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tusia: Leua Aiono Frost O le aso taeao e saili ai le siamupini o le Lakapi a Tama’ita’i i le Lalolagi, ma o le Ipu a le Lalolagi sa umia pea e Egelani i le tausaga ua mavae. O le itula 8:30 i le afiafi taeao (aso To’ana’i) taimi a Peretania, o le a kikia ai le polo e amatalia ai lea ta’aloga finau, aua e le o fa’atemeteme le tapenaga a Niu Sila. I le taimi nei, na’o NZ ma Egelani o lo’o ta’a’alo e le’i i ai se faia’ina. O lona uiga, o le la’ua fetauiga i le siamupini ma umia le Ipu o le Lalolagi, o le a mautinoa ai le sui e faia’ina i lenei tausaga, ma le ‘au o le a umia le Ipu o le Lalolagi i le Lakapi a Tama’ita’i. Aisea e taua ai? O le to’atele o le ‘au a Niu Sila, Amerika ma Ausetalia fo’i, o lo’o ivi ai tama’ita’i Samoa. O se mea ese lea i le va’aiga a le lalolagi, aua ua le ofi le “Manu- sina a Samoa” i lenei tausaga ona sa le auai i se Ta’amilosaga Lakapi i le tausaga atoa, ma ua le agava’a ai i latou. A’o sauni atu mo Ipu o le Lalolai, ua fa’ailoa mai ai, e le o toe fa’atamala lava se ‘au e tasi o auai i lenei tausaga i lea ta’amilosaga. Mai le amataga o ta’aloga sa mua’i faia ia Aukuso 9, i Aialani, ua fa’amauina ai ta’aloga nei: Egelani po’o le Red Roses 56 ‘ai na fetaui ma Spain na’o le 5 ‘ai. Niu Sila na malo is Wales 44-12. USA na fetaui ma Italia malo ai i le 24 - 12 ‘ai; Kanata na malo ia Hong Kong e 98 i le leai; Aialani na malo ia Ausetalia 19-17, ma Falani na malo ia Iapani 72-14 ‘ai o le ta’aloga lea. I le ta’aloga ia Aukuso 13, na fetaui ai NZ ma Hong Kong malo ai i ‘ai sili ona maualuga ua fa’amauina i le ta’amilosaga lenei 121-0 Hong Kong. Oso le Red Roses i luga o le fua malo ai ia Italia 56 ‘ai i le 13 a Italia; USA na fetaui ma Spain leai se ‘ai o Spain i le 43 a Amerika; Kanata na malo ia Wales i le latou fetauiga e 15-0; ae toe taumafai atu le malo talimalo o Aialani fa’atoilalo Iapani i le 24-14 Iapani. O le toe ta’aloga o lena aso o Falani na malo fa’alelei lava ia Ausetalia: 48-0. Ta’aloga o le aso 17 Aukuso, na tatala ai e Niu Sila ma Kanata le malae e le’i pupula Kanata i le la i lea fetauiga: 48 NZ i le latou 5. Egelani na fetaui ai ma USA ma malo ai Egelani i le 47-26. Spain na latou sofa’ia le laina a Italia ma malo ai i le 22 ae na’o le 8 Italia. Ausetalia na toe fa’aoso mai le latou ‘au ma toilalo ai Iapani i ‘ai e 29-15. Wales na fetaui ma Hong Kong ma malo ai i ‘ai e 39-15, a’o Falani 21 i le 5 a Aialani. Ta’aloga faitaulia o le aso Lua 22 Aukuso, 2017 na tatala malae ai Italia ma Iapani ma sa malo Italia 22-0. Aialani na fetaui ma Ausetalia ma faia’ina ai Aialani i ‘ai e 36 Ausetalia. Spain sa manumalo ia Hong Kong i ‘ai e 31-7; ae o NZ Black Ferns na latou fa’aumatia ai fa’amoemoega a le USA the Eagles i ‘ai e 45-12. Peita’i o ai sili nei ona pa’ua o NZ i ana ta’aloga i lea fo’i ta’amilosaga. O au fo’i nei e tau fai kapeteni e tama’ita’i Samoa. Kanata na malo ia Wales i ‘ai e 52 -0, ae o le ta’aloga fita i le va o Egelani ma Falani sa matua le mailoa lona taunu’uga i le amataga se’ia o’o i le i’uga o le afa muamua, tutusa ‘ai i le 3-3. O le afa mulimuli i le toe 15 minute o le ta’aloga na fa’ato’a maua uma ai ‘ai o Egelani, ae na ave i tua le latou teine fa’amoemoeina o Danielle Waterman ona ua afaina lona ulu na taia ai se tasi o le ‘au saoasaoa a Falani ma ave i tua, e le toe ta’alo i le ta’amilosaga. I le aso to’ona’i nei, aso a taeao, o le a maua ai le tonu sa’o po’o ai o le a avea le Siamupini ma umia le Ipu o le Lalolagi i lenei tausaga. Ua fa’atulaga le fetauiga a ‘au e lua e le’i faia’ina - Red Roses ma le Black Ferns. O lo’o to’atele na’ua tagata o lo’o manana’o e ave e Niu Sila le manumalo, ae o le sau fo’i a teine o le Losa Mumu e le o fa’avaivai, ma e i ai fo’i ma ona tala matuitui. Iapani o le a fetaui ma Hong Kong e su’ea le tulaga mulimuli. Aialani e fetaui ma Wales; Italia e fetaui ma Spain; Falani e su’ea le Ipu Fa’aofuofu ma le USA, ae o le Ipu mafolafola e fetaui ai Ausetalia ma Kanata. Talosia ia faiva o tama’ita’i Samoa ia tofu Ipu i lenei tausaga i filigamaea i malae o le Laki a Tama’ita’i i le Lalolagi. LAS VEGAS (AP) — Conor McGregor is making a lot of wise guys nervous in this gam- bling city. Should he somehow manage to knock out Floyd Mayweather Jr. in the early rounds Sat- urday night, the city’s bookmakers would lose millions of dollars in the biggest single event loss in the history of sports betting. McGregor fans have flooded sports books with $100 bills backing the mixed martial arts fighter, and even a late surge of money on Mayweather might not be enough to balance the books. “I’m OK now,” said William Hill oddsmaker Nick Bogdanovich. “But you might want to have a heart monitor on me when the bell rings and Conor starts throwing wild lefts.” Bogdanovich said his chain of sports books will suffer multimillion dollar losses — their worst ever — should McGregor win the fight in any fashion. If he wins early as he has promised, the losses would be even worse. The big bettors are putting their money on Mayweather, who is 49-0 as a pro. But so many McGregor fans are betting small amounts that the betting slips at William Hill were 18-1 in the Irish fighter’s favor. “This isn’t professional money, just the reg- ular Joe,” Bogdanovich said. “The butcher and the barber are putting their $100 on McGregor and it’s added up.” The action is reflected in the odds, which bookmakers adjust either way as money comes in on the two fighters. Bookmakers have been lowering the odds steadily since the fight was announced, but even that hasn’t stopped the deluge of McGregor bets. A fight that began with Mayweather an 11-1 favorite is now 5-1 or even less in some sports books. Even that hasn’t stopped McGregor sup- porters from lining up at the betting windows to hand over even more cash. They’re backing a longshot, hoping that the payoff will be huge. “There’s plenty of money on a guy who has never been in a boxing ring,” said Jimmy Vac- caro, oddsmaker at the South Point resort. “It’s uncharted waters and that’s what makes it so interesting.” Vaccaro said his sports book stood to lose about $400,000 on a McGregor win, but that was balanced off a bit by a bettor who put $100,000 Wednesday night on Mayweather. His book also took an $880,000 bet on Mayweather earlier that would pay off just $160,000 if he wins. There have also been big Mayweather bets at the MGM Grand, including a $500,000 wager on Wednesday at the MGM Grand and a $1 million bet Thursday at William Hill. That reduces the liability some, though MGM Resorts oddsmaker Jay Rood said the sheer volume of McGregor bets at long odds still overwhelm big May- weather bets. Rood said his books have taken 6,700 bets on McGregor and only 300 on Mayweather. The average bet on McGregor is $125, while the average for Mayweather is $4,000. If McGregor wins, Rood said MGM will be a big loser and the state will suffer its biggest single event loss ever. C M Y K C M Y K (Continued on page B7) NZ Black Ferns vs Eng. Red Roses - “Ipu o le Lalolagi Lakapi a Tama’ita’i Bookies will lose millions if McGregor knocks out Mayweather Detroit Tigers hitting coach Lloyd McClendon, leſt, tries to pull Justin Verlander, center, away from New York Yankees’ Chase Headley during the second bench-clearing of the baseball game, in the seventh inning ursday, Aug. 24, 2017, in Detroit. e Tigers defeated the Yankees 10-6. See story inside. (AP Photo/Duane Burleson) CLASSIFIEDS • CARTOONS • ALOHA BRIEFS & MORE SECTION B VISIT SAMOA NEWS ONLINE @ SAMOANEWS.COM FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 2017

