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R
uni Limary got the bad news
when she was just 28: breast
cancer.
Her rst decision was
simple. She had her right breast re-
moved. Two years later, after receiv-
ing an inconclusive test result for a
gene mutation that greatly increases
the likelihood of breast and ovarian
cancer, she had her left breast
removed.
Limarys third decision has proved
harder. Though she wanted a second,
independent opinion before taking
the preventive measure of having her
ovaries removed, she didnt have that
option because one company, Myriad
Genetics, holds patents on isolated
forms of the two genes in question.
Now36 and single, Limary doesnt
want to foreclose childbirth by hav-
ing her ovaries removed. But her
child-bearing clock may not be the
only one ticking.
Its so frustrating, says Limary,
whose Asian-American lineage
makes her more susceptible to the
genetic variant of uncertain signi-
cance, the muddled test result she
received. Im really trying to buy
time until Imabout 40.
At the root of Limarys dilemma is
a question that will come before the
Cancer case before Supreme Court could reshape the future
of medicine, afecting every single human being on this planet
Richard Wolf
@richardjwolf
USATODAY
vSTORY CONTINUES ON 2A
Can human genes
be patented?
No one
before has
played
dirty pool
the way
Myriad
has played
dirty pool
here.
Ellen Matlof,
director of cancer
genetic counseling at
Yale School of
Medicine.
We
consider
(our Salt
Lake City
facility)
a DNA
factory
and not
a DNA
labora-
tory.
Mark Capone,
Myriad president
WASHINGTON President Obama
used the prospect of entitlement re-
form in the budget he unveiled
Wednesday to lure Republican lead-
ers back to negotiations on cutting
the nations $16 trillion debt.
If we can come together, have a
serious, reasoned debate not
driven by politics ... then Im con-
dent we will move this country for-
ward, Obama said before his $3.77
trillion budget for 2014 was released.
The chances
for reasoned de-
bate seem re-
mote. Even as
House Speaker
John Boehner, R-
Ohio, embraced
Obamas call for
changes to Social
Security and
Medicare, the top
House Republican campaign ofcial,
Rep. Greg Walden, told CNN that
Obama was trying to balance this
budget on the backs of seniors.
Overall, GOPlawmakers dismissed
the presidents budget, which the
White House says would cut the de-
cit by $1.8 trillion over the next dec-
ade, as a gimmick-laden document.
GOP leaders refused to countenance
Obamas call for raising more than
$580 billion in
new tax revenue
from wealthy
Americans.
Although the
Democratic-led
Senate recently
passed a budget
for the rst time
since 2009, the
prospect that Congress will continue
to rely on continuing resolution to
keep the government running re-
mains high. In the near term, the
budget ght will be overshadowed as
Congress and the White House battle
over immigration and gun laws.
The ght over spending could
come to a head again this summer,
when Congress needs to vote to raise
the debt ceiling or risk default. Some
Republicans, such as House Majority
Leader Eric Cantor, have suggested
they may use that as opportunity to
extract more spending cuts.
Rep. Paul Ryan, the House Budget
Committee chairman, argued the
Obama budget only reduces the de-
cit by $119 billion over 10 years. The
Wisconsin Republicans ofce says
Obama is ignoring $300 billion in
new spending and is claiming $675
billion savings from ending the wars
in Iraq and Afghanistan. Ryan and
other Republicans also took issue
with the White House counting $1.2
trillion in automatic spending cuts
that were triggered by sequestration.
The presidents budget claims to
achieve $400 billion in savings by
cutting waste and fraud in Medicare
and $580 billion in new revenue by
limiting tax benets for top earners.
It also saves $230 billion by restruc-
turing cost-of-living adjustments for
Social Security beneciaries.
Obama hosted a dinner Wednes-
day with 12 GOP senators. The dis-
cussion included tax reform and
entitlements, Sen. Orrin Hatchs
spokeswoman Antonia Ferrier told
the Associated Press.
Democrats also did not embrace
the plan. It includes several policies
that I dont think are the best ways to
tackle the decit and debt, said Sen.
Patty Murray, chairwoman of the
Senate Budget Committee.
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uStrengthens national in-
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better data fromstates.
Draft Senate gun bill
uMirrors presidents propos-
al, with narrowexceptions
frombackground checks.
Wednesdays background-check deal
uCloses loophole for gun shows andInternet
sales but exempts friends-and-neighbors
transactions between private individuals from
backgroundchecks.
uAllows state concealed-carry permit in lieu of
backgroundcheck.
uProhibits the government frommaintaininga
gun registry.
uSpecies that medical privacy laws dont
apply to mental health records in background-
check database.
uReduces background-check turnaroundtime
fromthree days to two days. In four years, it
wouldbe reducedto one day.
The Senate will vote today to break a Republican libuster and take up
a bill setting broad newgun rules. The bill cleared a major hurdle Wednesday
with a bipartisan deal to require criminal background checks for
most commercial gun purchases.
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Which came rst, the dinosaur or
the egg? The discovery of 190-mil-
lion-year-old fossilized dinosaur egg-
shells and bones suggests that
whichever it was, it grewfast.
The eggshells and bones are
among the oldest such fossils ever
found. This is the rst time we can
actually look and see howfast the di-
nosaurs were growing, says lead au-
thor Robert Reisz of the University of
Toronto Mississauga in Canada.
About 200 tiny bones were found
among the shell fragments. Less than
an inch long, they shownumerous di-
nosaurs at the very earliest stage of
development, his team reported
Wednesday in the journal Nature. All
the fossils appear to have come from
nests inundated by ooding.
This study may at long last shed
light on the mystery about howsome
of the giant dinosaurs got so big,
says paleontologist Kenneth Carpen-
ter of Utah State University-Eastern,
who was not part of the discovery
team. Taken together, he says nd-
ings can serve as a road map to un-
derstanding embryo development in
other dinosaurs.
The eggs likely belonged to a two-
legged, short-armed Lufengosaurus,
named after the part of China where
they were discovered 75 years ago.
Adults likely were more than 20 feet
long, stretching their necks like gi-
rafes to eat vegetation they raked in
using sharp claws. They were fore-
runners to the humongous four-
legged sauropod dinosaurs seen in
museumdisplays.
At full size, an adult Lufengosau-
rus likely weighed almost 2 tons; two
adult skeletons were found near the
eggshell site. The eggs were likely
more than 3 inches long when depos-
ited in silt that became a layer of red
sandstone less than 8 inches thick.
Even in the egg, the Lufengosaurus
grew much larger and faster than
other dinosaurs, or birds today.
Using high-tech bone scans, the
team found thickening of the thigh
bones, which indicates they were
exing their muscles even in the egg,
nudging bones to grow into their
adult shapes. That represents the
earliest known evidence for this kind
of interplay between muscle and
bone growth in animals.
Baby dinos in a hurry to growup
Ancient eggshells
yield colossal clues
Dan Vergano
@dvergano
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Supreme Court on Monday: Can hu-
man genes be patented?
The answer could have sweeping
signicance for scientic research
and medical treatments in a broad
array of elds, from agriculture and
animal health to biotechnology and
the environment. Myriad Genetics
and a broad array of industry trade
groups argue that without patent
protection, research and develop-
ment would dry up. Doctors, geneti-
cists, womens health groups and
cancer patients contend competition
would lower prices, improve out-
comes and lead to more discoveries.
Both sides foresee the same future:
a world in which the type and timing
of screenings and medicines are tai-
lored to each individual.
Its about the future of personal-
ized medicine for every single human
being on this planet, and actually ani-
mals, too, says Ellen Matlof, direc-
tor of cancer genetic counseling at
Yale School of Medicine.
Limary and Matlof are original
plaintifs in a legal tussle thats been
fought for four years, with mixed re-
sults. A federal district court in New
York sided with the challengers. Adi-
vided court of appeals sided with the
company.
Under prior rulings, laws of na-
ture, natural phenomena and ab-
stract ideas are not patentable.
Einstein could not patent his cele-
brated law that E = mc
2
; nor could
Newton have patented the law of
gravity, Justice Stephen Breyer
wrote, quoting from a 1980 decision
by Chief Justice Warren
Burger.
But since 1984, the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Of-
ce has granted more than
40,000 patents tied to genet-
ic material including Myr-
iads patents on the
extraction and isolation of
the BRCA1 and BRCA2
genes. Armed with those
patents since the late 1990s,
the company has tested
more than 1 million women
for mutations that often lead
to breast and ovarian cancer.
The legal, medical and
moral questions boil down
to this: What did Myriad do to earn
its patents? The companys brief to
the court cites human ingenuity in
isolating the gene. A coalition of doc-
tors, researchers, geneticists and pa-
tients says under that theory, leaves
isolated from trees would be
patentable.
Neal Katyal, the former acting U.S.
solicitor general who argued against
the patent at the appeals court level,
atly calls it the most interesting
case Ive ever worked on, by far.
ANYTHING UNDER THE SUN
The Patent Act of 1952 declared that
patents could be issued for anything
under the sun that is made by man
a phrase Myriad cites in its brief.
More than 30 years later, the rst
gene patents were issued.
In 1990, geneticist Mary-Claire
King discovered an abnormality on
chromosome 17 that proved to be the
breast cancer gene, leading to its iso-
lation by Myriad scientists and the
awarding of patents later in the dec-
ade. As a result, most women who
want testing must pay its price
$3,340 for the breast cancer analysis
and $700 for an additional test,
called BART, which picks
up a genetic link in about
10% of women who test
negative the rst time.
In 2001, the Patent and
Trademark Ofce ruled
that isolated DNAwas pat-
entable. By some esti-
mates, 20% of human
genes have been patented.
In 2009, the American
Civil Liberties Union led
its lawsuit.
The company claimed
to have created a chemical
composition that advises
patients of their cancer
risks. They were never
available to the world until Myriads
scientists applied their inventive fac-
ulties to a previously undistinguished
mass of genetic matter in order to
identify, dene and create the isolat-
ed DNAmolecules, its brief says.
Myriads defense of its patents has
attracted more than twice as many
supportive briefs as those challeng-
ing the patents have attracted. They
come from drugmakers, intellectual
property owners, venture capitalists
and groups involved in biotechnolo-
gy, agriculture and animal health.
The Biotechnology Industry Or-
ganization, a trade group, says isolat-
ed DNA molecules are used for
vaccines, food safety, agriculture, in-
dustry and environmental work.
To change patent lawwould make
the United States the only developed
country to take such a restrictive
viewof patent eligibility, thereby de-
terring research and development, it
says in its brief. That would result in
potentially grave consequences for
Americas global economic and scien-
tic leadership in biotechnology.
RESEARCHERS CRY DIRTY POOL
Matlof has battled Myriad since
1998, when the patents stopped
many of her patients fromgetting the
tests they needed. Other genes had
been patented, she said, but most of
those patents were not enforced rig-
idly. No one before has played dirty
pool the way Myriad has played dirty
pool here, she says.
Myriads president, Mark Capone,
says the company doesnt hinder out-
side research; he notes that about
18,000 scientists have published
more than 10,000 papers on the sub-
ject. But after spending 17 years and
$500 million on research and devel-
opment, he says, Myriad is a worthy
sole provider of the tests.
Harry Ostrer, a medical geneticist
at Albert Einstein College of Medi-
cine, located at Yeshiva University in
New York, focuses his research on
people who do not have the gene mu-
tations but have a genetic predisposi-
tion for breast cancer. He says many
women are told they have only a low
risk, when in fact its greater.
There may be under-reporting
with regard to risks, says Ostrer,
whose 1988 letter from Myriad de-
manding royalty payments has left
himas the lone original plaintif with
legal standing in the case. There
may be a catastrophe in the making.
Myriad ofcials maintain that in
Europe, where U.S. patent law does
not apply, competition hasnt im-
proved outcomes.
Dozens of laboratories conduct
breast cancer screening tests, pa-
tients are tested only after develop-
ing cancer, results take longer, a
higher percentage are inconclusive
and costs are roughly the same, the
company says.
By acting as the sole provider of
the tests, Capone says, Myriad
achieves economies of scale that
competition would erode. We con-
sider this a DNA factory and not a
DNA laboratory, he says of the com-
panys Salt Lake City facility.
Millions of women do not get the
tests for a number of reasons high
costs, no insurance or simply not
knowing their options.
A brief submitted by breast cancer
and womens groups cites a dispro-
portionately harmful efect on those
who are socioeconomically disadvan-
taged and underserved or are of par-
ticular racial and ethnic
backgrounds.
Debra Greeneld of the UCLA In-
stitute for Society and Genetics, the
lawyer representing the womens
groups, says African-American wom-
en are 78% less likely to use genetic
testing and more likely to die from
breast or ovarian cancer.
The price of the test is necessarily
prohibitive, she says. Anytime
theres a monopoly, theres going to
be higher prices.
Myriad says about 95% of its pa-
tients receive insurance coverage, of-
ten without co-payments, so most
patients pay only about $100. Even
so, about 6 million women with fam-
ily histories of breast or ovarian can-
cer remain untested.
We have still barely scratched the
surface, Capone says.
TOUGH DIAGNOSES, DECISIONS
Kathleen Maxians sister was diag-
nosed with breast cancer at age 40 in
2007. She tested negative for the
BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations, which
was a relief for Maxian, then 45.
Two years later, Maxian, a resident
of Pendleton, N.Y., near Bufalo, was
diagnosed with advanced-stage ovar-
ian cancer. When she said it couldnt
possibly be genetic because her sister
had undergone testing, her doctor
looked down, then asked for a copy of
the report. She knewsomething was
wrong, Maxian says.
As was typical at the time, the
$700 BART test not covered by in-
surance companies had not been or-
dered. Since Maxians sister was the
rst in her family to get cancer, she
did not meet the criteria for the addi-
tional test. When she nally got the
test, it came back positive.
Maxian, who in 2009 was given a
20% chance of living ve years, says
having that information in 2007
would have led her to have her ova-
ries removed before developing can-
cer or when it was at a much earlier
stage. Married late in life and with no
plans to have children, she says, it
would have been an absolute no-
brainer. Instead, she has had three
recurrences requiring chemotherapy
and is living with the original prog-
nosis, hoping to beat the odds.
Like many other women and re-
searchers, Maxian gives Myriad cred-
it for developing the genetic test in
the rst place she just doesnt
think it deserves a patent that pre-
vents competition.
Lives have been saved because of
this, she says. But I think that there
are a lot of women who, had they had
this testing, would have found out
that they could have prevented their
ovarian cancer.
Genae Girard is on the other end
of the spectrum. Diagnosed with
breast cancer in 2006 at age 36, she
tested positive for the gene mutation,
making her ve times more likely to
get a recurrence or ovarian cancer.
It would have been nice to get a
second opinion, Girard says but
the patent made that impossible. So
she had her breasts and ovaries re-
moved, denying her the chance to
give birth.
Capone says women can get con-
rmatory testing at other labs but
are unlikely to get a more accurate
result. For all the complaints about
cost and competition, Myriad isnt
often accused of inaccuracy.
This was my last chance of having
kids, says Girard, like Limary an
original plaintif in the case. The pair
are among about 200 women 45 and
under in the Austin area who have
dubbed themselves the Pink Ribbon
Cowgirls.
I had to make a decision, Girard
says. Do I cut short my life, or do I
try to extend my life?
Company guards exclusive hold on cancer test
vCONTINUED FROM1A
ERICHSCHLEGEL FOR USA TODAY
Patent lawhinders Runi Limary fromgetting a second opinion on whether to have her ovaries removed.
AP
Katyal says
this is his
most interest-
ing case.
SYRIAN REBEL FACTIONS
SHOWING SIGNS OF TENSION
Tensions emerged Wednesday in a
new alliance between al-Qaedas
franchise in Iraq and the most pow-
erful Syrian rebel faction, which said
it was not consulted before the Iraqi
group announced their merger.
Al-Qaeda in Iraq had said Tuesday
that it had joined forces with Jabhat
al-Nusra, also known as the Nusra
Front the most efective force
among the rebel brigades ghting to
topple President Bashar Assad in
Syrias civil war. It said the new alli-
ance would be called the Islamic
State in Iraq and the Levant.
The apparent tensions between
Jabhat al-Nusra and al-Qaeda in Iraq
emerged when Nusra leader Abu Mo-
hammad al-Golani appeared to dis-
tance himself from reports of a
merger. Instead, he pledged alle-
giance to al-Qaedas leader, Ayman
al-Zawahiri.
The Syrian government seized
upon the merger reports to renewits
assertion that it is not facing a popu-
lar movement for change but rather a
foreign-backed terrorist plot. The
state news agency said that the union
proves that this opposition was nev-
er anything other than a tool used by
the West and by terrorists to destroy
the Syrian people.
Intelligence ofcials in Baghdad
said increased cooperation between
the groups already was evident in a
number of deadly attacks.
The United States has designated
Jabhat al-Nusra a terrorist organiza-
tion because of its links to al-Qaeda.
FLORIDA BANS SLOT-LIKE
COMPUTER GAMES IN CAFES
Up to 1,000 strip-mall parlors
where people can play slot-like com-
puter games became illegal in Flori-
da, with the governor signing a ban
on the heels of a federal investigation
into a charity that authorities say was
an illegal gambling front.
The law took efect immediately
after Republican Gov. Rick Scott
signed it, about a month after nearly
60 people were arrested in connec-
tion with the racketeering investiga-
tion into Allied Veterans of the
World. The arrests prompted the res-
ignation of Republican Lt. Gov. Jen-
nifer Carroll, who did consulting
work for the group, but has not been
accused of wrongdoing.
The Legislature and Scott acted
quickly, leaving questions as to the
laws impact and how the centers
known as Internet cafes will react.
The ban is likely to afect amusement
arcades that cater to seniors.
SPRING STORM KNOCKS OUT
POWER IN MIDWESTERN STATES
A spring storm packing snow and
ice hit several states in the Midwest,
knocking out power in communities
and prompting Minnesotas governor
to call the National Guard to help
residents.
Icy weather left thousands in Min-
nesota in the dark, while another
storm threatened to dump several
inches of wet snowby today.
In eastern South Dakota, tens of
thousands of residents without pow-
er await the second wave of a storm
that already downed power lines and
closed roads, schools and businesses.
In North Dakota, up to 5 inches of
snow is expected through late today
in the southeast.
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$1.3 million for the 2012 shipwreck
of the Concordia cruise ship, which
killed 32 people. Costa, a division of
Miami-based Carnival Corp., has
sought to blame the disaster entirely
on Capt. Francesco Schettino.
Compiled fromstafand wire reports
Forecasters fromColorado State University on Wednesday predicted an
above-average 2013 Atlantic hurricane season:
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IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON Former British prime
minister Tony Blair said Wednesday
that the push by Secretary of State
John Kerry to revive negotiations for
an independent Palestinian state of-
fers the best chance of ending the
long stalemate in Middle East peace
talks and could prompt the interna-
tional community to help.
In an interview with USA TO-
DAYs Capital Download series, Blair
praised Kerry, who has made three
trips to the region in as many weeks
after becoming the top U.S. diplomat
in February. Blair is special envoy to
the Mideast for the so-called Quartet:
the United Nations, European Union,
United States and Russia.
If John and the American ad-
ministration develop the right politi-
cal initiative, which theyre well
capable of doing, then I think the
Quartet, the international communi-
ty ... we can get behind that and we
can also do an immense amount be-
hind the economic side, Blair said.
Its not a substitute for politics, but
if you improve peoples living stan-
dards, you give peace a chance.
Blair said Kerry was immensely
well-respected in the Middle East by
all sides.
In Israel on Tuesday,
Kerry said he hopes to use
U.S. government funds
and private-sector invest-
ments to revitalize the
economy in Palestinian
areas of the West Bank,
with the goal of strength-
ening support for the
peace process.
In the interview, Blair
said he owed a debt to
Margaret Thatcher, a
predecessor as prime minister who
died this week, despite their dramat-
ically diferent politics as leaders of
the Labor and Conservative parties.
When I came to power in 1997,
some of the things that
would have been difcult
for me had, in a sense, been
put in a framework that
made it easier things like
trade union reform, priva-
tizing some of the old state
industries, some issues
around taxation and so on,
he said. I was then able to
do what I was doing in
health and education and
welfare and employment
because there had been
certain foundations laid.
Blair was interviewed at the World
Bank, where he later appeared at a
forum on delivering public services
more efectively in the developing
world, a cause he has championed.
Blair and several of his initiatives
are on Twitter his main handle is
@TonyBlairOfce but he acknowl-
edged that aides were the ones post-
ing. Im technologically challenged,
is the absolute truth, he said.
Meanwhile, Blair, who left No. 10
Downing St. in 2007 at age 54, de-
clined to ofer advice on life after pol-
itics to President Obama, who will
leave the White House in 2017 also at
a relatively young age, 55.
That would be presumptuous,
Blair said. He is, you know, a huge
global gure ... someone of enormous
energy and character and ability, and
Im sure hell nd something to keep
himself occupied.
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The nation will continue to get its
Saturday mail through at least
Sept. 30, the U.S. Postal Service said
Wednesday.
The Postal Service backed down
from its plan to cut mail delivery
from six days a week to ve, saying
Congress had prohibited the move.
Ameasure passed by Congress last
month to fund government opera-
tions while the budget is in limbo in-
cluded language that prohibited
changing the delivery schedule, the
Postal Service board of governors
said in a written statement.
The post ofce had proposed deli-
vering only packages on Saturdays.
That schedule was to start Aug. 5.
The board said it was disappoint-
ed with the move by Congress. The
board directed the Postal Service to
delay the start of its new delivery
schedule while it seeks authority
fromCongress to make the change.
The board believes that Congress
has left it with no choice but to de-
lay, the statement said.
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chair-
man of the House Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform,
which oversees the Postal Service,
called the decision a disappointing
setback. Polls show Americans sup-
port a pared-down schedule, he said.
This reversal signicantly under-
cuts the credibility of postal ofcials
who have told Congress that they
were prepared to defy political pres-
sure and make difcult but necessary
cuts, Issa said in a statement. Its
quite clear that special-interest lob-
bying and intense political pressure
played a much greater role in the
Postal Services change of heart than
any real or perceived barrier to im-
plementing what had been
announced.
Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the
ranking Democrat on the committee,
said the Postal Service must abide by
the lawbut Congress should pass leg-
islation to allowit to revamp services
and become protable. He intro-
duced a bill last year that would give
the Postal Service more exibility to
change its business model, but the
House did not take up the measure.
Postmaster General Patrick Dona-
hoe had said ending Saturday mail
would save the Postal Service $2 bil-
lion a year and is key to a ve-year-
plan to make the service solvent. He
had said he would buck any Capitol
Hill eforts to halt the plan.
The agency said it lost almost
$16 billion last year, partly because of
a 2006 congressional mandate re-
quiring it to prepay 75 years worth of
retiree benets within a decade.
Last month, a resolution passed by
Congress to fund the government
through September required six-day
Postal Service delivery for the rest of
the scal year, which ends Sept. 30.
Post ofce
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to mail on
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Donna Leinwand Leger
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WASHINGTON It was a long journey
from Guatemala to the west lawn of
the U.S. Capitol, but Mayra Ragon
says the trip was worth it.
Ragon was among tens of thou-
sands of immigrants and their sup-
porters who gathered under a hot
sun Wednesday to show support for
proposals that would grant a pathway
to citizenship for the nations 11 mil-
lion undocumented immigrants.
Ragon, 30, and her husband, Saul
Lopez, 35, live and work in Maryland.
Both are in the country illegally.
Their daughter, Camila, 3, sitting in a
stroller in the shade, was born in the
United States making her a citizen.
We came 11 years ago because in
Guatemala there is no opportunity to
even have a house, Ragon says. We
came here to nd opportunity and to
give our daughter a better future.
Ragon says she and Lopez want to
get papers to be legal, but nobody is
helping.
Organizers of the Rally for Citizen-
ship said they hope they can press
Congress to help. The rally featured
speeches from immigration rights
advocates, labor leaders, faith organi-
zations and members of Congress
working on immigration legislation.
Events were scheduled across the
nation. Among them:
uIn Atlanta, more than 1,000
people gathered at the Georgia Capi-
tol, calling for an end to deportation.
uIn San Francisco, several hun-
dred demonstrators held red and or-
ange paper owers representing the
number of people deported daily for
immigration violations.
Immigration bills have been led
and killed repeatedly since the last
major bill, allowing up to 3 million
undocumented immigrants to be-
come U.S. citizens, became law in
1986. But organizers of Wednesdays
rally in Washington say the political
stars are nally aligned for another
one.
Every time you turn around,
theres growing momentumfor mak-
ing this happen, says Mary Kay Hen-
ry, president of the Service
Employees International Union, one
of the groups that organized the
Washington rally.
However, nothing is simple when
it comes to immigration legislation.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a member
of the bipartisan Gang of Eight trying
to develop a comprehensive bill, was
supposed to brief his Republican col-
leagues on the specics of their plan
Wednesday, but Rubio spokesman
Alex Conant said they ran out of time
because of unrelated issues and
couldnt do their brieng.
The group is planning to le the
bill by early next week.
The halting progress inside the
Capitol did little to quell the enthusi-
asmoutside. Chants of S, se puede!
(loosely, yes, we can!) rang across
the lawn.
Local bartender Juan Quintanila,
23, attended the rally. Im seeing
Mexicans, Peruvians, Panamanians
here, says Quintanila, whose parents
are from El Salvador. I see a lot of
diferent Latin Americans working in
a restaurant. You see them focused
on making money. But a lot of them
took ofwork to come here.
Quintanilas mother, who came to
the United States through a church,
is a permanent resident now, but his
dad still struggles with legal docu-
ments. He came through the under-
ground, through the border of
Mexico, he says.
Twenty-eight Catholics from St.
Marys Student Parish in Ann Arbor,
Mich., rode a bus for 10 hours to at-
tend and support the Hispanic com-
munity in their congregation.
Deportation is a very real problem
in our community said Dan Reim, a
Jesuit priest at St. Marys.
Last year, the church held a rally
for a member of their community
who was going to be deported. After
writing a letter to Homeland Security
Secretary Janet Napolitano, she was
not deported, Reim says. We cant
have people living in a separate class
system.
Contributing: John Bacon; Associated Press
CHARLES DHARAPAK, AP
Jissela Centeno and her son, MatthewPineda, rally Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Their
family is fromHonduras. Organizers said rallies were also being held in at least 18 states.
Thousands rally
for immigration bill
Protests seek
to inuence
Congress
Alan Gomez, Natalie DiBlasio
and Leigh Giangreco
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Tens of thousands of immigration bill supporters march on the U.S.
Capitol on Wednesday in the Rally for Citizenship.
Police in Suwanee, Ga., killed a
gunman Wednesday evening who
had been holding four reghters
hostage since midafternoon.
One police ofcer was slightly
wounded in the exchange of gunre
when a SWAT team stormed the
home, which was in foreclosure,
Gwinnett County Police Cpl. Edwin
Ritter said. The reghters sufered
supercial injuries when ofcers det-
onated a ash-bang grenade, he said.
Ritter said the unidentied gun-
man was facing eviction and wanted
the power turned back on. He said
police decided to stormthe house af-
ter it was decided that ofcers were
in immediate danger on the scene.
An explosion was heard about 7:35
p.m., followed by several gunshots.
The wounded ofcer was shot in an
arm, Ritter said.
The hostage drama began about
3:40 p.m. when ve reghters re-
sponded to a 911 call froma man say-
ing he was having a heart attack,
unidentied re ofcials told WSB-
TVAtlanta.
Fire Capt. Tommy Rutledge said
one engine and an ambulance re-
sponded froma nearby station in Su-
wanee, about 35 miles northeast of
downtown Atlanta.
They arrived at the scene. They
went in and began to do what they do
every day when they were taken hos-
tage, he said. The gunman allowed
one reghter to leave so he could
move the retruck.
The reghters who responded
are trained as emergency medical
technicians.
At a news brieng, Ritter said that
police have a good idea why the
gunman seized the reghters, but
Imnot going to go into any details.
Asherifs deputy said the gunman
was upset that the house is in fore-
closure, The Atlanta Journal-Consti-
tution reported. The house at 2440
Walnut Grove Way is a bank-owned
repossession, public records show.
FreddieMac spokesman Brad Ger-
man told the Journal-Constitution
that the property is being prepared
for sale but is not yet on the market.
The house was being rented when
the government lender foreclosed.
German said he did not knowwheth-
er the renter was still in the house.
SWAT ofcers kept the house sur-
rounded and several negotiators
were on the scene and communicat-
ing with the gunman, Ritter said.
Larry Barton, a management pro-
fessor at the American College in
Bryn Mawr, Pa., and an instructor in
threat assessment at the FBI Acad-
emy in Quantico, Va., says its very
rare for reghters to be targeted.
I struggled when I heard the news
to identify a single case in the past
three decades in which reghters
have been held hostage, he said.
Contributing: WXIA-TV, Larry Copeland
Fireghters safe after captor killed
Michael Winter
USATODAY
Two USA TODAY reporters have
earned national recognition in the
past week for their work.
Brad Heath was among winners
announced Wednesday by Investiga-
tive Reporters and Editors (IRE)
honoring investigative reporting
from all types of media in 16 catego-
ries. Heath was honored for his cov-
erage of the criminal justice system.
The judges of IREs Tom Renner
Award, which honors criminal justice
reporting, said IRE commends
Heath for digging for the truth to cor-
rect an unbelievable breakdown in
the justice system.
Heath won for stories looking at
how the Justice Department uses its
power to decide who gets locked up
and for how long. The stories identi-
ed dozens of people who were im-
prisoned for things that federal
prosecutors agreed werent crimes,
and exposed aws in the Justice De-
partments program for keeping sex-
ual predators imprisoned past the
end of their sentences.
This is a special honor coming
from IRE, which does tremendous
work supporting investigative jour-
nalism, and has done so much to help
me improve my own work over the
years, Heath said.
Heath has a political science de-
gree from Colgate University and a
lawdegree fromGeorgetown Univer-
sity. He previously worked at the
Press & Sun-Bulletin in Binghamton,
N.Y., and at The Detroit News.
Yamiche Alcindor was named Fri-
day by the National Association of
Black Journalists (NABJ) as the 2013
Emerging Journalist of the Year
Award recipient.
Selected by the NABJ Board of Di-
rectors, Alcindor, a breaking news re-
porter, has reported from the scenes
of some of 2012s biggest stories: the
Trayvon Martin case in Sanford, Fla.,
the Florida A&M University hazing
scandal in Tallahassee, Fla., and the
Sandy Hook Elementary School
shooting in Newtown, Conn.
It is inspiring to see young jour-
nalists like Yamiche take advantage
of every opportunity presented them
to learn, to grow, and to thrive, said
NABJ President Gregory Lee Jr.
AMiami native, Alcindor is a 2009
graduate of Georgetown University.
She worked as a reporter at Newsday
for two years.
The lifeblood of a great news or-
ganization is its creative and talented
journalists, USA TODAY Editor in
Chief David Callaway said. Yamiche
and Brad are powerful examples that
it ows strongly at USATODAY.
Two USATODAYreporters drawnational honors
Fred AnklamJr.
USATODAY
Yamiche Alcindor is the National Associ-
ation of Black Journalists Emerging
Journalist of the Year.
PHOTOS BY H. DARR BEISER, USA TODAY
Brad Heath was honored by IRE for a
selection of his investigative reports on
the criminal justice system.
F
4A NEWS
USA TODAY
THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2013
House-passed budget
(Rep. Paul Ryan, R- Wis.)
Senate-passed budget
(Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.)
President Obamas budget
Sequester
The level of cuts $1.2 trillion over 10
years remains the same, but cuts
are redirectedto protect more de-
fense programs.
Fully replaces sequestration with a50/50
combination of spendingcuts andnew
taxes.
Fully turns off the sequestration andreplaces it with a$1.8 trillion
decit-reduction package that includes spendingcuts andnew
revenue.
Medicare
Restructures Medicare into apremi-
um-support systemfor beneciaries
under 55. Future seniors wouldbe
given afederal subsidy to buy health
insurance on the private market.
Calls for $265 billion in savings fromMedi-
care but keeps the programintact anddoes
not affect beneciaries.
Calls for $400 billion in savings in the programby eliminatingwaste
andabuse but keeps current structure intact. The White House says it
wouldsave $123 billion over the next decade by aligningMedicare
drugpayment policies with Medicaidrebate policies for low-income
beneciaries.
Social
Security
No specic policy recommendations. No specic policy recommendations. Calls for usinganewmeasure of ination calledchained-CPI to
calculate cost-of-livingadjustments for beneciaries, with exceptions
for the most vulnerable. Estimatedto save $230 billion in the 10-year
budget windowfromsmaller annual increases.
Affordable
Care Act
Fully repeals Obamas health care
law.
Keeps the lawintact. Keeps the lawintact.
Spending/
Stimulus
No newspending. $100 billion in newspendingfor infrastruc-
ture programs includingroads, bridges and
newschools.
Includes $50 billion for immediate infrastructure investments in roads
andtransit systems.
Individual
taxes
Consolidates current six individual tax
brackets down to two: 10%and25%.
No tax increases; maintains current individ-
ual rates.
Maintains individual tax rates but closes loopholes andcurtails high-
income tax benets. Calls for implementingthe Buffett Rule requir-
ingthat households with incomes over $1 million pay at least 30%of
their income andlimits tax deductions andother benets for the top
2%of families to 28%.
Corporate
taxes
Lowers the rate from35%to 25%. Calls for overhaulingthe corporate tax
code, specically to close tax loopholes but
does not offer specics on which breaks or
set arate.
Calls for eliminatingoil andgas tax breaks that benet large compa-
nies. It also proposes disallowingdeductions for movingproduction
overseas, while providinganewtax credit for bringingproduction
back to the USA.
The bottom
line
The federal government will eliminate
its annual spendingdecit in 10 years.
Reduces the decit to below3%of GDP by
2015 andkeeps it belowthat level through
the 10-year budget window. But it never
says when or if it wouldachieve balance.
Calculates $1.8 trillion in decit reduction over the next decade, to
bringthe total decit reduction achievedduringhis administration to
$4.3 trillion. Reduces the decit to 2.8%of GDP by 2016 and1.7%by
2023.
Source USATODAYresearch. Photos by Getty Images.
COMPARINGTHE BUDGET PLANS
OBAMAS FEDERAL BUDGET PROPOSAL
WASHINGTON Defense Secretary
Chuck Hagel released a $526 billion
Pentagon budget Wednesday amid a
climate of scal uncertainty, but he
said the United States was prepared
to respond if a conict breaks out on
the Korean Peninsula where tensions
are running high.
Our country is fully prepared to
deal with any contingency, any action
that North Korea may take or any
provocation that they may instigate,
Hagel said at a news conference re-
leasing the Pentagons 2014 budget.
North Korea has escalated threats
in recent weeks, raising concerns
that a provocative act or miscalcula-
tion could trigger a conict. The lat-
est alarm came as South Korea said
its neighbor to the north was prepar-
ing for a midrange missile test.
The Pentagons budget forecasts a
0.7% decrease in spending over this
year, but eforts to plan for the future
have been overshadowed by auto-
matic spending cuts afecting the
armed forces this year.
We are living in a world of com-
plete uncertainty, Hagel said.
Pentagon ofcials want to protect
the readiness of troops who would
have to respond to a contingency in
Korea and of troops in Afghanistan
or preparing to deploy there.
Other units will see a reduction in
readiness as pilots y fewer hours
and the Navy scales back on deploy-
ments, Hagel said.
The Pentagons budget ofers a
clearer picture of the administra-
tions strategy as it withdraws forces
from Afghanistan and beefs up its
presence in Asia.
The Marine Corps is moving from
its role ghting land wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan back to an expeditionary
force with a signicant presence in
Asia.
u$8.5 billion is allocated for
F-35 fighter jets.
uThere is more funding to
build Stryker combat vehicles
with double-V hulls to protect
troops from roadside bombs,
which indicates the Pentagon
believes improvised explosive
devices (IEDs) will remain a seri-
ous threat. The administration
proposes to increase spending to
$374 million from $317 million in
the current budget.
uThe venerable U-2 spy plane,
which has been on the chopping
block for years, will continue to
fly high over hot spots such as
North Korea. The plane had
been scheduled to be replaced
by the Global Hawk drone, and
some limitations with that air-
craft mean U-2s will live on.
uTroops will receive a 1% pay
raise.
KEY POINTS IN THE
DEFENSE BUDGET
NEW YORK An award for conict res-
olution created a conict of its own
as former president Jimmy Carter, a
persistent critic of Israel, was hon-
ored Wednesday by students at a
Jewish university.
The event at Cardozo Law School,
part of Yeshiva University, drew a
harsh response from alumni, who
called on graduates to withhold do-
nations to the school.
Carter received the International
Advocate for Peace award from the
student-run Journal of Conict Reso-
lution. The journal cited Carters bro-
kering of the 1979 peace accord
between Israel and Egypt and the
SALT II nuclear weapons treaty with
the Soviet Union. He was awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
However, Carters criticism of Is-
rael for allowing Jewish settlements
in the West Bank, and his meetings
with the Palestinian group Hamas,
have angered supporters of Israel.
Jimmy Carter has an ignominious
history of anti-Israel bigotry, a
group called the Coalition of Con-
cerned Cardozo Alumni posted on a
website.
Maria Chickedantz, 32, a labor
lawyer and Cardozo alumna, came to
support Carters appearance.
Not all Cardozo alumni support
bullying of public gures for making
a critique of Israeli policies, she said.
We dont equate that with an attack
on Judaismor on the existence of the
state of Israel.
Carter award
draws protests
at Jewish
university
Martha T. Moore
USATODAY
Hagel:
U.S. fully
prepared
for trouble
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and JimMichaels
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WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON For the rst time in
years, gun-control advocates may
have some legislative victories over
the next few days as the Senate
cleared key hurdles to getting a vote
on a broad package of newgun rules.
They say it is still a long way from
becoming law.
Nearly four months after the trag-
edy at Sandy Hook Elementary and
two decades since President Clinton
signed the last major gun-control
law, the Senate is poised to take up a
gun bill that would expand back-
ground checks, beef up a national
criminal database and crack down on
strawpurchases of rearms.
The Senate rst has to clear a 60-
vote threshold to end a threatened
libuster by conservative Republi-
cans, but that seemed more likely
Wednesday after a bipartisan deal to
expand background checks for most
commercial gun sales.
President Obama said the back-
ground check deal brokered by Sens.
Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Pat Too-
mey, R-Pa., represents welcome and
signicant bipartisan progress.
The Manchin-Toomey amend-
ment is more friendly to gun buyers
than Obamas proposal. It would
close loopholes for gun shows and
Internet purchases but exempt most
private transactions. In some areas, it
would expand gun rights, allowing
for easier transport of guns across
state lines and accepting a state con-
cealed-carry permit in lieu of a back-
ground check.
I dont consider criminal back-
ground checks to be gun control. Its
just common sense, Toomey said. If
you pass ... you get to buy a gun. Its
the people who fail that we dont
want having guns.
The Brady Campaign to Prevent
Gun Violence expressed measured
enthusiasm. There is still a long
road ahead and this bipartisan bill
gives us reason to be optimistic, said
Dan Gross, the groups president.
The National Rie Association re-
mains opposed to any expansion of
background checks, saying they
wouldnt prevent another school
shooting. But spokesman AndrewAr-
ulanandamcalled the private sale ex-
emption a positive development.
The NRAofered support for a sec-
ond deal Wednesday, worked out by
Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Susan
Collins, R-Maine, to strengthen the
penalties for rearm trafcking and
for people who buy guns for those
banned fromowning them.
Even Manchin and Toomey said
they could not promise to vote in fa-
vor of the nal gun bill, depending on
what other language is included on
issues like banning assault weapons
or limiting the capacity of ammuni-
tion magazines two issues not in
the bill being ofered by Senate Ma-
jority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
Sen. TomCoburn, R-Okla., said he
didnt see howany background-check
provision could be efective. And Sen.
Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said ex-
panding background checks is about
the most false sense of security you
could provide to anybody.
The rst debate will be todays
vote to dodge a libuster led by Sens.
Rand Paul of Kentucky, Ted Cruz of
Texas and Mike Lee of Utah. Lee said
he wants three more days to assess
how the bill would impact the rights
of law-abiding citizens.
This debate is not just about mag-
azine clips and pistol grips, he said
on the Senate oor. Its about the
purpose of the Second Amendment.
Even if Reid has the votes to over-
come a libuster, the Senate bill will
take time. Reid said Wednesday,
Were going to have amendments on
this. ... Were not going to nish the
bill this week. I dont know if well
nish it next week.
Like her predecessors, rst lady
Michelle Obama has tried not to
get tangled up in contentious polit-
ical issues. Until Wednesday.
As she traveled to Chicago to
take a stand against gun violence,
she did it in a personal and emo-
tional way, nearly coming to
tears as she lamented the scores of
youths gunned down in the streets
of her hometown in recent months.
She compared herself and her
upbringing on Chicagos South Side
to that of Hadiya Pendleton, 15, an
honor student who was shot to
death in a city park a week after
performing as a majorette in Presi-
dent Obamas inaugural parade.
Hadiya Pendleton was me, and
I was her, Obama said, her voice
breaking, but I got to growup and
go to Princeton and Harvard Law
School and have a career and a
family and the most blessed life I
could ever imagine.
Obama, in Chicago for a confer-
ence on youth violence, said city
leaders have a moral obligation
to protect youths from gun vio-
lence. She also took a stand on new
gun controls her husband has pro-
posed in response to the Newtown,
Conn., school massacre. These re-
forms deserve a vote, she said.
Previously, Obama had largely
conned her public activities to
ghting childhood obesity and sup-
porting military families.
Maria Puente
on housing, afrmative ac-
tion and voter-identica-
tion cases that he says
indicate a politicized ap-
proach to the law.
Srinivasan, the top depu-
ty in the solicitor generals
ofce, which represents the
federal government at the
Supreme Court, would be
the rst person of South
Asian heritage on any U.S.
appeals court. He would
catapult on to a short list of potential
Supreme Court nominees.
The federal district and circuit
courts now have 87 vacancies, more
than Obama inherited in
January 2009. He has
nominated replacements
for about one-third of those
seats; 14 are pending before
the Senate, where Republi-
cans are in the minority but
can block or stall action.
Srinivasans nomination
is crucial, judicially as well
as politically. The 11-seat
D.C. Circuit reviews deci-
sions made by a number of
federal agencies and departments on
issues ranging from the war on ter-
rorism and presidential powers to -
nancial regulation and air pollution.
WASHINGTON After more than four
years, President Obama may be
poised to get his rst judge con-
rmed to the nations second-most-
powerful court.
The Senate Judiciary Committee
considered Srikanth Sri Sriniva-
sans nomination to the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia
Wednesday, and the 46-year-old na-
tive of India was warmly received.
Former panel chairman Orrin Hatch,
R-Utah, said he was very likely to
support him. Conservative Sens. Ted
Cruz, R-Texas, and Mike Lee, R-Utah,
appeared impressed as well.
While committee approval is as-
sured, Srinivasans nomination must
go to the full Senate, where Republi-
cans have been in no rush to conrm
any of Obamas judicial nominees
and have blocked two most recent-
ly NewYork prosecutor Caitlin Halli-
gan, nominated twice for the same
court. She withdrewin March.
Conservative groups want to block
Srinivasans conrmation. Curt Lev-
ey, president of the Committee for
Justice, cites the nominees positions
It has four vacancies including the
seat vacated by Supreme Court Chief
Justice John Roberts in 2005.
Its very plain now what the
stakes are. Everyone is now focused
on the D.C. Circuit. ... Its important
for the White House to have a break-
through there, University of Rich-
mond lawprofessor Carl Tobias says.
Srinivasan comes to the Senate
with bipartisan credentials, and on
Wednesday, he outlined a moderate
approach to the law, stressing open-
mindedness and objectivity.
Its a case-by-case approach, he
said when asked for his philosophy.
