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could have outsize licans can select unbound dele-
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convention was decided as Presi- cause each state sets its own dele- state to run for delegate spots, so
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tional convention for any candi- but won the lions share of un- pockets of the country to inu- convention.
date they choose. committed delegates in states ence who nabs these spots. Pennsylvania will have 17
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Republican nomination this year front-runner Donald Trump fails where the leading candidate will delegate spots, can all be un- the rst week of April who can
could run through the Virgin to amass the 1,237 delegates look to get delegates to go over bound in Cleveland. State GOP
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IN NEWS Epic
collapse
to record
Sign at entrance of historical Syrian
city of Palmyra.
AFP/GETTY IMAGES recovery
Thirteen dramatic
Antiquities stolen weeks that shook
by ISIL are still in up Wall Street
demand globally Adam Shell
Despite losing Palmyra USA TODAY
to Syria, Islamic State
has already made mil- The rst trading day of 2016
lions from treasures. was terrible, but nothing com-
pared to the epic collapse in
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Police union hires Protester Deniz Lohja is pushed back by police after tussling with Turkish security Thursday. When Wall Street opened
officer facing trial Jan. 4, the Dow plunged 276
in fatal shooting SKIRMISH AT points. By the end of the week,
the blue-chip stock gauge was
down nearly 1,100 points, or 6.2%
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China company to
ERDOGAN VISIT its worst start to a year ever.
A bull market in doom and
gloom took hold quickly, and the
Protesters and supporters of Turkish Presi- selling intensied. RBS, a major
pull out of bidding dent Recep Tayyip Erdogan gathered outside global bank, told clients to sell
war for Starwood the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., everything. Longtime mega-bear
Move positions Marriott Albert Edwards, a global strate-
on Thursday. As Erdogan spoke at Brookings, gist at Societe Generale best
to go ahead with plan boasting of his popularity among voters and known for his prediction of an
to purchase hotels. trying to counter his image as an authoritarian ice age for nancial markets,
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FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2016
VOICES
Fascination with terror endures
Aida Alami
Special for
USA TODAY
RABAT, MOROCCO Whenever
terrorists strike and kill inno-
cent people, my rst instinct is
to feel deeply sorry for the vic-
tims. My second, as a Muslim,
is to hope the attack wont
spike hate against the billion
people who practice Islam.
But when the terrorists are
Moroccan like those who
staged last weeks attacks in
Brussels my third is to won-
der why someone from my
country is again terrorizing
people on foreign soil.
Morocco has been successful
so far in preventing terrorist
attacks in the kingdom since
May 2011, when explosions
killed 17 people in a caf in
Marrakesh, an ancient city of
awe-inspiring historic sites
thats popular with tourists.
Yet Moroccans are the third-
largest cohort of jihadists ght-
ing in Syria Moroccan war-
lords are leading Islamic State
ghters and other groups in
Syria and Iraq, too. Also, this
statistic doesnt include those
in Europe of Moroccan origins,
like the men who set off bombs
at the Brussels Airport and
metro system and who killed
130 people in Paris in
November.
I keep wondering: How come
these men capable of so many
atrocities choose to commit
their violence abroad and spare
us Moroccans at home?
Vice Presi-
dent Biden
attends a
meeting with
President
Recep Tayyip
Erdogan of
Turkey on the
sidelines of
the nuclear
summit in
Washington
on Thursday.
Static with journalists undercuts
Turkish presidents image renovation
Oren Dorell
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan sought to
counter his image as an authori-
tarian ruler during a speech
Thursday, but his henchmen is-
sued a different message as they
sought to intimidate and oust
journalists at the venue.
As Erdogan pledged anew to
ght terrorism and help Syrian
refugees while boasting of his
own popularity with voters, the
Turkish security detail confront-
ed journalists and protesters at
the Brookings Institution.
You cannot nd any country
that pursues high standards and
human rights and democracy like
Turkey, and we want to be treated
fairly, Erdogan said.
200 imprisoned after illegal cellphone tracking
Brad Heath
USA TODAY
Lawyers in Baltimore identi-
ed as many as 200 people who
were sent to prison based on evi-
dence police gathered with the
help of a powerful cellphone
tracking tool that a state court
has ruled was used illegally.
The ruling, issued Wednesday
by Marylands second-highest
court, said Baltimore police vio-
lated the Constitution when they
used one of the tracking devices
to catch a shooting suspect with-
A man takes a photo of a makeshift memorial for the victims of terrorist attacks in Brussels.
The answer might lie with
the May 2003 attacks in Casa-
blanca, when al-Qaeda-affiliat-
ed suicide bombers killed 45
people in bars and restaurants.
The perpetrators were young
men who grew up in a slum on
the outskirts of the city. The in-
cident shocked the Moroccan
public and marked a stark turn
in how the authorities dealt
with terrorism.
Very much like the United
States after the 9/11 attacks,
politicians enacted a raft of se-
curity measures. Among them
was a law that allowed the po-
lice to pre-emptively arrest
Outside, a Turkish security of-
cial grabbed a banner that
looked like a stuffed tiger from
raucous protesters, while other
security officials confronted a U.S.
journalist and a Turkish journal-
ist in separate incidents.
Inside Brookings, U.S. security
officials and a Secret Service
agent protected a Turkish jour-
nalist from being evicted by
Turkish security personnel.
The reporter, Adem Arslan,
said he was ejected from the
building, then brought back in by
Brookings staff who insisted he
was their guest. Arslan works for
Ozgur Dusunce (Free Thought)
Daily, which is owned by follow-
ers of Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish
religious leader and onetime po-
litical ally of Erdogans whom the
Turkish president accuses of try-
ing to overthrow his government.
out rst obtaining a search war-
rant. It was the rst time an
appeals court weighed in directly
on the legality of phone-trackers
that have been widely used by po-
lice for nearly a decade.
Cellphone users have an ob-
jectively reasonable expectation
that their cellphones will not be
used as real-time tracking de-
vices, through the direct and ac-
tive interference of law
enforcement, a panel of three
judges on Marylands Court of
Special Appeals wrote. The
judges accused Baltimore detec-
tives of misleading the lower-
Morocco has
been successful
so far in
preventing
terrorist attacks
in the kingdom
since May 2011.
anyone who could potentially
become a terrorist. Moroccan
authorities have also been con-
trolling activities in mosques,
making sure imams espouse
moderate views of Islam and
ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS, AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Arslan said two men with Er-
dogans team told him in Turkish,
Youre not allowed to be in here,
youre a traitor. Once he was
back in the building, he said, they
threatened to kill him when he
went out.
Erdogan, asked about his gov-
ernments arrests of journalists
and seizure of papers, said false
information has been disseminat-
ed in the West by his countrys
enemies. Those who are incar-
cerated journalists in Turkey
have been subject to litigation,
and their verdicts are pending,
Erdogan said. These people have
already been convicted of engag-
ing in terrorism.
As Erdogan spoke in the USA,
an explosion caused by a bomb-
laden car in the Turkish city of
Diyarbakir killed at least seven
police officers.
court judge who approved their
use of the device, commonly
known as a stingray.
That decision could imperil
hundreds of criminal convictions
across Maryland, where police
have used stingrays prolically.
An investigation last year by USA
TODAY identied nearly 2,000
cases in Baltimore alone in which
the police secretly used stingrays
to make arrests for everything
from murder to petty thefts, typi-
cally without a search warrant.
We have a grave concern that
our clients are incarcerated be-
cause of the use of a stingray that
JOHN THYS, AFP/GETTY IMAGES
dont incite violence.
The law helped stop attacks,
but it wont end some Moroc-
cans fascination with terror-
ism, according to Abdelwahab
el Raki also known as Abu
Hafs a Sala (Islamic funda-
mentalist) preacher arrested in
2003 for promoting extremism.
Released along with other
prominent Sala gures after a
royal pardon, he is now preach-
ing peace as part of a move-
ment of religious leaders trying
to dissuade people from engag-
ing in violence.
There are different reasons
that push people to become
Obama, Asian
leaders huddle on
regions concerns
David Jackson
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON While making -
nal preparations for his nuclear
security summit, President Oba-
ma spent Thursday discussing
challenges in Asia that span
North Koreas nuclear weapons
to Chinas military and territorial
ambitions.
Obama, who welcomed world
leaders to the White House for a
working dinner, held private
meetings earlier in the day with
the top officials from Japan,
South Korea, and China, sessions
devoted mainly to North Koreas
nukes.
We continue to face the threat
from North Korean provoca-
tions, said Ben Rhodes, Obamas
deputy national security adviser
for strategic communications.
We have to take necessary mea-
sures to protect ourselves and our
allies.
The president held a joint
meeting in the morning with
Japan Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe and South Korea President
Park Geun Hye. Though they are
rivals on many issues, Abe and
Park are more united over con-
cerns about North Korea, which
in recent months has conducted a
fourth nuclear bomb test and
launched a long-range rocket into
space.
Dan Kritenbrink, senior direc-
tor for Asian affairs at the Nation-
al Security Council, said he
expects Obama, Abe, and Park
to clearly demonstrate their
unity in our commitment and
was illegal, said Natalie Finegar,
who is reviewing stingray cases
for the citys public defender.
Finegar said defense lawyers
are focused most urgently on
about 200 cases in which people
appear to have been sent to pris-
on based on evidence the police
found after they used a stingray.
Those are the emergencies, she
said. By itself, its just a huge
number of cases.
Stingrays are suitcase-sized de-
vices that allow the police to pin-
point a cellphones location to
within a few yards by posing as a
cell tower. They have drawn
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terrorists, he recently told me.
One of them is socioeconomic.
But there is also this dream of
creating an Islamic Caliphate,
which is why so many are going
to Syria and Iraq.
There are other reasons, too,
that Morocco is spared. Moroc-
co is also blessed by geography,
says Romain Caillet, a Paris-
based researcher in Jihadi
movements. Its far from the
Middle East, so it hasnt been
swept up in the same ideologi-
cal currents of terrorism.
In Europe, these future jiha-
dists are exposed to other inu-
ences. Many former petty
criminals of Moroccan origin in
Europe have turned into vio-
lent terrorists mostly because
they learn how to obtain weap-
ons and hide from the authori-
ties, Caillet says. That makes
them an ideal pool of recruits
for jihadists.
Morocco, meanwhile, should
start investing more in educa-
tion about half of the popula-
tion remains illiterate.
Youth unemployment is leav-
ing many believing they have no
other choice than taking a
chance on becoming a war he-
ro, even if it involves joining the
ranks of the Islamic State, giving
them stature and a purpose.
I have interviewed many for-
mer Islamist prisoners in Mo-
rocco who left jail with few
choices for a better life. These
people become easy prey for
terrorists. Many, after months
of trying, gave up.
They left Morocco for Syria
or Iraq.
Alami is a journalist based in Paris
and Marrakech.
our rm resolve to deter and
defend against North Korean
aggression.
The leaders were expected to
discuss the battle against the Is-
lamic State and climate change.
North Korea also topped the
agenda when Obama met in the
afternoon with Chinese President
Xi Jinping.
Rhodes noted that U.S. officials
have long been talking with Chi-
nese, Japanese, and South Kore-
an officials about the threat posed
by North Korea, and were in
discussions about the deploy-
ment of additional missile de-
fense in the area.
Obama and Xi also have other
topics to discuss as well. They in-
clude Chinese military expansion
into the South China Sea, which
is creating friction with neighbor-
ing countries, and allegations that
Chinese interests have hacked
into U.S. computers.
While the topic is not expected
to surface in the Obama-Xi talks,
China has also become an issue in
the American presidential cam-
paign to replace Obama. Republi-
can front-runner Donald Trump
says China is using trade rules to
take jobs away from the U.S.
China, Japan, and South Korea
are key participants in the fourth
bi-annual Nuclear Security Sum-
mit, an event Obama rst orga-
nized in 2010. Thursdays
working dinner at the White
House precedes Friday plenary
sessions devoted to reducing nu-
clear stockpiles, improving secu-
rity at nuclear facilities and
producing peaceful nuclear
energy.
alarm from privacy advocates, in
part because they can intercept
information from the phones of
nearly everyone nearby.
Dozens of police departments
own stingrays, but few have re-
vealed when or how they use
them. The U.S. Justice Depart-
ment ordered federal agents last
year to obtain search warrants
before using stingrays.
Maryland prosecutors can ap-
peal to the states highest court.
Christine Tobar, a spokeswoman
for state Attorney General Brian
Frosh, said he was reviewing and
evaluating next steps.
USA TODAY
FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2016 E2
Police union hires cop who shot teenager
In Chicago, activists express outrage;
union backs white officers hiring as janitor
Aamer Madhani
USA TODAY
CHICAGO The citys police union
has hired the cop facing rst-de-
gree murder charges in the fatal
shooting of Laquan McDonald to
work as a janitor.
Jason Van Dyke, who was
charged in November for the inci-
dent that set off weeks of protests
in the city, will be paid $12 per
hour. News of the hiring by the
Chicago Fraternal Order of Po-
lice, which was rst reported by
WFLD-TV in Chicago, has
spurred outrage from activists in
the city.
The Rev. Michael Peger, a
Catholic priest and prominent ac-
tivist on the citys South Side,
ISILs stolen treasures in demand
Gray market is
hard to track even
as Palmyra is back
in Syrian control
Jim Michaels
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON The recapture of
the ancient city of Palmyra by
Syrian forces takes away a key
revenue source of looted antiqui-
ties for the Islamic State, but
global demand for the stolen
valuables persists despite inter-
national efforts to stop the sales.
The Islamic State has earned
millions of dollars from the sale
of antiquities looted from
throughout Syria and Iraq by es-
tablishing an elaborate system to
smuggle and sell the goods on the
open market.
This is carefully managed,
said Amr Al-Azm, an associate
professor at Shawnee State Uni-
versity and former official in the
Syrian governments antiquities
department. Its a resource they
exploit as they need to.
Palmyra was recaptured last
weekend by Russian-backed Syri-
an forces, nearly a year after the
Islamic State, also called ISIL or
ISIS, seized the city and de-
stroyed some of its iconic Ro-
man-era structures and looted
other artifacts it could sell.
Countless antiquities already
are on the market, which has
proved difficult to curb. Criminal
cases are hard to prosecute with-
out evidence that a dealer or bro-
ker knew an item had been
pilfered.
Its a huge weak link, said
Tess Davis, executive director of
the Antiquities Coalition, a group
that pushes for action to crack
down on antiquities smuggling.
Determining the origin of
some common items, such as Ro-
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called the move by the union a
disgrace and a setback for efforts
to restore the fraught relations
between the police department
and the African-American
community.
The Police Union says to Chi-
cago ... we dont give a damn what
he did, what you think, he is one
of ours, and we are going to take
care of him, Peger wrote on his
Facebook page.
The union has shown support
for Van Dyke since he was
charged on the same day the city
was forced by court order to re-
lease chilling dashcam video that
showed Van Dyke, who is white,
re 16 shots at the black teen. Van
Dyke was charged 400 days after
the incident.
Van Dyke opened re within
man coins, is a challenge. Unique
items often are kept off the mar-
ket until there is less scrutiny.
The Internet has made it easy to
market items to a global
audience.
The State Department has
made efforts to warn dealers and
auction houses about the looted
pieces, but unscrupulous dealers
might look the other way about
their origin.
With antiquities its very
much a gray market, Davis said.
The Islamic State recognizes
the nancial windfall in looted
antiquities. It established an an-
tiquities division, according to in-
telligence gathered in a U.S. raid
in Syria last year that killed a top
leader of the militant group.
ISIL does not just passively
tax the sale of antiquities by oth-
ers, Andrew Keller, a top State
Department official, said in a
speech last year. It actively con-
IN BRIEF
VIRGINIA TROOPER SHOT IN
RICHMOND BUS STATION DIES
A gunman shot a Virginia state
trooper Thursday at a busy bus
terminal in Richmond before he
was shot dead by two other troop-
ers, police said. The wounded
trooper later died of his injuries.
Two civilians were hurt. It was
not clear if they had been shot.
Early reports indicated Vir-
ginia State Trooper Chad Der-
myer had died, then a short time
later Virginia State Police spokes-
woman Corinne Geller said the
trooper was alive with life-threat-
ening injuries. But state police
conrmed at about 8:40 p.m. that
Dermyer had succumbed to his
injuries. WVEC-TV
MIAMI MAJOR CHOSEN FOR
FERGUSON, MO., POLICE CHIEF
Miami Police Maj. Delrish
Moss will take over as chief of the
Ferguson, Mo., Police Depart-
ment, the city of Ferguson an-
nounced Thursday.
Moss, a former homicide de-
tective, will take over a depart-
ment that guratively became
SCOTT OLSON, GETTY IMAGES
The release of dashcam video showing the shooting of Laquan
McDonald sparked demonstrations in Chicago late last year.
seconds of arriving on the scene, cial police statements following
saying that he feared for his life. the shooting, according to investi-
At least ve police officers at the gative documents released by the
scene backed up Van Dyke in offi- city. Van Dyke told investigators
Statues and other items in Palmyras main museum were dam-
aged by militants who seized the city.
Dealers and brokers are be-
coming more aware of the illicit
trade, which should help reduce
the demand for the items. The
FBI last year warned art dealers
that anyone purchasing looted
items from Syria or Iraq could be
prosecuted under laws against -
nancing terrorism.
Despite the Islamic States
Despite the damage and loot- looting and rampage, the ancient
ing, much of Palmyras an- part of Palmyra, a UNESCO
cient UNESCO world heritage world heritage site, appears to
site remains intact. have remained intact. Last year,
trols the trade to ensure maxi- the militant groups initial de-
mum prot. struction of the city included the
Intelligence gathered from the Temple of Bel, the Arch of Tri-
raid showed that the Islamic umph and Baalshamin Temple.
State issued licenses for people to There is still quite a lot left,
loot, collected a tax on sales and Al-Azm said. It could have been
prevented unauthorized people a lot worse.
from stealing from archaeological Syrian and Russian officials are
sites. just beginning to assess the dam-
BRIDGE COLLAPSE KILLS SCORES IN INDIA
DIBYANGSHU SARKAR, AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Indian rescue workers and volunteers try to free people
trapped under the wreckage of a collapsed y-over bridge near
smashed cars in Kolkata on Thursday. At least 21 were killed
and dozens were injured.
Ground Zero for a stream of the nation focused on alleged po-
clashes between law enforcement lice misconduct.
and black males after the shoot- Moss, who heads up the Miami
ing death of unarmed black teen Police Departments Public Infor-
Michael Brown in August 2014. mation/Community Relations di-
Browns death at the hands of vision, comes in to replace former
Ferguson Police Officer Darren Ferguson Police Chief Thomas
Wilson spurred protests across Jackson, who resigned March 11,
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that McDonald was moving to-
ward him when he started ring.
The dashcam video, however, ap-
pears to show McDonald moving
away from Van Dyke when the of-
cer opened re.
Van Dyke was suspended with-
out pay. The officers attorney,
Dan Herbert, had said that Van
Dyke was having trouble nding
work since the incident.
Van Dyke, who has pleaded not
guilty, is free on bail awaiting
trial. He began working nights at
FOP headquarters about three
weeks ago.
Dean Angelo Sr., the union
president, defended the hiring.
We do this for our member-
ship and this is what the FOP
stands for, fraternalism, Angelo
told WFLD. This officer is in a
very difficult situation nancially;
he has a family and we would do
it for anybody that works as a
Chicago Police officer.
PHOTOS BY JOSEPH EID, AFP/GETTY IMAGES
age. On Thursday, Russian engi-
neers arrived in Syria to help
clear mines and improvised ex-
plosives from the city.
There has been limited new
damage. Statues and other items
that had not been removed from
the main museum before the mil-
itants seized the city were de-
faced, said Michael Danti,
academic director of the Cultural
Heritage Initiatives at the Ameri-
can School of Oriental Research.
Over the past year, the Islamic
State has ooded the market with
items looted not only from
Palmyra, but also from the north-
ern Iraqi city of Mosul and other
areas the terror group controls.
At its peak last year the Islamic
State controlled about 5,000 ar-
chaeological sites, according to
the State Department.
2015, after a Justice Department
report strongly criticized the de-
partments policies and practices.
Mary Bowerman
COLOMBIA REPORTS 32 CASES
OF ZIKA BIRTH DEFECTS
Colombia is now reporting 32
cases of a birth defect called mi-
crocephaly that is strongly linked
to the Zika virus, according to the
World Health Organization.
Babies with microcephaly are
born with abnormally small
heads and, in most cases, incom-
plete brain development.
Brazil is investigating more
than 4,000 microcephaly cases
and has conrmed 944 in the past
few months. Brazilian officials es-
timate their country has had up
to 1.3 million Zika cases.
Colombias rst Zika cases
were diagnosed in October. WHO
officials have warned that the rate
of microcephaly could rise this
year as pregnant women infected
with the mosquito-borne virus
deliver their babies.
Zika has spread to 33 countries
in the Western Hemisphere, ac-
cording to the WHO. Liz Szabo
4A NEWS
STATE-BY-STATE
News from across the USA
ALABAMA Birmingham: Au-
thorities arrested a man accused
of ringing a doorbell while nude
at an apartment complex,
AL.com reported.
ALASKA Fairbanks: University
of Alaska police investigated
three campus vehicle break-ins,
newsminer.com reported. A
.40-caliber Springeld XD hand-
gun, a backpack, an iPod and Fred
Meyer gift cards were stolen from
one vehicle, according to Deputy
Chief Steve Goetz. A .308 Wind-
ham assault rie was stolen from
a second vehicle, and a gym bag
was taken from a third vehicle.
ARIZONA Phoenix: The Public
Transit Department ordered 120
new buses to serve the citys
routes. The buses use com-
pressed natural gas and have a
fuel range of at least 400 miles,
meaning most of the vehicles
wont require daily refueling.
ARKANSAS Sheridan: Twenty
to 30 privately owned golf carts
were destroyed in a re that
swept through several sheds at
the Golf Club, ArkansasOnline
reported.
CALIFORNIA Los Angeles:
James Henwood, the chief exec-
utive of the Los Angeles County
Fair Association, who made more
than $1 million in total compen-
sation in 2014 even as the organi-
zation reported millions of
dollars in losses, resigned, the Los
Angeles Times reported.
COLORADO Pueblo: An inmate
who set re to the Saguache
County jail in southern Colorado
has been sentenced to 20 years in
prison, the Pueblo Chieftain re-
ported.
CONNECTICUT Hartford: The
state Senate OKd Michael Bzdyra
as the new commissioner of the
state Department of Motor Vehi-
cles, the Hartford Courant report-
ed. Bzdyra revealed that he never
completed his masters degree
from the University of Connecti-
cut, despite saying for more than
two decades that he did.
DELAWARE Sussex County:
Two eagles captured disoriented
and possibly near death earlier
this month have been released
back into the wild after rehabili-
tation by Tri-State Bird Rescue &
Research of Newark, The Dover
Post reported.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: A 17-
year-old was charged as an adult
with second-degree murder in
the shooting of a 15-year-old, who
was gunned down in front of his
mother and sister at the Dean-
wood Metro station, The Wash-
ington Post reported.
FLORIDA Merritt Island: Flori-
da Today reported that according
to HGTVs blog, David Rennie of
Shelton, Conn., won the HGTV
Dream Home 2016 sweepstakes
and gets to call the 3,150-square-
foot riverfront mansion home
sweet home. Rennie also gets a
2016 GMC Acadia Denali,
$250,000 and a new boat with the
grand prize value of $1.5 million,
the blog states.
GEORGIA Atlanta: More than
150 Uber drivers and others gath-
ered at City Hall for a meeting
where the company pushed for
its ride-share operations at the
worlds busiest airport and to
counter a proposal by Hartseld-
Jackson International to require
ngerprint-based background
checks and other measures, The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
reported.
HAWAII Honolulu: A survey
shows some 48% of respondents
said they live paycheck-to-pay-
check, Hawaii News Now report-
ed. The survey, conducted by
QMark Research for the Hawaii
Appleseed Center for Law and
Economic Justice, was aimed at
highlighting how the states high
cost of living is affecting residents
in daily ways.
HIGHLIGHT: ACROSS THE USA
Toll roads see large gains in 2015
Bart Jansen
USA TODAY
With gas prices low, motor-
ists seem keen to drive and to
travel on less congested toll
roads even if they cost a little
more, according to an industry
analysis of Transportation De-