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tusia: Leua Aiono FrostO le aso taeao e saili ai le siamupini o le Lakapi a Tama’ita’i

i le Lalolagi, ma o le Ipu a le Lalolagi sa umia pea e Egelani i le tausaga ua mavae. O le itula 8:30 i le afiafi taeao (aso To’ana’i) taimi a Peretania, o le a kikia ai le polo e amatalia ai lea ta’aloga finau, aua e le o fa’atemeteme le tapenaga a Niu Sila.

I le taimi nei, na’o NZ ma Egelani o lo’o ta’a’alo e le’i i ai se faia’ina. O lona uiga, o le la’ua fetauiga i le siamupini ma umia le Ipu o le Lalolagi, o le a mautinoa ai le sui e faia’ina i lenei tausaga, ma le ‘au o le a umia le Ipu o le Lalolagi i le Lakapi a Tama’ita’i.

Aisea e taua ai? O le to’atele o le ‘au a Niu Sila, Amerika ma Ausetalia fo’i, o lo’o ivi ai tama’ita’i Samoa.

O se mea ese lea i le va’aiga a le lalolagi, aua ua le ofi le “Manu-sina a Samoa” i lenei tausaga ona sa le auai i se Ta’amilosaga Lakapi i le tausaga atoa, ma ua le agava’a ai i latou. A’o sauni atu mo Ipu o le Lalolai, ua fa’ailoa mai ai, e le o toe fa’atamala lava se ‘au e tasi o auai i lenei tausaga i lea ta’amilosaga.

Mai le amataga o ta’aloga sa mua’i faia ia Aukuso 9, i Aialani, ua fa’amauina ai ta’aloga nei: Egelani po’o le Red Roses 56 ‘ai na fetaui ma Spain na’o le 5 ‘ai. Niu Sila na malo is Wales 44-12. USA na fetaui ma Italia malo ai i le 24 - 12 ‘ai; Kanata na malo ia Hong Kong e 98 i le leai; Aialani na malo ia Ausetalia 19-17, ma Falani na malo ia Iapani 72-14 ‘ai o le ta’aloga lea.

I le ta’aloga ia Aukuso 13, na fetaui ai NZ ma Hong Kong malo ai i ‘ai sili ona maualuga ua fa’amauina i le ta’amilosaga lenei 121-0 Hong Kong. Oso le Red Roses i luga o le fua malo ai ia Italia 56 ‘ai i le 13 a Italia; USA na fetaui ma Spain leai se ‘ai o Spain i le 43 a Amerika; Kanata na malo ia Wales i le latou fetauiga e 15-0; ae toe taumafai atu le malo talimalo o Aialani fa’atoilalo Iapani i le 24-14 Iapani. O le toe ta’aloga o lena aso o Falani na malo fa’alelei lava ia Ausetalia: 48-0.

Ta’aloga o le aso 17 Aukuso, na tatala ai e Niu Sila ma Kanata le malae e le’i pupula Kanata i le la i lea fetauiga: 48 NZ i le latou 5. Egelani na fetaui ai ma USA ma malo ai Egelani i le 47-26.

Spain na latou sofa’ia le laina a Italia ma malo ai i le 22 ae na’o le 8 Italia. Ausetalia na toe fa’aoso mai le latou ‘au ma toilalo ai Iapani i ‘ai e 29-15. Wales na fetaui ma Hong Kong ma malo ai i ‘ai e 39-15, a’o Falani 21 i le 5 a Aialani.