Theres no grand unifying theory.
After long wait, scales tip for Obama court pick
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THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2013
STATE-BY-STATE
ALABAMAMontgomery: Repub-
lican Gov. Robert Bentley has an-
nounced he will seek a second term
next year. Bentley, 70, was elected in
2010 on a jobs creation platform.
ALASKAAnchorage: Some drivers
have a reprieve fromremoving their
studded snowtires by April 15. De-
partment of Public Safety Commis-
sioner Joe Masters moved back the
deadline to remove the tires to May 1,
because of recent snowand ice.
ARIZONAFlagstaf: Grand Canyon
National Parks south rimconces-
sionaire is ending a free service
which had mules haul packages into
the canyon, typically, goodies for
river runners stopping at Phantom
Ranch. Xanterra says its mules will
still haul letters and postcards to
river runners for free. Jon Streit of
Xanterra says the company will work
with boaters and others to haul ur-
gently needed equipment or supplies.
ARKANSAS Little Rock: The House
State Agencies committee has ad-
vanced a Senate-approved proposal
to establish a newstate ofce to
investigate fraud and abuse in the
Medicaid program.
CALIFORNIAIndia: Authorities said
a 78-year-old man tied a puppy to
train tracks in the California desert,
and an engineer had to use emergen-
cy brakes to keep fromcrushing it.
Riverside County animal control said
that Banjo, a 10-month-old poodle-
terrier mix, is ne and up for adop-
tion. Union Pacic Special Agent Sal
Pina said the man told himhis family
didnt want the dog and didnt know
what to do. He was not charged.
COLORADOAspen: The Aspen
School District is considering adding
cyberbullying to its district-wide
policy after an attorney said it has
become a problemin the community.
CONNECTICUT Storrs: The Univer-
sity of Connecticut Foundation said
the late partner and ex-wife of Mup-
pets creator JimHenson has donated
$100,000 to support the study of
puppetry. Jane Henson died last
week at age 78.
DELAWARE Dover: The Delaware
Agriculture Museumand Village
today is hosting the 34th annual
waterfowl and trout stamp competi-
tions. The museumwill display the
entries through April 29.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Atunnel-
boring machine made its debut at the
Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater
Treatment Plant, The Washington
Post reported. Its part of a plan for a
12.6-mile tunnel set for completion
in 2022 that will serve as a holding
tank during rainstorms.
FLORIDABrevard: United Space
Alliance has laid of68 employees in
its last round of layofs tied to retire-
ment of the space shuttle program,
Florida Today reported. After the
cuts, the company that served as
NASAs prime shuttle contractor and
once employed more than 6,500
people in Brevard County will have
just 154 workers left there.
GEORGIAAtlanta: Georgia will get
$17.2 million in federal grant money
as part of a plan aimed at improving
persistently low-performing schools.
The funds would be used by schools
to pay for teacher and principal
training and to hire teacher coaches.
HAWAII Honolulu: The Kilauea
Point Lighthouse in Kauai will be
renamed for late U.S. Sen. Daniel
Inouye on May 4, Secretary of the
Interior Ken Salazar announced.
Inouye died in December after 49
years in the U.S. Senate. He was 88.
IDAHOBoise: Authorities said an
artillery shell discovered in the back-
yard of a vacant home in Ada County
posed no danger. It was the second
shell found recently. The rst was
found Saturday by a man walking his
dog along the Snake River near the
Mountain Home Air Force Base.
ILLINOIS Romeoville: Former Chi-
cago Bears defensive lineman Steve
McMichael has lost his bid to become
mayor of this Chicago suburb, losing
to incumbent Mayor John Noak.
INDIANAElkhart: Police and
school ofcials are boosting security
at ve schools in Elkhart and St.
Joseph counties following an anony-
mous threat warning that 20 school-
children would be killed on April 15,
The Elkhart Truth reported.
IOWASioux City: Ahigh school
band director accused of stealing
more than $50,000 in instruments
fromthe school and pawning them
has resigned. The Sioux City Journal
reported Kevin Massey, 39, of Ser-
geant Bluf, resigned fromNorth
High School. Police say Massey
pawned the instruments to cover
gambling debts.
KANSAS Topeka: Gov. Brownback,
a Republican, has signed legislation
that supporters say will shield Kan-
sas residents fromgovernment in-
fringement on religious liberties.
KENTUCKYPineville: Bell County
deputies charged a teacher with
supplying drugs to students. Dwight
O. King, 45, was charged with drug
trafcking and trafcking within
1,000 yards of a school.
LOUISIANANewOrleans: City
ofcials have asked a federal court to
appoint someone other than Sherif
Marlin Gusman to run the jail. The
move comes after the release of
videos that showinmates using drugs
and brandishing a gun in a cell.
MAINE Rome: State police have
captured a man who they say lived
like a hermit for decades in the
woods and may be responsible for
more than 1,000 burglaries. Acourt
afdavit says Christopher
Knight, 47, was arrested last
week when he tripped a
sensor while stealing
$283 worth of food
fromPine Tree
Camp.
MARYLANDJessup:
Inmates at Patuxent
Institution were set to
hand over 600 American
chestnut seedlings grown in
a prison greenhouse to the
American Chestnut Founda-
tion, which is trying to devel-
op trees resistant to a blight
that made the species near-
ly extinct by the 1950s.
MASSACHUSETTS
Springeld: The city of
Springeld and the Hamp-
den County Sherif's Department
have reached an agreement to have
crews of female inmates spruce up
city parks. SherifMichael Ashe says
its the rst time women will make up
crews in the departments communi-
ty restitution program.
MICHIGANLansing: The Michigan
State University-produced docu-
mentary Swimming Towards a Cure
airs tonight on the Big Ten Network.
The showfollows six Michigan wom-
en as they swimthe English Channel,
42 miles, for University of Michigan
professor Bob Schoeni, who was
diagnosed with ALS in 2008.
MINNESOTADuluth: Areport re-
leased by the advocacy group Envi-
ronment Minnesota reveals 82 of 87
Minnesota counties have sustained
federally declared weather disasters
since 2007. Disasters include ood-
ing, tornadoes and severe storms.
MISSISSIPPI Oxford: The University
of Mississippi has turned over Wil-
liamFaulkners 1950 Nobel Prize
in literature and the Legion
dHonneur medal presented to
himby France in 1951 to
Faulkners grandchildren so
they can be included in an
estate package to be auctioned
ofby Sothebys of NewYork on
June 11. The literary trea-
sure trove, includ-
ing letters and postcards
sent by Faulkner, could
fetch $2 million at
auction.
MISSOURI Joplin: A
group of Missouri South-
ern alumni are working to
save the schools debate
team, which has no mem-
bers. Steve Doubledee,
assistant director of
forensics at Wash-
burn University in
Topeka, Kan., said he
and other former
Missouri Southern
debaters will meet Sat-
urday to rally for the pro-
gram.
MONTANAMissoula: The U.S.
Forest Service has changed its rule
on when an administrative protest
can be led against projects that
require an environmental analysis.
The move is an attempt to resolve
diferences early and avoid lengthy
appeals over projects such as timber
sales or road decommissioning.
NEBRASKAGrand Island: The City
Council voted against trying to oust
Mayor Jay Vavricek. Councilman
Mike Paulick had led a misconduct
charge against Vavricek. It cites Vav-
riceks drunken-driving arrest March
2 in nearby Howard County. Vavricek
pleaded no contest to reckless driv-
ing and was ned $500.
NEVADALas Vegas: State casino
revenue rose 15%in February com-
pared with the same month in 2012,
led by gains on the Las Vegas Strip.
The Gaming Control Board reported
that casinos won more than $1 billion
in February.
NEWHAMPSHIRE Con-
cord: The Legislature is considering
a bill that would end free admission
for people age 65 and older at state
parks. Seniors would pay the same
day-use fees as other adults, usually
$4 or $5.
NEWJERSEYAtlantic City: A
$20 million tourismcampaign fea-
turing television, radio and print ads
is encouraging people in NewYork
City, Philadelphia and Baltimore to
book trips to this gambling resort,
emphasizing that it is ne after Su-
perstormSandy.
NEWMEXICOLas Cruces: Former
governor Garrey Carruthers is one of
ve nalists for president of New
Mexico State University. Also in the
running are former University of
Nevada-Las Vegas president David
Ashley, former Texas Tech president
Guy Bailey, University of Colorado
Denver Dean Daniel Howard and
Texas A&MPresident Emeritus Elsa
Morano.
NEWYORKNewYork:
Marisol Valles Garcia, 23,
the subject of So Go the
Ghosts of Mexico, will
attend a performance
Sunday at La MaMa.
Valles Garcia was 20
when she became
police chief in Prxedis
G. Guerrero, Mexico,
which is overrun by
drug violence. She ed
Mexico in 2011 after
receiving death threats
and is a criminology
student in Texas.
NORTHCAROLINA
Raleigh: Domestic violence murders
in the state increased 15%to 122 in
2012, Attorney General Roy Cooper
said. Of the victims, 78 were women
and 44 were men. Of the killers, 104
were men and 18 were women.
NORTHDAKOTABismarck: State
Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem
asked for a $400,000 budget increase
to defend lawsuits that arise from
newlegislation that gives the state
the nations strictest abortion laws.
OHIOColumbus: The state is part-
nering with Big Brothers Big Sisters
to launch an initiative to help foster
children who age out of the system.
OKLAHOMATulsa: The number of
killings in 2013 is ahead of the pace
set in 2009, when the city had a rec-
ord 71 homicides. The 24th homicide
was reported this week. Last year, the
city recorded 46 killings, the lowest
in a decade. In 2009, there had been
17 killings by this time of year.
OREGONSalem: The state would
create a registry of medical marijua-
na retailers under a proposed bill in
the Legislature, the Statesman Jour-
nal reported. Facilities would have to
comply with regulations for pesti-
cides, mold and mildewtesting.
PENNSYLVANIAHarrisburg: From
his trade mission in Brazil, Gov.
Corbett said an international manu-
facturer of hydraulic cylinders plans
to open a facility in Chambersburg
next year. Corbett, a Republican, said
the planned Wipro Infrastructure
Engineering plant will create 74 local
jobs and generate $10 million in
capital investments over 10 years.
RHODE ISLANDProvidence:
Brown University launched a
$160 million campaign for its School
of Engineering on Wednesday with
the announcement of a combined
$44 million in donations.
SOUTHCAROLINAAlcolu: Georgia-
Pacic was set to open a newmill
that makes oriented strand board, a
building material used in construc-
tion. The mill will employ 130 people.
SOUTHDAKOTAPierre: The state is
recognizing emergency police, re
and medical dispatchers during Na-
tional Public Safety Telecommun-
icators Week next week.
TENNESSEE Memphis: Police said a
man stole another mans pants and
then shot him. Investigators said the
victimwas sitting in a car when Dari-
us Bell, 22, demanded he take ofhis
pants and hand themover. Police
said Bell than shot the man in the
hip, leg and shoulder. The Commer-
cial Appeal reported the victims
pants contained an unemployment
card and about $100 in cash.
TEXAS Austin: Gov. Perry, a Repub-
lican, appointed Kaufman County
Court-at-LawJudge Erleigh Norville
Wiley to complete the termof slain
District Attorney Mike McLelland.
McLelland and his wife, Cynthia,
were shot to death in their home
March 30.
UTAHSt. George: Dixie
Ambulance Services,
which has provided
emergency medical
services for more
than 30 years, will
discontinue service
Sunday after the loss of its exclusive
license to handle 911 calls.
VERMONT Middlesex: Veteran
Vermont State Police bomb-snifng
dogs Oak and Freesia have retired
after eight years as serving as state
police bomb dogs.
VIRGINIADoswell: Youth livestock
shows are returning for the 2013
State Fair of Virginia, set for Sept.
27-Oct. 6 at The MeadowEvent Park.
WASHINGTONSpokane: Apsychi-
atric patient accused of killing anoth-
er patient at Eastern State Hospital
was found competent to stand trial
on a murder charge. Amber Roberts
pleaded not guilty in the death of
Duane Charley in November. He was
strangled with an electrical cord.
WEST VIRGINIAHuntington: Mar-
shall University is putting the brakes
on spending. The university expects
a 9%cut in state funding for the scal
year that begins July 1.
WISCONSINEau Claire: A42-year-
old woman was not seriously
injured when she crashed
into a side entrance of City
Hall. Police suspected
her of being under the
inuence and arrested
her on charges of pos-
session of drug
paraphernalia.
WYOMINGLaramie:
The 162 members of
the Army National
Guards 133rd Engi-
neer Co. will be de-
ployed today to
Bahrain for Operation
Enduring Freedom.
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wire reports by Robert Robinson and Den-
nis Lyons. Design by Michael B. Smith.
Graphics by Bob Laird.
News fromacross the USA
Fox News reporter Jana Winter
isnt heading to jail, at least not yet.
Winter was in a Colorado court
Wednesday facing contempt-of-
court charges for refusing to reveal
the name of a condential source
who gave her information about
shooting suspect James Holmes
mental condition.
Holmes, 25, is charged with rst-
degree murder in the July 20 slay-
ings of 12 suburban Denver
theatergoers.
Following the massacre, which
injured 70 others, Winter reported
that an unnamed law enforcement
ofcial told her that before the
shooting, Holmes had sent his pys-
chiatrist a notebook containing
drawings depicting violent acts.
Holmes court-appointed public de-
fenders say the leaked contents of
the notebook violate a gag order.
Judge Carlos Samour said
Wednesday that he wont decide
whether Winter should be ordered
to reveal her source until he rules
on the notebooks admissibility as
evidence. Winter could be jailed for
contempt of court if Samour rules
she must reveal the source and she
refuses.
Holmes attorneys contend that
whoever gave Winter the informa-
tion violated a gag order in the case.
They asked the judge to require her
to disclose her sources.
Holmes ofered to plead guilty in
return for a life sentence without
parole. His attorneys say he is men-
tally ill. Prosecutors rejected the of-
fer and said they would seek the
death penalty. A trial has been set
for February 2014.
Winter has said in court lings
that she would protect her sources
identities and that such informa-
tion is protected under the state
shield law.
If I amforced to reveal the iden-
tities of persons whom I have
promised to shield from public ex-
posure, simply put, I will be unable
to function efectively in my profes-
sion, and my career will be over,
she said in an earlier court afdavit.
The same day Winters story ap-
peared on FoxNews.com, NBC re-
ported that the notebook contained
writings about killing people, cit-
ing a senior law enforcement of-
cial whom it did not name. Its
unclear whether Holmes attorneys
sought the networks sources.
Ken Paulson, former editor of
USA TODAY and president of the
First Amendment Center, said
Winters reporting served the pub-
lic interest. Jana Winters report-
ing was important because it shed
light on whether a public university
had overlooked clear signals that
the public was in danger. What
could be of greater public interest
than that? he said.
We want reporters to provide us
that information because we know
that public institutions will not vol-
untarily reveal that they are guilty
of a lapse, Paulson said. This was
a core function of a reporter under
the First Amendment, reporting on
people in power and telling the
public exactly what they need to
know.
Contributing: The Associated Press
News reporter spared jail ... for now
HIGHLIGHT: COLORADO
Gary Strauss
@garybstrauss
USATODAY
ED ANDRIESKI, AP
Fox News reporter Jana Winter, right, arrives Wednesday with an
attorney at a hearing for James Holmes in Centennial, Colo.
CHARLESTON Aman accused of
killing a West Virginia sherifwasnt
allowed to possess a rearmbut
was still able to buy a gun froma
local dealer, even though the dealer
ran the required background check.
Mingo County Prosecutor Mi-
chael Sparks said a
breakdown in the report-
ing systemenabled Ten-
nis Melvin Maynard to
purchase the gun used to
kill SherifEugene Crum
on April 3 as the lawman
ate lunch in a downtown William-
son parking lot.
It appears the local dealer did
what was legally required under the
law, Sparks said. The breakdown
happened somewhere else. There
was a delay in the reporting of the
necessary information. Really, an
inexcusable delay.
Maynards father has said his son
had mental problems and had pre-
viously been in an institution.
Federal lawbans the sale of re-
arms and ammunition to certain
individuals with a history of mental
illness. States are required to share
the names of mentally ill people
with the national back-
ground-check system.
In West Virginia, such
information is supposed
to be reported to the FBI,
which conducts back-
ground checks through
its Criminal Justice Information
Services Division in Clarksburg.
Sparks noted that Maynard at-
tempted to buy additional guns but
was red-agged during subsequent
background checks.
The systemdid work for later
attempts to purchase, Sparks said.
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SANAA, YEMEN Al-Qaeda in Yemens
second-in-command appears, once
again, to have come back from the
dead.
Saeed al-Shihri has been pro-
nounced killed three times, but an
audio message purportedly from
Shihri has been posted online by al-
Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsulas of-
cial media wing.
The authenticity of the recording
could not be veried. However, the
reported voice of Shihri refers to
events that have taken place since his
alleged death in November in what
Yemens national security agency de-
scribed as a counterterrorism oper-
ation in Sadaa province.
In the 14-minute recording, Shihri
denounces a February anti-terrorism
conference in Saudi Arabia and re-
fers to a meeting of Arab ministers in
March. His main focus was to de-
nounce Saudi Arabias ruling family
as U.S. collaborators and call for the
removal of the Saudi regime.
Yemens Supreme National Securi-
ty Committee claimed in January
that the terrorist had been killed in
November, at least the third time the
former Guantanamo Bay detainee
had been reported killed.
Shihri was captured in Afghani-
stan in 2001, sent to the U.S. deten-
tion facility for terrorism suspects at
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and put on a
list of the 37 most dangerous in-
mates. He was sent back to Saudi
Arabia in 2007 to take part in a reha-
bilitation program. Shortly after be-
ing released by Saudi ofcials in
2008, Shihri arrived in Yemen and in
January 2009 appeared in a video
message announcing the creation of
al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
The Yemeni government an-
nounced that Shihri had been killed
in 2009 and then erroneously report-
ed his capture in 2010 before again
reporting his death in a U.S. drone
strike in September 2012. Most re-
cently, authorities said he had been
killed in November 2012.
The United States has been heavily
involved in the ght against al-Qaeda
in the Arabian Peninsula, regarded
by Washington as the most danger-
ous branch of al-Qaeda in the world.
The number of U.S. drone strikes car-
ried out in Yemen surpassed those in
Pakistan for the rst time last year,
according to monitoring groups.
Al-Qaeda denies the death
again of its No. 2 in Yemen
Iona Craig
Special for USATODAY
SITE INTELLIGENCE GROUP VIA AP
Saeed al-Shihri is shown in an undated
video posted online in January 2009.
North Koreas military has not
launched a full-scale buildup for war,
causing analysts in the United States
and the United Kingdom to believe
its war threats are a bluf, Korea
watchers say.
However, one former intelligence
analyst says North Korea could use
its missiles, artillery, and special op-
erations forces to launch a surprise
attack before calling up regular
troops and evacuating its cities,
though even he thinks that scenario
is unlikely.
Weve not seen any buildup in
the North Korean militarys heavy
mechanized and regular infantry
units, says Bruce Bechtol, a former
Northeast Asia analyst in the De-
fense Intelligence Agency who now
teaches at Angelo State University in
Texas.
Nevertheless, North Korea has
thousands of artillery pieces and mis-
siles pointed south, and 200,000 spe-
cial operations troops who can sneak
across the border and cause havoc
before a full-scale war begins, Bech-
tol said.
Such asymmetric units can attack
relatively quickly and with relatively
no warning, he said.
North Korea has moved at least
one Musudan missile toward its
coast and said it would test launch it
soon. The Musudan travels on a mo-
bile launcher that is designed to hide
its location from the enemy. It has a
range of 2,500 miles, putting U.S.
forces in Guamwithin its range.
In February, North Korea also
tested a nuclear bomb, which it said
was smaller than previous ones. In
December it launched a satellite into
space, demonstrating that North Ko-
rea is closer to producing an inter-
continental ballistic missile.
In the same time period, its lead-
ers have issued statements that
North Koreas nuclear programis de-
signed to deter the United States, and
threatening to turn the South Korean
capital, Seoul, into a sea of re.
Like the trash talk, North Koreas
planned launch of the Musudan ap-
pears to be bravado, Bechtol said. If
they really wanted to strike some-
thing with these launchers they
wouldnt be doing it so publicly and
so slowly.
If they launch the missile, theyll
probably launch it into the ocean, he
said.
What the North Koreans want is
to not ght a war but to take us to the
very brink of war, Bechtol said. If
there was actually a full-scaled war
they would lose it. Thats for sure.
Other analysts point at evidence
North Korea does not resemble a
country on the verge of war and is
likely not on a war footing.
uNorth Korea has not called up
the 7.7 million men in its military re-
serve, says James Hardy, Asia-Pacic
editor of the intelligence group IHS
Janes Defense Weekly in the United
Kingdom.
uSome of the 1.2 million troops in
the regular army have deployed to
the countrys farms to assist in spring
planting, which is a regular occur-
rence this time of year, says David
Straub, associate director of the Ko-
rean Studies Program at Stanford
University and former Korea desk di-
rector at State Department head-
quarters from2002 to 2004.
uBoth U.S. and South Korean in-
telligence agencies have publicly re-
ported seeing no mobilization of
troops and equipment toward the de-
militarized zone in the south, Straub
said.
uThereve been no reports of
evacuations at the capital or of a
marked increase in air raid and evac-
uation drills that would be expected
in a build up to war, Hardy said.
uAnd North Korean transport
routes, train stations and road trafc
have all been normal, showing none
of the cookie trail of logistics that
would point to war, Hardy said.
No ones seen it. No ones men-
tioned it, so nobodys reported it, he
said. Thats because theres not go-
ing to be a war. It would be suicidal,
so it doesnt make sense for North
Korea to start a war.
North Korea has 70% of its active
duty troops stationed in fortied po-
sitions facing its southern border,
and thousands of artillery units and
missiles aimed at Seoul and other
South Korean cities, Hardy said.
Its special operations forces are
believed capable of inltrating the
South with mini-submarines, low-y-
ing biplanes and through tunnels un-
der the demilitarized zone.
In a scenario where South Korea
starts a war, it could seriously dam-
age South Korea in a short amount of
time, but in a long-termwar it would
not win against the overwhelming
combined forces of South Korea and
the United States, Hardy said. No-
body really understands what North
Korea would gain from it.
LEE JIN-MAN, AP
North Koreans work on a eld Wednesday in the village of Gijungdong near the border village of Panmun-
jom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War.
Despite rhetoric, N. Korea
likely not prepared for war
AHNYOUNGJOON, AP
A U.S. Air Force F-16 ghter jet prepares to land Wednesday during a
military exercise at the Osan Air Base in South Korea.
Analysts hear
bravado, but see no
signs of a buildup
Oren Dorell
@OrenDorell
USATODAY
What the North
Koreans want is to
not ght a war but
to take us to the
very brink of war.
Bruce Bechtol, a former Northeast Asia
analyst in the Defense Intelligence Agency
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OPINION
Like Charlie Brown attempting to
kick the football, President Obama
keeps trying to reach a grand bar-
gain with congressional Republicans
to reduce decits.
He failed in 2011 and then again at
the end of last year. Nowhes making
another, more public push. The
presidents 2014 budget, belatedly
submitted on Wednesday, proposes
to curb decits by $1.8 trillion over 10
years through a combination of
spending cuts and tax hikes.
Thats far from sufcient; the gov-
ernment would still spend some
$5 trillion more than it takes in dur-
ing the decade. But even to achieve
his relatively modest goal, Obama
will face opposition not just from re-
calcitrant Republicans, particularly
in the House, but also from Demo-
crats who are as intransigent about
cutting benet programs as conser-
vatives are about raising taxes.
The lefts opposition to the most
important change in Obamas spend-
ing plan exposes its irresponsibility.
Obama proposes switching to a
slightly less generous, and more ac-
curate, formula for calculating ina-
tion. Using the new formula, known
in policy circles as chained CPI,
would reduce decits by roughly
$230 billion over 10 years. The big-
gest single piece of this would be a
$100 billion reduction in Social Secu-
rity spending, accomplished by hav-
ing slightly smaller cost-of-living
increases.
Heres howit would work: An aver-
age beneciary now collecting
$18,256 per year would see little dif-
ference in the next few years. But by
2023, the average annual benet
would rise to an estimated $22,891,
rather than the $23,258 it would
reach under current law.
For the poorest recipients, 30
bucks a month is not chump change.
But Social Security is projected to
spend $1.2 trillion more than it will
take in during the next 10 years.
Tweaking the formula used to deter-
mine cost-of-living increases is one
of the least painful options for help-
ing make the programself-sustaining
and only a small part of the solution.
Liberals, of course, like to argue
that Social Security really doesnt
have a decit or a funding problem.
Their argument is based on the sur-
plus built up over the last 30 years,
which has grown to about $2.7 tril-
lion in stockpiled U.S. Treasuries.
This argument would be more be-
lievable if the surplus were a real
trust fund that could fund future
generations. In fact, the surplus is a
eeting anomaly created by having
an unusually large Baby Boomgener-
ation paying in while a relatively
small retired generation was
collecting.
And, in any event, the surpluses
werent secured in a lockbox; they
were spent for other purposes and
replaced with IOUs. So without
changes, the Boomers retirement
will have to be funded from general
revenues increasing decits or tax-
es or crimping other programs.
One of the best ways to shore up
Social Security, and to address larger
debt issues, is by gradually reducing
rates of growth. Chained CPI does
just that. Other, more noticeable op-
tions for bolstering the retirement
program include raising the eligibil-
ity age and increasing Social Security
taxes.
Obamas commitment to chained
CPI is a signicant ofer that infuri-
ates his liberal base but carries the
usual catch for conservatives of being
linked to higher taxes on the wealthy.
Now its up to Republicans to de-
cide whether they want to make a
deal, or to keep playing Lucy with the
football.
TODAY'S DEBATE FEDERAL BUDGET
Our view
Obamas budget tees up
retirement program
Change in the
inflation formula
offers significant
gain without
major pain
Changing the formula used to
determine cost-of-living increases
for Social Security and other
programs would save $230 billion
over the next decade.
INFLATIONADJUSTMENT
Source Ofce of Management and Budget
JANET LOEHRKE, USA TODAY
Savings (in billions)
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
0
$10
$20
$30
$40
$50
$0
$50
Joe Merz is a 74-year-old retiree
and MoveOn member fromFergus
Falls, Minn. He depends on Social
Security and is organizing other
Minnesotans to protect their bene-
ts. He just never expected hed be
protecting themfromthis.
On Wednesday, in a rst-ever
move for a Democratic president,
Barack Obama proposed cutting
Social Security. His plan would use
a stingy formula to shrink bene-
ciaries cost-of-living increases. Ac-
cording to the AARP, a typical
80-year-old woman in 2031, who
had retired this year at 62, would
receive $56 less in monthly bene-
ts than under the current formu-
la. Thats the equivalent of one
week of food per month, or three
months of food per year. The plan
would cut more than $100 billion
in the next 10 years alone. And its
unacceptable.
Most Americans over 65 survive
on less than $20,000 a year. Nearly
seven out of 10 seniors rely on So-
cial Security for more than half of
this income. Others, including vet-
erans with disabilities, rely on So-
cial Security, too. For them, the
cuts President Obama is proposing
mean impossible choices, such as:
Should I skip my medicine or my
next meal?
Theres no good policy argument
for these cuts. But President Oba-
ma thinks theyll make him look
reasonable, because theyre a con-
cession to anti-government Re-
publicans who want to go further
and privatize Social Security.
Social Security doesnt add to
the decit, and there are better op-
tions for its long-term solvency.
For example, income above
$113,700 a year is currently ex-
empted from Social Security taxes.
If the goal were actually to
strengthen the program, the
wealthy could pay the same Social
Security tax the rest of us do.
The president and congressional
leaders appear strikingly out of
touch with the economic realities
facing Americans. Only in Wash-
ington could a solution that asks
the wealthy to pay their fair share
be dismissed as fanciful, but cut-
ting Social Security benets from
seniors be called a grand bargain.
Abargain for whom, exactly?
Theres reason for hope, though,
because a loud enough outcry can
break through Washingtons myo-
pia. Thats what happened in 2005,
when President Bush threatened
Social Security. A populist uprising
left his plan dead in the water.
Its time again for a mass mobili-
zation in defense of this program
that has worked so well for so
many. Many Americans are already
organizing. The pundit class may
not see it yet, but in the rest of the
country, the outrage is growing.
Anna Galland is executive direc-
tor of MoveOn.org, a group that
campaigns for progressive policies.
Opposing view
Dont mess with
Social Security
Stingy cost-of-
living formula
harms seniors
Anna Galland
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Larry Kramer
I
nsanity, Albert Einstein once
said, is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting
diferent results. By that mea-
sure, crazy-acting North Korean dic-
tator Kim Jong Un and his father
and grandfather before him is
stark raving sane. Doing the same
thing over and over has always gotten
this communist dynasty the same
four things it craves: attention, food,
money and power. It is the rest of the
world that better ts Einsteins tru-
ism. The rest of the world has tried
the same responses and hoped for
diferent results. The only way to
change that is for the world, China in
particular, to do something com-
pletely diferent.
On the face of things, Kim the
pudgy, new, 29-year-old North Kore-
an leader looks more than a little
mad. He has declared war on the
United States and its Asian allies. He
has been shown, on North Korean
TV, picking out U.S. targets as his
shrill TV announcers rail against U.S.
brigandish behavior. Kims regime
has canceled the armistice ending
the Korean War, a war that left the
peninsula, which juts out from Chi-
na, divided between a communist
north and a U.S.-allied south. The
regime has promised to restart nu-
clear fuel production that was
stopped under nukes-for-food and
other deals. It cut telephone hotlines
supposed to prevent an accidental at-
tack by North Koreas nukes or its
million-man army. And on and on.
Crazy-but-sane Kim Jong Un,
though, is simply repeating his family
history. The dj vu stunts were
honed by his China-allied Great
Leader grandfather and Dear
Leader father. They may have the
feel of a wacky Red Scare horror
showstuck in the 1950s. But Kimhas
two reasons to believe they will work.
It is not just that North Korea has
nuclear weapons, albeit not yet the
sophisticated warheads and missiles
his propaganda claims can already
hit the U.S. mainland. As important:
Kim expects China to enable and
protect himno matter what.
A CLOSED SOCIETY
Theories abound about why Kim is
behaving like an even more cartoon-
ish version of his grandfather and fa-
ther. Among them: his father Kim
Jong Il, who died in 2011, left
instructions for how to consolidate
power instructions that counted
on China. Few people know for sure.
North Korea is a closed, Stalinist
state. Apart from the well-fed, pam-
pered elite, its people are starving.
Whatever the reason for Kims be-
havior he says it is because of U.N.
sanctions and joint U.S.-South Korea
military exercises the old respons-
es wont change North Koreas be-
havior. The U.S.-led outside world
has repeatedly tried a spectrum of
sane eforts. At one end, bribery,
appeasement and special U.S. envoys
like Jimmy Carter. At the other:
sanctions, isolation and six-party
talks that rope in the Asian neighbor-
hood. North Korea reverts, always, to
being North Korea. Under new,
young, inexperienced Kim, the be-
havior has become exaggerated,
alarmingly detached from reality. It
has made North Korea an accidental
war waiting to happen. That new re-
ality should be the catalyst for China
to use its clout.
BEIJING HAS LEVERAGE
And China does have clout. Decades
ago, China and North Korea behaved
and talked in the same Red Scare lan-
guage. They were, in the words of
Chinese propaganda at the time, like
lips and teeth. The North-South Ko-
rea divide was, too, a communist-
capitalist divide. China has since
modernized and moved on.
Chinas communism is commu-
nism in little but name. Its commu-
nist leadership is unelected but
term-limited, capitalism is the coun-
trys religion, the Cold War is over,
and China is fast becoming a domi-
nant world power. North Korea has
remained the badly behaved brother
it cant quite give up on. China still
provides North Korea with food and
fuel. Whenever China gets tough on
North Korea, that toughness is
halfhearted.
That must change. China has long
been afraid of unrest on its North
Korea border. But, with Kims goad-
ing, long-buried tensions and mili-
tary clashes could erupt anyway.
China wants to be a real world power.
Real world powers dont opt for sta-
bility at all costs.
The new president of China, Xi
Jinping, caused a stir in recent days
with some cryptic words. No one,
he said, should be allowed to throw
a region and even the whole world
into chaos for selsh gains.
In China, where obliqueness rules,
those words are a big deal, a Chinese-
avored warning to North Korea.
Talk alone, though, as an old Chinese
proverb puts it, doesnt cook rice.
China could and should step up to
talk reality to Kimand enforce it.
Otherwise, expect Einsteins say-
ing to hold true.
Author and journalist Louise Bran-
son was the Beijing correspondent for
the London Sunday Times. She is a
former editorial writer for USA TO-
DAY and is writing an international
thriller.
Louise Branson
CHINA, END
N. KOREAS
WILD THREATS
Trying the same approach over and over,
but expecting diferent results, wont work.
ANTONY DICKSON, AFP/GETTY IMAGES
A man in Hong Kong reads a Chinese-language newspaper March 31
leading with reports on North Korean military developments.
Infant beheadings. Severed baby
feet in jars. A child screaming after it
was delivered alive during an abor-
tion procedure. Havent heard about
these sickening accusations?
Its not your fault. Since the mur-
der trial of Pennsylvania abortion
doctor Kermit Gosnell began March
18, there has been precious little cov-
erage of the case that should be on
every news showand front page. The
revolting revelations of Gosnells for-
mer staf, who have been testifying to
what they witnessed and did during
late-term abortions, should shock
anyone with a heart.
NBC-10 Philadelphia reported
that Stephen Massof, a former Gos-
nell worker, described how he
snipped the spinal cords of babies,
calling it, literally a beheading. It is
separating the brain from the body.
One former worker, Adrienne Mo-
ton, testied that Gosnell taught her
his snipping technique to use on
infants born alive.
Massof, who, like other witnesses,
has himself pleaded guilty to serious
crimes, testied It would rain
fetuses. Fetuses and blood all over
the place. Here is the headline the
Associated Press put on a story about
his testimony that he saw 100 babies
born and then snipped: Stafer de-
scribes chaos at PAabortion clinic.
Chaos isnt really the story here.
Butchering babies that were already
born and were older than the states
24-week limit for abortions is the
story. There is a reason the late Dem-
ocratic senator Daniel Patrick Moy-
nihan called this procedure
infanticide.
Planned Parenthood recently
claimed that the possibility of infants
surviving late-term abortions was
highly unusual. The Gosnell case
suggests otherwise.
Regardless of such quibbles, about
whether Gosnell was killing the in-
fants one second after they left the
womb instead of partially inside or
completely inside the womb as in a
routine late-term abortion is
merely a matter of geography. That
one is murder and the other is a legal
procedure is morally irreconcilable.
A Lexis-Nexis search shows none
of the news shows on the three major
national television networks has
mentioned the Gosnell trial in the
last three months. The exception is
when Wall Street Journal columnist
Peggy Noonan hijacked a segment on
Meet the Press meant to foment out-
rage over an anti-abortion rights law
in some backward red state.
The Washington Post has not pub-
lished original reporting on this dur-
ing the trial and The NewYork Times
saw t to run one original story on
A-17 on the trials rst day. Theyve
been silent ever since, despite head-
line-worthy testimony.
Let me state the obvious. This
should be front page news. When
Rush Limbaugh attacked Sandra
Fluke, there was non-stop media hys-
teria. The venerable NBC Nightly
News Brian Williams intoned, A
restorm of outrage from women af-
ter a crude tirade from Rush Lim-
baugh, as he teased a segment on the
brouhaha. Yet, accusations of babies
having their heads severed a major
human rights story if there ever was
one doesnt make the cut.
You dont have to oppose abortion
rights to nd late-term abortion ab-
horrent or to nd the Gosnell trial
eminently newsworthy. This is not
about being pro-choice or pro-
life. Its about basic human rights.
The deafening silence of too much
of the media, once a force for justice
in America, is a disgrace.
Kirsten Powers is a member of USA
TODAYs Board of Contributors, a
Fox News political analyst and colum-
nist for The Daily Beast.
Abortion clinic horror isnt
getting attention it needs
Weve forgotten what
belongs on Page One
Kirsten Powers
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Households that dont pay for
cable or satellite TV and use the
Internet to watch shows instead
increased to 5 million this year, up
from 2 million in 2007.
The main reason people are
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better. My cable contract is up in
July, and it will be gone! Ill replace
with Netix and Hulu Plus, which
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shows are on, and the ones that Im
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Timothy Junkins
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and decided we dont watch it
enough to make it worth the money.
Mary Knowles
I fall under this category. I didnt
have cable for more than a year.
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ix. Recently, I turned the cable back
on because I was offered a deal
where it would only add $12 to my
bill. I thought why not? I gured my
daughter would like having TV
again. I was wrong. She turns it on,
nds nothing, and goes right for the
Netix. I very rarely turn on the TV.
Im always on the Internet or
reading. So when this special runs
out with cable Ill be turning it off
again. We wont miss it at all.
Jennie Wallace
The TV industry has been ripping
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Ive been dealing with the mental
health systemsince my daughter was
12. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder
at 16 and borderline personality dis-
order at 18, I thought Id seen it all.
Once she turned 18, however, I went
from valued member of the health
care teamto its pariah.
Americas mental health system is
in crisis largely because families are
excluded from participating in the
care of loved ones. The National In-
stitute of Mental Health estimates
that 11.4 million Americans sufer
fromserious mental illnesses, includ-
ing schizophrenia, bipolar disorder
and major depression. About half of
people with mental illness sufer
from a lack of awareness about their
illness, compromising their abilities
to make informed decisions.
Yet, legally, at 18 they have full
control of their health care and other
life decisions. In many states, getting
treatment requires that the person
rst exhibit dangerous behavior.
But what about young people such
as my daughter, who has not exhibit-
ed violent behavior, but nonetheless
needs treatment? Before my daugh-
ter turned 18, my husband and I con-
sulted a mental health attorney. He
told us that while we could petition
the court for guardianship, he ad-
vised against it because it would be
expensive, unlikely to be granted,
and temporary, typically three to six
months in duration.
TOO MANY BARRIERS
Doing the right thing should not be
so difcult. Laws need to be changed
for the sake of people with mental ill-
nesses, their parents and for society.
Other parents have also tried to
help their children, including some
who began exhibiting odd, but not vi-
olent, behavior. The inability to per-
suade or force these young men
to get help resulted in deadly
consequences.
Details emerging last week re-
vealed that the parents of Jared
Loughner, 24 who killed six and
wounded Rep. Gabrielle Gifords and
18 others in Arizona disabled their
sons car each night to try to prevent
him from harming others. They con-
scated his shotgun after Pima
County College police warned that
their son might be a danger to him-
self or others. They pleaded with
their son to get help. He refused.
James Holmes was not living with
his parents when he killed 12 and in-
jured 58 people at the Aurora, Colo.,
movie theater. Holmes was on the ra-
dar screen of mental health
professionals at the University of
Colorado before the massacre, yet
even they were powerless to
intervene.
REASONS FOR CHANGE
There are good reasons to give par-
ents more legal leverage over adults
with mental illnesses:
uMost severe mental illnesses
are diagnosed in the early years of
adulthood, 75% before age 24. Many
rst experience disorganized thought
as college students.
uWhen families are involved,
health care providers gain a more ac-
curate understanding of the patients
history. This, in turn, guides better
treatment decisions.
uResearch shows that when fam-
ilies are involved, rates of treatment
adherence are higher and rates of
hospitalization are lower.
My daughter is 20. She is addicted
to methamphetamine and lives on
the street. Her father and I have
begged to help her. She continues to
refuse treatment.
Laws should take a more reasoned
approach that empower families who
know when there are problems and
want whats best for all involved. It is
time to realign laws with science and
compassion.
Rachel Pruchno is director of re-
search at the New Jersey Institute for
Successful Aging. She is also author of
the forthcoming memoir, Surrounded
by Madness.
MSNBC FILE PHOTO
Jared Loughn-
ers parents,
Amy and Randy,
said they told
their son he
needed to get
help.
Mental illness laws
block out parents
Rachel Pruchno
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Baton Rouge r c
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Columbus, Ohio pc
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El Paso s
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Grand Rapids c
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Greenville, S.C.
Harrisburg, Pa. t
Hartford, Conn. sh r
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NEW YORK The Dow has climbed
8,255 points in its record-breaking
run to a new all-time high. But every
rally along the way found investors
still worrying about the 7,617 points
lost during the 2007-09 bear market.
Despite the Dow Jones industrial
averages 126% climb to 14,802.24
since March 2009, the fear factor has
been more dominant than
the greed factor. The retail
investor class, which in
the late 1990s romanced
stocks, never regained its
trust in stocks following
two 50% meltdowns since
2000. Burned investors in-
stead turned their afec-
tions to cash, bonds and
gold, or any other asset
deemed safer than stocks.
Was the fear of another
massive stock market
plunge, or wealth-shred-
ding black-swan event,
overblown by risk-averse
Main Street investors?
Yes, based on an analysis of annual
stock market returns, including divi-
dends, dating back to 1926. Despite
worries about stocks tanking, as they
did after the tech-stock bubble burst
in 2000 and during the 2008 nan-
cial crisis, the Standard & Poors
500-stock index has sufered calen-
dar year losses over 20% in just six
years since 1926, says Strategas Re-
search Partners. Thats less than 7%
of the time. The bulk of those mas-
sive wealth-destroying declines oc-
curred in the 1930s during the Great
Depression, tin he high-ination era
of the mid-70s and in 2008 during
the nancial meltdown.
In contrast, there have been 32
years in which the broad market
gauge soared more than 20%. It rose
from 10% to 20% in 17 years. That
means the market gained 10% or
more over half the time.
The takeaway: It looks like many
investors, fearing the worst, have
been ignoring the fact that the stock
market goes up almost three-quar-
ters of the time. And, as a result, wor-
rying about worst-case scenarios,
such as a second nancial crisis, a
breakdown of the global nancial
system, a bank run in Europe, a
looming stock market correction, or
the U.S. economy sufering a major
relapse, might have caused more
harmthan good.
The back-to-back 50% declines
shook people up because it was so
unprecedented, says Nicholas Sar-
gen, chief investment ofcer at Fort
Washington Advisors. But if you ask
me what is the likelihood of having
three mega-downturns occurring
within a decade and a half, I would
say its a low-probability event.
But Sargen says investors
shouldnt let their guards down, as he
cant entirely rule out Financial Cri-
sis Round Two, given continued risk
due to Europes debt crisis, other geo-
political risks and central bank mon-
etary policy.
Has the fear factor been over-
blown? It always has been, says Jim
Paulsen, chief investment strategist
at Wells Capital Management. If the
market pulls back 1% the headline
news is that things are cratering on
Wall Street. It is hard to have a sus-
tainable downside move when the
national mind-set is so gloomy about
the future.
But fearing a steep drop isnt total-
ly irrational. The market goes up
most of the time, but it is interrupted
by declines, which are more dramat-
ic, Paulsen says.
An irrational case
of stock-o-phobia
Investors fear
the downside
too much
AdamShell
@adamshell
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midyear and ending themby Decem-
ber if the labor market continues to
improve, according to minutes of the
Feds March meeting released
Wednesday.
The meeting was March 19-20, be-
fore recent reports showed the econ-
omy and job market weakening last
month.
The minutes
of that meeting
were released
ve hours early
because copies
were mistakenly
sent to stafers
on Capitol Hill
and trade groups
late Tuesday.
Many policy-
makers said sol-
id improvement in the jobs outlook
could prompt the Fed to slow its $85
billion in monthly purchases of Trea-
sury bonds and mortgage-backed se-
curities in the next several months,
the minutes said. The purchases are
aimed at holding down long-termin-
terest rates and nudging investors
into stocks to drive up the market.
