sharing these ideas.
PISCES
(Feb. 19 to March 20)
Research of any kind will go well
today, because you have the motivation, stamina and the attention to
detail that is needed. Yes.
YOU BORN TODAY You are creative and imaginative. You like life to
flow quickly with adventure. People
are attracted to you, even though you
are sometimes very blunt. You have
an amazing eye for detail. A new
nine-year cycle is beginning for you.
This opens up many possibilities. You
might start a new business activity or
change residences. Open any door,
because your future is in your hands.
Birthdate of: Elizabeth Olsen,
actress; Christopher Eccleston, actor;
The Weeknd, singer.
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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME
COURT - COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY DEUTSCHE BANK
TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, AS TRUSTEE FOR RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS,
INC., MORTGAGE ASSETBACKED
PASS-THROUGH
CERTIFICATES,
SERIES
2006-QS18, Index No.: 540/15
Plaintiff, Against PEGGY S
TYLER, JOHN S MYKEL, ET
AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to
a Judgment of Foreclosure and
Sale, duly entered in the
Montgomery County Clerk’s
Office on 12/22/2016, I, the
undersigned Referee, will sell at
public
auction
at
the
Montgomery County Office
Building, Fonda, NY 12068 on
3/22/2017 at 9:00 am, premises
known as 21 East State Street,
Fort Plain, NY 13339, and
described as follows: ALL that
certain plot, piece or parcel of
land, with the buildings and
improvements thereon erected,
situate, lying and being in the
Village of Fort Plain, Town of
Minden, County of Montgomery
and State of New Yok, and designated on the tax maps of the
Montgomery County Treasurer
as Section 46.54, Block 2 and
Lot 12.2. The approximate
amount of the current Judgment
lien is $100,592.84 plus interest
and costs. The premises will be
sold subject to provisions of the
aforesaid
Judgment
of
Foreclosure and Sale; Index #
540/15. If the sale is set aside
for any reason, the Purchaser
at the sale shall be entitled only
to a return of the deposit paid.
The Purchaser shall have no
further recourse against the
Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or
the Mortgagee’s attorney.
Gerard C. Decusatis, Esq.,
Referee. Leopold & Associates,
PLLC, 80 Business Park Drive,
Suite 110, Armonk, NY 10504
Dated: 1/12/2017 GNS
FEB- 31 2/15 2/22 3/1 3/8/17
SUPREME COURT - COUNTY
OF MONTGOMERY NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC, V.
DAVID CREED, et al. NOTICE
OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN pursuant to a Final
Judgment of Foreclosure dated
September, 27, 2016, and
entered in the Office of the
Clerk of the County of MONTGOMERY, wherein NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC is the
Plaintiff and DAVID CREED, ET
AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the
undersigned Referee will sell at
public auction at the LOBBY OF
THE MONTGOMERY CITY
OFFICE
BUILDING,
64
BROADWAY, FONDA, NY
12068, on March 16, 2017 at
11:00am, premises known as
35 COOLIDGE ROAD, AMSTERDAM, NY 12010: Section
39.12 Block 3 Lot 43: ALL THAT
CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR
PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE
BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED,
SITUATE, LYING AND BEING
IN THE CITY OF AMSTERDAM, COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY AND STATE OF
NEW YORK
Premises
will be sold subject to provisions
of filed Judgment Index # 14124. William A. Nowak, Esq. Referee. RAS Boriskin, LLC
900 Merchants Concourse,
Suite 106, Westbury, New York
Real Property Tax 501.
Examination of assessment
inventory and valuation data. 1.
Upon ascertainment of real
property as required by section
five hundred of this title, the
assessor shall forthwith cause a
notice, the contents of which
are set forth in subdivision two
of this section, to be published
at least once in each of two consecutive weeks in a newspaper
having general local circulation.
Notice shall also be posted on
he signboard maintained for the
posting of legal notices at the
entrance of the town clerk’s
office pursuant to subdivision
six of section thirty of the town
law. 2. The notice shall state
that the assessor has available
for review assessment inventory and valuation data, that an
appointment may be made to
review this information during
certain times as specified in the
notice, and any other information which the commissioner
may required by rule and regulation. Wilda Lang Holloway,
Chairman, Town of Florida
Assessors
FEB -44 2/15 2/22/17
LEGALS
11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff
FEB - 11 2/15 2/22 3/1 3/8/17
SUPREME COURT OF THE
STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY SUMMONS AND NOTICE Plaintiff
designates
MONTGOMERY
County as the place of trial. The
basis of venue is the situs of the
real property. INDEX NO. 656/16
OWNERSCHOICE FUNDING,
INCORPORATED F/K/A CUC
MORTGAGE CORPORATION,
Plaintiff,
against
THE
UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DISTRIBUTEES OF THE ESTATE
OF MICHAEL S. BARNES, if living and if they be dead, any and
all persons who may claim as
devisees, distributees, legal representatives, successors in
interest of the said defendants,
all of whom and whose names
and places of residence are
unknown to the plaintiff and cannot after diligent inquiry be
ascertained, SHAWN MICHAEL
BARNES AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE TO THE ESTATE
OF MICHAEL S. BARNES,
ADAM GREGORY BARNES AS
HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE TO
THE ESTATE OF MICHAEL S.
BARNES, THE PEOPLE OF
THE STATE OF NEW YORK,
THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA, Defendants. To the
above named Defendants YOU
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HELP WANTED
ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to
answer the complaint in this
action and to serve a copy of
your answer, or, if the complaint
is not served with this summons,
to serve a notice of appearance
on the Plaintiff’s attorney within
20 days after the service of this
summons, exclusive of the day
of service (or within 30 days after
the service is complete if this
summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of
New York) in the event the
United States of America is
made a party defendant, the
time to answer for the United
States of America shall not
expire until (60) days after service of the summons; and in case
of your failure to appear or
answer, judgment will be taken
against you by default for the
relief demanded in the complaint. Commencement of this
lawsuit does not affect your
rights as set forth in the validation notice. NOTICE YOU ARE
IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR
HOME If you do not respond to
this summons and complaint by
serving a copy of the answer on
the attorney for the mortgage
company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and
filing the answer with the court, a
default judgment may be
entered and you can lose your
home. Speak to an attorney or
go to the court where your case
is pending for further information
on how to answer the summons
and protect your property.
Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the
foreclosure action. YOU MUST
RESPOND BY SERVING A
COPY OF THE ANSWER ON
THE ATTORNEY FOR THE
PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE
ANSWER WITH THE COURT.
Premises situated in the Village
of Fort Plain. BEGINNING at a
point in the westerly boundary of
Canal Street 54.2 feet from the
northerly boundary of Home
Street; being a plot 99.00 feet by
22.1 feet by 24.0 feet by 29.5
feet by 121.0 feet by 53.5 feet.
Dated: December 19, 2016
STAGG, TERENZI, CONFUSIONE & WABNIK, LLP
Attorneys for Plaintiff BY: Quies
Sakhizada
401 Franklin
Avenue, Suite 300 Garden City,
NY 11530 (516) 812-4500 The
object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage covering: 171
Canal Street, Fort Plain, NY
13339 JUDGMENT IN THE
APPROXIMATE AMOUNT OF
$14,499.00 plus interest.
FEB - 18 2/8 2/15 2/22 3/1/17
BROADALBIN-PERTH CENTRAL
SCHOOL is seeking qualified candidates for a Boy’s Head Varsity
Baseball Coach effective immediately for the 2016-17 spring season.
This position requires New York
State Coaching Certification; First
Aid/CPR; fingerprint clearance and
successful background check. The
successful candidate will oversee
the District baseball program as well
as assist with youth baseball.
Please reply to: Broadalbin-Perth
Central School District
Stephen
M.
Tomlinson,
Superintendent 20 Pine Street
Broadalbin, NY 12025
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CALENDAR
from page 24
“We played a great game for 28 minutes,
and it was a shame it had to end like that,”
Glens Falls coach Rob Girard said.
It was a testy, physical contest throughout
the night that saw the two teams whistled for
28 fouls in the second half alone. There was
plenty of jawjacking on the court — and some
in the stands as well. At the end of the third
quarter, Jones admonished several Glens
Falls fans who were taunting the Rams from
behind the Amsterdam bench, and multiple
fans were ejected from the premises.
“That wasn’t very good on my part, either,”
Jones said. “I’m not proud of myself for that.”
After the game was called, the Glens Falls
players walked off the court without participating in the traditional handshake line,
though several Amsterdam players — including Anthony Aponte and Louis Fedullo —
made a point to walk out and shake their
opponents’ hands before they left.
“It didn’t have to end that way, but we have
to learn from that, back up our guys and get
back out there,” Aponte said.
In the 30 minutes and 59 seconds before the
preemptive conclusion of the game, little
went right for the Rams (12-8). Glens Falls
superstar sophomore Joseph Girard III put up
40 points in a little more than three quarters
— he sat out most of the fourth quarter after
being called for a technical foul — and Tony
Green added 23 to lead the Indians (20-0) to
their second straight league title.
Glens Falls, the top-ranked Class B team in
the state, hit Amsterdam with a number of
devastating runs. There was a 16-3 burst to
end the first half that was followed up by six
straight points to start the third quarter, and
after the Rams tried to make a game of it late
in the third, the Indians rattled off 15 unanswered points — 10 of them by Joseph Girard
— to open up a 35-point lead early in the
fourth quarter.
“They played well as a team,” Jones said.
“That’s why they got what they got. Back to
the drawing board for us to try and figure
some things out.”
In defeat, Aponte had a career game for
Amsterdam, putting up 30 points — though
much of Glens Falls’ big run in the first half
came after Aponte headed to the bench with
Girls
SPORTS
TODAY
BOYS BASKETBALL
Section II seeding meeting,
10 a.m.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Section II seeding meeting,
10 a.m.
BOWLING
Section II girls championships, at Boulevard Bowl,
10 a.m.
FEBRUARY 19
INDOOR TRACK
Section II Division II championships, at UAlbany
Section II Division III championships, at UAlbany
SPORTS IN BRIEF
Amsterdam 13U
baseball looking for
players for season
Adam Shinder/Recorder staff
Amsterdam’s Robbie Spagnola (5) navigates traffic in the paint against the Glens Falls
defense during the Foothills Council boys basketball championship game Tuesday at
SUNY Adirondack in Queensbury.
3:22 remaining after picking up his third foul.
Robbie Spagnola added 17 points for the
Rams, who suffered their third loss to Glens
Falls this season.
It was a frustrating conclusion to the regular
season for the Running Rams, who will find
out their draw for the Section II Class A tournament today.
“We’ve got to go back through our process,”
Jones said. “There’s things we’ve got to sure
up.”
If nothing else, the Rams know they won’t
have to run into Glens Falls for a fourth time.
“That’s really relieving,” Aponte said. “We
don’t have to see them again.”
Contact ADAM SHINDER at
[email protected]
AGSA registration
set for Feb. 25
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Amsterdam coach Tim Jones, center, watches play during the Foothills Council boys
basketball championship game Tuesday at
SUNY Adirondack in Queensbury.
from page 24
Falls (18-2), which capped off a
perfect 14-game run against
Foothills opponents. Hogan
scored all 11 of her points in the
second half — including three
key 3-pointers — and Lucy
Tougas scored seven points.
Nina Fedullo scored a gamehigh 22 points for Amsterdam
(16-4), but the Lady Rams struggled to support her. Brady
Santiago added eight points,
while Grace Catena and Giuliana
Pritchard scored six apiece, but
Duemler said that for much of the
night Amsterdam’s offense felt
rushed and out of sync.
“We were very poor offensively. Very poor,” Duemler said.
“We got into a situation where we
were trying to do too much. Too
much freelancing. The four or
five times we ran one of our plays
we work hard on, we either got
layups or a great shot. We need to
make the other team guard us.”
A prime example of the Lady
Rams’ offensive struggles came
at the start of the second half.
After clawing from eight points
down to be within 24-23 at halftime, Amsterdam had numerous
chances to tie or take the lead
early in the second half, but wasted several trips to the offensive
end of the floor with contested
early shots resulting in easy
rebounds for Glens Falls.
“Empty possessions. You can’t
have empty possessions when
you have a team that has explosive players,” Duemler said.
“You have to take advantage of
that, and we didn’t do it.”