Ta’aloga faitaulia o le aso Lua 22 Aukuso, 2017 na tatala malae ai Italia ma Iapani ma sa malo Italia 22-0. Aialani na fetaui ma Ausetalia ma faia’ina ai Aialani i ‘ai e 36 Ausetalia. Spain sa manumalo ia Hong Kong i ‘ai e 31-7; ae o NZ Black Ferns na latou fa’aumatia ai fa’amoemoega a le USA the Eagles i ‘ai e 45-12. Peita’i o ai sili nei ona pa’ua o NZ i ana ta’aloga i lea fo’i ta’amilosaga. O au fo’i nei e tau fai kapeteni e tama’ita’i Samoa. Kanata na malo ia Wales i ‘ai e 52 -0, ae o le ta’aloga fita i le va o Egelani ma Falani sa matua le mailoa lona taunu’uga i le amataga se’ia o’o i le i’uga o le afa muamua, tutusa ‘ai i le 3-3.

O le afa mulimuli i le toe 15 minute o le ta’aloga na fa’ato’a maua uma ai ‘ai o Egelani, ae na ave i tua le latou teine fa’amoemoeina o Danielle Waterman ona ua afaina lona ulu na taia ai se tasi o le ‘au saoasaoa a Falani ma ave i tua, e le toe ta’alo i le ta’amilosaga.

I le aso to’ona’i nei, aso a taeao, o le a maua ai le tonu sa’o po’o ai o le a avea le Siamupini ma umia le Ipu o le Lalolagi i lenei tausaga. Ua fa’atulaga le fetauiga a ‘au e lua e le’i faia’ina - Red Roses ma le Black Ferns. O lo’o to’atele na’ua tagata o lo’o manana’o e ave e Niu Sila le manumalo, ae o le sau fo’i a teine o le Losa Mumu e le o fa’avaivai, ma e i ai fo’i ma ona tala matuitui.

Iapani o le a fetaui ma Hong Kong e su’ea le tulaga mulimuli. Aialani e fetaui ma Wales; Italia e fetaui ma Spain; Falani e su’ea le Ipu Fa’aofuofu ma le USA, ae o le Ipu mafolafola e fetaui ai Ausetalia ma Kanata. Talosia ia faiva o tama’ita’i Samoa ia tofu Ipu i lenei tausaga i filigamaea i malae o le Laki a Tama’ita’i i le Lalolagi.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Conor McGregor is making a lot of wise guys nervous in this gam-bling city.

Should he somehow manage to knock out Floyd Mayweather Jr. in the early rounds Sat-urday night, the city’s bookmakers would lose millions of dollars in the biggest single event loss in the history of sports betting.

McGregor fans have flooded sports books with $100 bills backing the mixed martial arts fighter, and even a late surge of money on Mayweather might not be enough to balance the books.

“I’m OK now,” said William Hill oddsmaker Nick Bogdanovich. “But you might want to have a heart monitor on me when the bell rings and Conor starts throwing wild lefts.”

Bogdanovich said his chain of sports books will suffer multimillion dollar losses — their worst ever — should McGregor win the fight in any fashion. If he wins early as he has promised, the losses would be even worse.

The big bettors are putting their money on Mayweather, who is 49-0 as a pro. But so many McGregor fans are betting small amounts that the betting slips at William Hill were 18-1 in the Irish fighter’s favor.

“This isn’t professional money, just the reg-ular Joe,” Bogdanovich said. “The butcher and the barber are putting their $100 on McGregor and it’s added up.”

The action is reflected in the odds, which bookmakers adjust either way as money comes in on the two fighters. Bookmakers have been lowering the odds steadily since the fight was announced, but even that hasn’t stopped the

deluge of McGregor bets.A fight that began with Mayweather an 11-1

favorite is now 5-1 or even less in some sports books. Even that hasn’t stopped McGregor sup-porters from lining up at the betting windows to hand over even more cash.

They’re backing a longshot, hoping that the payoff will be huge.

“There’s plenty of money on a guy who has never been in a boxing ring,” said Jimmy Vac-caro, oddsmaker at the South Point resort. “It’s uncharted waters and that’s what makes it so interesting.”

Vaccaro said his sports book stood to lose about $400,000 on a McGregor win, but that was balanced off a bit by a bettor who put $100,000 Wednesday night on Mayweather. His book also took an $880,000 bet on Mayweather earlier that would pay off just $160,000 if he wins.

There have also been big Mayweather bets at the MGM Grand, including a $500,000 wager on Wednesday at the MGM Grand and a $1 million bet Thursday at William Hill. That reduces the liability some, though MGM Resorts oddsmaker Jay Rood said the sheer volume of McGregor bets at long odds still overwhelm big May-weather bets.

Rood said his books have taken 6,700 bets on McGregor and only 300 on Mayweather. The average bet on McGregor is $125, while the average for Mayweather is $4,000.

If McGregor wins, Rood said MGM will be a big loser and the state will suffer its biggest single event loss ever.

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Detroit Tigers hitting coach Lloyd McClendon, left, tries to pull Justin Verlander, center, away from New York Yankees’ Chase Headley during the second bench-clearing of the baseball game, in the seventh inning Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017, in Detroit. The Tigers defeated the Yankees 10-6. See story inside.

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DETROIT (AP) — Once slugger Miguel Cabrera wres-tled Yankees catcher Austin Romine to the ground at home plate, an afternoon game at Comerica Park collapsed into total chaos.

All the testiness that had been building between the Detroit Tigers and New York finally boiled over. The toll of Thursday’s fury — three bench-clearing altercations, eight ejec-tions, one beaning and a lot of angry words.

“I’m sure there are going to be suspensions on both sides,” Yankees manager Joe Girardi said after a 10-6 loss.

The winning and losing pitchers — Detroit’s Alex Wilson (2-4) and New York’s Dellin Betances (3-5) — were among those tossed. So were Girardi and Tigers manager Brad Ausmus.

At one point, the ill will car-ried over to the Detroit dugout,

where star pitcher Justin Ver-lander and teammate Victor Martinez appeared to get into some sort of dispute.

“I was actually on the field, so I haven’t seen it and haven’t talked to them about it,” Ausmus said. “I’m aware of it, but I couldn’t tell you what it was about.”

Perhaps the only positive thing: This was the final time the Yankees and Tigers were scheduled to play this season.

James McCann and Justin Upton homered for Detroit, and Gary Sanchez went deep for the Yankees, but that all became secondary on a day when the umpires had their hands full trying to maintain order. Major League Baseball now figures to be busy, too, sorting out likely penalties that could especially hurt the playoff-contending Yankees.