partment statistics obtained by
USA TODAY.
Motorists drove nearly
3.15 trillion miles last year
3.5% or 107 billion miles more
than 2014 to clock in as the
most heavily traveled year in
U.S. history, according to the
Federal Highway Administra-
tion. And more drivers than
ever chose roads, bridges and
tunnels that charge tolls.
The number of trips driven
on toll roads, bridges and tun-
nels rose 7%, according to a
study of 31 facilities by the In-
ternational Bridge, Tunnel and
Turnpike Association. The
5 billion trips through toll facil-
ities surveyed represented 328
million more trips than 2014.
The 6,000 miles of toll facil-
ities in this country offer a pre-
mium service and people are
willing to pay for that service,
Pat Jones, the association's
CEO, told USA TODAY.
The 31 facilities that respon-
ded to the survey account for
80% of the tolls paid nation-
wide, collecting about $11 bil-
lion of $14 billion in tolls, Jones
IDAHO Sandpoint: A $3,000
reward is being offered for in-
formation that leads to a convic-
tion in the theft of a Bonner
County veterans ashes from a
cemetery here, the Daily Bee
reported.
ILLINOIS Chicago: If plans for
the Lucas Museum of Narrative
Art move forward, 1,500 tailgat-
ing spots for Bears fans would be
scattered to other locations, the
Chicago Tribune reported.
INDIANA Indianapolis: Indian-
apolis is one of the best cities for
college-educated young profes-
sionals in 2016, according to a
ranking released by Forbes, The
Indianapolis Star reported. The
list, which puts Indy in a 10th-
place tie with Twin Cities, Minn.,
factored in job growth, unem-
ployment rates, pay and cost of
living.
IOWA Des Moines: Iowa farm-
land values have dropped nearly
9% over the past year, reecting
lower farm income and commod-
ity prices, The Des Moines Regis-
ter reported.
KANSAS Lawrence: The 2016
KU Powwow and Indigenous
Dance and Culture Festival will
be Saturday at the Lied Center
and is expanding into a daylong
educational festival, the Lawrence
Journal-World reported.
KENTUCKY Hopkinsville: The
National Weather Service says
three tornadoes touched down in
western Kentuckys Christian
County over the weekend when a
severe storm passed through the
area. The Kentucky New Era cited
the National Weather Service in
Paducah in reporting that an
EF-2 tornado hit in northern
Christian County on Sunday
evening and two EF-0 tornados
hit in other areas.
lot in east Beatrice will soon be
LOUISIANA Lafayette: Bell
Helicopter, which opened an
assembly plant in August, has
hired 27 of the planned 115 em-
ployees, The Advocate reported.
The company will produce 200
new helicopters annually by late
2017.
MAINE Kennebunkport: Dem-
ocrat Susan Deschambault won a
special election to represent
Maine Senate District 32 through
the end of the year. The District
32 seat was left empty when Sen.
David Dutremble resigned earlier
this year after announcing he was
struggling with alcohol addiction.
This 41-mile stretch of road, Highway 130 in central Texas,
is part of the 6,000 miles of toll roads in the USA.
said. The survey found 23 facili-
ties with record traffic and 10
with double-digit growth.
The ve biggest gains were at
the Tampa-Hillsborough Ex-
pressway Authority in Florida
(25%), North Carolina Depart-
ment of Transportation (25%),
Central Texas Regional Mobil-
ity Authority in Austin (23.4%),
Georgias State Road and Toll-
way Authority (19.6%) and
Washington state Department
of Transportation (16%).
"I think it shows that we have
a very mobile, active workforce
and people see value in using
MARYLAND Salisbury: France-
based aerospace, defense and
security company Safran, the
parent company of Labinal Power
Systems, has put the Salisbury
manufacturing plant up for sale
for $2.35 million, The Daily Times
reported.
MASSACHUSETTS Holyoke:
Police are searching for suspects
in a mid-afternoon gunbattle in
which a school bus with a 4-year-
old girl on board was struck by a
bullet, WWLP-TV reported. Nei-
ther the girl nor the driver was
injured.
MICHIGAN Allegan: Gregory
Alan Marsman, 53, accused of
pouring acid March 16 on his
54-year-old girlfriend, will un-
dergo an evaluation to determine
his competency to stand trial, The
Grand Rapids Press reported.
MINNESOTA Afton: The Islamic
Society of Woodbury-East Metro
plans to build a 10,500-square-
foot mosque in Afton after years
of meeting and worshiping in
rented space in a Woodbury office
park, the Pioneer Press reported.
Islamic Society officials said that
they hope to open the mosque in
time for next years Ramadan
that will begin May 27.
MISSISSIPPI Gulfport: The
Environmental Protection Agen-
cy says cleanup has been com-
pleted at the old Chemfax site
here, but long-term monitoring
of groundwater will be needed.
The Sun Herald reported the
Harrison County School District
owns the 11-acre site, which was
placed on the agencys National
Priorities List in 2012.
MISSOURI Fulton: A man with a
history of drunken driving of-
fenses faces a new charge after he
was spotted driving a lawnmower
recklessly, The Columbia Daily-
Tribune reported.
MONTANA Great Falls: A man
faces homicide charges in the
death of a local woman after
autopsy results conrmed she
died of blunt force trauma and
compression of the neck, the
Great Falls Tribune reported.
NEBRASKA Beatrice: An empty
the site of a new home built by
state inmates, the Beatrice Daily
Sun reported. The house will be
about 1,200 square feet and in-
clude three bedrooms, a two-car
garage and a full, but unnished,
basement. The city hopes to have
the house pre-sold before com-
pletion.
NEVADA Las Vegas: UNLV
broke ground on a $57 million
academic building for its hotel
administration program. The
Hospitality Hall will include
93,000 square feet of classroom,
laboratory and meeting space at
the center of campus.
ERICH SCHLEGEL FOR USA TODAY
these toll facilities," Jones said.
Highway-user groups tend to
support tolls for creating new
roads or lanes, along with
bridges and tunnels. But advo-
cacy groups often criticize add-
ing tolls to existing roads.
Sean McNally, spokesman
for the American Trucking As-
sociations, said tolls are typical-
ly less efficient in collecting
money for roads than the gas
tax. Tolls also raise safety con-
cerns, either with congestion at
collection plazas or by sending
traffic onto narrower secondary
roads, he said.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Manchester:
A new Walmart sign on Interstate
293 that reads Use Exit 1, after
drivers have already passed the
exit, was put up by city planning
officials to keep drivers out of the
neighborhoods by Exit 2, the New
Hampshire Union Leader report-
ed.
NEW JERSEY Bernards: The
Pingry School has launched an
investigation into reports that a
teacher, Thad Alton, sexually
abused students in the 1970s,
mycentraljersey.com reported.
Alton was convicted on charges of
sodomy and sex abuse of young
boys in New York in 1990.
NEW MEXICO Albuquerque:
Authorities say ve men are in
custody following a bank robbery
in northeast Albuquerque.
NEW YORK Rochester: The
World Video Game Hall of Fame
announced 15 nalists, including
The Legend of Zelda, Sonic the
Hedgehog and John Madden
Football, The Democrat & Chron-
icle reported.
NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh:
Named for their tendency to
appear, draw crowds and dis-
appear quickly, pop-up markets
have risen in popularity over the
past few years, The News & Ob-
server reported.
NORTH DAKOTA Mapleton:
Voters in the Mapleton School
District have approved a $7.2 mil-
lion bond referendum to build a
new elementary school. The same
referendum lost by a narrow
margin last October.
OHIO Tallmadge: Kirk Kelly, 24,
of Tampa, who chewed off his
ngerprints in an effort to avoid
being identied during a traffic
stop, was sentenced to 18 months
in prison after pleading guilty to
charges here, WKYC-TV report-
ed.
OKLAHOMA Noble: In March,
the Oklahoma Department of
Human Services announced it
would cut back services to needy
families because of a state reve-
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nue shortfall. Gary Hicks an-
nounced on Facebook that his
diner, Tiffanys Restaurant, would
offer free meals to anyone affect-
ed by the move.
OREGON Portland: A local
massage therapist arrested earli-
er this month has been indicted
on new charges relating to the
sexual abuse of six additional
women, The Oregonian reported.
PENNSYLVANIA Altoona: Police
say two women stole cemetery
owers on Easter Sunday because
they planned to replant them
outside their home.
RHODE ISLAND Warwick: De-
velopers are planning to build a
$48 million office and medical
services complex here, the Provi-
dence Journal reported.
SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia:
The University of South Caroli-
nas Sigma Chi chapter was closed
by its national office after the
fraternity learned members en-
gaged in physical and mental
abuse of pledges, The State re-
ported.
SOUTH DAKOTA Chester: Resi-
dents of three neighborhoods on
the north side of Brant Lake in
Lake County have voted to be-
come South Dakotas newest
municipality. The Madison Daily
Leader reported that the vote was
61-9 in favor of the move.
TENNESSEE Kingsport: Marion
Guy, 63, died earlier this week
after being hospitalized following
a ght with two 18-year-old
neighbors March 11 that was
recorded on video, The Kingsport
Times-News reported.
TEXAS Orange: Federal disaster
recovery centers opened in New-
ton, Jasper and here. The assis-
tance is meant for people whose
homes or businesses were affect-
ed by storms, tornadoes and
ooding that began March 7.
UTAH Farmington: A year after
nding the remains of a woman
who went missing more than 30
years ago, police are still investi-
gating her murder, the Standard-
Examiner reported. Detectives
are analyzing DNA found in the
area where a hiker spotted the
skull of Theresa Rose Greaves, 23,
who disappeared in 1983.
VERMONT Winooski: David
Bergeron, Winooskis re chief,
has been accused of inappropri-
ate conduct, which led to his
being placed on paid adminis-
trative leave. The Burlington Free
Press was rst to report Berge-
rons employment status, but the
reasons for his leave remain
unclear.
VIRGINIA Roanoke: Joshua
Caleb Bowlin, 21, was sentenced
to more than six years in prison
after admitting he shook and
injured his 3-month-old daughter
when he was frustrated, the Rich-
mond Times-Dispatch reported.
WASHINGTON Longview: The
Longview School District agreed
to pay $60,000 to settle a lawsuit
brought by a teacher who claims
a former principal intimidated
and harassed her, The Daily News
reported.
WEST VIRGINIA Putnam Coun-
ty: The Assessors Office warned
residents about a prank letter
circulating about a tax liability
reduction, the Charleston Ga-
zette-Mail reported.
WISCONSIN Denmark: A 20-
year-old man may have been
drunk when he crashed his car
into a barn, Green Bay Press-
Gazette reported.
WYOMING Cheyenne: The
federal government is proposing
to lift threatened-species protec-
tions for grizzlies that live in
Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.
Hunting within Yellowstone and
Grand Teton national parks
would still be prohibited.
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6A NEWS
Candidates hit wall of Wisconsin nice
Some residents
are disturbed by
races nastiness
Aamer Madhani
USA TODAY
JANESVILLE , WIS . Lifelong Wis-
consinite Paul Casler, a rock-
ribbed Republican who proudly
cast his rst Badger State primary
vote for Ronald Reagan 36 years
ago, hasnt been this excited
about politics in years.
As a passionate Donald Trump
supporter, Casler said the New
York businessman has the ability
to bring some honesty to Wash-
ington and an ability to get
things done. As excited as he is,
Casler said he understands that
the sharp tenor of the GOP race
dominated by Trump has jarred
the sensibilities of family and
friends accustomed to more po-
lite discourse among political
rivals.
For a lot of the people I know,
its been quite shocking espe-
cially for the older folks, said
Casler, 54, a state employee who
lives in this southern Wisconsin
community. My mother while
shes never been big into politics
but I think she nds some of
what shes hearing disturbing.
Wisconsinites preference for a
healthy dose of congeniality
what some politicians and ana-
lysts call Wisconsin nice in
their campaign season is being
tested by Trump and Texas Sen.
Ted Cruz, who have been unyield-
ing in trading insults.
Territories may
play free agents
v CONTINUED FROM 1A
choose whether to declare a pref-
erence. Any delegate doing so be-
fore being selected will be bound
to that choice for the rst ballot
at the convention. Colorado GOP
spokesman Kyle Kohli said it is
likely the states 37-member dele-
gation will be mixed, but its pos-
sible it could be almost
completely bound or completely
unbound. Guam has nine un-
bound delegates.
Nowhere is the ght for these
coveted delegates more intense
than the Virgin Islands.
A Michigan political consult-
ant, John Yob, moved to the is-
lands last year and campaigned
heavily to become an uncommit-
ted delegate. His work paid off:
He emerged as the top vote-get-
ter among the 300 or so Republi-
cans who participated in the
DOW MOVES HIGHER FOR THE QUARTER
Dec. 31 Jan. 4
17,425
Dow plunges
276 points
17,000
17,149
16,000
15,000
Dec. 31
Source Bloomberg
KARL GELLES, USA TODAY
Stocks packed an entire year into January
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peat of the nancial crisis in
2008-09 grew louder.
The opening-year freefall got
Wall Street the closest it had been
to a bear market since the nan-
cial crisis. Now, the stock market
has staged a stunning comeback.
Thursday, as trading ended for
the rst quarter, the damage had
been erased, and the stock mar-
ket was back in the black for 2016,
just 3% from all-time highs.
Investors came into the year
believing the nancial markets
were in the critical care unit but
have come around to realize that
the health of the U.S. and global
economy, while hardly stellar, are
not as dire as rst thought, says
Joe Quinlan, chief market strate-
gist at U.S. Trust.
The bears denitely had a lot of
ammunition to make their case:
Chinese stocks were crashing.
There were fears Beijings debt-
fueled economy would follow
suit. Oil was in freefall. Bank
stocks were tanking. The U.S. dol-
lar was climbing, delivering a hit
to earnings of U.S. multinationals
and emerging markets. Global
Mike Morill takes a sele with Republican presidential candi-
date Donald Trump during a rally Wednesday in Appleton, Wis.
New polling suggests Trumps
brash style, which helped cata-
pult him into the front-runners
seat, might not work as well with
the more staid sensibilities of the
Upper Midwest. Cruz held a
40%-30% lead over Trump, and
Ohio Gov. John Kasich took 21%
of the vote, according to a Mar-
quette University Law School poll
released Wednesday.
Trump has not gained ground
since the last Marquette poll in
February when Marco Rubio,
Ben Carson and Jeb Bush were in
the race. At that point, Trump
stood at 30%, Cruz at 19% and
Kasich at 8%, and the candidates
who have since dropped out of
the race took 31% of the vote.
You have people who are on
the right, and you have people on
the left here in Wisconsin, said
Tommy Thompson, the states
islands caucuses March 10. De-
spite a big contingent of other
delegate candidates who were
committed to presidential con-
tenders, Yob and the ve other
unbound delegates prevailed, in-
cluding his wife, Erica.
Yob, who worked on Kentucky
Sen. Rand Pauls unsuccessful
presidential campaign and the
White House bids of John
McCain and Rick Santorum, has a
bit of an inside track on delegate-
selection process. He wrote a
book on it, Chaos: The Outsiders
Guide to a Contested Republican
National Convention, published in
February. In it, he singled out the
unique role U.S. territories could
play as free agents in a bro-
kered convention. Yob told USA
TODAY he has been visiting the
Virgin Islands since 2009 and
had no ulterior motives in relo-
cating to the territory last year. I
Jan. 27
Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen
surprises markets by not hiking
interest rates and sends a warning
flag on the risks from abroad
15,944
Jan.
markets turned turbulent and
wildly volatile. The Bank of Japan
pushed borrowing costs into neg-
ative territory for the rst time.
Adding to the markets nega-
tive zeitgeist, Wall Street feared
the Federal Reserve was on the
verge of making a big mistake and
hiking short-term interest rates
too soon and too much in 2016.
At the peak of pessimism
Feb. 11, all of the major U.S. stock
indexes were down more than
10% for the year. A bear market,
or a drop of 20% or more from a
prior high, looked all but certain.
That day, the Dow Jones industri-
al average closed nearly 15% off
its record high in May 2015. The
benchmark Standard & Poors
500 was down 14.2%, and the
Nasdaq composite was down
18.2%.
It feels like global stocks
packed in an entire years worth
of ebbs, ows and emotion into
January alone, says Brian Belski,
chief investment strategist at
BMO Capital Markets.
Then everything changed. One
by one, the fears and obstacles
that had put the U.S. stock market
on the brink of its rst bear mar-
WILLIAM GLASHEEN, USA TODAY NETWORK
former Republican governor who
backs Kasich, but that old Ger-
manic ancestry still prevails very
much. People are nice. They take
their politics very seriously. They
dont like insults. They dont like
people to take advantage by being
hyper-critical. Theres still a nice-
ness here that hasnt completely
worn off.
Among voters who will vote in
the GOP primary, 23% said they
are very uncomfortable with the
idea of Trump as president, the
Marquette Law School poll
found. Fourteen percent said the
same for Cruz, while 5% are very
uncomfortable with Kasich. Of all
likely Wisconsin voters, 55% said
they would be very uncomfort-
able with a Trump presidency.
Recently, Trump accused Cruz
of being responsible for an ad
that ran on social media during
Delegates cheer presidential nominee John McCain at the
2008 Republican National Convention in Minneapolis.
started making offers on houses
in 2011, he said. I was not think-
ing about the 2016 national con-
vention in 2011.
His father, veteran Michigan
political strategist Chuck Yob,
supports Ohio Gov. John Kasichs
presidential bid, but the younger
Yob insists he has no preference.
He called Texas Sen. Ted Cruz a
solid candidate and praised
Trumps ability to bring new
Feb. 22
Dow spikes
229 points
Feb. 11
Market bottoms
16,621
15,660
Feb.
ket in seven years suddenly dissi-
pated, creating tailwinds where
there were once headwinds. The
market began its march back,
leading to a rally of 13% that has
pushed stocks out of danger.
Along the way, there were key
turning points, market-saving
moves and words from inuential
market players that put a oor
under stock prices and delivered
a jolt of newfound market mo-
mentum and sparked renewed
optimism in stocks.
Roots for the rebound go back
to Jan. 27, when Federal Reserve
chair Janet Yellen surprised mar-
kets by not hiking interest rates
and sending out a warning ag re-
garding the mounting risks from
abroad.
The Feds soothing words
helped save the day, says Dan
Seiver, a faculty member in the
economics department at Cal Po-
ly-San Luis Obispo.
Edward Yardeni, chief invest-
ment strategist at Yardeni Re-
search, said this in a research
report: Thanks Again, Fairy
Godmother! Snow White didnt
have a fairy godmother. However,
we do: Fed Chair Janet Yellen.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, laughs at a poster while speaking to
guests at a town hall event in Madison, Wis., on Wednesday.
the Utah primary campaign that
featured an old magazine photo
of Trumps wife, Melania, in
which the former model posed
nude. The ad was paid for by an
anti-Trump Super PAC unaffiliat-
ed with Cruzs campaign.
Cruz accused Sleazy Donald
of being behind an article in the
National Enquirer that said the
senator has been involved in ex-
tramarital affairs. Trump offered
a veiled threat to spill the beans
on Cruzs wife.
Cruz said his campaign was not
involved in the Melania Trump
ad, and Trump denied involve-
ment in the Enquirer story, which
Cruz described as garbage.
Trump, who has been cam-
paigning in Wisconsin this week
before the primary April 5, con-
tinued his assault on Cruz on the
stump, referring to the senator as
ANDREW WEST, THE FORT MYERS NEWS PRESS
people to the party.
Yobs eligibility and residency
are being challenged in court.
The chairman of the local party,
John Canegata, moved to disqual-
ify Yob and the other unbound
delegates, citing a party rule that
requires delegates to accept their
positions in writing.
The battle has underscored
how much clout a territory with
roughly 105,000 residents and a
March 11
Dow climbs
218 points
17,213
On Feb. 11, the same day the
stock market bottomed out for
the year, JPMorgan Chase CEO
Jamie Dimon sent a vote of con-
dence to his beleaguered banks
shares and the stock market as
a whole when he plunked down
more than $25 million to buy half
a million shares of JPMorgan.
A lot of credit has been given to
Jamie Dimon and his purchase of
JPMorgan shares, and while that
probably helped sentiment, I dont
think it should be cited as the
cause, says Paul Hickey, co-foun-
der of Bespoke Investment Group.
Even before the nadir Feb. 11,
there were signs beneath the sur-
face the market was in bottoming
mode. Energy prices had stopped
going down, and the number of
stocks hitting fresh 52-week lows
was no longer expanding.
Its no coincidence that on the
same day stocks bottomed, so did
U.S.-produced oil when its price
hit a 13-year low of $26.21 a bar-
rel. That was another key turn-
ing point that sparked the
markets recovery, says Jack
Ablin, chief investment officer at
BMO Private Bank.
When oil, which was down
USA TODAY
K1 FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2016
DARREN HAUCK
Lyin Ted Cruz. He pilloried the
states Republican governor, Scott
Walker, as an ineffective leader
after Walker formally endorsed
Cruz on Tuesday.
Trump mocked Walker, who
spent portions of his re-election
campaign last year crisscrossing
the state on a motorcycle, for his
fondness of Harley-Davidson
gear. He doesnt look like a mo-
torcycle guy to me, Trump said.
Barry Burden, a political scien-
tist at the University of Wiscon-
sin-Madison, said the sharp
rhetoric of Trump and Cruz
doesnt line up with the political
culture in the state. A lot of the
Republican vote is in the Milwau-
kee suburbs that is very dense
with Republican families, he
said. Those are establishment
Republicans who are not going to
like messaging about spouses.
We are using the
maximum leverage
to make sure the
candidate we elect
understands the
uniqueness of the
U.S. territories.
Holland Redeld, radio host
few thousand registered Republi-
cans, could have in the wildly un-
predictable GOP contest.
Holland Redeld, the GOPs
national committeeman from the
territory, automatically gets a slot
as an unbound delegate to the
convention. Redeld, a radio host,
said Virgin Islands Republicans
revel in the attention from their
partys candidates and use it to
push local issues, such as boost-
ing federal spending on Medicaid
in the islands. We are using the
maximum leverage to make sure
the candidate we elect under-
stands the uniqueness of the U.S.
territories, he said. If Im un-
committed and Im dating three
girls at the same time, I want to
get the best deals for me and the
best marriage.
March 31
Market closes at
17,685
March March 31
nearly 30% in 2016 alone and
80% from its high, stabilized, that
lifted pressure off energy rms
that were struggling to make ends
meet and pay off loans because of
the crashing price of oil. Rising oil
prices also relieved pressure in
credit markets tied to the oil
patch.
In the weeks that followed, the
stock market got another boost
from the additional stimulus
measures from the European
Central Bank, steps by China to
steady its economy and wild cur-
rency swings, a slew of solid eco-
nomic data in the USA that
allayed recession fears and a
sharp rally in distressed assets
powered by bearish investors re-
versing their negative bets.
Lumped together, these drivers
put the rally on a more sustain-
able path, says Bo Bejstrup Chris-
tensen, chief analyst at Danske
Invest.
Yellen added to the bullish
tone and turnaround late in the
quarter when in mid-March, the
Fed dialed back its plans for in-
terest rate hikes this year from
four to two.
Next up: the second quarter.
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YOUR SAY
ABORTION
Expanded access to pill,
Trump words fuel division
The FDA expanded its guide-
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pill, potentially giving access to DEBATING ABORTION LETTERS
women in states that have LETTERS@USATODAY.COM
Percentage who think abortion
tried to limit the drugs use. should be legal under any
circumstances, only certain Donald Trump said if
This FDA move is excellent. circumstances or not at all: abortion is made ille-
Whether to have an abortion is gal, he would punish any
a private matter. Politicians woman who has one. Then he
need to stay out of it. Legal under any backtracked, stating provid-
Marianne Zoricak circumstances 29% ers should be punished and
that the woman is a victim.
People should be held ac- Legal Wrong on all counts.
countable for their decisions to under certain 51% All women should have
have unprotected sex. A wom- circumstances free, unrestricted access to
ans right to privacy over her birth control. Abortion must
body should not include the Illegal under all
circumstances 19% remain legal and be readily
separate body growing inside available. And a woman who
her. chooses abortion is not a
Source Gallup Poll conducted May 6-10
Jimmy Thompson
FRANK POMPA, USA TODAY
victim. Its her body and her
choice.
Donald Trump said that if Adele E. Zimmermann
abortion became illegal, he I dont have a problem with Embudo, N.M.
thinks a woman should be pun- abortion. But if it the procedure
ished for having one. Then he is made illegal, then we all bet- David Perry, who
said that the provider should be ter follow the law.
punished. There has been so If we dont punish lawbreak- wrote a column about
much outrage over what a ers, we will have anarchy. his sons diagnosis of Down
presidential candidate has said. Phil Koprowski syndrome and Indianas new
In my opinion, he simply means abortion law, says the law
that he is willing to uphold a law The big falsehood is that wont help people who have
if the Supreme Court makes it abortion is about reproductive Down syndrome. It will help
so. choice. Reproduction occurs at them. It will go a long way to
Eric Davis conception. What happens after keeping the person alive. The
is growth and development. The law is also a baby step toward
If the abortion pill is safe then choice to engage in sexual ac- ending abortion, the ultimate
to me expanding access is OK. tivity is the choice to risk repro- child abuse. America needs to
This is a private matter, not a duction. The choice to have an protect the life of unborn
political or state matter. Free- abortion allows one to avoid children.
responsibility. Terry McDermott
dom to choose!
Felipe Gonzales Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.
@lioncallie