That opened the door for the
Indians to open things up. Big shots
from Hogan and Williams helped
Glens Falls push the lead to 42-30
after three quarters, and Scarincio’s
The Amsterdam 13-andunder baseball team are
looking for players for the
upcoming 2017 season.
Players in Montgomery or
Fulton County are eligible to
play.
For more information, contact head coach Dan Quatrini
at (518) 331-3108.
The Amsterdam Girls
Softball Association will be
holding in person sign-ups for
the 2017 at Amsterdam City
Hall on Saturday, Feb. 25
from 9 a.m. to noon.
Cost is $60 for one child,
$90 for two or $120 for three
or more. The league is open
to girls ages 5 to 18 residing
in Fulton or Montgomery
Counties. Mail and online
registration information can
be found by visiting the
AGSA website at www.amsterdamgirlssoftball.org.
AYBL registration
set for Saturday
Adam Shinder/Recorder staff
Amsterdam’s Lucia Liverio (14) looks to pass as Glens Falls’ Sophie Tougas (15) defends during the
Foothills Council girls basketball championship game Tuesday at SUNY Adirondack in Queensbury.
work in space against the variety of
gimmick defenses Amsterdam
employed to try and neutralize the
Tougas sisters allowed the Indians
to cruise to victory.
“We ran a four-high set that
gave them a little bit of trouble,”
Glens Falls coach Mark Girard
said. “We got Taylor open a couple times where she was able to
get to the hole. They kind of left
it where there was nobody on her
with that triangle-and-two they
were playing.”
While the Lady Rams were
hoping to head into the Section II
Class A playoffs with the added
momentum of a league title and a
season split with the Lady
Indians — who will play in Class
B during the postseason —
Amsterdam’s resume is still worthy of a likely top-two sectional
seed, which means more than a
week to rest before playing in the
quarterfinal round Feb. 23.
Duemler’s hopeful that will be
plenty of time to right the ship
and set the Lady Rams on course
to get back to the sectional championship game after a runner-up
finish in 2016.
“We’ll use this game as a learning
lesson,” Duemler said. “We’ll
understand that we need to play our
style. We’re not a New York City
team, we’re not a chuck-and-chase
team. We need to play our style.”
Contact ADAM SHINDER at
[email protected]
Online registration for the
Amsterdam Youth Baseball
League is now open for the
2017 spring season.
To register log on to amsterdamyouthbaseball.org.
In-person registration for
children ages 4-12 as of May
1 is scheduled for Saturday
from 9 a.m. to noon. at
Amsterdam City Hall.
Cost is $70 for Majors and
Minors Division and $55 for
Rookie and T-Ball. The
league will be offering $20
in raffle tickets to each child
this season. All proceeds
for the sale of the raffle
tickets will go to the child
so a youngster can play for
$50 in Majors and Minors
and $35 for Rookie and TBall.
Kelly and Altieri
bowl 300 games
Chris Kelly and Mark Altieri
bowled perfect 300 games
Monday night in the
Amsterdam Men’s City
League at Imperial Lanes.
They were the third and
fourth perfect games
bowled in the league this
season.
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SPORTS
Wednesday, February 15, 2017 / 19
Amsterdam rec basketball league crowns champions
The Amsterdam Recreation
Basketball League crowned
champions in six age groups
Saturday during a marathon day
of hoops at the Bacon Recreation
Center:
COED GRADES 1-2
DiBlasi Agency 44,
Rodz by Ludwin 9
Jack Hulett scored 20 points as
DiBlasi Agency finished off an
undefeated season with the victory.
Rocco Natale added 10 points
and Jackson Sargalis scored six
for DiBlasi, which also got three
points from Cody Deemer and
two points each from Mia Natale,
John Miller and Davion Hudson.
Westin Shunk scored five
points, Eliel Rivera scored three
and Jordan Brinkerhoff chipped
in one point for Rodz by Ludwin.
BOYS GRADES 7-8
Cameo Graphics 52,
Schwartz Law Firm 44
Tommy Ziskin scored 18 points
and Derek Carella scored 16 to
pace Cameo Graphics to the title
win.
Lorezno Bottisti added 12
points for Cameo Graphics,
which also got two points from
Evan Iannuzzi.
Carson Cotugno led the way for
Schwartz Law Firm with 13
points, while Matt Hughes and
Jason Gonzales each scored 10,
Xavier Acevedo contributed six
points and both Jason Kaminski
and Andrew Spagnola scored two
points.
BOYS GRADES 5-6
Kick Me 62, Goof Troop 61
Akil Vellon led three players in
double figures with 21 points as
Kick Me overcame 32 points
from Goof Troop’s Oryan
DeJesus to win the championship
in a thriller.
Keon Carr added 17 points,
Vincent Bottisti scored 14 and
Leo Perez contributed eight
points for Kick Me, which also
got two points from Alexis
Santiago.
In addition to the big game from
DeJesus, Goof Troop got 19
points from Marco Bottsti, eight
points from Victor Dueno and
two points from Antonio Valles.
GIRLS GRADES 6-8
Five Corners Mobil 54,
Dr. Glenn Pizarro, MD 41
Meleena Ottati scores 17 points
and Jaclyn Stanavich added 16
for Five Corners Mobil in the
championship triumph.
Five Corners also got eight
points from Marlee Ottati, seven
points from Ashley Krohn and
two points each from Annie
Stanavich and Grace Aldi.
Brianna Francisco paced Dr.
Pizarro with 16 points. Isabella
Agresta added 11 points, while
Natalee Agresta and Karolina
Pizaroo each scored five points
and both Jadiana Martinez and
Maggie Hughes contributed two
points.
BOYS GRADES 3-4
Sons of Amsterdam 46,
Allied First Bank 34
Jude Flint pumped in 27 points
to power Sons of Amsterdam to
the first-place trophy.
Josh Motyka added eight points
in the win, while Julien Goris
scored four, Onie Martinez had
three points and Maddix Cichy
scored two.
Tafari Martin lit up the scoreboard for Allie First Bank with 20
points. Maddox Nichani and
Joseph Rivera added four points
apiece, while Elias Saunders
scored three and Elijah Powell
scored two.
GIRLS GRADES 3-5
Fantastic Sam’s 34,
MCT Federal Credit Union 28
Diamond Brown scored 14
points, while Carolyn Sculco and
Photo submitted
Photo submitted
Five Corners Mobil earned the title in the girls grades 6-8 division.
Pictured left to right: Coach Mark Ottati, Annie Stanavich,
Meleena Ottati, Grace Aldi, Dawn Taylor, Marlee Ottati, Jaclyn
Stanavich and Ashley Krohn.
Fantastic Sam’s won the girls grades 3-5 division championship.
Front row, left to right: Liana Brown, Odette Rivera, Damianna
Carella, Bella Carella and Carolyn Sculco. Top row, left to right:
Samarrah Dennis, Oretta Markes, Genesis Estrella, Anyeliea
Retanico, Diamond Brown and coach Damian Carella.
Photo submitted
Photo submitted
Kick Me claimed the championship in the boys grades 5-6 division. Front row, left to right: Jose DeLeon, Vincent Bottisti, Elyas
Castro, Dante Soto. Top row, left to right: Darius Gaynor, Keon
Carr, coach Angel Windham, Akil Vellon, Leo Perez and Alexis
Santiago.
DiBlasi Agency won the coed grades 1-2 championship. Front
row, left to right: Gabriella Carella, Davion Hudson, Cody Deemer,
Mia Natale and John Miller Jr. Top row, left to right: Coach John
Miller, Ryan Wheeler, Jack Hulett, Jackson Sargalis, Jason
Poremba, Rocco Natale Jr. and coach Rocco Natale holding
Michael Natale.
Photo submitted
Photo submitted
Sons of Amsterdam captured the boys grades 3-4 championship.
Front row, lefto to right: Yareangel Fraticelly, Maddix Cicy, Onie
Martinez, Giovanni Proietti, and Caleb Kenna. Top row, left to
right: Kainen Camero, Jude Flint, Josh Motyka, Julien Goris,
Damien Hayes and coach Dillon Wager.
Cameo Graphics won the boys grades 7-8 championship. The
team consisted of Tommy Ziskin, Christian Robinson, Lattrel
Quintero, Kevin Vega, Nathaniel Zwack, Lorenzo Bottisti, Noah
Marshall, Derek Carella and Evan Iannuzzi, and was coached by
Damien Carella and Bill Naish.
Adam Shinder/Recorder staff
Schwartz Law Firm’s Matt Hughes, left, tries to shoot as Cameo
Graphics’ Lorenzo Bottisti defends during the Amsterdam
Recreation Basketball League boys grades 7-8 championship
game Saturday at the Bacon Rec Center.
Liana Brown finished with nine
points apiece for Fantastic Sam’s
in the win.
Genesis Estrella chipped in two
points for Fantastic Sam’s.
Yarielpz Cruz scored 14 points,
Alexandra Nordby scored 12 and
Jomarie Rivera added two points
for MCT Federal Credit Union.
— Staff report
Adam Shinder/Recorder staff
Kick Me’s Akil Vellon, left, passes the ball as Goof Troop’s Marco
Bottisti defends during the Amsterdam Recreation Basketball
League boys grades 5-6 championship game Saturday at the
Bacon Rec Center.
20 / Wednesday, February 15, 2017
SPORTS
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Fired for Venus Williams remarks, ex-commentator sues ESPN
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A tennis commentator dropped by ESPN for a remark
about Venus Williams during the
Australian Open sued the sports network
Tuesday for wrongful termination.
Former tennis pro Doug Adler maintains
he was describing Williams’ aggressive
style last month as “guerrilla” tactics and
not comparing her with a “gorilla.”
He apologized for his poor word choice
but was let go from ESPN mid-tournament.
Adler claims “emotional distress” in the
filing in Los Angeles Superior Court,
alleging he was wrongly branded a racist
and has lost other TV opportunities
because of the controversy.
Crosby gets
point No. 999,
Penguins win
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Evgeni
Malkin had a goal and an assist
in his return from a lower-body
injury, Sidney Crosby got his
999th career point with an assist
and the Pittsburgh Penguins
rolled by the Vancouver Canucks
4-0 on Tuesday night.
Phil Kessel, Jake Guentzel and
Matt Cullen also scored for the
defending Stanley Cup champions. Matt Murray stopped 29
shots for his third shutout this
season and the fourth of his
career.
Pittsburgh broke it open with
three third-period goals past
Ryan Miller. Crosby fed a
streaking Guentzel down the
slot 2:27 into the third to make
it 2-0 and pull Crosby within a
point of becoming the 86th
player in NHL history to reach
1,000.
Miller made 38 saves while
under siege for most of the night
as the Penguins remained
unbeaten in regulation since the
All-Star break (5-0-2).
DUCKS 1, WILD 0
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — John
Gibson made 37 saves for his
fourth shutout of the season,
rookie Joseph Cramarossa
scored his fourth goal and
Anaheim blanked Minnesota.
Gibson stalled the league’s
fourth-highest scoring team,
beating Minnesota and former
coach Bruce Boudreau for the
first time in three meetings.
MAPLE LEAFS 7,
ISLANDERS 1
TORONTO (AP) — Auston
Matthews scored twice, Frederik
Andersen earned his 100th NHL
win and Toronto routed New
York in a game with playoff
implications.
The Maple Leafs set a season
high for goals and won for the
third time in nine games. They
moved three points ahead of the
Islanders for the second wild
card in the Eastern Conference.
New York fell to 10-4-2 in its
past 16 games.
DEVILS 3, AVALANCHE 2
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Devils
defenseman Andy Greene scored
the go-ahead goal on a power
play and Kyle Palmieri converted on an odd-man rush with
Taylor Hall to lead New Jersey
over struggling Colorado.
Cory Schneider made 28 saves
and Pavel Zacha added a goal as
New Jersey won for the fourth
time in six games (4-1-1) in its
push to make the playoffs.
SABRES 3, SENATORS 2
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) —
Robin Lehner made 39 saves
against his former team, and
Matt Moulson and Justin Bailey
scored in the third period to rally
Buffalo past Ottawa.
The lawsuit calls for punitive financial
damages, but doesn’t name an amount.
ESPN spokesman Mike Soltys said
Tuesday the network hadn’t seen the lawsuit and had no comment.
The suit points out that “Guerrilla
Tennis” was the name of a Nike TV ad
from the 1990s featuring Andre Agassi and
Pete Sampras.