Girardi contended an early warning would’ve cut off the trouble before it escalated. He blamed the umps for letting things go wild, saying, “Just a very poor job on their part.”

Much later, Betances was ejected after he hit McCann in the helmet. Betances seemed to be indicating he had thrown a breaking ball instead of a fast-ball, and wound up shouting at the Tigers and the umps.

“I threw him out and that was to keep control of the game,” umpire crew chief Dana DeMuth said. “And the reason why it took a minute or so, was because I wanted to get the players apart. Once I got Detroit going to their dugout and New York going to their dugout, then I informed him that he was ran.”

“It wasn’t necessarily of him intentionally beaning the batter, but to keep control of the situa-tion, I deemed it necessary that he went,” he said.

Although Cabrera vs. Romine was the peak of the hostilities, McCann’s beaning was the most frightening.

“You don’t want to see people hit in the head. You don’t want to see fighting on the field,” Cabrera said. “But people have to understand we’re human.”

The problems between these teams began well before Tommy Kahnle threw behind Cabrera in the sixth inning. Last month, they had a game at Yankee Stadium in which four batters were hit.

This time, Michael Fulmer hit Sanchez with a pitch in the fifth, an inning after Sanchez had homered for the fourth time in this three-game series.

“If you can’t see that Fulmer clearly hit Sanchez on purpose, there’s something wrong,” Girardi said. Fulmer looked like he might be hurt after throwing that pitch, and he was checked by the trainer before staying in the game. He said he had no intention of hitting Sanchez.

“I respect Gary Sanchez, I really do,” said Fulmer, who

beat out Sanchez for last year’s American League Rookie of the Year award. “I would never throw at anybody that hit a homer off of me, just because they hit a home run.”

Kahnle was ejected after his pitch behind Cabrera, and Girardi was tossed after he came out to argue.

“When they throw at me, it was OK. ... I was cool with that,” Cabrera said. “When they started arguing with the umpire, I said to Romine, ‘Calm down.’”

The game was finally about to resume when Cabrera stepped toward Romine, and the New York catcher took off his mask. Cabrera gave him a two-handed push to the chest.

“He said, ‘You have a problem with me?’ And I said, ‘This isn’t about you,’” said Romine, whose brother Andrew plays for the Tigers. “And then he pushed me. It felt like he wanted a confrontation there and I just tried to defend myself the best I could.”

Cabrera appeared to take a couple of swings at Romine, and the two ended up on the ground as players from both teams spilled onto the field. Sanchez later appeared to take a swing at someone at the bottom of the pile.

Cabrera and Romine were ejected, and Romine was so incensed by his dismissal that he threw his mask when he entered the dugout.

An inning later, Betances hit McCann in the helmet with a pitch, causing benches to empty again, and Betances and bench coach Rob Thompson were tossed. Betances said he didn’t hit McCann on purpose, and McCann seemed to agree afterward.

“I don’t think it was inten-tional,” McCann said. “At that point in the game, Miggy was thrown at, Sanchez had been hit, and at least in my mind, the retaliation was over. I don’t think that he was trying to hit me on purpose.”

Wilson and Ausmus were ejected in the eighth after Wilson hit Todd Frazier around the thigh with a pitch. The benches cleared for a third time.

“With me hitting a guy in the leg, it’s what I have to do and that’s what I did,” Wilson said. “Fortunately for me I know where my pitches are going, and I hit a guy in the leg today to take care of my teammates and protect them.”

BIG HITJose Iglesias gave the Tigers

a 9-6 lead when he hit a three-run double in the seventh off David Robertson, who had relieved Betances. Iglesias had three hits for the Tigers, and Brett Gardner had four for the Yankees.

Shane Greene got five outs for his fourth save.

“We did a nice job of fighting back, excuse the expression,” Ausmus said.

Basebrawl! 3 big beefs, 8 tossed as Tigers top Yankees 10-6

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DENVER (AP) — Cheer-leading coaches and school administrators in a Colorado district were placed on leave and police opened an investi-gation amid a series of videos showing high school cheer-leaders screaming in pain while being pushed into splits during practice.

The videos show eight cheer-leaders at Denver’s East High School repeatedly being pushed into splits while their arms are held up by teammates, KUSA-TV reported Thursday (http://on9news.tv/2v80E76 ).

In one video, a girl repeat-edly asks her coach to “please stop.” The station says the videos were shot on the phones of two team members and were sent anonymously to the station.

Denver Public Schools superintendent Tom Boasberg called the videos “extremely distressing.”

“We absolutely prohibit any practices that place our

students’ physical and mental health in jeopardy,” Boasberg said in a written statement. “We do not and will not allow any situation in which a student is forced to perform an activity or exercise beyond the point at which they express their desire to stop.”

The East High School prin-cipal, an assistant principal, the cheer coach, an assistant cheer coach and a district lawyer were placed on leave during the investigation, Boasberg said.

The Denver Police Depart-ment said child-abuse detec-tives were investigating.

Jim Lord, director of the Cheerleading Coaches and Administration Association, told the station the videos show practices that are outdated and damaging.

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This Aug. 17, 2017 photo shows Buffalo Bills’ Cameron Jef-ferson raising his fist during the national anthem before an NFL preseason football game against the Philadelphia Eagles in Phila-delphia. Jefferson says he gained the courage to raise his fist in protest during the anthem once he saw Chris Long hug Eagles teammate Malcolm Jenkins on the opposite sideline on Thursday.

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Chris Long, the Philadelphia defensive end who grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia, put his arm around teammate Mal-colm Jenkins as a show of unity during the national anthem for the second straight week Thursday night.

Jenkins stood with his right fist raised in the air as he’s done since last season. He was sur-rounded by Long, who is white, and Rodney McLeod and Najee Goode. Ron Brooks took a knee

behind them.Jenkins has been outspoken

against racial injustice and has worked with law enforcement to try to better the situation.

Long, who starred in Char-lottesville in high school at St. Anne’s-Belfield and went to the University of Virginia, was critical of white nationalists and the violence in his hometown two weeks ago.

It wasn’t immediately clear if anyone on the Miami Dol-phins’ sideline protested.

Chris Long supports Malcolm Jenkins

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Tom Allen and Jeff Brohm remember watching the Big Ten at its rugged best.

P.J. Fleck just heard the sto-ries about the emotional sideline antics of Woody Hayes and Bo Schembechler being as enter-taining as the games. Back then, three yards and a cloud of dust was all the rage and massive offensive linemen overpowered defenders while big running backs crashed through holes.