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abortion, I think that was the When the people get the bill for
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FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2016
OPINION
TODAYS DEBATE SCALIA VACANCY
Our view
Senate Republicans, let the
Supreme Court do its job
A shorthanded Supreme Court
showed this week what life will be
like if Senate Republicans stick to
their vow to stall conrmation of
a ninth justice until after the next
president is sworn in. The court
deadlocked 4-4 and failed to de-
cide a controversial union rights
case, while it groped for a way to
avoid stalemate on a contentious
dispute involving religious free-
dom and contraceptives.
The justices are obviously hav-
ing trouble doing one of their
most important jobs settling
disputes over the law and the
Constitution when lower courts
disagree. The clearest example
came in a far less noticed 4-4 split
the courts rst since Justice Supreme Court nominee Mer-
Antonin Scalia died in February
over whether wives must guar-
antee their husbands business
loans. As The Atlantic noted, the
courts tie vote left conicting
lower court rulings intact, so
someone in Tennessee faces dif-
ferent requirements under feder-
al law than someone else across
the river in Arkansas. This simple
jurisprudence is one of the key
things the Supreme Court does,
and now it often cant.
Even so, the republic will sure-
ly survive. Only about 20% of the
courts cases are decided by 5-4
votes that will now become 4-4
ties. Issues left undecided by tie
votes will likely be back again.
But the court shouldnt have to
limp on for another year without
Paul Brandus
A
bout the only person
Donald Trump hasnt
insulted in his march to-
ward the Republican
presidential nomination is Ron-
ald Reagan. But hed surely nd
fault with Reagan on the subject
of trade decits.
Our 40th president said they
are not necessarily a bad thing.
Trade decits show, Reagan said,
that the U.S. economy is strong,
and that the American people
have money to spend.
Trump, by contrast, calls them
terrible and a sign that were los-
ing. Countries that have trade
surpluses with us are ripping us
off at every turn, in his view.
Trumps No. 1 culprit is China.
The way he talks, youd think the
Chinese are 10 feet tall and much
more clever than we are.
But his premise is wrong. The
U.S. has far better long-term eco-
nomic prospects than China,
which means President Obama
was in a position of strength
when he met Thursday with
President Xi Jinping.
WHOS NO. 1?
No one denies that China has
been cheating when it comes to
trade. The World Trade Organi-
zation has sided with the United
States in at least three major
cases in recent years, cases in
which Washington accused Beij-
ing of employing illegal trade tac-
tics. No less a free trader than
Obama himself has slapped anti-
dumping tariffs on Chinese goods
to protect American jobs.
Our trade decit with the Peo-
ples Republic last year hit a rec-
ord $366 billion a cool $1
billion a day. Even so, thats well
below Trumps exaggerated gure
of over $500 billion.
In any case, it is not evidence
that China is winning, as
Trump likes to say.
If China is really winning, then
why have global business execu-
tives said the USA is the best
place in the world in which to in-
vest and do business? The AT
Kearney Foreign Direct Invest-
ment Condence survey says
America takes rst place for the
third straight year, as it leads all
countries in terms of macro-
economic outlook. Forty-six per-
cent say they are more optimistic
about the U.S. economys outlook
than they were a year ago, and
only 10% say they are more pessi-
mistic. Executives were less
cheerful about China.
If China is winning, then why
do more U.S. manufacturing exec-
utives say that from now until
2020, they are more likely to add
factory capacity here than in Chi-
na? And why do increasing num-
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI, AFP/GETTY IMAGES
rick Garland.
a ninth justice so Senate Republi-
cans can stick to their partisan
pledge not to consider President
Obamas nomination to succeed
Scalia. Republicans claim this is
high-minded principle let the
people speak when they elect a
new president in November
but thats claptrap. This is just
hardball politics.
The court hasnt had a major-
ity of justices appointed by Dem-
ocratic presidents since 1970, and
replacing Scalia with any Obama
appointee would tip the balance
of the court in a way that might
last another 46 years. Republi-
cans are desperate to stop that.
Obama met the GOP at least
CHINA IS NOT
WINNING
The countrys best and brightest
are racing for the exits and
taking their money with them
Tibetans protest against China in Washington with a mask
depicting President Xi Jinping on Thursday.
bers of them say they are now
bringing jobs back?
And if Chinas winning, then
why are the wealthiest and sav-
viest Chinese bailing on their
own country?
FOLLOW THE MONEY
The Bank of China and Hurun (a
marketing group that tracks
wealthy Chinese) said in 2013
that more than half of Chinas
millionaires want to leave or have
taken steps to do so. Other stud-
ies say theyve already moved
$658 billion out, a gure that
could double by the end of this
year. When your best and bright-
est are racing for the exits, is that,
to use Trumps binary way of
thinking, winning or losing?
Lets follow the money in an-
other way that also undercuts
Trumps economic patriotism.
China is pouring investment capi-
tal into the USA: nearly $16 bil-
lion last year, up 30% from 2014.
The Rhodium Group, which
tracks all this, says close to $2 bil-
lion was for greeneld projects:
brand new manufacturing facili-
ties built from scratch.
China is attracted to the Unit-
ed States for all the right reasons:
a skilled labor force, low cost of
energy, minimal bureaucracy (if
you disagree with this, youve
never been to China), property
halfway by nominating Merrick
Garland, chief judge of the D.C.
federal court of appeals, someone
so widely respected that Sen. Or-
rin Hatch, R-Utah, all but called
for his nomination. The presi-
dent told me several times hes
going to name a moderate, but I
dont believe him, Hatch said.
He could easily name Merrick
Garland, who is a ne man.
Party enforcers are working to
make sure Senate Republicans
block him. When Sen. Jerry Mo-
ran, R-Kansas, dared suggest the
Senate should do its job and hold
hearings though he was sure
that would reveal that Garland is
someone who should not be con-
rmed FreedomWorks, a group
linked to the Tea Party move-
ment, said Morans betrayal sends
a signal that Republicans will
sell out their principles.
It takes a toxic level of parti-
sanship to turn a hearing into a
betrayal. Thats normal in Con-
gress now, but it has a cost when
the poison reaches the Supreme
Court, whose credibility rests on,
at least, the impression that its
not just politics in black robes.
If Republicans can stonewall a
Democratic nominee for a year,
why wouldnt their base insist
they keep doing that if Hillary
Clinton became president?
Stalling Garland has costs the
senators either dont realize or
dont care about. They should
give him hearings and a vote.
MICHAEL REYNOLDS, EPA
rights and contract enforcement.
The fact is, for an increasing
number of Chinese investors,
Adam Smith and John Locke
trump Karl Marx.
Why does Trump think China
is so smart and were so dumb? I
say the opposite is true. China
has an environmental crisis on its
hands, and its economy is slowing
rapidly. As its wages rise, millions
of manufacturing jobs are leaving,
as other countries do to it what it
did to us. Beijings communist
bosses are so afraid of their own
citizens that they employ a cyber
army of 2 million to block social
media and crimp the free ex-
change of threatening ideas. This
is not the sign of a condent gov-
ernment embracing the future;
its a sign of a fearful one.
Trumps read on China is
based on a simplistic emphasis on
its strengths that ignores its
many weaknesses.
You know when China will
worry me? When it stops invest-
ing in America. Its great that for-
eigners have condence in us
more, it seems, than do some of
our own would-be leaders.
Paul Brandus, the founder and
White House bureau chief of West
Wing Reports, is the author of
Under This Roof: The White
House and the Presidency.
Opposing view
The Senate is not
a rubber stamp
Orrin Hatch
The Constitution grants the
president the authority to
nominate his choice to ll a Su-
preme Court vacancy a pow-
er President Obama exercised
by nominating Judge Merrick
Garland. But the Constitution
also gives the Senate a co-equal
role with the power to provide
advice and consent. The best
way to exercise our power is to
conduct the conrmation proc-
ess after the presidential
election.
Holding hearings now would
poison an already contentious
conrmation process with the ingless catchphrase: Do your
worst of election-year politics,
resulting in harm to the integ-
rity of the court. In years past,
Democratic leaders includ-
ing Vice President Biden
have themselves warned
against considering a Supreme
Court nominee so late before
an election. By so doing, we can
also give the American people a
voice in the direction of our na-
tions highest court after their
split decision in electing a
Democratic president and a
Republican Senate with very
different views of the law and
the Constitution.
The right way to handle the
Scalia vacancy is to defer the
conrmation process. Thank-
fully, that will not undermine
A little Mein Kampf
lies in Art of the Deal
Peter Ross Range
It was August 1924, and Adolf
Hitler was pounding away on his
Remington portable typewriter
in a small prison cell outside Mu-
nich. He was writing Mein Kampf
and reaching a climax of self-in-
fatuation. Increasingly convinced
of his messianic mission to save
Germany from Marxists, from
economic misery, from the Jew-
ish world conspiracy Hitler
spun his own self-image to his-
toric and histrionic heights.
At long intervals of human
history, he wrote, it may occa-
sionally happen that the practical
politician and the political philos-
opher are one. This combination
of the man of action and the man
of vision Hitler had in mind
Napoleon, Frederick the Great of
Prussia and himself was what
made the great leader uniquely
able to prevent his countrys
downfall and collapse.
In short, the solution to Ger-
manys calamitous post-World
War I misery was Hitler. He
understood that he had to reach
past the nitty-gritty of desperate
1920s pocketbook issues to the
Germans sense of themselves.
Regaining an inner feeling was
the key, he explained, because
only that could lead again to na-
tional greatness. Germans, hu-
miliated by the wars aftermath,
craved self-respect even more
than bread, Hitler rightly sensed.
Sound familiar?
While Donald Trump is no kill-
er, he shares Hitlers goal of na-
tional greatness. Like Hitler,
Trump has a preternatural sense
of the voters inner needs, not just
their material distress. They
want, even more than jobs and
security, a sense of their value in
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percentage of the courts cases
are decided by a 5-4 margin,
and only a fraction of those fall
along predictable ideological
lines. The court has had fewer
than nine justices for extended
periods before and has differ-
ent options for doing its work
under those circumstances. I
believe Justices Stephen
Breyer and Samuel Alito when
they both say that the Scalia va-
cancy will not be unduly
burdensome.
Rather than engaging Re-
publicans with a meaningful
counterargument, Democrats
have responded with a mean-
job. According to progressives,
it seems that doing your job en-
tails conrming whomever
President Obama nominates to
the Supreme Court, regardless
of the circumstances.
The Senate is supposed to be
more than a rubber stamp in
the conrmation process.
When I was elected to the Sen-
ate, I took an oath to support
and defend the Constitution.
In doing so, I intend to exercise
responsibly the advice-and-
consent power by keeping poli-
tics out of the judicial branch in
a presidential election year.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, is
a senior member of the Senate
Judiciary Committee.
an unmoored world.
And Trump offers the same
route to achieving renewed great-
ness: himself. A born demagogue
believes that only he has the skills
needed to save the day.
Each man is (or was) skilled at
setting up boogeymen: For Hitler,
it was Jews, Marxists, the hated
French and the lying press. For
Trump, it is Muslims, Mexican il-
legals, the Islamic State terrorist
group and the Chinese who are
supposedly cleaning our clocks.
When convenient, Trump in-
cludes the dishonest media.
Yet, like Hitler, Trump under-
stands the importance of journal-
ists to his political enterprise. In
1987, Trump wrote in the book he
now holds up as a kind of Trump
bible, The Art of The Deal: If you
do things that are bold or contro-
versial, the press is going to write
about you. Even a critical story
can be very valuable.
Hitler said after a violent beer
hall rally, It makes no difference
whatever whether they laugh at
us or revile us. The main thing
is that they mention us.
Comparing Trump to Hitler is
slippery business. No one serious
sees Trump as a genocidal psy-
chopath seeking world conquest.
Even so, the man in cell No. 7 was
operating on raw instincts that, in
the end, won him Germany.
In his book, Trump wrote: Its
instincts, not marketing studies,
that drive the good deals. No deep
thinker, he is as instinctive as a
politician can be.
Eerily, those instincts are also
winning the presidential candi-
date a large slice of American
politics.
Peter Ross Range, a Germany
specialist, is author of 1924: The
Year That Made Hitler.
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MONEYLINE
DUBAI ADDS DEPARTURE TAX
ON INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS
Travelers ying through Dubai
will soon have to pay a new
airport fee for departures out of
the fast-growing Middle East
hub. The new 35-dirham (about
$9.50) departure tax will apply
to bookings made starting Fri-
day for travel from June 30 on-
ward. The fee will be charged to
passengers departing any of
Dubais airports on international
ights. Children under 2 and
passengers who dont change
aircraft in Dubai are exempted.
DUBAI AIRPORT BY AFP/GETTY IMAGES
GE CAPITAL: WERE NOT TOO
BIG TO FAIL ANYMORE
GE said Thursday that the U.S.
government should drop the
too-big-to-fail designation as-
signed to its GE Capital business
following the units signicant
reduction in size. GE Capital
led a request for removal of
the designation. Companies
assigned the status are subject
to greater scrutiny by the Fed.
GE Capital announced in April
2015 it would sell about $200B of
its assets. The company now
holds about $265B in assets,
down from $549B. AIG and Pru-
dential may try to shed the des-
ignation, too. Story, 2B
DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVG.
17,750
17,700
17,650 9:30 a.m.
17,717 4:00 p.m.
17,600
17,550 -31.57
17,685
17,500
THURSDAY MARKETS
INDEX CLOSE
Nasdaq composite 4869.85
S&P 500 2059.74
T- note, 10-year yield 1.77%
Oil, light sweet crude $38.19
Euro (dollars per euro) $1.1387
Yen per dollar 112.53
SOURCES USA TODAY RESEARCH, MARKETWATCH.COM
uUSA MARKETS, 6B
USA SNAPSHOTS
$25,000 would
have earned ...
$1,150.62
in 2006
$263.88
in 2016
in interest with the best
savings account interest rate
available in each year.
Source NerdWallet and Bureau
of Economic Analysis
JAE YANG AND JANET LOEHRKE, USA TODAY
Forget the steep losses techs back in business
Quarter ends with
a bullish bounce
in dramatic rebound
John Shinal
@johnshinal
Special for USA TODAY
SAN FRANCISCO After starting
the year with a painful 15% cor-
rection that looked headed for
bear market territory, technology
stocks staged a dramatic come-
DEC. 31,
3 MONTHS OF UPS AND DOWNS FOR THE S&P 500
2015: S&P 500 stocks rebound from the worst start to a year ever to nish the rst quarter
End of
up 0.77%. The index is still well below the record high of 2130.82 set on May 21, 2015.
the year
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Worst first-week
start in history
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AFTER WILD FIRST QUARTER,
STOCKS BACK
TO START LINE T
Traders on the New York Stock Exchange have had their work cut out for them this year.
Stocks that took a beating
in 15 ght for big gains in Q1
CHG Matt Krantz
x 0.55
USA TODAY
y 4.21
y 0.06
y 0.09
It was a painful rst quarter
x 0.0054
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for most investors. But at least
they have something to show for
it.
Investors, who at one point
had a nearly $3 trillion loss for
2016, wound up making more
than $75 billion during the tu-
multuous rst quarter, accord-
ing to data from Wilshire
Associates based on the Wil-
shire 5000 Total Market Index.
The fact investors have any prof-
its at all is impressive given the
fact major market indexes had
losses of 10% to 15% as of the
middle of February.
Many of the biggest gains, at
least on a percentage basis,
came from the stocks that had
been beaten up the worst last
year. Consider the 10 stocks in
the Standard & Poors 500 that
posted the biggest gains during
the rst quarter, including ma-
terials companies Freeport-
McMoRan and Newmont
back during the last six weeks.
Twenty-two of the 30 tech
rms with the richest market
caps saw their shares rise during
the quarter.
The rebound came as the Nas-
daq clawed nearly all the way
back from its mid-February lows
to nish the rst quarter down
2.5%.
The bullish bounce provided
yet more evidence of the wisdom
in the old traders maxim buy
when everyone else is selling.
The stars of the quarter were
mostly established companies
that have been public for decades.
Telecom rms AT&T and Veri-
SECTION B
Worth the hype
HoloLens tryout MKX lush without
impressive, 4B all the fuss, 3B
MARTIN E. KLIMEK, USA TODAY LINCOLN
MARCH 16:
Fed cuts rate
hike outlook
2027.22 MARCH 31:
End of quarter
2059.74
JAN. 29: FEB. 16:
Bank of Japan Several countries
goes to hint at oil
negative rates production freeze
1940.24 1895.58 MARCH 21:
Brussels terror attack
MARCH 10:
2051.60
MARCH 29:
ECB cuts
rates to -0.4%, Yellen: Fed will
FEB. 11: proceed cautiously
boosts QE
S&P hits 2016 low; 2055.01
1989.57
oil bottoms at $26.21
1829.08 Source Bloomberg
ADAM SHELL AND KRIS KINKADE, USA TODAY
Rest of the year
might just see
sideways action
Adam Shell
USA TODAY
he rocky rst quarter on
Wall Street and big re-
bound that turned a 10%
loss into a tiny gain for the
year doesnt guarantee the stock
market will be off to the races the
rest of the year.
In fact, Wall Street pros say
there are a slew of headwinds
that will continue to weigh on
stocks. And while the stock mar-
ket can continue to grind higher
from here, and perhaps make
new record highs, the upside will
be limited as old fears and new
ones re-enter the investment
picture.
Its going to be sideways ac-
tion from here, says Edward Yar-
deni, chief investment strategist
at Yardeni Research.
Its not that stocks have a big
risk of going down a lot, its that
he doesnt see equities breaking
out to the upside in a big way.
The good news is with the Fed-
SPENCER PLATT, GETTY IMAGES
eral Reserve out of the picture
now that it has said it is in no real
rush to hike interest rates, stocks
will continue to nd buyers in the
coming months, Yardeni says. But
on the downside, he says, inves-
tors must still deal with an array
of political and geopolitical
events that could put downward
pressure on stock prices this
S&P 500 WINNERS data certainly bear that out. summer.
More than three-quarters of the The British vote in June on
Biggest winners in the S&P 500 this
year:
127 S&P 500 stocks that jumped whether to remain in the Euro-
10% or more this year were
% change pean Union, or the so-called
Company YTD 2015 down in 2015. Brexit vote, and the political con-
Freeport-McMoRan 51.4% -71% Freeport-McMoRan, a com- ventions in July could cause road
Newmont Mining 48.5% -4.8% pany that explores for minerals, bumps for stocks. Whats more,
Urban Outtters 46% -35.2% oil and natural gas, was the best the U.S. stock market is dealing
Michael Kors 42.7% -46.7% stock in the S&P 500 during the with a less-than-robust corporate
Wynn Resorts 35.9% -53.5% rst quarter on a percentage ba- earnings picture.
PVH 33.9% -42.5% sis, jumping 53%. That gain is a This summer we will have
Range Resources 33.5% -54% powerful recovery from last
Cabot Oil & Gas 28.8% -40.3% year, when the stock dropped a
more global anxiety on a possible
Brexit, Yardeni says. We will
EQT 28.4% -31.1% staggering 71%. Its like gravity: also get into the Democratic and
Exelon 28.2% -25.1% The farther the stocks fall, the Republican (GOP) conventions,
SOURCES: S&P GLOBAL MARKET INTELLIGENCE, USA more they bounce, says Garrett and the GOP event could be a real
TODAY
Nelson, stock analyst at BB&T
Capital Markets. The weak dol-
circus, which could impact
markets.
Mining and retailer Urban Out- lar this year has also lifted ma- Many Wall Street pros expect
tters. All 10 were down last terials stocks such as Freeport the rest of 2016 to mimic 2015. In
year on average by 40%, accord- and also Newmont since it has short, the market will go through
ing to a USA TODAY analysis of elevated the prices of commodi- periods of volatility and end the
data from S&P Global Market
Intelligence.
ties, Nelson says.
Apparel seller Urban Outt-
year little changed. The current
momentum could propel stocks
Id call it a whiplash re- ters is another big winner. The to record highs, argues Joe Quin-
bound, says Jack Ablin, chief stock is the third-best perform- lan, chief market strategist at U.S.
investment officer at BMO Pri- er in the rst quarter, rising Trust. The key for stocks is if
vate Bank, referring to the fact 46%. Again, it was a story of a prot growth picks up and corpo-
that most of the big rst-quarter stock that was down big in 2015, rate CEOs make upbeat com-
winners had been big losers when Urban Outtters dropped
ments when rst-quarter
coming into the year. The broad 35%. earnings season kicks off, he adds.
WINNERS, LOSERS
zon posted double-digit share
price gains as tech investors
2%, and Microsoft shares ended
the quarter roughly at.
Among the 50 most valuable tech
headed for safety. Facebook, the fourth-most
rms, the Q1 leaders through
So did Yahoo, Oracle and chip-
equipment maker Applied
valuable tech rm, climbed 9% on
surging revenue growth and bet-
Thursdays close:
Company Q1 change Materials. ter-than-expected fourth-quarter
Along with Verizon, the best nancial results.
HP Enterprise +17%
Verizon +17% tech stocks of the quarter among Amazon, however, the second-
Taiwan Semiconductor +16% the 50 most valuable were Tai- best large-cap tech stock last year,
Applied Materials +14% wan Semiconductor Manufactur- faltered badly.
AT&T +13% ing and the newly spun-out It fell 12%, by far the worst per-
Oracle +12% Hewlett Packard Enterprise. formance among the ve most
IBM +10% The largest rms that make up valuable tech rms.
Yahoo +10% much of the Nasdaqs index The worst of the laggards were
Facebook +9% weight Apple, Alphabet and two former high-ying Internet
Nvidia +8% Microsoft had a mixed quarter companies: Twitter plunged 29%
SOURCE: USA TODAY RESEARCH and were not among the leaders. and LinkedIn got crushed, losing
Apple rose 4%, Alphabet fell almost half its value.
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2B MONEY FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2016