Of those who favor tapering the
bond purchases, a few cited the
programs risks and costs, such as
market instability, as well as the im-
proved outlook since last fall. Sever-
al others said that if the job market
improves as anticipated, it would
probably be appropriate to slow pur-
chases later in the year and to stop
themby year-end.
Despite a growing consensus that
continued job gains could lead to
phasing out bond purchases this
year, the Fed remains divided.
Two policymakers, for example,
noted the purchases might well con-
tinue at the current pace through
years end, and they could even be in-
creased, were the outlook to dete-
riorate, the minutes say.
Still, Fed ofcials laid out a more
detailed road map for reining in the
purchases than they did in January.
The March minutes are a remind-
er that we are moving closer to the
exit of the program, TD Economics
said in a research note.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and
several other pro-growth policymak-
ers are believed to be steering Fed
policy. He said at a news conference
last month that the Fed must see sus-
tained job growth to scale back its
bond purchases, not just strong gains
for one or two months.
Last week, the Labor Department
said the economy added 88,000 jobs
in March, below the 200,000 antici-
pated, and the 200,000-plus pace
from November through February.
The unemployment rate was 7.6%.
In March, most Fed policymakers
said the Feds asset purchases were
having a meaningful efect in easing
nancial conditions and supporting
economic growth.
But some are growing more con-
cerned about risks, such as a steep
drop in the Feds prots when it sells
its bonds at a likely loss, providing
less income for the U.S. Treasury.
Fed
divided
on bond
buying
Paul Davidson and Beth Belton
USATODAY
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Perhaps the harshest negative
fromthe sudden resignation of Herb-
alifes auditor is how the event has
soiled the accounting profession,
which has been trying to rehabilitate
its reputation.
Its been more than ve years since
investors had real reason to fret over
companies books. But the resigna-
tion of KPMG as auditor of vitamin
maker Herbalife and shoemaker
Skechers again puts the focus on au-
ditors gone wrong. To be clear, the
accounting of Herbalife and Skechers
is not in question in light of the resig-
nation of KPMG partner Scott Lon-
don. The matter instead centered
around London allegedly passing
material information about the com-
panies to a third party, who placed
trades on the information.
Still, the transgression comes after
the accounting profession has been
working for years, mostly successful-
ly, to slowly rehabilitate its image fol-
lowing the massive mistakes related
to the books at Enron, WorldCom
and Tyco. The audit rms dont
want to go through another debacle,
says Don Whalen of Audit Analytics.
Despite the events at KPMG, the
accounting profession seems to have
beneted from what appears to be
decreasing signs of mistakes and er-
rors with companies books. Some
signs of the improvements:
uFalling number of earnings
restatements lately. When an au-
ditor unearths a problemwith a com-
panys books, the company must redo
or restate the earnings to x it. Such
restatements have been falling. Last
year, there were 768 restatements,
down 6% from the 820 in 2011 and
down 57% from the 1,771 peak in
2006, Audit Analytics says.
uDecreased number of com-
panies afected by restatements.
Its not just that the number of re-
statements has been curtailed, but
also the number of companies doing
them. The number of companies
with restatements in 2012 totaled
713, down 3.9% from 2011 and down
54%fromthe peak in 2006.
uMajor drop in big restate-
ments. The whopper restatements
that petried investors are fading.
Last year, the $459 million restate-
ment by JPMorgan Chase was the
largest. Thats down from Fannie
Maes 2004 whopper of $6.3 billion.
The moderation could reect reg-
ulation that requires audits to test
companies internal controls, says
Michael Ettredge, professor of busi-
ness at University of Kansas. Com-
panies have improved their ability to
prevent restatements over time.
Corporate accounting takes a hit
KPMGincident dings
professions comeback
Matt Krantz
@mattkrantz
USATODAY
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embarrassing, openedus upto se-
vere criticism, damagedour rep-
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President Obamas proposed bud-
get released Wednesday would cap
IRAs and other retirement plans at
$3 million, but it could fall belowthat
in future years.
Its not easy to get more than $3
million in a retirement account,
which includes IRAs, 401(k) and
403(b) plans. Currently, the cap
would afect just 0.03%of retirement
accounts, says the Employee Benet
Research Institute. But theres a
catch. The cap is based on the
amount you could get from your ac-
count if it were converted to an an-
nuity, a streamof guaranteed lifetime
payments. The annuity payment in
the budget is $205,000 a year.
The annual payments you can get
in an annuity uctuate on several
factors, chief among which is current
interest rates, which are near record
lows. When interest rates increase, a
lump sum generates much higher
payments. Put another way, higher
rates would cause the $3 million
threshold to fall. Based on interest
rates back to 2006, the IRAcap could
fall as low as $2.2 million, EBRI says.
At that level, the cap could hit nearly
3%of all retirement accounts.
For the vast majority of savers,
however, the biggest worry is not
having enough retirement savings.
Half of all Americans have $25,000
or less in savings, according to Fideli-
ty Investments, and 35% of all work-
ing Americans dont have an
employee-based retirement plan,
such as a pension or a 401(k) plan.
Capping IRAs could deter savings
without helping reduce the decit,
Ronald OHanley, president of Asset
Management and Corporate Services
at Fidelity Investments, said in a
speech to the U.S. Chamber of Com-
merce Wednesday. Most retirement
plans are tax deferrals, not tax
breaks, he says: Savers pay taxes
when they withdraw. Not only will
such a proposal further challenge re-
tirement savings, it will not generate
additional revenue, he says.
IRAs face limit in budget plan
Caps retirement
accounts at $3M
John Waggoner
@JohnWaggoner
USATODAY
Obamas budget, 1A
President proposes $3.77 trillion
spending outline for fiscal 2014.
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European economic
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Lets hope housing
keeps its footing.
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people to smartphones andtablets.
Worldwide shipments fell 14%in the
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THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2013
The easiest way to get
tickets to a hot concert
is to get to know a rock
star or a rock stars
mother.
Nothing quite compares with op-
tions ofered by Mark Campana, co-
president of North American con-
certs for Live Nation, Ticketmasters
parent company. But there are other
ways to increase your chances.
Advocacy group Fan Freedomsays
odds are against consumers hoping
to get good seats, or any seat, when
tickets go on sale to the public. Up to
90%of seats may already be sold.
Many tickets are allocated to pre-
sales outlets, including the artists fan
club, radio station listeners, certain
credit card holders and season-ticket
holders at concert venues, says Fan
Freedom spokesman Chris Grimm.
Pre-sales typically occur the week
leading up to the public sale.
That makes it sound a bit less im-
pressive when an artist such as Jus-
tin Bieber sells out, say, Madison
Square Garden in a matter of min-
utes after the public sale starts.
Nashvilles NewsChannel 5 report-
ed that the public sale for Biebers
summer concert there included only
1,001 tickets of almost 14,000 issued.
The station also released documents
it got through a Freedomof Informa-
tion Act request from Bridgestone
Arena showing Biebers tour sold at
least 17 close-in seats on Ticketmas-
ters resale site, TicketsNow.
A spokeswoman for Bieber did not
respond to a request for comment.
Eyebrow-raising ticket activity is
hardly limited to the artists. Resell-
ers, known pejoratively as scalpers,
arent only seedy-looking types lurk-
ing outside arenas. Some resellers
use software tools known as bots to
buy large blocks of tickets while mak-
ing it look like a bunch of individual
purchases, Campana says. He notes
ticket prices in the resale market are
tracked as if on a stock exchange.
Ticket companies, in an efort to
clamp down on scalpers, are increas-
ingly making it tough for ticket hold-
ers to sell or give away their own
tickets. Paperless tickets often cant
be used by anyone other than the
buyer, or at least, the buyer has to
show up with identication and the
credit card used to buy the tickets.
A coalition of consumer groups,
including the Consumer Federation
of America, joined Fan Freedom re-
cently in asking federal and state of-
cials to clamp down on electronic
tickets that prevent consumers from
freely transferring or reselling them.
The Federal Trade Commission
hasnt commented on that practice,
but did reach a settlement with
Ticketmaster and TicketsNow, in
2010 about what it called bait and
switch practices in ticket sales for
Bruce Springsteen concerts. The
companies told people who went on-
line for the public sale that none
were available and steered them to
TicketsNow, the FTC said. Ticket-
master agreed to pay refunds on
tickets sold for 14 Springsteen con-
certs through TicketsNow, and to be
clear about the costs and risks of
buying through its reseller sites.
Ticketmaster also failed to tell buyers
that many resale tickets advertised
on TicketsNow.com didnt exist
even though it often took money for
them, the FTCsaid. Ared ag for any
ticket shopper: Watch out for anyone
selling tickets who cant say exactly
where the seats are.
Its possible to prevail in the world
of concert shopping. If you cant beat
the system, the best advice is to get in
on the pre-sales and read all the ne
print before making your purchase.
Artists, not surprisingly, reserve a
chunk of tickets for fan club mem-
bers, some of whom have to pay to
join. Membership can also include
advance notice of upcoming tours.
Fans who are not a member of the
fan club have no clue if theyre com-
peting for only 1,000 or 2,000 tickets
available, says Grimm.
More to keep in mind:
uOther pre-sales. Credit card
companies, especially American Ex-
press, often get the second-biggest
chunk of early tickets. Citibank and
MasterCard, as well, often have spe-
cial deals for card holders. Radio sta-
tions that have pre-sale tickets can
alert listeners to check their websites
to get a code to order tickets. Several
independent websites ofer pre-sale
codes, often for a fee, but Grimm
warns against using them.
uStanding in line. It can still
work, Campana says. Venues that
open their physical box ofces will
often count the people in line if its
a reasonable number and take that
number out of public sale.
uAdditional options. Tickets
can surface in the days and weeks be-
fore a concert. People sometimes re-
turn tickets, or seats become
available because credit card pay-
ments are declined, says Campana.
Tours may release additional seats,
sometimes a day or two before the
event, when stage plans change and
theres roomfor more seats.
uWatch out. If theres a chance
you may not be able to use tickets,
make sure you can sell or give them
away. As with any expensive pur-
chase, there are impostors out there.
uDont get mad at the ticket
seller when you cant get tickets.
The musicians and their tour man-
agers control much of what goes on
with ticketing, says Campana. The
tour selects a concert promoter, who
selects the venue, and that deter-
mines whos selling the tickets, be-
cause of contractual relationships.
They can allocate however they
want; we just want them to be hon-
est, Grimmsays of artists, ticket sell-
ers and concert venues.
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Billie Joe Armstrong performs during a Green Day concert at the Barclays Center in NewYork on April 7.
Wanna rock
n roll all
night? Sorry,
sold out
Concert pre-sales can leave fans
with a one-way ticket to nowhere
Jayne O'Donnell
jodonnell@usatoday.com
USATODAY
CONFIDENT
CONSUMER
Whos who in the ticket world:
Live Nation. Aconcert promo-
tion andticketingrmthat also
owns the biggest ticket seller,
Ticketmaster.
Eventbrite. One of the largest
primary ticket sellers.
TicketsNow. Ticket resale site
run by Ticketmaster.
Fan Freedom. Advocacy group
fundedby ticket tradingsite Stub-
Hub, amongothers, to ght the
move towardnon-transferable
tickets andother ticket sale prac-
tices.
Fans First. Lobbyinggroup
backedby the ticket andentertain-
ment industries to ght scalping.
Ticket Liquidator. One of the
biggest ticket resellers.
TicketNetwork. Another big
ticket reseller.
MATTHIAS SCHRADER, AP
Justin Bieber in Munich.
WORLD OF TICKETS
air to a smartphone or tablet (cur-
rently, limited to Apple devices). Us-
ers pay about $80 to $100 for an
antenna dongle, inserted into their
device, which gets broadcast signals.
Were energized by the technol-
ogy and anxious to see numbers
come back, said John Kukla, vice
president of creative services at Fox
afliate KDFW-KDFI in the Dallas
area, which has Dyles system.
But broadcasters are vigorously
opposed to another mobile TV com-
petitor. Aereo streams local, over-
the-air broadcasts to subscribers
apolis and will expand to Raleigh,
N.C., next month. Early adopters
watch local TV on iPhones or iPads
about 28 minutes a week, on average.
Dyle, a competitor of MyDTV that
began operation last August, plans to
expand service to Baltimore, Jack-
sonville and Salt Lake City. (USATO-
DAY parent Gannett is a partner in
the consortiumdeveloping Dyle.)
Dyle is available from 91 stations
in 36 markets. By years end, that will
rise to 116 stations in 39 markets.
In using Dyle and MyDTV, TV sta-
tions send broadcast signals over the
LAS VEGAS Mobile TV, nally here
after years in development, has local
TV station owners both ummoxed
and intrigued.
Several recent developments show
that the technology likely will stick
around, meaning TV station owners
will have to invest heavily to get
ready or risk losing a chunk of a small
but growing audience that might oth-
erwise tune themout.
This is the make-or-break year in
mobile TV, says John Lawson, exec-
utive director of Mobile500 Alliance,
a group of media companies that de-
veloped a mobile TV app and anten-
na systemcalled MyDTV.
MyDTV launched in January with
trial markets in Seattle and Minne-
through the Internet without asking
broadcasters permission or paying
any fees to retransmit their content.
The start-up company won an im-
portant federal appeals court ruling
last month that allows its service to
continue. That clearly has unsettled
even the largest of broadcasters.
Aereo runs a farm of individually
leased antennas one for each sub-
scriber in Brooklyn and insists its
antennas are no diferent than those
at a RadioShack. But broadcasters
say Aereo is infringing on their copy-
rights. Aereo plans to expand its ser-
vice, now available in the New York
City area, to 22 markets this year.
At the National Association of
Broadcasters conference here, Chase
Carey, COO of Fox network and sta-
tion owner News Corp., said the com-
pany may consider charging for local
network content if Aereos service
continues in its current form. We
will not sit by idly and let people steal
our signal, he said, predicting broad-
casters will ultimately win in court.
In urging TV station operators to
adopt their service, Dyle and MyDTV
say that mobile TV brings in addi-
tional viewers. Plus, existing viewers
will watch more TV, says Karen
McCall, marketing manager for Dyle.
Viewers watching on tablets and
smartphones can be tracked more
precisely for what theyre watching,
howlong and when. That data can be
used to air tailored ads, Lawson says.
In Seattle and Minneapolis trials,
MyDTV has inserted more than
3,000 ads on screens that otherwise
go black when viewers ip through
channels, says Randa Minkarah, sen-
ior vice president of revenue at Fish-
er Communications. Stations could
generate a potential 7%increase in
revenue from mobile TV viewership,
she told a crowd at the NAB.
Still, only a tiny fraction of TV sta-
tions have embraced the service. The
cost of investing is a chief concern,
especially at a time when ad revenue
is declining. TV stations must invest
about $150,000 in equipment to send
mobile signals via Dyle or MyDTV.
If more broadcasters dont light
up their stations, this train will leave.
And the future of mobile TV will be-
long to wireless carriers, Lawson
warns.
Alove/hate relationship with mobile TV
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USATODAY
WASHINGTON The availability of em-
ployer-sponsored insurance has fall-
en by about 10% over the past
decade, which has spurred an in-
crease in the number of Americans
without health insurance, according
to a report released today.
This documents that in virtually
every state across the country, there
has been a steady decline in employ-
ers that provide coverage over the
past 10 years, said Andrew Hyman,
director of the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundations health care coverage
team. It would be a real stretch to
say this was caused by anticipation of
the Afordable Care Act, President
Obamas 2010 health care law.
The universal coverage require-
ment and the state health insurance
exchanges needed to make it work
will start Jan. 1. Some employers
have said they may drop health in-
surance because it would be cheaper
to pay a $2,000 ne and have em-
ployees buy insurance through the
exchanges instead of paying an aver-
age of $15,000 to buy that employee
health insurance.
Other employers have said they
will drop employees hours below 30
a week to avoid the requirement to
provide insurance or pay a fee.
If so, employers would be follow-
ing a trend that started before the
health care law passed in 2010. The
new study found that employer-
sponsored coverage dropped from
69% to 60% between 1999 and 2010.
The amount each employee paid an-
nually for insurance more than dou-
bled in that period from $435 to
$1,056 for an individual and from
$1,526 to $3,842 for a family.
The Johnson foundations State
Health Access Data Assistance Cen-
ter conducted the research. Coverage
varied from state to state, based on
state law, regional employment rates
and average employer size.
Hyman said the steady decline in
coverage has come in spite of
changes in the economy and employ-
ment rates throughout the decade.
So nowwere all wondering howit
will change with the implementation
of the ACA, he said. The silver lin-
ing, he said, is that with the newlaw,
even those who dont receive cover-
age through their employer will be
able to get a plan through the health
exchange system.
Predictions on the laws efects
vary. The Congressional Budget Of-
ce says 3 million to 5 million fewer
people will have employer-subsi-
dized insurance. A Towers Watson
survey of more than 500 companies
with more than 1,000 employees
found none of the companies plan to
drop insurance because of the law.
However, health insurance bro-
kers say their business clients are
staying the course on their current
health plans, said John Torinus, co-
founder of Successful Entrepreneur
Investors who has served on several
health care reformtask forces.
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Kelly Kennedy
@kellyskennedy
USATODAY
Taco Bell long-known as a place
to load up on low-price, high-calorie
and high-sodium grub wants to x
the high-calorie and high-sodium
part.
By 2020, that is.
The nations largest Mexican fast-
food chain on Wednesday announced
newnutritional plans to have 20%of
its combo meals (main item, side
dish and beverage) meet one-third of
the federal governments recom-
mended dietary guidelines by 2020.
One-third was chosen because the
guidelines are based on an average
three meals consumed daily.
The move comes as legislators, ac-
tivists and parents are pushing fast-
food giants to ofer more better-for-
you choices. Meanwhile, more Mil-
lennials, Taco Bells key target, are
choosing better-for-you options sold
at places such as Chipotle and Panera
Bread.
Our customer tastes and needs
are evolving, says Greg Creed, CEO
at Taco Bell. They want more bal-
anced options.
Creed says new products devel-
oped at Taco Bell will have to meet
new criteria. In the past, besides
taste, the key criteria have been the
cost of the ingredients. Going for-
ward, he says, the product will be
matched against the chains new nu-
tritional goals and might not be de-
veloped if it doesnt meet those goals.
One nutritionist, while impressed
by the efort, is entirely bafed by it.
Does anyone actually go to Taco
Bell who is worried about calories or
sodium? poses Robyn Flipse, a reg-
istered dietitian and nutritionist. I
think their target is looking for some-
thing that is convenient, low-cost and
lls themup.
Nearly two decades ago, Taco Bell
rolled out a Border Lights menu of
lower-calorie items that generated
lots of publicity but ultimately failed.
Will history repeat itself?
Taco Bell executives insist that
better-for-you food doesnt have to
compromise taste. For example, the
chain has quietly reduced sodium in
its product line an average 20% over
the past few years, says Missy Schaa-
phok, nutritionist in the product de-
velopment department.
Taco Bell hopes to test a range of
new, better-for-you products later
this year and begin launching some
nationally in 2014, Creed says. He de-
clined to describe any of the upcom-
ing products.
Taco Bell has lots of catching up to
do. Just one order of its Volcano Na-
chos currently comes stufed with a
whopping 970 calories, 58 grams of
fat and 1,670 milligrams of sodium.
Thats probably not going away
any time soon. But the chain will do a
better job of balance including pro-
moting its Fresco menu, which al-
lows customers, at no additional cost,
to substitute pico de gallo for sauces
and cheeses, Creed says.
Even then, Flipse, the nutritionist,
is mystied. I just dont see anything
that supports that people go to Taco
Bell wishing it was a little healthier.
Taco Bell promises better nutrition by 2020
DAVID PAUL MORRIS, BLOOMBERG
A crispy beef taco fromTaco Bell.
Bruce Horovitz
@brucehorovitz
USATODAY
The caption on a photo Wednes-
day with a story about the popularity
of the Ford Focus overstated how
many Focuses have been built. It
should have said that the Focus pic-
tured was the 350 millionth Ford
produced.
Acaption Wednesday misidenti-
ed the maker of a smartwatch. It is
the Imwatch fromimsmart.
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Healthinsurance at work
Here are the best andworst states for
employers offeringhealth insurance:
Topstates
Hawaii 84.1%
District of Columbia 69.9%
Massachusetts 65.2%
Bottomstates
Alaska 41.8%
Montana 42.0%
Wyoming 42.6%
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THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2013 MONEY 3B
INNOVATORS AND ICONS
L
ike many business icons,
Charles Schwabs great busi-
ness idea seems like simple
common sense: Give small in-
vestors the same treatment big inves-
tors have always gotten.
For Schwab and his eponymously
named discount brokerage rm, the
rst big opportunity began on May 1,
1975, when the Securities and Ex-
change Commission abolished xed
brokerage commissions. Companies
such as Charles Schwab & Co. could
nowofer stock trades at much lower
commission prices than competitors
such as Merrill Lynch.
Thats exactly what he did, and it
sparked a revolution, helping make
the stock market accessible to the
small investor for the rst time. Low-
er commissions meant that smaller
investors could aford to buy and sell
stocks just like the big guys did.
While a simple step, it earned
Charles Schwab & Co. deep loyalty
from investors something the
company still cultivates. He has laid
out a culture and philosophy that
permeates the company, and its
based on a very simple concept that
we try to execute on, says Walter
Bettinger, CEO of Charles Schwab &
Co. If you do the right thing by your
clients, if you do the best you believe
that you can do, they will, in turn,
make the choice to do business with
you.
As he looks ahead to the future,
Schwabs biggest worry is that the -
nancial services industry failed inves-
tors in the bear market that began in
2007. In many respects, we shot
ourselves in the foot, Schwab says.
Im talking about the whole nan-
cial services industry. Just a few that
made these giant mistakes that really
revolved around greed. It could take
a long time to rebuild that trust.
It took a long time to build Charles
Schwab & Co. Schwab started in the
investment newsletter industry in
1963 with a publication called Invest-
ment Indicator. Charles Schwab &
Co., at rst a traditional brokerage
rm, made its debut a decade later in
1973.
It wasnt easy. Finding seed money
in the days before venture capitalists
was a struggle. Ill never forget con-
vincing my wife that This was such a
great idea, dear, we should have a
second mortgage on our house. We
could barely aford our rst mort-
gage, Schwab says.
But the discount brokerage con-
cept caught on, thanks to Schwabs
investment seminars and bricks-and-
mortar branches, and by 1982, the
company had 374,000 clients.
Schwab himself had became famous
enough in the early 1980s to sing I
read it every day in USA TODAYs
rst ad campaign, along with Willard
Scott, Diahann Carroll, Willie Mays
and Mickey Mantle, among others.
In 1983, Bank of America bought
the company for $55 million as banks
rushed to become places where you
could get checking accounts, stocks
and insurance all in one place. It was
a concept that never entirely suc-
ceeded. Although the company fared
well under Bank of America, reach-
ing a million clients in 1985, Schwab
led a management buyback of the
company in July 1987, taking the
company public for $280 million.
Talk about bad timing. On Oct. 19,
1987, the stock market had its largest
single-day crash in history, plummet-
ing 22.6% the equivalent of about
3,350 points today. Investors were
skittish; the company had issues with
its systems and a larger customer
base. Getting that all together was
clearly a very testing time for me,
Schwab said.
The company had another big test
when Schwab relinquished the com-
panys reins to David Pottruck, a
longtime Schwab executive. Pottruck
raised fees and promoted a more up-
scale vision of the company and
sent revenue plunging. The company
replaced him after a year, and
Schwab returned to the helm. Bettin-
ger took over as CEO in July 2008
arguably the most difcult time in re-
cent history to take the reins of a -
nancial services company and
Schwab is nowexecutive chairman.
To Schwab, investors wounds
from 2007-2009 are still wide open.
That made a huge scar for our in-
dustry, he says. We have to dig out
of that as an industry.
Legislative gridlock doesnt help.
We have to get back to negotiation,
Schwab says. Alittle has to come out
of each persons hide to resolve all
these issues. Theres too much to be
done with the nations scal issues to
let gridlock rule, he says.
But the nancial collapse left
Charles Schwab & Co. looking good.
It was one of the largest nancial
companies that didnt have to take
money from the government to bail
it out. Our reputation has been en-
hanced substantially with our stabil-
ity, and our conservative way of
running the company, Schwab says.
And Schwab is optimistic, not just
about the nancial services industry,
but about the nation as a whole.
Educated people from around the
world want to come here, he says.
The innovation that goes on is just
profoundly important it continues
to be the engine that drives our fu-
ture. If youre not innovating, youre
going to go out of business fairly
quickly.
Part of keeping the nation great,
Schwab thinks, means getting people
to invest early. You can buy an index
for $1,000 and get ownership in 1,000
companies, Schwab says. But un-
derstand what you just did: You are
an owner in 1,000 companies, and
youre behind innovation and educat-
ing more people, which will allow
this incredible growth engine we
have in America. If we just rely on
government for all our various ser-
vices, we will have lost this opportu-
nity for individual creativity and
innovation that leads to opportunity
for everyone.
One area of opportunity that
Schwab is particularly passionate
about is dyslexia. Hes severely dys-
lexic. One in seven people in Ameri-
ca have some form of dyslexia,
Schwab says. They have a tough
time reading, tak-
ing the symbols
of letters and
converting letters
into sound and
meaning.
Charles Schwab
is still rooting
for the little guy
He sparked investing
revolution by treating
everyone like a bigwig
John Waggoner
@JohnWaggoner
USATODAY
MARTINE. KLIMEK, USA TODAY
Charles
Schwab &Co.
was one of the
largest nan-
cial companies
that didnt take
money from
the govern-
ment during
the nancial
crisis.
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Ill never forget
convincing my wife
that This was such
a great idea, dear,
we should have a
second mortgage
on our house. We
could barely afford
our rst mortgage.
Charles Schwab, talking about nding
seed money in the days before venture
capitalists
Schwab had to gure out his own
strategies to cope with his dyslexia.
Back then, there was no science at
all around the issue, he says. I had
to putter my own way through school
and try and dene my own strategies
to overcome the issues I was facing.
Schwab wasnt able to put a name
to his learning disability until he no-
ticed his son struggling with the
same issues he had. And he decided
to help others. My wife and I decid-
ed to devote a lot of energy to helping
other families, because its amazing
how many families you come across
who have a child or an adult who has
this issue, Schwab says. We set up
an agency that helped about 1,000
families a month, he says.
At 75, Schwab no longer has to
worry about whether he can pay a
second mortgage: His net worth is es-
timated at $4.3 billion. A former cap-
tain of the Santa Barbara High
School golf team, hes a t and a for-
midable golfer.
So it makes sense that his favorite
app is Weather.com: Im always
checking the weather, whether its a
great day to play golf in the summer
or go skiing in the winter.
Born: 1937
College:
Stanford.
B.A. 1959,
MBA, 1961
Estimated
net worth:
$4.3 billion,
estimated
by Forbes to
be the 95th-
wealthiest
American
Family: Married,
with ve children
Golf
handicap: 7.8
Favorite app:
Weather.com.
Imalways
checkingthe
weather, whether
its agreat day
to play golf in
the summer or
go skiingin the
winter, he says.
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Today the U.S. Treasury will bor-
row $13 billion for almost 30 years,
and it will pay next to nothing for it.
Thats good news and bad news.
The good news: The Treasury
and taxpayers are likely to get a
darn good interest rate for the bonds.
The yield on the 30-year T-bond
slipped below3%briey on Wednes-
day before closing at 3.01%.
Ination, as measured by the con-
sumer price index, has averaged 4.1%
since 1926, according to Ibbotson As-
sociates, a division of Morningstar. If
ination holds to its long-term aver-
age for the next 30 years, taxpayers
are essentially borrowing for free.
Taxpayers also got a good deal
Wednesday, when the Treasury auc-
tioned $59 billion in 10-year T-notes
for a median yield (half higher, half
lower) of 1.76%. The government got
$2.79 in bids for every $1 in T-notes
ofered.
So whats wrong with this picture?
Low Treasury yields are a sign that
the world is terried and the econo-
my is punk. Investors ock to Trea-
sury securities because they want
their money back eventually, and
theyre convinced Uncle Sam is good
for it. And the 10-year U.S. Treasury
yield is higher than the 10-year Ger-
man government bond yield (1.3%)
and the 10-year Japanese govern-
ment yield (0.58%).
Low yields are also a sign that the
demand for money is weak. Even
without the Federal Reserves bond-
buying program, Treasury yields
would still be around 2%, Moodys
says. High unemployment means
weak demand, which, in turn, trans-
lates to lowinterest rates.
What to watch
LowTreasury yields: A mix of good with the bad
John Waggoner
USATODAY
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tors excited about IPOs.
The company, which allows con-
sumers to sign up to borrow video
games for a monthly fee, rst led
plans for an initial public ofering in
February 2010. Consumers and in-
dividual investors anticipated the
deal, hoping it could fare as well as
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games as Netix is to movies. And
the company was protable at the
time of its IPO ling, earning $3.2
million, in the quarter ended June
30, 2010.
Plans to go public seemed to be
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ny updated its IPO ling ve times
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ing certainly didnt help the deal,
and theres been no update on the
companys plans.
Deals getting withdrawn is com-
mon. This year, six IPOs have been
pulled, says Renaissance Capital. In
2012 and 2011, 60 and 67 compa-
nies dropped their IPOs. The num-
ber of withdrawn IPOs this year,
though, is down from 10 in 2012
and 12 in 2011 at the same time.
INVESTING ASK MATT
Tight consumer spending, tough
market thwart GameFly IPO
Q: Did GameFly ever
go public?
Matt Krantz
mkrantz@usatoday.com
USATODAY
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Charges placed on a customers AT&T landline bill without the customers knowing authorization.
HOW DO I SEEK A PAYMENT? To receive a payment you must submit a Claim Form by December 2, 2013 or
30 days after you receive a Billing Summary in response to a timely request, whichever is later. Settlement Class
Members can apply through a claims approval process for the full amount (i.e., 100%) of all Third-Party Charges
paid on their AT&T phone bills between January 1, 2005 and January 14, 2013 (the Class Period) that the Class
Member asserts were not authorized and have not been previously reimbursed. Claim Forms may be submitted
online at www.ATTthirdpartybillingsettlement.com, mailed to the Settlement Administrator at the address below,
or emailed to info@ATTthirdpartybillingsettlement.com. To request a Billing Summary and a Claim Form, contact
the Settlement Administrator at 1-866-242-0603, via email at info@ATTthirdpartybillingsettlement.com or go to
www.ATTthirdpartybillingsettlement.com and print one out.
HOW MUCH WILLMYPAYMENT BE? It depends on the amount, if any, of unauthorized Third-Party Charges that
you paid. If you make a claim that is approved, you will receive the full amount of all unauthorized Third-Party Charges
you paid during the Class Period that have not already been refunded. While the size of payment to which individual
customers could be entitled is likely to vary considerably, class counsel contend that some class members may have
claims of hundreds of dollars or more.
YOU CAN GETAFREE SUMMARYOFALLYOUR THIRD-PARTYCHARGES. You may have been billed for
Third-Party Charges over a period of months without having noticed it. To help you determine if you were billed for
Third-Party Charges you did not authorize during the Class Period, you can request a free summary of all Third-Party
Charges billed to you as identifed from a search of reasonably available AT&T billing information by submitting a
Billing Summary Request to the Settlement Administrator. You can obtain a Billing Summary Request form by calling
1-866-242-0603,via email at info@ATTthirdpartybillingsettlement.com or at www.ATTthirdpartybillingsettlement.com.
WHOIS INTHE SETTLEMENTCLASS? You are in the Settlement Class if you are a current or former AT&T ILEC
landline customer who, at any time from January 1, 2005, through January 14, 2013 had a Third-Party Charge placed
on your AT&T ILEC telephone bill though a Clearinghouse. Excluded from the Settlement Class are any judicial offcer
to whom the Action is assigned and the United States government and any State government or instrumentality thereof.
[AT&T ILEC means an AT&T-affliated incumbent local exchange carrier, such as Pacifc Bell Telephone Company,
d/b/a AT&T California, Illinois Bell Telephone Company, d/b/a AT&T Illinois, etc.]
WHATARE MY OTHER OPTIONS? To exclude yourself from the lawsuit, you must mail a signed, written request
to be excluded from Nwabueze v. AT&T, with your name, address, and phone number, to the Settlement Administrator
received or postmarked by September 2, 2013. Requests for exclusion cannot be made online or by email. You must
send your request for exclusion to:
Nwabueze v. AT&T Inc.
c/o GCG
P.O. Box 35045
Seattle, WA98124
Unless you exclude yourself, you will be in the Class, and if the Settlement is approved, you will be bound by it,
and release claims against Released Parties, as defned in the Settlement Agreement. You may go to www.
ATTthirdpartybillingsettlement.com for a full description of the Release in this case and for a listing of other known
existing litigation by or on behalf of AT&T customers that include claims covered by the Release. If you do not exclude
yourself, you or your lawyer have the right to object to or comment on the Settlement, Class Counsels request for
attorneys fees and expenses and/or incentive awards, by mailing objections, in writing, to: Class Counsel, John G.
Jacobs at 55 West Monroe Street, Suite 2970, Chicago, IL 60603, and AT&Ts Counsel, Douglas R. Tribble, 501 West
Broadway, Suite 1100, San Diego, CA92101, and fling the same with the Clerk of the Court at 450 Golden Gate Avenue,
16th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94102 by September 2, 2013. The Court has preliminarily approved the settlement. The
Court will hold a Final Approval Hearing on November 1, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. at 450 Golden Gate Avenue, Courtroom 10,
19th Floor, San Francisco, CA94102 to decide whether the Settlement should be fnally approved as fair, reasonable and
adequate and in the best interests of the Class and whether to approve Class Counsels request for attorneys fees and
expenses and class representatives incentive awards. The hearing may be changed to a different date or time without
notice. You do not need to attend the hearing unless you wish to object in person. You may not appear at the hearing
unless you timely fle a written notice of objection and intent to appear.
DO I HAVE ALAWYER REPRESENTING ME IN THIS LAWSUIT? The Court appointed lawyers from fve law
frms to act as Class Counsel for the Settlement Class, whose information is at www.ATTthirdpartybillingsettlement.
com. Class Counsel will ask the Court to approve payment of up to $5,500,000 for attorneys fees and expenses and
payment of $5,000 each to Joy Nwabueze and Amelia Terry, for their services as Class Representatives. The Settlement
Class will not be required to pay any portion of the fees and expenses and incentive awards awarded by the Court, which
will be paid by AT&T, and will not reduce the benefts to the Settlement Class. You may hire your own attorney at your
own cost, if you wish, who may enter an appearance on your behalf, if you timely fle a written notice of objection.
This notice is only a summary. For more information on the Settlement, please read the detailed Notice and
Claim Filing Instructions at www.ATTthirdpartybillingsettlement.com. If you scan the bar code on the left
with your smartphone, it will take you to a website with more detailed information, plus a Claim Form and
Billing Summary Request form, which you can submit online, or via email or mail. If you have questions,
you can also call the Settlement Administrator, Garden City Group, toll free at 1-866-242-0603 or send an
email to info@ATTthirdpartybillingsettlement.com.
SV31774
NOTICE OF PROPOSED CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT
Nwabueze et al. v. AT&T. et al., Case Number CV-09-1529 SI (US Dist. Court, ND. California)
LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE
Nobody expects you
to know everything
about income taxes.
With the Internal Reve-
nue Code about ve
times longer than the Bible, thats not
practical, anyway.
But there are some common-sense
tips that tax experts have been
preaching for a while. These pointers
can improve your nancial situation
and prevent unpleasant surprises:
AIMFOR ZERO
Its nice to receive a tax refund, but
its not the best strategy. A refund
means you got your money back on
the interest-free loan you gave the
government. The other extreme
owing a big tax bill isnt smart, ei-
ther, especially if you struggle to pay
it.
Ideally, you should plan your with-
holding and other tax tactics so that
you get a minimal refund or owe just
a bit more in taxes.
MAKE YOUR REFUND COUNT
Assuming you get money back, its
important that you dont squander it.
For lower-income people, especially,
a refund could be the biggest chunk
of cash they receive all year.
The American Institute of CPAs
suggests a simple decision hierarchy
on how to use your refund. First,
spend it on food, shelter, health care
or other basic needs, if necessary.
Otherwise, build up your emergency
fund. If theres money left, pay down
debt. Its critical to have a plan to
maximize the benets froma refund,
said Ernie Almonte.
On the debt side, focus on credit
cards charging the highest interest
rate, the group suggests. As for emer-
gency cash, three months used to be
the suggested standard. But because
its still hard to nd well-paying jobs,
it would be more prudent to build up
a reserve of at least six months.
ADD IT UP, THEN CHECK IT TWICE
The IRS recently reported that it
spotted 2.7 million math errors on
2011 returns, more than double the
number from the prior year. If you
dont want to get a letter from the
agency, emphasize accuracy when
preparing your return.
The biggest math mistakes in-
volved inaccurate tax calculations,
followed by an incorrect number or
dollar amount of exemptions. Then
came errors involving the Earned In-
come Tax Credit, followed by those
for standard or itemized deductions,
the Child Tax Credit and the First-
Time Homebuyer Credit.
While youre at it, make sure you
spell your name and those of your
spouse and dependents correctly,
and verify that everyones Social Se-
curity number is accurate.
KNOWYOUR AUDIT ODDS
There is safety in numbers around
tax time, with the IRS auditing 1.03%
of individual returns in the most re-
cent year. While thats a low propor-
tion, certain activities and behaviors
can put you at greater risk.
High income is one factor. Only
0.9% of people with income of less
than $200,000 faced an audit in 2011,
but 12.1% of those earning at least $1
million did.
Certain business categories also
face heightened IRS scrutiny, includ-
ing ow-through entities such as
partnerships and Subchapter-S cor-
porations, as do self-employed indi-
viduals who le Schedule C. In fact,
Schedule-C lers earning between
$100,000 and $200,000 face especial-
ly high odds, with 4.3% of these re-
turns audited.
Researcher CCH cites several
types of deduction attempts that
raise red ags for a good reason: They
arent allowed. These include a loss
on your home, excessive moving ex-
penses and medical deductions for
unneeded cosmetic surgery.
Nobody draws scrutiny like par-
ents adopting a child. A staggering
69%of returns claiming the adoption
credit were audited last year, noted
Nina Olson, the National Taxpayer
Advocate.
SAFEGUARD YOUR IDENTITY
Although most people fear audits, be-
ing victimized by tax fraud could be
the bigger risk. The IRS said it pre-
vented fraudulent refund payments
last year on about 3 million returns,
or three times the number it audited.
Taxpayer ID thefts mainly involve
fraudulent requests for refunds using
another persons Social Security
number. Crooks typically le early,
before the actual taxpayer, and have
the refund check diverted to them.
When a crook gets there rst, that
can delay a refund to the real taxpay-
er for six months or more while the
IRS investigates.
Such thefts also cost the govern-
ment, because a refund eventually
will be paid to the taxpayer even after
payment of a fraudulent refund.
All this should serve as a reminder
to safeguard personal information.
One thing that many people prob-
ably dont secure as they should is a
smartphone. Adam Levin, chairman
of Credit.com, discourages people
fromstoring Social Security numbers
and those for credit or bank accounts
on phones.
Make sure to delete all docu-
ments and e-mails containing sensi-
tive information from your phone,
he wrote in a report.
Levin also suggests restricting ac-
cess to your phone by using a pass-
word and not staying logged into
banking or other sensitive apps for
long. He likened that to leaving a
credit card on top of your desk.
DONT NEGLECT RETIREMENT
The government is willing to subsi-
dize retirement through individual
retirement accounts, 401(k)-style
workplace programs and more, yet
many people underutilize those
benets.
Many individuals are still missing
out on the long-termsavings benets
of IRAs, simply because they dont
understand what they are and how
they work, said Dan Keady, director
of nancial planning for investment
rm TIAA-CREF. In a poll, 80% of
people surveyed by TIAA-CREF said
they werent contributing to an IRA,
up from76%last year.
The rules are complex, especially
for diferent types of IRAs. And sock-
ing money into a retirement account
means you have less cash to spend
now. Plus, the accounts impose re-
strictions for accessing the money.
Yet, retirement accounts remain
one of the best ways to accumulate
wealth, and there has been some talk
of restricting their tax benets as the
government grapples with its own -
nancial pressures.
While its uncertain how endan-
gered retirement tax benets might
be, its best to take advantage of them
while you can.
At tax time, tips can buffer a shock to nancial system
Russ Wiles
Arizona Republic
TAX
TIME
The last minute, if
youre into dragging
things out, ofcially hits
Monday for ling federal
income tax returns.
Of course, anyone could have a
good excuse for not ling a tax return
by now.
The dog chewed your 1099s.
March Madness took over your every
waking moment. Youre still trying to
dig up receipts for all those old gam-
bling losses to ofset that big win.
The good news: Form 4868 is only
a click away and ofers an automatic
six-month extension until Oct. 15. If
you qualify for the IRS Free File pro-
gram, several companies ofer free
ling for Form 4868, too. See
www.irs.gov.
The bad news: You will owe inter-
est on any tax owed that is not paid
by the regular due date of your re-
turn. The interest accrues until you
pay the tax owed. A late-payment
penalty could be charged, too, unless
you show a reasonable cause for not
paying on time.
This year, some taxpayers might
have more excuses for ling close to
the deadline or even wanting an ex-
tension to le later, thanks to extra
delays for specic forms due to the
2012 Taxpayer Relief Act.
But many taxpayers can avoid the
late-payment penalty if theyre l-
ing any of 31 specic forms that were
delayed.
Forms include Form3800 General
Business Credit, Form5695 Residen-
tial Energy Credits and Form 8863
Education Credits.
Mark Luscombe, principal analyst
for CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business,
noted that a taxpayer must still make
a good faith efort to properly esti-
mate and pay the estimated tax due
with the extension request.
Individual returns received by the
IRS were down nearly 4% through
March 29 compared with the same
time last year.
Any year, people can nd reasons
to delay ling. A tax ler might want
an extension if specic statements
are lost or have not yet arrived.
If only one statement is missing,
the tax ler typically would bring
W-2s and other paperwork before
the April 15 deadline, then the tax
preparer can estimate the taxes
owed, pay that amount by the dead-
line and request an extension by
April 15, said George Smith IV, a CPA
in Southeld, Mich.
He said his rm typically les
about 150 extensions a year. Perhaps
not surprisingly, most are the same
people year after year.
You should think twice if you want
to le an extension only because you
knowyou owe a lot of money.
Not a good idea at all, Smith said.
Filing an extension does not give
you more time to pay whats owed,
Smith said. The failure-to-pay penal-
ty is 0.5% per month, up to a maxi-
mum of 25% of what is owed. Plus,
individual taxpayers would owe in-
terest a bit above 3% on taxes and
penalties. The IRS interest rate on
underpayments changes quarterly.
But its better to le Form 4868
than to do nothing. If you dont le a
return, youd face the failure-to-le
penalty, which is 5% per month on
the unpaid tax due for a maximum
penalty of 25%of taxes owed.
What should you do if you owe
money?
Do you have a credit card that cur-
rently ofers 0%on purchases or bal-
ance transfers? Even if you dont
have one, it may be possible if you
have excellent credit to apply now
and transfer the balance to a new0%
card, said Greg McBride, senior -
nancial analyst at Bankrate.com.
Remember that the 0% ofer will
expire; it might only last 12 months.
However, charging your tax bal-
ance to a major credit card triggers a
convenience fee charged by the IRS-
approved credit card processor.
Check the fee calculator at the pro-
cessors website to know the charge
in advance.
Charging $1,000 to your credit
card would generate a fee of $23.50
for example, if you used the service
through OfcialPayments.com.
Or ask the IRS for an installment
agreement, which would spread the
debt over months or years, said Bar-
bara Weltman, author of J.K. Lassers
1,001 Deductions and Tax Breaks
2013.