Today, the names, faces and even the tactics have changed but the tough-guy coaches remain one of the conference’s most endearing characteristics.

At Michigan and Ohio State, Jim Harbaugh and Urban Meyer can often be seen on the sideline with pained, perplexed facial expressions. North-western coach Pat Fitzgerald has embraced his role as a dis-ciplinarian. And after going 3-9 in 2016, Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio wasted no time blaming the poor season on a lack of discipline inside the locker room.

So in a conference that has

never been big on congeniality, the three new coaches — Allen at Indiana, Brohm at Purdue, and Fleck at Minnesota — are starting on their quest to polish the Big Ten’s longtime image.

“You can’t change or over-react,” Allen said, describing his more temperate style and Love Each Oher motto. “The other thing is I think it mat-ters who they are but different individuals in the organization deserve to be treated with the utmost respect, kindness and to feel like a part of the pro-gram and that doesn’t always happen.”

Especially at these schools.Over the last half century,

fans around Indiana and Minne-sota have heard and seen it all.

Since finishing in a three-way tie atop the league stand-ings in 1967, their chase for football glory has resulted mostly in futility. While coaches and stars, promises and credos have come and gone, bowl bids have been rare and conference championships virtually non-existent. Purdue shared the 2000 Big Ten title with Mich-

igan and Northwestern. Indiana and Minnesota are still looking to end their droughts.

Why should this time be different?

Because the new coaches’ refreshing approach could become appealing to high school players who are ready to work for these men

The 47-year-old Allen, like Super Bowl-winning coach Tony Dungy, is a defensive whiz who waited decades to land his first big head coaching job. Allen, like Dungy, is a change of pace from his predecessor . And Allen, like Dungy, puts a premium on faith and family before wins and losses, which explains why both believe they get more impact out of a hug or stare than an expletive-laced tirade.

Maybe it shouldn’t be such a surprise given that Allen and Dungy attended the same church in Tampa, Florida.

But if Fleck or Brohm have proven anything over the past few years, it’s that many styles work in today’s college football

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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts likes to joke any issues surrounding his team are “high class” problems. The kind every other club in the majors would love to have.

The latest? Maybe too many effective starting pitchers.

A night after Rich Hill took a no-hitter into the 10th, Hyun-Jin Ryu worked six effective innings and the Dodgers pulled away late for a 5-2 victory on Thursday, their 90th win of the season.

Ryu allowed one run and four hits with two walks and two strikeouts to improve to 3-0 with a 2.13 ERA since June 17.

“This guy is a competitor,” Roberts said. “We talked about it last night that on the heels of what Rich did last night, he was going to try to match it. And you could just see that focus. He’s a big game pitcher. He’s trying to earn continued opportunities. You respect that.”

Like Hill, Ryu’s role in the postseason is still uncertain. Clayton Kershaw, Yu Darvish and Alex Wood figure to be the top three, likely sending Hill and Ryu to the bullpen. Not that Ryu is concerned about it. Considering how injuries have

dogged him through 2015 and 2016, he’s simply happy to be back throwing strikes. If he does it as a reliever in the play-offs, so be it.

“As a starting pitcher, you just want to put your team in position to win,” Ryu said. “I believe in doing my job and that decision, that’s not something I can control.”

Curtis Granderson drilled his third home run in six games since joining the Dodgers and Yasmani Grandal and Adrian Gonzalez hit back-to-back home runs in the eighth inning to give the bullpen breathing room. Brandon Morrow worked the ninth for his first save since May 10, 2009 when he was in Seattle. Roberts gave All-Star closer Kenley Jansen a “paid vacation” day off.

Los Angeles upped its record to a major-league best 90-36, becoming the 12th team in big-league history to reach the 90-win plateau in 126 games.

“With us today, there were a lot of things that we’re used to doing,” Roberts said.

Chad Kuhl (6-8) struggled with his command, walking five in just four innings. Jordy Mercer hit an RBI double but it wasn’t enough for the strug-

gling Pirates, who have dropped nine of 12 to fall well back in the NL Central.

“There were some nice sequences (from Kuhl), but not enough of them,” said Pirates manager Clint Hurdle, who was ejected for arguing balls and strikes in the seventh inning. “He was disconnected. He had nothing to go to, to stay with.”

A night after leaving 11 men on base, a key factor in Hill’s valiant but ultimately fruitless pursuit of history, the Dodgers stranded 15. Still, they got five across.

Taylor singled home Her-nandez in the second to give Los Angeles the lead. Grand-erson put the Dodgers ahead to stay with a drive over the seats in right off Kuhl to make it 2-1. Hernandez added an RBI single off reliever Steven Brault to push the advantage to 3-1.

Adam Frazier’s RBI single off former Pirate closer Tony Watson in the seventh drew the Pirates back within one but Los Angeles reliever Pedro Baez struck out Andrew McCutchen with the tying run on second. Pittsburgh left nine men on base and went 2 for 7 with runners in scoring position.

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CINCINNATI (AP) — Jose Peraza had a pinch-hit, bases-loaded double in the eighth inning on Thursday night, rallying the Cincinnati Reds to a 4-2 victory over the Chicago Cubs that avoided a series sweep.

The Reds loaded the bases with two outs against Pedro Strop (3-4), putting together two hits and a walk. Peraza, who was 0 for 4 off the bench this season, doubled over the head of Ian Happ in center for a 3-2 lead. Strop let in another run with a wild pitch.

The comeback ended the Cubs’ five-game winning streak, one shy of their season high. Chi-cago has moved into first place in the NL Central by going 25-13 since the All-Star break, leading Milwaukee by three games.

Michael Lorenzen (8-2) fanned three of the four batters he faced. Raisel Iglesias picked up his 24th save in 25 chances.

The Cubs were in position for another win after Happ — a star at the University of Cincin-nati — hit a solo homer and Jake Arrieta gave another solid performance, allowing only one unearned run in 5 2/3 innings. Arrieta is 5-1 in eight starts since the All-Star break.

Kris Bryant was back at third base after missing one game. He was hit on the side of the

left hand by a pitch on Tuesday night and got one day off. The National League’s MVP set up Cin-cinnati’s first run with a fielding error, and had a hand in the Cubs’ go-ahead run. Bryant doubled in the sixth and came around on Javier Baez’s single for a 2-1 lead.