Anbang plans to ditch Starwood offer

Move allows Marriott
to go forward with its
own acquisition deal
Roger Yu
USA TODAY
The jostling for Starwood may
be over.
Chinas Anbang Insurance
Group will walk away from its
plans to buy Starwood Hotels &
Resorts Worldwide only two days
after submitting a revised $13.9
billion offer for the hotel compa-
ny, says a person familiar with the
matter Thursday.
Anbang, joined by other inves-
tors in its consortium, raised its
offer on Tuesday to pay $82.75 in
cash per Starwood share, trump-
ing a competing bid from Marri-
ott International.
With Anbang no longer com-
peting, Marriott is expected to re-
sume completing the deal to buy
its rival to form the worlds larg-
est hotel operator.
Shares of Starwood, whose
brands include Westin, Sheraton
and W Hotels, fell 4.5% in after-
hours trading to $79.70. Marriott
fell 4.6% to $67.92.
Based in Bethesda, Md., Marri-
ott agreed in November to ac-
quire Starwood for $12.2 billion
$2 in cash and 0.92 of its own
shares for each Starwood share.
JUSTIN SULLIVAN, GETTY IMAGES
Anbang is expected to walk
away from its bid to buy Star-
wood Hotels and Resorts and
its popular loyalty program.
But it ran into competition from
Anbang, which has been aggres-
sively buying U.S. assets and is ex-
panding its hospitality business
as the Chinese travel market
grows rapidly.
Starwood dropped Marriotts
bid on March 18 to opt for a $13
billion all-cash offer from An-
bang, valued at about $78 per
Starwood share. Marriott then
raised its bid to about $13.6 bil-
lion, or $79.53 per Starwood
share, to be paid in $21 in cash
and 0.80 shares of Marriott Class
A common stock for each Star-
wood share.
As Anbang sweetened its offer
earlier this week, Marriott re-
peated that it was committed to
nishing the acquisition and
voiced its doubt that Anbang
could come up with the nancing
to buy Starwood. Starwood
stockholders should give serious
consideration to the question of
whether the Anbang-led consor-
tium will be able to close the pro-
posed transaction, with a
particular focus on the certainty
of the consortiums nancing and
the timing of any required regula-
tory approvals, Marriott said in a
statement issued Tuesday.
Starwood, whose board of di-
rectors has publicly backed Mar-
riotts bid, would have owed
Marriott $450 million in cash if it
backed out of its agreement with
Marriott.
If Starwood and Marriott com-
bine their assets, the post-merger
company would operate or fran-
chise more than 5,500 hotels
with 1.1 million rooms worldwide.

AIG, Prudential could try S&P lowers

outlook
to shed too-big-to-fail for China,
Ridding themselves
of designations would Hong Kong
mean less oversight
Downgraded to
Kevin McCoy
USA TODAY
negative; credit
rating could take hit
Insurance giants American In- Nathan Bomey
ternational Group and Prudential
USA TODAY
Financial on Thursday signaled
they could soon join MetLife and
GE Capital in trying to shed their Standard & Poors on Thursday
designations as threats to the U.S. warned that excessive debt and
nancial system if they faced a government spending will curb
crisis. economic growth in China, lead-
The federal court decision that ing the ratings agency to lower
tossed out the credit outlook of the worlds
MetLifes (MET) second-largest economy.
too-big-to-fail des- Its going to be S&P lowered the outlook for
ignation this week China and Hong Kong from sta-
certainly opens
important for people ble to negative, signaling that the
that opportunity to focus on the agency could soon ding the un-
for AIG, its CEO derlying credit rating of both,
Peter Hancock
substance of what barring a turnaround.
told CNBC. None- weve done to de-risk For now, Chinas long-term
theless, Hancock rating is AA- and its short-term
cautioned that AIG
the company. sovereign rating is A-1+, while
would reserve AIG CEO Peter Hancock Hong Kongs long-term rating re-
judgment and see mains at a perfect AAA and its
how nancial reg- short-term issuer rating is A-1+.
ulators interpret the decision be-
fore acting.
Asked by USA TODAY about
joining the exodus effort, Pruden-
tial Securities spokesman Scot
Hoffman said, We continuously
review developments that impact
our company, and we are evaluat-
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ing what is in the best interests of
the company and our Last summers massive stock
stakeholders. market crash in China rocked
Challenges by the companies countries around the globe.
could prompt a shake-up of desig- We revised the outlook to re-
nations imposed after the 2008 ect our expectation that the eco-
nancial crisis to safeguard the nomic and nancial risks to the
U.S. economy and nancial sys- Chinese governments creditwor-
tem. The Financial Stability thiness are gradually increasing,
Oversight Council, a 10-member S&P said in a report. This fol-
MIKE DERER, AP
regulatory board created under lows from our belief that, over the
the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Re- Prudential, along with MetLife, GE Capital and AIG, was next ve years, China will show
form and Consumer Protection deemed a systemically important nancial institution. modest progress in economic re-
Act, designates companies balancing and credit growth
deemed systemically important vices rm that does not pose any surance business. deceleration.
STAN HONDA, AFP/GETTY IMAGES
nancial institutions. conceivable threat to U.S. nan- I think that its going to be im- The agency projected annual
MetLife, GE Capital, AIG and AIGs efforts could be compli- cial stability. portant for people to focus on the economic growth of at least 6%
Prudential, designated in 2013-14, cated because it received an Spokeswoman Susan Bishop substance of what weve done to for China over the next three
are the only non-bank rms the $85 billion government loan. said GE Capital is working coop- de-risk the company, as opposed years but said government spend-
council added to the classication eratively with the oversight to simply the history of AIGs ing could top what we believe to
that also covers major banks with The Department of the Trea- council in hope the regulators near collapse, Hancock said. be sustainable levels of 30% to
$50 billion in assets or more. sury, the oversight councils gov- come to the decision we seek. New Jersey-based Prudential 35% of gross domestic product.
The designations subject the ernment base, did not respond to She declined to say whether the initially contested its too-big-to- It projected Chinas GDP to top
companies to stricter regulatory an email asking whether the Oba- company would sue if the council fail designation in meetings with $10,000 per capita by 2019, up
oversight, as well as requirements ma administration plans to ap- rejects the request. the oversight council but opted from $8,200 in 2016.
to hold higher capital reserves peal the decision. A potential AIG effort to shed not to sue. However, the company S&P lauded anti-corruption ef-
against losses. Instead of ling a similar law- its too-big-to-fail designation has maintained its opposition. forts and initiatives to privatize
Ruling on a 2015 federal court suit, GE Capital on Thursday led would be complicated, because it We disagree with the designa- certain state-owned businesses
challenge by MetLife, District of what it said is the rst-ever re- received an $85 billion govern- tion of Prudential as being sys- but said the pace of those changes
Columbia Judge Rosemary quest asking the council to re- ment loan and billions more in temically risky, CFO Robert may be insufficient to maintain
Collyer on Wednesday ordered move the Connecticut-based lines of credit that saved the com- Falzon told a Senate subcommit- strong economic growth.
the councils designation of the rms too-big-to-fail designation. pany from collapse during the - tee hearing in 2015. The agency is particularly con-
New York-based insurance giants GE Capital said it had reduced nancial crisis. There is an annual process cerned that Chinese political
designation rescinded. Her full its size and nancial risk by cut- Hancock, however, noted in his that ... allows us to petition leaders will turn to government
opinion was sealed, pending an ting assets 52%, from $549 billion CNBC appearance that AIG has against that designation. We have expenditures to bolster the econ-
April 6 hearing whether any por- to $265 billion, and becoming a repaid the bailout, sold riskier di- done that, and we will continue to omy instead of allowing market
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FCC to tackle consumers Internet privacy rules

Mike Snider
USA TODAY
The Federal Communications
Commission will craft new priva-
cy rules on how Internet service
providers can use customer data.
The agency voted 3-2 Thurs-
day to develop new rules requir-
ing Internet service providers
(ISPs) to gain customer permis-
sion before using or sharing their
data. Its the consumers infor-
mation, said FCC Chairman
Tom Wheeler, and the consumer
should have the right to deter-
mine how its used.
New privacy regulations dove-
tail with last years passage of
Open Internet, or net neutrality,
rules Wheeler said in a March 10
Huffington Post editorial and a
speech at Georgetown University
March 21. He forwarded the pro-
posal to the rest of the commis-
sion in preparation for a vote at
Thursdays regular commission
meeting.
Our ISPs handle all of our net-
work traffic on home and mobile
networks, Wheeler said in an offi-
cial statement released after the
meeting. Even when data is en-
crypted, our broadband providers
can piece together signicant
amounts of information about us
including private information
such as a chronic medical condi-
tion or nancial problems
based on our online activity.
As Wheeler envisioned, cus-
tomers would be able to opt out
of marketing from their Internet
service provid- that the FCCs privacy provisions of doublethink.
ers and their af- may be different than those the Congress directed the FCC to
liates and Federal Trade Commission uses create privacy regulations for tra-
must opt in for to regulate sites and services on ditional phone companies and
any external the Net. now must do so for Internet con-
use of their da- It is disappointing the FCC is nectivity, said Commissioner Mi-
ta. FCC staff pursuing a new privacy frame- gnon Clyburn. There is
will prepare a work that will impose onerous re- absolutely no comparison be-
notice of rule- quirements on broadband tween the information that could
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making for on- providers and will mistakenly be gathered by todays ISPs and
FCC chair- line publication leave consumers with the impres- traditional phone companies, she
man Tom and will then sion that they are receiving said. Times have changed, and
Wheeler. take public meaningful new protections, we need to ensure that our rules
comments on said Mobile Future Chairman are updated to reect these tech-
the issue from companies, groups Jonathan Spalter. nological transformations, she
and individuals for 60 days after Commissioner Michael OReil- said.
its release online, prior to crafting ly, who along with fellow Republi- The commission also voted 3-2
the rules. can Commissioner Ajit Pai voted along political lines with Dem-
Opponents to the measure, in- against the privacy measure, said ocrats Clyburn, Wheeler and
cluding trade groups USTelecom that it sets the agency off on a Commissioner Jessica Rosenwor-
and free market think tank Free statutory shing expedition and cel in favor to expand the Life-
State Foundation, have argued represents an alarming display line program.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2016 MONEY 3B

AUTOS
2016 Lincoln MKX scores by Teslas
Model 3
new
making luxury more simple electrifying
Midsize
SUV is
refreshing,
Chris Woodyard
USA TODAY
sincere REVIEW In an age when
and has a luxury automakers
pile needless com-
very plexity into their ve-
American hicles, theres
feel something refreshing about the
Lincoln MKX.
The midsize SUV is laid out in
a simple, straightforward fashion.
The automatic transmission is
operated by buttons placed
prominently on the dashboard (D
for drive, N for neutral you get
it). The icons on the infotainment
system are arranged in four easy
quadrants there are knobs for
Luddites like me, not
just touch-screen con-
WHAT trols.
STANDS OUT Although its controls
dont have the complex-
uSimplicity: Every- ity of a Boeing 787, MKX
thing is easy to nd still has a luxury feel.
uMaterials: High The SUV is swaddled in
quality leather and real wood.
uTech: Some good, There are nice touches
some balky between the standard
equipment and options,
like heated steering
wheel and seats, an around-view,
360-degree camera and a 19-
speaker audio system. Women
will appreciate the hutch under
the center console as the perfect
place to stow a purse easy to
reach yet mostly protected from
prying eyes.
The evening light show alone is
something to behold. At a click of
the key fob, the Lincolns door
handles light up and spotlights
shoot out on the pavement with
the brands cross-hairs logo.
Our test vehicle was the Black
Label edition, which upgrades the
quality of the leather seats and
door trim, not to mention the
suede headliner. There are up-
graded oor mats.
None of it comes cheap. A base
MKX starts at $39,025, including
$895 in delivery charges. While
2016 LINCOLN MKX BLACK
LABEL
uWhat? A luxury midsize SUV
uWhen? Available now
uWhere? Made in Oakville, Ontario, Canada
uHow much? The Black Label MKX starts at
$55,800, plus $895 in shipping.
uWhat makes it go? MKX has a base 3.7-liter
V-6 good for 303 horsepower. The optional
engine is the 2.7-liter V-6 with 335 horsepower.
uHow big? 15.8 feet long
uHow thirsty? 16 miles per gallon in the city,
23 mpg on the highway for the 3.7-liter V-6; 17
mpg in the city, 24 mpg on the highway for the
2.7-liter turbo V-6. Both rated at 19 mpg
average.
uOverall? Simple and straightforward can
win the day
the base Black Label MKX we
tested was $56,705, our test ver-
sion came in at $67,930 when all
the options were thrown in. Be-
sides the extras that come with
Black Label, Lincoln has tried to
turn ownership of one into a
club-like experience. Owners get
special treatment at dealerships,
including free car washes, sched-
uled maintenance and even a din-
ner for two at a fancy restaurant.
While the around-view camera
came in handy activated by an-
LINCOLN
other easy-to-nd button not
all of the MKXs tech was as allur-
ing. Even though Ford has
worked hard to perfect it, the
automatic parallel parking sys-
tem still doesnt feel ready for
prime time. Also, the lane-keep-
ing system lets drivers know
when they wander out of their
lanes but isnt terribly effective in
steering the car back in.
The MKXs 2.7-liter EcoBoost
turbocharged V-6 engine deliv-
ered 335 horsepower, although
the base non-turbocharged 3.7-li-
ter V-6 still came in at a respect-
able 303 horsepower and costs
$2,000 less. Both engines deliver
the same gas mileage: 19 miles a
gallon in combined city and high-
way driving in the all-wheel-drive
version we tested. The EcoBoost
V-6 comes touted as one of the
quietest engines that Lincoln has
had, but we thought it was a bit
noisy.
Despite Ford Motors ongoing
campaign to pour more money
and attention into Lincoln to try
to make it fully competitive with
Lexus and Mercedes-Benz, the
MKX feels more like an American
style of luxury not European.
More sincerity, less pretension.
It is what it is.
crowds
Chris Woodyard
USA TODAY
SANTA MONICA , CALIF. In a
scene repeated across the coun-
try, about 300 people lined up in
front of the Tesla showroom here
Thursday ready to plunk down a
$1,000 deposit on an electric car
they hadnt yet seen.
The crowds at Tesla stores re-
ected anticipation ahead of the
unveiling of Teslas Model 3, its
rst mass-market electric car.
The two- and three-hour waits to
make a reservation were an indi-
cation that Teslas gamble may
pay off when it comes to luring
middle America into considering
its electric cars even at a time
of low gas prices.
This has to be a rst for the
automotive industry: lines of peo-
ple waiting to place an order for a
car that wont be available for
over a year, says Jessica Cald-
well, analyst for online buying-
service Edmunds.com. This is
the type of buzz that you see with
Star Wars movies or new iPhones
or even cronuts.
She added that it is an early,
hopeful sign that Tesla can
branch out from its environmen-
tally inclined, well-heeled buyers
now into the mass market. If
theres ever been any evidence
that Tesla is primed to make the
leap to mainstream car buyers,
this is it, she said in a statement.
Expected to be priced at about
$35,000, about half the cost of the
current cheapest Tesla, the Model
3 will be comparable in price to
entry-level luxury cars from
BMW, Lexus and Acura. But it
will also likely have lower prot
margins than Teslas two current
models, requiring the automaker
to vastly raise sales volumes in
order to turn a prot.

BMWs new app keeps

drivers smartly connected
Marco della Cava
@marcodellacava
USA TODAY 

SAN FRANCISCO The connected
car just got a little bit smarter.
Drivers of late-model BMWs
can now get smartphone and Ap-
ple Watch alerts to leave early be-
cause of traffic or walking
directions to a destination after
theyve parked their cars, thanks
to a new app powered by Micro-
BRIAN SMALE
softs Azure cloud.


BMW and Microsoft an-
nounced the new BMW Connect-
ed service Thursday at Build,
Microsofts annual developers
conference. The iOS app is avail-
able now and will work with 2014
or newer BMWs. In time, the app
should be able to sync with
BMWs back to 2011.
This is all about safety and
convenience through an app that
learns all about who you are and
what you do, says Randy Cavaia-


BMW unveiled a new connected car app at
Microsoft Build this week. The app is powered
by Microsofts Azure cloud service.
Drivers services that ideally will cement a
can now drivers relationship with the
product.
get In a demo at Build, Cavaiani
phone showed how upon entering the
and luxurious BMW 750iL, the in-
dash screen rst greets the driver
Apple
Watch
by name. Because a destination
has been pulled in from a calen-
 



ni, director of partner and prod-
uct marketing for BMW. The
cloud is critical to something like
this, where in order to scale the
service, you need tremendous
computing capacity to deal with
adding users and their data as
well as growing partner services.
Once derided for not even be-
ing able to add a decent stereo
system to a car, automakers have
gotten the technology memo big
time in recent years spurred in
part by Silicon Valley companies.
For example, Googles leader-
ship on the autonomous car front
has inspired auto giants from
Ford to the Volkswagen Group to
add a growing list of driver-assist
features to traditional passenger
vehicles. And Apples desire to
own the cars infotainment sys-
tem (and possibly more, if Apples
car project rumors are to be be-
lieved) has spurred automakers
to offer in-car tech that allows
them to brand such features
themselves as opposed to ceding
them to Apples Car Play or Goo-
gles Android Auto.
BMW Connected is an exam-
ple of just that: The storied Ba-
varian company is looking to
provide customers with a suite of
 
alerts to dar invitation ahead of time, the
leave car instantly res up the naviga-
early tion system without any actions
from the driver. Another feature
because is the ability to draw from a series
of traffic of pre-written text messages that
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walking of a button that tells address book
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after traffic conditions require an earli-
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parked Cross-app functionality was
demonstrated by opening the
their cars. Yelp app on a smartphone en-
abled with the BMW Connected
app, choosing a restaurant, touch-
ing Directions and suddenly
that request is handed over to the





BMW app, which then connects
with the cars computer.
The idea is simply to use the
power of our cloud service to cre-
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customer, said Sanjay Ravi, who
focuses on automotive, aerospace
and industrial alliances at Micro-
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HOOPLA OVER HOLOLENS:
YES, ITS WORTH THE HYPE
Its not there yet,
but VRs augmented
cousin impresses
Marco della Cava
@marcodellacava
USA TODAY
SAN FRANCISCO The line for a
quick demo of HoloLens snaked
through Moscone Center during
Microsofts Build 2016 developers
conference Wednesday.
The excitement is easy to
explain.
HoloLens is the worlds rst
augmented reality device to hit
developers. But at this stage, its a
bit like when Steve Jobs unveiled
that rst app-lite iPhone. Impres-
sive, but of limited use.
Thats why Microsoft is bank-
ing on some of the 5,000 develop-
ers that have converged on Build
to create applications that may
one day cause AR goggles to be as
ubiquitous as smartphones. In
fact, AR is expected to take a 75%
slice of 2020s $120 billion AR/
VR pie, according to industry ad-
visers Digi-Capital.
So the question is: In its rst-
gen state, is $3,000 HoloLens
worth the hype? How about an
emphatic yes with a few critical
asterisks.
USA TODAY was granted two
hours with HoloLens earlier this
week; the majority of that time
was dedicated to free exploration
unfettered by Microsoft over-
sight. Since previous media ac-
cess has amounted to short,
controlled demos, this was effec-
tively the rst opportunity to as-
sess what it would be like to own
HoloLens.
By coincidence, the experience
came just days after this tech re-
porter was able to spend signi-
cant time interacting with a
development kit version of Face-
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app-lite Form Factor. HoloLens sits
iPhone. on your head like a 1.2-pound
crown. Inside the clear plastic vi-
sor are projectors for the holo-
grams, while on the outside sits a
camera as well as sensors that de-
termine your spatial position in a
given room.
The most important thing to
point out here is HoloLens is an
untethered device whose tech-
nology resides inside the unit. An
equally impressive AR goggle
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connected by a cable to a power-
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as smartphones.
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advise no more than 20 minutes a
day of VR viewing. In contrast, I
had HoloLens on my head for 90
minutes straight.
User Interface. There are
three ways to interact with Holo-
Lens, air-touch (hold your arm
out, point an index nger to the
sky then down), glance (move
your head, not your eyes, toward
something you want then air-
touch) and voice (here Micro-
softs virtual assistant Cortana
does the honors, whether its ask-
ing for a weather update or to
bring up a webpage on a holo-
gram browser).
The simplicity of this interface
trio is to be applauded, though
again over time holding an arm
rigidly outstretched proved a bit
fatiguing. Perhaps HoloLens is
secretly being positioned as a vir-
tual computer-slash-workout de-
vice.
Applications. The idea of Ho-
loLens is to ultimately have it re-
place many of the objects we use
to interact with our digital lives.
Instead of reading up on the
latest news on a PC or a tablet, in
HoloLens you re up a hologram
browser, choose its size and navi-
gate to a site by typing one char-
acter at a time.
Real keyboards connected to
HoloLens by Bluetooth can also
handle this task.
I typed in USA TODAY and
was brought to our mobile site.
While it was fascinating to see a
story oating in space Minority
Report style, navigating through
the website proved problematic
and, ultimately, I abandoned that
quest.
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DJIA DOW SPX S&P Chipotle
$600
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JONES 500 Price: $470.97 The burrito maker said it plans to
INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE STANDARD & POOR'S Chg: $4.82 open a burger chain as it struggles
CHANGE: -.2% CLOSE: 17,685.09 CHANGE: -.2% CLOSE: 2,059.74 % chg: 1.0 to recover from an E.coli outbreak $400
YTD: +260.06 PREV. CLOSE: 17,716.66 YTD: +15.80 PREV. CLOSE: 2,063.95 Day's high/low: and other health safety issues. March 3 March 31
YTD % CHG: +1.5% RANGE: 17,669.72-17,755.70 YTD % CHG: +.8% RANGE: 2,057.46-2,067.92 $473.75/$462.51
4-WEEK TREND

COMP NASDAQ RUT RUSSELL FitBit $20

The wearable tness device maker $15.15
+0.56 COMPOSITE
+3.59 RUSSELL 2000 INDEX
Price: $15.15 announced that it had sold more
Chg: $1.75 than 1 million of its new Fitbit
% chg: 13.1 Blaze models in the rst month $10
CHANGE: +.0% CLOSE: 4,869.85 CHANGE: +.3% CLOSE: 1,114.03 March 3 March 31
YTD: -137.56 PREV. CLOSE: 4,869.29 YTD: -21.85 PREV. CLOSE: 1,110.44
Day's high/low: they were available, exceeding the
$15.23/$13.82 companys internal estimates.
YTD % CHG: -2.8% RANGE: 4,864.41-4,891.30 YTD % CHG: -1.9% RANGE: 1,109.53-1,117.78 4-WEEK TREND
Sky Solar Holdings
S&P 500S BIGGEST GAINERS/LOSERS YTD Although the developer and opera- $3.50 $2.26
GAINERS Company (ticker symbol) Price $ Chg % Chg % Chg Price: $2.26 tor of solar panel parks reported
Chg: $1.02 quarterly revenue and earnings
Marathon Oil (MRO) 11.14 +.61 +5.8 -11.5 % chg: 82.9 that fell short of estimates, its $1.00
Shares up in anticipation of earnings report. Day's high/low: pipeline of projects under develop- March 3 March 31
$2.58/$1.30 ment was better than expected.
Southwestern Energy (SWN) 8.07 +.37 +4.8 +13.5
Rise in oil prices buoys energy producers.
TOP 10 MUTUAL FUNDS INVESTING ASK MATT
Devon Energy (DVN) 27.44 +1.24 +4.7 -14.3 Fund, ranked by size NAV Chg. 4wk 1 YTD 1
Vanguard 500Adml 189.98 -0.39 +6.8% +1.3%
Shares increase as oil prices inch upward.