If you think you could pay the en-
tire bill within 120 days, you may ask
the IRS for a short-term extension
either by calling the IRS at 800-829-
1040 or requesting the extension us-
ing the Online Payment Agreement
Application at www.irs.gov.
No fee is charged for the 120-day
extension, but interest will be
charged and a late-payment penalty
might be imposed.
Pull out that paperwork and get
cracking. Maybe things wont be
nearly as bad as you think.
Contact Susan Tompor at 313-222-8876 or
stompor@freepress.com
Youve put it oflong
enough; do your taxes
Susan Tompor
stompor@usatoday.com
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THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2013
Painfully slowly, not
all that surely, but still, a
new business model for
newspapers is taking
shape.
Its hardly time to uncork the
Champagne. The challenges remain
formidable. But after years of steady,
ominous decline in the face of digital
disruption, the long-derided dino-
saurs are showing signs that they
may not be leaving the building any-
time soon.
The business will be smaller. The
sky-high prots of years past are as
over as the Spice Girls. But oblivion is
not necessarily part of the equation.
The core question for newspapers
in recent years has been, where is the
money going to come from? The In-
ternet blew up their lucrative adver-
tising monopolies. Craigslist took
their classieds. And while newspa-
per websites signicantly increased
the size of their audiences, digital ad-
vertising, once seen as the holy grail,
has been profoundly disappointing.
There are two major elements in
the emerging survival strategy:
uCirculation revenue is increas-
ing. The key: Charging for digital
content. Newspapers are now mak-
ing money from digital-only sub-
scriptions and, more important,
bundled subscriptions that give read-
ers access to information in a multi-
tude of ways.
uNewspapers are leveraging their
skills to bring in revenue from activ-
ities other than journalism. Most sig-
nicant is providing marketing
services to local businesses trying to
gure out how to ourish in a trans-
forming environment. But newspa-
pers are also earning money through
e-commerce and hosting events.
We are beginning to see a glim-
mer of a 2018 business model, one
that is at least stable and at best
shows some growth, says news ana-
lyst Ken Doctor, author of Newso-
nomics: Twelve NewTrends That Will
Shape the News You Get. He adds,
We have pieces of the puzzle.
The outlines of the fu-
ture are sketched out in an
important report released
Monday by the Newspaper
Association of America.
Commendably, the study
made a concerted efort to,
for the rst time, tally up
money owing in via the
new revenue streams. The
result is a much more ac-
curate picture of the in-
dustrys health. Its a sign
of how grim things have
been that a report indicat-
ing revenue declined by 2% could be
considered a hopeful sign. But it was
the smallest drop in six years.
While advertising, once the lifeline
of newspapers, continued to plum-
met (by 6% last year), circulation
revenue was up 5%, the rst year of
growth since 2003. New ventures,
such as marketing services, brought
in $3 billion, and revenue from
sources the NAA hadnt counted be-
fore, such as niche publications,
brought in nearly as much.
The study underscores what a
huge mistake it was for the industry
to give away its content on the Inter-
net for all of those years. Now about
400 papers are charging, and many
more, including The Washington
Post, will start doing so this year.
The key is the metered paywall
(which allows readers to access a
number of articles before they have
to pay), and it works, Doctor says. By
2015 he believes such arrangements
will be the default position for news-
papers both in the United States and
elsewhere.
To Tom Rosenstiel, executive di-
rector of the American Press Insti-
tute, a critical nding is that after
years of decline, now things are
growing in certain categories. At
this point, he says, the newspaper
business is a mature industry and an
emerging industry at the same time.
Newspapers were awfully slow to
react to the ramications of the digi-
tal revolution. Were begin-
ning to see signs of
adaptation, says Rosenstiel,
who worked on the report
(API is now under the aegis
of the NAA). Skeptics
might say its been a long
time coming, but its
coming.
Rosenstiel, the longtime
director of the Pew Re-
search Centers Project for
Excellence in Journalism,
thinks the mobile market
ofers newspapers a bright
opportunity for future growth. Be-
fore, newspapers sawtechnology as a
threat, he says. Mobile gives thema
second bite. It could be very
signicant.
Media analyst John Morton, a
longtime columnist for American
Journalism Review, takes the long
view. He points out that newspapers
have been challenged before and
lived to tell about it, citing the advent
of television as an example. TVpretty
much wiped out the metropolitan
evening paper, and is one of the rea-
sons there were once about 1,800
daily papers and nowthere are 1,400.
The digital juggernaut, Morton
says, is not going to kill the industry.
But its certainly going to change it.
Extra, extra: Newspapers arent dead
Radio and TVdidnt
kill them, neither
will the Internet
RemRieder
USATODAY
MEDIA
DAVID GOLDMAN, AP
Newspapers are nding newrevenue streams in digital times.
NEW YORK Its not hard to guess that
this rickety three-story walkup on
the Lower East Side would house a
hip Internet start-up. But the red-hot
company thats raised more than half
a billion dollars from the public to
fund passion projects?
Crowdfunding phenomenon Kick-
starter is on the third oor, with a
handful of stafers who don head-
phones and stare at large iMacs,
tweaking the website that brings in
an average of 200 new projects daily.
Aformer waiter, Perry Chen, his one-
time frequent customer and free-
lance rock critic Yancey Strickler and
designer Charles Adler launched
Kickstarter in 2009 as a place where
anybody could pitch in to help get
passion projects funded.
The company helped coin a word
crowdfunding as it helped every-
thing from community gardens,
books and local plays come to life. It
has since grown to include movies
(Kickstarter-funded documentary
Inocente won the Oscar this year)
music (singer Amanda Palmers
Kickstarter-funded album made its
debut at No. 10 on Billboard) and a
red-hot tech product (the Pebble
smartphone watch launched in
February).
As Kickstarter approaches 40,000
successfully launched projects, and
other crowdfunding sites compete
(hello, PledgeMusic, Indiegogo and
GoFundMe) the Kickstarters are out-
growing their space. Theyre prepar-
ing to move in June to bigger digs in
Brooklyn, where theyll keep a keen
eye on growing the business.
Our jobs are to come in here and
make the site a little better every
day, says Kickstarter CEO Chen.
We have no interest in ever selling
this business or IPOing. Were as in-
dependent as you get.
Along with physical growing pains
comes another price of success: As
Kickstart-ed projects become more
widespread, backlash a Kickstar-
ter fatigue is starting to emerge,
as folks who once didnt mind pitch-
ing in are now nding funding re-
quests as bothersome as the frequent
political and charity pleas that clog e-
mail inboxes. Additionally, the re-
quests are getting much closer
scrutiny.
Recently, a Maryland mom helped
her 9-year-old daughter stage a Kick-
starter campaign to support girls in
tech by raising $800 to help her cre-
ate a video game. But after the re-
quest brought in more than $20,000
in pledges, it drew scrutiny and
more than 1,300 generally nasty on-
line comments. A Kickstarter mem-
The issue for Kickstarter and oth-
er crowdfunding sites, as they be-
come more popular, is how to deal
with the fatigue that can come from
more frequent online pleas for mon-
ey a newformof busking.
Im sick and tired of people beg-
ging me for money in my Twitter
feed and e-mail box, says Andy
Salge, an Indianapolis musician who
pays the bills as a house painter.
Music industry blogger Bob Lef-
setz says crowdfunding can work for
up-and-coming musicians, but estab-
lished artists have to think twice
about using the platform.
Were at the turning point where
it can work against you, says Lefsetz.
Amanda Palmer raised $1 million
to fund her recording on Kickstarter
and recently endured a heated ses-
sion at an industry gathering of how
she got rich on the system. Rich Rob-
inson of the Black Crowes used Kick-
starter to raise money for a tour, but
had to backtrack due to negative
feedback.
Strickler shrugs of the fatigue,
pointing out that more than 1 million
people have returned to Kickstarter
as repeat backers.
We dont see it as an issue. It
takes work to get a project funded.
You have to spread the word.
Veteran jazz guitarist George Ben-
son is using PledgeMusic, which fo-
cuses solely on music, to raise
production funds for his forthcoming
album, a tribute to Nat King Cole.
He explained the need for using
fan funds in his online pitch, saying
he wanted to use a 50-piece orches-
tra, and in this era of declining music
sales, that doesnt come cheap.
Benji Rogers, a co-founder of
PledgeMusic, says the benet to the
artist and record label is pre-selling a
record to the fan base. Fans get fre-
quent updates on the project and bo-
nuses if they back it. It also helps the
record company know how many
copies to make for initial release.
On Kickstarter, artistic endeavors
are the most popular category
11,000 music projects, 9,400 movie/
video and 3,800 art projects have
come to life. At the recent Sundance
lm festival, some 10% of the movies
were born via Kickstarter.
In many ways, what we see going
on is bigger than the platform, says
Kickstarter co-founder Adler. These
projects are now part of the culture.
Were just as excited as they are.
But Adler and his co-founders ac-
knowledge that working at Kickstar-
ter doesnt come cheap. Strickler
helped back Pebble, as well as 749
other projects.
There are people here who have
backed more, he says. His co-foun-
ders each say theyve backed around
300. You spend enough time on the
site, you click around and get excit-
ed, adds Strickler.
KICKSTARTER GAINS HORSEPOWER
ROBERT DEUTSCH, USA TODAY
Kickstarter founders, fromleft, Charles Adler, Yancey Strickler and Perry Chen. Our jobs are to come in
here and make the site a little better every day, says CEOChen.
Little engine that
could crowdfund
gets pumped up
Jefferson Graham
@jeffersongraham
USATODAY
VIDEOONLINE
AT TECH.USATODAY.COM
Meet the Kickstarter founders at
tech.usatoday.com
ber discovered that the mom was a
tech entrepreneur and could easily
aford to send her daughter to the
summer camp where she was going
to make the game.
Still, the mom, Susan Wilson,
hasnt sworn of Kickstarter. I truly
believe real innovation over the next
decade will come fromregular people
leveraging advances in technology to
empower themselves to come togeth-
er and create BIG CHANGES in the
world, she wrote on her daughters
Kickstarter page. I still believe in
the power of the crowd, she adds,
telling USA TODAY: The crowd is
smart enough to gure things out.
KICKSTARTING OWN LAUNCH
It was that same crowd that inspired
aspiring musician Chen in 2001,
when he was living in New Orleans.
He tried and failed to raise mon-
ey to put on a concert and thought:
Wouldnt it be great if we could raise
the money online?
By 2007, he had met Strickler and
designer Adler, and they decided to
join forces. In raising money for
launch, the founders turned to family
and friends. That was later augment-
ed with $10 million from venture
capital rms and notable Internet in-
vestors such as Twitter co-founder
Jack Dorsey and Flickr co-founder
Caterina Fake. Kickstarter, which
takes a 5% fee of the top of every
funded project, was protable within
its rst 12 months.
Now, there are many crowdfund-
ing sites. The founders arent both-
ered by this they say theyre happy
that many people are able to realize
their dreams.
The goal of Kickstarter is for peo-
ple to be able to make things and
bring projects to life, says Strickler,
head of communications. Not neces-
sarily for it to be on Kickstarter.
The site began with a simple pro-
ject. An artist ofered to draw some-
thing, which raised $35.
Now it has grown to multimillion-
dollar projects, such as Veronica
Mars creator Rob Thomass recent
headline-grabbing revival of the TV
series.
Thomas wanted to make a movie
of the series that had been canceled
in 2007. With little interest fromcor-
porate owner Warner Bros., he decid-
ed to see if he could raise money
directly fromfans.
I gured I had nothing to lose, he
says.
Within 10 hours, he surpassed his
initial goal of $2 million, and has
since topped $4.4 million. Produc-
tion will begin in June.
I was shocked how fast it hap-
pened, says Thomas.
Mars is now at No. 3 on Kickstar-
ters list of most-funded projects, fol-
lowing No. 1 Pebble Watch ($10
million) and $8.5 million for Ouya, a
video game system with free trial
games that is scheduled to make its
debut in June.
Thomas is thrilled that he was able
to get his passion project of the
ground, but says anyone looking to
Kickstarter as an end run around the
system is mistaken. This has been
exhausting, he says. A much sim-
pler process is to go in as a writer and
pitch a movie, and hope the studio
buys it the old-fashioned way.
MARKETING A CAMPAIGN
The most successful Kickstarter
campaigns have promo videos that
look as polished as a TV commercial.
A well-designed Kickstarter page
should answer all potential ques-
tions, and ofer the perks that come
with backing. (In Mars case, scripts,
DVDs, screenings and more.) Finally,
you must plug the project on social
media and be responsive to the Kick-
starter community.
You also have to adhere to Kick-
starters community rules, which ba-
sically list charity and equity interest
in rms as no-nos. For those looking
for a more open platform, rival Indie-
gogo accepts every project
submitted.
With nearly 40,000 projects fund-
ed to date, Its working really well
for a lot of people, says Chen.
Theres no limit to the kinds of
ideas people have been able to
share.
Real innovation over the next decade
will come fromregular people leveraging
advances in technology to empower
themselves to come together and
create BIGCHANGES in the world.
Susan Wilson, a Maryland mom, helped her 9-year-old daughter stage a Kickstarter campaign
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SILLY. THATS ASININE.
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Ilya Bryzgalov slept in a meeting.
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@ScottiePippen
HES WORKING OUT LIKE A
MADMAN. CANT WAIT TOGET
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HAVE A LOT OF BASKETBALL LEFT
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rehab from a foot injury.
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Players say Ilya Bryzgalov didnt doze.
The New York Knicks will tie the
franchise record for longest winning
streak of 18 if they win their last ve
regular-season games.
Why should we care? It appears to
be a good omen for this franchise.
That team the 1969-70 Knicks
won the NBAchampionship.
To get there, the Knicks rst have
to get past the Chicago Bulls, noted
streak breakers, at the United Center
today (8 p.m. ET, TNT) in Chicago.
Theyre a complete team, Knicks
coach Mike Woodson said of the
Bulls. Even though theyre missing a
major piece in Derrick Rose, the sup-
porting cast that plays on that team
can play. Theyre a tough matchup
not only for us but for a lot of teams
in this league. It wont be an easy
game going to Chicago.
Hes right. Battling the Atlanta
Hawks for the fth seed in the East-
ern Conference, the Bulls are 3-0
against the Knicks this season.
Theyre also the team that ended the
Miami Heats 27-game winning
streak two weeks ago.
The Knicks are at 13, and if they
have hopes of coming close to the
team record, theyll have to get by at
least three playof teams: the Bulls,
Indiana Pacers and Hawks. And they
need to keep winning to hold of the
Pacers for the No. 2 seed in the East.
We wanted the 1 seed and we
didnt get that, but well take the
2 seed. Thats what were ghting
for, Knicks forward Carmelo Antho-
ny said. So these next couple of
games are denitely big for us.
Anthony, is averaging 28.6 points a
game, just ahead of the Oklahoma
City Thunders Kevin Durant (28.3)
for the scoring title. Anthony is on a
nice run, scoring 50, 40, 41, 36 and 36
points in the last ve games.
NewYork is playing at an all-time
high, said Washington Wizards
coach Randy Wittman, whose team
lost to the Knicks 120-99 on Tuesday.
They are shooting the ball extreme-
ly well. Youve got a guy like Carmelo,
who you have to have an idea of (how
youre) helping on. And if you have
ve guys on the oor making threes,
it makes it hard.
Bumps
ahead
for hot
Knicks
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PROVO, UTAH The smiles and the
stares were the most difcult thing to
get used to.
Even now, nearly ve years after
moving to Utah from Accra, Ghana,
Ezekiel Ziggy Ansah nds it odd
that strangers will smile at himwhen
they pass him on the street, in res-
taurants and in stores. As Ansah left a
pizza place north of campus this
spring, patrons dining at three difer-
ent tables stopped himto say hello or
wish him luck at pro day or with the
NFLdraft.
Ansah, Brigham Youngs 6-6, 270-
pound defensive end, knew none of
them.
Its all white people here. Provo is
a nice place. People are always smil-
ing at you, Ansah said. Its like,
What? I dont even knowyou!
The entirety of Ansahs American
experience has been in Provo, and in
just a few weeks everything is going
to change. Ansah is projected to be a
rst-round pick in the NFL draft
April 25, and with it will come a move
to a new city, with new coaches and
teammates and no built-in support
systemlike he has enjoyed in college.
At BYU, his coaches didnt curse. His
teammates didnt party.
Ansah is a Mormon, baptized into
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-
day Saints at 18. BYUofcials plan for
church leaders in Ansahs newcity to
Ansah charges around learning curve
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Ziggy Ansah says he shed no tears when he left Ghana for the USA.
Oh, no. I was happy, Ansah says. Who is sad to come to America?
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AUGUSTA, GA. One fan after another,
from the moment the public was al-
lowed onto the Augusta National
grounds Monday, went looking for
the spot. In a setting bursting with
charming beauty, from the azaleas in
full bloom to the majestic pine trees
to the tightly mowed fairways to the
pearl-white bunkers and cabins,
thousands of fans nevertheless jour-
neyed in search of a spot of dirt cov-
ered with pine needles.
Bubbas spot.
Trudging down the right side of
the 10th hole they went, all in search
of the out-of-the-way spot where
Bubba Watson unleashed the wedge
heard round the golf world in a play-
of in last years Masters, the one that
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Standing on pine needles on the 10th hole Wednesday at Augusta National, Richard Cox of Charleston,
S.C., mimics the shot last year that helped Bubba Watson win the Masters in a playof.
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Masters most difcult hole has seen
its share of triumph and tribulations
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went through a chute of pines, bent
right some 40 yards, traveled another
110 yards or so and landed on the
green. It was the curveball from the
self-taught lefty that let himtwo-putt
from12 feet and win the green jacket.
It was just the latest of many sig-
nicant moments in the history of
the Masters on the par-4 10th, a 495-
yard, downhill sliver of pristine real
estate that sharply bends from right
to left to an elevated green guarded
by a bunker on the right, trees on the
left and shadows casting doubt into
the eyes of the players as they putt.
Calamity and brilliance share the
stage on the hole that has averaged
4.32 strokes in the rst 76 editions of
the Masters historically the hard-
est hole on the course and has
been instrumental on multiple occa-
sions in determining the winner.
HIGHLIGHTS AND LOWLIGHTS
Among the highlights are Watsons
miracle wedge and Ben Crenshaws
60-foot birdie putt en route to vic-
tory in 1984. On the ip side is Scott
Hochs missed 3-footer that would
have won him the title in a playof in
1989, leading to Nick Faldos winning
putt a hole later. In 1986, Greg Nor-
man made two double bogeys on 10,
including in the nal round when his
tee shot clanked of a pine tree, and
lost by one to Jack Nicklaus. In 2003,
Len Mattiace hooked his approach to
the left of the 10th green in a playof
and took four more shots to lose the
green jacket to Mike Weirs bogey.
And, of course, there was Rory
McIlroy standing between two cab-
ins 50 yards east of the fairway in
2011. Having begun the nal day with
a four-shot lead, he still held the ad-
vantage by one when he hit his tee
shot on 10. But it caromed of a pine
tree just 125 yards from the tee. He
hit two more trees with his third and
fourth shots and made a crushing tri-
ple-bogey 7. He limped home with an
80 and in a tie for 15th.
No. 10 is one of the great par-4s in
golf just because of the vast multi-
tude of problems it can throw your
way, says David Feherty, who played
in one Masters during his playing ca-
reer and is one of golfs top analysts.
There is this fascination of the sec-
ond nine, starting with 10, where
there are just so many diferent ques-
tions and the course comes at you
from so many diferent directions.
One lapse of concentration on any
shot on that golf course, youre in
trouble. Under no circumstances is
that course easy.
On 10, youre thinking, Oh God,
how do I not make six here? That
hole makes you think, makes you an-
gry and makes you want to nd a
place to hide sometimes.
ITS A TOUGH HOLE
Near the tee box, however, is the per-
fect setting for the Eisenhower Cab-
in, which was built shortly after Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected
president of the United States. Built
to the specics provided by the Se-
cret Service, this is one of the white
cabins that spectators and players
see all the time.
A short walk away is the putting
green and 10th tee. Fromthis beauti-
ful locale, players look down at an ex-
pansive fairway lined on both sides
by pine trees.
By the looks of things, all a player
has to do is tee it up and blast away.
But trouble looms.
Its a dogleg left, but its more
than a dogleg. I mean, its a snap hook
left, says Hunter Mahan, whose best
nish at Augusta was a tie for eighth
in 2010. But if you hook it too much,
youre dead in the trees.
Trevor Immelman, who won the
Masters in 2008, says the tee shot
can throw players because its one
they rarely have to hit these days.
First of all, you have a 40-yard
drop from tee to fairway, and thats
abnormal in todays golf course de-
sign. And, secondly, youre standing
on the tee trying to work the ball 20
yards to 25 yards right-to-left, and
thats also very abnormal in todays
golf course design, Immelman says.
Thats two things we just dont see
anymore, so thats unique.
And thats just the start of the
hole.
The second shot, even after a solid
drive, is even tougher.
Youre still hitting of a down
slope, 2007 Masters champion Zach
Johnson says. Its a 500-something
par-4, and youre still hitting it of a
down slope of a right-to-left lie and
you feel like you have to hit a cut into
the green.
Its just a very difcult hole. And
the green is one of the toughest out
there. And then you have that bunker
on the right of the green. Thats not
easy. But its better to be there than
sometimes way left, because if it gets
dry and you land your shot on the
green with it turning right to left, it
can go down to the pines far left. It
can go 20 to 30 yards ofthe green.
Did I say its a tough hole?
McIlroy holds no ill will toward
the hole.
Its a golf course, not a person.
And the way I see it is that its actual-
ly like saying you dont like someone
because of something they said years
ago. Get over it, move on, McIlroy
said. The 10th, thats one of my fa-
vorite holes anywhere, and people
ask howcan you say that after what it
did to you. It didnt do anything to
me I did it to me. Ive learned how
to play that hole, learned not hit to
driver. I used to love whacking it over
the tree, but then I learned it is
pointless hitting driver. You just need
to take 3- or 5-wood, put it on top of
the hill and let it roll down.
Watson wont stop hitting driver,
thats for sure. And he wont try to re-
enact the shot. He has walked over to
the spot on a few occasions, but he
wont hit the shot ever again.
Not on purpose. I would never do
it, he says. I have to try to get my
name to keep going throughout his-
tory, so I dont want to hit it again. ...
Ill always have a great memory
about the 10th hole, but it is one
tough hole. The tee shot, the second
shot, every putt you can have, all the
trees, the bunker, on and on. So
much can happen on that hole, good
and bad. Thats why its a great hole.
STREETER LECKA, GETTY IMAGES
Bubba Watsons shot ofpine needles in a playoflast year at Augusta added to the lore of No. 10 at the Masters. So much can happen on that hole, good and bad, Watson says.
For
drama,
10th
is a 10
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GOATS HEAD DELIVERED
TO WRIGLEY FIELD
A package containing a goats head
was found outside a Wrigley Field
gate Wednesday, addressed to Chi-
cago Cubs owner Ted Ricketts. No
note was attached to the package.
The goat is most likely a reference to
the curse that was placed on the
Cubs by Billy Goat Tavern owner
William Sianis during the 1945
World Series. Sianis goat was denied
entrance to the game, and the Cubs
lost the World Series. The curse has
tried to be broken on numerous oc-
casions over the last 67 years, but
without any luck. The Cubs last won
a World Series in 1908 the longest
drought in major professional sports.
Scott Boeck
HEAT RESERVES TOP WIZARDS,
SNAG HOME-COURT EDGE
With several starters resting, the Mi-
ami Heat earned home-court advan-
tage throughout the playofs
Wednesday, clinching the best record
in the NBA with a 103-98 victory at
the Washington Wizards. With Le-
Bron James (hamstring) and
Dwyane Wade (sprained ankle,
bruised knee) on the bench, Chris
Bosh (u-like symptons) at home
and Udonis Haslem (sore right an-
kle) getting the night of, the Heat
still managed to gain the victory that
ensured theyll nish with a better
record than the Western Conference-
leading San Antonio Spurs.
RED SOXS SELLOUT STREAK
ENDS AT 820 GAMES
The longest home sellout streak in
major pro sports history ended
Wednesday at 820 games for the Bos-
ton Red Sox. The ofcial attendance
for an 8-5 loss to the Baltimore
Orioles was 30,862. The capacity for
night games at Fenway Park is 37,493.
The streak began in May 2003 and
included the postseason. The string
broke the record of 814 set by the
NBAs Portland Trail Blazers from
1977 to 1995. Bostons streak of 794
regular-season sellouts also is the
longest in major pro sports history.
MANNING WORKS OUT
WITH WELKER AT DUKE
Peyton Manning threw his rst
passes to his newest Denver Broncos
teammate, Wes Welker, during a
workout Wednesday at Duke Univer-
sity in Durham, N.C. Welker and
Broncos wide receivers Demaryius
Thomas and Eric Decker joined
the quarterback, working with Duke
coach David Cutclife, who was
Mannings quarterbacks coach at
Tennessee and oversaw much of the
four-time NFL MVPs work when he
was recovering from neck surgeries.
Welker left the NewEngland Patriots
and signed a two-year, $12 million
deal with the Broncos this ofseason.
INDIANAS ZELLER DECIDES
TO ENTER NBA DRAFT
Indiana sophomore Cody Zeller de-
cided to enter the NBAdraft. The de-
cision came less than 24 hours after
junior teammate Victor Oladipo
also declared for the draft. Neither
decision was a surprise. Both are
probable lottery picks. But while Ola-
dipos stock seemed to soar in recent
months, Zellers play at times raised
questions about whether hes physi-
cally ready to compete in the NBA.
This year, Indiana won its rst out-
right Big Ten Conference champion-
ship since 1993 and was a No. 1 seed
in the NCAA tournament. Terry
Hutchens, The Indianapolis Star
YANKEES JETER RESUMES
ON-FIELD HITTING
New York Yankees shortstop Derek
Jeter, shut down last month by sore-
ness in his left ankle, resumed on-
eld hitting. He took 32 swings in
batting practice Wednesday at the
teams minor league complex in
Tampa. Jeter, 38, also ran for the sec-
ond day in a row. The Yankees cap-
tain hasnt played since appearing in
a minor league spring training game
as a designated hitter March 23,
when the ankle he broke in Game 1 of
the American League Championship
Series in October bothered himwhile
running. Jeter didnt go full speed
but looked smooth going three times
from rst to third and three times
from third to rst on the grass be-
hind the ineld dirt. He also elded
45 grounders at short.
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The Heats LeBron James, left, and
Dwyane Wade sat out Wednesday.
AUGUSTA, GA. Growing up watching
the Masters, Ive seen so many icon-
ic golf shots played here at Augusta
National. Whether it was live on TV
or on a highlight reel, there are a
number that have made a lasting im-
pression on me.
Phil Mickelsons risky shot on the
par-5 13th through the trees in 2010,
Tiger Woods miraculous chip-in on
the par-3 16th in 2005 and Louis
Oosthuizens double eagle last year
(on No. 2) are just a few of the his-
toric shots that have stood out to me
after watching year after year.
As soon as I stepped foot on Au-
gusta National, I found myself want-
ing to go to each and every spot on
the course where these iconic shots
took place to see exactly what each
player faced.
One location I especially wanted
to stop by was to the right of the
10th fairway. I wanted to get down in
the pine needles and in between the
trees to see for myself what Bubba
Watson was experiencing when he
faced that famous shot in last years
playof. It turns out I wasnt alone.
Every time I have walked by the 10th
hole there has been a group of up to
20 people down in the trees trying to
gure out how Bubba pulled of that
incredible shot. I have seen this par-
ticular shot over and over again on
TV and YouTube, but I can say its
even more impressive now that Ive
been able to put myself in Bubbas
shoes. I hope that this year Im able
to see history unfold right before my
eyes like what we all saw on TV last
year when Bubba Watson pulled of
the shot of his life.
Woods, Tigers niece, is chronicling her
rst trip to Augusta for Back9Network, a
partner of USATODAYSports
Iconic Masters shots come to life
JACK GRUBER, USA TODAY SPORTS
The trees near No. 10 drewmany spec-
tators, including Cheyenne Woods.
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@Cheyenne_Woods
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THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2013 SPORTS 3C
Racetrack magnate Bruton
Smith and 1999 Cup champion and
TV analyst Dale Jarrett head a
group of ve nominees added to the
list of 25 on the ballot for the 2014
class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
Also under rst-time consideration
are Rex White, the 1960 champion
on NASCARs premier circuit; Larry
Phillips, a ve-time champion on
NASCARs Weekly Racing Series; and
Maurice Petty, who built engines
for his brother, seven-time champion
Richard Petty, and many others
during more than three decades at
Petty Enterprises. Smith is the CEO
of Speedway Motorsports Inc., which
hosts Sprint Cup races in Charlotte;
Bristol, Tenn; Atlanta; Loudon, N.H.;
Sonoma, Calif.; Fort Mitchell, Ky.;
Las Vegas; and Fort Worth. Jarrett
posted 32 victories and 16 pole posi-
tions in 668 Cup starts from 1984 to
2008, winning the 1999 title in a Ford
for Robert Yates Racing. Jarrett has
worked as an analyst for ESPN since
2009. Nate Ryan
KENSETH TO SUBSTITUTE
FOR HAMLIN IN CHARITY RACE
Denny Hamlin has a substitute
driver for his April 25 Short Track
Showdown charity race in Rich-
mond, Va. It is his Joe Gibbs Racing
teammate Matt Kenseth. Kenseth
will drive a Late Model in Hamlins
place for the annual event that fea-
tures NASCAR drivers against local
talent. Hamlin, recovering from a
fractured vertebra sufered nearly
three weeks ago in a last-lap crash in
Fontana, Calif., was not expected to
race. Hes targeting a return in Sprint
Cup that same weekend at Richmond
his home track but its unclear
whether that will happen.
JefGluck
RYAN WILL REMAIN
WITH RANGERS AS CEO
Nolan Ryan is staying in his role as
chief executive ofcer of the Texas
Rangers. After weeks of speculation
about his future, Ryan and the team
issued statements Wednesday saying
the Hall of Fame pitcher would re-
main. That came after the end of the
teams rst homestand of the season.
Ryan had remained quiet about his
plans since it was announced
March 1 that general manager Jon
Daniels and chief operating ofcer
Rick George had been promoted
with new presidential titles. Ryan
had been president and CEO.
PATERNOS WIDOW: WE WERE
IGNORANT OF SEX PREDATORS
The widow of Penn State football
coach Joe Paterno said they were
ignorant about sexual predators such
as Jerry Sandusky. Speaking at a
child abuse prevention program
Wednesday, Sue Paterno said she
and her husband sometimes un-
knowingly helped Sandusky groom
the boys he abused, believing he was
helping them. Paterno said she was
horried to learn Sandusky sexually
abused several young boys. An inves-
tigation completed last summer ac-
cused Joe Paterno, who died in
January 2012, and three former Penn
State administrators of covering up
an abuse allegation about Sandusky
more than a decade ago in an attempt
to shield the university from bad
publicity. The Paterno family has de-
nied that the late coach had knowl-
edge of Sanduskys crimes.
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UPDATE
Jarrett, Smith
top Fame ballot
PHIL CAVALI, ESPN
Dale Jarrett posted 32 victories and
16 pole positions in his NASCARcareer.
GARY A. VASQUEZ, USA TODAY SPORTS
Matt Kenseth, right, is No. 10 in the
NASCARpoints standings.
TIMHEITMAN, USA TODAY SPORTS
Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan has been a
Rangers executive since 2008.
Our series of weekly NASCAR driv-
er interviews continues with Kyle
Busch, who heads to Texas Motor
Speedway this weekend fourth in the
standings with one win. An excerpt:
Q: What person outside your
family has done the most for
your career?
A: As far as getting me here, the
guys name is Jerry Spilsbury. Hes
out of Las Vegas and was my Late
Model car owner. He gave me a
chance driving his Late Models for a
season in which we were really suc-
cessful he raced with me and was
my teammate.
My family, we couldnt aford Late
Models. Jerry spent all his own mon-
ey to let me race. I had to work on the
cars and I didnt get paid a dime, but
he let me drive them, which was
great.
Q: So Spilsbury was the rst
guy to give you a shot in a car
aside fromyour dad?
A: Yep. And when Chris Trickle got
hurt, thats how (brother) Kurt
(Busch) got his ride.
Thats how we got here. Chris
Trickle was a local racer out of Vegas,
and he probably would have made it
to Cup I dont know if he would
have won many Cup races, he was
maybe more of a Nationwide guy
but he got shot in Las Vegas just roll-
ing down the road. Somebody pulled
out a gun and just shot at a car, and it
was Chris Trickle.
It put him in a coma for a year.
Then he woke up for like 48 hours,
but then went back into a coma and
died.
Chris was racing Late Models on
the Southwest Tour. His dad was
Chuck Trickle, who is Dick Trickles
brother. So he was Dick Trickles
nephew.
Well, when he got shot, Chris
Trickles best friend was Sean Mon-
roe. They put him in the Southwest
Tour car, and he did OK but wrecked
too much. So then when Chris passed
away, Chuck was like, I cant own it
anymore. So he got rid of the stuf.
The sponsor of the car, Star Nurs-
ery, who is another guy, Craig Ke-
ough, he bought the stuffromChuck
and then hired Kurt because Kurt
was the next young, good thing com-
ing through Vegas. So Craig Keough
put Kurt in his Southwest Tour Late
Model cars essentially taking over
Chris Trickles place and thats
howKurt got here. He got recognized
by Jack (Roush) and all that stuf.
So Kurts biggest inuence was
probably Craig Keough, and mine
was Jerry Spilsbury. It was just a lit-
tle bit diferent time, because Kurt
was ve or six years ahead of me.
Q: The last guy you wrecked,
did you do it on purpose?
A: The last guy I wrecked? (Smiles)
Hmm ... who was that? Oh, Kasey
Kahne in Daytona! No, I didnt do
that on purpose. I just went back in
my mind real quick I didnt wreck
anybody in California, Vegas. ... And
at Phoenix I wrecked myself.
Kasey, I wrecked him at Daytona.
Everybody just checked up on the
top row, and I ran into the back of
him right before we got straight on
the trioval. He was still turning, so it
spun himout.
I cant remember the last time I
wrecked somebody on purpose, be-
cause normally when you try I wreck
myself in the process. So it doesnt go
well for me. I learned that a long time
ago. If it happens where I wreck
someone, its an accident.
Q: Who is someone you used to
clash with in the garage but now
you get along ne?
A: Tony (Stewart), for sure. When I
was coming up in 05, my rookie year,
we were racing in Vegas and he was
all (mad) at me for something. He
tried to wreck me of Turn 2 but
stufed himself in the fence. With 15
to go, we were running for third, and
he ended up nishing (10th) and I
was second. So he was still mad at
me. Then at Daytona (in 2006), he
called me a bird with no feathers.
We sat down, hashed it out. Then I
was his teammate, and ever since
then weve been good.
Q: Whats the best racing-re-
lated movie?
A: Ive always loved Days of Thun-
der. ... Theres action; theres wreck-
ing; theyre (mad). Theres Joey
(Logano) and Denny (Hamlin) in the
hospital scene, racing each other on
wheelchairs!
Kyle Busch looks back on his big break
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When he wrecks someone, Kyle
Busch says, it is an accident.
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AUGUSTA, GA. Tiger Woods last won
a major golf tournament when
George W. Bush was president.
Eighteen majors have come and gone
since Tiger won the 2008 U.S. Open
at Torrey Pines. There is no one on
earth more surprised by this devel-
opment than Tiger himself.
Not only can Woods do something
about that this week at the 2013 Mas-
ters, he must do something about it.
If ever there were a must-win situa-
tion in golf, this is it. If Tiger is to
really become Tiger again, if he is to
build on his 14 majors and have a
chance to catch and surpass Jack
Nicklaus total of 18, he has to win
this tournament this week. Come
Sunday night, if Woods, now 37, isnt
wearing a green jacket, it will be a
monumental missed opportunity for
him.
Why? Hes playing far too well to
leave Augusta without a victory for
what would be the eighth year in a
row. He nally has come to the Mas-
ters on a roll. He has won three of the
ve PGA Tour tournaments he has
played this season. He says hes hap-
py, healthy, balanced and playing bet-
ter than he has in quite some time.
And this golf course is made for him;
it annually gives him his best chance
to win a major.
Given these circumstances, it
would be a stunning failure if Woods
didnt win here this week, and would
set up an even more pressure-lled
year for him, from one major to the
next.
Hes going to have to gure it
out, Nicklaus said when asked about
Tigers major drought. But I think if
he gures it out here, it will be a great
boost for him. If he doesnt gure it
out here, after the spring hes had, I
think it will be a lot tougher for him
(to pass Nicklaus major total).
Woods isnt talking about himself
in such stark terms. Few athletes
ever do. He prefers to focus on the
positives, and there are many in his
life at the moment.
I feel comfortable with every as-
pect of my game, he said. I feel that
Ive improved and Ive gotten more
consistent, and I think the wins show
that. Thats something that Improud
of so far this year, and hopefully I can
continue it this week and the rest of
the year.
He did say it feels like it was a long
time ago since he won his last Mas-
ters, and hes right about that. He has
won this tournament four times, but
not since 2005.
I put myself in the mix every year
but last year, and thats the mislead-
ing part ... that its not like Ive been
out of there with no chance of win-
ning this championship, he said.
Ive been there and unfortunately
just havent got it done. Ive made
runs to get myself in it. Ive been
there in the mix on the back nine and
either not executed, not made
enough putts or didnt take care of
the par 5s, or whatever it may be.
This was the story of Tigers life
last year at all the majors except the
Masters (where he tied for 40th), a
pattern that has to be disconcerting
to him, and one that he would like to
eliminate this week. After not con-
tending in the 2012 Masters, he was
tied for rst halfway through the U.S.
Open and PGA Championship and
was third by himself after two rounds
of the British Open. In prime posi-
tion to win all three of those major
championships, the old Tiger likely
would have reeled in one or two. The
new Tiger didnt win one, nishing
tied for 21st in the U.S. Open, tied for
third in the British Open and tied for
11th in the PGA.
Did the pressure get to him?
No, he said. These are our four
biggest events. They are the best
events to play in, the toughest condi-
tions, best elds and the most de-
manding and challenging. I mean,
thats what you want.
For Woods, though, it always used
to be about winning those major
tournaments, not just competing in
them. It once seemed to be such a
certainty that he would reach and
pass Nicklaus 18 majors. Four ma-
jors didnt sound like a lot in 2008,
when he last won one. Now it does.
Consider that Woods must win as
many majors as Phil Mickelson has
in his career just to tie Nicklaus.
A statistic like that gets everyones
attention.
Obviously, the older he gets and if
he doesnt win, it makes my record
move out further, Nicklaus said.
But Ive said it, and I continue to say
it, that I still expect him to break my
record. I think hes just too talented,
too driven and too focused on that.
Now, a lot of you will say he cant do
that. ... From this point, hes got to
win ve majors, which is a pretty
good career for most people to start
at age 37. ... Hes played very, very
well this spring. I think if he wins
here that it would be a very large step
towards regaining (his) condence.
PRESSURE WILL ONLY
BUILDIF TIGER FALTERS
JACK GRUBER, USA TODAY SPORTS
Tiger Woods is on a roll, having won three of the ve PGA Tour tournaments he has played this season. I
feel comfortable with every aspect of my game, Woods said. Ive gotten more consistent.
Christine Brennan
cbrennan@usatoday.com
USATODAYSports
FOLLOWCOLUMNIST
CHRISTINE BRENNAN
@cbrennansports
lights package later in the day.
Missing Woods today wouldnt
be such a big deal if it werent
completely avoidable. Hes in a
featured group Friday (players are
allowed to be in a Masters.com
featured group once), but his late
tee time, 1:41 p.m. ET, means the
majority of his round will sync
with live TV coverage anyway. If
Woods had been put in a featured
group today, fans would have been
able to see just about every one of
his rst 36 holes live.
If you were hoping to watch
Tiger Woods rst round at the
Masters live today, you better be
in Augusta, Ga., trying to land a
patrons badge.
Because of a curious choice of
featured groups at Masters.com,
the majority of the No. 1 player in
the worlds rst 18 holes wont be
streamed or televised until re-
plays are shown when ESPN be-
gins its live coverage today at
3 p.m. ET.
The ofcial website of the Mas-
ters ofers live coverage of two fea-
tured groups as well as from
Amen Corner (holes 11-13) and
holes 15 and 16. Todays rst fea-
tured group is Peter Hanson, 2011
Masters champion Charl Schwart-
zel and reigning U.S. Open cham-
pion Webb Simpson. The second:
K.J. Choi, 2007 Masters champion
Zach Johnson and 2010 U.S. Open
champion Graeme McDowell.
Woods tees of at 10:45 a.m.,
making it likely hell be nishing
his round as coverage begins on
ESPN. Fans wanting to see him
will have to make do with a high-
Amissed shot at
Woods coverage
Choice of featured groups means little, if any,
of his rst round in Masters will be shown live
Nick Schwartz
@Nick_Schwartz
USATODAYSports
CHRISTOPHER HANEWINCKEL, USA TODAY SPORTS
K.J. Choi is in one of todays two
featured groups at Masters.com.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2013
MLB SCORES
AMERICANLEAGUE
East W L Pct. GB Strk.
Last
10 vs. Div. Home Away
Boston 5 3 .625 L-1 5-3 5-3 1-1 4-2
Baltimore 4 4 .500 1 W-1 4-4 3-2 1-2 3-2
NewYork 4 4 .500 1 W-3 4-4 1-2 1-2 3-2
TampaBay 4 5 .444 1
1
/2 W-1 4-5 1-2 3-3 1-2
Toronto 3 5 .375 2 W-1 3-5 1-2 2-4 1-1
Central W L Pct. GB Strk.
Last
10 vs. Div. Home Away
Kansas City 6 3 .667 W-4 6-3 4-2 3-0 3-3
Chicago 4 4 .500 1
1
/2 L-2 4-4 2-1 4-2 0-2
Detroit 4 4 .500 1
1
/2 W-2 4-4 1-2 3-2 1-2
Minnesota 4 5 .444 2 L-3 4-5 2-4 2-1 2-4
Cleveland 3 5 .375 2
1
/2 L-2 3-5 0-0 0-2 3-3
West W L Pct. GB Strk.
Last
10 vs. Div. Home Away
Oakland 6 2 .750 W-6 6-2 6-2 2-2 4-0
Texas 6 3 .667
1
/2 L-1 6-3 4-2 4-2 2-1
Seattle 4 5 .444 2
1
/2 L-1 4-5 3-3 1-1 3-4
Los Angeles 2 5 .286 3
1
/2 L-2 2-5 1-3 0-1 2-4
Houston 2 6 .250 4 W-1 2-6 2-6 1-5 1-1
NATIONAL LEAGUE
East W L Pct. GB Strk.
Last
10 vs. Div. Home Away
Atlanta 8 1 .889 W-6 8-1 5-1 5-1 3-0
Washington 6 2 .750 1
1
/2 W-2 6-2 3-0 5-0 1-2
NewYork 5 4 .556 3 L-2 5-4 3-3 4-2 1-2
Philadelphia 4 5 .444 4 W-2 4-5 3-3 3-3 1-2
Miami 1 8 .111 7 L-5 1-8 1-8 0-3 1-5
Central W L Pct. GB Strk.
Last
10 vs. Div. Home Away
Cincinnati 5 4 .556 L-2 5-4 1-2 4-2 1-2
St. Louis 5 4 .556 W-2 5-4 2-1 2-1 3-3
Chicago 3 5 .375 1
1
/2 W-1 3-5 3-2 1-1 2-4
Pittsburgh 3 6 .333 2 L-1 3-6 1-2 1-2 2-4
Milwaukee 2 6 .250 2
1
/2 L-1 2-6 1-1 1-5 1-1
West W L Pct. GB Strk.