“Obviously, (Adler) saw that commercial
many times and the phrase became widely
used by those who actually understood
tennis vernacular and followed the sport
closely,” the lawsuit said.
Peter Bodo, senior editor of Tennis magazine, used the term in a 2012 profile of
Agnieszka Radwanska, according to court
papers.
Adler was doing play-by-play commentary on ESPN for Williams’ Jan. 18 match
against Stefanie Voegele, saying Williams
was playing more aggressively after
Voegele missed serves. When Voegele
faulted on a serve, Adler described
Williams as moving in and charging with a
“gorilla effect” or “guerrilla effect.”
Because the words gorilla and guerrilla are
pronounced similarly, it’s impossible to
say for certain which word Adler spoke.
Offended viewers called for Adler to be
fired for comparing Williams, who is
African-American, with a gorilla.
At the time Adler said he was speaking
about Williams’ tactics and strategy and
“simply and inadvertently chose the wrong
word to describe her play.”
In a statement emailed in January to The
Associated Press, ESPN said it had pulled
Adler from broadcasts.
“During an Australian Open stream on
ESPN3, Doug Adler should have been
more careful in his word selection. He
apologized and we have removed him
from his remaining assignments,” the
statement read.
Adler was an All-American player at the
University of Southern California who
went on to play on the pro circuit. He was
hired by ESPN in 2008 and covered tournaments including the U.S. Open, French
Open and Wimbledon
Cleveland Indians
pitcher Tim Cooney,
right, is joined by a
group of pitchers in
early morning
stretching at the
Indians baseball
spring training facility Tuesday, in
Goodyear, Ariz.
The Associated Press
Baseball is back
High hopes as always in first spring training workouts
LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — Even for an
accomplished veteran like Justin Verlander,
the start of spring training can be special.
“I usually sleep pretty well. I woke up early
today,” the Detroit ace said Tuesday. “On one
hand, you want to appreciate everything as
much as you can. It’s not such a whirlwind
anymore — you kind of know what to expect.
But in the same aspect, every day is pretty
much the same thing I’ve done for 12 years,
so it also starts going faster.”
Verlander’s Tigers were among 15 teams
with their first scheduled workouts for
pitchers and catchers Tuesday. As major
leaguers took the field in Florida and
Arizona, that familiar sound of balls popping into mitts served as a reminder that in
baseball at least, winter is finally over.
While Verlander and the Tigers went
through their routine at their newly renovated facility in Lakeland, the Boston Red Sox
were about 115 miles to the south, holding
their first workout of the post-Papi era. It’s
Boston’s first season without David Ortiz
since the Red Sox signed him in January
2003, but Big Papi’s retirement may not be
too big a blow to a team that added star lefthander Chris Sale.
Over in Arizona, the Cleveland Indians
began preparing to defend their American
League title. Cleveland won the AL Central
comfortably last year and made it to the
World Series before losing to the Chicago
Cubs in seven games.
“This time of year, everyone is at glass
half-full,” Indians manager Terry Francona
said. “We have good reason to be.”
Hopes are always high at the start of
spring training, but occasionally there’s
some injury news on the first day. Baltimore
manager Buck Showalter said right-hander
Chris Tillman had a platelet-rich plasma
injection on his right shoulder and won’t
start the season until April 7 at the earliest.
The Kansas City Royals said left-hander
Brian Flynn broke a rib and had three minor
vertebrae fractures in a bizarre offseason
injury. Flynn is expected to miss two
With championship drought over,
That s Cub has new meaning
MESA, Ariz. (AP) — A lot has
changed for the Chicago Cubs in
the past year.
Right down to team mantras.
For the better part of 108 years,
blowing a shot at a championship
was met by shrugs and a feeling
of, “That’s just the Cubs.”
The Cubs arrive this week at
Sloan Park as World Series champions and manager Joe Maddon and
Co. are grabbing onto a relatively
fresh term: “That’s Cub.” Maddon,
of course, loves to find creative
ways to keep the players fresh and
focused during a long season.
“That would be Cub, ‘That’s Cub’
to move it forward, to win a World
Series and then come back the next
season and you’re happy and you’re
impressed and you love what you’ve
done, but you have to continue to
move it forward,” Maddon said.
Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein said the
phrase cropped up a few years
ago when today’s current standouts were youngsters in the
organization. It has followed players like Kris Bryant, Kyle
Schwarber, Albert Almora and
Javier Baez to the major leagues.
“’That’s Cub’ started four or five
years ago in the minors,” Epstein
months after falling through a barn roof at
his Oklahoma residence.
The Royals and Miami Marlins begin this
season with heavy hearts following the deaths
of pitchers Yordano Ventura last month and
Jose Fernandez in September, and Tigers
owner Mike Ilitch died Friday at age 87.
“I got to know him as best as an owner and
said. “When they started realizing
how good they were, and some of
the things they were doing, we
started saying, ‘That’s Cub.’ It was
great for morale and came to
mean something positive organically. For years ‘That’s Cub’ had a
different connotation.”
Some players were already sporting “That’s Cub” shirts during
workouts with Courage, Urgency
and Belief spelled out under the
corresponding letters.
Maddon also talked about three
themes he will focus on this
spring: Staying uncomfortable,
authenticity and heart.
“It’s really important to be
uncomfortable,” Maddon said. “If
you become a comfortable person,
I think that subtracts growth from
the equation. I think if you remain
somewhat uncomfortable, you’ll
continue to grow. You don’t
become stagnant. You don’t
become complacent, set in your
ways. On every level, I want us to
remain uncomfortable. I think
that’s a really positive word.”
“For me, I really want us to really
understand the authentic part of
who we are,” he said. “From that,
be able to sustain what we’ve
done in the past just by being us.”
player can know each other,” said Detroit
catcher Alex Avila, whose father Al is the
team’s general manager. “He was always a
very gracious and generous person — very
nice to myself, my family. ... Very loyal. I
know as a family, we always felt we had to
kind of reciprocate that loyalty because he’s a
tremendous man. They’re a great family.”
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Wednesday, February 15, 2017 / 21
LeBron, Cavaliers hold off
Wiggins, Wolves 116-108
The Associated Press
Kentucky’s Malik Monk, left, looks for an opening as
Tennessee’s Jordan Bone (0) defends during the first half,
Tuesday, in Lexington, Ky.
No. 13 Kentucky easily
handles Tennessee 83-58
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) —
Showing long-range accuracy
wasn’t enough for Kentucky
guard Malik Monk, who made
an even bigger impression
going up for rebounds more
often than even he expected.
Others also registered all-out
effort on both ends and typified
the complete performance that
No. 13 Kentucky had sought
for weeks.
Monk had 20 points and a
career-high eight rebounds,
Derek Willis had 16 points and
Kentucky made 10 3-pointers
in the first half to roll past
Tennessee 83-58 on Tuesday
night.
Averaging just 2.2 rebounds
per game coming in, the 6-foot3 Monk matched his previous
five games combined on the
glass. He ended up second to
Bam Adebayo’s 12 boards on a
night the Wildcats topped the
Volunteers 43-35 in that area.
“It was just me being around
the paint,” said Monk, who
even got rebounding advice
from his brother Marcus, a former two-sport athlete at
Arkansas and NFL player.
“My brother told me if I roam
around there, a couple was just
going to bounce to me and they
did. But I had to go get a couple.”
Seeking to stay atop the
Southeastern Conference, the
Wildcats avenged last month’s
82-80 road loss to the
Volunteers with their best performance in a while. Longrange shooting provided the
biggest lift as Kentucky (21-5,
11-2) made 11, its first doubledigit effort from behind the arc
in a month, as Monk and Willis
each made four in the first half.
The Wildcats held Tennessee
(14-12, 6-7) to 35 percent
shooting and led by as many as
28 points in handing the
Volunteers their third loss in
four games.
“It was good,” Kentucky
coach John Calipari said. “I
think you see us different
defensively. I think you see us
different in transition defense. I
think you see the difference
offensively. Some of the
rebooting you’re seeing.”
De’Aaron Fox had 13 points
and six assists and Isaiah
Briscoe had 12 points with six
assists. Dominique Hawkins
added 10 points as Kentucky
won its third straight.
Admiral Schofield had 17
points and Jordan Bone 15 in
Tennessee’s lowest output this
season.
BIG PICTURE
Tennessee: The Volunteers’
recent shooting struggles contin-
Barry scores 30,
No. 15 Florida
races past
Auburn 114-95
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) —
With defensive stops
hard to come by,
Canyon Barry and the
Florida Gators simply
scored more than they
had all season.
Barry scored a season-high 30 points and
the 15th-ranked Gators
kept up with high-scoring Auburn for a half,
then sprinted away to a
114-95 victory Tuesday
night.
———
No. 16 PURDUE 74,
RUTGERS 55
WEST LAFAYETTE,
Ind. (AP) — Center
Isaac Haas had 24
points and 11
rebounds, and power
forward Caleb
Swanigan added 12
points and 17 rebounds
for Purdue.
Purdue (21-5, 10-3 Big
Ten) led only 45-39 with
just over 12:30 remaining, but from the 11:15
mark until he left the
game with 2:20 to play,
Haas scored 16 points,
and the Boilermakers
pulled away for their
fourth consecutive victory.
———
No. 25 NOTRE DAME 84,
BOSTON COLLEGE 76
BOSTON (AP) —
Bonzie Colson scored
20 points and Matt
Farrell had 19 as Notre
Dame overcame a 13point first-half deficit to
send Boston College to
its 10th straight loss.
ued as they lost their 10th straight
at Rupp Arena. After making 42
percent in the loss to Georgia,
they were just 18 of 52 from the
field (35 percent) and committed
13 turnovers leading to 17 points,
including consecutive miscues
leading to baskets early in the
second half. More than anything,
they couldn’t push the tempo and
were outscored 18-0 in fast break
points.
“We were just gosh awful,”
coach Rick Barnes said, “and
from Kentucky’s vantage point
I think they probably got everything they wanted to get done.
... There’s not many positives I
can take from tonight.”
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) —
LeBron James spent the morning
sending a crystal clear message
to the Cleveland Cavaliers in the
wake of Kevin Love’s knee
injury: things will be just fine as
long as James is on the court.
He spent the night backing that
up against an emboldened
Andrew Wiggins and the
Minnesota Timberwolves, as if
anyone doubted him in the first
place.
James had 25 points, 14 assists
and eight rebounds to lead the
Cavaliers to a 116-108 victory
over the Timberwolves on
Tuesday night.
Channing Frye had 21 points
and 10 rebounds while starting
for Love, who will miss at least
the next six weeks after having
surgery on his left knee. Kyre
Irving scored 25 points for the
Cavs and James sealed the victory with a stepback 3-pointer with
two minutes to play.
“The one thing that we can
always rely on is the fact that
we’ve played without Kev
before,” James said. “We’ve had
to do that in the playoffs. As
much as you don’t like to play
without some of your big guns,
sometimes if it happens then
you’re just ready for it.”
Wiggins scored 41 points
against the team that drafted
him and Karl-Anthony Towns
scored 26 for the Wolves, who
finished a six-game homestand
at 2-4. The Wolves allowed
Cleveland to shoot 51 percent
and hit 13 3s.
“It’s always competitive playing them,” Wiggins said. “I feel
like it brings out the best in
everybody.”
James took his time to get
going, choosing to get others
involved, including with a nolook pass through Wiggins’ legs
to a diving Derrick Williams for a
layup in the second quarter. He
threw down two soaring dunks
later in the third and added a
Jordan-like reverse layup as part
of a highlight-filled night.
“It’s been a burden on me since
I got drafted. Why does it change
now?” James said when asked if
he has to do more with Love out.
“Nothing’s changed. I’ll have my
Bulls beat Raptors for 11th straight time
CHICAGO (AP) — Doug
McDermott scored 20
points, All-Star Jimmy
Butler had 19 points and
12 assists in his return to
the lineup, and the
Chicago Bulls continued
their mastery over the
Toronto Raptors in a 10594 victory on Tuesday
night.
Taj Gibson had 14 points
and Rajon Rondo added
12 to help the Bulls beat
the Raptors for the 11th
straight time. Toronto’s
last win in the series was
Dec. 31, 2013.
Chicago led by as many
as 23 points and never
trailed in the final three
quarters to snap a threegame skid.