Harley-Davidson (HOG) 51.33 +1.85 +3.7 +13.1

Vanguard TotStIAdm
Vanguard InstIdxI
Vanguard TotStIdx
51.03
188.11
51.01
-0.05
-0.39
-0.05
+7.0%
+6.8%
+7.0%
+0.9%
+1.3%
+0.9%
Strong sales
Motorcycle maker breaks 200-day moving average. Vanguard InstPlus
Vanguard TotIntl
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188.12
14.42
96.66
-0.39
-0.08
-0.24
+6.8%
+8.2%
+5.6%
+1.3%
-0.2%
-1.6%
leave Fitbit with
Signet Jewelers (SIG)
Bank of America reiterates buy rating.
124.03 +4.35 +3.6 +.3 American Funds IncAmerA m
American Funds GrthAmA m
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American Funds CapIncBuA m 57.52 -0.11 +5.6% +3.9%
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Alexion Pharma (ALXN)
TCX Group buys $145 million stake in firm.
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iShares EAFE ETF EFA 57.16 -0.57 -1.0% -2.7%
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Martin Marietta (MLM) 159.51 +4.68 +3.0 +16.8 INTEREST RATES MORTGAGE RATES A: Fitbit (FIT) was selling tness
Materials firm to benefit from transport bill. Type Close 6 mo ago Type Close 6 mo ago
trackers before they were cool. Now the
Prime lending 3.50% 3.25% 30 yr. fixed 3.65% 3.81% company is trying to show it can keep its
YTD
LOSERS Company (ticker symbol) Price $ Chg % Chg % Chg
Federal funds 0.37% 0.13% 15 yr. fixed 2.79% 2.89% cool as other corporate behemoths want
3 mo. T-bill 0.21% 0.01% 1 yr. ARM 2.74% 2.57%
5 yr. T-note 1.21% 1.37% 5/1 ARM 3.13% 2.99% a piece of the digital wearables market.
Mosaic (MOS) 27.00 -1.12 -4.0 -2.1 10 yr. T-note 1.77% 2.05% SOURCE: BANKRATE.COM The San Francisco-based company,
Shares hurt by falling demand for fertilizers. which continues to have the leading mar-
COMMODITIES ket share of tness trackers despite ef-
Deere (DE) 76.99 -3.13 -3.9 +.9 Commodities
Cattle (lb.)
Close
1.33
Prev.
1.32
Chg.
+0.01
% Chg.
+0.4%
% YTD
-2.1%
forts by Apple (AAPL) and others to
Fluctuating ag prices affect farm machinery maker. Corn (bushel) 3.52 3.67 -0.15 -4.2% -2.0% enter the business, reassured investors
Gold (troy oz.) 1,234.20 1,226.90 +7.30 +0.6% +16.4% Thursday that its newest products are
Monsanto (MON) 87.74 -3.35 -3.7 -10.9 Hogs, lean (lb.) .68 .69 -0.01 -0.8% +14.3%
selling well. Shares of Fitbit jumped
Natural Gas (Btu.) 1.96 2.00 -0.04 -1.9% -16.2%
Ag company may end buybacks over next few years. Oil, heating (gal.) 1.18 1.16 +0.02 +2.2% +7.6% $1.75, or 13.1%, to $15.15 after the compa-
Oil, lt. swt. crude (bar.) 38.34 38.32 +0.02 +0.1% +3.5% ny said its latest models, Blaze and Alta,
AutoNation (AN) 46.68 -1.29 -2.7 -21.8 Silver (troy oz.) 15.46 15.22 +0.24 +1.7% +12.2%
Inventory glut forcing more dealer promotions. Soybeans (bushel) 9.11 9.09 +0.02 +0.2% +4.5% sold more than a million units each in
Wheat (bushel) 4.74 4.64 +0.10 +2.1% +0.7% March.
Allergan (AGN) 268.03 -6.91 -2.5 -14.2 Investors saw the strong consumer
Pharmaceutical firm accused of breaking anti-trust laws. FOREIGN CURRENCIES response as a sign the company can
Currency per dollar Close Prev. 6 mo. ago Yr. ago evolve from low-end tness trackers to
British pound .6958 .6952 .6612 .6736
FLIR Systems (FLIR) 32.95 -.83 -2.5 +17.4 Canadian dollar 1.2974 1.2972 1.3348 1.2658 more fully capable smartwatches and
Negative growth projected for thermal imager. Chinese yuan 6.4481 6.4649 6.3607 6.1975 wearables, Mizuho stock research ana-
Euro .8782 .8824 .8955 .9309
Japanese yen 112.53 112.47 119.97 119.95
lysts Betty Chen said in a note to clients.
Whole Foods (WFM) 31.11 -.76 -2.4 -7.1 Mexican peso 17.2849 17.2199 16.9264 15.2520 Investors should expect more new
Shares fall with challenges by fresh-food rivals. product announcements in 2016. The
FOREIGN MARKETS company needs to prove its brand holds
FMC (FMC) 40.37 -.91 -2.2 +3.2
Chem firm shares fall after portfolio realignment. Country Close Prev. Change %Chg. YTD % appeal as wearables take on more capa-
Frankfurt 9,965.51 10,046.61 -81.10 -0.8% -7.2% bilities than just counting steps. Shares
Hong Kong 20,776.70 20,803.39 -26.69 -0.1% -5.2%
Priceline Group (PCLN) 1288.96 -28.07 -2.1 +1.1 Japan (Nikkei) 16,758.67 16,878.96 -120.29 -0.7% -12.0% of the stock are still down about 50% the
Shares decline on mixed reviews from Pacific Crest. London 6,174.90 6,203.17 -28.27 -0.5% -1.1% past 12 months as investors fear growth
Mexico City 45,881.08 46,191.52 -310.43 -0.7% +6.8%
will slow amid tougher competition.
SOURCES: MORNINGSTAR, DOW JONES INDEXES, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Advance Auto Parts (AAP) 160.34 -3.45 -2.1 +6.5 Analysts, though, think the stock could
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FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2016 SECTION C
Womens
wages
U.S. soccer
stars take
strong stand
in equal pay
complaint,
Christine
Brennan
writes, 1A

Ready for blastoff, Correa stays grounded

SPORTSLINE
FIRST WORD
I CANT REALLY
SHOW MY FACE
ANYWHERE WITHOUT PEOPLE Astros star says hype BASEBALLS OPENING DAY
HATING ME
RIGHT NOW.
wont change him Sunday, times p.m. Eastern
DAngelo uSt. Louis Cardinals (Adam Wainwright, 2-1 in 2015) at Pitts-
Russell to Jorge L. Ortiz burgh Pirates (Francisco Liriano, 12-7), 1, ESPN
reporters late @jorgelortiz uToronto Blue Jays (Marcus Stroman, 4-0) at Tampa Bay Rays
Wednesday USA TODAY Sports (Chris Archer, 12-13), 4, ESPN2
after the uNew York Mets (Matt Harvey, 13-8) at Kansas City Royals
RUSSELL BY
Lakers over- (Edinson Volquez, 13-9), 8:30, ESPN
KISSIMMEE , FLA . Carlos Correa
RICHARD MACKSON, time victory
USA TODAY SPORTS against the picks out a different fedora to
Heat. Russell talked about the wear on each Houston Astros trip The reigning American League rea signed a ve-year contract
flak hes taking for posting a during the season, a habit he de- rookie of the year is not just the with apparel maker Adidas that
video that led to the current Nick veloped last year as a way to set centerpiece of the Astros quest was formally announced Thurs-
Young-Iggy Azalea situation. his own style. to win their rst World Series, day, and on opening day he will be
Starting with next weeks trip but hes also one of the major showcased in Topps digital trad-
to New York and Yankee Stadi- leagues most marketable gures, ing card app. He also has endorse-
KIM KLEMENT, USA TODAY SPORTS
um, the Astros will go on the road a young, bilingual player with ment deals in place with a Texas
14 times in 2016, and thats about charisma and superstar talent. supermarket chain and a Hous- Shortstop Carlos Correa, 21,
the number of hats Correa wears, That has translated into a ood says, I want to represent the
literally and guratively. of opportunities off the eld. Cor- v STORY CONTINUES ON 8C game in a dignied manner.

NCAA TOURNAMENT
uVillanova (33-5) vs. Oklahoma (29-7), 6:09 ET uSyracuse (23-13) vs. North Carolina (32-6), 8:49 p.m. ET
Mens Final Four, Saturday, NRG Stadium, Houston; games on TBS

JEROME MIRON, USA TODAY SPORTS

TWEET OF THE DAY

@CarliLloyd
Historic moment. Proud of the
strength of this team. #fight-
ing #equalplayequalpay
Soccer star Carli Lloyd, about
the complaint she and four of
her teammates from the U.S.
womens national team filed
with the Equal Opportunity
Opportunity Commission against
U.S. Soccer over pay issues.

BRANDON BIELTZ, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA

MAGIC NUMBER
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2
Sons born to the University of
Marcus Paige runs the point
for North Carolina, the only
Michael Gbinije averages a
team-high 17.6 points for
Villanovas Kris Jenkins has
scored in double gures for
Buddy Hield is averaging
29.3 points per game in the
No. 1 seed in Houston. No. 10 seed Syracuse. 13 consecutive games. tournament for Oklahoma.
North Carolinas mascot, a ram
named Rameses XXII. Their

ALL DOLLARS, NO SENSE IN NCAA

names are Ollie and Marvin. The
mothers name is Stella.

ALMOST LAST WORD

THIS WHOLE TOASTGATE
THING HAS BEEN FABULOUS. I
MEAN, FOR TWO DAYS IM Nancy Armour Cash is still king, cheaters prosper as are just a few of the other compa-
nies happy to write big checks to
GETTING ASKED ABOUT IT narmour@usatoday.com
USA TODAY Sports
protecting status quo trumps reform the NCAA.
Theres even a sponsor for the
WHEREVER I GO.
CBS broadcaster Jim Nantz on in the very next defends Syra- coaches is to protect the status ladders yes, the ladders that
Thursday about the reaction to cuses and North Carolinas right quo. players climb to cut the nets.
his comments in Golf Digest to bring their dirty laundry to col- And by status quo I mean cash, Its not just the NCAA thats
about his love of burnt toast and lege basketballs showcase event. because thats what it always ush with cash, either. A USA
why he carries a picture of burnt HOUSTON Kudos to the NCAA Then, of course, there are all comes back to. TODAY Sports survey of the
toast to show servers. for hosting a tap-dancing exhibi- those references to the student- The NCAA had revenue of coaches in this years tourna-
tion along with the Final Four. athlete, a term designed to pro- $912 million in scal year 2015 ment, published Wednesday,
LAST WORD Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim tect the NCAA from having to thanks to the popularity of events found that 24 are making at least
IN MY FAMILY POOL ... wants you to know that cheating hand over some of its billions to such as the Final Four, where $2 million, up from 11 just ve
EVERYBODY HAS TO PICK and breaking rules arent the the kids who are bringing it in. companies are tripping over years ago. Five made $4 million
VILLANOVA ALL THE WAY same, no matter what Websters No matter what high-minded themselves to get a piece of the or more this season.
THROUGH IN ONE BRACKET. I and common sense tell you. In ideals they profess, the main con- action. The TV contract alone for The players, meanwhile, are
HAD XAVIER IN MY OTHER one breath, NCAA President cern of everyone in the NCAA the NCAA tournament is worth living large. For two years now, all
BRACKET. I JUST THOUGHT Mark Emmert praises the deter- be it Emmert, university presi- $10.8 billion over 14 years, and
THEY WERE GOOD ENOUGH. rent effect of postseason bans and dents, athletics directors or AT&T, Capital One and Allstate v STORY CONTINUES ON 2C
Villanova coach Jay Wright,

Silver lining to career cut short

maybe selling his team a little
short in one of his family brackets.

Edited by Thomas OToole

Injury put GM on path
USA SNAPSHOTS
to working with Bryant
Opening strong
Martin Rogers
@mrogersUSAT
USA TODAY Sports

LOS ANGELES Kobe Bryant has

seen enough the last two decades

13-5
Opening-day record of
to realize the effect that twists of
fate can have on a career. Or the
twist of a knee.
LAST RUN FOR LAKERS LEGEND
Third part of a six-part series that
tells the inside story of Kobe Bryant
the Baltimore Orioles The sports gods have a sense as he winds down his 20-year Hall of
of humor, Bryant told USA Fame career in the NBA.
since 19981, best among
all baseball teams in TODAY Sports. Thats what I
that time span think. It is pretty amazing that it It involved Mitch Kupchak.
seems like in sports you always The Los Angeles Lakers general
1 Major League Baseball increased to have those weird connections. manager since 2000, Kupchak
its current lineup of 30 teams in 1998 with For Bryant, who is retiring af- also played in the NBA for nine
the addition of the Arizona Diamond- 2004 AP PHOTO BY STEFANO PALTERA
backs and Tampa Bay Rays. ter a 20-year NBA career, one of seasons. In 1981, he was signed by
Source Baseball-reference.com Kobe Bryant, left, and general manager Mitch Kupchak won those connections dates to when
ELLEN J. HORROW AND VERONICA BRAVO, USA TODAY
ve NBA titles together in 20 years. he was 3 years old. v STORY CONTINUES ON 2C