Last
10 vs. Div. Home Away
Arizona 6 3 .667 W-1 6-3 0-0 3-3 3-0
San Francisco 6 3 .667 W-3 6-3 5-1 4-2 2-1
Los Angeles 4 3 .571 1 L-1 4-3 1-3 4-2 0-1
Colorado 5 4 .556 1 L-3 5-4 3-3 3-0 2-4
San Diego 2 5 .286 3 W-1 2-5 1-3 1-0 1-5
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Toronto 8, Detroit 6 TampaBay 2, Texas 0
N.Y. Yankees at Clev. (ppd.) Baltimore 8, Boston 5
Kansas City 3, Minnesota0 Oaklandat L.A. Angels
Houston at Seattle
NATIONAL LEAGUE
San Francisco 10, Colorado 0 Arizona10, Pittsburgh 2
Philadelphia7, N.Y. Mets 3 St. Louis 10, Cincinnati 0
L.A. Dodgers at San Diego Atlanta8, Miami 0
Milwaukee at Chi. Cubs (ppd.)
INTERLEAGUE
Washington 5, Chicago White Sox 2
TODAYS GAMES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
2013 Statistics
Pitchers GS W-L Pct. WHIP ERA IP BA
Torontoat Detroit, 1:08ET (Line: DET, -130)
TOR: Johnson (R) 1 0-0 .000 1.83 4.50 6.0 .321
DET: Fister (R) 1 1-0 1.000 1.60 5.40 5.0 .300
N.Y. Yankees at Cleveland, 7:05ET (Line: NYY, -110)
NYY: Hughes (R) 1 0-1 .000 2.00 6.75 4.0 .400
CLE: McAllister (R) 1 0-1 .000 1.00 3.00 6.0 .240
Baltimore at Boston, 7:10ET (Line: BOS, -115)
BAL: Tillman (R) 1 0-0 .000 3.00 12.27 3.2 .467
BOS: Doubront (L) 1 0-0 .000 1.80 5.40 5.0 .409
Oaklandat L.A. Angels, 10:05ET (Line: LAA, -135)
OAK: Griffin (R) 1 1-0 1.000 1.50 3.00 6.0 .304
LAA: Vargas (L) 1 0-0 .000 1.76 1.59 5.2 .333
Texas at Seattle, 10:10ET (Line: SEA, -155)
TEX: Harrison (L) 2 0-2 .000 1.97 8.44 10.2 .326
SEA: Hernandez (R) 2 1-1 .500 .86 2.57 14.0 .180
NATIONAL LEAGUE
SanFranciscoat Chicago, 2:20ET (Line: SF, -135)
SF: Vogelsong(R) 1 0-1 .000 2.06 8.44 5.1 .375
CHC: Villanueva(R) 1 0-0 .000 1.20 1.35 6.2 .240
L.A. Dodgers at SanDiego, 10:10ET (Line: LAD, -165)
LAD: Greinke (R) 1 1-0 1.000 .32 .00 6.1 .095
SD: Marquis (R) 1 0-1 .000 1.17 3.00 6.0 .250
INTERLEAGUE
ChicagoWhite Sox at Washington, 7:05ET (Line:)
CWS: Quintana(L) 1 0-0 .000 2.50 11.25 4.0 .000
WAS: Haren (R) 1 0-1 .000 2.25 13.50 4.0 .429
RESULTS, UPCOMINGGAMES
Tuesday Friday Saturday
American League American League American League
DET 7, TOR 3 BAL at NYY, 7:05 TB at BOS, 1:05
NYY14, CLE 1 CWS at CLE, 7:05 BAL at NYY, 4:05
TEX 6, TB 1 TB at BOS, 7:10 CWS at CLE, 4:05
KC7, MIN4 TOR at KC, 8:10 DET at OAK, 4:05
OAK 9, LAA5 DET at OAK, 10:05 TOR at KC, 7:10
HOU16, SEA9 HOUat LAA, 10:05 HOUat LAA, 9:05
TEXat SEA, 10:10 TEXat SEA, 9:10
National League National League National League
SD9, LAD3 SF at CHC, 2:20 ATL at WAS, 1:05
PHI 8, NYM3 ATL at WAS, 7:05 SF at CHC, 1:05
ATL 3, MIA2 CINat PIT, 7:05 MIL at STL, 4:15
CHC6, MIL 3 PHI at MIA, 7:10 CINat PIT, 7:05
STL 5, CIN1 MIL at STL, 8:15 PHI at MIA, 7:10
PIT 6, ARI 5 LADat ARI, 9:40 LADat ARI, 8:10
SF 9, COL 6 COL at SD, 10:10 COL at SD, 8:40
Interleague Interleague Interleague
WAS 8, CWS 7 NYMat MIN, 8:10 NYMat MIN, 4:10
TUESDAYS LATE GAME TUESDAYS LATE GAME
Astros 16, Mariners 9
Houston 632 201 011 16
Seattle 000 020 124 9
Houston ab r h bi bbso avg
Altuve 2b 6 2 4 4 0 0 .353
Maxwell cf 5 2 1 0 1 0 .333
Castro c 4 1 2 0 1 1 .222
Corporan ph-c 1 0 0 0 0 0 .125
Carter lf-1b 6 2 4 3 0 2 .219
Penadh 4 2 2 2 1 1 .185
Cedeno ph-dh 1 0 1 0 0 0 .267
J. Martinez rf-lf 6 2 2 3 0 2 .263
Wallace 1b 4 0 0 0 0 4 .048
Barnes rf 1 1 1 0 1 0 .429
Dominguez 3b 6 1 2 1 0 0 .259
Gonzalez ss 3 3 3 2 2 0 .400
Totals 471622 15 6 10
uBatting 2B: Altuve (2); Pena (1);
Barnes (1). HR: Altuve (1); Carter 2 (2); J.
Martinez (1); Gonzalez (1). RBI: Altuve 4
(6); Carter 3 (3); Pena 2 (2); J. Martinez 3
(3); Dominguez (3); Gonzalez 2 (3). GIDP:
Maxwell; Dominguez. TeamLOB: 10.
uBaserunningSB: J. Martinez (1).
uFieldingE: Altuve (1).
Seattle ab r h bi bbso avg
Gutierrez cf 2 0 0 0 0 0 .250
Bay ph-rf 2 2 2 1 1 0 .300
Saunders rf-cf 4 0 1 1 0 0 .286
Morales dh 1 0 0 0 1 0 .310
Ibanez ph-dh 2 2 2 2 1 0 .231
Morse lf 5 2 1 1 0 0 .263
Smoak 1b 4 0 1 2 1 1 .179
Montero c 5 0 0 0 0 1 .133
Ackley 2b 4 1 1 0 0 0 .111
Andino 3b 4 1 1 0 0 1 .143
Ryan ss 3 1 1 1 0 0 .273
Totals 36 9 10 8 4 3
uBatting 2B: Andino (2). HR: Bay (1);
Ibanez (1); Morse (6). SF: Saunders; Ryan.
RBI: Bay (1); Saunders (5); Ibanez 2 (2);
Morse (9); Smoak 2 (3); Ryan (2). Team
LOB: 6.
uFieldingDP: 2.
Pitching ip h r er bbso era
Houston
Bedard 4 1 0 0 2 3 0.00
Clemens W,1-0 4 6 5 5 1 0 11.25
Ambriz 1 3 4 1 1 0 9.00
Seattle
Maurer L,0-2
2
/3 7 6 6 1 2 16.20
Loe 2
1
/3 6 5 5 1 2 10.80
Furbush 2 2 2 2 3 2 4.50
Luetge 3 5 2 2 0 3 8.31
Perez 1 2 1 1 1 1 2.45
WP: Luetge. Batters faced; pitches-
strikes: Bedard 15; 66-39; Clemens 19;
62-37; Ambriz 8; 35-21; Maurer 10; 36-
21; Loe 14; 41-28; Furbush 11; 48-27;
Luetge 13; 46-28; Perez 5; 25-17.
uUmpires HP: Gonzalez; 1B: Bell; 2B:
Vanover; 3B: Randazzo.
uGame dataT: 3:36. Att: 10,745.
Athletics 9, Angels 5
Oakland 310 000 500 9
Los Angeles 002 003 000 5
Oakland ab r h bi bbso avg
Crispcf 5 2 2 1 0 1 .343
Youngrf 5 0 0 0 0 2 .222
Lowrie ss 4 1 0 0 1 0 .433
Cespedes lf 3 2 2 0 2 1 .179
Norris c 3 1 1 1 0 1 .333
Jaso ph-c 2 1 1 3 0 0 .368
Donaldson 3b 5 1 2 0 0 0 .167
Moss 1b 4 1 3 4 0 0 .333
Freiman dh 3 0 0 0 1 2 .182
Sizemore 2b 2 0 0 0 0 0 .167
Sogard2b 2 0 1 0 0 1 .190
Totals 38 9 12 9 4 8
uBattingHR: Crisp(4); Jaso (1); Moss
(1). RBI: Crisp (6); Norris (2); Jaso 3 (5);
Moss 4 (5). GIDP: Jaso. TeamLOB: 6.
uBaserunningSB: Crisp(1).
uFielding E: Young (1); Lowrie (2).
DP: 2.
Los Angeles ab r h bi bbso avg
Trout lf 4 1 2 0 1 1 .281
Aybar ss 2 0 2 0 0 0 .321
Harris pr-ss 1 2 0 1 0 0 .333
Pujols 1b 3 0 1 0 1 0 .227
Hamilton rf 4 0 0 1 0 1 .138
Trumbo dh 5 2 2 1 0 0 .300
Kendrick 2b 4 0 3 1 1 0 .296
Callaspo 3b 5 0 1 1 0 2 .296
Iannettac 4 0 0 0 1 1 .250
Bourjos cf 5 0 2 0 0 1 .353
Totals 37 5 13 5 4 6
uBatting 3B: Trout (1); Kendrick (1).
S: Harris. SF: Harris; Hamilton. RBI: Harris
(1); Hamilton (3); Trumbo (6); Kendrick (2);
Callaspo (3). GIDP: Trumbo. Team LOB:
13.
uBaserunningSB: Kendrick (2).
uFieldingDP: 1.
Pitching ip h r er bbso era
Oakland
Parker 3
1
/3 9 2 2 3 1 6.48
Resop 1
2
/3 1 0 0 0 2 0.00
Neshek 0 1 3 1 0 0 10.80
Blevins BS,1
1
/3 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
Cook W,1-0 1
2
/3 1 0 0 0 3 2.08
Doolittle 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
Balfour 1 1 0 0 1 0 3.00
Los Angeles
C. Wilson 6 6 4 4 3 7 5.25
Downs
2
/3 1 1 1 0 1 9.00
Jepsen L,0-1;
BS,1
1
/3 3 4 4 1 0 10.80
Burnett 1 1 0 0 0 0 0.00
De LaRosa 1 1 0 0 0 0 0.00
P.Neshek pitched to 3 batters in the 6th.
WP: Balfour; Burnett. HBP: Pujols (by
Parker). Batters faced; pitches-strikes:
Parker 21; 74-40; Resop 6; 29-21; Neshek
3; 9-8; Blevins 1; 3-3; Cook 6; 30-21; Doo-
little 3; 15-11; Balfour 5; 21-11; C. Wilson
27; 110-64; Downs 3; 13-8; Jepsen 5;
17-8; Burnett 4; 18-10; De LaRosa3; 7-5.
uUmpires HP: Muchlinski; 1B: Knight;
2B: Davis; 3B: Iassogna.
uGame dataT: 3:44. Att: 44,014.
Giants 9, Rockies 6
Colorado 050 010 000 6
SanFrancisco 110 004 03x 9
Colorado ab r h bi bbso avg
Fowler cf 4 1 1 2 1 2 .314
Rutledge 2b 3 0 1 2 0 1 .276
Gonzalez lf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .303
Tulowitzki ss 3 2 1 1 1 1 .346
Cuddyer rf 4 1 0 0 0 1 .407
Helton 1b 4 0 0 1 0 0 .095
Rosario c 3 1 1 0 1 1 .348
Nelson 3b 3 0 0 0 0 2 .261
Brignac ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .364
Nicasio p 1 1 0 0 2 1 .000
Ottavino p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Belisle p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Lopez p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Youngph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .231
Totals 31 6 4 6 5 11
uBatting 2B: Fowler (2). HR: Tulo-
witzki (3). S: Rutledge. RBI: Fowler 2 (7);
Rutledge 2 (3); Tulowitzki (8); Helton (2).
TeamLOB: 4.
uBaserunningSB: Rosario 2 (2).
uFieldingDP: 1.
SanFrancisco ab r h bi bbso avg
Pagan cf 5 2 3 1 0 1 .364
Scutaro 2b 4 1 3 1 0 0 .194
Sandoval 3b 4 0 1 1 1 0 .345
Arias 3b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .286
Pence rf 5 0 2 2 0 1 .300
Belt 1b 5 0 0 0 0 0 .091
Blanco lf 3 1 1 1 2 1 .231
Romo p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
H. Sanchez c 3 1 0 0 2 1 .125
Crawfordss 3 2 1 3 1 1 .231
Lincecump 1 0 1 0 0 0 .333
Noonan ph 1 1 1 0 0 0 .400
Mijares p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Kontos p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Casillap 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Torres ph-lf 1 1 1 0 0 0 .188
Totals 35 9 14 9 6 5
uBatting 2B: Torres (1). HR: Craw-
ford (1). S: Scutaro; Lincecum. RBI: Pagan
(4); Scutaro (1); Sandoval (6); Pence 2 (7);
Blanco (1); Crawford 3 (3). GIDP: Belt.
TeamLOB: 10.
uFieldingE: Scutaro (1).
Pitching ip h r er bbso era
Colorado
Nicasio 5 5 4 4 5 2 4.91
Ottavino H,1
1
/3 3 2 2 1 0 9.00
Belisle L,0-1; BS,1 1
2
/3 3 2 2 0 2 3.38
Lopez 1 3 1 1 0 1 10.80
SanFrancisco
Lincecum 6 4 6 6 4 7 4.91
Mijares
2
/3 0 0 0 1 1 5.40
Kontos
1
/3 0 0 0 0 0 10.80
CasillaW,1-0 1 0 0 0 0 1 3.00
Romo S,5 1 0 0 0 0 2 0.00
J.Nicasio pitched to 2 batters in the 6th.
M.Belisle pitched to 2 batters in the 8th.
WP: Ottavino; Lincecum. IBB: Sandoval
(by Ottavino). Batters faced; pitches-
strikes: Nicasio 25; 95-55; Ottavino 5;
12-6; Belisle 7; 21-16; Lopez 6; 21-15; Lin-
cecum27; 104-61; Mijares 3; 11-6; Kontos
1; 4-3; Casilla3; 13-9; Romo 3; 15-9.
uUmpires HP: Wegner; 1B: Diaz; 2B:
Timmons; 3B: Winters.
uGame dataT: 3:11. Att: 41,910.
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Cardinals 10, Reds 0
Cincinnati 000 000 000 0
St. Louis 000 044 20x 10
Cincinnati ab r h bi bbso avg
Choocf 2 0 0 0 1 0 .371
D. Robinson cf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .250
Heisey lf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .161
Votto 1b 3 0 2 0 1 0 .290
Phillips 2b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .308
Bruce rf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .286
Frazier 3b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .333
Mesoraco c 2 0 0 0 2 1 .125
Izturis ss 4 0 1 0 0 0 .200
Bailey p 1 0 0 0 0 0 .333
Ondrusek p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Hannahan ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .500
Simon p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Totals 29 0 5 0 4 3
uBatting 2B: Votto (1). S: Bailey.
GIDP: Heisey. TeamLOB: 8.
uBaserunningCS: Bruce (1).
uFieldingDP: 1.
St. Louis ab r h bi bbso avg
Jay cf 5 1 1 1 0 0 .238
M. Carpnter 2b 5 2 4 2 0 1 .400
Holliday lf 3 1 1 1 1 0 .226
Wigginton lf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .200
Beltran rf 3 1 1 2 1 1 .214
Robinson pr-rf 1 1 0 0 0 1 .333
Molinac 5 1 1 0 0 0 .243
Freese 3b 4 1 2 0 0 1 .286
Adams 1b 3 1 2 3 1 0 .643
Kozmass 4 1 1 0 0 1 .294
Westbrook p 2 0 1 1 1 0 .250
Totals 361014 10 4 5
uBatting 2B: M. Carpnter (5); Holli-
day (3); Adams (2); Kozma(3). HR: Jay (2);
M. Carpnter (1); Beltran (1); Adams (2). S:
Westbrook. RBI: Jay (5); M. Carpnter 2 (6);
Holliday (6); Beltran 2 (8); Adams 3 (7);
Westbrook (1). GIDP: Holliday. Team
LOB: 7.
uFieldingDP: 1.
Pitching ip h r er bbso era
Cincinnati
Bailey L,1-1 5 9 7 7 3 2 5.73
Ondrusek 1 1 1 1 0 0 9.00
Simon 2 4 2 2 1 3 5.40
St. Louis
Westbrook
W,1-1
9 5 0 0 4 3 0.00
H.Bailey pitched to 3 batters in the 6th.
HBP: Choo (by Westbrook). Batters
faced; pitches-strikes: Bailey 26; 87-52;
Ondrusek 4; 7-5; Simon 11; 42-29; West-
brook 35; 111-69.
uUmpires HP: Nelson; 1B: Danley;
2B: Barksdale; 3B: Carapazza.
uGame dataT: 2:35. Att: 34,882.
Diamondbacks 10,
Pirates 2
Pittsburgh 000 100 100 2
Arizona 330 400 00x 10
Pittsburgh ab r h bi bbso avg
Marte lf-cf 4 0 2 1 0 1 .333
Tabatarf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .077
Jones ph-rf 1 0 0 0 0 1 .250
A. McCutchen cf 2 1 0 0 1 0 .233
Snider lf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .214
Sanchez 1b 3 0 1 0 1 0 .100
Martin c 2 0 0 0 0 0 .043
McKenry c 2 1 1 0 0 0 .200
Harrison 3b 4 0 1 1 0 1 .167
Barmes ss 4 0 0 0 0 1 .087
McDonald2b 3 0 0 0 1 2 .000
Sanchez p 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000
Leroux p 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Walker ph 0 0 0 0 1 0 .103
Hughes p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Alvarez ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .067
Totals 32 2 5 2 4 9
uBatting 2B: Marte (2); McKenry (1).
RBI: Marte (4); Harrison (1). GIDP: McKen-
ry. TeamLOB: 7.
uFielding E: Harrison (1); Sanchez
(1). DP: 1.
Arizona ab r h bi bbso avg
Parrarf 5 1 1 0 0 2 .341
Pollock cf 5 3 3 4 0 2 .273
Prado 3b 4 1 1 0 1 0 .273
Goldschmidt 1b 2 2 1 0 2 0 .343
Hinske 1b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .286
Montero c 3 1 1 1 1 0 .300
Nieves c 1 0 0 0 0 0 .400
Marte lf 3 1 2 1 1 1 .308
Pennington ss 3 0 1 1 1 1 .243
Wilson 2b 2 1 0 1 2 0 .000
Miley p 3 0 0 1 0 0 .000
Ziegler p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Putz p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Totals 321010 9 8 6
uBatting 2B: Pollock (2); Marte (2).
HR: Pollock 2 (2). S: Miley. RBI: Pollock 4
(6); Montero (7); Marte (2); Pennington
(3); Wilson (1); Miley (1). GIDP: Miley.
TeamLOB: 8.
uBaserunningSB: Pollock (1).
uFieldingDP: 1.
Pitching ip h r er bbso era
Pittsburgh
Sanchez L,0-2 3
1
/3 8 9 9 4 2 12.96
Leroux 2
2
/3 2 1 1 4 2 6.75
Hughes 2 0 0 0 0 2 3.38
Arizona
Miley W,2-0 6
2
/3 5 2 2 3 5 2.13
Ziegler 1
1
/3 0 0 0 1 1 1.35
Putz 1 0 0 0 0 3 4.50
WP: Putz. HBP: Marte (by Sanchez). Bat-
ters faced; pitches-strikes: Sanchez 23;
93-55; Leroux 13; 48-24; Hughes 6; 23-17;
Miley 28; 104-64; Ziegler 4; 16-9; Putz 4;
18-11.
uUmpires HP: Darling; 1B: Emmel;
2B: Dreckman; 3B: Fagan.
uGame dataT: 2:52. Att: 17,769.
Rays 2, Rangers 0
TampaBay 001 010 000 2
Texas 000 000 000 0
TampaBay ab r h bi bbso avg
Jennings cf 4 1 1 0 0 1 .250
Rodriguez lf 3 0 0 0 1 0 .100
Fuldlf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .111
Longoriadh 2 0 0 1 1 1 .345
Zobrist rf 4 0 2 1 0 0 .364
Duncan 1b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .227
Loney 1b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .217
Escobar ss 3 0 0 0 0 1 .100
Roberts 3b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .286
Lobaton c 4 0 0 0 0 0 .231
Molinac 0 0 0 0 0 0 .231
Johnson 2b 3 1 1 0 1 0 .182
Totals 31 2 6 2 3 4
uBatting2B: Jennings (5); Zobrist (3).
S: Escobar. SF: Longoria. RBI: Longoria(3);
Zobrist (9). TeamLOB: 7.
uBaserunningCS: Johnson (1).
uFieldingDP: 3.
Texas ab r h bi bbso avg
Kinsler 2b 4 0 0 0 1 1 .286
Andrus ss 2 0 0 0 2 0 .235
Beltre 3b 3 0 1 0 1 1 .200
Cruz dh 3 0 0 0 1 0 .353
Murphy lf 4 0 2 0 0 0 .176
Baker rf 1 0 0 0 2 1 .000
Martin ph-rf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .176
Moreland1b 4 0 1 0 0 2 .219
Soto c 3 0 0 0 0 1 .167
Pierzynski ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .333
Gentry cf 3 0 1 0 1 1 .308
Totals 29 0 5 0 8 7
uBatting 2B: Murphy (1). GIDP: An-
drus; Moreland. TeamLOB: 10.
uBaserunningSB: Gentry (3).
uFieldingE: Beltre (2).
Pitching ip h r er bbso era
TampaBay
Moore W,2-0 5
1
/3 1 0 0 6 5 0.00
Ramos H,1
2
/3 1 0 0 1 0 8.31
McGee H,1 1 0 0 0 1 1 15.00
PeraltaH,2 1 2 0 0 0 0 2.45
Rodney S,1 1 1 0 0 0 1 10.13
Texas
HollandL,0-1 8 5 2 2 3 4 2.40
Scheppers 1 1 0 0 0 0 0.00
WP: Moore (2). Batters faced; pitches-
strikes: Moore 22; 106-54; Ramos 3; 11-3;
McGee 4; 24-14; Peralta4; 12-10; Rodney
4; 15-10; Holland 33; 110-68; Scheppers
3; 10-5.
uUmpires HP: T. Welke; 1B: Everitt;
2B: Foster; 3B: Barry.
uGame dataT: 2:51. Att: 26,643.
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Major League Baseball Commission-
er Bud Selig, disturbed by the declining
rate of African Americans playing base-
ball, told his new task force committee
in its rst meeting Wednesday that a so-
lution is vital for the sports growth and
future.
As a social institution, Selig said in a
prepared statement, Major League
Baseball has an enormous social re-
sponsibility to provide equal opportuni-
ties for all people, both on and of the
eld. I am proud of the work we have
done thus far with the RBI program
(Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities) and
the MLB urban youth academies, but
there is more that we must accomplish.
We have seen a number of successful
eforts with existing MLB task forces,
and I believe we have selected the right
people to efectively address the many
factors associated with diversity in
baseball.
Selig appointed Tampa Bay Rays
owner Stuart Sternberg to head the
committee; Detroit Tigers President
Dave Dombrowski is the task force
chairman. Other committee members
include: Cleveland Indians owner Larry
Dolan; Hall of Famer Frank Robinson;
MLB vice presidents Tom Brasuell,
Wendy Lewis, Jonathan Mariner, Kim
Ng and Darrell Miller; Tony Clark of the
MLB players association; Chicago
White Sox vice president Kenny Wil-
liams; Southern University coach Roger
Cador; Dennis Gilbert, special assistant
to White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf;
Arizona Diamondbacks President Der-
rick Hall; Frank Marcos of the MLB
scouting bureau; Pat OConner, presi-
dent of minor league baseball; and Jerry
Manuel, former manager and MLBNet-
work analyst.
The African-American representa-
tion of 7.7% this year is the lowest since
the Boston Red Sox became the nal
team to integrate its roster in 1959, ac-
cording to a USATODAYSports study.
Theres a dearth of African Americans
playing baseball even at the high school
level, Hall of Fame executive Pat Gillick
says, which leads to fewer blacks playing
in college, greatly impacting the majors.
At the high school level, the coaches
get these kids in revenue-driven sports
and take themaway frombaseball, Gil-
lick told USA TODAY Sports. Theres
so much pressure on these kids to even
play spring football.
We need to get the African-Ameri-
can players back in the game, which I
think would make it not only a better
game, but more exciting and entertain-
ing for everyone.
Longtime agent Scott Boras, who set
up a California tournament to help in-
crease exposure for high school players,
says MLB should start subsidizing col-
lege baseball scholarships. There are
11.7 scholarships for college baseball
programs, compared with 85 in football
and 13 in basketball.
If youre a high school athlete com-
ing from a single-parent home that
doesnt have the money to go to college,
youre going to go to the sport where
you can get a full scholarship, Boras
said. This needs to change if we want to
get the best athletes in baseball.
Until we get this remedied, the Jack-
ie Robinsons of the world arent going
to come to college to play baseball.
Selig sets groundwork
to increase diversity
JESSE JOHNSON, USA TODAY SPORTS
The Tigers Austin Jackson is among the
7.7%of big-leaguers who are African Amer-
ican, the lowest gure since 1959.
Bob Nightengale
@BNightengale
USATODAYSports
Giants 10, Rockies 0
Colorado 000 000 000 0
SanFrancisco 250 021 00x 10
Colorado ab r h bi bbso avg
Youngcf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .235
Rutledge 2b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .242
Gonzalez lf 2 0 0 0 1 0 .286
Brignac lf 1 0 0 0 0 1 .333
Tulowitzki ss 3 0 1 0 0 1 .345
Ottavino p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Fowler ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .306
Brothers p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Cuddyer rf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .387
Rosario c 4 0 1 0 0 1 .333
Pacheco 1b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .250
Nelson 3b 3 0 2 0 0 1 .308
Francis p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Escalonap 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000
Torrealbaph 1 0 1 0 0 0 .333
Volstadp 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Herrerass 1 0 0 0 0 0 .429
Totals 33 0 7 0 1 6
uBatting 2B: Young (2); Tulowitzki
(2); Cuddyer (1). GIDP: Herrera. Team
LOB: 7.
uFieldingE: Nelson (1).
SanFrancisco ab r h bi bbso avg
Pagan cf 3 2 1 0 1 0 .361
Blanco ph-cf 1 0 0 0 1 1 .214
Scutaro 2b 3 0 2 1 0 1 .235
Noonan 2b 1 0 0 0 1 0 .333
Posey c 5 2 3 3 0 0 .276
Lopez p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Gaudin p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Pence rf 5 1 0 0 0 2 .257
Arias 3b 4 0 1 1 1 1 .273
Belt 1b 5 1 2 0 0 2 .148
Torres lf 5 1 3 2 0 0 .286
Crawfordss 5 1 2 1 0 0 .258
Zito p 3 2 2 1 0 0 .750
Quiroz c 0 0 0 0 1 0 1.00
Totals 401016 9 5 7
uBatting 2B: Scutaro (1); Posey (2);
Belt (2); Torres (2); Crawford(3). 3B: Posey
(1). S: Zito. SF: Scutaro. RBI: Scutaro (2);
Posey 3 (4); Arias (2); Torres 2 (2); Craw-
ford(4); Zito (1). TeamLOB: 13.
uFieldingDP: 1.
Pitching ip h r er bbso era
Colorado
Francis L,1-1 1
2
/3 7 7 4 2 2 5.87
Escalona 2
1
/3 1 0 0 0 1 0.00
Volstad 1
2
/3 7 3 3 0 1 10.38
Ottavino 1
1
/3 0 0 0 1 2 6.23
Brothers 1 1 0 0 2 1 2.08
SanFrancisco
Zito W,2-0 7 7 0 0 1 4 0.00
Lopez 1 0 0 0 0 1 3.38
Gaudin 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.00
WP: Zito. IBB: Arias (by Francis). Batters
faced; pitches-strikes: Francis 16; 60-34;
Escalona 8; 32-23; Volstad 12; 43-28; Ot-
tavino 5; 22-13; Brothers 6; 32-16; Zito 28;
108-74; Lopez 3; 9-7; Gaudin 3; 15-9.
uUmpires HP: Diaz; 1B: Timmons;
2B: Winters; 3B: Wegner.
uGame dataT: 3:08. Att: 41,606.
Blue Jays 8, Tigers 6
Toronto 000 013 400 8
Detroit 110 040 000 6
Toronto ab r h bi bbso avg
Reyes ss 5 0 1 0 0 1 .406
Cabreralf 4 2 2 0 1 0 .281
Bautistarf 4 2 1 0 1 1 .200
Encarnacion dh 4 2 2 1 1 1 .129
Lind1b 2 0 0 0 0 0 .105
DeRosaph-1b 2 1 1 3 1 0 .154
Arencibiac 5 0 2 3 0 1 .313
Rasmus cf 5 1 1 0 0 3 .192
Izturis 3b 3 0 1 0 1 0 .238
Bonifacio 2b 4 0 1 1 0 1 .233
Totals 38 8 12 8 5 8
uBatting 2B: Encarnacion 2 (2); De-
Rosa (1); Arencibia (4); Bonifacio (3). RBI:
Encarnacion (4); DeRosa3 (5); Arencibia3
(7); Bonifacio (1). GIDP: Bonifacio. Team
LOB: 8.
uBaserunning SB: Reyes (4); Cabre-
ra(1).
uFieldingE: Bonifacio (4). DP: 1.
Detroit ab r h bi bbso avg
Jackson cf 5 1 2 0 0 0 .353
Hunter rf 5 1 1 1 0 1 .395
Cabrera3b 5 1 2 0 0 0 .394
Fielder 1b 3 1 1 1 2 1 .310
Martinez dh 4 0 0 1 1 1 .120
Tuiasosopo lf 2 1 0 0 0 0 .429
Dirks ph-lf 2 0 0 1 1 0 .167
Peraltass 4 0 3 1 0 1 .276
Avilac 4 0 0 0 0 1 .192
Infante 2b 4 1 2 1 0 0 .385
Totals 38 6 11 6 4 5
uBatting 2B: Cabrera (2). RBI: Hunt-
er (3); Fielder (10); Martinez (2); Dirks (3);
Peralta (2); Infante (3). GIDP: Avila. Team
LOB: 9.
uFieldingDP: 1.
Pitching ip h r er bbso era
Toronto
Buehrle 4
1
/3 7 6 5 2 2 10.24
Delabar
2
/3 1 0 0 2 1 0.00
LoupW,1-0 1 2 0 0 0 0 2.25
Cecil H,1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0.00
Oliver H,2 1 0 0 0 0 0 5.40
Janssen S,2 1 0 0 0 0 2 0.00
Detroit
Porcello 5 8 4 4 0 1 6.10
Downs H,3 1
1
/3 2 1 1 1 2 3.18
Villarreal L,0-1 0 0 3 3 3 0 54.00
Dotel BS,1 1
2
/3 2 0 0 1 3 5.40
Coke 1 0 0 0 0 2 10.13
R.Porcello pitched to 3 batters in the 6th.
B.Villarreal pitchedto 3 batters in the 7th.
WP: Villarreal. IBB: Fielder (by Buehrle).
Batters faced; pitches-strikes: Buehrle
22; 96-52; Delabar 5; 19-8; Loup 5; 26-14;
Cecil 4; 16-7; Oliver 3; 10-7; Janssen 3;
11-8; Porcello 22; 92-57; Downs 7; 30-19;
Villarreal 3; 19-7; Dotel 8; 31-21; Coke 3;
10-9.
uUmpires HP: DeMuth; 1B: Hernan-
dez; 2B: Eddings; 3B: Tumpane.
uGame dataT: 3:36. Att: 29,631.
Braves 8, Marlins 0
Atlanta 000 061 001 8
Miami 000 000 000 0
Atlanta ab r h bi bbso avg
Simmons ss 4 1 1 2 0 0 .241
Heywardrf 4 1 0 0 1 0 .071
Upton lf 4 0 0 0 1 0 .353
Gattis c 4 1 2 3 1 0 .391
Uggla2b 4 2 1 0 1 2 .200
Francisco 3b 4 1 3 2 1 0 .321
Johnson 1b 5 0 2 1 0 0 .304
Schafer cf 5 2 4 0 0 1 .667
Minor p 2 0 0 0 0 2 .000
Gearrin p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Johnson ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .111
Varvaro p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Totals 37 8 13 8 5 6
uBatting 2B: Schafer (1). HR: Gattis
(3); Francisco (1). S: Minor. SF: Simmons.
RBI: Simmons 2 (2); Gattis 3 (6); Francisco
2 (5); Johnson (1). GIDP: Gattis; Johnson.
TeamLOB: 9.
uBaserunningSB: Schafer (1).
uFieldingDP: 1.
Miami ab r h bi bbso avg
Pierre lf 4 0 0 0 0 0 .206
Solano 2b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .290
Stanton rf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .167
Polanco 3b 4 0 2 0 0 0 .333
Ruggiano cf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .233
Olivo c 3 0 0 0 0 2 .200
Dunn p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Maine p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Coghlan ph 1 0 1 0 0 0 .091
Hechavarriass 4 0 0 0 0 2 .188
Valaika1b 3 0 1 0 1 0 .429
Sanabiap 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000
Kearns ph 0 0 0 0 1 0 .000
Webbp 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Skipworth ph-c 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Totals 33 0 7 0 2 6
uBatting2B: Polanco (2); Valaika(2).
GIDP: Skipworth. TeamLOB: 8.
uFielding E: Dunn (1); Valaika (1).
DP: 2.
Pitching ip h r er bbso era
Atlanta
Minor W,2-0 5
2
/3 5 0 0 1 4 0.69
Gearrin 1
1
/3 0 0 0 1 2 0.00
Varvaro 2 2 0 0 0 0 0.00
Miami
SanabiaL,1-1 5 8 6 6 3 4 4.91
Webb 2 1 1 1 2 0 5.06
Dunn 1 1 0 0 0 1 4.15
Maine 1 3 1 1 0 1 4.50
Batters faced; pitches-strikes: Minor 23;
101-63; Gearrin 4; 19-12; Varvaro 8; 25-
18; Sanabia 25; 81-49; Webb 9; 28-17;
Dunn 4; 11-8; Maine 6; 23-15.
uUmpires HP: Scott; 1B: Miller; 2B:
Bucknor; 3B: Tichenor.
uGame dataT: 2:48. Att: 13,810.
Nationals 5, White Sox 2
Chicago 100 001 000 2
Washington 000 212 00x 5
Chicago ab r h bi bbso avg
De Azacf 4 1 1 0 0 1 .250
Keppinger 2b 4 1 1 0 0 0 .133
Rios rf 4 0 2 1 0 0 .419
Dunn lf 4 0 0 1 0 1 .179
Konerko 1b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .154
Ramirez ss 4 0 1 0 0 0 .310
Gillaspie 3b 4 0 2 0 0 0 .417
Flowers c 3 0 0 0 0 0 .227
Floydp 2 0 0 0 0 2 .000
Veal p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Jones p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Wise ph 1 0 1 0 0 0 .286
Santiago p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Totals 34 2 9 2 0 5
uBatting2B: De Aza(3); Rios (1). RBI:
Rios (8); Dunn (4). GIDP: Flowers. Team
LOB: 5.
uBaserunning SB: Wise (1). CS: Rios
(1).
uFieldingDP: 2.
Washington ab r h bi bbso avg
Span cf 4 0 1 1 0 1 .296
Werth rf 4 1 1 0 0 2 .273
Harper lf 4 1 2 1 0 0 .394
Zimmerman 3b 4 0 1 1 0 2 .222
LaRoche 1b 4 0 1 0 0 2 .143
Desmondss 4 2 3 0 0 1 .290
Espinosa2b 4 1 2 2 0 1 .200
Suzuki c 1 0 0 0 3 0 .300
Zimmermann p 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000
Storen p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Moore ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000
Soriano p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Totals 31 5 11 5 3 11
uBatting 2B: Desmond 2 (4); Espino-
sa(4). 3B: Desmond(1). HR: Harper (4). S:
Zimmermann 2. RBI: Span (2); Harper (6);
Zimmerman (5); Espinosa 2 (2). GIDP:
Werth; LaRoche. TeamLOB: 7.
uFieldingDP: 1.
Pitching ip h r er bbso era
Chicago
FloydL,0-2 5
1
/3 9 5 5 3 7 5.56
Veal 0 1 0 0 0 0 0.00
Jones 1
2
/3 1 0 0 0 2 5.40
Santiago 1 0 0 0 0 2 0.00
Washington
Zimmermann
W,2-0
7 7 2 2 0 4 2.08
Storen H,3 1 1 0 0 0 0 2.25
Soriano S,4 1 1 0 0 0 1 7.20
D.Veal pitched to 1 batter in the 6th. WP:
Floyd. IBB: Suzuki (by Floyd). Batters
faced; pitches-strikes: Floyd 27; 84-54;
Veal 1; 4-2; Jones 5; 18-13; Santiago 3;
13-9; Zimmermann 26; 90-60; Storen 4;
15-9; Soriano 4; 15-10.
uUmpires HP: Guccione; 1B: Hallion;
2B: Kulpa; 3B: Cuzzi.
uGame dataT: 2:35. Att: 24,586.
Phillies 7, Mets 3
NewYork 010 100 010 3
Philadelphia 500 002 00x 7
NewYork ab r h bi bbso avg
Valdespin cf 5 0 3 0 0 2 .400
Murphy 2b 3 0 0 0 1 1 .303
Wright 3b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .250
Davis 1b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .129
Buck c 4 1 1 1 0 2 .375
Dudalf 4 2 3 2 0 0 .308
Baxter rf 2 0 2 0 1 0 .364
Rice p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Nieuwenhuis ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .182
Parnell p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Tejadass 4 0 2 0 0 0 .233
Hefner p 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000
Turner ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .364
Edgin p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Hawkins p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Byrdrf 2 0 0 0 0 0 .250
Totals 35 3 11 3 2 10
uBatting 2B: Duda (2); Baxter (1).
HR: Buck (5); Duda 2 (3). RBI: Buck (15);
Duda2 (6). GIDP: Byrd. TeamLOB: 7.
uBaserunningCS: Valdespin (1).
Philadelphia ab r h bi bbso avg
Revere cf 3 0 0 0 1 1 .211
Rollins ss 4 1 2 0 0 1 .316
Utley 2b 4 1 1 2 0 0 .333
Howard1b 4 1 2 0 0 1 .200
Young3b 3 1 2 0 1 0 .375
Brown lf 3 1 1 3 1 1 .242
Mayberry rf 4 0 0 0 0 2 .263
Kratz c 4 1 1 0 0 1 .207
Kendrick p 2 0 0 0 0 2 .250
Nix ph 1 1 1 2 0 0 .267
Bastardo p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Adams p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Galvis ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Papelbon p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Totals 33 7 10 7 3 9
uBatting 2B: Rollins (5); Young (2).
HR: Utley (2); Brown (2); Nix (1). RBI: Utley
2 (9); Brown 3 (5); Nix 2 (3). TeamLOB: 5.
uBaserunningCS: Revere (1).
uFieldingDP: 3.
Pitching ip h r er bbso era
NewYork
Hefner L,0-2 3 6 5 5 3 2 6.00
Edgin 2 1 0 0 0 4 1.59
Hawkins
2
/3 3 2 2 0 0 8.31
Rice 1
1
/3 0 0 0 0 1 1.59
Parnell 1 0 0 0 0 2 0.00
Philadelphia
Kendrick W,1-1 6 8 2 2 2 6 5.40
Bastardo 1 1 0 0 0 0 0.00
Adams 1 1 1 1 0 3 2.70
Papelbon 1 1 0 0 0 1 6.00
WP: Kendrick. IBB: Brown (by Hefner).
Batters faced; pitches-strikes: Hefner
17; 68-39; Edgin 7; 29-21; Hawkins 5;
19-9; Rice 4; 11-9; Parnell 3; 10-9; Ken-
drick 26; 105-66; Bastardo 4; 21-11; Ad-
ams 4; 19-11; Papelbon 3; 7-6.
uUmpires HP: Hirschbeck; 1B: David-
son; 2B: Reynolds; 3B: Hoye.
uGame dataT: 2:55. Att: 38,715.
Orioles 8, RedSox 5
Baltimore 100 200 005 8
Boston 012 002 000 5
Baltimore ab r h bi bbso avg
McLouth lf 2 2 0 0 3 1 .250
Machado 3b 5 1 1 3 0 1 .200
Markakis rf 5 1 1 2 0 2 .333
Jones cf 4 1 1 0 0 3 .471
Davis 1b 4 1 1 1 0 2 .393
Wieters c 4 0 1 0 0 1 .269
Hardy ss 3 0 0 0 1 0 .194
Flaherty 2b 4 0 1 0 0 3 .056
Casillapr-2b 0 1 0 0 0 0 .250
Reimolddh 3 0 0 0 1 1 .200
Dickerson pr-dh 0 1 0 0 0 0 .000
Totals 34 8 6 6 5 14
uBatting HR: Machado (1); Marka-
kis (1); Davis (5). RBI: Machado 3 (4); Mar-
kakis 2 (3); Davis (18). TeamLOB: 4.
uBaserunningSB: Casilla(2).
uFieldingDP: 1.
Boston ab r h bi bbso avg
Ellsbury cf 4 1 1 1 0 0 .270
Victorino rf 3 0 0 1 0 0 .313
Pedroia2b 3 0 0 0 1 2 .323
Napoli 1b 3 0 0 0 1 2 .176
Mddlbrooks 3b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .250
Navadh 3 2 1 1 1 0 .467
Saltalamacchiac 4 1 3 2 0 1 .300
Drewss 4 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Bradley Jr. lf 2 1 0 0 1 0 .130
Totals 30 5 5 5 4 7
uBatting 2B: Saltalamacchia 2 (3).
3B: Ellsbury (2). HR: Nava(3); Saltalamac-
chia(1). SF: Victorino. RBI: Ellsbury (8); Vic-
torino (5); Nava (7); Saltalamacchia 2 (3).
GIDP: Mddlbrooks. TeamLOB: 3.
uFielding E: Ellsbury; Victorino (1);
Bradley Jr. (1).
Pitching ip h r er bbso era
Baltimore
Arrieta 5 3 3 3 4 2 7.20
Hunter 1 2 2 2 0 2 7.36
Patton 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
ODay W,1-0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0.00
J. Johnson S,3 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.00
Boston
Dempster 5 3 3 1 2 7 3.60
Uehara 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.00
TazawaH,2 1 0 0 0 0 2 2.25
Bailey H,4 1 0 0 0 1 2 0.00
Hanrahan L,0-1;
BS,1
2
/3 3 5 5 2 1 11.57
Miller
1
/3 0 0 0 0 1 6.75
WP: Dempster; Hanrahan. Batters
faced; pitches-strikes: Arrieta 21; 69-39;
Hunter 5; 26-19; Patton 3; 12-10; ODay 3;
9-8; J. Johnson 3; 18-12; Dempster 21; 93-
60; Uehara 3; 12-8; Tazawa 3; 14-8; Bai-
ley 4; 18-9; Hanrahan 7; 31-17; Miller 1;
6-4.
uUmpires HP: Blaser; 1B: Joyce; 2B:
Wolf; 3B: Hickox.
uGame dataT: 2:53. Att: 30,862.