Kyle Lowry scored 22
points to lead the Raptors,
who lost their third
straight and fell one-half
game behind idle Atlanta
for the No. 4 seed in the
Eastern Conference.
DeMar DeRozan was limited to 18 points — 10
below his season average.
guys ready to play every single
night.”
The Cavs appeared to be
pulling away when they opened a
14-point lead in the third quarter,
but Wiggins exploded for 20
points in the period to make it a
game. He hit a 3-pointer and beat
the buzzer on a long 2 to tie it at
93 going into the fourth.
Wiggins was chosen by the
Cavs No. 1 overall three years
ago, but that was before James
made his surprising return to
Cleveland. The Cavs traded
Wiggins to Minnesota for Love
and Wiggins has always given
them his best punch. He entered
the night averaging 27.6 points
per game against them, his highest scoring average against any
team in the league.
The Wolves missed two open 3pointers that would have tied the
game in the final four minutes,
He was whistled for two
technical fouls with 25
seconds left and ejected
from the game.
The loss came hours
after the Raptors acquired
forward Serge Ibaka from
the Orlando Magic. The
need for his physical
toughness was apparent
from the start.
KINGS 97, LAKERS 96.
LOS ANGELES (AP) —
DeMarcus Cousins had 40
points and 12 rebounds,
and the Sacramento Kings
hung on to beat the Los
Angeles Lakers for their
fourth straight win.
Lou Williams scored 29
points off the bench to
lead the Lakers, who rallied from 13 down early in
the fourth quarter and tied
the game 91-all on his 3pointer with 1:31 to play.
Los Angeles pulled even
twice more, including on
another 3 by Williams, but
couldn’t overcome
Cousins, who scored the
final 10 points for
Sacramento.
but James hit his from deep and
Williams got a steal and a layup
to drop Wiggins to 0-6 against
the Cavs.
“We’ll get ‘em eventually,”
Wiggins said.
TIP-INS
Cavaliers: F Iman Shumpert
played 25 minutes after missing
the previous three games with a
sprained left ankle. ... Williams
scored 13 points off the bench
against the team that drafted him
No. 2 overall. ... Tristan
Thompson had 14 points and 11
boards.
Timberwolves:
SG
Zach
LaVine had surgery in Los
Angeles on Tuesday to reconstruct the torn ACL in his left
knee. He is expected to miss nine
months while recovering. ...
Ricky Rubio had 16 assists and
eight rebounds, but was just 2 for
8 from the field.
Raptors get ‘boost’ acquiring
Ibaka in deal with Orlando
By JON KRAWCZYNSKI
The Associated Press
Kyle Lowry said something had to change in
Toronto. Serge Ibaka is on his way to try to make
that happen.
The Raptors acquired the veteran power forward
from Orlando on Tuesday for Terrence Ross and a
2017 first round draft pick.
Orlando general manager Rob Hennigan said
Tuesday evening the trade of Ibaka for Ross was
necessary for the Magic to have a chance of salvaging a season that has gone drastically off course.
The Raptors made the move with the postseason
and possible championship run in mind.
“Any time you can add a talent who has got playoff experience, (NBA) Finals experience, and a
defender and two-way player like Ibaka has got to
give us a boost,” Raptors coach Dwane Casey said
Tuesday night in Chicago before the Raptors-Bulls
game. “Ibaka fills a huge need.
“His style of play fits our style of play. ... There’s
nothing we’re doing that he hasn’t seen before. It
won’t take him long to pick up the terminology.”
Toronto started the day in fourth place in the
Eastern Conference, having lost 10 of its previous 14
games. The latest ugly performance came on Sunday
when the Raptors gave up a 16-point lead to start the
fourth quarter and lost to the Detroit Pistons.
After the game, Lowry didn’t pull any punches on
the state of a team that made the Eastern
Conference finals last season but has lost to the
Magic twice, the Pistons, Timberwolves and Suns
during this latest swoon.
“Keep getting in the same situations over and over and
not being successful,” Lowry said after the 102-101 loss.
“Something’s got to give, something’s got to change.”
Casey has said all season long that the something
is defense. Toronto ranks 17th in the NBA in defensive efficiency, allowing 106.2 points per 100 possessions. The coach knows that won’t be close to
good enough when they get into the playoffs to try
to build off of last year’s run to the Eastern
Conference finals.
“Like most players, he has migrated out on the
perimeter, so his shot-blocking and rebounding (numbers) are down a little bit,” Casey said of Ibaka. “But
there’s a lot of difference positions he can play for us.”
Ibaka averaged 15.1 points and 6.8 rebounds for
the Magic this season. He has long been considered
a rugged defensive power forward, and has experience making deep playoff runs with the Thunder. He
will be a free agent this summer after being acquired
from Oklahoma City on draft night last summer for
Victor Oladipo, Ersan Ilyasova and the first-round
draft pick that became Domantas Sabonis.
22 / Wednesday, February 15, 2017
SPORTS
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GOLF NOTES
GOLF GLANCE
Jason Day faces a big
challenge to stay at No. 1
PGA TOUR
GENESIS OPEN
Site: Los Angeles.
Course: Riviera Country
Club. Yardage: 7,322. Par:
71.
Purse: $7 million.
Television: ThursdayFriday, 2-6 p.m. (Golf
Channel); Saturday, 1-2:30
p.m. (Golf Channel), 3-6 p.m.
(CBS); Sunday, 1-2:30 p.m.
(Golf Channel), 3-6:30 p.m.
(CBS).
Defending champion:
Bubba Watson.
Last week: Jordan Spieth
won the AT&T Pebble Beach
Pro-Am.
Notes: The field is the
strongest of the year, with
eight of the top 10 players in
the world. Rory McIlroy and
Henrik Stenson are not playing. ... Tiger Woods pulled
out of the tournament with
ongoing problems with his
back. He has not played
Riviera since 2006. His foundation now runs the tournament. ... Bubba Watson has
not won since Riviera last
year. ... A testament to
Riviera is that the 72-hole
scoring record was set by
Lanny Wadkins (264) in
1985. ... Dustin Johnson and
Hideki Matsuyama each have
a mathematical chance to
replace Jason Day by winning, depending on how Day
plays. Jordan Spieth can only
move to No. 2. ... Thomas
Pieters is playing on a sponsor’s exemption. He won the
NCAA individual title at
Riviera when he played for
Illinois... The Charlie Sifford
Memorial exemption was
awarded to Kevin Hall, the
deaf golfer who played at
Ohio State. ... Adam Scott
and Sergio Garcia are playing in America for the first
time this year. Garcia is coming off a victory in Dubai.
Next week: Honda Classic.
Online: www.pgatour.com
———
LPGA TOUR
ISPS HANDA WOMEN’S
AUSTRALIAN OPEN
Site: Grange, Australia.
Course: Royal Adelaide
GC.
Purse: $1.3 million (First
prize: $195,000).
Television: Wednesday, 9
p.m.-2 a.m. (Golf Channel);
Thursday-Friday, 11 p.m. to 2
a.m. (Golf Channel);
Saturday, 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.
(Golf Channel).
Defending champion:
Haru Nomura.
Last tournament: Brittany
Lincicome won the PureSilk
Bahamas LPGA Classic.
Notes: Lydia Ko makes her
2017 debut with a new coach
(Gary Gilchrist), a new caddie (Gary Matthews) and new
clubs (PXG). Her last victory
was in July. ... Ariya
Jutanugarn also is in the
field, one of the strongest
ever for this event. ... This
is the sixth year the
Women’s Australian Open
has been an official LPGA
Tour event. ...Aditi Ashok
and Mariah Stackhouse
received sponsor exemptions. ... The LPGA season
began in the Bahamas with
Brittany Lincicome winning,
and five Americans finishing
in the top five for the first
time on the LPGA since the
2011 Canadian Women’s
Open.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — One
of Jason Day’s goals at the start
of the year was to stay at No. 1
for the entire calendar year. The
year is not even two months old,
and already he is facing his first
big challenge.
And not just from one player.
Dustin Johnson, coming off a
third-place finish at Pebble
Beach, and Phoenix Open champion Hideki Matsuyama both
have a mathematical chance to
reach No. 1 in the world by winning the Genesis Open at
Riviera. Johnson would need
Day to finish around fourth or
worse, while Matsuyama could
reach the top only by winning
and Day finishing about 25th or
worse.
Tiger Woods in 2009 was the
last player to start and finish a
year at No. 1.
Rory McIlroy was the last
player to stay at No. 1 for longer
than a year, starting with his victory at the 2014 Bridgestone
Invitational and ending when
Jordan Spieth passed him with a
runner-up finish in the 2015
PGA Championship.
Just don’t get the idea Day is
consumed with the ranking.
“I said earlier that a calendar
year would be great to go No. 1,
but I need to just focus on what
I need to do because you can’t
really focus on staying No. 1,”
Day said. “The more you focus
on the actual target itself, the
more you attach yourself to it,
you make mental errors out
there, you get more frustrated,
you do silly things on the golf
course that you shouldn’t be
doing.”
Johnson also had a mathematical chance to get to No. 1 last
week, but he would have had to
win Pebble and have Day finish
out of the top 50. Day tied for
fifth. Johnson also had a chance
at the PGA Championship last
summer, but he missed the cut
and Day was runner-up.
Day doesn’t have a lot of history at Riviera. The only reason he
is playing is because of the
tour’s new “strength of field”
regulation that requires most
players to compete at an event
they haven’t been to in four
years.
His best finish is a tie for 62nd.
He keeps reminding himself
that he didn’t have a great history at Bay Hill and The Players
Championship, and he won them
both last year.
———
DAVE MUSGROVE: The
European Tour lost another legendary caddie when Dave
Musgrove died Monday at age
74.
Musgrove and Dave Renwick,
who died last year, are the only
caddies to work for three major
champions. Musgrove was on
the bag when Seve Ballesteros
won his first British Open in
1979. He worked for Sandy Lyle
when the Scot won the Open in
1985 and the Masters in 1988,
and he was alongside Lee
Janzen when he won his second
U.S. Open title at Olympic Club
in 1998.
Musgrove renewed his partnership with Janzen in 2001 so that
he could caddie in his 40th consecutive British Open.
Among the many players paying tribute on Twitter was Lyle,
who said, “We wrote history
together at The Open, The
Masters and The Players
Championship. We’ll miss your
humour and your stories.”
———
NICKLAUS TRIBUTE: The
end of the Masters coincides
with the start of Golf Channel’s
latest project, a three-part series
on Jack Nicklaus.
The Golf Films project is
called “Jack,” and it will air over
three straight nights in prime
time starting at 9 p.m. on April
9. It will feature nearly 100
interviews and hundreds of
hours of archived film.
“‘Jack’ is a project that Golf
Films has spent years developing in order to comprehensively
capture the career and legacy of
golf’s most accomplished champion,” said Mike McCarley,
president of golf for the NBC
Sports Group.
The first part will be the early
part of his career, including the
relationship with his father,
meeting his wife and early success. The second part will look
at the his playing career, highlighted by his 18 major championships. The final part looks at
his legacy in the game, from the
priority he placed on family to
his golf course design and work
with Nicklaus hospitals.
It is being produced by Israel
DeHerrera, who also produced
the three-part series on Arnold
Palmer that was broadcast in
2014.
———
RACE FOR MEXICO: The
first World Golf Championships
event is around the corner in
Mexico City, and this week will
start determining who gets there.
The field will be determined
by the top 50 in the world ranking after this week. Thomas
Pieters (No. 47) and Shane
Lowry (No. 51) are among those
playing the Genesis Open at
Riviera, which has the strongest
field of the year so far.
The tighter race is the FedEx
Cup standings. The top 10 after
the Honda Classic will be
exempt. Hudson Swafford at No.
8 and Gary Woodland at No. 11
are separated by only 61 points
with two weeks to go. Rod
Pampling, currently No. 10, has
not played in a WGC event
since 2009.
On the European Tour, Pablo
Larrazabal is holding down the
10th spot. He has to stay there at
the end of this week to make the
Mexico field.
Much like Chinese players in
the HSBC Champions in
Shanghai, the WGC-Mexico
Championship is reserving a
spot for the highest-ranked
Mexican player. That would
appear to go to Roberto Diaz,
who lost in a playoff on the
Web.com Tour last week in
Colombia. That enabled Diaz to
move from No. 719 to No. 462.