TRAINER’S ROOMCubs: SS Addison Russell’s strained right foot

is improving, manager Joe Maddon said, but “he still feels it a little bit when he moves in a certain direction.” He’s been on the DL since Aug. 3.

Reds: RHP Homer Bailey is expected to make his next scheduled start on Sunday against Pitts-burgh. He left his start last Tuesday after three innings because of discomfort in the back of his shoulder, but hasn’t had any lingering problems.

UP NEXTCubs: LHP Jose Quintana opens a series in

Philadelphia, making his eighth start with the Cubs. He’s 4-2 with a 3.73 ERA since moving to the Cubs from the White Sox. Jerad Eickhoff (3-7) starts for the Phillies.

Reds: Robert Stephenson (1-4) opens a series against the Pirates at Great American Ball Park, facing Ivan Nova (11-10). It’ll be Stephenson’s fifth start and 19th appearance. He’s 1-2 with a 4.43 ERA as a starter.

(Photos: Leua)

Chicago Cubs’ Kris Bryant scores on an RBI single from Javier Baez off Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher Sal Romano during the sixth inning of a baseball game, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017, in Cincinnati.

(AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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world.While Fleck demonstrated

his coaching aptitude by taking a Mid-American Conference team, Western Michigan, and put it on the national map, the 36-year-old rising star might be an even better salesman.

His media campaign to pro-mote the school and Kalam-azoo, Michigan, as well as the football team created a commu-nity effort that culminated in a multi-day promotional oppor-tunity on ESPN that included the first trip for the “College GameDay” crew to a MAC campus for the first time in 13 years.

Now, after buying the copy-right to his popular “Row The Boat” mantra, Fleck is ready start over in Minneapolis where he’s already starting to see good results.

NBC’s “Today” show recently gave the Golden Gophers air time after Fleck awarded a third-string walk-on kicker one of Minnesota’s pre-cious scholarships, the kind of publicity the Golden Gophers have lacked for years. But make no mistake — Fleck is here to win .

“I am not here to change tradition. What I am here to do is change a culture. To change the movement, for us to create and experience things that the University of Minnesota foot-ball has only dreamed off and hasn’t accomplished since the late ‘60s,” he said. “My entire life has been about running into the fire, not away from the fire.

I eat difficult conversations for breakfast, and that is why I took this job.”

Brohm walks into the toughest situation.

While Minnesota has played in three consecutive bowl games and the Hoosiers have been to back-to-back bowl games, Purdue hasn’t made the post-season since the 2012 season. Here, at the Cradle of Quarter-backs, the depth chart is thin, the schedule is daunting and crowds have been dwindling.

Yet Brohm looks like a per-fect fit. A former quarterback with an NFL pedigree, like Harbaugh, could be an enticing situation for recruits who dream of being the next Drew Brees. And Brohm’s creative, high-scoring offense could be just the remedy to bring fans back to Ross-Ade Stadium.

It worked for Joe Tiller two decades ago. Now Brohm is hoping the philosophy he learned in one season with the XFL’s Orlando Rage will help Purdue dig itself out of a hole .

“I hate to tell people this but it was the most fun I ever had playing football,” Brohm said. “You had nicknames, you had skits and charades, you played to the cameras in the middle of the field and I think there are some plusses to that. If you’re going to have fun playing the game, fans are going to have fun watching the game. I think the XFL taught me you could have fun and still be productive and that’s what people want to see.”

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CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — Freshman Isaiah Hodgins gave a peek at his future in Oregon State’s spring game.

The 6-foot-4 early enrollee from Northern California pulled down a 38-yard pass from junior transfer quarterback Jake Luton in the first quarter, setting the stage for a 6-yard TD reception by Jordan Villamin.

For Saturday’s season opener at Colorado State, Hodgins makes his Beavers debut atop the depth chart at receiver opposite Villamin.

“When I first got here I was definitely more immature as a player, more immature physi-cally and mentally for the game of football. Since then my IQ for football has just jumped. From reading safeties and corners and coverages to knowing different playbooks and different routes to run. My body has definitely gotten more physically domi-nating,” Hodgins said.

Overall, the Beavers are in transition at the receiver position.

The top receiver from last season, Victor Bolden, has graduated. Hunter Jarmon, who was expected to be one of the

team’s best options, decided to leave the Beavers early for a pro baseball career.

Dynamic playmaker Seth Collins, who missed the final two games of last season because of a serious illness, was moved to slot receiver in fall camp. But he has a finger injury and won’t play on Sat-urday, making way for sopho-more Trevon Bradford to top the season-opening depth chart.

Villamin, a senior, is the leading returner at the position. After a promising sophomore year, he finished last season with just 21 catches for 253 yards and a touchdown.

“There’s some good pieces to the puzzle. I like the receiving corps. But we have to be able to throw the ball down the field. It will loosen up the run game. It will get those safeties back off the ball a little bit, and those will become big threats for us,” head coach Gary Andersen said this week.

“But we’ve got to go out, on game day, and execute similar to the way we have in practice, and I think our offense will really be in a better spot than it has been in the past.”

Freshman WR Isaiah Hodgins to make debut

for Oregon State

FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2017, file photo, Purdue coach Jeff Brohm poses with his players for a team photo during the NCAA college football team’s media day in West Lafayette, Ind. Brohm, a former quarterback with an NFL pedigree, like Harbaugh, could be an enticing situation for recruits who dream of being the next Drew Brees. And Brohm‚Äôs creative, high-scoring offense could be just the remedy to bring fans back to Ross-Ade Stadium.

(John Terhune/Journal & Courier via AP, File)

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“We’re all in the same boat,” Rood said. “Anything McGregor one to four rounds is pretty bad. Any McGregor knockout is not going to be good.”

So far, the betting has been unusually active around town, bringing predictions that the volume could set records. Bookmakers say as the fight draws closer the heaviest influx of money will come, especially on Saturday.

The news is not all bad for oddsmakers, who have strug-gled to make lines for a fight that has no precedent. Most believe Mayweather is an easy winner and should be favored by a much bigger margin, but have had to cut odds to try and balance their books.

Though an overwhelming majority of the tickets are on McGregor, a lot of books have

more money wagered on May-weather. Since bookmakers will have to pay out a lot less to those betting Mayweather, they will likely score big if May-weather wins as expected.