2C SPORTS
GM won praise for trade
v CONTINUED FROM 1C
the Lakers to a seven-year,
$5.6 million contract big mon-
ey for that era and expected to
be a key member of a team that
would go on to win the NBA title.
But that ended in December 1981.
My rst year in L.A., we were
playing the San Diego Clippers,
Kupchak said. Magic (Johnson)
kind of shuffled me the ball for a
layup, and a player stepped in
front of me to draw a charge.
So I tried to stop rather than
get the charge and have a big col-
lision, but I couldnt stop, so I
ended up injuring my knee, tum-
bling into this player and going
on the oor together.
Kupchak missed the rest of the
season and the following one.
Coach Pat Riley promoted Kurt
Rambis to a starting position, and
owner Jerry Buss soon traded for
another big man, Bob McAdoo.
Both would play crucial roles on
that championship team. Howev-
er, the long-term effects were
even greater.
Although Kupchak came back
to play an additional three sea-
sons with the Lakers, appearing
in 147 more games, he was never
the same. But he stayed with the
Above all, NCAA worships almighty dollar
v CONTINUED FROM 1C
student-athletes have had ac-
cess to unlimited meals and
snacks. Yippee! They get all the
M&Ms they can eat while their
coaches get Mercedes-Benzes.
The resources that are being
committed to student-athletes,
and the opportunities they have
to enjoy those resources, are sig-
nicantly greater today than they
were six years ago, Emmert said
Thursday in his annual state of
the association address.
In fact, I would clearly con-
tend that student-athletes right
now are in a much stronger, more
successful position than they
were in that short time. Thats a
very, very good thing.
There are plenty of student-
athletes who would disagree
with him, starting with Ed OBan-
non and the other plaintiffs in the
antitrust lawsuit over the use of
their images. But hypocrisy has
never much bothered the NCAA.
Syracuse was banned from the
IN BRIEF
JUDGE ORDERS NCAA TO PAY
$42.3M IN OBANNON CASE
A federal judge Thursday ordered
the NCAA to pay more than
$42.3 million in attorneys fees
and costs to lawyers representing
the plaintiffs in the Ed OBan-
non antitrust case. The decision
by U.S. District Judge Claudia
Wilken came in response to the
NCAAs request for a review of
Magistrate Judge Nathanael
Cousins decision in July 2015 to
award nearly $46 million in fees
and costs. However, the plaintiffs
lawyers are trying to get the case
heard by the Supreme Court, and
an adverse ruling could result in
further reduction or the elimina-
tion of Wilkens award. Cousins
decision came nearly a year after
Wilken ruled that the NCAAs
limits on what major-college
football and mens basketball
players could receive for playing
sports unreasonably restrained
trade in violation of antitrust
laws. Although the case, which
began in the summer of 2009, did
not include a nancial damages
component, Wilken ruled that
the plaintiffs would recover their
costs from the NCAA. The NCAA
appealed Wilkens verdict to the
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals,
which upheld Wilkens antitrust
nding but threw out her remedy
that would have allowed schools
to provide athletes deferred com-
pensation of up to $5,000 a year.
The plaintiffs asked March 15
that the high court hear the case.
GOLD LEADS WORLDS
AFTER SHORT PROGRAM
Gracie Gold leads after the short
program as she seeks to become
the rst U.S. woman to win a
world championship in a decade.
No U.S. woman has nished on
the podium since Kimmie
Meissner took gold and Sasha
Cohen bronze in 2006. But at a
home world championships, the
Americans have a chance at two
medals with Ashley Wagner in
fourth place after Thursdays
short program. Were only half-
way through, but I can kind of see
the light at the end of the tunnel
that maybe the drought is ending,
and that would be amazing, Gold
said.
team, even after retirement, go-
ing to business school, working as
assistant GM to Jerry West, then
eventually taking over the main
job.
It was then his path began to
intertwine with that of Bryants,
though things were fairly
straightforward at rst, with Bry-
ant and Shaquille ONeal forming
an unstoppable combination that
produced three titles from 2000
to 2002.
However, ONeals departure in
2004 left the Lakers at a cross-
roads. The fruitless years that fol-
lowed caused Bryant to demand a
trade unless Kupchak could do
something to turn things around.
I was pissed, Bryant said.
Not even kind of, it was fury. I
had to win a championship with-
out Shaquille ONeal. It was just
the challenge. It wasnt fair. But it
is what it is. That was just an
obsession.
So I (wasnt) going to sit here
and play for this organization, no
matter how beautiful the city is,
no matter how much I love the
franchise.
I (was) out here scoring 40, 50
points, breaking my back trying
to win, and money (was) not be-
ing spent on getting talent here to
Mark Emmert says the resources being committed to athletes
are signicantly greater than they were six years ago.
postseason last year and Boeheim
suspended for nine games this
season for a series of violations.
The NCAA spent eight years in-
vestigating Syracuse, nding that
a basketball staffer had done
coursework to keep a player eligi-
JONATHAN DYER, USA TODAY SPORTS
I have to be happy and do a great
job, Pablo Sandoval says.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
WINS NIT CHAMPIONSHIP
George Washington won its rst
National Invitation Tournament
championship, getting 18 points
from Kevin Larsen and pulling
away in the second half to beat
Valparaiso 76-60 on Thursday at
Madison Square Garden in New
York. Patricio Garino added 14
points for the fourth-seeded Co-
lonials (28-10), who set a school
record for victories and won their
fourth in a row against a higher
seed. Tyler Cavanaugh, selected
the tournaments most outstand-
ing player, had 12 points, and
George Washington held Valpa-
raiso star Alec Peters to two
points in the second half. Peters
nished with 15 for the top-seed-
ed Crusaders (30-7).
RED SOX BENCH SANDOVAL,
GIVE SHAW THIRD-BASE JOB
Pablo Sandoval has become a
$95 million bench player. The
Boston Red Sox announced be-
fore their nal spring training
game Thursday that Travis
Shaw, a 25-year-old who made
his big-league debut last May,
would be their starting third
baseman. If its the right deci-
sion to help the team win, Im go-
ing to be happy. Im going to be
ready for the bench. Ill get ready
for everything in the season and
do my job, Sandoval said. Its
going to be difficult. Sandoval hit
.245 last season with 10 homers
and 47 RBI.
win a championship.
Bryant irted with joining the
Los Angeles Clippers, thought
about the Chicago Bulls and
eventually stayed in purple and
gold. His faith was rewarded
when Kupchak traded for Pau
Gasol, laying the foundation for a
new double act that would lead to
two more titles, in 2009 and 2010.
Kupchak says he was aware of
the tension.
We were stuck in a period
where he was in his prime and we
were a playoff team, but we were
not good enough to get where he
wanted to go, Kupchak said. So
the frustration reared its head.
(Then) we got lucky with the Pau
deal, and for him that put him
back in the Finals.
Bryant, at the time, summed
up his thoughts by telling the Los
Angeles Times that Kupchak had
gone from an F to an A-plus.
Nowadays, Kupchak shakes his
head when he reects on the way
things turned out. He acknowl-
edges it is unlikely he would have
ended up as a GM anywhere, let
alone with the Lakers, had his
playing career panned out the
way he wanted it to.
In terms of Laker lore and
winning championships, maybe
BOB DONNAN, USA TODAY SPORTS
ble; the school had ignored or
violated its own drug testing
program; and a booster had pro-
vided more than $8,000 in extra
benets.
Though Boeheim was not com-
plicit in any of the violations, the
YANKEES RELIEVER TO PITCH
WITH BROKEN WRIST
New York Yankees reliever An-
drew Miller plans to pitch with
a broken wrist in his glove hand.
Miller suffered a chip fracture of
his right wrist Wednesday when
hit by a line drive off the bat of
the Atlanta Braves Willians As-
tudillo. I think I can work
around it, Miller said Thursday
before the Yankees played the
St. Louis Cardinals. Im not too
worried. Miller will see a hand
specialist in the next few days.
PHILADELPHIA APOLOGIZES
TO TRAILBLAZER ROBINSON
Philadelphia is officially apologiz-
ing to Jackie Robinson for the
shameful way he was treated in
the City of Brotherly Love. The
City Council passed a resolution
Thursday naming April 15 as a
day to honor Robinsons achieve-
ments and to apologize for the
racism he faced while visiting
Philadelphia in 1947. April 15 is
the day Robinson broke the color
barrier by becoming the rst
black player in Major League
Baseball, playing for the Brooklyn
Dodgers. In Philadelphia, Robin-
son was refused service by a local
hotel and taunted by Philadelphia
Phillies manager Ben Chapman,
who, along with players, hurled
racial slurs at Robinson each time
he came to bat.
76ERS NEARING WORST
RECORD OF ALL TIME
Are the Philadelphia 76ers the
worst of the NBA season? Yes,
REINHOLD MATAY, USA TODAY SPORTS
I have some swelling, some sore-
ness, Andrew Miller, left, says.
Mitch Kupchaks 2008 trade for Pau Gasol appeased Kobe Bry-
ant, right, and led to back-to-back titles in 2009 and 2010.
my injury was a good thing, Kup-
chak said.
He still remembers the missed
step that caused his knee to buck-
le. He can visualize the play and
almost feel the pain. And he cer-
tainly remembers the San Diego
NCAA found he hadnt promoted
an atmosphere of compliance.
Serious stuff. Yet here are the
Orange, two wins away from
climbing those sponsored ladders
as national champions.
If this sounds familiar, it is.
Connecticut was banned from
the postseason in 2013 for not
meeting required academic stan-
dards. A year later, it won the na-
tional title.
Ohio States football team was
banned from bowl games after
the 2012 season for the tattoo
scandal that cost coach Jim Tres-
sel his job. Two years later, the
Buckeyes won the rst College
Football Playoff.
Theres something about
schools being allowed to reap big
rewards after recovering from
what is little more than a slap on
the wrist that seems at odds with
what the NCAA is supposed to
promote. You know: fair play, the
benets of competition, life les-
sons about the value of hard work
and perseverance.
GEOFF BURKE, USA TODAY SPORTS
Svetlana Kuznetsova, above, puts a
stop to Timea Bacsinszkys run.
that was inevitable in training
camp. The worst of all time? Get-
ting close. The Sixers are 9-66 en-
tering Fridays game at the
Charlotte Hornets, on pace to
match the worst 82-game record
in NBA history. Should the Sixers
lose their nal seven games, they
will nish at 9-73, tying the mis-
erable mark set by their 76ers
predecessors in the 1972-73 sea-
son. The Sixers have lost 10 con-
secutive games and would nish
on a 17-game losing streak should
they fail to put another W in the
column. Under coach Brett
Brown, the Sixers have at one
point lost 26 and 28 consecutive
games, the latter the longest los-
ing streak in the history of pro
sports.
CAPITALS CHIMERA FINED
FOR HIT ON FLYERS ROOKIE
Washington Capitals forward Ja-
son Chimera was ned $5,000
by the NHL for butt-ending Phil-
adelphia Flyers rookie defense-
man Shayne Gostisbehere in
the Flyers 2-1 win Wednesday.
The ne was the maximum al-
lowable under the collective bar-
gaining agreement.
MUNOZ, MIYAZATO TIE FOR
LEAD IN ANA INSPIRATION
Azahara Munoz bogeyed the
par-5 18th hole in breezy after-
noon conditions Thursday in the
ANA Inspiration to drop into a tie
for the rst-round lead with Ai
USA TODAY
E6 FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2016
ROB SCHUMACHER, THE (PHOENIX) ARIZONA REPUBLIC
Clippers player, a blameless par-
ticipant, who stood in his path
and caused him to change direc-
tion before his knee crumpled be-
neath him.
It was Joe Jellybean Bryant,
Kobes father.
In the NCAA bubble, however,
its all hunky-dory.
I understand why optically
people have a lot of questions
around all that. It makes perfect
sense that they might, Emmert
said.
The university dealt with
those sanctions, and this group of
young men that are playing right
now had nothing to do with any
of those violations. ... It shouldnt
impact these young men. Thats
what the judgment of the mem-
bership was. I support it.
Of course. Because the bottom
line isnt teaching young people
about the consequences of bad
behavior or that the punishment
for guilt by association can be se-
vere. Its about protecting the
very lucrative product, and no-
body does that better than the
NCAA.
FOLLOW COLUMNIST
NANCY ARMOUR
@nrarmour for commentary on
the latest in major sports.
Miyazato. Munoz and Miyazato
each shot 5-under-par 67 in the
rst major championship of the
year. Miyazato played in the
morning session before the wind
picked up at Mission Hills in Ran-
cho Mirage, Calif. Munoz hit her
second shot on 18 into the right
fairway bunker and her third
went through the green to the
back fringe, leaving a downhill
putt that she hit to 7 feet. Shiho
Oyama, Catriona Matthew
and Lee-Anne Pace were a
stroke back.
KUZNETSOVA, AZARENKA
REACH MIAMI OPEN FINAL
Svetlana Kuznetsova is back in
the Key Biscayne nal 10 years af-
ter she won the tournament.
Kuznetsova erased 12 of the 14
break points she faced and beat
Timea Bacsinszky 7-5, 6-3
Thursday in the Miami Open.
Kuznetsovas opponent Saturday
will be two-time champion and
No. 13 seed Victoria Azarenka,
who ousted No. 2-seeded Ange-
lique Kerber 6-2, 7-5. American
twins Bob and Mike Bryan, who
turned 38 this week, lost in the
seminals of doubles to Pierre-
Hughes Herbert and Nicolas
Mahut, 6-3, 6-3. The Bryans hold
a record 16 Grand Slam titles but
havent won a tournament since
August. On the mens side, Kei
Nishikori overcame ve match
points and beat Gael Monls
4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-3) Thursday. Next
up for Nishikori is No. 24 Nick
Kyrgios, who defeated No. 12
Milos Raonic 6-4, 7-6 (7-4).
WORLD CUP STADIUM
OPENING AGAIN DELAYED
Russias sports minister said a
stadium being built in the city of
St. Petersburg for the 2018 World
Cup had suffered further delays.
Vitaly Mutko told state news
agencies that the 69,000-seat are-
na, which will host a World Cup
seminal, was three months be-
hind schedule. Mutko linked the
delay to nancial concerns in-
volving contractors. The end of
construction had been set for
May, with the stadium due to en-
ter service by the end of the year.
From staff and wire reports
USA TODAY
FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2016 E6
CRASH AD ILLUSTRATES DILEMMA
Incidents that
draw penalties
also draw fans
Jeff Gluck
jgluck@usatoday.com
USA TODAY Sports
CHARLOTTE Last November, af-
ter Matt Kenseth blatantly took
out race leader Joey Logano in a
crucial playoff race at Martins-
ville Speedway, NASCAR officials
were quick to condemn the inci-
dent.
NASCAR CEO Brian France
called the move unacceptable and
said, We dont want that to hap-
pen again. NASCAR executive
vice president Steve ODonnell
said Kenseths actions had no
place in NASCAR.
And Kenseth was suspended
for two races the most severe
punishment for an on-track inci-
dent in NASCAR history.
Fast-forward to this spring,
and Martinsville has been using
the incident in its commercials
leading up to Sundays STP 500.
Is that fair game? There are
plenty of opinions, but you cer-
tainly wont nd a consensus
within the sport.
If its so bad you get suspend-
ed from it, if its that bad of an act,
maybe it shouldnt be used to
prot from, Kenseth said this
week. Because I certainly didnt
prot from it.
But on the other hand, a lot of
people come to see controversy
and action and wrecks. Thats
what the fans love. So its hard to
see both sides of it.
The argument speaks to NAS-
CARs ongoing identity crisis: Is it
a sport in which racing and speed
conquer all, or is it a reality show
on wheels with some pro wres-
tling air?
Martinsvilles use of the foot-
KANAAN GLAD TO REVISIT SHORT TRACK
Driver expects fast,
furious action in
return to Phoenix
Curt Cavin
@curtcavin
USA TODAY Sports
AVONDALE , ARIZ . Racetracks
that are fast and furious speak to
2004 IndyCar Series champion
Tony Kanaan, and thats the kind
of action he foresees in this week-
ends return to Phoenix Interna-
tional Raceway.
History suggests Kanaan will
be right, and that gures to make
him a contender to win Saturday
nights Desert Diamond West Val-
ley Phoenix Grand Prix. He won
IndyCar races there in 2003 and
2004, and among his 17 career
wins are triumphs at three other
rapid-re short tracks: the Mil-
waukee Mile (twice), Richmond
International Raceway and Iowa
Speedway.
PIR has been described as a
smaller version of the Twin Ring
Motegi oval in Japan and, not co-
incidentally, Kanaan has won
there, too.
Hoffman leads in Houston
Sharp putting sparks 8-under 64 in Round 1
The Associated Press
HOUSTON Charley Hoffman bird-
ied half the holes on the Golf
Club of Houston course Thursday
and had one bogey to shoot an
8-under-par 64 and take the rst-
round lead of the Shell Houston
Open.
But hard work lies ahead for
Hoffman. The three-time PGA
Tour winner hasnt held up well
on the weekends this season after
giving himself good opportunities
to claim titles. Closing 75s in his
last two stroke-play tournaments
even knocked him out of likely
top-10 nishes.
Ive shot 3- or 4-over on the
back nine on Sunday when Ive
been going from winning the
tournament to 12th or 15th
place, Hoffman said. Ive played
fairly solidly from the start of the
year to now and havent been
missing cuts, but I havent been
able to put four rounds together.
Hoffman birdied the rst four
holes of his back nine the
If its that bad of an act, says Matt Kenseth, plowing into Joey Logano last fall, maybe it shouldnt be used to prot from.
age exemplies that dilemma.
Yeah, it stirred up controver-
sy, but what do people want me to
show, the pace lap? Martinsville
Speedway President Clay Camp-
bell said this week. I mean, real-
ly. I wouldnt be doing my job,
and I dont think anyone sitting
in this room would have done
anything any different, if what
Im paid to do is sell tickets.
If you look at it purely from
Campbells standpoint, hes right.
Even Kenseth said he would do
the same thing in Campbells
shoes.
But it becomes harder to rec-
oncile when looking at the NAS-
CAR industry as a whole.
When the incident occurred
last year, my column included
this passage:
Tony Kanaan, driving the 7-Eleven Honda Dallara, won at
Phoenix International Raceway in 2003 and 2004.
Those short tracks have al-
ways been my kind of places, Ka-
naan says. For whatever reason,
I love them. Must be my (driving)
style.
Kanaan is one of four active
Verizon IndyCar Series drivers
who have raced these type of cars
at PIR: Helio Castroneves, who
courses front nine and had a
birdie on No. 8 to break out of
what had been a ve-way tie for
rst with Dustin Johnson, Rober-
to Castro, Morgan Hoffmann and
Scott Brown, who all shot 65s.
Brown, an Augusta, Ga., native
who has never played in the Mas-
ters, would have to win the Hous-
ton Open to get into the eld next
week at Augusta National.
You always want to get off to a
good start in any tournament,
Johnson said. Today I got off to a
great start. I still feel like Im
playing really solid, rolling the
putter good.
His round included two bogeys
but ended with an eagle on 8 and
a birdie on 9. Regarding the for-
mer, he said: I hit two great
shots. Hit a perfect drive down
the left side of the fairway and
a great 4-iron in there to about
10 feet, then holed the putt.
Castro, playing consistently
from start to nish, produced sev-
en birdies and no bogeys while
missing only two fairways. It was
a marked turnaround from what
Officials can say theyre unhap-
py with Kenseths actions, but you
can bet the footage from Sunday
will end up in highlight reels and
commercials for years to come.
Tickets will be sold and the sport
marketed off exactly the kind of
incidents NASCAR claims to con-
demn.
If youve followed NASCAR
long enough, you know this kind
of thing happens frequently.
Lets be clear: Martinsville is
not technically owned by NAS-
CAR, so NASCAR will draw a dis-
tinction between its own
marketing materials and those
produced by the track.
But the actual track owner,
International Speedway Corp.,
is operated by the France family
and shares its headquarters
2003 PHOTO BY ROBERT LABERGE, GETTY IMAGES
won there in 2002; Scott Dixon
and Ed Carpenter.
IndyCar last raced here in
2005 when Sam Hornish Jr. won,
but the track has changed signi-
cantly since then. There is more
banking in the corners, the track
has been repaved and there is
more space exiting Turn 2, the
he called rough Thursdays in my
last two tournaments, when he
opened with 75s in the Valspar
Championship and the Arnold
Palmer Invitational.
Former Houston champion
Johnson Wagner, who won in
2008 and got into a Sunday play-
off here last spring, was another
shot back at 66, tied with three
other players. Among the large
group nishing with 67s was
reigning Masters champion Jor-
dan Spieth, who also was part of
the Sunday playoff in 2015 with
Wagner and eventual champion
J.B. Holmes.
Holmes pulled out of this
years eld Wednesday because of
a shoulder problem.
Spieth, who hasnt won a title
since January and lost his world
No. 1 ranking to Jason Day on
Sunday when Day won the World
Golf Championships-Dell Match
Play event in Austin, said he
drove the ball fantastic today
(and) really felt comfortable on
my iron shots. I had very, very
good control of my golf game and
my short game was there today as
well.
building with NASCAR in Dayto-
na Beach, Fla. So if NASCAR had
any objections to what Martins-
ville was doing, the footage
wouldnt have appeared in the
commercial.
In that sense, it feels like NAS-
CAR is talking out of both sides of
its mouth. The Kenseth incident
was either an ugly stain on the
sport that challenged the integri-
ty of NASCARs playoff system or
the kind of thrilling, can-you-be-
lieve-that moment fans spend
their hard-earned money to see.
That severe of a circumstance
cannot possibly straddle any line;
its either one side or the other.
The problem is NASCAR was
built on promoting the very inci-
dents it penalizes. All participants
in the famous 1979 Daytona 500
latter changing the speed at
which cars travel down the back-
stretch.
Some of the drivers tested
aerodynamic pieces for Chevrolet
and Honda in the fall, and Indy-
Car staged a two-day open test
last month. The downforce levels
recommended by the manufac-
turers have some drivers and
team engineers questioning the
amount of passing drivers will be
able to do in the race, but most
dont see it as an issue.
Put Kanaan in the latter group.
He is one of the drivers in this se-
ries who seems to make passes
where opportunities dont seem
to exist. We all say (passing will
be difficult), then in the race we
gure it out, he says.
Carpenter says it is natural to
be concerned about an aero con-
guration heading into a new
event but perspective needs to be
factored in. There will be traffic,
tire wear and changing weather
conditions, and all of those things
affect how the cars handle.
When one car is handling bet-
ter than another, a passing oppor-
tunity presents itself.
Once we all get out there in
real race conditions and actually
Charley Hoffman rolls in one of his nine birdies Thursday dur-
ing his round of 8-under 64 in the Shell Houston Open.
SPORTS 3C
DON PETERSEN, AP
ght, for example, were ned for
their roles this despite stock
car racing using it as a spring-
board to national prominence.
NASCAR sent a strong mes-
sage with Kenseths suspension
last year, bolstering the integrity
of its Chase for the Sprint Cup
championship format. But the ef-
fect feels weakened when the
same incident is used to advertise
a race.
So what kind of sport does
NASCAR want to be in 2016? If
that question was posed to a Mag-
ic 8 Ball, the answer likely would
be: Ask Again Later.
FOLLOW REPORTER
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breaking news and insight.
try to race each other rather than
just run around, thats when
youll see, Carpenter says.
Theres 22 cars, so maybe theres
traffic. I think well be able to
pass. We should be ne.
Drivers will take the green ag
at about 6:15 p.m. local time
(9:15 p.m. ET, NBC Sports Net-
work). Official sunset will come a
half-hour later, which means the
track will cool signicantly dur-
ing the 250 laps.
Will Power wanted IndyCar to
allow the engines to produce
more horsepower similar to
whats used on road courses and
street circuits to make driving the
car more challenging, but Indy-
Car stuck with the recommenda-
tion of the manufacturers.
Power says that style of racing
would be way more fun to drive,
but hell make the best of the sit-
uation. Besides, hes just eager to
get back on track after missing
the season-opening race in St. Pe-
tersburg, Fla., with an inner ear
infection.
Youve got to make work what
youve got, he says.
Cavin writes for The Indianapolis Star,
part of the USA TODAY NETWORK.
ERICH SCHLEGEL, USA TODAY SPORTS
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NCAA TOURNAMENT
Making the case ...
For Syracuse For North Carolina
BY THE BY THE
NUMBERS NUMBERS
Syracuse season North Carolina
stats (with NCAA season stats (with
rank): NCAA rank):
Scoring offense: Scoring offense:
70.1 (248) 83.0 (10)
Scoring defense: Scoring defense:
64.6 (25) 69.9 (122)
Scoring margin: 5.5 Scoring margin:
(82) 13.1 (10)
Rebounding mar- Rebounding mar-
gin: -.7 (213) gin: 8.4 (12)
Field goal %: 42.5 Field goal %: 48.2
(247) (16)
Three-point %: 36.1 Three-point %: 32.1
(113) (284)
Three-pointers Three-pointers
made: 307 (27) made: 209 (227)
Free throw %: 69.4 Free throw %: 74.7
(188) (26)
Assist-to-turnover Assist-to-turnover
ratio: 1.15 (115) ratio: 1.66 (3)
JASEN VINLOVE, USA TODAY SPORTS BILL STREICHER, USA TODAY SPORTS
Syracuse, no typical No. 10 seed, has plenty of talent, Brice Johnson is red-hot in the NCAA tournament,
including NBA prospect Malachi Richardson, right. averaging 21 points and 9.8 rebounds per game.

Dan Wolken
@DanWolken
USA TODAY Sports
HOUSTON Figuring out how a No. 10 seed
is going to win the national title isnt
easy.
But Syracuse isnt just any No. 10 seed;
its a team coached by a Hall of Famer
and featuring at least two highly talented
players who eventually will be NBA draft
picks. So dont think of Syracuse like
George Mason or Virginia Common-
wealth making a Final Four, think of the
Orange more like the Connecticut team
that came to the Final Four in 2014 as a
surprising but pedigreed No. 8 seed and
sprung two more upsets to win it all.
The biggest thing Syracuse might have
going for it this weekend is the venue.
NRG Stadium is a bad place for shooting,
likely because of the deep backdrop be-
hind the baskets and the general enormi-
ty of the stadium. There have been 12
NCAA tournament games played at NRG
in the current full stadium setup, and the
overall three-point percentage is a paltry
29.6%. There might be statistical noise in
that number, but the sample size sug-
gests theres something to it.
And given how difficult it is to get the
ball inside against Syracuses vaunted 2-3
zone, that plays right into Jim Boeheims
hands. Obviously, beating North Carolina
will require Syracuse to reverse the out-
come of both games they played during
the Atlantic Coast Conference season,
but the rst meeting was a one-posses-
sion game with three minutes left at the
Carrier Dome and the second was a
three-point game with 1:15 left before
North Carolina scored the decisive bas-
ket on an offensive rebound. Those re-
sults suggest Syracuse can beat the Tar
Heels, who are not a good three-point
shooting team at 32.1% for the season.
If North Carolina cant make jumpers
and Syracuse moves on to the champion-
ship round, all bets are off. Remember,
the Orange have plenty of talent. Every
player in their rotation was rated as a
four-star recruit in high school with the
exception of senior Trevor Cooney.
Freshmen Malachi Richardson and Tyler
Lydon are highly regarded as NBA
prospects and have played their best bas-
ketball in the tournament. Some still
think Syracuse shouldnt be here, but the
Orange have enough to win two games.
Chris Korman
@ChrisKorman
USA TODAY Sports
HOUSTON North Carolina comes roaring
into its rst Final Four since 2009. The
Tar Heels havent lost since Feb. 27 and
have won nine in a row by an average of
almost 14 points per game. None of those
games has been closer than four points.
North Carolinas offense appears un-
stoppable it is KenPoms No. 1 team in
adjusted efficiency and is averaging
89.2 points per game in the tournament.
The only weak area during the season
was three-point shooting, but the Tar
Heels hit 15 of 33 from deep in winning
the East Region.
Senior forward Brice Johnson has
caused his coach, Roy Williams, conster-
nation with uneven play during his career
but has been at his best during this run.
Hes had at least 20 points and 10 re-
bounds in three consecutive games. Hes
been a rim-front presence, too, blocking
15 shots in this tournament.
His roommate, fellow senior Marcus
Paige, has been the consummate guard.
His 3.1-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio is the
best in school history. He hasnt been as
good this year from three-point range
34.5% compared with 39.5% as a junior
but he is 8-for-15 over his last two
games.
Justin Jackson might be the teams
most talented player, and Kennedy
Meeks is its most rugged. No frontcourt
in Houston can compare to North Caroli-
nas.
The Tar Heels beat Syracuse, their Sat-
urday opponent, twice already. They
share the ball well four players have at
least 100 assists this season for only the
second time in program history and
dont need to hit threes to win. Being
able to work the ball inside and not de-
faulting to deep shots mitigates the effec-
tiveness of the Oranges zone defense.
More ornery than usual, Williams is in
his eighth Final Four with a deep, veteran
team well-crafted to battle through the
sort of grueling and often-sloppy games
this tournament and football stadiums
masquerading as basketball arenas cre-
ate. The Tar Heels dominate on the of-
fensive glass and dont get into foul
trouble. Thats a combination that could
get Williams his third national champi-
onship.

For Oklahoma For Villanova

BY THE BY THE
NUMBERS NUMBERS
Oklahoma season Villanova season
stats (with NCAA stats (with NCAA
rank): rank):
Scoring offense: Scoring offense:
80.5 (21) 77.5 (65)
Scoring defense: Scoring defense:
70.4 (135) 63.6 (15)
Scoring margin: Scoring margin:
10.1 (25) 13.9 (3)
Rebounding mar- Rebounding mar-
gin: 2.3 (106) gin: 1.9 (125)
Field goal %: 46.1 Field goal %: 47.6
(63) (31)
Three-point %: 42.8 Three-point %: 35.4
(2) (134)
Three-pointers Three-pointers
made: 376 (3) made: 328 (14)
Free throw %: 72.3 Free throw %: 78.4
(80) (2)
Assist-to-turnover Assist-to-turnover
ratio: 1.13 (123) ratio: 1.47 (14)
ROBERT HANASHIRO, USA TODAY SPORTS JAMIE RHODES, USA TODAY SPORTS
Jordan Woodard, right, is among Oklahoma players Josh Hart, top, leads Villanova at 15.3 points per
who can make foes pay for xating on Buddy Hield. game, but four other Wildcats average 9.8 or more.