He currently is 36 spots ahead of
the next Mexican player,
Rodolfo Cazuabon Jr.
———
BODY LANGUAGE: Hideki
Matsuyama doesn’t always look
happy with his golf shots, even
when they turn out well. Such
was the case at the Phoenix
Open, when the Japanese star
would finish with one hand on
the club only for the ball to finish in reasonable range for
birdie, or his shoulders would
slump and the ball would split
the middle of the fairway.
“Sometimes how you’re playing and the results don’t coincide,” Matsuyama said. “So for
me, when I do a one-handed finish, to me it’s a missed shot. It’s
just the result was good.”
The Associated Press
In this Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017 photo, Tiger Woods walking to
hole 11th tee shot during the first round of the Dubai Desert
Classic golf tournament in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Woods
had to withdraw from the Dubai Desert Classic with an apparent back injury after shooting an opening-round 5-over 77.
No Tiger is no longer
such a big problem
LOS ANGELES (AP) —
Tiger Woods skipped his hometown tournament for the first
time in 2002 to recover from
remnants of a virus. That
prompted a Los Angeles Times
columnist to ask an annoying
question to players at Riviera.
Why would anyone come out
to watch if Tiger isn’t playing?
Among the victims that day
were defending champion
Robert Allenby (”Then don’t
come — go home”) and twotime Riviera champion Fred
Couples (”That’s crazy. That’s
the most ridiculous question I
have ever heard”).
The irritation was understandable.
Fifteen years ago, Woods was
golf. A year earlier, he had
become the first player to
sweep the four majors, starting
with a 15-shot victory in the
U.S. Open at Pebble Beach.
Months later, he would win the
first two legs of the Grand
Slam. It seemed all anyone
cared about was Tiger Woods.
Now?
The question, while still reasonable, no longer seems as relevant.
“I’m here, and I’m insulted
that’s not enough,” Paul Casey
said, the sarcasm easily
detectable through his laughter.
Why watch?
The simple answer is because
Riviera is as good as any course
the PGA Tour plays, and the
field at the Genesis Open is the
strongest of the year.
Jordan Spieth is coming off a
victory at Pebble Beach. Jason
Day is trying to keep Dustin
Johnson and Hideki Matsuyama
from taking his No. 1 world ranking. Adam Scott and Sergio
Garcia are playing for the first
time in America this year. They
are among eight of the top 10
players in the world, a list that
doesn’t even include defending
champion Bubba Watson.
While Woods is No. 693 in the
world, what matters far more is
that he spent 683 weeks at No.
1 in the world ranking. That
record, much like his 142 consecutive cuts, are likely to never
be touched.
So yes, he’s still very much
relevant.
Woods stopped playing
Riviera in 2006. While the tournament gave him his first sponsor exemption in 1992 and he
grew up 45 miles away, he only
had one serious chance at winning. He was scheduled to
return this year because the
Tiger Woods Foundation now
runs the tournament.
But then he pulled out last
week.
Woods was out for 15
months recovering from three
back surgeries when he made a
soft return in the Bahamas at
an unofficial event against an
18-man field with no cut. Then
he missed the cut at Torrey
Pines, flew to Dubai and withdrew after a 77 because of
back spasms. He said the
recurring spasms would keep
him from playing this week
and next week at the Honda
Classic.
His absence at Riviera is jarring only as it relates to the
future. Questions have shifted
from how he will fare to when
— or if — he can play again.
But it is no longer as noticeable.
Golf has gotten used to tournaments without Woods.
He still draws the most attention, and it’s not even close.
One only had to see crowds
lined up from tee-to-green at
Torrey Pines a few weeks ago.
So why watch?
“Fifteen years ago ... I wouldn’t say there was no reason. You
still had great players,” Pat
Perez said. “But you didn’t
have anyone like Tiger at that
time. But golf, in my opinion,
has totally changed. Tiger is
such an ‘if’ that I don’t think
we’ll see him for six months.
Jordan, Jason and all these
young kids winning, they’re
taking over.
“They’re not going to catch
him. Even combined, they’re
not going to catch him,” Perez
added. “Tiger is the needle.
Anyone who argues that is
crazy. But it’s almost like seeing Bigfoot now. You don’t
know when you’ll see him.”
There’s still a difference
between great golf and a great
golf attraction.
“There is a needle factor,”
Geoff Ogilvy said. “Tiger was
the only guy to move that needle outside the golf world.
Arnold (Palmer) did a little bit.
But Tiger was on the cover of
Sports Illustrated and Time, he
was athlete of the year. ... He
did stuff no one had ever done,
and the world took notice. They
didn’t take notice of golf, they
took notice of Tiger.”
The Recorder, Amsterdam, N.Y.
THE SCOREBOARD
HOCKEY
Wednesday, February 15, 2017 / 23
BASKETBALL
NHL standings
Oilers 5, Coyotes 2
NBA standings
Kings 97, Lakers 96
College schedule
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
GP W L OTPts GF GA
Montreal
58 31 19 8 70 165 150
Ottawa
54 29 19 6 64 145 146
Boston
58 29 23 6 64 157 155
Toronto
55 26 18 11 63 172 162
Florida
54 24 20 10 58 134 153
Buffalo
57 24 23 10 58 141 161
Tampa Bay
56 25 24 7 57 154 160
Detroit
56 22 24 10 54 141 169
Metropolitan Division
GP W L OTPts GF GA
Washington
56 39 11 6 84 192 121
Pittsburgh
55 35 13 7 77 197 155
Columbus
55 35 15 5 75 177 136
N.Y. Rangers 56 37 18 1 75 192 147
Philadelphia 56 27 22 7 61 147 168
N.Y. Islanders 55 25 20 10 60 162 165
New Jersey
56 24 22 10 58 131 159
Carolina
53 24 22 7 55 140 156
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central Division
GP W L OTPts GF GA
Minnesota
56 37 13 6 80 187 130
Chicago
57 35 17 5 75 166 147
St. Louis
56 29 22 5 63 161 165
Nashville
56 27 21 8 62 158 151
Winnipeg
59 26 29 4 56 171 187
Dallas
58 22 26 10 54 160 187
Colorado
54 15 37 2 32 109 184
Pacific Division
GP W L OTPts GF GA
San Jose
57 34 18 5 73 156 135
Anaheim
58 30 18 10 70 152 147
Edmonton
57 30 19 8 68 162 148
Los Angeles
55 28 23 4 60 138 136
Calgary
57 28 26 3 59 149 164
Vancouver
57 25 26 6 56 135 164
Arizona
55 19 29 7 45 131 174
Arizona
1 1 0 — 2
Edmonton
0 3 2 — 5
First Period—1, Arizona, Jooris 3
(Martinook, Ekman-larsson), 10:44.
Penalties—Goligoski, ARI, (interference), 5:12; Nugent-hopkins, EDM,
(holding), 13:08.
Second
Period—2,
Edmonton,
Draisaitl 21 (Lucic, Klefbom), 2:51
(pp). 3, Edmonton, Hendricks 3
(Pakarinen, Letestu), 3:22. 4,
Arizona, Hanzal 14 (Domi, Vrbata),
3:33. 5, Edmonton, Letestu 11
(Mcdavid, Draisaitl), 10:24 (pp).
Penalties—Murphy, ARI, (high sticking), 2:32; Schenn, ARI, (interference), 8:47; Goligoski, ARI, (delay of
game), 9:45; Klefbom, EDM, (holding), 12:13; Benning, EDM, (holding), 17:30; Gryba, EDM, (delay of
game), 17:56.
Third
Period—6,
Edmonton,
Klefbom 9 (Draisaitl, Slepyshev),
2:43. 7, Edmonton, Maroon 20
(Klefbom,
Mcdavid),
6:29.
Penalties—Gryba, EDM, (tripping),
13:54.
Shots on Goal—Arizona 12-4-9—25.
Edmonton 8-15-10—33.
Power-play opportunities—Arizona 0
of 5; Edmonton 2 of 4.
Goalies—Arizona, Domingue 5-13-1
(33 shots-28 saves). Edmonton,
Talbot 28-16-7 (25-23).
A—18,347 (18,641). T—2:37.
Referees—Mike
Leggo,
Brian
Pochmara.
Linesmen—Greg
Devorski, Bevan Mills.
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W L Pct
GB
Boston
36 19 .655
—
Toronto
32 24 .571 4 1/2
New York
23 33 .411 13 1/2
Philadelphia
21 34 .382
15
Brooklyn
9 46 .164
27
Southeast Division
W L Pct
GB
Washington
33 21 .611
—
Atlanta
32 23 .582 1 1/2
Charlotte
24 31 .436 9 1/2
Miami
24 32 .429
10
Orlando
21 36 .368 13 1/2
Central Division
W L Pct
GB
Cleveland
38 16 .704
—
Indiana
29 26 .527 9 1/2
Chicago
27 29 .482
12
Detroit
26 30 .464
13
Milwaukee
24 30 .444
14
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest Division
W L Pct
GB
San Antonio
42 13 .764
—
Houston
40 17 .702
3
Memphis
34 23 .596
9
Dallas
22 33 .400
20
New Orleans
22 34 .393 20 1/2
Northwest Division
W L Pct
GB
Utah
34 22 .607
—
Oklahoma City 31 25 .554
3
Denver
25 30 .455 8 1/2
Portland
23 32 .418 10 1/2
Minnesota
21 35 .375
13
Pacific Division
W L Pct
GB
Golden State
46 9 .836
—
L.A. Clippers
34 21 .618
12
Sacramento
24 32 .429 22 1/2
L.A. Lakers
19 38 .333
28
Phoenix
17 39 .304 29 1/2
———
Monday’s Games
Philadelphia 105, Charlotte 99
San Antonio 110, Indiana 106
Memphis 112, Brooklyn 103
Orlando 116, Miami 107
Milwaukee 102, Detroit 89
Washington 120, Oklahoma City 98
Boston 111, Dallas 98
Denver 132, Golden State 110
L.A. Clippers 88, Utah 72
New Orleans 110, Phoenix 108
Atlanta 109, Portland 104, OT
Tuesday’s Games
Chicago 105, Toronto 94
Cleveland 116, Minnesota 108
Sacramento 97, L.A. Lakers 96
Today’s Games
Indiana at Cleveland, 7 p.m.
San Antonio at Orlando, 7 p.m.
Charlotte at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.
Dallas at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.
Milwaukee at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.
Philadelphia at Boston, 7:30 p.m.
Miami at Houston, 8 p.m.
New Orleans at Memphis, 8 p.m.
L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 9 p.m.
Minnesota at Denver, 9 p.m.
Portland at Utah, 9 p.m.
New York at Oklahoma City, 9:30 p.m.
Atlanta at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.
Sacramento at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.
Thursday’s Games
Washington at Indiana, 7 p.m.
Boston at Chicago, 8 p.m.
Sunday’s Games
All-Star Game, at New Orleans, 8:30 p.m.
SACRAMENTO (97)
Koufos 2-4 0-0 4, Cousins 13-24 12-19
40, Collison 5-12 2-2 13, McLemore 4-9
2-2 13, Afflalo 5-7 0-0 10, Barnes 2-7 00 5, Tolliver 2-4 0-0 4, Cauley-Stein 35 2-2 8, Richardson 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 3673 18-25 97.
L.A. LAKERS (96)
Ingram 2-7 1-4 6, Young 3-10 1-2 10,
Randle 5-11 0-0 11, Black 3-5 0-0 7,
Russell 3-9 0-0 8, Nance 4-6 0-2 8,
Deng 2-5 0-0 4, Mozgov 2-3 0-0 4,
Zubac 0-1 0-0 0, Clarkson 4-8 1-2 9,
Williams 10-18 5-5 29. Totals 38-83 8-15
96.
Sacramento
29 14 27 27 — 97
L.A. Lakers 23 18 23 32 — 96
3-Point Goals—Sacramento 7-24
(McLemore 3-5, Cousins 2-7, Collison
1-4, Barnes 1-5, Richardson 0-1,
Tolliver 0-2), L.A. Lakers 12-29
(Williams 4-11, Young 3-8, Russell 23, Randle 1-1, Black 1-1, Ingram 1-2,
Nance 0-1, Clarkson 0-1, Deng 0-1).
Fouled Out—Black. Rebounds—
Sacramento 39 (Cousins 12), L.A.