“We’re just kind of going along balancing and are in great shape win on both sides, no matter who wins,” said Johnny Avello, oddsmaker at the Wynn resort. “A lot of guys are put-ting down $125,000 or so to win whatever on Mayweather so we’re high on him now.”

Even if McGregor wins and the sports books lose big, all is not lost. Bettors like to be reminded they can win, and the extra betting on football gen-erated by McGregor bettors at the books will help ease some of the pain. “We don’t mind a large decision on a big spectacle like this,” Bogdanovich said. “It gets people in our books.”

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OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Marina Alex shot a 5-under 66 on Thursday to take the lead in the Canadian Pacific Wom-en’s Open, while Canadian star Brooke Henderson was in danger of missing the cut after a 74.

Alex had four birdies on her opening nine — the back nine at Ottawa Hunt — and added two birdies and a bogey on her second nine. The American is winless on the PGA Tour.

“I got off to a great start,” Alex said. “Then the conditions started to pick up a little bit. The wind picked up. It started to get tough definitely the second nine, so I kind of just held in there the best I could.”

She had 28 putts.“Putted unbelievably well

today,” Alex said. “I rolled it so good. I hope I can just carry that into the next couple days and just tidy up the ball-striking a little bit.” Henderson, from nearby Smiths Falls, struggled on the greens. She had 32 putts.

“I hit the ball for the majority extremely well and just the putter kind of let me down at times,” Henderson said. “But you know, the crowds were amazing. There was a lot of great things hap-pening out there, and like I said, my ball-striking was awesome. It was like right on, and just hope-fully tomorrow I can make a couple more of those 10-footers, 15-footers, and then we’ll see what happens.”

The 19-year-old Canadian has four LPGA Tour victories, win-ning the major KPMG Women’s PGA last year and the Meijer LPGA Classic in June.

South Korea’s In Gee Chun and England’s Holly Clyburn were a stroke back at 67. “You can hit shots in there pretty tight,” Chun said. Angel Yin and Brittany Lincicome, coming off the United States’ Solheim Cup victory Sunday in Iowa, were at 68 along with Shan-shan Feng, Sei Young Kim, Pavarisa Yoktuan and Sherman Santiwiwatthanaphong.

Alex leads at Ottawa Hunt; Cana-dian star Henderson struggles

A board displays odds for different bets for the fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Conor McGregor at the Westgate Superbook sports book, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017, in Las Vegas. Book-makers could lose millions of dollars should Conor McGregor do what he says and stop Floyd May-weather Jr. within two rounds.

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OLD WESTBURY, N.Y. (AP) — Golf hasn’t felt this easy to Dustin Johnson since he was making it hard for anyone to beat him.

Coming off a week in the Bahamas and switching back to his old putter to rely more on feel, Johnson ran off three birdies over his last six holes at Glen Oaks Club and finished with a 5-under 65 to trail Rus-sell Henley by one shot after the opening round of The Northern Trust.

Johnson missed only two fairways and two greens Thursday afternoon, and he fin-ished with a shot up the hill to 4 feet for one last birdie that gave him his lowest round since he won at Riviera in February to rise to No. 1 in the world.

“Today was much easier than it has been in the past,” Johnson said. “I’ve been saying it’s close and I’ve seen signs of it. But today was the first day where I felt like all day I was really in control of the swing. Hit a lot of really good shots. Drove it well. Did everything really well. It’s the first time in a long time I’ve done that.”

He specifically used as a ref-erence the weeks leading into the Masters, when Johnson looked nearly unstoppable by winning three straight tournaments.

And then he was stopped by a staircase in his rental home at the Masters, slipping in socks and wrenching his back. He had to withdraw from Augusta National the next day, and since then he has been trying to get over the back injury and get back his game.

The first of four FedEx Cup playoff events moved this year to Glen Oaks, a course no one in the field knows particularly well. It is spacious and immac-ulate, the contoured greens that can be difficult to negotiate out-side of close range.

Henley brought a conserva-tive strategy of aiming for the safe part of the green, and he converted eight birdies. Seven of them were from 12 feet or closer, a testament to how well he was playing. He also chipped in from 80 feet.

“I don’t know what the key is, or the secret,” Henley said. “I just tried to hit the fairway, make sure I hit the green when I was in the fairway, and the greens are great and I rolled in a couple of putts.”

Scott Brown, Camilo Vil-legas and Chris Kirk were at 66, and it was an important start for Villegas and Kirk.

The top 100 in the FedEx Cup after this week advance to the second playoff event at the TPC Boston. Kirk is at No. 97, Villegas is one spot behind. It was even better for a few players who opened with a 67, such as Bubba Watson (No.

113), Martin Flores (No. 118) and Harold Varner III (No. 123).

Flores only got into the top 125 by finishing with an ace, a par and a birdie at the Wyn-dham Championship.

Phil Mickelson, meanwhile, needs to see a score much better than his 72, which featured two straight birdies at the end but also a pair of double bogeys. Mickelson has played in every Presidents Cup or Ryder Cup since 1994, and he is in danger of being left out of the Presi-dents Cup next month at Liberty National.

U.S. captain Steve Stricker has said he needs to see signs from the five-time major cham-pion, and Mickelson knows that.

“I would love to be on that team, but I’ve got to bring something to the table,” Mick-elson said.

PGA champion Justin Thomas, still sluggish from a busy week of trying to deal with his new status as major cham-pion, wasn’t expecting much out of his game and dropped two shots early before he rallied for a 68. In his first start since his two-shot victory at Quail Hollow, Thomas was not intro-duced on the tee as the PGA champion.

“After the drive I hit, I’m kind of glad they didn’t,” he said.

He hit it on the toe of the driver, a duck-hook that he says would have gone about 130 yards. He was exaggerating. It went 221 yards after it clanged out of the trees and into the fairway, leaving him a 2-iron to the green when most players are hitting a wedge or short iron.

British Open champion Jordan Spieth had a 69, while Hideki Matsuyama, the No. 1 seed going into the PGA Tour’s version of the postseason, didn’t make a birdie and opened with a 74. Rory McIlroy made three bogeys on the back nine and shot 73.

Johnson switched to a Tay-lorMade Spider putter during the playoffs last year, and he stuck with that up until returning this week and going back to what he used when he won the U.S. Open last summer at Oakmont.

“I got a little bit more feel with the putter instead of the Spider I was using,” he said. “I was getting a little bit too mechanical and I was worrying about too many things when I was putting instead of just putting.”