Josh Peter
@joshlpeter11
USA TODAY Sports
HOUSTON Why Oklahoma will beat Vil-
lanova on Saturday has less to do with
Buddy Hield averaging 29.3 points per
game in the NCAA tournament than the
day he scored only 17.
Yes, in Oklahomas matchup against
Texas A&M in the Sweet 16, Hield had
just 17 points, yet the Sooners still won
with ease 77-63.
After the game, Texas A&M coach Billy
Kennedy made a shrewd observation
and saluted Oklahoma counterpart Lon
Kruger.
The thing that makes Oklahoma so
good is their other guards, theyve got the
green light, too, Kennedy said. Theyre
very comfortable, and Coach Krugers
done an unbelievable job investing con-
dence in those guys. And thats where
they beat you.
Great teams need more than one dy-
namic scorer, even as dynamic as Hield
and Oklahoma has demonstrated it has a
complete team. The victory against Texas
A&M was a perfect example, as Jordan
Woodward led Oklahoma with 22 points,
Christian James came off the bench and
scored 12 and forwards Ryan Spangler
and Khadeem Lattin combined for 20.
The group effort helped the Sooners
thrive on Hields mortal night, during
which he committed ve turnovers and
was 2-for-7 from three-point range.
Alex Caruso, a starting guard for Texas
A&M, discovered rsthand the versatility
that will propel Oklahoma.
Yeah, we just tried to keep him from
touching the ball as much as possible, he
said of Hield. The other guys did a good
job of playing off him.
We might not have given them
enough credit.
And then, of course, Hield can go cra-
zy, as he did early against Oregon in the
regional nal. The Ducks never re-
covered.
No worries. Caruso and the rest of col-
lege basketball will have a chance to give
the Sooners full credit Monday night
when Hield and his teammates are cut-
ting down the nets.
Nicole Auerbach
@NicoleAuerbach
USA TODAY Sports
HOUSTON The Villanova Wildcats had
spent an entire regular season with the
weight of failed expectations on their
shoulders. Theyd been reminded at ev-
ery twist and turn that they hadnt made
it through the rst weekend in the previ-
ous two NCAA tournaments.
With each regular-season win, theyd
hear that it didnt matter unless they got
through the rst weekend. With each
loss, theyd hear it didnt matter unless
they got through the rst weekend. So
once they did advance to the Sweet 16,
the Wildcats felt free from pressure.
Theyve played that way, too, posting a
commanding 23-point win against No. 3
seed Miami (Fla.) before knocking out
the tournaments No. 1 overall seed, Kan-
sas, to reach the Final Four.
Its no accident that this veteran group,
led by one of the programs all-time
greats in point guard Ryan Arcidiacono, is
playing its best basketball in late March.
The core group of this team experienced
those two early exits and knew what it
would take to avoid them and that in-
cluded xing the little things, such as
turnovers and rebounding.
Coach Jay Wright likes this team be-
cause of its balanced attack, its leader-
ship and its maturity. Josh Hart might
score 25, or ve different guys could be in
double gures. Kris Jenkins is capable of
personal 7-0 runs. Arcidiacono might be
diving into the stands to keep a play alive.
Or all three can happen at once.
Whats normally been the biggest
knock on Villanova has been its three-
point shooting. If the Wildcats are on,
theyre nearly impossible to take down. If
theyre off, theyve struggled most of
the time. Shooting 4-for-18 (22.2%) from
beyond the arc against Kansas, they took
out the best team in the tournament.
The Wildcats are playing with house
money at this point; theyve already
made it past the rst weekend. Theyre in
the Final Four for the rst time since
2009. Why cant they keep up this run
and win their programs second national
championship?
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Shooting at stadium can be tricky
Stats in Houston
suggest big venue
has negative effect
Chris Korman
@ChrisKorman
USA TODAY Sports
HOUSTON The answers were as
predictable as the question.
Is shooting, especially from
three-point range, more difficult
in a football stadium-turned-bas-
ketball arena?
Everything was pretty much
the same, North Carolina guard
Nate Britt said after his teams
practice Thursday at NRG Stadi-
um. I dont think the depth
changes anything. A lot of people
talk about the depth perception,
the backdrop. But to us, practic-
ing out there, it was the same as
anywhere else.
Or as Oklahomas Jordan
Woodard put it: Courts still
94 feet, two goals.
And yet the numbers clearly
show that shooting at NRG Stadi-
um, typically the home of the
NFLs Houston Texans, is more
difficult than shooting at a typical
arena. In 12 NCAA tournament
games here, teams hit a combined
29.6% from three-point range.
In South Region games last
season, Duke, Utah, UCLA and
Gonzaga combined to shoot
26.7%. Each of those teams had
been signicantly better over the
course of the season; Duke at
38.7%, Utah at 40.4%, Gonzaga at
40% and UCLA at 36.8%.
In the 2011 Final Four, Ken-
tucky, Connecticut, Virginia
Commonwealth and Butler made
28.1% of their three-pointers and
the title went to the Huskies, a
No. 5 seed that attempted 23
three-pointers in two games; run-
ner-up Butler put up 56.
VILLANOVA LEARNED FROM ROUT
BY HIELD AND CO. IN DECEMBER
Nicole Auerbach
@NicoleAuerbach
USA TODAY Sports
HOUSTON To these Villanova
basketball players, Buddy Hield is
no mythological gure.
Hes not the Stephen Curry of
college basketball or a magician
with a basketball. Hes a guy
theyve faced before albeit an
exceptionally good guy theyve
faced before.
The Wildcats lost by 23 points
to Oklahoma in December, which
was disappointing at the time but
now somewhat helpful as the two
teams head into their Final Four
matchup, which will take place
Saturday.
If youve just watched just the
NCAA tournament a lot of
times when you get to this point
youve only really followed the
teams closely during the NCAA
tournament, Villanova coach Jay
Wright said. If you (just now)
only followed Buddy Hield or
Oklahoma, youd just think this
guy is Superman.
The other thing you would
think is that the other guys arent
as good.
On both counts, Wright and his
staff think their Wildcats are
ready. They saw the Sooners
not just Hield, who scored 18
points (seven below his season av-
erage) crush them. Isaiah
Cousins had a big game. Five
players scored in double-gures.
Villanova realizes it lost to a great
team.
There can be a temptation as a
staff to focus a lot on Buddy, and
rightfully so; hes great, Villanova
assistant coach Baker Dunleavy
said. Sometimes when you do
that and you havent played a
team, you struggle to convince
guys how good the other guys are.
Our guys have a full understand-
ing of how good they are, too.
I really do think it helps us to
have played them before. I dont
think it necessarily helps to have
lost by 20-plus, but in a way it
helps the guys be on edge.
Villanova sophomore guard
Phil Booth said having played
against Hield only helped so
much.
Hes gotten a lot better since
Joel Berry II says shooting in a football stadium wont be a problem for North Carolina.
Players generally dont like to
admit it, but playing at a massive
stadium NRG will hold more
than 73,000 fans can have a
drastic impact on how a team
plays in its biggest games of the
year. That might not be an issue
for North Carolina; only 26.8% of
the Tar Heels shots are threes,
ranking them 337th of 351 Divi-
Buddy Hields range distorts everything, Villanova coach Jay Wright, above, says.
then, Booth said. But it helps
playing him. We got a feel for how
his game is, how hard he plays,
how much hes moving on the
court. Hes non-stop, even when
he doesnt have the ball.
Hes a threat anywhere on the
court.
Because of that and the fact
that Hield launches NBA-dis-
tance threes effortlessly its
been challenging for the Villanova
scout team and the groups on-
court preparation.
Its hard to simulate in prac-
tice, Dunleavy said. Youve got around between Villanova players
to have some of your guys take
bad shots that we wouldnt take
bad shots for us that are good
shots for him.
The Wildcats have seen that
over and over this year. While
Hield was in the process of scor-
ing 46 points in a triple-overtime
loss to Kansas, texts were ying said. Its hard when youre that
sion I teams, according to Ken-
Pom.com. Just 19% of their
points come from three-point
range.
Oklahoma, meanwhile, relies
on three-pointers for 38.9% of its
points (only 13 teams used the
three more). That might have to
change.
Well attack, said senior for-
I really do think
it helps us to have
played them. I
dont think it
helps to have lost
by 20-plus, but in
a way it helps the
guys be on edge.
Villanova assistant coach Baker
Dunleavy
and staffers. The gist of the mes-
sages? Wow. You just dont play against it. You
Putting the ball on the oor
and nishing at the rim to extend
his range have been two areas
where the best player in college
basketball has actually gotten bet-
ter, which is incredible, Wright
him from playing like Superman.
GEOFF BURKE, USA TODAY SPORTS
ward Ryan Spangler, who has hit
32 of his 88 attempts from long
range this year. You know were
going to get our open shots, but
we have to attack and try to get to
the rim and get some easy
buckets.
The teams got a closed 90-
minute practice at the arena
Thursday, will have a session
JAMIE RHODES, USA TODAY SPORTS
good to get better. That range dis-
torts everything. It not only ex-
tends your defense where it
actually gives him a chance to get
by you and still get a three.
If youre playing around the
line, you get up on a guy, you
press him, he goes by you, at least
youre forcing him into two. Hes
taking the ball so deep, hes mak-
ing some of them. If you get up on
him, he can go by you and still
pull up for a three. I dont know if
thats part of his plan, but its ge-
nius if it is.
That three also creates longer
rebounds than a normal three.
dont practice against it. It dis-
torts everything.
But at least these Villanova
players know this and have expe-
rienced it. He might distort their
defense, but theyll try to stop
level.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2016
29.6%
Three-point shooting
in 12 NCAA tourna-
ment games played
at NRG Stadium
open to fans Friday and can have
a shoot-around Saturday. Players
said Thursday that they spent ex-
tra time on shooting from
distance.
First time you go in there,
youve got to see it, youve got to
feel it, Villanova coach Jay
Wright said. We said, Hey, if
your shots arent going in today,
dont worry about it. Youll get
used to it. Dont let it affect you.
North Carolina point guard
Joel Berry II said he noticed
more air balls than usual during
the teams rst workout, but he
dismissed the idea that the deep-
er backdrop behind the rim had
anything to do with it.
Youre trying to shoot at the
goal, not the stands or anything,
he said. You just focus on the
rim and try to knock it in; thats
just what you have to do. I dont
think it will affect anyone. I
mean, it might. But not us.
It could help Syracuse, which
usually employs a 2-3 zone that
can most easily be thwarted by
hitting deep shots. The Orange,
coincidentally, play at the Carrier
Dome, a 49,250-seat behemoth
that also houses the schools foot-
ball team and could cause visiting
shooters to have more trouble
than usual.
Coach Jim Boeheim, of course,
doesnt see it that way.
Guys that can shoot can shoot
anywhere, he said. They can
shoot outdoors. It doesnt
matter.
The numbers suggest other-
wise.
Thompson:
Like Curry,
scouts miss
Hields skill
Josh Peter
@joshlpeter11
USA TODAY Sports
Oklahomas Buddy Hield is
not the rst basketball superstar
from the Baha-
mas.
Mychal
Thompson, who
was the top pick
in the 1978 NBA
draft, said hes
puzzled that
Hield isnt ex-
pected to be the
USA TODAY SPORTS
No. 1 pick or
Buddy Hield even widely pro-
jected as a top-
three pick for the June draft.
Hes projected to go No. 7 in
USA TODAY Sports latest mock
draft.
I dont know what else they
want this young man to do, said
Thompson, who was selected by
the Portland Trail Blazers and
later played for the Los Angeles
Lakers teams that won the 1987
and 1988 titles.
He can do everything you ask
of an NBA guard.
He moves without the ball like
J.J. Reddick. He shoots like hes a
member of the Golden State War-
riors. He can create his own shot.
Hes got a high basketball I.Q. He
can move his feet defensively.
Thompson said he thinks
Hield, who has led Oklahoma to
the Final Four and is a top candi-
date for college player of the year,
is suffering from bias that led Ste-
phen Curry to being picked sev-
enth in the 2009 draft.
Hasheem Thabeet and Jonny
Flynn, both considered busts,
were picked ahead of Curry, as
were Tyreke Evans and Ricky
Rubio.
Its the Stephen theory,
Thompson told USA TODAY
Sports of Hields NBA draft stock.
The scouts dont believe what
their lying eyes are telling them.
Just like they didnt believe in
Steph, for some reason they dont
see what Buddys doing as trans-
lating to the NBA at the highest
USA TODAY
FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2016
Boeheim inuences
womens team, too
Laken Litman
@lakenlitman
USA TODAY Sports
Theres a special bond when it
comes to basketball at Syracuse.
The mens and womens teams
are playing in the Final Four this
weekend, marking the 12th time
that has happened since the
womens tournament began in
1982 and making Syracuse the
ninth school to accomplish the
feat.
But the relationship goes be-
yond court achievements. Wom-
ens coach Quentin Hillsman has
given mens coach Jim Boeheim
credit for his programs success.
They share a facility. They refer-
ence each other in news confer-
ences.
When Hillsman rst took over
the program a decade ago, he
walked into Boeheims office and
asked him why he played a 2-3
zone. This turned into a longer
meeting in which Boeheim end-
ed up persuading Hillsman to
also use it.
He wasnt a zone coach before,
but its proved somewhat effec-
tive in the womens game. The
Orange rank 77th in scoring de-
fense but are second in the coun-
try in steals.
This week, Hillsman discussed
how he keeps developing and im-
proving the scheme. It will be on
display Sunday when Syracuse
plays Washington in Indianapo-
lis (8:30 p.m. ET, ESPN2).
I think, for me, its more
watching and more watching
how he manages in-game situa-
tions, Hillsman said of Boeheim.
So you can talk about it a lot,
but until you manage it in a
game, its tough. And hes just
been a great resource for me, just
being able to watch practice
whenever I need to, and if I have
a question, I can ask him a ques-
tion if I need to.
But more than anything, you
look at the window and you see
all these banners here, and you
see the success theyve had with
this program and with his style
E4
Syracuse womens coach Quentin Hillsman, above, says watch-
ing Jim Boeheim manage in-game situations helps.
of play and his style of player,
and you can see how you can win
a lot of games doing that. So
weve just kind of adopted that,
that the best learning tool is
watching and being in that mo-
ment. And I have a great oppor-
tunity every day to watch and be
in the moment of what I would
say is the best coach, the best
zone coach in the country.
The coaches have talked this
week as they prepare for their re-
spective seminals. Hillsman,
who is coaching in his rst Final
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Four as opposed to Boeheims
fth, said he didnt really ask for
advice but rather just chatted
about what his weekend means
for their programs.
And even though the men play
North Carolina late Saturday in
Houston (8:49 p.m. ET, TBS), the
women will be watching. The
support is mutual.
Theres no question were go-
ing to be watching these games
rooting each other, rooting each
other on to the championship
games, Hillsman said.
SPORTS 7C
Tatums play wins
Gatorade award
Chad Konecky
Special for USA TODAY Sports
ST. LOUIS Four-time NBA All-
Star Anfernee Hardaway starred
in the most recognizable shoe
commercials of the 1990s, but
Lil Penny downshifted into a
supporting role Thursday as Cha-
minade College Prep (St. Louis)
senior forward Jayson Tatum be-
came the headliner.
Disguised as a beat writer and
sitting among local media, Harda-
way ambushed unsuspecting Ta-
tum at a bogus news conference
in the school auditorium and
handed him the 2015-16 Gatorade
TRENT MUSHO, GATORADE
National Boys Basketball Player
of the Year trophy. Jayson Tatum averaged 29.5
I think its pretty shocking for points, 9.1 rebounds and three
me to be holding this award right assists this season.
now, said Tatum, 18, a Duke sig-
nee. To be listed among the guys
whove won it before, well, Im
This is right up
honored just to be a nalist, let there with
alone win it. This is right up there
with winning a state champion-
winning a state
ship. I was in the audience the championship. ...
day (Chaminade alumnus and
Washington Wizards guard)
This was always a
Bradley Beal won this award. dream of mine.
This was always a dream of Jayson Tatum, on winning Gatorade
mine. boys basketball player of the year for the
The 6-9 wing, who is the No. 2 third time
recruit in the nation according to
ESPN, led the Red Devils (27-5) tory with 2,676 points and 1,028
to the Class 5 state champion- rebounds as well as No. 2 in as-
ship, averaging 29.5 points, 9.1 re- sists (393) and blocks (200).
bounds and three assists. The Jayson Tatum has clearly de-
states three-time Gatorade Boys veloped into one of the most
Basketball Player of the Year, he complete offensive basketball
is also a 2016 American Family players in the high school game,
Insurance All-USA rst-team se- said Paul Biancardi, national di-
lection. rector of recruiting for ESPN
Im honored to be part of Basketball.
what is such a special day for Jay- The Gatorade Player of the
son, said Hardaway, 44, now a Year award recognizes outstand-
philanthropist and the head ing athletic excellence as well
coach of Memphis East High as high standards of academic
(Memphis), which produced the achievement and exemplary
2015-16 Tennessee Gatorade character demonstrated on and
Player of the Year, sophomore off the court.
guard Alex Lomax. Ive known Tatum is now a nalist for the
Jayson a long time, and I know Gatorade Male High School
how hard hes worked. I coached Athlete of the Year award. USA
a Gatorade state winner this year, TODAY High School Sports ad-
so I know what its about. But na- ministrates the nationwide selec-
tional, thats numero uno. tion process in collaboration with
Tatum ranks rst in school his- Gatorade.
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MLB
Seas calmer for Cano, Mariners
Star, team nd
better chemistry
after stormy 2015
Bob Nightengale
bnighten@usatoday.com
USA TODAY Sports
PEORIA , ARIZ . Robinson Cano
props himself into a folding chair,
looks around the Seattle Mari-
ners clubhouse, laughs at his
teammates playing pool and nods
in admiration at his rookie man-
ager before suddenly jumping off
the chair.
His eyes turn cold, and its
clear this is a subject he doesnt
want to address.
Andy Van Slyke.
He was the Mariners assistant
hitting coach who was red after
the 2015 season along with gener-
al manager Jack Zduriencik,
manager Lloyd McClendon and
the rest of the coaching staff.
Van Slyke went down swinging,
ripping into Cano on a St. Louis
radio station, saying Cano was re-
sponsible for their rings by his
performance.
The words still reverberate:
Robinson Cano was the single-
worst third-place everyday player
Ive ever seen for the rst half of a
Major League Baseball season.
He couldnt drive home Miss
Daisy if he tried. He couldnt get a
hit when it mattered.
He played the worst defense
Ive ever seen at second. I mean the
worst defensive second baseman
ever.
And they still sting.
Cano indeed had an abysmal
rst half, hitting .238 with four
home runs, 24 RBI and a .621 on-
base-plus-slugging percentage
over the rst three months. But
he rebounded after July 1, hitting
.330 with 17 homers, 55 RBI and a
.920 OPS.
No matter, the damage was
done.
He can say what he wants,
Cano said of Van Slyke. I was
criticized by a lot of people. I
dont pay attention to that. It is
what it is.
But you know what? I was
hurt. I ended up having two her-
nia surgeries after the season, not
just one, but I still played. So I
wasnt faking it. I wasnt making
excuses. I kept playing because I
love this game so much.
Everyone will see the real me
Is Correa next
face of baseball?
v CONTINUED FROM 1C
ton car dealership, a promotional
agreement with a sh and boating
foundation and a partnership
with Houston Childrens Charity
for an initiative to raise funds to
buy beds for kids.
During the offseason, Correa
hosted a golf tournament to ben-
et children with medical needs
in his native Puerto Rico and
traveled to Los Angeles to meet
lm producer Thomas Tull, who
offered him a small role in a
movie project about Hall of Fam-
er Roberto Clemente. Correa also
made a guest appearance on
ESPNs SportsCenter during the
World Series and judged the Miss
Puerto Rico beauty pageant.
Through all these endeavors,
Correa said, he remained ground-
ed and committed to the work
ethic that helped put him in such
an enviable position.
Things have changed a lot, but
I havent. To me its essential I re-
main the same person I was be-
fore, said 6-4 Correa, who built
up to a sturdy 225 pounds
through an offseason workout re-
gimen. I dont mess around with
my preparation. That takes
priority.
He has backed up those words
with a monster spring at the
plate, batting .400 with four hom-
ers and a 1.325 on-base-plus-slug-
ging percentage.
Still, balancing those commit-
ments while playing at the high-
est level is difficult enough that
Astros general manager Jeff Luh-
now has brought up the topic
with Correas representatives.
Its always been a concern, be-
cause there are so many people
The Mariners Robinson Cano, who had a poor rst half in 2015, is having a sizzling spring.
this year. I just have to stay
healthy.
Cano reached over and
knocked on his wooden locker for
luck, and his expansive smile
returned.
Now, I just feel so good, he
said. I have my condence back.
Now I can hit like I want to hit
and make the plays I want to
make. I can move to my left, to
my right, everything.
It feels good to be able to play
the game on the level you want.
This spring, Cano has resurrec-
ted memories of his glory days
with the New York Yankees. Hes
hitting .365 with seven homers,
16 RBI and a 1.246 OPS while
showing more range than he has
in years. He homered three times
Sunday against the Chicago Cubs.
Its shocking to the eye what
hes doing athletically, Mariners
GM Jerry Dipoto said. Hes been
locked in from the batters box
from Day 1. He looks as good as
he ever has.
Says new manager Scott Ser-
vais: This guy, hes got something
to prove. He wants to show every-
body that hes one of the great
players, that he hasnt taken a
step back. The biggest thing for
everyone is that he feels healthy
and is looking to have a big year.
Hes more attuned in the
game, too. Defensively, we have a
pulling for his time, Luhnow
said. And as he becomes more
and more popular nationally, he
gets asked to do a lot of things,
whether its for products or com-
panies or charities or family obli-
gations, helping friends out, etc.
The list is never-ending. Ive seen
it.
Luhnow is quick to add that
Correa, 21, is focused on becom-
ing the games best player and
winning championships, so his
level of concern is not too elevat-
ed. Besides, there are worse prob-
lems to have than your franchise
shortstop being too popular.
It took a mere two-thirds of a
season 99 games, to be exact
for Correa to gain acknowledg-
ment as one of the games pre-
mier players.
The rst overall pick in the
2012 draft batted .279 with 22
homers, 68 RBI and a .857 OPS as
a rookie, anchoring the middle of
the ineld and the lineup for an
Astros club that reached the play-
offs for the rst time since 2005.
It wasnt just Correas perfor-
mance but also his presence that
turned heads, as he handled the
attention and adulation with a
veterans aplomb.
Hes very professional and
mature for his age, said utility-
man Marwin Gonzalez, whom
Correa unseated as the starting
shortstop when he arrived June
8. Sometimes you think he has
spent several years in the big
leagues because of his mind-set
and his maturity.
This year Correa arrives with
huge ambitions, and neither he
nor the Astros shy away from the
expectations. Luhnow thinks that
not only will Correa avoid a soph-
lot of shifting going on here, and
hes been all in. Hes asking, OK,
where am I here in this triangle?
Hes looking in on every pitch.
You can tell how much he cares
about this team and how much he
wants to win.
Cano, in the third year of a 10-
year, $240 million deal, sensed a
different vibe the moment he
walked into the Mariners club-
house, where a pool table dom-
inated the center of the room.
It arrived a few days earlier,
thanks to rookie reliever Tony
Zych and stark instructions from
Servais. They were having a daily
meeting before the arrival of po-
sition players when Servais sum-
moned a few pitchers and
catchers, asking questions.
He wanted to know Zychs hob-
by. A little pool playing, Zych told
him. Someone called him out,
saying Zych was a pool shark. Ser-
vais took it a step further.
OK, you got three days, I want
a pool table right here, Servais
told them. Right in the middle of
this (expletive) room.
Zych gingerly walked to Ser-
vais office after the meeting and
asked if he was serious. Dead seri-
ous, Servais said. Zych worried
about the expense. Servais told
him it would be taken care of.
The next day he comes back,
Servais says, and he says, I went
omore slump, but hell also con-
tend for MVP honors.
The face of baseball tag, for- tuve were the teams most
merly associated with New York
Yankees icon Derek Jeter one
of Correas role models is often
mentioned in discussions about a
player who has yet to play a full
season in the majors.
Even Mike Trout who prob-
ably ts that description best
these days did not see such a ti-
tle bestowed upon him after his
debut season of 2011.
Correa is ready to embrace it.
That means a lot to me. Ive
been working toward that, he
said. I want to represent the Lat-
in community with dignity. Im
very mindful of coming from
Puerto Rico, and I want to be in-
volved in all those activities MLB
does, the charity work involving
kids and fans. I want to represent
the game in a dignied manner.
Thats why I play the game the
way I do and why I act off the
eld the way I do, because I want
to be a role model and for kids to
identify with me.
They certainly did last week-
end during the Astros two-game
JAKE ROTH, USA TODAY SPORTS
to the billiards place down the
street and we can get this thing
for $3,500. Theyll put the slate
and the felt on right here.
I told him, Just do what
youve got to do. Get it in here.
Youve got one more day.
The table arrived, and when
the bill came a few days later, Ca-
no ripped it from Servais hand
and told teammates, I got this
thing.
The pool table became the
center for social activity, Dipoto
said. Guys didnt leave the park.
You had 30 guys in the clubhouse
playing in a pool tournament and
guys ragging on each other. It was
a different clubhouse than Ive
ever seen.
I couldnt be happier with
how our transition has gone with
Scott and our new coaching staff
and how quickly the players have
bonded.
And Cano was the ringleader,
embracing all of the leadership
responsibilities.
Ive been around a lot of great
players during my years, but hes
been awesome, Servais said. I
cant begin to tell you how good
hes been.
It started almost the moment
Cano arrived at camp. He was
summoned into Servais office
along with veteran teammates
Nelson Cruz, Felix Hernandez
trip to Mexico City, where he and
All-Star second baseman Jose Al-
sought-after players.
Altuve, who is older and more
experienced in the majors by four
years, has served as Correas
mentor and bantering partner.
He would be among those to put
Correa in his place if he got too
big for his britches the news
media requests this spring were
constant although teammates
say that hasnt happened.
Its not about him, its about
the team. He understands that,
outelder George Springer said.
We dont have to police it much.
He has guys he looks up to, like
Altuve. I have some fun with him,
tell him hes the best player ever,
stuff like that.
Hes a ways from that. Manager
A.J. Hinch points out Correa is
not a nished product. His foot-
work on defense, his baserunning
and his pitch selection could
stand to improve.
Given his size, Correa will need
to maintain his agility and rst-
step quickness he does drills in
the offseason focused on explo-
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FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2016
and Kyle Seager. Cano sat in the
middle of the couch, anked by
Cruz and Hernandez, looking in-
tently at Servais.
Servais, who traveled in the off-
season to meet individually with
many of his players, said, I told
them, This is your team. This is
your clubhouse. Im here to
coach. Im here to lead. But its
your team. I will not B.S. you. I
got B.S.d as a player. I saw right
through it and lost respect for
that person. So heres what I got.
Heres want I want to do. And
heres why. Were going to have a
lot of meetings. Some of it may be
eyewash in your guys eyes, or
think its B.S. Im not asking you
to change who you are, but if you
feel comfortable, Id love for you
to sit in the middle and join in
without me drawing you in every
day.
So in the Mariners rst full-
squad meeting, who was sitting in
the middle of the room, engaging
in conversation, making sure ev-
eryone felt part of the team, try-
ing building their condence?
The next thing they knew, 55-
year-old rst-base coach Casey
Candaele is dancing and lip-sync-
ing one day, Hernandez is picking
up the tab for teammates to see
Bruce Springsteen the next and
Cruz is buying steaks and lobster
for the entire team.
Youre seeing a lot of guys
really enjoying playing the game
right now and playing it the right
way, Cano said. But our man-
ager is making sure that were to-
gether as a group, especially the
young guys. Everyone feels part
of the team.
Its too early to tell whether the
Mariners, who had 31 new play-
ers in camp, will be getting in the
middle of the Texas Rangers-
Houston Astros Lone Star battle
in the American League West.
The Mariners think they can con-
tend. But then again, they also
thought they could be in the
World Series a year ago when
they fell at on their face, going
76-86 and missing the playoffs for
the 14th consecutive year.
Were going to put behind
what we did last year and enjoy
this season, Cano said. I really
like what theyve done to this
team. You never know how its
going to work out, but I sure like
what I see.
In six months, maybe Cano
will like what he has to hear, too.
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CHRISTIAN PETERSEN,
GETTY IMAGES
Carlos Cor-
rea, right,
with actor
Paul Rudd
at the 2015
World Se-
ries, wears a
different
fedora for
each road
trip.
sive movement to remain a via-
ble big-league shortstop.
And hell have to deal with the
constant cat-and-mouse game
thats such a big part of baseball,
as opponents seek areas of weak-
ness to attack.
Hes going to be pitched dif-
ferently this year, Hinch said.
Hes going to have to adapt to
different styles of pitching. Hes
not going to sneak up on anybody,
so there are no freebies for him.
And Correa isnt seeking any.
Luhnow, who spent eight years
as a baseball executive with the
St. Louis Cardinals before becom-
ing Houstons GM in December
2011, sees parallels between Cor-
rea and young Albert Pujols.
Albert was the best player on
the team, he was the best player
in the league and he was also the
hardest-working player, Luhnow
said. He was there the earliest,
he took the most swings, he did
the most work, and that set such
a good example for the rest of the
Cardinals organization when I
was there. I think Carlos is going
to end up being that same type of
player.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2016
NCAA WOMENS NATIONAL SEMIFINALS
Connecticut (36-0)
vs. Oregon State
(32-4)
Sunday, 6 p.m. ET, ESPN
Why Connecticut can win: Most
people will probably roll their
eyes at this, because how can
the Huskies not win? This team,
which has grown accustomed to
regularly beating opponents by
20 points or more, is one of
Geno Auriemmas finest. His
senior class has a chance to win
its fourth consecutive national
championship and NCAA-record
11th. Star forward Breanna Stew-
art who could arguably go
down as the greatest womens
basketball player in college
history has tallied more than
400 blocks and assists in her
career. And if all goes according
to Connecticuts plan, shell earn
her fourth Final Four most out-
standing performer award Tues-
day. The Huskies not only have
the best coach and best player
in the game but also are the
most disciplined team, commit-
E6 SPORTS 9C
Warlick described Orange star Why Washington can win:
Alexis Petersons game that Most of, if not all, the attention in
ting the fewest fouls of anyone.
Why Oregon State can win: If
night: She kind of put them on womens basketball has been
her back and said, Were not placed on Connecticut. But these
anyone can beat UConn, per- going to be defeated. Pe- Huskies deserve some, too. On
haps its the Beavers. This is a terson had a season-high the way to their first Final Four,
team that had to have open 29 points and burst into tears at No. 7 seed Washington had to
tryouts to fill coach Scott Ruecks midcourt before helping her beat No. 2 Maryland, No. 3
first roster in 2010, and now team cut down the nets. She Kentucky (in Lexington, by the
theyre Pac-12 champions, com- was named the Sioux Falls Re- way) and No. 4 Stanford. The
ing off a victory against No. 1 gional most outstanding player. games werent that close, either.
seed Baylor. If thats not enough But it wasnt just her perfor- They have the fourth-leading
momentum to knock off the mance that sealed Syracuses scorer in the country in junior
Huskies, what is? Oregon State spot in the Final Four. Guard guard Kelsey Plum, and Chantel
will need its top three players Brianna Butler hit three consec- Osahor was named the Lexing-
guards Sydney Wiese and Jamie utive three-pointers in the fourth ton Regionals most outstanding
Weisner, who was selected as quarter to break things open player after scoring a career-
the Pac-12 player of the year, and finished with 18 points. This, high 24 points against Stanford
and center Ruth Hamblin to of course, was after the Orange and at 6-2, this center can
be fearless and grind this game DAVID BUTLER II, USA TODAY SPORTS
pulled off one of the biggest dunk. Plus this team has guts
out like they did against the Morgan Tuck is averaging 13.3 upsets of the tournament junior forward Katie Collier beat
Bears last week. The Beavers points per game for UConn. beating No. 1 seed South Caroli- cancer and recovered from a
have won 22 of their last 23 na in the Sweet 16. Syracuse is in torn anterior cruciate ligament,
games and set a school record Syracuse (29-7) a rare circumstance where its while coach Mike Neighbors
for victories this season. For vs. Washington mens and womens teams are once had a heart attack. This
what its worth, Oregon State (26-10) in the Final Four. Though Jim group is by no means one thats
played Notre Dame this season Boeheim is making his fifth ap- going to make it this far and lie
and lost by a point, 62-61, on the Sunday, 8:30 p.m., ESPN2
Why Syracuse can win: After pearance and womens coach down. Theyre certainly battle-
road. UConn beat the Fighting Quentin Hillsman is making his tested.
Irish this season by 10, but the Syracuses 89-67 Elite Eight vic-
tory against Tennessee last first, thats no reason to doubt
Beavers are a much better team them. Laken Litman
now. week, Lady Vols coach Holly