Lakers 42 (Randle, Clarkson 7).
Assists—Sacramento 23 (Collison,
Cousins 8), L.A. Lakers 22 (Williams
5). Total Fouls—Sacramento 12, L.A.
Lakers 21. A—19,997 (19,060).
Wednesday, Feb. 15
EAST
LIU Brooklyn at St. Francis
Brooklyn, 6 p.m.
Xavier at Providence, 6:30 p.m.
UMBC at Albany (NY), 7 p.m.
La Salle at St. Bonaventure, 7 p.m.
Army at Holy Cross, 7 p.m.
Boston U. at Colgate, 7 p.m.
Fordham at Rhode Island, 7 p.m.
Navy at Lehigh, 7 p.m.
Stony Brook at Hartford, 7 p.m.
Vermont at Mass.-Lowell, 7 p.m.
American U. at Lafayette, 7 p.m.
UMass at Duquesne, 7 p.m.
Maine at New Hampshire, 7 p.m.
Bucknell at Loyola (Md.), 7:30 p.m.
Creighton at Seton Hall, 8 p.m.
SOUTH
Arkansas at South Carolina, 6:30
p.m.
George Washington at Davidson, 7
p.m.
Samford at ETSU, 7 p.m.
Cincinnati at South Florida, 7 p.m.
Furman at W. Carolina, 7 p.m.
Temple at East Carolina, 7 p.m.
Radford at Gardner-Webb, 7 p.m.
Winthrop at Longwood, 7 p.m.
Chattanooga at VMI, 7 p.m.
Presbyterian at UNC-Asheville, 7
p.m.
Wofford at UNC-Greensboro, 7 p.m.
Campbell at Charleston Southern,
7:30 p.m.
SC State at Norfolk St., 8 p.m.
Georgia Tech at Miami, 8 p.m.
North Carolina at NC State, 8 p.m.
Duke at Virginia, 9 p.m.
MIDWEST
N. Dakota St. at Fort Wayne, 7 p.m.
Wichita St. at S. Illinois, 7 p.m.
Maryland at Northwestern, 7 p.m.
Iowa St. at Kansas St., 7 p.m.
IUPUI at S. Dakota St., 8 p.m.
Bradley at N. Iowa, 8 p.m.
Indiana St. at Loyola of Chicago, 8
p.m.
St. John’s at Butler, 8:30 p.m.
Alabama at Missouri, 8:30 p.m.
Illinois St. at Missouri St., 9 p.m.
Indiana at Minnesota, 9 p.m.
SOUTHWEST
Texas A&M-CC at Incarnate Word,
8:30 p.m.
Oklahoma St. at TCU, 9 p.m.
Tulane at SMU, 9 p.m.
FAR WEST
Nevada at Air Force, 9 p.m.
San Jose St. at Fresno St., 10 p.m.
San Diego St. at Utah St., 10 p.m.
Cal Poly at CS Northridge, 10 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 16
EAST
Robert Morris at Bryant, 7 p.m.
Drexel at Delaware, 7 p.m.
Florida Gulf Coast at NJIT, 7 p.m.
St. Francis (Pa.) at CCSU, 7 p.m.
Coll. of Charleston at Hofstra, 7
p.m.
UNC-Wilmington at Northeastern, 7
p.m.
Fairleigh Dickinson at Sacred
Heart, 7 p.m.
Mount St. Mary’s at Wagner, 7 p.m.
Elon at Towson, 7 p.m.
Manhattan at Siena, 7 p.m.
Niagara at Monmouth (NJ), 8 p.m.
Memphis at UConn, 9 p.m.
SOUTH
Jacksonville at Kennesaw St., 7
p.m.
SIU-Edwardsville at Murray St., 7
p.m.
Texas A&M at Vanderbilt, 7 p.m.
Stetson at SC-Upstate, 7 p.m.
William & Mary at James Madison,
7 p.m.
UAB at Marshall, 7 p.m.
Cent. Arkansas at Nicholls, 7:30
p.m.
FAU at Louisiana Tech, 7:30 p.m.
North Florida at Lipscomb, 7:30
p.m.
Abilene Christian at McNeese St., 8
p.m.
E. Illinois at Austin Peay, 8 p.m.
FIU at Southern Miss., 8 p.m.
E. Kentucky at Belmont, 8 p.m.
SE Louisiana at Northwestern St., 9
p.m.
Middle Tennessee at W. Kentucky, 9
p.m.
Morehead St. at Tennessee St., 9
p.m.
MIDWEST
Wisconsin at Michigan, 7 p.m.
N. Kentucky at Cleveland St., 7:45
p.m.
Wright St. at Youngstown St., 7:45
p.m.
Oral Roberts vs. Nebraska-Omaha
at Lincoln, Neb., 8 p.m.
SOUTHWEST
UTEP at North Texas, 8 p.m.
UTSA at Rice, 8 p.m.
Sam Houston St. at Houston
Baptist, 8 p.m.
Lamar at Stephen F. Austin, 9 p.m.
NOTE: Two points for a win, one point
for overtime loss.
Sunday’s Games
San Jose 4, New Jersey 1
Minnesota 6, Detroit 3
N.Y. Islanders 5, Colorado 1
Nashville 5, Dallas 3
Boston 4, Montreal 0
Vancouver 4, Buffalo 2
Monday’s Games
N.Y. Rangers 3, Columbus 2
Arizona 5, Calgary 0
Tuesday’s Games
Pittsburgh 4, Vancouver 0
New Jersey 3, Colorado 2
Toronto 7, N.Y. Islanders 1
Buffalo 3, Ottawa 2
Winnipeg 5, Dallas 2
Anaheim 1, Minnesota 0
Edmonton 5, Arizona 2
Today’s Games
Toronto at Columbus, 7 p.m.
St. Louis at Detroit, 8 p.m.
Philadelphia at Calgary, 9:30 p.m.
Florida at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.
Thursday’s Games
Winnipeg at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
N.Y. Rangers at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.
Ottawa at New Jersey, 7 p.m.
Colorado at Buffalo, 7:30 p.m.
Dallas at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Vancouver at St. Louis, 8 p.m.
Philadelphia at Edmonton, 9 p.m.
Arizona at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.
Friday’s Games
Pittsburgh at Columbus, 7 p.m.
Colorado at Carolina, 7:30 p.m.
Florida at Anaheim, 10 p.m.
Ducks 1, Wild 0
Anaheim
1 0 0 — 1
Minnesota
0 0 0 — 0
First
Period—1,
Anaheim,
Cramarossa 4 (Lindholm, Perry),
4:38.
Penalties—Ritchie,
ANA,
(hooking), 6:45; Fowler, ANA, (holding), 16:44.
Second Period—None. Penalties—
Bieksa, ANA, (delay of game),
10:32; Getzlaf, ANA, (hooking),
17:57.
Third Period—None. Penalties—
Cramarossa, ANA, (tripping), 3:15;
Vermette,
ANA,
Misconduct
(unsportsmanlike conduct), 7:33.
Shots on Goal—Anaheim 8-4-11—23.
Minnesota 13-16-8—37.
Power-play opportunities—Anaheim
0 of 0; Minnesota 0 of 5.
Goalies—Anaheim, Gibson 22-14-8
(37 shots-37 saves). Minnesota,
Dubnyk 31-10-3 (23-22).
A—19,047 (18,064). T—2:33.
Referees—Tom
Kowal,
Jon
Mclsaac.
Linesmen—Shandor
Alphonso, Kiel Murchison.
Jets 5, Stars 2
Dallas
0 2 0 — 2
Winnipeg
1 1 3 — 5
First Period—1, Winnipeg, Laine 24
(Scheifele, Copp), 15:04. Penalties—
Chiarot, WPG, (tripping), 12:25.
Second Period—2, Winnipeg, Armia
5 (Matthias, Postma), 7:38. 3, Dallas,
Ja.Benn 19 (Seguin, Spezza), 8:43. 4,
Dallas, Seguin 21 (Klingberg,
Ja.Benn), 13:35 (pp). Penalties—
Dallas bench, served by Seguin (too
many men on the ice), 2:02;
Mckenzie, DAL, Major (fighting),
8:28; Chiarot, WPG, Major (fighting), 8:28; Roussel, DAL, (slashing),
9:21; Byfuglien, WPG, (roughing),
9:21; Seguin, DAL, (high sticking),
11:15; Ehlers, WPG, (hooking),
12:07.
Third Period—5, Winnipeg, Laine 25
(Scheifele), 14:53. 6, Winnipeg,
Wheeler 17, 18:12. 7, Winnipeg, Laine
26 (Morrissey, Scheifele), 18:58.
Penalties—Stuart, WPG, (cross
checking), 6:17; Jo.Benn, DAL,
(interference), 9:26; Laine, WPG,
(tripping), 12:04.
Shots on Goal—Dallas 12-11-13—36.
Winnipeg 6-10-8—24.
Power-play opportunities—Dallas 1
of 4; Winnipeg 0 of 3.
Goalies—Dallas, Niemi 10-9-4 (22
shots-19
saves).
Winnipeg,
Hellebuyck 18-15-1 (36-34).
A—15,294 (15,015). T—2:36.
Referees—Kyle Rehman, Ian Walsh.
Linesmen—Ryan
Galloway,
Vaughan Rody.
Sabres 3, Senators 2
Buffalo
1 0 2 — 3
Ottawa
1 1 0 — 2
First Period—1, Buffalo, O’reilly 12
(Falk, Okposo), 0:24. 2, Ottawa,
Ryan 12 (Claesson, Karlsson), 14:45.
Penalties—Kulikov, BUF, (hooking),
8:04; Stone, OTT, (hooking), 16:46;
Phaneuf, OTT, (roughing), 19:03;
Deslauriers, BUF, (roughing), 19:03.
Second Period—3, Ottawa, Phaneuf
8 (Ryan), 14:33. Penalties—Ceci,
OTT, (hooking), 6:14; Bogosian,
BUF, (high sticking), 14:55.
Third Period—4, Buffalo, Moulson 12
(Eichel, Reinhart), 0:51. 5, Buffalo,
Bailey 2 (Mccabe, Ristolainen), 7:38.
Penalties—None.
Shots on Goal—Buffalo 10-7-8—25.
Ottawa 11-16-14—41.
Power-play opportunities—Buffalo 0
of 2; Ottawa 0 of 2.
Goalies—Buffalo, Lehner 15-16-6 (41
shots-39 saves). Ottawa, Anderson
13-7-1 (25-22).
A—16,832 (19,153). T—2:30.
Referees—Ghislain Hebert, Chris
Lee.
Linesmen—Steve
Barton,
Michel Cormier.
Maple Leafs 7,
Islanders 1
N.Y. Islanders
0 1 0 — 1
Toronto
2 1 4 — 7
First Period—1, Toronto, Leivo 1,
11:36. 2, Toronto, Kadri 21 (Nylander,
Zaitsev), 19:28. Penalties—Kulemin,
NYI, (cross checking), 7:29; Brown,
TOR, (holding), 15:10.
Second
Period—3,
Toronto,
Nylander 15 (Kadri, Polak), 9:26. 4,
N.Y. Islanders, Chimera 14, 16:55.
Penalties—Lee, NYI, (hooking),
3:09; Marner, TOR, (hooking), 4:11;
Polak, TOR, (interference), 10:30;
Hunwick, TOR, Penalty Shot (interference on breakaway (penalty
shot)), 16:55; Kadri, TOR, (hooking),
17:51.
Third Period—5, Toronto, Matthews
26 (Komarov, Leivo), 5:41 (pp). 6,
Toronto, Bozak 14 (Van riemsdyk,
Marner), 7:16. 7, Toronto, Matthews
27 (Brown), 11:51. 8, Toronto,
Hunwick 1 (Smith, Leivo), 15:40.
Penalties—Kulemin, NYI, (hooking),
5:04; Carrick, TOR, Major (fighting), 6:06; Strome, NYI, Major
(fighting), 6:06.
Shots on Goal—N.Y. Islanders 12-166—34. Toronto 10-11-20—41.
Power-play
opportunities—N.Y.
Islanders 0 of 4; Toronto 1 of 3.
Goalies—N.Y. Islanders, Berube 2-22 (7 shots-6 saves), Greiss 17-10-3 (3428). Toronto, Andersen 23-12-10 (3433).
A—18,956 (18,819). T—2:29.