He ran a long birdie putt some 15 feet by the hole at No. 2 and three-putted for bogey. After that, his speed was better and his game was sharp. The 65 was his best round since a 64 in the second round at Riviera.

Johnson finding groove, trails Henley by 1 at Northern Trust

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DEAR ABBY: I am the mother of two teenaged girls (13 and 15) and have been debating whether to tell them a secret about my past. When I was in high school, I made some poor decisions. I went to a party with people I viewed as friends, had too much to drink and the evening ended with my being raped by someone I thought I knew.

I reported it to my parents and the police, but because I couldn’t remember big parts of the evening, I wasn’t considered credible and no one believed me -- not even my parents. My grades dropped, my weight plummeted and the entire school knew and believed his side of the story.

I internalized everything and became a shell of who I was before the incident. It was years before I forgave myself for making a horrible mistake. Ultimately, I moved in with my grandmother several states away to finish high school, far away from my parents and the pain.

Would it be appropriate to share this story (or a redacted version) with my daughters to help them understand the risks of teenage drinking? They are at the age when they are surrounded by tempta-tion and curiosity, and their father and I can’t shield them from everything. Would I be doing them a disservice by not telling them? -- UNDECIDED IN NEVADA

DEAR UNDECIDED: You would be doing your daughters a favor if, along with warning them about underage drinking, you shared your story with them. If you do, it will help them understand that drinking can have unintended, sometimes lifelong consequences. Forewarned is forearmed.

DEAR ABBY: Is it possible to have a relationship with a man 20 years younger? I rented my spare room to him, and over the past month, we have spent a lot of time together and grown very close.

He has made it clear that he’s attracted to me, and I’m attracted to him as well. I am afraid of what people may think and say, and I worry about the long term. What are your thoughts? -- RELATION-SHIP ISSUE

DEAR ISSUE: I gather from your letter that you are 40-plus years old. If you are still worried about what people may think, refrain from doing what you’re considering, because people do tend to talk. Since no one can predict how long the “long term” might be, my advice is to guard your heart. Because there are no guarantees in life, proceed with caution.

DEAR ABBY: When you are on the phone with someone and the call is dropped, who is supposed to call who back? I spent five minutes trying to call my mom back while she was trying to call me. It was very frustrating; both of us kept getting voicemail.

Mom says the person who received the call should be the person who calls back. I say the person who MADE the call should be the person who calls back. -- UNSURE IN SAN DIEGO

DEAR UNSURE: While I agree with you, no rule of etiquette dictates who should call the other person back in the event of a dropped call. Long waits also happen when a caller doesn’t realize the call has dropped and continues talking. Frankly, it has been my experience that the callback is usually made by the person who can get through first. And the first sentence uttered is usually, “So, where were we?”

ARIES (March 21-April 19): A change in your environment will leave you at odds about your next move. Give whatever situation you face time to settle before you make a decision that will change an important relationship with someone special.✸✸✸

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): An unexpected situation will surface quickly. Refuse to get caught up in the moment. Consider the pros and cons before you engage in an emotionally draining encounter. If someone pressures you or uses emotional manipulation, walk away. ✸✸✸

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Express your emotions openly and you will be able to bridge a gap that has been causing problems between you and someone you deal with regularly. Compromise will help you find common ground. Be willing to do the legwork. ✸✸✸✸✸

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Partnership troubles will surface if you let your emotions take over. Get the facts and take time to digest the information. Excessive behavior will lead to weight gain or poor health. Focus on yourself, not what others are doing ✸✸

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Keep the momentum going. Stay on top of whatever job or responsibility you’ve been given until you finish. Living up to your word will result in added respect and favors from people counting on you. Home improvements are encouraged ✸✸✸✸

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Consider your current position and how you earn your living, but don’t let an incident push you to make an impulsive decision that could disrupt your cash flow. Protect against loss as well as impulsive purchases. ✸✸✸

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Keep your life simple, be direct and don’t let your emotions take over. Someone will take advantage of your vulnerability if you are too open about the way you feel. Keep business and personal matters separate. ✸✸✸

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Hidden matters, secrets and personal information should be pro-tected. Someone will be pushy and persuasive in order to get you to disclose matters that could make you look bad. Stay focused on making positive personal gains and changes. Romance is highlighted. ✸✸✸

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): An opportunity to get ahead professionally is apparent. Send out your resume or set up interviews. Don’t make any changes that will be costly. Negotiate on your own behalf and take care of personal finances and health issues. ✸✸✸✸

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Too much of anything will lead to distractions, mistakes and mishaps. Don’t trust anyone to take care of your responsibilities or personal affairs. Do your best to keep the peace and to offer kindness over discord. ✸✸

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Don’t let others’ reactions deter you from following through with your plans. A personal contract you share with someone will be challenged. Don’t make assumptions or overreact. Keep the peace and work on making self-improvements, not trying to change others. ✸✸✸✸✸

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Someone will take advantage of you if you are gullible. Don’t let anyone play on your emotions or talk you into making changes that aren’t going to help you get ahead. Work quietly toward your goals, not some else’s agenda. ✸✸✸

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basmati 32 Artist Max 35 Press down,

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slopes 55 One’s ways

of conceiving things

60 Bedtime for a Bard?

61 Gripping courtroom event

62 Bone-chillingly weird

63 “Go on ...” 64 Be bullish 65 Product of a

Russian mintDOWN 1 “Pardon ___

dust” (sign of renovation)

2 Genetic evidence

3 Mo. of fake ghosts and goblins

4 Poker player who doesn’t stay?

5 One paying to be on TV?

6 Lots and lots 7 Burrowing

result 8 Asian

cincher 9 Dodger

description 10 Baby

shower gift, sometimes

11 One’s dis-criminating power

12 Bring upon oneself

13 Massive blue things

18 Acid type 22 About 1.3

cubic yards 23 “___ die for!” 24 It’s high

in the Himalayas

25 Emotional state

26 Low-voiced choir members

28 Provides nourishment for

31 Navigational aid

33 From then on

34 Out on a limb with nowhere to run

36 Assume for the sake of argument

38 Boot tip 41 References

for directors 43 More toned 46 Toward the

back, on the waters

48 ___ of (rather than)

49 Making waves

50 Monopoly piece

51 Little, edible cold-water fish

53 Lasting reminder of surgery

56 Brazilian city, familiarly

57 Ball or sphere

58 Zilch 59 Take in

visually

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