Royals 3, Twins 0
Minnesota 000 000 000 0
Kansas City 100 000 20x 3
Minnesota ab r h bi bbso avg
Hicks cf 5 0 0 0 0 3 .057
Mauer dh 5 0 2 0 0 2 .275
Willinghamlf 4 0 0 0 1 2 .241
Morneau 1b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .265
Doumit c 3 0 0 0 1 0 .167
Plouffe 3b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .241
Parmelee rf 4 0 2 0 0 1 .296
Dozier 2b 3 0 1 0 1 1 .167
Florimon ss 3 0 0 0 0 1 .333
Totals 35 0 7 0 3 11
uBatting 2B: Mauer (2). 3B: Plouffe
(1). TeamLOB: 12.
uBaserunningSB: Dozier (1).
uFieldingDP: 1.
Kansas City ab r h bi bbso avg
Gordon lf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .378
Escobar ss 4 0 1 1 0 0 .306
Butler dh 3 1 1 1 0 0 .276
Moustakas 3b 3 0 0 0 1 0 .194
Perez c 4 0 3 0 0 0 .263
Hosmer 1b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .269
Francoeur rf 4 1 1 1 0 2 .286
Cain cf 3 0 1 0 1 0 .296
Getz 2b 4 1 1 0 0 1 .241
Totals 33 3 9 3 2 4
uBatting2B: Perez (3). HR: Butler (2);
Francoeur (1). RBI: Escobar (6); Butler (11);
Francoeur (2). GIDP: Moustakas. Team
LOB: 9.
uFieldingE: Cain 2 (2).
Pitching ip h r er bbso era
Minnesota
Hendriks L,0-1 5 4 1 1 0 4 4.66
Roenicke 1
1
/3 2 1 1 0 0 1.50
Duensing 0 2 1 1 0 0 6.00
Fien 1
2
/3 1 0 0 2 0 9.00
Kansas City
Davis W,1-0 5 4 0 0 3 6 4.00
Chen 3 2 0 0 0 2 0.00
HerreraS,2 1 1 0 0 0 3 0.00
B.Duensing pitched to 2 batters in the
7th. HBP: Florimon (by Davis); Butler (by
Hendriks). Batters faced; pitches-strikes:
Hendriks 20; 94-65; Roenicke 6; 16-13;
Duensing 2; 6-3; Fien 8; 35-23; Davis 23;
96-60; Chen 12; 38-27; Herrera4; 21-13.
uUmpires HP: ONora; 1B: Johnson;
2B: Culbreth; 3B: B. Welke.
uGame dataT: 03:02. Att: 10,069.
Pirates 6, Diamondbacks 5
Pittsburgh 100 500 000 6
Arizona 400 000 100 5
Pittsburgh ab r h bi bbso avg
Marte lf 5 2 2 2 0 1 .313
Walker 2b 5 1 1 2 0 1 .103
A. McCutchen cf 5 0 1 0 0 0 .250
Jones 1b 5 0 3 2 0 1 .261
Martin c 4 0 1 0 0 2 .048
Alvarez 3b 4 1 0 0 0 1 .069
Snider rf 3 1 2 0 1 0 .231
Barmes ss 2 0 0 0 1 0 .105
McDonaldp 3 1 1 0 0 1 .250
Watson p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Hughes p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Sanchez ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .059
Melancon p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Grilli p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Totals 37 6 11 6 2 8
uBatting 2B: Marte (1); Martin (1);
Snider (1). S: Barmes. RBI: Marte 2 (3);
Walker 2 (2); Jones 2 (3). GIDP: Marte.
TeamLOB: 7.
uBaserunning SB: Marte (1); Jones
(1).
uFieldingDP: 2.
Arizona ab r h bi bbso avg
Parracf 3 1 1 0 2 0 .361
Prado lf 4 0 1 0 1 2 .275
Hill 2b 2 1 0 0 2 0 .294
Montero c 3 1 1 3 0 1 .296
Goldschmidt 1b 3 0 0 0 1 0 .333
Kubel rf 3 1 1 2 1 1 .310
Chavez 3b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .250
Pennington ss 4 0 0 0 0 1 .235
McCarthy p 2 0 0 0 0 1 .000
Sippp 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Marte ph 1 1 1 0 0 0 .200
Bell p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Hernandez p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Hinske ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .333
Totals 30 5 6 5 7 7
uBatting 2B: Parra (5); Montero (1);
Marte (1). HR: Kubel (2). SF: Montero. RBI:
Montero 3 (6); Kubel 2 (6). GIDP: Monte-
ro; Chavez. TeamLOB: 7.
uBaserunningSB: Parra(2).
uFielding E: Kubel (1); Pennington
(2). DP: 1.
Pitching ip h r er bbso era
Pittsburgh
McDonaldW,1-1 5 4 4 4 4 5 3.75
Watson H,2 1
1
/3 1 1 1 1 0 2.45
Hughes H,1
2
/3 0 0 0 2 0 5.40
Melancon H,2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.00
Grilli S,3 1 1 0 0 0 1 0.00
Arizona
McCarthy L,0-1 6
2
/3 10 6 4 2 4 7.71
Sipp
1
/3 0 0 0 0 1 2.70
Bell 1 1 0 0 0 2 10.80
Hernandez 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.00
J.McDonaldpitchedto 1 batter in the 6th.
HBP: Hill (by McDonald). Batters faced;
pitches-strikes: McDonald 23; 87-47;
Watson 5; 15-8; Hughes 4; 17-7; Melan-
con 3; 7-6; Grilli 4; 17-11; McCarthy 32;
115-79; Sipp 1; 3-3; Bell 4; 18-12; Hernan-
dez 3; 8-8.
uUmpires HP: Fagan; 1B: Darling;
2B: Emmel; 3B: Dreckman.
uGame dataT: 3:03. Att: 19,872.
USA TODAY
THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2013 SPORTS 5C
BASEBALL UFC
In 17 seasons of The Ultimate
Fighter, the Ultimate Fighting Cham-
pionships long-running reality com-
petition series has produced three
world champions and nearly 200
UFCghters. Uriah Hall might prove
to be better than any of them.
Every guy Uriah fought wound up
in the hospital, UFCPresident Dana
White told USA TODAY Sports. The
rst ght to get into the house, he
breaks the kids arm. Then he knocks
out Adam Cella with an incredible
spinning high kick. Then he knocks
out Bubba McDaniel. And then Dy-
lan Andrews had a broken nose.
Thats never happened in the history
of TUF.
He is without a doubt the most-
feared guy coming out of TUF. Ever.
Fighting professionally since
2005, Hall earned notice while com-
peting for the NewJersey-based Ring
of Combat promotion, where he
earned a middleweight title.
The UFC then selected the 28-
year-old as one of 28 contestants on
TUF 17. The destruction of four op-
ponents in the shows exhibition
ghts followed.
I didnt picture it this way at all,
Hall said. Were living our dream,
and its so amazing just to be actually
in it. When you have a dream, youre
thinking about it. But when youre
actually living it out, its surreal.
Hall (7-2 overall) makes his ofcial
UFC debut Saturday, when he meets
fellow tournament nalist Kelvin
Gastelum (5-0) in The Ultimate
Fighter 17 nale at Las Vegas Man-
dalay Bay Events Center (FX, 9 p.m.
ET).
Hall is a heavy favorite, and while
White points out nothing is guaran-
teed in mixed martial arts, he thinks
the bout could mark the start of a
special UFCcareer.
We do have to wait and see, but
Uriah does have a lot of experience.
And if you look at his losses, one was
to Chris Weidman, whos ghting An-
derson Silva in July for the title, and
his other loss was to Costa Philippou,
who is also legit, White said. No guy
has come of any season of The Ulti-
mate Fighter looking as nasty as this
guy has. People are on my Twitter
saying, This guy should go right to a
title shot.
All of the fans have super-high ex-
pectations for Uriah.
Hall realizes the buzz surrounding
his debut.
He watched his Twitter account
add more than 27,000 followers dur-
ing the 12-week run of the FX-tele-
vised reality show. He has seen clips
of his highlight-reel nishes spread
across the Internet. And he knows
hes expected to not only win Satur-
day but also to do so in spectacular
fashion.
Yet Hall insists hes taking it all in
stride.
Its good, because it means people
are watching. But Im not trying to
live up to anyones expectations,
Hall said. All I have right now is the
moment.
Its good to make plans, but you
dont know whats going to happen
when you wake up tomorrow. I have
the now, and Imenjoying the now.
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Hall might prove top
Ultimate Fighter ever
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MARCH
THE CHOSEN FOUR
SAN FRANCISCO There was a time
when Tim Lincecum had major
league hitters eating out of his hand.
Now hes doing everything possible
to avoid being devoured.
In trying to bounce back from his
worst season, the two-time Cy Young
Award winner has battled through
two puzzling starts in which he has
been alternately sharp and discom-
bobulated. In 11 innings, Lincecum
has 11 strikeouts and a whopping
11 walks while yielding a 4.91 ERA.
The San Francisco Giants right-
hander no longer throws in the mid-
to high 90s as he did when he came
up in 2007. Does that mean that, at
28, Lincecum has gone from overpo-
wering to crafty?
No, Lincecum told USA TODAY
Sports. I feel like Im just trying to
adjust to the times. And I know hit-
ters are looking at me as a real nice
piece of meat to eat at times.
He was delectable last year, when
he went 10-15 and nished with the
worst ERA (5.18) and most runs al-
lowed in the National League. A
rough spring hampered by a blister
further increased concerns, and the
early results have been more discon-
certing than encouraging.
Lincecums propensity to give up
walks is particularly alarming. He al-
lowed seven during a ve-inning sea-
son debut against the Los Angeles
Dodgers, then four more including
two to the opposing pitcher Tues-
day against the Colorado Rockies. He
put the Giants in a 5-1 hole, although
they climbed back to win 9-6 as Lin-
cecumcompleted six innings.
Catcher Hector Sanchez said Lin-
cecum was being too ne with his
fastball, which came in at 91 mph,
raising the question of whether he
lacks command or condence in it.
I do have condence, but Im
coming back from a year when me-
chanically I was a little messed up,
Lincecum said. I wasnt even strong
enough to sustain my mechanics.
He thinks a more rigorous ofsea-
son program has taken care of that
issue. And his vaunted changeup gets
him plenty of strikeouts, as he aver-
aged one an inning even last year.
However, his other secondary
pitches have been at and hittable.
The Rockies Troy Tulowitzki, who
came into Tuesdays game with a
.227 batting average in 44 career at-
bats against Lincecum, hit a home
run ofa hanging slider.
Hes gotten himself in bad counts,
but the stufs still there, Tulowitzki
said. The changeup is obviously one
of the best in the game. Hes someone
I would take on my teamanytime.
Giants manager Bruce Bochy also
lauded Lincecums competitiveness
in ghting back from a big inning to
keep San Francisco in the game.
Its so easy to cave in this game
and go, Oh no, here we go again.
Timmy didnt do that, Bochy said.
Lincecumdealt with trouble in his
rst outing as well, allowing 10 base-
runners but two unearned runs.
But that might not be what the Gi-
ants, or other suitors, focus on when
shopping for starting pitching next
ofseason. Lincecum is making
$22 million this season, his last one
before he can become a free agent.
Even a return to his form of 2011,
when he logged a 2.74 ERA and
struck out 220 batters, would make
hima hot commodity on the market.
Its trusting that youre going to
throwit where you want to throwit,
Lincecum said. I think hope goes
into a lot of that, too, but most of the
time you need to erase that and just
know. It is a transition period, so Im
trying to gauge those percentages
and make thembetter every start.
KIRBY LEE, USA TODAY SPORTS
Giants right-hander TimLincecumis 1-0 in two starts with 11 strikeouts and 11 walks in 11 innings.
Lincecumruns hot, cold
Jorge L. Ortiz
@jorgelortiz
USATODAYSports
Im just trying to
adjust to the times.
Tim Lincecum, Giants pitcher
NHL
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THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2013
NBCwill formally announce today
that it will ofer live digital streams of
all its marquee sports events in-
cluding action on its NBC Sports
Network cable channel and Golf
Channel.
NBCalready has had extensive live
streaming of its TV coverage, includ-
ing action from the Olympics as well
as horse racings Triple Crown, Notre
Dame football, tennis French Open
and Sunday night NFLgames.
But NBC will greatly expand the
on-air TV tonnage it makes available
digitally. NBCSports.com will go
from live streaming about 300 hours
last year (excluding Olympic cover-
age) to about 4,000 hours this year
and go from streaming about
110 events last year to about 1,000
events in 2013.
NBCs move also represents the
opening of another media front in
what could develop into the biggest
challenge to ESPNs dominance
the collective eforts by NBC, Fox and
CBS to challenge ESPN in various
media areas.
Rick Cordella, senior vice presi-
dent for NBC Sports Groups digital
media, tells USA TODAY Sports,
Were streaming everything where
we have the rights to do it.
Meaning that just about every
prominent event NBC has will be
streamed.
Among the NBCaction that will be
streamed: All NHL playof games
including rst-ever streams of the
Stanley Cup Final. That will be up
from 12 NHL playof games being
streamed last season.
Also, NBC will ofer its rst live
streams of Major League Soccer, the
Izod IndyCar Series, English Premier
League soccer and Formula One, in-
cluding Sundays Chinese Grand Prix
(2:30 a.m. ET), as well as races lead-
ing up to horse racings Triple Crown
such as Saturdays Arkansas Derby
(6 p.m. ET).
NBCs weekend coverage of golfs
U.S. Open also might be streamed for
the rst time, but that hasnt been
nalized.
NBCs Cordella notes that the TV
industry notion of live video streams
eating into or cannibalizing TV rat-
ings is long dead. Rather than cutting
into TV ratings, he says, streams are
meant for users when they cant get
in front of their 50-inch at-screen
TVs. Were not trying to take anybody
away from their TVs. This is for folks
who cant get to their couches.
TV audiences are generally much
bigger than those attracted by digital
streaming, and Cordella says its hard
to generalize about those gaps in size.
And, he says, its hard to generalize
about how many users are resorting
to streaming because they cant get
to TV sets and how many are using
streams as a sort of second screen
while they are watching TV.
But heres an example of usage:
NBCdrewabout 20 million TVview-
ers for its Sunday night NFL games
while averaging about 500,000 digital
users. About one-third of the digital
users were using it as a second screen
while watching TV.
NBCs online streaming, which is
free to users who can verify they get
paid TV through Cablevision, Com-
cast, Sudden Link or Verizon FiOS,
will initially reach about 35 million of
the 100 million total cable/satellite
TVsubscribers.
NBCs new eforts represent the
greatest challenge to ESPN in live
event streaming. But in this area,
ESPN has a big lead: Digital streams
from ESPNs various TV channels
in addition to its ESPN3 broadband
channel that shows events not airing
on TV collectively ofer 17,600
hours of live-event programming as
well as 9,500 hours of live studio
shows.
While ESPNhas been active in sat-
uration coverage in the days leading
up to big events, the broadcast net-
works are getting more aggressive
there as CBS had days of coverage
leading up to the Super Bowl last sea-
son and Fox plans to do the same
next year.
NBC and CBS have been more ag-
gressive with their general-interest
sports channels, and Fox will launch
its FS1 all-sports channel Aug. 17.
CBS and NBC recently joined Fox in
ofering nationally syndicated sports
radio, an area where ESPN is
dominant.
NBCplans to expand live digital streams
Marquee events
will be added
in major upgrade
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Under NBCs expansion, all NHL playofgames will be live-streamed this season, including the title series.
Eastern Conference
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
x-Pittsburgh 40 30 10 0 60 132 98
d-Boston 39 26 9 4 56 113 85
d-Washington 40 21 17 2 44 120 112
Montreal 39 25 9 5 55 122 94
Toronto 40 22 13 5 49 123 112
Ottawa 39 19 14 6 44 96 88
N.Y. Islanders 40 20 16 4 44 117 120
N.Y. Rangers 40 20 16 4 44 99 96
...................................................................................................
Winnipeg 41 20 19 2 42 102 121
New Jersey 40 15 15 10 40 96 111
Buffalo 40 16 18 6 38 106 122
Philadelphia 39 17 19 3 37 107 122
Tampa Bay 39 17 20 2 36 124 116
Carolina 39 16 21 2 34 102 126
Florida 39 13 20 6 32 96 132
Western Conference
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
y-Chicago 39 30 5 4 64 129 83
d-Anaheim 40 27 8 5 59 123 99
d-Vancouver 40 23 11 6 52 109 96
Los Angeles 40 22 14 4 48 115 101
San Jose 39 20 12 7 47 98 98
St. Louis 38 22 14 2 46 107 98
Minnesota 39 22 15 2 46 103 98
Detroit 39 19 15 5 43 99 101
...................................................................................................
Phoenix 40 18 16 6 42 108 107
Dallas 39 19 17 3 41 109 118
Columbus 40 17 16 7 41 95 104
Edmonton 40 16 17 7 39 102 111
Nashville 41 15 18 8 38 96 110
Calgary 39 14 21 4 32 103 138
Colorado 39 12 22 5 29 90 124
d-division leader, will be seeded 1-3; x-clinched division; y-
clinched playoff berth
Wednesdays results
N.Y. Rangers 3, Toronto 2 (SO)
Boston 5, New Jersey 4
Vancouver 4, Calgary 1
Phoenix 3, Edmonton 1
Colorado at Anaheim
Todays games
N.Y. Islanders at Boston, 7
Montreal at Buffalo, 7
Ottawa at Philadelphia, 7
Carolina at Washington, 7
Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay, 7:30
San Jose at Detroit, 7:30
Florida at Winnipeg, 8
St. Louis at Minnesota, 8
Colorado at Los Angeles, 10:30
Tuesdays results
N.Y. Islanders 4, Philadelphia 1
Pittsburgh 5, Carolina 3
Columbus 4, San Jose 0
Washington 3, Montreal 2
Tampa Bay 3, Ottawa 2
St. Louis 1, Nashville 0
Winnipeg 4, Buffalo 1
Chicago 1, Minnesota 0
Dallas 5, Los Angeles 1
STANDINGS
Minnesota Wild goalie Josh Har-
ding returned to practice Wednesday
after a nearly two-month break to
adjust his multiple sclerosis medi-
cine and had an upbeat report.
I felt like my old self, he told
news reporters.
Harding had been diagnosed with
MS in the fall and had a shutout in
his rst game after the lockout. But
he gave up ve goals in his next start
and was pulled Jan. 30 after giving
up two quick goals against the Chi-
cago Blackhawks.
He was scheduled to start Feb. 12,
but thats when he announced he was
taking a break because he wasnt
feeling 100%.
The Wild posted video of Harding
stopping shots at practice Wednes-
day and talking about it afterward.
He said he thought he held his own.
It was exciting being out with the
boys and seeing the light at the end
of the tunnel, he said. Its a great
feeling.
Harding added that doctors had
worked out the medicine issue.
We think weve got it all dialed in,
and were excited for the future, he
said.
When he returns to a game re-
mains to be seen. Minneapolis Star
Tribune reported that backup goalie
Darcy Kuemper was remaining with
the Wild for the time being.
But coach Mike Yeo said in his
news conference that Harding
looked really good, especially his en-
ergy level and quickness.
It seems like its taking a long
time, but this is something that
youve got to make sure that youve
got a good grasp of it, he said.
Volchenkov ejected: New Jer-
sey Devils defenseman Anton Vol-
chenkov was ejected Wednesday
night for elbowing Boston Bruins
winger Brad Marchand.
Volchenkov, who received a sus-
pension in 2011 for elbowing, could
face a hearing.
Marchand grabbed his head after
the hit, slowly dropped to the ice and
didnt return to the game.
Devils defenseman Bryce Salvador
also left the game with a wrist injury.
Schultz honored: Justin
Schultz, who hasnt played in the
American Hockey League since the
lockout ended, was named to the
leagues all-rookie teamWednesday.
Schultz, signed by the Edmonton
Oilers as a free agent out of the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin, had 18 goals
and 48 points in 34 games with Okla-
homa City. He had separate point
streaks of 10 games and nine games.
Schultz, recalled by the Oilers on
Jan. 5, remains the AHLs top-scor-
ing defenseman. He also leads NHL
rookie defensemen with 20 points in
39 games.
Around the rinks: Dallas Stars
goaltender Kari Lehtonen is day-to-
day after sufering a lower-body inju-
ry in Tuesdays game vs. the Los An-
geles Kings. Cristopher Nilstorp was
recalled from (Cedar Park) Texas of
the AHL. He is 1-3-1 with Dallas this
season. ... The Montreal Canadiens
signed backup goalie Peter Budaj to a
two-year, $2.8 million extension.
NOTES
Wilds Harding feels better after break
BRACE HEMMELGARN, USA TODAY SPORTS
Wild goalie Josh Harding says he thinks
doctors have solved the problemwith
his multiple sclerosis medication.
Mike Brehm
@ByMikeBrehm
USATODAYSports
The New York Islanders havent
been in the NHL playofs since 2007,
yet they have a really good idea of
what it feels like to play postseason
hockey.
The Islanders have been playing
with win-or-we-are-in-trouble pres-
sure for three weeks, and they have
responded by posting a 7-1-1 record
in their last nine games.
The fan excitement has picked up
with us winning some meaningful
games, Islanders coach Jack Capu-
ano said. Thats what we had talked
about in the end-of-the-year meet-
ings last year. In the individual meet-
ings with players, the common
denominator was that they wanted
to play meaningful games at the end
of the season.
The Islanders, tied for seventh in
the Eastern Conference, go into to-
days game at the Boston Bruins (7
p.m. ET) with a 20-16-4 record. Its
the rst time since Feb. 20, 2008,
that the team has had four more
wins than regulation losses.
Right now we are playing the
team concept that we want to play,
Capuano said.
On paper, the Islanders are the
worst defensive team among the
Eastern teams in playof position.
But that is misleading, because they
have given up eight goals in their last
ve games. They have been produc-
ing ofensively all season, ranking
ninth in goals scored and in power-
play efciency. They have been play-
ing like a playofteam.
Defense starts in goal and works
its way out, Capuano said. Team
defense is a unit of ve. Its hard
work. Its a grind. And guys have real-
ly taken a lot of pride in that.
Goaltender Evgeni Nabokov has
posted a .942 save percentage over
the last eight games, giving up 12
goals in that span.
Nabokov is one of a handful of vet-
erans who can become unrestricted
free agents this summer. Islanders
general manager Garth Snow
showed faith in the teamby not mov-
ing any of those players before the
trade deadline.
That was a symbolically important
move, because the Islanders havent
won a playof series since 1993. Plus,
the team is planning to move to
Brooklyns Barclays Center in the
2015-16 season.
As a coach, I never brought up
(the trade deadline) once, Capuano
said. But when the deadline was
over, we had a little discussion about
how this is the group we are moving
forward with.
ISLANDERS WORKPAYS OFF
CHARLES LECLAIRE, USA TODAY SPORTS
Islanders goaltender Evgeni Nabokov, stopping a shot by the Penguins Tanner Glass, has allowed 12 goals
over his last eight games, going 6-1-1.
Surge puts team
in playofposition
Kevin Allen
@ByKevinAllen
USATODAYSports
The fan excitement
has picked up with
us winning some
meaningful games.
Islanders coach Jack Capuano
Rangers 3, Maple Leafs 2
Toronto 0 1 1 0 (0) 2
NewYork Rangers 0 2 0 0 (1) 3
First periodScoring: None.
Second period Scoring: 1. Toronto, Kessel 13, 1:42. 2.
New York Rangers, Hagelin 9 (McDonagh, Stepan),
10:55. 3. NewYork Rangers, McDonagh 4 (Brassard, Ha-
gelin), 16:43.
Third period Scoring: 4. Toronto, Kessel 14 (van Riems-
dyk), 8:05.
Overtime Scoring: None.
Shootout Toronto 0 (Bozak NG, Grabovski NG, Kadri
NG); New York Rangers 1 (Callahan NG, Zuccarello G,
Nash NG).
Shots ongoal:
Toronto 11 5 5 425
NewYork Rangers 8 10 8 228
Power-play opportunities: Toronto 0-of-2, New York
Rangers 0-of-3. Goalies: Toronto, Reimer (28 shots, 26
saves; record: 15-5-5), New York Rangers, Lundqvist (25
shots, 23 saves; record: 18-14-3). Referees: McCauley,
Hebert. Linesmen: Devorski, Miller. Att: 17,200.
Bruins 5, Devils 4
Boston 3 1 15
NewJersey 0 2 24
First period Scoring: 1. Boston, Campbell 3 (Jagr, Mar-
chand), 1:10. 2. Boston, Paille 8 (Peverley) (short handed),
4:51. 3. Boston, Campbell 4 (Ference, Peverley) (short
handed), 8:12.
Second period Scoring: 4. Boston, Chara 7 (Krejci,
Jagr) (power play), 3:06. 5. NewJersey, Elias 11 (Sullivan),
11:07. 6. NewJersey, Zajac 6 (short handed), 18:12.
Third period Scoring: 7. New Jersey, Greene 4 (Hen-
rique, Bernier), 5:58. 8. Boston, Seguin 13 (Paille, Seiden-
berg), 7:33. 9. New Jersey, DAgostini 2 (Zubrus, Zidlicky),
19:23.
Shots ongoal:
Boston 8 4 618
NewJersey 12 6 1028
Power-play opportunities: Boston 1-of-3, New Jersey 0-
of-8. Goalies: Boston, Khudobin (28 shots, 24 saves; rec-
ord: 8-3-0), New Jersey, Brodeur (18 shots, 13 saves; rec-
ord: 10-6-7). Referees: Furlatt, LEcuyer. Linesmen: Mach,
Rody. Att: 17,625.
Coyotes 3, Oilers 1
Phoenix 0 2 13
Edmonton 0 0 11
First periodScoring: None.
Second period Scoring: 1. Phoenix, Gordon 4 (Moss,
Klinkhammer), 0:37. 2. Phoenix, Vermette 9, 9:00.
Third period Scoring: 3. Edmonton, Yakupov 10
(Smyth, Horcoff), 7:49. 4. Phoenix, Moss 5 (Gordon) (pow-
er play), 19:51.
Shots ongoal:
Phoenix 10 12 1032
Edmonton 8 7 1530
Power-play opportunities: Phoenix 1-of-5, Edmonton 0-
of-3. Goalies: Phoenix, Smith (30 shots, 29 saves; record:
13-11-3), Edmonton, Dubnyk (32 shots, 29 saves; record:
12-13-6). Referees: Charron, Kozari. Linesmen: Cormier,
Grandt. Att: 16,839.
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THE MASTERS
AUGUSTA, GA. The Masters must
subscribe to those old notions that
its better to rip of the bandage fast,
rather than ease it of slowly, or to
dive full-on into the cold water, rath-
er than just dip the toes in.
Thats sort of what faces players
stepping to the No. 1 tee today in the
rst round of the years rst major.
The 445-yard, par-4 rst hole,
named Tea Olive, is a merciless way
to start the day, a virtual slap in the
face.
It demands a lot out of the drive
and quite a long second shot up the
hill to a very severe green, and I think
when youre just trying to gather
your thoughts and get composed out
there, it asks a lot out of you, said
world No. 7 Adam Scott, an Aus-
tralian who has back-to-back top-10s
in the Masters.
Historically, No. 1 is tied for sixth
among the hardest at the Masters.
Last year, however, it was No. 1, aver-
aging 4.392 strokes. That ranked it as
the ninth-hardest hole, out of 882,
played on the PGATour in 2012.
No. 1 has a slight dogleg right and
plays uphill with a deep bunker re-
quiring a 317-yard carry of the tee.
The bunker has a tongue in the left
side, so anything that enters the front
of the bunker might be blocked by
the lip. There is a bunker to the left of
the green, which falls of sharply at
the back and to the right.
One key: Dont hit the second shot
over the green to the left if the pin is
back left (typical rst-round loca-
tion). The smart play is take aim at
the center of the green and not to get
greedy.
We build up the nerves before we
get to the rst tee, and its just a dif-
cult golf hole, Scott said.
USATODAYSports
Looking out for No. 1 at Augusta
KEY TEE TIMES
(Times Eastern)
10:34 a.m: Bubba Watson, Ian
Poulter, Steven Fox.
10:45 a.m.: Tiger Woods, Luke
Donald and Scott Piercy.
10:56 a.m.: Jason Day, Rickie
Fowler, Padraig Harrington.
12:13 p.m.: Ernie Els, Steve Strick-
er, Nick Watney.
12:24 p.m.: Ben Crenshaw, Mat-
teo Manassero, Guan Tianlang.
1:08 p.m.: Fred Couples, Dustin
Johnson, Branden Grace.
1:30 p.m.: Phil Mickelson, Louis
Oosthuizen, Martin Kaymer.
1:41 p.m.: Rory McIlroy, Keegan
Bradley, Fredrik Jacobson.
THE FORECAST
TODAY: Mostly cloudy and breezy,
40% chance for scattered late-
afternoon showers and thunder-
storms. High 81, low 64.
FRIDAY: Mostly cloudy and
breezy, 60% chance for lingering
morning showers and thunder-
storms. High 78, low 63.
SATURDAY: Mostly sunny and
cooler. High 75, low 50.
SUNDAY: Cool start, then partly
cloudy and warmer. High 79, low
48.
Any rain will soften the fairways,
limiting roll. The notoriously slick
greens will not slow down even
under the rain, because Augusta
is equipped with a SubAir system
to help dry them. Unless it rains
hard, effects will be negligible.
Cool temperatures and rising
wind might be bigger issues.
ON TV
Today and Friday, 3-7:30 p.m. ET,
ESPN; Saturday, 3-7 p.m. and Sun-
day, 2-7 p.m., CBS.
AT GOLF.USATODAY.COM
uIn-progress scoring
uLive updates
uThe best images in a photo
gallery
AT MASTERS.COM
Live video channels from Amen
Corner, the 15th hole and 16th hole
and a featured group. Estimated
times Amen Corner (Nos. 11, 12
and 13) from 10:45 a.m. to 6 p.m.
today and Friday and from
11:45 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday
and Sunday; Nos. 15 and 16 from
11:45 a.m. to 7 p.m. today and
Friday and from 12:30 p.m. to
6:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sun-
day; featured group from noon to
completion of play today and
Friday and from 12:30 p.m. to
completion of play on Saturday
and Sunday.
WHAT TOWATCH
JACK GRUBER, USA TODAY SPORTS
Phil Mickelson and son Evan high-
ve on the ninth green Wednesday.
F
ather of the Year or worried
about The Curse?
Every year before the Mas-
ters, much is made about the fact
that no golfer has won the Par-3
Contest and gone on to win the tour-
nament. So it was legitimate to ask
Bo Van Pelt whether that entered his
thinking Wednesday when he let his
daughter, Olivia, hit for himon the
last hole thus disqualifying himself
when he had the lead at 5 under
par.
My son got to hit it last time, Van
Pelt said. I didnt think she would
have cared about hitting it, but she
wanted to hit. ... I wasnt thinking too
much about (the jinx).
In the end, on a day when fun with
family and friends is the focus, Ted
Potter Jr. won the Par-3 Contest,
making a birdie at No. 9 to beat Matt
Kuchar. Phil Mickelson was eliminat-
ed on the rst extra hole.
FUNANDGAMES
INPAR-3 CONTEST
JACK GRUBER, USA TODAY SPORTS
Jason Day, left, and Nick Watney celebrate after Watney made a hole-in-one on the ninth hole in Wednes-
days Par-3 Contest at Augusta National. Watney tied for the lead but opted not to participate in a playof.
MICHAEL MADRID, USA TODAY SPORTS
World No. 2 golfer Rory McIlroy had his girlfriend, tennis star Caro-
line Wozniacki, as his caddie during Wednesdays Par-3 Contest.
AUGUSTA, GA. Augusta National
chairman Billy Payne on Wednesday
announced tweaks to the Masters
qualication formula and a fairly sig-
nicant change to the cut that will
take efect this year.
Instead of the top 44 players and
ties playing the weekend at Augusta
National, as had been the case since
1962, the top 50 and ties after Fri-
days second round will make the cut.
The 10-shot rule remains in efect,
meaning more than 50 players could
make the cut as long as they are with-
in 10 shots of the leader.
Payne said the other changes were
dictated by the PGA Tours restruc-
tured schedule in which the newsea-
son will start in October with the
Frys.com Open and wrap around to
The Tour Championship in Septem-
ber 2014. The six fall 2013 events
which werent part of the FedExCup
previously will get full points sta-
tus for the 2013-14 season, and win-
ning one will earn an automatic
qualication to the 2014 Masters.
I personally have been fully com-
mitted to players gaining entry to the
tournament after winning a PGA
Tour event, Payne said.
But in order to accommodate
those winners, Payne said, only the
top 12 from this years Masters (in-
stead of the top 16) will earn invita-
tions next year and only the top four
from the U.S. Open (instead of the
top eight) will qualify. Also, being in
the top 30 on the PGA Tour money
list no longer is an automatic quali-
cation for Masters entry.
Payne said the change was made to
keep the tournament an intimate
gathering of the worlds best compet-
itors and aford all players a reason-
able expectation of completion in the
reduced hours of early spring.
Payne also:
uPraised Condoleezza Rice and
Darla Moore, the clubs rst female
members.
uSidestepped the issue of the pro-
posed anchoring ban, suggesting it
would be inappropriate to comment
before a decision has been made.
Masters
expands
cut to
top 50
Dan Wolken
@DanWolken
USATODAYSports
Tournament also alters
qualication criteria
We believe offering
more playing
opportunities for
participants over the
weekend is a positive
for everyone involved.
Augusta National chairman Billy Payne
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THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2013
help ease his transition. Even as BYU
coach Bronco Mendenhall, Ansahs
team of agents and his former team-
mates in the NFL try to tell him
about life as a professional athlete,
Ansah still seems blissfully unafect-
ed by his newfound fame as one of
2013s most intriguing prospects.
You want to help him, because
hes just so sincere, with this combi-
nation of naivety and a genuineness
that is so contrary to college sports or
even professional sports. You just
want it to work, Mendenhall said.
Anyone who underestimates what
he is capable of learning and howfast
he can comprehend it and apply it,
that would be a grave mistake.
GAME-CHANGER
This is nowhere near the life Ansah
envisioned when he boarded a plane
in Ghana headed for Utah in 2008.
He had never seen a football game. If
sports factored into his decision to
move to the USA, it was only for the
chance to try out for the basketball
team. In his 19-year-old mind, Ansah
thought he played basketball like Le-
Bron James.
BYUs basketball coaches didnt
agree, and Ansah was cut after trying
out to be a walk-on in 2008 and
2009. He spent a season running
track, the 100- and 200- meter
sprints, and competing in the triple
jump before his track coach walked
himover to Mendenhalls ofce.
With his tall frame, long arms,
exible hips and broad shoulders, its
as if Ansah was built to play football.
He possesses track speed in a mas-
sive body.
But he watched the sport as a fan
only after enrolling at BYU and had
only a vague understanding of the
rules. At his rst practice, after a six-
week probationary period in which
he proved to coaches he would at-
tend weightlifting sessions and meet-
ings, Ansah needed help putting on
his shoulder pads. The helmet felt
wrong on his head.
And then there were the drills. In-
structed to get into a two-point
stance to mimic blocking a tight end,
Ansah squatted on all fours, his rear
end sticking out behind him, his
palms on the grass. When the defen-
sive linemen moved into bag drills,
Ansah didnt know how to position
his hands. Sometimes he would whif
and the heavy blue bag would smack
himon the face mask.
I looked at it as a great challenge,
because he had the ability, now we
have to nd out if he has that heart,
that desire, that will. Can he take a
hit? Or would he say, Hey this is not
for me. That was the next thing, to
see if he would take the punishment,
said Steve Kaufusi, BYUs defensive
line coach. You have to have pa-
tience. Here at BYU, its not like every
day you get an athlete like that that
walks through your doors.
Ansah began playing on special
teams in 2010 and increased his role
to nickel pass rusher in 2011. Ansahs
breakthrough came during spring
practices in 2012, just a year ago.
During 11-on-11 drills that March,
Ansah seemed to record some sort of
statistic a sack, a tackle for a loss, a
forced fumble, a batted pass in ev-
ery series.
After one of those spring practices,
Mendenhall casually approached An-
sah in the locker room and told him
he had earned a scholarship. For An-
sah, who had worked various jobs
around campus to pay for his actuar-
ial science and math classes, it was
life-changing news. He could spend
the summer studying and training,
not working as a custodian and on
the grounds crew.
That alone was one of the coolest
moments Ive ever been able to do,
Mendenhall said.
BIG BREAKTHROUGH
Ansah wasnt a starter at the begin-
ning of his senior season. He was a
situational pass rusher, still learning
the techniques to be an all-around
defensive lineman and still adjusting
to the rigors of football practices and
games.
After he would get singled out by
Mendenhall in practices, he would
ask teammates why he was being
pushed so hard. The answer would
always be the same: Because Men-
denhall and the rest of the coaches
sawunlimited potential.
The Cougars lost two defensive
line starters in the rst month of the
season, and early in the fourth game
BYUhad no choice but to turn Ansah
into an every-down player, starting
with a goal-line series against Boise
State in which he made two tackles.
Later, for the rst time, he stayed on
the eld for the duration of a 10-play
defensive series.
When he put it all together last
season, it was like, All right, you have
a chance to be really, really good, and
thats whats happened, BYUoutside
linebacker Kyle Van Noy said. Its
just crazy how much hes picked up
the game and howmuch of an impact
he had for us last year.
Ansah nished his senior season
with 4
1
2 sacks and 13 tackles for
losses modest numbers but not in-
dicative of the progress he made or
the efect he had on BYUs defense as
he lined up as a traditional defensive
end, slid inside to tackle and also at
times rushed from a stand-up line-
backer position.
When he comes up on that stage
on draft day, I hope he knows that
anything I did in driving him, proba-
bly more than anybody else, it was
because of who I thought he could
become, Mendenhall said.
His relatives back home in Ghana
mother Betty, father Edward and
four older siblings have yet to see
himplay. He has seen his mother and
one sister once since enrolling at
BYU but is looking forward to as
much of his family as possible travel-
ing to NewYork for the draft.
There, he will introduce them to
his new life, the one he never could
have imagined just a fewmonths ago,
one he hopes will be able to change
not just himself but his entire family.
I have just got to live right, An-
sah said. I want to return with hon-
or, you know?
NFL
Ansahs
surprise
trip to
stardom
vCONTINUED FROM1C
PHOTOS BY GEORGE L. FREY FOR USA TODAY SPORTS
Ziggy Ansah, bottomcenter, poses with the Washburns, with whomhe has lived since the season ended. The members of what he considers his
American family are, clockwise fromtop left: Nancy, the mother; Kelly, 8; Chris, the father; Jared, 18; Sydney, 12; and Madelyn, 15.
BYUoutside linebacker Kyle Van Noy says of Ansah, working out for
scouts March 28, Its just crazy howmuch hes picked up the game.
Anyone who
underestimates
what (Ansah) is
capable of learning
and howfast he can
comprehend it and
apply it, that would
be a grave
mistake.
Bronco Mendenhall, BYU football coach
NBA
Ziggy Ansah wasnt on the initial
watch list for the 2013 Senior Bowl,
but after Senior Bowl director Phil
Savage, former general manager of
the Cleveland Browns, saw tape of
him in October, Ansah received
one of the rst invitations to the
game featuring NFLprospects.
In Mobile, Ala., for a week in late
January, Ansah was part of the
South team coached by the Detroit
Lions and got a glimpse of what life
could be like as a pro. On game day,
Ansah was a revelation.
Had one of the best Senior
Bowl games in recent memory. He
simply was the best player on the
eld, Savage said.
Savage understands teams will
have questions about Ansahs abili-
ty to quickly transition to the NFL,
both on the eld and of. But in the
right situation, a 4-3 scheme in
which he can play defensive end,
Savage predicts Ansah will thrive.
I would make the argument
that hes not for everybody, but in
two to three years we might be
looking back saying, We knew he
had all that stuf, and hell end up
being the best player of the draft.
Ansah aced
Senior Bowl
Eastern Conference
W L Pct GB L10 Streak
z-Miami 62 16 .795 8-2 W-4
x-New York 51 26 .662 10 10-0 W-13
x-Indiana 49 29 .628 13 7-3 W-1
y-Brooklyn 46 32 .590 16 6-4 W-3
y-Chicago 42 35 .545 19 6-4 L-2
y-Atlanta 43 36 .544 19 5-5 W-1
y-Boston 40 38 .513 22 4-6 L-1
y-Milwaukee 37 41 .474 25 3-7 L-2
..................................................................................................
Philadelphia 31 47 .397 31 5-5 L-3
Toronto 30 48 .385 32 4-6 W-1
Washington 29 50 .367 33 4-6 L-3
Detroit 27 52 .342 35 3-7 W-2
Cleveland 24 54 .308 38 2-8 L-2
Orlando 20 59 .253 42 1-9 W-1
Charlotte 18 60 .231 44 2-8 L-3
Western Conference
W L Pct GB L10 Streak
x-San Antonio 57 20 .740 6-4 W-1
y-Oklahoma City 57 21 .731 7-3 W-1
y-Denver 53 24 .688 4 8-2 W-4
x-L.A. Clippers 51 26 .662 6 5-5 W-2
y-Memphis 53 25 .679 4 7-3 W-2
y-Golden State 45 33 .577 12 7-3 W-1
y-Houston 44 34 .564 13 7-3 W-1
L.A. Lakers 42 37 .532 16 6-4 W-2
..................................................................................................
Utah 41 38 .519 17 7-3 L-1
Dallas 38 40 .487 19 6-4 L-1
Portland 33 45 .423 24 L-9 L-9
Minnesota 29 48 .377 28 5-5 L-1
Sacramento 28 50 .359 29 4-6 W-1
New Orleans 27 52 .342 31 4-6 L-2
Phoenix 24 55 .304 34 1-9 W-1
x-clinched division; y-clinched playoff berth; z-clinched con-
ference
Wednesdays results
Atlanta 124, Philadelphia 101
Miami 103, Washington 98
Detroit 111, Cleveland 104
Orlando 113, Milwaukee 103 (OT)
Brooklyn 101, Boston 93
Phoenix 102, Dallas 91
Sacramento 121, New Orleans 110
L.A. Lakers 113, Portland 106
San Antonio at Denver
Minnesota at L.A. Clippers
Todays games
New York at Chicago, 8
Oklahoma City at Golden State, 10:30
Tuesdays results
Indiana 99, Cleveland 94
Brooklyn 104, Philadelphia 83
Miami 94, Milwaukee 83
New York 120, Washington 99
Memphis 94, Charlotte 75
Toronto 101, Chicago 98
Houston 101, Phoenix 98
Oklahoma City 90, Utah 80
Golden State 105, Minnesota 89
L.A. Lakers 104, New Orleans 96
STANDINGS
TUESDAYS LATE GAME
HAWKS 124, 76ERS 101
Atlanta 29 30 34 31 124
Philadelphia 27 24 22 28 101
Atlanta Korver 2-4 1-1 6, Smith 11-18 5-5 28, Horford
8-13 0-0 16, Teague 6-13 0-0 13, Harris 2-6 3-4 8, Steven-
son 0-40-00, J.Jenkins 8-132-221, Scott 6-105-517, John-
son 3-5 2-2 8, Tolliver 0-0 0-0 0, Mack 2-4 0-0 5, Jones 1-1
0-0 2. Totals 49-91 18-19 124.
Philadelphia Turner 4-12 1-2 9, T.Young 14-20 0-0 28,
Hawes 2-6 0-0 5, Jr.Holiday 4-14 3-3 12, Wilkins 0-7 6-6 6,
Ivey 0-1 0-0 0, Wright 4-9 5-5 15, Allen 0-3 0-0 0, Moultrie
3-5 1-1 7, N.Young 6-9 4-5 19, Ju.Holiday 0-2 0-0 0. Totals
37-88 20-22 101.