Referees—Dean Morton, Garrett
Rank. Linesmen—David Brisebois,
Steve Miller.
Devils 3, Avalanche 2
Colorado
0 2 0 — 2
New Jersey
1 2 0 — 3
First Period—1, New Jersey, Zacha
7
(Noesen,
Josefson),
2:04.
Penalties—Lovejoy, NJ, (hooking),
5:06; Mitchell, COL, (high sticking),
13:11.
Second
Period—2,
Colorado,
Barberio 1 (Landeskog, Rantanen),
6:43 (pp). 3, New Jersey, Greene 4
(Zajac), 8:55 (pp). 4, New Jersey,
Palmieri 15 (Hall), 16:25. 5,
Colorado, Grigorenko 6 (Duchene),
18:34. Penalties—Mackinnon, COL,
(tripping), 4:04; Wood, NJ, (high
sticking), 5:16; Martinsen, COL,
(hooking), 8:52; Wood, NJ, (delay of
game), 9:14.
Third Period—None. Penalties—
None.
Shots on Goal—Colorado 10-12-8—30.
New Jersey 13-18-9—40.
Power-play opportunities—Colorado
1 of 3; New Jersey 1 of 3.
Goalies—Colorado, Smith 0-1-0 (40
shots-37
saves).
New
Jersey,
Schneider 18-16-8 (30-28).
A—12,462 (17,625). T—2:35.
Referees—Eric Furlatt, Justin St
Pierre. Linesmen—Kory Nagy, Tony
Sericolo.
Penguins 4,
Canucks 0
Vancouver
0 0 0 — 0
Pittsburgh
0 1 3 — 4
First Period—None. Penalties—
Granlund, VAN, (high sticking),
18:07.
Second
Period—1,
Pittsburgh,
Malkin 23 (Maatta, Daley), 5:16.
Penalties—Edler, VAN, (slashing),
10:53.
Third
Period—2,
Pittsburgh,
Guentzel 6 (Crosby, Dumoulin), 2:27.
3, Pittsburgh, Kessel 20 (Wilson,
Malkin), 14:03. 4, Pittsburgh, Cullen
9
(Letang,
Bonino),
18:03.
Penalties—Letang, PIT, (delay of
game), 4:55.
Shots on Goal—Vancouver 9-8-12—
29. Pittsburgh 15-10-17—42.
Power-play
opportunities—
Vancouver 0 of 1; Pittsburgh 0 of
2.
Goalies—Vancouver, Miller 15-16-3
(42 shots-38 saves). Pittsburgh,
Murray 21-6-2 (29-29).
A—18,653 (18,387). T—2:26.
Referees—Frederick L’Ecuyer, Wes
McCauley. Linesmen—Brian Mach,
Tim Nowak.
BOWLING
SCORES BY LEAGUE
Amsterdam Men’s City League
Tim Grant 790; Tommy Taylor 290772; Chris Kelly 300; Mark Altieri 300
St. John’s Ladies
Marylynn Miseikis 189-518; Daisy
Rivera 175-479
Mixed Nuts
Men
Mike Fariello 266-702; Ed Arthurs
647; Brian Auspelmyer 258
Women
Marie Fariello 226-632; Liz Tesiero
576; Linda Ferlazzo 214
Alley aces
MEN
Tim Grant
267 255
Tommy Taylor
273 290
Mark Altieri
226 218
Chris Kelly
186 300
Mike Miseno
230 245
Chuck Rossi
265 254
Alex Negrich
192 275
Mike Fariello
266 221
JP Barone
226 246
Ed Sajdak
204 265
Bill Schmidtmann Jr. 224 216
Tom Adamchick
172 238
Harv Sajdak
192 245
Justin Lansing
237 236
Gene Piurek
220 220
Kyle Kilburn
235 213
Mike Fariello
222 257
Josh Persse
234 204
Shawn Collins
232 242
Jim Syzek
181 221
Jeremy McGaffin
193 230
Ed Arthurs
192 235
Dan DeLuca
238 170
Bill Mason Jr.
222 235
Bill McGaffin
233 188
Brian Auspelmyer
190 258
Terry Hudson
192 216
Al Auspelmyer
210 200
Dan Bryk
204 227
Gene Piurek
204 248
Joe Gatchel
203 223
AJ Bryk
214 225
Chad Chiara
228 183
George Savoie
225 214
Joe Quist
203 194
Bob Lopuch
190 201
Steve Furman
194 212
WOMEN
Marie Fariello
193 226
Liz Tesiero
191 212
Sue Korchinsky
160 179
SENIORS - WOMEN
Marylynn Miseikis
189 171
Daisy Rivera
133 171
Bea Abraham
159 170
Mattie Bottisti
170 138
268
209
300
247
247
196
245
215
226
212
237
265
234
194
225
214
183
223
185
257
235
220
235
184
219
191
228
226
202
178
197
181
201
169
209
213
195
790
772
744
733
722
715
712
702
698
681
677
675
671
667
665
663
662
661
659
659
658
647
643
641
640
639
636
636
633
630
623
620
612
608
606
604
601
213 632
173 576
197 536
158
175
149
147
518
479
478
455
TRANSACTIONS
BASEBALL
American League
CLEVELAND INDIANS — Agreed
to terms with LHP Chris Narveson
on a minor league contract.
TAMPA BAY RAYS — Designated
RHP Eddie Gamboa for assignment.
Agreed to terms with RHP Nathan
Eovaldi on a one-year contract.
TEXAS RANGERS — Acquired
RHP Eddie Gamboa from Tampa
Bay for a player to be named or
cash considerations. Placed 1B/DH
Prince Fielder and LHP Jake
Diekman on the 60-day DL.
National League
CHICAGO CUBS — Assigned LHP
David Rollins outright to Iowa
(PCL). Agreed to terms with RHP
Pedro Strop on a one-year contract.
Named Ann Weiser vice president of
human resources.
CINCINNATI REDS — Claimed
RHP Nefi Ogando off waivers from
Pittsburgh. Placed RHP Homer
Bailey on the 60-day DL.
NEW YORK METS — Sent INF Ty
Kelly outright to Las Vegas (PCL).
SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS —
Agreed to terms with RHP David
Hernandez on a minor league contract.
BASKETBALL
National Basketball Association
TORONTO RAPTORS — Acquired
F Serge Ibaka from the Orlando
Magic for F Terrence Ross and a
2017 first round draft pick.
FOOTBALL
National Football League
BALTIMORE RAVENS — Named
Chris Hewitt secondary coach.
Promoted defensive assistant Mike
Macdonald to defensive backs
coach, defensive coaching assistant
Drew Wilkins to assistant defensive
line coach and assistant strength
and conditioning coach Juney
Barnett to strength and conditioning
coach.
NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS —
Signed FB Glenn Gronkowski to a
reserve/future contract.
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS —
Named Skyler Fulton offensive
assistant, Anthony Perkins assistant
to the head coach, Alex Smith pro
scout, Danny Breyer defensive
assistant and Zack Grossi offfensive
quality control coach.
Bulls 105, Raptors 94
TORONTO (94)
Carroll 1-4 2-2 4, Poeltl 2-2 0-0 4,
Valanciunas 6-11 0-0 12, Lowry 8-17 22 22, DeRozan 5-19 8-9 18, Siakam 1-2
0-0 2, Nogueira 3-4 1-3 7, Wright 1-2 00 2, Joseph 4-8 1-2 10, Powell 4-8 5-6
13. Totals 35-77 19-24 94.
CHICAGO (105)
Gibson 6-9 2-2 14, Lopez 4-12 0-0 8,
Grant 1-5 0-0 2, Carter-Williams 2-2 46 8, Butler 2-10 15-19 19, McDermott 813 2-2 20, Portis 1-5 3-4 6, Felicio 4-6 22 10, Rondo 5-8 0-0 12, Canaan 0-0 0-0
0, Valentine 2-3 0-0 6. Totals 35-73 2835 105.
Toronto
18 21 25 30 — 94
Chicago
24 34 20 27 — 105
3-Point Goals—Toronto 5-20 (Lowry
4-11, Joseph 1-1, DeRozan 0-1, Wright
0-1, Powell 0-3, Carroll 0-3), Chicago
7-17 (Rondo 2-2, Valentine 2-3,
McDermott 2-4, Portis 1-2, Gibson 0-1,
Grant 0-2, Butler 0-3). Fouled Out—
None.
Rebounds—Toronto
34
(Valanciunas 9), Chicago 37 (Lopez,
Felicio 6). Assists—Toronto 15
(Powell, Lowry 4), Chicago 22
(Butler 12). Total Fouls—Toronto 26,
Chicago
23.
Technicals—
Valanciunas, DeRozan 2, Chicago
defensive three second, Chicago
team,
McDermott.
Ejected—
DeRozan. A—21,220 (20,917).
Cavaliers 116,
Timberwolves 108
CLEVELAND (116)
James 10-14 3-6 25, Frye 7-15 3-3 21,
Thompson 6-7 2-3 14, Irving 10-27 3-3
25, Shumpert 3-9 0-0 9, Jefferson 1-1 12 3, Williams 5-7 3-5 13, Korver 2-5 0-0
6, J.Jones 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 44-86 15-22
116.
MINNESOTA (108)
Wiggins 16-29 5-6 41, Towns 11-19 3-3
26, Dieng 4-9 3-3 12, Rubio 2-8 1-2 5,
Rush 2-6 0-0 6, Muhammad 2-5 3-5 7,
Bjelica 2-4 0-0 5, Aldrich 0-1 0-0 0,
Dunn 1-3 0-0 2, Stephenson 2-2 0-0 4.
Totals 42-86 15-19 108.
Cleveland
26 43 24 23 — 116
Minnesota
30 31 32 15 — 108
3-Point
Goals—Cleveland
13-39
(Frye 4-11, Shumpert 3-8, James 2-3,
Korver 2-5, Irving 2-10, Williams 0-1,
J.Jones 0-1), Minnesota 9-23 (Wiggins
4-8, Rush 2-4, Bjelica 1-1, Dieng 1-2,
Towns 1-4, Rubio 0-2, Muhammad 02). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—
Cleveland
43
(Thompson
11),
Minnesota 41 (Dieng 10). Assists—
Cleveland 27 (James 14), Minnesota
27 (Rubio 16). Total Fouls—
Cleveland
18,
Minnesota
18.
Technicals—Minnesota
defensive
three second, Minnesota team. A—
17,738 (19,356).
College scores
EAST
Farmingdale 69, Yeshiva 56
Notre Dame 84, Boston College 76
Old Westbury 61, Mount St. Vincent 53
St. Peter’s 71, Marist 46
Utica 75, Ithaca 74
Virginia Tech 66, Pittsburgh 63
SOUTH
Asbury 106, Indiana-Kokomo 79
Cincinnati Christian 74, Alice Lloyd 61
Clemson 95, Wake Forest 83
Florida 114, Auburn 95
George Mason 93, Richmond 70
Georgia 79, Mississippi St. 72
Indiana-Southeast 92, Midway 76
Kentucky 83, Tennessee 58
Kentucky Christian 96, Simmons 82
Liberty 55, High Point 52
Mississippi 96, LSU 76
UCF 71, Tulsa 53
VCU 91, Saint Joseph’s 81
MIDWEST
Akron 71, Toledo 65
Ball St. 81, N. Illinois 72, OT
Buffalo 99, Cent. Michigan 93
Cornell (Iowa) 67, Beloit 59
Dayton 85, Saint Louis 63
Denver 78, W. Illinois 72
Edgewood 62, Concordia (Wis.) 33
Evansville 87, Drake 70
Kent St. 76, Miami (Ohio) 72
Michigan St. 74, Ohio St. 66
Nebraska 82, Penn St. 66
Ohio 79, E. Michigan 71
Purdue 74, Rutgers 55
W. Michigan 89, Bowling Green 79
Wis. Lutheran 72, Lakeland 70
SOUTHWEST
Oklahoma 70, Texas 66
FAR WEST
Colorado St. 78, Wyoming 73
New Mexico 76, Boise St. 73
SPORTS TODAY
1932 — Eddie Eagen of the four-man
U.S. bobsled team wins a gold medal
at the Winter Olympics in Lake
Placid, New York. He won a gold
medal in boxing as a light heavyweight at the 1920 Summer Games in
Antwerp, Belgium.