3-point goals: Atlanta 8-22 (J.Jenkins 3-4, Mack 1-2,
Korver 1-3, Smith 1-3, Teague 1-3, Harris 1-4, Stevenson
0-3), Philadelphia 7-21 (N.Young 3-5, Wright 2-5, Hawes
1-2, Jr.Holiday 1-5, Turner 0-1, Ivey 0-1, Ju.Holiday 0-2).
Fouledout: None. Rebounds: Atlanta 48 (Smith 12), Phila-
delphia 48 (T.Young 8). Assists: Atlanta 34 (Teague 11),
Philadelphia 21 (Turner 7). Total fouls: Atlanta 17, Phila-
delphia 17. Technicals: Jr.Holiday. Att.: 17,178.
PISTONS 111, CAVALIERS 104
Detroit 28 25 21 37 111
Cleveland 24 25 26 29 104
Detroit Singler 1-7 5-6 7, Monroe 10-18 3-5 23, Drum-
mond 10-11 9-17 29, Knight 2-11 3-3 7, Stuckey 5-8 6-9 18,
Jerebko 2-5 1-2 5, Middleton 3-6 0-0 6, Villanueva 0-3 0-0
0, Bynum7-100-016, English0-10-00. Totals 40-8027-42
111.
Cleveland Gee 2-6 0-0 4, Thompson 8-13 3-6 19, Zell-
er 4-9 0-0 8, Irving7-15 12-13 27, Ellington 4-5 0-0 9, Living-
ston 2-3 1-2 5, Jones 4-8 0-0 8, Speights 1-4 2-2 4, Waiters
5-12 1-1 11, Casspi 3-7 2-2 9. Totals 40-82 21-26 104.
3-point goals: Detroit 4-16 (Stuckey 2-2, Bynum2-4, Jer-
ebko 0-1, Middleton 0-1, English 0-1, Villanueva 0-2, Sin-
gler 0-2, Knight 0-3), Cleveland 3-15 (Ellington 1-2, Casspi
1-2, Irving 1-5, Zeller 0-1, Waiters 0-2, Gee 0-3). Fouled
out: None. Rebounds: Detroit 48 (Drummond 11), Cleve-
land 54 (Speights 9). Assists: Detroit 20 (Stuckey 7), Cleve-
land 21 (Irving 9). Total fouls: Detroit 20, Cleveland 28.
Technicals: Cleveland defensive three second. Att.:
13,844.
HEAT 103, WIZARDS 98
Miami 25 21 23 34 103
Washington 22 28 22 26 98
Miami Lewis 5-14 4-4 17, Battier 5-8 0-0 15, Anthony
1-3 0-0 2, Chalmers 5-14 0-0 13, Miller 5-7 0-0 14, Allen
8-18 6-7 23, Andersen 0-3 8-8 8, Cole 3-5 2-4 8, Jones 1-3
0-0 3. Totals 33-75 20-23 103.
Washington Webster 2-7 6-8 12, Nene 6-10 1-4 13,
Okafor 3-6 2-2 8, Wall 7-18 3-3 17, Temple 3-10 0-0 8, Sin-
gleton0-10-00, Price8-122-223, Seraphin4-81-29, Mar-
tin 3-7 0-0 8, Vesely 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 36-80 15-21 98.
3-point goals: Miami 17-41(Battier 5-8, Miller 4-6, Chal-
mers 3-7, Lewis 3-8, Jones 1-3, Allen 1-7, Cole 0-2), Wash-
ington 11-23 (Price 5-8, Martin 2-4, Webster 2-4, Temple
2-6, Wall 0-1). Fouled out: None. Rebounds: Miami 54
(Miller 8), Washington41(Wall 9). Assists: Miami 19(Chal-
mers 8), Washington 19 (Wall 11). Total fouls: Miami 18,
Washington 20. Att.: 20,308.
MAGIC 113, BUCKS 103
Milwaukee 16 29 21 29 8 103
Orlando 30 18 22 25 18 113
Milwaukee Daniels 6-12 0-0 14, Mbah a Moute 0-2
0-0 0, Sanders 2-9 1-2 5, Jennings 1-2 0-0 3, Ellis 7-27 6-10
21, Redick 6-16 3-3 16, Henson 7-17 3-5 17, Dunleavy 5-11
4-6 17, Ayon 4-4 0-0 8, Smith 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 39-101 17-
26 103.
Orlando Harkless 7-13 0-1 14, Harris 13-20 1-3 30,
Vucevic 14-26 2-3 30, Udrih 6-22 0-0 13, Moore 2-6 0-0 4,
Nicholson 1-5 0-0 2, OQuinn 2-6 0-1 4, Lamb 6-10 0-0 16,
Jones 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 51-109 3-8 113.
3-point goals: Milwaukee 8-28 (Dunleavy 3-7, Daniels
2-4, Jennings 1-2, Redick 1-7, Ellis 1-8), Orlando8-15(Lamb
4-6, Harris 3-4, Udrih 1-1, Harkless 0-4). Fouled out: None.
Rebounds: Milwaukee 65 (Henson 25), Orlando 69 (Vu-
cevic 20). Assists: Milwaukee 26 (Ellis 11), Orlando 27
(Udrih 11). Total fouls: Milwaukee 16, Orlando 19. Tech-
nicals: Dunleavy, Harris, Orlando defensive three second.
Att.: 17,127.
WARRIORS 105, TIMBERWOLVES 89
Minnesota 26 28 16 19 89
Golden State 26 29 31 19 105
MinnesotaKirilenko4-76-615, Williams 2-80-05, Pe-
kovic 2-8 1-2 5, Rubio 0-10 5-6 5, Ridnour 4-6 0-0 8, Bud-
inger 7-151-217, Cunningham5-101-111, Barea4-102-3
13, Shved 1-6 0-0 2, Stiemsma 3-7 0-0 6, Gelabale 1-3 0-0
2, Johnson 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 33-90 16-20 89.
Golden State Barnes 6-11 2-2 15, D.Lee 6-12 3-4 15,
Bogut 1-30-22, Curry 9-214-524, Thompson10-194-430,
Jack 2-8 0-0 4, Landry 2-7 1-1 5, Ezeli 0-2 3-4 3, Green 0-3
0-0 0, Bazemore 1-2 0-0 3, Jefferson 2-3 0-0 4. Totals 39-
91 17-22 105.
3-point goals: Minnesota7-19 (Barea3-7, Budinger 2-4,
Williams 1-1, Kirilenko 1-1, Gelabale 0-1, Shved0-2, Rubio
0-3), Golden State 10-24 (Thompson 6-10, Curry 2-9,
Barnes 1-1, Bazemore 1-1, Jack 0-1, Jefferson 0-1, D.Lee
0-1). Fouled out: None. Rebounds: Minnesota 50 (Stiem-
sma 9), Golden State 68 (Bogut 14). Assists: Minnesota 29
(Shved 9), Golden State 24 (Curry 10). Total fouls: Minne-
sota 18, Golden State 19. Technicals: Ridnour. Flagrant
Fouls_Jack. Att.: 19,596.
NETS 101, CELTICS 93
Brooklyn 22 31 26 22 101
Boston 21 22 26 24 93
Brooklyn Wallace 1-3 0-0 2, Evans 0-0 1-4 1, Lopez
8-14 5-5 21, D.Williams 9-18 10-10 29, Johnson 8-15 0-0
20, Humphries 1-2 4-4 6, Watson 3-4 0-0 9, Blatche 2-7 2-2
6, Brooks 0-1 0-0 0, Stackhouse 2-7 3-3 7, Joseph 0-1 0-0 0,
Teletovic 0-1 0-0 0, Taylor 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 34-74 25-28
101.
Boston Green 4-17 1-1 11, Bass 5-11 0-0 10, Garnett
5-11 1-1 11, Bradley 1-3 0-0 2, Pierce 7-11 6-7 23, Lee 3-5
0-0 7, Randolph 1-2 0-0 2, Terry 1-7 2-2 4, Wilcox 3-4 0-0 6,
T.Williams 3-4 2-4 8, Crawford 3-5 1-2 7, White 1-1 0-0 2.
Totals 37-81 13-17 93.
3-point goals: Brooklyn 8-19 (Johnson 4-6, Watson 3-3,
D.Williams 1-6, Stackhouse0-1, Teletovic 0-1, Wallace0-2),
Boston 6-16 (Pierce 3-5, Green 2-4, Lee 1-2, Crawford 0-1,
T.Williams 0-1, Terry 0-3). Fouled out: None. Rebounds:
Brooklyn 47 (Evans 14), Boston 44 (Randolph 9). Assists:
Brooklyn 19 (D.Williams 12), Boston 20 (Crawford, Garnett
4). Total fouls: Brooklyn21, Boston21. Technicals: Garnett.
Att.: 18,624 .
SUNS 102, MAVERICKS 91
Phoenix 28 33 20 21 102
Dallas 21 30 20 20 91
Phoenix Tucker 6-9 2-2 17, Mark.Morris 5-12 0-0 12,
Scola 4-13 3-3 11, Dragic 7-14 5-6 21, Johnson 7-13 0-0 17,
ONeal 2-12 0-0 4, Marc.Morris 0-3 0-0 0, Dudley 5-9 6-6
18, Marshall 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 37-88 16-17 102.
Dallas Marion 9-16 4-6 22, Nowitzki 6-18 7-7 21, Ka-
man 1-6 0-0 2, M.James 4-6 0-0 9, Mayo 2-10 2-2 6, Colli-
son 1-6 1-2 3, Wright 3-8 0-0 6, Carter 6-12 3-4 18, Crowd-
er 1-2 0-0 2, B.James 0-0 0-0 0, Akognon 1-1 0-0 2, Morrow
0-0 0-0 0. Totals 34-85 17-21 91.
3-point goals: Phoenix 12-27 (Tucker 3-4, Johnson 3-8,
Dudley 2-3, Dragic 2-4, Mark.Morris 2-4, Marshall 0-1,
Marc.Morris 0-3), Dallas 6-17 (Carter 3-6, Nowitzki 2-5,
M.James 1-1, Crowder 0-1, Mayo 0-2, Marion 0-2). Fouled
out: None. Rebounds: Phoenix 51 (Scola 15), Dallas 56
(Marion 9). Assists: Phoenix 25 (Dragic 13), Dallas 21
(Mayo 6). Total fouls: Phoenix 17, Dallas 17. Technicals:
Phoenix defensive three second, Dallas Coach Carlisle.
Flagrant Fouls_Mayo. Att.: 19,725.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2013 SPORTS 9C
College baseball: South Carolina vs. Florida (ESPNU,
7:30 p.m.)
College mens hockey: NCAA Division I, semifinals, in Pitts-
burgh, Yale vs. Massachusetts-Lowell, (ESPN2, 4:30 p.m.) and
St. Cloud State vs. Quinnipiac (ESPN2, 8 p.m.)
College softball: California at UCLA (ESPN2, 11 p.m.)
Golf: Masters, first round, in Augusta, Ga. (ESPN, 3 p.m.)
Major League Baseball: Regional coverage, Baltimore at
Boston or New York Yankees at Cleveland (MLB Network,
7 p.m.)
Motor sports: Formula One, practice for Chinese Grand Prix,
in Shanghai (NBCSN, 2 a.m.)
NBA: New York at Chicago (TNT, 8 p.m.); Oklahoma City at
Golden State (TNT, 10:30 p.m.)
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FOR THE RECORD
Baseball
uAmerican League
BostonRedSox: ActivatedSS Stephen
Drew from the seven-day concussion
disabled list. Optioned SS Jose Iglesias
to Pawtucket (International/AAA).
Placed P John Lackey on the 15-day dis-
abled list. Recalled P Alex Wilson from
Pawtucket.
Texas Rangers: Placed P Matt Harri-
son on the 15-day disabledlist. Recalled
P Justin Grimm Round Rock (Pacific
Coast/AAA).
Toronto Blue Jays: Claimed OF Cas-
per Wells off waivers from Seattle. Des-
ignated P Alex Burnett for assignment.
uNational League
Atlanta Braves: Acquired P Luis Ayala
from the Baltimore Orioles for P Chris
Jones.
Cincinnati Reds: Placed P Sean Mar-
shall on the 15-day disabled list. Re-
called P Logan Ondrusek fromPensaco-
la (Southern/AA).
Football
uNational Football League
Arizona Cardinals: Signed G Chilo
Rachal.
Cincinnati Bengals: Released CB Ja-
son Allen.
Denver Broncos: Signed T Chris Clark
to a restricted free agent tender.
Houston Texans: Agreed to terms
with LB Tim Dobbins on a one-year con-
tract.
New England Patriots: Signed DL
Tommy Kelly.
Oakland Raiders: Re-signed CB Jose-
lio Hanson.
Hockey
uNational Hockey League
Anaheim Ducks: Signed F John Kurtz
to a one-year entry-level contract. As-
signed LWMax Friberg to Norfolk (AHL).
Columbus Blue Jackets: Signed F Lu-
kas Sedlak to a three-year contract.
Dallas Stars: Recalled G Cristopher
Nilstorp from Texas (AHL).
Montreal Canadiens: Signed G Peter
Budaj to a two-year contract extension.
New Jersey Devils: Recalled G Keith
Kinkaid from Albany (AHL).
College
Hofstra: Named Joe Mihalich mens
basketball coach.
Houston Baptist: Announced the res-
ignation of Mary Gleason womens bas-
ketball coach.
Kansas State: Signed mens basket-
ball coach Bruce Weber to a one-year
contract extension through 2017-18.
Marist: Named Jeff Bower mens bas-
ketball coach.
Missouri State: Named Killie Harper
womens basektball coach.
Providence: Signed mens basketball
coach EdCooley toacontract extension.
DEALS
International League (AAA)
Wednesdays results
Norfolk 6, Charlotte 4
Syracuse at Buffalo (ppd.)
Durham 10, Gwinnett 6
Indianapolis 7, Toledo 2
Columbus 5, Louisville 0
Rochester at Scranton/W.-Barre (ppd.)
Pawtucket at Lehigh Valley (susp.)
Pacific Coast League (AAA)
Wednesdays results
Omaha 6-6, Albuquerque 3-3
Tucson at Colorado Springs (ppd.)
Salt Lake 9, Reno 4
Oklahoma City 3, Nashville 1
Iowa 3, Round Rock 2
New Orleans at Memphis (susp.)
Tacoma at Sacramento
Las Vegas at Fresno
Eastern League (AA)
Wednesdays results
New Hampshire 6, Trenton 3
Bowie 7, Richmond 6
Binghamton at Erie (susp.)
Portland 5, Reading 2
Altoona at Akron (ppd.)
New Britain 17, Harrisburg 5
Southern League (AA)
Wednesdays results
Chattanooga 6, Tennessee 2
Huntsville 5, Jacksonville 1
Birmingham 9, Mississippi 5
Montgomery 4, Jackson 3
Mobile 10, Pensacola 2
Texas League (AA)
Wednesdays results
No games scheduled
Carolina League (A+)
Wednesdays results
Salem 7, Potomac 2
Carolina 12, Wilmington 1
Lynchburg 4, Myrtle Beach 0
Winston-Salem 5, Frederick 2
California League (A+)
Wednesdays results
Bakersfield at Visalia
Lake Elsinore at Lancaster
High Desert at Inland Empire
San Jose at Stockton
Modesto at Rancho Cucamonga
Florida State League (A+)
Wednesdays results
Brevard County 7, Lakeland 6
Dunedin 4, Tampa 3
Palm Beach 1, St. Lucie 0
Fort Myers 7, Jupiter 6 (10)
Charlotte 4, Bradenton 3 (10)
Clearwater 14, Daytona 9 (11)
Midwest League (A)
Wednesdays results
Cedar Rapids at Wisconsin (ppd.)
Clinton 10, Kane County 4
Lake County at Great Lakes (ppd.)
West Michigan 9, Fort Wayne 7
Dayton at South Bend (ppd.)
Quad Cities at Burlington (ppd.)
Beloit at Peoria (ppd.)
Bowling Green 10, Lansing 1
South Atlantic League (A)
Wednesdays results
Asheville 6, Lexington 1
Charleston 12, West Virginia 5
Greenville 7, Hickory 5
Rome 3, Greensboro 2
Hagerstown 6, Lakewood 0
Kannapolis 4, Delmarva 2
Savannah 7, Augusta 0
BASEBALL
Major League Soccer
Eastern W L T Pts GF GA
Montreal 4 1 0 12 6 4
Kansas City 3 1 2 11 7 3
Houston 3 2 0 9 8 6
Columbus 2 1 2 8 8 5
Philadelphia 2 2 1 7 6 7
Toronto 1 2 2 5 7 8
New York 1 3 2 5 7 10
D.C. United 1 3 1 4 2 5
New England 1 2 1 4 1 2
Chicago 1 3 1 4 4 10
Western W L T Pts GF GA
Dallas 4 1 1 13 10 7
Chivas USA 3 1 1 10 10 7
Los Angeles 2 0 2 8 8 3
San Jose 2 2 2 8 5 7
Vancouver 2 2 1 7 6 6
Salt Lake 2 3 1 7 5 6
Portland 1 1 3 6 9 8
Colorado 1 3 2 5 5 7
Seattle 0 3 1 1 2 5
Saturdays games
Columbus at Montreal, 2
New England at Seattle, 4
Toronto at Philadelphia, 4
Salt Lake at Vancouver, 4
New York at D.C. United, 7
Los Angeles at Dallas, 7:30
Colorado at Chivas USA, 10:30
English Premier League
GP W T L GF GA Pts
Man. United 31 25 2 4 71 33 77
Man. City 31 19 4 8 57 27 65
Tottenham 32 17 7 8 55 40 58
Chelsea 31 17 7 7 61 33 58
Arsenal 31 16 8 7 61 34 56
Everton 31 13 13 5 49 37 52
Liverpool 32 13 10 9 59 40 49
West Brom 32 13 5 14 42 43 44
Swansea 32 10 11 11 43 42 41
Fulham 31 10 9 12 43 47 39
West Ham 31 10 7 14 35 44 37
Southampton 32 9 10 13 46 53 37
Newcastle 32 10 6 16 42 56 36
Norwich 32 7 14 11 30 49 35
Stoke 32 7 13 12 28 39 34
Aston Villa 32 8 9 15 35 59 33
Sunderland 32 7 10 15 34 45 31
Wigan 31 8 7 16 37 57 31
QPR 32 4 12 16 29 52 24
Reading 32 5 8 19 36 63 23
UEFA Champions League
Quarterfinals Second leg
Wednesdays results
Paris Saint-Germain 1, BARCELONA 1
Barcelona wins on away goals
Bayern Munich 2, JUVENTUS 0
BayernMunichwins on4-0aggregate
SOCCER
Arena Football League
National Conference
Central W L T Pct PF PA
Iowa 2 1 0 .667 154 141
Chicago 1 2 0 .333 150 180
San Antonio 0 2 0 .000 83 95
West W L T Pct PF PA
Arizona 3 0 0 1.000 216 148
Spokane 3 0 0 1.000 209 145
San Jose 2 1 0 .667 159 177
Utah 1 2 0 .333 178 187
American Conference
South W L T Pct PF PA
Jacksonville 3 0 0 1.000 191 139
Tampa Bay 2 1 0 .667 201 176
New Orleans 1 1 0 .500 85 93
Orlando 0 3 0 .000 140 177
Eastern W L T Pct PF PA
Philadelphia 1 1 0 .500 113 99
Pittsburgh 0 2 0 .000 68 125
Cleveland 0 3 0 .000 137 202
Fridays games
New Orleans at Jacksonville, 8
San Antonio at Tampa Bay, 8
Arizona at Spokane, 10
Saturdays games
Philadelphia at Iowa, 7
Sundays games
Pittsburgh at Chicago, 4
FOOTBALL
Final womens basketball poll. Outlook
by USATODAYSports Jack Carey.
1. Connecticut (35-4)
Points: 774 (30 rst-place votes). Previ-
ous ranking (PR): 3. Outlook: The Huskies
should be at their accustomed place near the
top of the polls with the return of C Stefanie
Dolson, Fs Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, Final
Four most outstanding player Breanna Stew-
art and Morgan Tuck and Gs Bria Hartley,
Brianna Banks (coming of an anterior cruci-
ate ligament injury) and Moriah Jeferson.
Gs Kelly Faris and Caroline Doty depart.
Tournament results: Beat Idaho 105-37,
beat Vanderbilt 77-44, beat then-No. 10
Maryland 76-50, beat then-No. 7 Kentucky
83-53, beat No. 2 Notre Dame 83-65, beat
then-No. 17 Louisville 93-60.
2. Notre Dame (35-2)
Points: 719. PR: 2. Outlook: G Skylar
Diggins, the programs all-time leading scor-
er, departs as Notre Dame heads for the At-
lantic Coast Conference. But the Fighting
Irish have plenty of key players due to return.
Among them are Gs Kayla McBride, Jewell
Loyd, Madison Cable and Michaela Mabrey
along with Fs Natalie Achonwa, Ariel Braker
and Markisha Wright. Tournament re-
sults: Beat Tennessee-Martin 97-64, beat
Iowa 74-57, beat then-unranked Kansas 93-
63, beat then-No. 5 Duke 87-76, lost to then-
No. 3 Connecticut 83-65.
3. Louisville (29-9)
Points: 703. PR: 17. Outlook: The Cardi-
nals could continue to ascend. Contributors
set to return include Gs Shoni Schimmel, An-
tonita Slaughter, Bria Smith, Megan Deines
and Jude Schimmel, CSheronne Vails and Fs
Sara Hammond, Cortnee Walton and Shawn-
ta Dyer, who is recovering from a knee inju-
ry. They lose F Monique Reid. Tournament
results: Beat Middle Tennessee 74-49, beat
then-No. 21 Purdue 76-63, beat then-No. 1
Baylor 82-81, beat No. 9 Tennessee 86-78,
beat then-No. 6 California 64-57, lost to then-
No. 3 Connecticut 93-60.
4. Baylor (34-2)
Points: 675 (1). PR: 1. Outlook: The rec-
ord-smashing career of C Brittney Griner is
over, and Fs Brooklyn Pope and Destiny Wil-
liams and Gs Kimetria Hayden and Jordan
Madden also depart. Standout point guard
Odyssey Sims is due to return with G Alexis
Prince. Tournament results: Beat Prairie
View 82-40, beat then-No. 24 Florida State
85-47, lost to then-No. 17 Louisville 82-81.
5. California (32-4)
Points: 658. PR: 6. Outlook: After
reaching their rst Final Four, the Golden
Bears lose Gs Layshia Clarendon and Eliza
Pierre along with C Talia Caldwell. Among
those due back are Fs Gennifer Brandon and
Reshanda Gray and Gs Brittany Boyd, Afure
Jemerigbe and Mikayla Lyles. Tournament
results: Beat Fresno State 90-76, beat South
Florida 82-78 OT, beat then-unranked LSU
73-63, beat then-No. 13 Georgia 65-62 OT,
lost to then-No. 17 Louisville 64-57.
6. Duke (33-3)
Points: 604. PR: 5. Outlook: C Allison
Vernerey was the only senior. Coming back
are C Elizabeth Williams, Gs Tricia Liston,
Alexis Jones, Chloe Wells and Chelsea Gray
(coming of a knee injury), wing Haley Peters
and F Richa Jackson. Tournament results:
Beat Hampton 67-51, beat Oklahoma State
68-59, beat then-No. 25 Nebraska 53-45, lost
to No. 2 Notre Dame 87-76.
7. Stanford (33-3)
Points: 588. PR: 4. Outlook: F Joslyn
Tinkle departs, but players due to return in-
clude Fs Chiney Ogwumike, an All-American,
Bonnie Samuelson, Taylor Greeneld and
Mikaela Ruef and Gs Amber Orrange, Sara
James and Toni Kokenis. NCAA tourna-
ment results: Beat Tulsa 72-56, beat Michi-
gan 73-40, lost to then-No. 13 Georgia 61-59.
8. Kentucky (30-6)
Points: 557. PR: 7. Outlook: The Wild-
cats lose G Adia Mathies, twice the South-
eastern Conference player of the year, but
enough talent will return for another run at
national honors. C DeNesha Stallworth is
due back along with Gs Jennifer ONeill, Bria
Goss, Kastine Evans, Janee Thompson and
Bernisha Pinkett and F-Cs Samarie Walker
and Azia Bishop. Tournament results:
Beat Navy 61-41, beat then-No. 15 Dayton 84-
70, beat then-No. 16 Delaware 69-62, lost to
then-No. 3 Connecticut 83-53.
9. Tennessee (27-8)
Points: 527. PR: 9. Outlook: The Lady
Vols lose wing Taber Spani and G Kamiko
Williams, but many key players are due to re-
turn. Among them: Gs Meighan Simmons
(the SECco-player of year), Ariel Massengale
and Andraya Carter (coming of a shoulder
injury), C Isabelle Harrison and Fs Bashaara
Graves, Cierra Burdick and Jasmine Jones.
Tournament results: Beat Oral Roberts
83-62, beat Creighton 68-52, beat Oklahoma
74-59, lost to then-No. 17 Louisville 86-78.
10. Georgia (28-7)
Points: 468. PR: 13. Outlook: The Bull-
dogs lose key contributors in F Jasmine Has-
sell, G Jasmine James and wing Anne Marie
Armstrong. Among those due back are Gs
Khaalidah Miller, Tiaria Grifn and Erika
Ford, wing Shacobia Barbee and F Merritt
Hempe. Tournament results: Beat Mon-
tana 70-50, beat then-No. 23 Iowa State 65-
60, beat then-No. 4 Stanford 61-59, lost to
then-No. 6 California 65-62 OT.
11. Maryland (26-8)
Points: 448. PR: 10. Outlook: The Terra-
pins lose F Tianna Hawkins, but many key
players are due to return, including Gs Lau-
rin Mincy and Brene Moseley, who were
sidelined by knee injuries. Also scheduled
back are Fs Alyssa Thomas (a two-time At-
lantic Coast Conference player of the year)
and Tierney Prman, C Malina Howard and
Gs Katie Rutan and Chloe Pavlech. Tourna-
ment results: Beat Quinnipiac 76-52, beat
Michigan State 74-49, lost to then-No. 3 Con-
necticut 76-50.
12. Penn State (26-6)
Points: 411. PR: 8. Outlook: The Lady
Lions lose mainstays in Gs Alex Bentley and
Gizelle Studevent and Fs Nikki Greene and
Mia Nickson. Gs Maggie Lucas (the Big Ten
player of the year) and Dara Taylor are due to
return along with Fs Ariel Edwards, Talia
East, Candice Agee and Tori Waldner. Tour-
nament results: Beat Cal Poly 85-55, lost to
then-unranked LSU71-66.
13. Delaware (32-4)
Points: 391. PR: 16. Outlook: The career
of All-America F Elena Delle Donne, who led
the Blue Hens to new heights, is over. Also
departing are Gs Lauren Carra, Trumae Lu-
cas, Jaquetta May and Kayla Miller and F
Danielle Parker. Scheduled to return are Gs
Akeema Richards and Courtni Green and C
Kelsey Buchanan. Tournament results:
Beat West Virginia 66-53, beat then-No. 18
North Carolina 78-69, lost to then-No. 7 Ken-
tucky 69-62.
14. Texas A&M (25-10)
Points: 333. PR: 11. Outlook: C Kelsey
Bone, a fourth-year junior, opted to leave
early for the WNBA draft. Among those due
back for the Aggies are Gs Courtney Walker,
Peyton Little and Tori Scott, wing Courtney
Williams and CKarla Gilbert. They are losing
G Adrienne Pratcher and F Kristi Bellock.
Tournament results: Beat Wichita State
71-45, lost to then-No. 25 Nebraska 74-63.
15. UCLA (26-8)
Points: 305. PR: 12. Outlook: The Bru-
ins lose veteran talent in Fs Alyssia Brewer
and Jasmine Dixon along with wing Markel
Walker and GMariah Williams. Due back are
F Atonye Nyingifa and Gs Thea Lemberger,
Kari Korver and Nirra Fields. Tournament
results: Beat Stetson 66-49, lost to then-un-
ranked Oklahoma 85-72.
16. (tie) Dayton (28-3)
Points: 270. PR: 15. Outlook: After set-
ting a school record for wins with one of the
nations youngest lineups, the Flyers are set
to return Gs Andrea Hoover, Amber Deane
and Kelley Austria, FAlly Malott and Cs Cas-
sie Sant and Jodie Cornelie-Sigmundova.
They lose G Samantha MacKay and F Olivia
Applewhite. Tournament results: Beat
St. Johns 96-90 2OT, lost to then-No. 7 Ken-
tucky 84-70.
16. (tie) South Carolina
(25-8)
Points: 270. PR: 14. Outlook: The
Gamecocks hope to continue to be among
SECcontenders with the return of Fs Aleigh-
sa Welch and Elem Ibiam and Gs Tifany
Mitchell and Khadijah Sessions. Departing
are F Ashley Bruner and Gs Ieasia Walker
and Sancheon White. Tournament results:
Beat South Dakota State 74-52, lost to then-
unranked Kansas 75-69.
18. Nebraska (25-9)
Points: 228. PR: 25. Outlook: The Corn-
huskers lose standout point guard Lindsey
Moore along with F Meghin Williams. But
among those due to return is FJordan Hoop-
er, the teams leader in scoring and rebound-
ing this season. Tournament results: Beat
Chattanooga 73-59, beat then-No. 11 Texas
A&M74-63, lost to then-No. 5 Duke 53-45.
19. North Carolina (29-7)
Points: 197. PR: 18. Outlook: The Tar
Heels lose high-scoring GTierra Rufn-Pratt
along with C Waltiea Rolle and wing Krista
Gross. Among those scheduled to return are
F Xylina McDaniel, the ACC rookie of the
year, and Gs Brittany Rountree, Megan Buck-
land, Danielle Butts and Latifah Coleman.
Tournament results: Beat Albany 59-54,
lost to then-No. 16 Delaware 78-69.
20. Purdue (25-9)
Points: 153. PR: 21. Outlook: The Boil-
ermakers lose Fs Drey Mingo and Sam Osta-
rello and G Chantel Poston but are due to
return several important players to make an-
other run at Big Ten honors. They include Gs
Courtney Moses, KK Houser, April Wilson
and Dee Dee Williams and F Taylor Manuel.
Tournament results: Beat Liberty 77-43,
lost to then-No. 17 Louisville 76-63.
21. LSU (22-12)
Points: 150. PR: Not ranked. Outlook:
The Tigers lose backcourt stars Bianca Lutley
and Adrienne Webb, but most other key play-
ers will return. Among them is F Theresa
Plaisance, the SEC scoring leader. Tourna-
ment results: Beat then-No. 20 Wisconsin-
Green Bay 75-71, beat then-No. 8 Penn State
71-66, lost to then-No. 6 California 73-63.
22. Iowa State (24-9)
Points: 140. PR: 23. Outlook: The Cy-
clones lose C Anna Prins and F Chelsea Pop-
pens but are set to return leading scorer F
Hallie Christoferson, Gs Nikki Moody and
Nicole Blaskowsky and wings Fallon Ellis and
Brynn Williamson. Tournament results:
Beat Gonzaga 72-60, lost to then-No. 13
Georgia 65-60.
23. Oklahoma (24-11)
Points: 96. PR: Not ranked. Outlook: A
surprising Sweet 16 run marked the end of
the careers of F Joanna McFarland and Gs
Whitney Hand (injured most of season) and
Jasmine Hartman. Among those due back
are C Nicole Grifn, Gs Aaryn Ellenberg
(teamscoring leader), Sharane Campbell and
Morgan Hook, wing Nicole Kornet and F
Portia Durrett. Tournament results: Beat
Central Michigan 78-73, beat then-No. 12
UCLA85-72, lost to No. 9 Tennessee 74-59.
24. Wisconsin-Green Bay
(29-3)
Points: 82. PR: 20. Outlook: The Phoe-
nix had another strong season but will be los-
ing several key contributors, including Fs
Sarah Eichler, Jenny Gilbertson, Stephanie
Sension and Lydia Bauer and G Adrian
Ritchie, the teams top scorer. The only start-
er due back is GMegan Lukan. Tournament
results: Lost to then-unranked LSU75-71.
25. Kansas (20-14)
Points: 81. PR: Not ranked. Outlook: Af-
ter a surprising tournament run, the Jay-
hawks will lose scoring punch with the
departures of F Carolyn Davis and Gs Angel
Goodrich and Monica Engelman. Scheduled
to return are F Chelsea Gardner and Gs Nat-
alie Knight, CeCe Harper and Asia Boyd.
Tournament results: Beat then-No. 19 Col-
orado 67-52, beat then-No. 14 South Carolina
75-69, lost to No. 2 Notre Dame 93-63.
Dropped out: No. 19 Colorado, No. 22 Syracuse, No. 24
FloridaState.
Others receiving votes: Colorado (25-7) 65; Syracuse
(24-8) 46; Florida State (23-10) 42; Oklahoma State (22-
11) 37; South Florida (22-11) 35; Iowa (21-13) 9; Drexel
(28-10) 6; Michigan State (25-9) 3; Toledo (29-4) 2; Marist
(26-7) 1; San Diego State (27-7) 1.
The USA TODAY Sports board of
coaches is made up of 31 head
coaches at Division I institutions. All
are members of the Womens Bas-
ketball Coaches Association. The
board for the 2012-13 season: Joan
Bonvicini, Seattle; Joanne Boyle, Vir-
ginia; Cynthia Cooper-Dyke, Texas
Southern; Matt Corkery, American; June Daugherty,
Washington State; Kathy Delaney-Smith, Harvard; Brooks
Donald Williams, McNeese State; Jose Fernandez, South
Florida; Ronny Fisher, Presbyterian; Beckie Francis, Oak-
land (Mich.); Stephanie Glance, Illinois State; Sue Gueva-
ra, Central Michigan; Bonnie Henrickson, Kansas; Rick
Insell, Middle Tennessee; JimJabir, Dayton; Karen Kemp,
East Tennessee State; Krista Kilburn-Steveskey, Hofstra;
Andy Landers, Georgia; Kevin McMillan, Tennessee-Mar-
tin; Suzy Merchant, Michigan State; Faith Mimnaugh, Cal
Poly; Sherri Murrell, PortlandState; John Olenowski, Man-
hattan; Kathy Olivier, UNLV; Jennifer Rizzotti, Hartford; Er-
ic Simpson, Loyola (Ill.); David Six, Hampton; Charlotte
Smith, Elon; Ed Swanson, Sacred Heart; Paul Thomas,
Saint Mary''s; Joi Williams, Central Florida.
The Masters
First- and second-round tee times at Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Ga.;
a-amateur
Today-Friday
8 a.m.-10:56 a.m. Sandy Lyle, John Peterson, a-Nathan Smith
8:11 a.m.-11:07 a.m. Larry Mize, Brian Gay, Russell Henley
8:22 a.m.-11:18 a.m. Ian Woosnam, David Lynn, Kevin Na
8:33 a.m.-11:29 a.m. David Toms, Richard Sterne, Ted Potter Jr.
8:44 a.m.-11:40 a.m. Tom Watson, Ryan Moore, Kevin Streelman
8:55 a.m.-11:51 a.m. Robert Garrigus, Carl Pettersson, Tim Clark
9:06 a.m.-12:13 p.m. Mike Weir, Lee Westwood, Jim Furyk
9:17 a.m.-12:24 p.m. Brandt Snedeker, Ryo Ishikawa, Justin Rose
9:28 a.m.-12:35 p.m. Jose Maria Olazabal, Marc Leishman, a-T.J. Vogel
9:39 a.m.-12:46 p.m. Charl Schwartzel, Webb Simpson, Peter Hanson
9:50 a.m.-12:57 p.m. Zach Johnson, K.J. Choi, Graeme McDowell
10:12 a.m.-1:08 p.m. Michael Thompson, John Huh, John Senden
10:23 a.m.-1:19 p.m. Stewart Cink, Nicolas Colsaerts, Thaworn Wiratchant
10:34 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Bubba Watson, Ian Poulter, a-Steven Fox
10:45 a.m.-1:41 p.m. Tiger Woods, Luke Donald, Scott Piercy
10:56 a.m.-1:52 p.m. Jason Day, Rickie Fowler, Padraig Harrington
11:07 a.m.- 8 a.m. John Merrick, Thorbjorn Olesen, D.A. Points
11:18 a.m.-8:11 a.m. Craig Stadler, Ben Curtis, a-Michael Weaver
11:29 a.m.-8:22 a.m. Mark OMeara, Martin Laird, Jamie Donaldson
11:40 a.m.-8:33 a.m. Paul Lawrie, Thomas Bjorn, Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano
11:51 a.m.-8:44 a.m. Trevor Immelman, George Coetzee, a-Alan Dunbar
12:13 p.m.-8:55 a.m. Ernie Els, Steve Stricker, Nick Watney
12:24 p.m.-9:06 a.m. Ben Crenshaw, Matteo Manassero, a-Guan Tianlang
12:35 p.m.-9:17 a.m. Bernhard Langer, Lucas Glover, Henrik Stenson
12:46 p.m.-9:28 a.m. Vijay Singh, Bo Van Pelt, Y.E. Yang
12:57 p.m.-9:39 a.m. Angel Cabrera, Sergio Garcia, Adam Scott
1:08 p.m.-9:50 a.m. Fred Couples, Dustin Johnson, Branden Grace
1:19 p.m.-10:12 a.m. Hunter Mahan, Hiroyuki Fujita, Francesco Molinari
1:30 p.m.-10:23 a.m. Phil Mickelson, Louis Oosthuizen, Martin Kaymer
1:41 p.m.-10:34 a.m. Rory McIlroy, Keegan Bradley, Freddie Jacobson
1:52 p.m.-10:45 a.m. Jason Dufner, Matt Kuchar, Bill Haas
GOLF
Home teams in caps.
National Basketball Assoc.
Todays games
Favorite Line Underdog
New York 6 CHICAGO
Oklahoma City 4 GOLDEN STATE
National Hockey League
Today's games
Favorite Line Underdog
BOSTON -180 N.Y. Islanders
WASHINGTON -190 Carolina
PHILADELPHIA -135 Ottawa
Montreal -140 BUFFALO
Pittsburgh -135 TAMPA BAY
DETROIT -110 San Jose
St. Louis -115 MINNESOTA
WINNIPEG -165 Florida
LOS ANGELES -260 Colorado
uMLB lines, 4C
TODAYS LINE
NBA Development League
Playoffs First round
uTulsa leads Canton (1-0)
uBakersfield vs. Austin
uRio Grande Valley vs. Maine
uSanta Cruz leads Fort Wayne (1-0)
Wednesdays results
Santa Cruz 124, Fort Wayne 118
Tulsa 118, Canton 99
Todays games
Rio Grande Valley at Maine, 7
Bakersfield at Austin, 8:30
BASKETBALL
American Hockey League
Wednesdays results
St. Johns 4, Portland 3
Chicago 3, Grand Rapids 2
Oklahoma City 4, Houston 1
Peoria 4, Rockford 0
Todays games
Texas at Charlotte, 7
San Antonio at Houston, 8:05
ECHL
Conference quarterfinals (best-of-7)
uCincinnati leads Toledo (3-0)
uReading leads Greenville (2-1)
uElmira leads Florida (2-1)
uGwinnett leads South Carolina (3-0)
uOntario def. Utah (4-0)
uLas Vegas leads Stockton (3-2)
uIdaho leads Colorado (3-2)
uAlaska, San Francisco tied (1-1)
Tuesdays results
Colorado 7, Idaho 4
Las Vegas 5, Stockton 2
Wednesdays results
Greenville 4, Reading 2
Elmira 1, Florida 0
Gwinnett 3, South Carolina 1
Cincinnati 5, Toledo 2
Las Vegas 3, Stockton 0
Todays games
Reading at Greenville, 7
Alaska at San Francisco, 10:15
HOCKEY
Grand Prix Hassan II
Wednesdays results from Casablan-
ca, Morocco:
uPurse: $607,500; Surface: Clay
Singles First round: Robin Haase
(7), Netherlands, def. Roberto Bautista
Agut, Spain, 6-3, 2-6, 7-5; Kenny de
Schepper, France, def. Steve Darcis, Bel-
gium, 6-3, 6-4.
Singles Second round: Stanislas
Wawrinka (1), Switzerland, def. Blaz
Kavcic, Slovenia, 4-6, 6-2, 6-1; Guillermo
Garcia-Lopez, Spain, def. Edouard Rog-
er-Vasselin, France, 6-7 (4-7), 7-6 (7-3),
6-2; Benoit Paire (4), France, def. Aljaz
Bedene, Slovenia, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3; Tommy
Robredo, Spain, def. Tobias Kamke,
Germany, 6-4, 7-5.
Doubles First round: Julian Know-
le, Austria, and Filip Polasek (1), Slova-
kia, def. Martin Emmrich, Germany, and
Rameez Junaid, Australia, 6-7 (5-7), 7-6
(7-4), 12-10; Dustin Brown and Chis-
topher Kas, Germany, def. Lukas Dlouhy,
Czech Republic, and Paul Hanley (2),
Australia, 3-6, 7-5, 10-6; Daniele Brac-
ciali, Italy, and Potito Starace (4), Italy,
def. Mikhail Elgin, Russia, and Ken Skup-
ski, Britain, 6-7 (4-7), 7-6 (8-6), 10-8; Aljaz
Bedene, Slovenia, and Tomasz Bedna-
rek, Poland, def. Pablo Andujar and
GuiellermoGarci-Lopez, Spain, 7-6(7-3),
6-0.
U.S. Mens Clay Court
Championships
Wednesdays results from Houston:
uPurse: $519,775; Surface: Clay
Singles First round: RubenRamirez
Hidalgo, Spain, def. Somdev Devvar-
man, India, 7-6 (7-5), 6-0; Martin Alund,
Argentina def. Lleyton Hewitt, Australia,
4-6, 6-3, 6-1.
Doubles First round: Treat Huey,
Philippines, and Dominic Inglot (3), Brit-
ain, def. Fernando Verdasco, Spain, and
Mischa Zverev, Germany, 6-3, 2-6, 10-5.
BNP Paribas Katowice Open
Wednesdays results from Katowice,
Poland:
uPurse: $235,000; Surface: Clay
Singles First round: Petra Kvitova
(1), Czech Republic, def. Misaki Doi, Ja-
pan, 6-4, 6-4; Alexandra Cadantu, Ro-
mania, def. Sabine Lisicki, Germany, 7-4,
6-2; Roberta Vinci (2), Italy, def. Andrea
Hlavackova, CzechRepublic, 6-2, 2-0, re-
tired; Annika Beck, def. Lourdes Domin-
guez Lino, Spain, 5-7, 6-3, 6-2.
Singles Second round: Petra Mar-
tic, Croatia, def. Anna Schmiedlova, Slo-
vakia, 6-4, 6-2; Maria Elena Camerin, It-
aly, def. Klara Zakopalova (3), Czech Re-
public, 7-5, 3-6, 6-3; Karolina Pliskova,
Czech Republic, def. Kaia Kanepi (6), Es-
tonia, 7-5, 6-3.
Doubles First round: Shuko Aoya-
ma, Japan, and Mervana Jugic-Salkic,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, def. Gabriela Da-
browski, Canada, and Eva Hrdinova,
Czech Republic, 6-2, 1-6, 10-5; Irina-Ca-
meliaBegu, Romania, andMariaElena
Camerin, Italy, def. Jill Craybas, USA,
and Mandy Minella, Luxembourg, 6-3,
6-3; EvaBirnerova, Czech Republic, and
IrinaBuryachok, Ukraine, def. PaulaKa-
nia and Sandra Zaniewska, Poland, 1-6,
6-3, 10-8; MartaDomachowskaandAl-
icja Rosolska, Poland, def. Magdalena
Frech and Katarzyna Pyka, Poland,
walkover.
TENNIS
The Directors Cup was developed as a
joint effort betweentheNational Associ-
ation of Collegiate Directors of Athletics
(NACDA) and USA TODAY. These are the
Divisions I, II and standings. Standings
published midseason are unofficial. For
complete standings and scoring struc-
ture, go to www.nacda.com
Division I
1. Stanford........................................749.50
2. Michigan......................................746.00
3. Penn State ...................................724.50
4. Notre Dame................................718.00
5. North Carolina............................674.00
6. Florida..........................................648.50
7. Florida State ................................614.00
8. Minnesota....................................571.75
9. Texas A&M...................................571.50
10. Oregon.......................................570.75
11. UCLA...........................................544.50
12. Georgia.....................................542.00
13. Texas ..........................................524.50
14. Michigan State.........................522.50
15. Duke ...........................................516.60
16. Louisville ....................................494.00
17. Arizona.......................................486.50
18. Oklahoma State ......................460.00
19. Ohio State..................................459.00
20. Kentucky ....................................458.50
21. Indiana ......................................453.50
22. Princeton ...................................451.50
23. Wisconsin..................................446.00
24. California...................................407.00
25. Virginia Tech.............................400.00
Division II
1. Ashland........................................589.00
2. Grand Valley State....................558.50
3. Grand Canyon............................556.50
4. Minnesota State Mankato .......498.00
5. Adams State ...............................465.50
6. Colorado School of Mines........446.00
7. Shippensburg..............................416.50
8. Augustana (S.D.).........................402.00
9. Indianapolis ................................396.00
10. Tampa........................................361.00
11. Western Washington..............359.00
12. Alaska Anchorage...................355.00
13. Wingate ....................................350.00
14. Western State Colorado........330.00
15. Simon Fraser .............................329.00
16. Drury...........................................325.00
17. UC San Diego............................320.00
18. West Texas A&M......................317.50
19. West Chester ............................310.00
20. Indiana (Pa.) .............................303.00
21. Wayne State .............................299.00
22. Massachusetts Lowell..............287.00
23. Florida Southern ......................286.50
24. Nova Southeastern .................280.00
25. Central Missouri .......................279.00
Division III
1. Williams .......................................785.75
2. Middlebury..................................665.75
3. Emory............................................635.75
4. Johns Hopkins.............................564.50
5. Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. .....549.75
6. Washington ................................542.00
7. Wisconsin Whitewater ..............541.50
8. Amherst .......................................540.80
9. Calvin............................................508.00
10. Wisconsin Eau Claire ..............482.50
11. St. Thomas.................................471.50
12. Wheaton ...................................443.75
13. Wisconsin La Crosse ...............434.00
14. Messiah .....................................428.00
15. Ithaca.........................................425.00
16. Tufts.............................................417.00
17. Bowdoin.....................................401.50
18. North Central ...........................386.50
19. Wisconsin Oshkosh..................375.00
20. Cortland State..........................374.00
21. DePauw......................................367.00
22. Wartburg ..................................356.00
23. Trinity..........................................355.50
24. Wisconsin Stevens Point .........318.00
25. Mount Union..............................317.75
LEARFIELD SPORTS DIRECTORS CUP
Global Poker Index
The Global Poker Index is a perfor-
mance-based system for ranking the
worlds best live-tournament players.
Rank, player GPI LW
1. Marvin Rettenmaier 3115.70 1
2. Michael Watson 3039.45 3
3. Bertrand Grospellier 2970.18 4
4. Bryn Kenney 2864.37 5
5. David Sands 2818.95 6
6. Philipp Gruissem 2787.64 2
7. Michael Mizrachi 2763.05 7
8. Stephen O'Dwyer 2736.89 10
9. Jason Mercier 2719.77 8
10. Joseph Cheong 2685.99 9
11. Mohsin Charania 2601.88 12
12. Vanessa Selbst 2572.37 11
13. Shannon Shorr 2552.70 14
14. A. Lichtenberger 2542.95 16
15. Micah Raskin 2509.20 17
16. Igor Kurganov 2490.57 15
17. Ole Schemion 2486.62 18
18. Toby Lewis 2440.30 19
19. Daniel Shak 2438.19 21
20. Scott Seiver 2417.88 20
21. Joseph Serock 2417.57 22
22. Nick Schulman 2409.27 23
23. Paul Volpe 2373.97 24
24. Chris Klodnicki 2350.12 25
25. Mike McDonald 2335.85 26
u More rankings at sports.usatoday-
.com
POKER
Pittsburgh is hosting the NCAA Division I mens hockey semifinals and title game for
thefirst time. Thereareplenty of other firsts. Threeof theteams areintheir first Frozen
Four, andthe fourth, Yale, hasnt been tothe national semifinals since 1952, when the
tournament hadfour teams. No teamhas won the title in its first Frozen Four appear-
ance since Lake Superior State in 1988. Alook at the game schedule (times p.m. East-
ern) and each of the teams:
Schedule
Todays semifinals
Massachusetts-Lowell vs. Yale, 4:30 (ESPN2)
Quinnipiac vs. St. Cloud State, 8 (ESPN2)
Saturdays championship
Semifinal winners, 7 (ESPN)
Teams
YALE (20-12-3)
West Regional champ
Location: New Haven, Conn.
Nickname: Bulldogs.
Path to the Frozen Four: Beat Minnesota 3-2 OT, North Dakota 4-1.
Coach: Keith Allain, 136-84-19 in his seventh season at Yale.
NCAA hockey championships: None.
Leading scorers: F Kenny Agostino, Jr. (17 goals, 23 assists); F Andrew Miller, Sr.
(16 g, 21 a); F Antoine Laganiere, Sr. (14 g, 13 a).
Ingoal: Jeff Malcolm, Sr. (18-6-2, 2.35goals-against average, .916save percentage).
Icechips: YaleandfellowFrozenFour entrant Quinnipiac areabout 8miles apart. The
Bulldogs lost three times to the Bobcats this season. ... Miller is the second player in
Yale history with at least 100 career assists and needs two to set the school record. ...
In the Bulldogs tournament opener against Minnesota, Jesse Root a Pittsburgh
native scored nine seconds into OT. The Gophers came in tied for No. 1 in the USA
TODAY Sports/USA Hockey Magazine poll.
MASSACHUSETTS-LOWELL (28-10-2)
Northeast Regional champ
Location: Lowell, Mass.
Nickname: River Hawks.
Path to the Frozen Four: Beat Wisconsin 6-1, New Hampshire 2-0.
Coach: Norm Bazin, 52-23-3 in his second season with UMass-Lowell.
NCAA hockey championships: None.
Leading scorers: F Scott Wilson, So. (16 goals, 21 assists); F Joseph Pendenza, Jr.
(14 g, 23 a); F Derek Arnold, Jr. (13 g, 16 a).
In goal: Connor Hellebuyck, Fr. (20-2-0, 1.31, .953).
Ice chips: In 2010-11, the season before Bazin took over at his alma mater, the River
Hawks had five wins. He was named national coach of the year Wednesday by the
American Hockey Coaches Association. ... Hellebuyck stopped 59 of the 60 shots he
facedintheRiver Hawks first twotournament games. His goals-against averageand
save percentage lead the nation. The Division I season record for save percentage is
.956 by Maines Jimmy Howard in 2004. The Black Bears were national runners-up
that season.
QUINNIPIAC (29-7-5)
East Regional champ
Location: Hamden, Conn.
Nickname: Bobcats.
Path to the Frozen Four: Beat Canisius 4-3, Union (N.Y.) 5-1.
Coach: Rand Pecknold, 366-237-66 in his 19th season at Quinnipiac.
NCAA hockey championships: None.
Leading scorers: F Jeremy Langlois, Sr. (12 goals, 18 assists); F Matthew Peca, So.
(15 g, 15 a); F Jordan Samuels-Thomas, Jr. (16 g, 11 a).
In goal: Eric Hartzell, Sr. (29-6-5, 1.55, .933).
Ice chips: Hartzell is one of three finalists for the Hobey Baker Award, annually given
to the best player in college hockey. The winner will be announced Friday. ... Before
making it to the Frozen Four this season, Quinnipiac had no Division I tournament
wins. TheBobcats only prior appearancewas in2002. ... Quinnipiac leads DivisionI in
goals-against average (1.63) and penalty killing (90.6%).
ST. CLOUD STATE (25-15-1)
Midwest Regional champ
Location: St. Cloud, Minn.
Nickname: Huskies.
Path to the Frozen Four: Beat Notre Dame 5-1, Miami (Ohio) 4-1.
Coach: Bob Motzko, 162-124-35 in his eighth season at St. Cloud State.
NCAA hockey championships: None.
Leading scorers: F DrewLeBlanc, Sr. (13 goals, 37 assists); F Nic Dowd, Jr. (14 g, 24 a);
F Jonny Brodzinski, Fr. (22 g, 11 a).
In goal: Ryan Faragher, So. (24-14-1, 2.23, .916).
Ice chips: St. Cloud State was 1-9 in tournament play, its first win coming in 2010,
beforemakingtheFrozenFour this season. ... LeBlanc is aHobey Baker Awardfinalist.
He leads the nation in assists, one year removed frombreaking his leg. ... St. Cloud is
the least-penalized team in the nation at 8.3 penalty minutes a game.
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NEW YORK Jazz hands. Cocked hips.
Feet turning sharply inward and out.
Its the Manson trio, one of Bob
Fosses signature dance numbers,
rst introduced in the original pro-
duction of Pippin being faithfully
re-created by Fosse protg Chet
Walker, who appeared in that staging
and is now, more than 40 years later,
choreographing the rst (believe it or
not) Broadway revival.
On the stage of the Music Box
Theatre, where the new Pippin is in
previews, Walker and his dance cap-
tain, Brad Musgrove, lead Patina
Miller, Andrew Fitch and Anthony
Wayne through their paces. Miller, a
Tony Award nominee for 2011s
Sister Act, is cast in a role initiated in
1972 by Ben Vereen: the Leading
Player, who in this loose historical
adaptation guides Pippin, the son of
Charlemagne, and the audience on a
journey of self-discovery.
That key characters gender isnt
the only change in this American
Repertory Theater-based produc-
tion, which opens April 25. Director
Diane Paulus, whose previous high-
prole revivals include last seasons
The Gershwins Porgy and Bess and
2009s acclaimed Hair, took the
creators show-within-a-showformat
and added a circus element.
It was a very long audition proc-
ess, says Walker, 58, during a re-
hearsal break. Everyone in this
show has to sing, dance and act, and
pretty much everyone has some sort
of acrobatic skill. We have seven cir-
cus performers who had to learn
dance, and dancers who had to learn
circus elements.
Walker, who is credited in the pro-
gram as working in the style of Bob
Fosse, was keen to approach the
project with both reverence the
Manson trio, for instance, is repro-
duced step for step and the innova-
tive spirit he cherished in his mentor,
with whom he worked on such clas-
sics as Sweet Charity, The Pajama
Game and Dancin before conceiving
and choreographing 1999s Tony-
winning tribute, Fosse.
When Walker performed in Paja-
ma Game in a 1973 revival, Fosse
came over to look at it, he recalls,
and the producers asked what he
thought. And his response was, I
have no idea what I was doing in 1954
but would you like me to try some-
thing new?
Walker still refers to the man for
whom he rst auditioned as Mr.
Fosse, noting: We werent friends. I
was in awe and sometimes in fear of
him. I was always on the other side,
watching him create. Still, he re-
members Fosse as the most gallant
man, a man with so much charisma
and yet so much like a little boy in
his enthusiasm. He truly loved his
work, and that was infectious.
Revisiting Roger O. Hirsons book
for Pippin and Stephen Schwartzs
beloved theatrical-pop score also has
been eye-opening for Walker.
When I rst did it, I was the
youngest kid on Broadway, thinking,
What am I supposed to be doing
with my life? Nobody knew what to
tell me. And along comes this musi-
cal about a young man, posing the
same questions. Now that Im much
older, they still seem important and
potent.
TODD PLITT, USA TODAY
Bob Fosse protg Chet Walker adds
a circus glowto the Pippin revival.
Mr. Fosses Pippin dances back to Broadway
With equal parts reverence and innovation,
choreographer Chet Walker makes newmagic
Elysa Gardner
@elysagardner
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THEATER
PIPPIN INACTION
LIFE.USATODAY.COM
See photos, behind-scenes video.
1989
The 36-city Steel Wheels
outing ended with a take
of $260million, setting
a world record.
1994-95
Voodoo Lounge grossed
$320millionand drew
6.34millionfans.
2002-03
The Licks tour, marking the
Stones 40th anniversary,
pulled in $311 million
and played to 3.47million
fans.
2005-07
The marathon ABigger Bang
tour grossed $558million
frommore than 144 shows seen
by 4.68millionpeople.
It was historys top-grossing
tour until U2s 360 tour
eclipsed it to grab the all-time
record for receipts ($736.42
million) and attendance
(7.27 million).
2012
The Stones
played a 50 and
Counting appe-
tizer of ve
sold-out arena
shows before
73,702fans
in London,
Brooklyn and
Newark, raking
in $38.7
million.
1997-99
The worldwide Bridges to Babylon
tour (1997 and 1998), followed by the
briefer, 25-date No Security tour
(1999), exceeded grosses of $390
millionwith a combined attendance
of 5.6millionpeople.
Source: Billboard
AP
USA TODAY INTERVIEW: THE WORLD NEEDS MORE STONES RECORDS. SO DO I. 2D
IANWEST, AP
EILEENBLASS, USA TODAY
GOOD DAY
NATE BERKUS
The interior design guru has pro-
posed to his boyfriend of nearly
a year, reports Us Weekly. Berkus
popped the question Monday atop
Machu Picchu while on a trip to Peru
with Jeremiah Brent, former assistant
to stylist Rachel Zoe.
HOW WAS YOUR DAY?
BAD DAY
MICK FLEETWOOD
The 65-year-old Fleetwood Mac
drummer filed for legal separation
from wife Lynn Frankel Fleetwood
on March 22, but the documents
only became public Tuesday.
The two have been married since
July 1995 and have twin 11-year-old
daughters, Ruby and Tessa.
ROB KIM, GETTY IMAGES
Is Sean Diddy Combs hooking
up with Sports Illustrated super-
model Kate Upton? New Yorks
Daily News is reporting that the
two have been getting hot and
heavy. Alas, as amazing as the
pairs potential nickname Diddyup
is, the music mogul took to Twitter
to clear things up: I dont even
know Kate Upton personally! Im
not dating her ! Whats being
reported is not true. END of story!
RUMOR PATROL
DARIOCANTATORE,
INVISION, VIA AP
JEMAL COUNTESS,
GETTY IMAGES
MTV said
Wednesday it is
canceling Buck-
wild, the reality
show based in
West Virginia,
a week after the
accidental death
of star Shain
Gandee.
The 21-year-old
and two others were found dead of
carbon monoxide poisoning April 1.
MAKING WAVES
INVISIONVIA AP
Taking
advantage
of the balmy
spring weather,
Elizabeth Banks
took her 2-year-
old son, Felix
Handelman,
for a stroll in the
West Village
Wednesday
in New York.
ALOCEBALLOS, FILMMAGIC
CAUGHT IN THE ACT
Laurie Edwards, 32, teaches sci-
ence writing to college students,
cares for a 2-year-old daughter, blogs,
tweets and generally lives the life of a
busy young professional woman.
But she also spends at least 30
minutes a day having her chest
pounded by a physical therapist for a
rare lung disorder. She takes pills, fol-
lows a special diet and uses inhalers
and nebulizers to keep breathing and
functioning. Sometimes it all falls
apart and she ends up in an emergen-
cy roomor, worse, intensive care.
Edwards likes to say she lives both
in the kingdom of the well and the
kingdom of the sick, a dual
citizenship that the late writer Su-
san Sontag once said all humans
hold, whether they realize it or not.
That truth is getting harder to
ignore, Edwards writes in her new
book, In the Kingdom of the Sick:
A Social History of Chronic Illness in
America. As fewer of us die young or
unexpectedly frominfections or acci-
dents, more live long with conditions
that make life challenging.
Today, chronic illness every-
thing from heart disease, cancer and
arthritis to rarer conditions such as
the lung disorder Edwards has
afects nearly half of the adult popu-
lation, according the federal Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.
And yet, somehow, Edwards says,
chronic illness and those who endure
it remain poorly understood.
There are still all of these stereo-
types of people who are sick, says
Edwards, who also has celiac disease,
an immune disorder. The biggest is
that it is somehowour fault.
Blame and stigma trail people with
conditions from AIDS to obesity, she
says. Those attitudes are rooted in
history and human nature but come
with a twist today: Many believe that
medical science has advanced to such
a degree that there is no excuse for
an incurable illness. Those who suf-
fer from poorly dened conditions
such as chronic fatigue syndrome
and bromyalgia bear an extra bur-
den, she says: Even some doctors
doubt they are as sick as they say.
Women, in particular, she says,
still risk being labeled hysterical
females if they come to doctors with
symptoms that cant be easily diag-
nosed or dont respond to treatment.
In the book, Edwards introduces
many such patients. One is Paula Ka-
men, 46, a writer from Evanston, Ill.,
who has sufered from nearly daily
migraines since 1991. In her 2005
book, All in My Head: An Epic Quest
to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Un-
reasonable, and Only Slightly Enlight-
ening Headache, Kamen coined the
term tired girls to describe women
like herself with conditions that of-
ten seem invisible and can provoke
doubt and impatience in others.
Edwards writes: The Tired Girl
stands for so much that society dis-
dains: weakness, exhaustion, depen-
dence, unreliability, and the inability
to get better.
Kamen says that stigma keeps
many women from talking about
their lives with chronic illness. So
many people are sufering in isola-
tion because they dont want people
to think they are crazy. She hopes
Edwards book will help.
Meanwhile, people with chronic
illnesses are doing more to help
themselves. As part of the larger
patients rights movement, they are
demanding more collaborative rela-
tionships with doctors, Edwards says,
and connecting on the Internet.
The only other person she has met
with her rare lung disorder pri-
mary ciliary dyskinesia she found
online.
And because so many want and
need to work, more are speaking up
to ask for accommodations fromem-
ployers, including exible schedules
and work-from-home arrangements.
Such workarounds are not possi-
ble in many jobs, says Rosalind Jofe,
61, a career coach for people with
chronic illness who also is featured in
the book. She knows what shes talk-
ing about: She began her current ca-
reer when multiple sclerosis made it
impossible for her to continue one in
video production, she says.
Jofe now targets her services to
young adults, urging them to speak
with employers from the start about
what they need to succeed despite
their illnesses. People tend to re-
spond best when another person is
proactive about what they want.
So what do most people with
chronic illnesses want?
Primarily, we want efective care,
and we want access to health care,
Edwards says. But also, we want to
be understood, we want to be ac-
knowledged but not pitied. We
want the support we need to lead the
most productive lives we can.
HEALTH
Author surveys her ever-growing Kingdomof the Sick
Americans with chronic
illnesses often blamed
or called crazy, she says
KimPainter
@KimPainter
Special for USATODAY
There
are still
all of
these
stereo-
types of
people
who are
sick.
Edwards
Rolling Stones:
Timeless titans
of the rock tour
The day after Charlie Watts turns
72 on June 2, hell be drumming on-
stage at the United Center in Chi-
cago, the seventh stop on the Rolling
Stones 50 and Counting tour.
Hes just coming into his stride,
Keith Richards cracks. Famous for
ippantly deecting barbs about the
bands advancing years, the guitarist,
69, nally does concede that we have
to pace ourselves a bit.
Of course age comes into play, he
says. But if youve got a frontman
like Mick Jagger, and hes raring to
go, lets go.
And so the Stones are hitting the
road again, opening in Los Angeles
on May 2, roughly 50 years after they
recorded their rst single, Chuck
Berrys Come On.
A half-century into the bands ca-
reer, everybody felt ne after a sur-
prise club show Oct. 25 in Paris,
Jagger says. At 69, the singer remains
a sinewy, agile rock n roll marvel. He
has intensied his workouts to pre-
pare for the tour.
Its really boring, he says. Hon-
estly, for athletes, it must be hell.
Theyre doing 10 times what Im do-
ing. I like going out and having a good
time, but you cant do much while
youre preparing for a show. You have
to be physically t, mentally alert, vo-
cally strong. The only thing I enjoy is
the dance rehearsal. I rent a dance
studio and loon around in it.
The bands 50th celebration heat-
ed up with last years hits compila-
tion, GRRR!, and ve sold-out shows
in London and the NewYork area.
The band was pumped for the
golden anniversary shows but left
sentimentality to the fans.
It was a nice feeling, but I
wouldnt say it was nostalgia, Jagger
says. I felt a bit fuzzy when we did
The O2 (arena in London). The audi-
ence was very warm, and we got a
good response. I was really grateful
that people still like us.
Richards isnt prone to wistful
ashbacks until fans and media cre-
ate a stir. The anniversary, pegged to
the bands rst gig July 12, 1962, at
Londons Marquee Club, meant an
awful lot to a lot of people, he says.
We kind of avoid zeros.
The upcoming trek wont stretch
to A Bigger Bangs record-setting di-
mensions, Richards says, but once
this thing starts rolling, its impossi-
ble to stop. Theyre adding gigs as I
speak. It all depends on howthe boys
feel about it.
Jagger adds: Weve got lots of oth-
er possibilities in the rest of the
world, but we havent booked any-
thing. And we dont really have a big
stadiumstage. We could get one.
THEYLL STICK TO THE FAMILIAR
The band opted for arenas this time
so for once were not subjected to
natures wonders, Richards says.
The band feels we can do a better
show indoors in a controlled envi-
ronment. Thats not always true.
That sense of chance whats God
going to throw at you, wind, rain or
sleet adds to a certain connection
with the audience that you dont nec-
essarily get indoors.
The set list, likely
to mirror the hit-
heavy roster played
at the recent shows,
wont take shape un-
til rehearsals begin.
Jaggers desire to pluck
rarities from the catalog competes
with a respect for fan wish lists.
I worry a lot, he says. You see
that post, I hope they do Wild Hors-
es, and then we do some obscure bal-
lad, perhaps not brilliantly. Then you
see, It was really good, that obscure
ballad, but actually I wanted them to
do Wild Horses.
Aside from GRRR! tracks Doom
and Gloom and One More Shot, the
Stones have no newtunes to roll out.
Fans probably wont object.
It would be nice to have a newal-
bum, but people dont like the new
album when you play it onstage,
Jagger says with a laugh. They glum-
ly look at you. OK, it will be over in a
minute. Its not a good excuse, but
its the truth and has to be said.
Richards considers the tour a cre-
ative catalyst. The time to record a
band is once theyve been on the road
awhile, so theyre hot, he says. Well
think about that while were doing
this. The world needs more Stones
records. So do I.
Hes excited about honing his
chops with a variety of tour guests,
particularly former Stones guitarist
Mick Taylor. Ex-bassist Bill Wyman,
annoyed that he was invited to play
only two songs in London, declined
to join any U.S. dates. (Hes a stub-
born old bugger, Richards says.)
HIGH COST, HIGH REWARD
Tickets range from $85 to north of
$600, prompting SF Weekly to de-
nounce the band for cold-hearted
money-grubbing.
In negotiating the tour, the band
insisted in coming down some in
price, Richards says, dismissing
media carping. If we can sell out
Hyde Park in four minutes, its obvi-
ously not a big deal to the punters.
Jagger says, Theres a price for ev-
ery pocket, and points out that the
$85 tickets, more than 1,000 per
show, include prime seats in the
Tongue Pit, a corral of open space at
the front of the stage.
The Stones have always worked
for top dollar, and theres always
been a high end of fans willing to
pay, says Anthony DeCurtis, Rolling
Stone contributing editor. Steep
prices tend to draw moneyed Boom-
ers, but I do know younger people
who went last time and were
knocked out. Theres a sense that the
Stones are still able to do it, and
thats part of the pull. Its a complete-
ly brilliant show.
Fans also want to witness history.
You do reach a point where its
going to be impossible to do this,
DeCurtis says. To go see them,
youre really touching the ame.
50 and Counting suggests a con-
tinuation, not a farewell. Friction
between Richards and Jagger has
been set aside, though sugary harmo-
nies seldomwaft fromthis camp.
Its all skullduggery and back-
room inghting. Nothings changed,
Richards says. It wouldnt be the
Stones otherwise, would it? Brothers
ght like cats and dogs, and then ev-
erythings smooth. Its smooth right
now. As long as the boys want to play
and Ive got two legs, Ill play with
them. Ill play on one leg, actually.
RANKIN
Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood at Londons Marquee Club, their rst gig.
MUSIC
Theyre raring to go on the road again,
despite advancing age and changing tastes
Edna Gundersen
@EdnaGundersen
USATODAY
W
e
kind
of avoid
zeros.
Keith Richards, on why the Stones didnt make a big fuss over the 50th anniversary
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2D LIFE
USA TODAY
THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2013
133 million
Americans had at least one
chronic illness in 2005.
7 out of 10
deaths are from chronic
illnesses, which include
heart disease and cancer.
25%
of people with chronic
conditions have difficulty
with daily activities such as
walking, dressing, bathing
or functioning at work
SOURCE: CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL
AND PREVENTION
Chronic illnesses
by the numbers
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What a Disaster: Oh, what
a diference a year makes. Back on
April 19, 2012, Jamie McGuires self-
published novel Beautiful Disaster
quietly made its debut on USA
TODAYs Best-Selling Books list
at No. 139. The tale of tormented
college lovers Abby and Travis was
acquired several months later by
publisher
Atria. It peaked
at No. 17 and
sold more than
500,000 copies.
(Warner Bros.
has optioned
the lmrights.)
This week,
McGuires new
novel, Walking
Disaster, lands
with a splash at
No. 1. Reached
at her home in Oklahoma, McGuire,
34, calls the newbook a companion
novel to Beautiful Disaster. Narrat-
ed by Travis, its the same story told
froma diferent point of view.
Thats Life: In recent weeks,
two novels with the same title, pub-
lished a week apart, have received
lots of media attention. But readers,
apparently, have had no trouble
telling the two apart. Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson lands at No. 10.
USATODAYgave the book four
stars. The British author hit the list
just once before at No. 107 with
2011s Started Early, Took My Dog,
which featured popular P.I. Jackson
Brodie. Meanwhile, Jill McCorkles
Life After Life her rst novel in 17
years did not make the top 150.
Shes back: For the rst time in
nearly 15 years, Wally Lambs debut
novel, Shes Come Undone, is back in
the top 50, at No. 47. The reason is
simple: The e-book version is selling
for $2.99 in a publishers promotion
aimed at a newgeneration of readers.
Lambs 1992 novel landed at No. 1
in 1997 after it was chosen for
Oprahs Book Club. Lambs next
novel, We Are Water, about class
divisions in contemporary Connecti-
cut, will be released in November.
Deirdre Donahue, Carol Memmott
and Bob Minzesheimer
BOOK BUZZ
NEW ON THE LIST
AND IN PUBLISHING
Show Therese Anne Fowler a
heroine, and shell write you a trage-
dy. And then some.
Yes, Zelda Fitzgeralds life was ulti-
mately as doomed as her husband
F. Scotts. But in her newnovel, Z,
Fowler draws a compellingly
complete portrait of that other
Paris (and New York and
St. Paul and Long Island) wife:
mother, painter, writer, ap-
per, feminist Zelda Sayre
Fitzgerald.
Zelda gets her due in Fowlers de-
piction, as a woman whose talent was
tamped down by the times and by the
troubled, almost tyrannical Scott. Zis
an A-to-Z chronology of Zeldas 47
formidable years told from her per-
spective, from naive, yall-spurting
Alabama debutante to absinthe-
fueled Jazz Age jet-
setter to artistically re-
pressed expatriate to
unfairly imprisoned
psychiatric patient.
With The Great Gats-
by celluloid reboot on the rise the
hotly anticipated Leonardo DiCaprio
iteration premieres May 10 inter-
est is high in the woman who either
propelled or derailed F. Scotts career,
depending on whomyou ask.
Also due out in May are two other
novels, Call Me Zelda, about Zelda
Fitzgeralds sanitarium days, and
Beautiful Fools: The Last Trip of
Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, which
ctionalizes the couples trip to Cuba
during the denouement of their
marriage.
Fowlers exhaustive research into
the peripatetic lives of one of the
20th centurys most golden couples
is remarkable. We see them hobnob-
bing in New York with the likes of
Dorothy Dottie Parker and Ed-
mund Bunny Wilson and nd them
partying in Paris with fellow Lost
Generation luminaries T.S. Tom El-
iot, Gertrude Stein and, especially,
Scotts literary soul mate and Zel-
das nemesis Ernest Hem Hem-
ingway (and yes, hapless Hadley, too,
last seen in Paula McLains best sell-
er, The Paris Wife).
Unfortunately for modernist
literature junkies, the other
A-listers who populate the novel are
more peripheral than corporeal char-
acters. And though Fowlers gift for
dialogue is clear the intellectual
and emotional parrying between
Scott and Zelda is palpable Zs ex-
pository prose is less than zingy.
One notable exception: Toward the
end, Zelda evocatively writes how
stories of her and Scott have grown
like wild Chinese wisteria past the
borders of cocktail party gossip and
are starting to encroach literary
myth.
Fowler, too, plucks away at the
myth associated with the making of a
Great American Novel like Gatsby, a
book that received only tepid sales
and reviews upon publication.
Indeed, its fascinating to read that
Scotts mentor, H.L. Henry Menck-
en, publicly declared it a mere glori-
ed anecdote, and how tortured
Scott was by his tug-of-words be-
tween producing art (novels) and
commerce (his scores of short stories
for the slicks).
But Z is at its best as a parallel pic-
ture of not just a pioneering woman
but a groundbreaking era. Popular
culture tends to forget that for wom-
en, the 20s were nearly as epochal as
the 60s.
As Zelda matures from provincial
teenager to worldly thinker, we cant
help but wonder what life might have
been like for her had she danced,
drawn and dreamed in an era in
which she could be far more than just
another famous wife.
Z: Red-letter homage
to Zelda Fitzgerald
1926 AP PHOTO
Zelda Fitzgerald
packed a lot of
life into 47 years.
Newbook eshes out
the life of feminisms
tragic literary heroine
Z: A NOVEL OF
ZELDA FITZGERALD eeeE
Therese Anne Fowler
St. Martins Press 375 pp.
BOOK
REVIEW
OLIVIA
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NEW YORK Edie Falco has her head
buried in a telephone-book-thick
binder, black-framed reading glasses
perched on her nose and a black
leather motorcycle jacket slung over
her chair. Her (dyed) dark hair is
pulled loosely into a bun, and a pot of
tea is parked on the table.
Sitting in a West Village cafe, she
looks like a theater professor. But
shes more eager acting student.
Look at this thing! It takes me
about 45 minutes to get through a
page, Falco says, blue eyes widening.
This thing is Tony Kushners rich,
dense, smart 2009 play, The Intelli-
gent Homosexuals Guide to Capital-
ism and Socialism With a Key to the
Scriptures, which she is poring over
for a two-day workshop. Are you
kidding? I would do it for an hour!
Falco, a winner of multiple Emmys
and Golden Globes, still gets giddy
about the good stuf. Like Nurse
Jackie, her Showtime dramedy,
which returns Sunday (9 p.m. ET/PT)
for a fth season. Jackie the
pharmaceutics-lching, fantastically
awed New York ER nurse is
facing single motherhood and, most
signicantly, sobriety.
But is Jackie without her drugs
like Dexter without his kills: stripped
of her identity? Fear not, fans, says
Falco: Theres plenty of material.
Never in a million years did
Falco, 49, think Jackies story would
span so many chapters. But you
know, I never would have imagined
Sopranos, either.
Nowadays, Falco says shes recog-
nized about equally for Jackie as for
her groundbreaking role as Mob ma-
triarch Carmela Soprano.
But Falco is most proud of that
other, of-screen role: mom. Mom is
the thing right now, she says. Be-
cause its the hardest thing Ive ever
done. And I have never been harder
on my own performance as a mom,
to Anderson (her own mothers last
name), 8, and Macy, 5.
Im doing it by myself. And
theyre adopted. So when Im really
down on myself, I think: I should
have left them alone. They could
have been adopted by a couple. At
my worst, I think that. But my lifes
work right now has been working
through all that stuf. (Falco, who
has never married, concedes that she
is denitely dating but says its not
serious.)
It is the greatest gift to get to see
the people these kids are turning into
as a result of their genetics, which I
had nothing to do with, and as a re-
sult, I hope, of having me around.
Reveling in her newpersonal iden-
tity has made Falcos professional life
less of a priority. I dont need to
work all the time anymore. The pro-
ject has to be so interesting.
The neighborhood, however, holds
a profound place in Falcos art-some-
times-imitates-life history. Yester-
day was my 21-year anniversary of
being sober, she says. To mark the
milestone, she walked into the place
where it all began, this little crappy
AA room up the street. I sat down in
this dark, dank room and said, Im
Edie, Iman alcoholic, and today is 21
years sobriety.
Two decades, one breast cancer
diagnosis (in 2003) and, now, two
kids have gone by since that hell.
I have nothing to complain about.
Im the luckiest living human.
PEOPLE
Jackie star Edie Falco nurses
two careers: Acting and mothering
Just like her character,
she is navigating single
parenthood, sobriety
Olivia Barker
@ByOliviaBarker
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TODD PLITT, USA TODAY
As Season 5 of Showtimes Nurse Jackie premieres Sunday, Edie Falco
says theres plenty of material, even though Jackie is ofthe drugs.
Parenting is the
hardest thing Ive
ever done. And
I have never been
harder on my
own performance
as a mom.
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FOR ERICA BROWN
Scholar and author Erica
Brown, 46, shares some
spiritual tips about easing the
final passage in her newbook,
Happier Endings: Overcoming
the Fear of Death (Simon &
Schuster). She spoke with
USATODAYs Craig Wilson.
RANDY SAGER
1
So were supposed to be
happy about dying?
Only if you hate living. Otherwise,
its an unavoidable reality, so we
might as well get better at it. As
a society, we stink at it now.
2
We have to learn howto die.
How?
Do a life retrospective. Pass down
your hard-earned wisdom. Give
away your possessions while you are
still here to get pleasure fromthe
exchange (because otherwise you
may cause all kinds of family wars
you never intended).
3
Howcan death be
a teacher?
Death is a teacher if it helps us
answer the question: When is the
last time I did something for the rst
time?
4
Can a sudden death
really be beautiful?
Yes, it can. Death can inspire families
to have the conversations and
express the emotions they denied
themselves before. This is it. Youre
not going to get another chance.
Love fully. Say real goodbyes.
5
How, as you say, do older
people play with death?
As we age and come closer to the
ultimate expiration date, a lot of us
go into turtle behavior. We avoid
the conversations we need to have.
But they are not going away. We are.
Death is not a ght. Its a reality.
side of da Vinci that you dont see or
hear spoken about as often the en-
gineer side, the anatomist side and
the war engineer, says British actor
TomRiley, who plays da Vinci.
And as in any great adventure,
Goyer says, he wanted his da Vinci
embroiled in a mythical search. Ul-
timately, I felt like Leonardo da Vinci
needs to be looking for something
The original Renaissance man gets
the superhero treatment in Starzs
original eight-part miniseries Da Vin-
cis Demons, created by David S.
Goyer, co-writer of the Dark Knight
trilogy, which recast the Batman leg-
end, and the upcoming Superman
lmreboot Man of Steel.
Even though da Vinci was a real
person, he exists in this rareed place
in peoples consciousness. In that re-
gard, my experience adapting Bat-
man and Superman gave me a good
training ground to look at da Vincis
life with a critical and mythic eye,
Goyer says.
Da Vincis Demons premieres Fri-
day at 10 ET/PT, after the series -
nale of Spartacus: War of the
Damned. In following weeks, it
moves to 9 ET/PT.
The series centers on the artist,
scientist, musician and architect at
age 25, long before the artistic and
scientic achievements that would
make himone of the most celebrated
men in history. Its a period of his life
about which little is known, and it
opened the door for Goyer to wrap a
limited amount of history in cloaks of
fantasy, mysticism, intrigue, action
and adventure. When people see the
show, theyre surprised that its so
swashbuckling and fun, Goyer says.
In Goyers imagining of young da
Vinci, mysteries, codes and secret so-
cieties play a big part. Not just be-
cause of Dan Brown, but certainly
that helped, he says, referring to
Browns blockbuster novel The Da
Vinci Code.
These things have always been
synonymous with da Vinci, Goyer
says. Its why Im calling the show a
historical fantasy and why, in the rst
few minutes of the rst episode,
when one of the characters says his-
tory is a lie, its because Im telling
the audience Im going to mess with
you. Imgoing to manipulate you.
Set in 15th-century Florence, the
series actually was lmed in Swan-
sea, a coastal area of Wales. Richly
detailed sets and costumes, as well as
a generous use of computer graphics,
give the series an authentic feel.
This is the untold story, the other
that has to do with forbidden knowl-
edge or knowledge thats been lost.
Goyers answer: da Vincis search
for the (ctional) Book of Leaves, a
tome said to contain the secrets of
the universe. Goyers inspiration was
a 15th-century manuscript discov-
ered by a rare-book dealer 100 years
ago that has never been deciphered.
Da Vinci is not the only one in pur-
suit: Count Girolamo Riario (Blake
Ritson), Pope Sixtus IVs nephew, will
stop at nothing to acquire the book
and unlock its secrets.
Also entangled in Demons web is
Florences most famous family, the
Medicis, with Elliot Cowan starring
as Lorenzo Medici, head of the
Medici bank and de facto ruler of
Florence, whose mistress Lucrezia
Donati (Laura Haddock) also is hav-
ing an afair with da Vinci.
The young genius is commissioned
as Medicis war engineer, building
weapons as war looms between papal
states. Assassins, spies, murders and
conspiracy all gure in the story line.
And Goyer is pleased that current
events may pique peoples interest
in Da Vincis Demons: Id be lying
if I said the fact that the pope retiring
and a new pope being elected three
weeks before our show wasnt fortu-
itous.
TELEVISION
Superhero writer summons Da Vincis Demons
Historical fantasy
about young genius
will manipulate you
Carol Memmott
@CarolMemmott
USATODAY
GREGWILIIAMS, STARZ ENTERTAINMENT
Mystery and mysticismmingle
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da Vinci, played by TomRiley.
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ADVERTISING SPECIAL ADVERTISING FEATURE ADVERTISING
Todays announcement by CompTek has
the Free TV Hotlines ringing off the hook.
Thats because U.S. residents who find
their zip code listed in todays publica-
tion are getting Free TV channels thanks
to an amazing razor-thin invention called
Clear-Cast.
U.S. residents who call the Toll Free Hot-
lines before the 48-hour order deadline
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This announcement is being so widely
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Clear-Cast was invented by a renowned
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tist who currently holds 23 U.S. Govt issued
patents. For the past 20 years, he has spe-
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His latest patent-pending invention, Clear-
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Clear-Cast is being released to the gen-
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Theres never a monthly bill to pay and
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And heres the best part. The sleek micro
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nically advanced it pulls in even more of the
channels being broadcast in your area for
Free with no monthly bills.
That way you can channel surf through
the favorite TV shows. The number of shows
and channels youll get depends on where
you live. People living in large metropolitan
areas may get up to 53 static-free channels,
while people in outlying areas will get less.
That means even if youre in a rural area that
just pulls in NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX and PBS
broadcasts theres hundreds of shows each
year to watch for free.
Consumers report that the crystal clear
picture quality with Clear-Cast is the best
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direct from the broadcasters for free.
Clear-Cast was engineered to link up
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construction will most likely far outlast your
TV.
It just couldnt be any easier to get Free
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Cast. Simply plug it into your TV, place Clear-
Cast on a window pane and run autoscan. It
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ily hidden out of sight behind a curtain or
window treatment.
Thousands of U.S. residents are expected
to call to get Clear-Cast because it just
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TV when you can get hundreds of shows
absolutely free.
So, U.S. residents lucky enough to find
their zip code listed in todays publication
need to immediately call the Free TV Hotline
before the 48-hour deadline to get Clear-
Cast that pulls in Free TV with crystal clear
digital picture. If lines are busy keep trying,
all calls will be answered.
How to get Free TV: Listed below are the U.S. zip codes that can get Free TV channels with no monthly
bills. If you find the first two digits of your zip code immediately call 1-877-287-4230 beginning at precisely 8:30am
this morning. Todays announcement photo above shows just a handful of the major over-the-air broadcast networks
you can receive with Clear-Cast for free. It saves a ton of money by not picking up expensive cable only channels like
ESPN so theres never a monthly bill. This is all possible because a U.S. Federal Law makes TV broadcasters transmit
their signals in digital format, which allows everyone to use Clear-Cast to pull in Free TV channels with no monthly
bills. CompTek is giving every U.S. household a 50% off discount to help cover the cost of Clear-Cast. Clear-Cast, the
sleek micro antenna device is a one-time purchase that plugs in to your TV to pull in Free TV channels in crystal clear
digital picture with no monthly bills. Each Clear-Cast normally costs $98, but U.S. households who beat the 48-hour
deadline are authorized to get a 50% off discount for each Clear-Cast and cover just
$
49 and shipping (OH & FL res-
idents add 6% tax) as long as they call the Free TV Hotline at 1-877-287-4230 before the deadline ends or online at
www.clear-cast.com. Trademarks and programs are the property of their respective owners and are not affiliated with
or endorsing Clear-Cast.
Public gets Free TV with no monthly bills
Federal law makes TV network giants broadcast Free TV signals regionally in crystal clear digital picture in
all 50 states allowing U.S. households to pull in Free TV with a sleek micro antenna device engineered to pull in
nothing but Free TV channels with no cable, satellite or internet connection and no monthly bills
Who Gets Free TV: Listed below are the U.S. zip codes that can get Free over the air TV channels. If
you find the first two digits of your zip code immediately call: 1-877-287-4230
XS363
Alabama
35, 36
Alaska
99
Arizona
85, 86
Arkansas
71, 72
California
90, 91, 92, 93,
94, 95, 96
Colorado
80, 81
Connecticut
06
Delaware
19
Florida
32, 33, 34
Georgia
30, 31, 39
Hawaii
96
Idaho
83
Illinois
60, 61, 62
Indiana
46, 47
Iowa
50, 51, 52
Kansas
66, 67
Kentucky
40, 41, 42
Louisiana
70, 71
Maine
03, 04
Maryland
20, 21
Massachusetts
01, 02, 05
Michigan
48, 49
Minnesota
55, 56
Mississippi
38, 39
Missouri
63, 64, 65
Montana
59
Nebraska
68, 69
Nevada
88, 89
New Hampshire
03
New Jersey
07, 08
New Mexico
87, 88
New York
00, 10, 11, 12
13, 14
North Carolina
27, 28
North Dakota
58
Ohio
41, 43, 44, 45
Oklahoma
73, 74
Oregon
97
Pennsylvania
15, 16, 17,
18, 19
Rhode Island
02
South Carolina
29
South Dakota
57
Tennessee
37, 38
Texas
75, 76, 77
78, 79, 88
Utah
84
Vermont
05
Virginia
20, 22, 23, 24
Washington
98, 99
West Virginia
24, 25, 26
Wisconsin
53, 54
Wyoming
82, 83
Washington DC
20
How It Works: Just plug it in to your TV and pull in Free TV channels in crystal clear
digital picture with no cable, satellite or internet connection and no monthly bills
NEVER PAY A BILL AGAIN: U.S. residents will be on the lookout for their postal carrier because thousands of Clear-Casts will soon be
delivered to lucky U.S. residents who beat the 48-hour order deadline and live in any of the zip code areas listed above. Everyone is getting
Clear-Cast because it pulls in nothing but Free TV channels with no cable, satellite or internet connection and no monthly bills.
NO MORE BILLS: Clear-Cast, the sleek micro antenna device is engineered to pull in nothing but Free TV channels. It was invented by
a renowned NASA Space Technology Hall of Fame scientist, who currently holds 23 U.S. Govt patents. Clear-Cast links up directly to pull
in Free over-the-air TV channels with crystal clear digital picture and no monthly bills.
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