1936 — Sonja Henie of Norway wins
her third consecutive Olympics figure skating gold medal in GarmischPartenkirchen, Germany.
1952 — Emmett Ashford becomes
the first black umpire in organized
baseball when he signs to work in the
Classs C Southwest International
League. He later serves as a major
league umpire for the American
League from 1966 to 1970.
1953 — Tenley Albright becomes the
first American woman to win a world
figure
skating
title,
beating
Germany’s Gundi Busch at the world
championships
in
Davos,
Switzerland.
1964 — Ken Hubbs, the 22-year-old
Chicago Cubs second baseman, dies
when his private plane crashes in
Utah. The 1962 NL Rookie of the Year
had his pilot’s license for two weeks
and was flying in bad weather.
FAR WEST
Colorado at Oregon St., 9 p.m.
San Francisco at Gonzaga, 9 p.m.
Utah at Oregon, 9 p.m.
CS Bakersfield at Utah Valley, 9
p.m.
Portland St. at Montana St., 9 p.m.
Sacramento St. at Montana, 9 p.m.
N. Colorado at Weber St., 9 p.m.
Arizona at Washington St., 9 p.m.
North Dakota at Idaho St., 9:05 p.m.
Grand Canyon at Seattle, 10 p.m.
Pepperdine at Santa Clara, 10 p.m.
UC Davis at Long Beach St., 10 p.m.
Pacific at Portland, 10 p.m.
Hawaii at UC Santa Barbara, 10
p.m.
Loyola Marymount at Saint Mary’s
(Cal), 11 p.m.
San Diego at BYU, 11 p.m.
Cal St.-Fullerton at UC Riverside,
11 p.m.
Arizona St. at Washington, 11 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 17
EAST
Iona at Marist, 7 p.m.
Cornell at Dartmouth, 7 p.m.
Canisius at Rider, 7 p.m.
Columbia at Harvard, 7 p.m.
Princeton at Yale, 8 p.m.
Penn at Brown, 8 p.m.
Fairfield at Quinnipiac, 9 p.m.
SOUTH
VCU at Richmond, 9 p.m.
MIDWEST
Valparaiso at Oakland, 7 p.m.
Kent St. at Akron, 7 p.m.
Ill.-Chicago at Detroit, 7 p.m.
FAR WEST
Idaho at E. Washington, 9:05 p.m.
California at Stanford, 10 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 18
EAST
Sacred Heart at LIU Brooklyn,
Noon
Davidson at UMass, Noon
Villanova at Seton Hall, 12:30 p.m.
Mass.-Lowell at UMBC, 1 p.m.
Hartford at New Hampshire, 1 p.m.
Coll. of Charleston at Northeastern,
1 p.m.
Army at Navy, 1:30 p.m.
Saint Louis at Fordham, 2 p.m.
Texas Tech at West Virginia, 2 p.m.
Elon at Drexel, 2 p.m.
Miami (Ohio) at Buffalo, 3:30 p.m.
UNC-Wilmington at Hofstra, 4 p.m.
Saint Joseph’s at La Salle, 4 p.m.
St. Francis (Pa.) at Bryant, 4 p.m.
NC Central at Md.-Eastern Shore, 4
p.m.
Florida St. at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m.
Robert Morris at CCSU, 4 p.m.
Wagner at St. Francis Brooklyn, 4
p.m.
Stetson at NJIT, 4 p.m.
Mount St. Mary’s at Fairleigh
Dickinson, 4 p.m.
Princeton at Brown, 6:30 p.m.
Columbia at Dartmouth, 7 p.m.
Binghamton at Stony Brook, 7 p.m.
William & Mary at Delaware, 7
p.m.
James Madison at Towson, 7 p.m.
Cornell at Harvard, 7 p.m.
Niagara at Siena, 8 p.m.
SOUTH
Clemson at Miami, Noon
Notre Dame at NC State, Noon
Liberty at Winthrop, Noon
Wake Forest at Duke, 1 p.m.
Mercer at The Citadel, 1 p.m.
Missouri at Tennessee, 1 p.m.
Virginia Tech at Louisville, 1 p.m.
UNC-Asheville at Campbell, 2 p.m.
South Florida at Tulane, 2 p.m.
Florida at Mississippi St., 2 p.m.
Florida Gulf Coast at SC-Upstate, 2
p.m.
Texas-Arlington at Georgia St., 2:15
p.m.
LSU at Alabama, 3:30 p.m.
UCF at East Carolina, 4 p.m.
Hampton at Bethune-Cookman, 4
p.m.
UNC-Greensboro at Furman, 4 p.m.
Rhode Island at George Mason, 4
p.m.
Coppin St. at SC State, 4 p.m.
Savannah St. at Morgan St., 4 p.m.
North Florida at Kennesaw St., 4:30
p.m.
Longwood at Radford, 4:30 p.m.
Cent. Arkansas at New Orleans, 5
p.m.
Morehead St. at Belmont, 5 p.m.
FAU at Southern Miss., 5 p.m.
Louisiana-Lafayette at LouisianaMonroe, 5 p.m.
ETSU at Chattanooga, 5 p.m.
Jacksonville at Lipscomb, 5 p.m.
Texas State at Georgia Southern, 5
p.m.
Coastal Carolina at Troy, 5:15 p.m.
High Point at Charleston Southern,
5:30 p.m.
Kentucky at Georgia, 6 p.m.
NC A&T at Howard, 6 p.m.
Middle Tennessee at Marshall, 6 p.m.
ON THE AIR
TELEVISION
College basketball
LIU Brooklyn at St. Francis Brooklyn, CBSSN, 6 p.m.
Xavier at Providence, FS1, 6:30 p.m.
Arkansas at South Carolina, SEC, 6:30 p.m.
Maryland at Northwestern, BTN, 7 p.m.
Iowa St. at Kansas St., ESPN2, 7 p.m.
Cincinnati at South Florida, ESPNU, 7 p.m.
Temple at East Carolina, ESPNEWS, 7 p.m.
Creighton at Seton Hall, CBSSN, 8 p.m.
St. John’s at Butler, FS1, 8:30 p.m.
Alabama at Missouri, SEC, 8:30 p.m.
Indiana at Minnesota, BTN, 9 p.m.
Duke at Virginia, ESPN2, 9 p.m.
Oklahoma St. at TCU, ESPNU, 9 p.m.
San Diego St. at Utah St., CBSSN, 10 p.m.
Golf
LPGA Tour, ISPS Handa Women’s Australian Open,
first round, at Adelaide, Australia, GOLF, 9 p.m.
National Basketball Association
Indiana at Cleveland, ESPN, 7 p.m.
New York at Oklahoma City, ESPN, 9:30 p.m.
National Hockey League
St. Louis at Detroit, NBCSN, 8 p.m.
Florida at San Jose, NBCSN, 10:30 p.m.
Soccer
UEFA Champions League, Round of 16, Leg 1,
Bayern Munich vs. Arsenal, FS1, 2:30 p.m.
UEFA Champions League, Round of 16, Leg 1, Real
Madrid vs. Napoli, FS2, 2:30 p.m.
Big finish
Baseball is back
Champions earned their crowns in the
Amsterdam Recreation Basketball League.
High hopes as always in first
spring training workouts.
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LOCAL ROUNDUP
Panthers
top Canjo
72-55 in
crossover
FONDA — Garrett Delaney
scored 21 points and Brendan
Gifford filled up the stat sheet
with 17 points, five rebounds and
five assists to lead the Mayfield
boys basketball team in a 72-55
win over Canajoharie in a
Western Athletic Conference
crossover game Tuesday at
Fonda-Fultonville High School.
Eighth-grader Trevon Gifford
chipped in 14 points and seven
boards for the Panthers. Jared
Albertin also scored 14 points.
“I was very proud of the guys
today,” Mayfield coach Harley
Fuller said. “We really competed
again for 32 minutes.”
Lucas Sossei scored 15 points,
Trevor Folts scored 12 and Mike
Hartlieb scored 10 points and
grabbed 15 rebounds to lead
Canajoharie.
Schoharie 72, OESJ 52
AJ Hayes scored a game-high 25
points and surpassed the 1,000point mark for his career, but it
wasn’t enough for the Wolfpack in
a crossover loss to Schoharie.
Steve Alescio and Mitchell
Barton led the Indians with 17
points apiece, while Jon Bergardt
added 11 points, Shane Helmstadt
scored nine and Blaine Rose
chipped in eight. Schoharie connected on 15 3-point field goals,
compared to just four for OESJ.
In addition to Hayes’ 25 points,
OESJ got eight points each from
Tyler Leon and Jack Brundage.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Western Athletic Conference
Middleburgh 64,
Fonda-Fultonville 50
Julianna Taylor put up 29 points
for the Lady Braves, but Lyndsey
McCoy scored 23 points to lead
Middleburgh to the win.
Bre Palmatier added 14 points
and Kelsey Campbell chipped in
13 for the Knights in the win at
Fulton-Montgomery Community
College. Middleburgh outscored
Fonda-Fultonville 18-7 at the
free throw line.
Along with Taylor’s big game,
Fonda-Fultonville got eight
points from Kaleigh Smith and
seven from Abby Lombardoni.
Mayfield 49, Galway 35
Sydney Sheldon scored 24
points to lead the Lady Panthers
to a win at Fonda-Fultonville
High School.
Camryn Meca added eight
points and Lindsey Hampton
scored seven for Mayfield, which
outscored Galway 20-10 in the
fourth quarter to seal the win.
— Staff report
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Wednesday, February 15, 2017
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FOOTHILLS COUNCIL BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Adam Shinder/Recorder staff
ABOVE LEFT: Amsterdam’s Anthony Aponte (24) runs the floor during the Foothills Council boys basketball championship
game Tuesday at SUNY Adirondack in Queensbury. ABOVE RIGHT: Amsterdam’s Nina Fedullo (11) runs the floor ahead of
Glens Falls’ Taylor Scarincio (40) during the Foothills Council girls basketball championship game Tuesday at SUNY
Adirondack in Queensbury.
Tough night up north
Amsterdam boys fall
AHS girls can’t contain
96-71 in title game cut Glens Falls’ supporting
short by late skirmish cast in 61-45 setback
By ADAM SHINDER
By ADAM SHINDER
@RecorderShinder
@RecorderShinder
QUEENSBURY — It was already a game the Amsterdam
Running Rams would rather forget and move on from. With 61 seconds left, it became something they don’t want to have to talk about
again.
The Foothills Council boys basketball championship game
Tuesday at SUNY Adirondack was already well in hand, with the
Glens Falls Indians winning 96-71, when a chippy game and a
night-long war of words boiled over. As Amsterdam’s Mikey
Gomez lined up for a pair of free throws, the trash talk between
Amsterdam’s Tristan Green and Glens Falls’ Aaron Sampson got
physical, with a headbutt and punches attempted. The teams cleared
the benches and the incident was broken up before it spilled into
anything worse, but the referees made the decision to end the game
without playing the final 1:01 of regulation.
“The game got out of control,” Amsterdam coach Tim Jones said.
“There’s nothing to be said. Sportsmanship is the key, and I didn’t
feel like either one of us (showed it). I’m not saying they were the
ones, we were the ones at fault as well, but it needed to be kept
tighter (by the officials).”
Please see BOYS,
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QUEENSBURY — For the final three quarters of Tuesday’s
Foothills Council girls basketball championship game, the
Amsterdam Lady Rams did about as good a job as possible of limiting the scoring impact of Glens Falls’ dynamic sister duo of
Sophie and Lucy Tougas.
It was the Lady Indians’ supporting cast that really did Amsterdam
in.
The Tougas sisters combined for just 11 points after the first quarter, but the likes of Taylor Scarincio, Caitlin Hogan and Felicity
Williams made Amsterdam pay for the attention they were giving
the sibling duo, combining for 29 second-half points to lead Glens
Falls to a 61-45 win at SUNY Adirondack, denying Amsterdam’s
chance for back-to-back league titles.
“Their other kids scrapped, got a lot of rebounds and putbacks and
made some shots,” Amsterdam coach Eric Duemler said. “The kids
that you don’t really prepare for outworked and outhustled us, and
they were hungry. They were hungry, and we kind of played like
we’ve never been in a big game before. That’s not us.”
Scarincio and Sophie Tougas scored 18 points apiece to lead Glens
Please see GIRLS,
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