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d-Florida 77 43 25 9 95 221 191
Thursdays Games Boo Weekley ...........................34-3569 (-3) *Christiana Aragon Sr. Billings (Mont.) 800, 1,500, mile
Detroit 10, N.Y. Yankees (ss) 6 Stewart Cink ............................36-3369 (-3)
Pittsburgh 77 44 25 8 96 224 192 St. Louis 9, N.Y. Yankees (ss) 1 Peter Malnati...........................34-3569 (-3)
Destiny Collins Sr. Great Oak (Temecula, Calif.) 1,600, 3,200
Tampa By 77 44 28 5 93 214 185 Pittsburgh 13, Tampa Bay 8 *Kate Murphy Jr. Lake Braddock (Burke, Va.) 1,500, mile
N.Y. Rangers 77 43 25 9 95 222 203 John Senden............................36-3369 (-3)
Minnesota 7, Boston 4 Steve Stricker ...........................33-3669 (-3) Katie Rainsberger Sr. Air Academy (Colorado Springs, Colo.) 1,500, mile
Boston 77 40 29 8 88 223 209 Cleveland 3, Cincinnati 1 Charl Schwartzel.....................35-3469 (-3)
N.Y. Islandrs 76 42 25 9 93 214 196 Baltimore 6, Atlanta 1 Rickie Fowler ............................33-3669 (-3) *Samantha Watson Sr. Rush-Henrietta (Henrietta, N.Y.) 400, 800
Philadelpha 76 38 25 13 89 198 200 Colorado 6, Arizona 3 Henrik Stenson........................36-3369 (-3)
Detroit 77 38 28 11 87 198 212 Chicago Cubs 5, N.Y. Mets 1 Ben Crane ................................35-3469 (-3) Hurdles (100, 300, 400)
Carolina 78 34 28 16 84 191 211 Milwaukee 6, Houston 1 *Anna Cockrell Sr. Providence Day (Charlotte) 100, 400
New Jersey 78 37 33 8 82 175 197 Patrick Reed.............................36-3369 (-3)
L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers
Ottawa 78 36 33 9 81 222 237 Oakland at San Francisco
Angel Cabrera ........................34-3569 (-3)
Gary Woodland......................36-3369 (-3)
*Tia Jones Fr. Walton (Marietta, Ga.) 100
Montreal 78 36 36 6 78 208 224
Fridays Games Si Woo Kim...............................36-3369 (-3) Tonea Marshall Sr. Seguin (Arlington, Texas) 100
Buffalo 78 32 35 11 75 189 211
Columbus 77 30 39 8 68 198 241 Tampa Bay (ss) vs. Detroit at Lakeland, Fla., Charles Howell III....................35-3469 (-3) *Sydney McLaughlin Jr. Union Catholic (Scotch Plains, N.J.) 100, 400
1:05 p.m. Zac Blair ...................................35-3469 (-3)
Toronto 77 28 38 11 67 187 226 Jumps (high jump, pole vault, long jump, triple jump)
Tampa Bay (ss) vs. Atlanta at Kissimmee, LPGA Tour-ANA Inspiration
WESTERN CONFERENCE Fla., 1:05 p.m. At Mission Hills Country Club, Rachel Baxter Jr. Canyon (Anaheim, Calif.) Pole vault
GP W L OT Pts GF GA Milwaukee at Houston, 2:10 p.m.
x-Dallas 78 47 22 9 103 256 221 Chicago Cubs vs. N.Y. Mets at Las Vegas, Dinah Shore Tournament *Courtney Corrin Sr. Harvard-Westlake (Studio City, Calif.) Long jump
x-Anaheim
x-St. Louis
76
77
43
46
23
22
10
9
96 204 181
101 206 186
4:05 p.m. Course Tara Davis Jr. Agoura (Agoura Hills, Calif.) Long jump,
x-Los Ang. 76 45 26 5 95 208 180
Minnesota at Washington, 6:05 p.m. Rancho Mirage, Calif. triple jump
Baltimore at Philadelphia, 6:05 p.m. Purse: $2.6 million
x-Chicago 77 44 26 7 95 213 192 Boston vs. Toronto at Montreal, 7:05 p.m. *Chinne Okoronkwo Sr. Mount Terrace (Wash.) Triple jump
x-San Jose 77 43 28 6 92 228 199 N.Y. Yankees at Miami, 7:10 p.m. Yardage: 6,769; Par: (36-36)
Nashville 78 39 26 13 91 217 204 Cleveland at Texas, 8:05 p.m. First Round Samiyah Samuels Sr. Cypress Springs (Cypress, Texas) Long jump
Minnesota 78 38 29 11 87 212 193 Azahara Munoz ......................34-3367 (-5)
Colorado 77 39 34 4 82 205 218
Kansas City at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.
Chicago White Sox at San Diego, 10:10 Ai Miyazato..............................32-3567 (-5)
Throws (shot put, discus, hammer, javelin)
Arizona 77 34 36 7 75 200 230 p.m. Catriona Matthew..................36-3268 (-4) *Elena Bruckner Sr. Valley Christian (San Jose) Discus
Calgary 77 32 39 6 70 213 248 L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m. Shiho Oyama ..........................33-3568 (-4) Nickolette Dunbar Sr. Whippany Park (Whippany, N.J.) Shot put
Winnipeg 77 31 39 7 69 195 225 Colorado vs. Seattle at Peoria, Ariz., 10:10 Lee-Anne Pace.........................33-3568 (-4)
Vancouver 76 27 36 13 67 172 221 p.m. Ryann OToole .........................34-3569 (-3) *Sophie Rivera Sr. Brentwood (St. Louis) Shot put, javelin
Edmonton 79 30 42 7 67 194 234 Oakland at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m. Mi Hyang Lee ..........................34-3569 (-3) *Madison Wiltrout Jr. Connellsville (Pa.) Javelin

SPORTS ON TV
Times Eastern. Programs live unless noted. Check local listings.
FRIDAY
AUTO RACING: NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Alpha En-
ergy Solutions 250, practice, in Ridgeway, Va. (Fox Sports 1,
10 a.m.); NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, STP 500, practice, in Ridge-
way (Fox Sports 1, 11 a.m.); Formula One, Bahrain Grand Prix, prac-
tice, in Sakhir (NBC Sports Network, 11 a.m.); NASCAR Camping
World Truck Series, Alpha Energy Solutions 250, practice, (Fox
Sports 1, 12:30 p.m.); Verizon IndyCar Series, Phoenix Grand Prix,
practice, in Avondale, Ariz. (NBC Sports Network, 1 p.m.); NASCAR
Camping World Truck Series, Alpha Energy Solutions 250, final
practice (Fox Sports 1, 3 p.m.); NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, STP 500,
qualifying (Fox Sports 1, 4 p.m.); Verizon IndyCar Series, Phoenix
Grand Prix, qualifying (NBC Sports Network, 5 p.m.)
BOXING: Adrien Broner vs. Ashley Theophane, junior welter-
weights; Robert Easter vs. Algenis Mendez, lightweights, in Wash-
ington (Spike TV, 9 p.m.)
COLLEGE BASEBALL: Texas at Oklahoma (Fox Sports 1, 8 p.m.)
COLLEGE MENS BASKETBALL: College Basketball Invitational, fi-
nals, Game 3, Morehead State at Nevada (ESPNU, 8:30 p.m.)
DRAG RACING: Denso Spark Plugs NHRA Nationals, qualifying,
in Las Vegas (Fox Sports 1, 11 p.m. same-day tape)
FIGURE SKATING: World Championships, pairs short program, in
Boston (NBC Sports Network, 3 p.m.); World Championships,
mens free skate (NBC Sports Network, 9 p.m.)
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL: Dicks Sporting Goods High School
Nationals, boys first semifinal, in New York (ESPN2, 3 p.m.); boys
second semifinal (ESPN2, 5 p.m.)
GOLF: LPGA, ANA Inspiration, second round, in Rancho Mirage,
Calif. (Golf Channel, noon); PGA Tour, Shell Houston Open, sec-
ond round, in Humble, Texas (Golf Channel, 4 p.m.); Champions
Tour, Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic, first round, in Biloxi, Miss.
(Golf Channel, 9:30 p.m., same-day tape)
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL: Spring training, Milwaukee at Hous-
ton (MLB Network, 2 p.m.); Boston vs. Toronto, in Montreal (MLB
Network, 7 p.m.); Oakland at San Francisco (MLB Network,
10 p.m.)
NBA: Cleveland at Atlanta (ESPN, 8 p.m.); Boston at Golden State
(ESPN, 10:30 p.m.)
SOCCER: Bundesliga, VfL Wolfsburg at Bayer 04 Leverkusen (Fox
Sports 2, 2:20 p.m.)
TENNIS: ATP World Tour, Miami Open, mens semifinals, in Key
Biscayne, Fla. (ESPN2, 1 p.m. and 7 p.m.) SOCCER: Premier League, Chelsea at Aston Villa (NBC Sports Net-
work, 7:40 a.m.); Bundesliga, Eintracht Frankfurt at Bayern Mu-
nich (Fox Sports 2, 9:20 a.m.); Premier League, Watford at Arsenal
SATURDAY (NBC Sports Network, 9:55 a.m.); Premier League, Newcastle
ARENA FOOTBALL: Jacksonville at Los Angeles (ESPN2, 9 p.m.)
United at Norwich City (USA Network, 10 a.m.); Bundesliga, Koln at
AUTO RACING: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, STP 500, practice (Fox
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim (Fox Sports 2, 11:20 a.m.); Bundesliga, SV
Sports 1, 10 a.m.); Formula One, Bahrain Grand Prix, qualifying
Werder Bremen at Borussia Dortmund (Fox, 12:30 p.m.); Premier
(CNBC, 11 a.m.); NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Alpha Ener-
League, Tottenham at Liverpool (NBC, 12:30 p.m.)
gy Solutions 250, qualifying (Fox Sports 1, 11 a.m.); NASCAR Sprint
TENNIS: WTA Tour, Miami Open, womens championship (ESPN2,
Cup Series, STP 500, final practice (Fox Sports 1, 1 p.m.); NASCAR
1 p.m.)
Camping World Truck Series, Alpha Energy Solutions 250 (Fox
Sports 1, 2:30 p.m.); FIA Formula E Championship, in Long Beach SUNDAY
(Fox Sports 1, 6:30 p.m.); Verizon IndyCar Series, Phoenix Grand AUTO RACING: Formula One, Bahrain Grand Prix (NBC Sports
Prix (NBC Sports Network, 9 p.m.) Network, 10:30 a.m.); NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, STP 500 (Fox
COLLEGE MENS BASKETBALL: NCAA tournament Final Four, in Sports 1, 1 p.m.)
Houston, Oklahoma vs. Villanova (TBS, 6 p.m., team-specific COLLEGE WOMENS BASKETBALL: NCAA tournament Final Four,
broadcasts on TNT and truTV); Syracuse vs. North Carolina (TBS, in Indianapolis, Connecticut vs. Oregon State (ESPN, 6 p.m.);
8:49 p.m., team-specific broadcasts on TNT and truTV) Washington vs. Syracuse (ESPN2, 8:30 p.m.)
COLLEGE WOMENS BASKETBALL: WNIT, championship, Florida DRAG RACING: Denso Spark Plus NHRA Nationals, finals (Fox
Gulf Coast at South Dakota (CBS Sports Network, 3 p.m.) Sports 1, 5 p.m.)
COLLEGE SOFTBALL: Alabama at Florida (ESPN2, 3:30 p.m.) FIGURE SKATING: World Championships, exhibition of champi-
DRAG RACING: Denso Spark Plugs NHRA Nationals, qualifying, ons (NBC Sports Network, 2 p.m.)
in Las Vegas (Fox Sports 1, 9 p.m., same-day tape) GOLF: 2016 Drive, Chip and Putt National Finals, in Augusta, Ga.
FIGURE SKATING: World Championships, pairs free skate (NBC (Golf Channel, 2 p.m.); PGA Tour, Shell Houston Open, final round
Sports Network, 2 p.m.); womens free skate, in Boston (NBC, (Golf Channel, 1 p.m.); Champions Tour, Mississippi Gulf Resort
9 p.m.) Classic, final round (Golf Channel, 3 p.m.); PGA Tour, Shell Hous-
GOLF: PGA Tour, Shell Houston Open, third round (Golf Channel, ton Open, final round (NBC, 3 p.m.); LPGA Tour, ANA Inspiration,
1 p.m.); Champions Tour, Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic, second final round (Golf Channel, 5 p.m.)
round (Golf Channel, 3 p.m.); PGA Tour, Shell Houston Open, third MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL: St. Louis at Pittsburgh (ESPN, 1 p.m.);
round (NBC, 3 p.m.); LPGA Tour, ANA Inspiration, third round (Golf Toronto at Tampa Bay (ESPN2, 4 p.m.); New York Mets at Kansas
Channel, 5 p.m.) City (ESPN, 8:30 p.m.)
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL: Dicks Sporting Goods High School NBA: Oklahoma City at Houston (ABC, 3:30 p.m.); Portland at
Nationals, girls championship (ESPN2, 10 a.m.); boys champion- Golden State (NBA TV, 8 p.m.)
ship (ESPN, noon) NHL: Boston at Chicago (NBC, 12:30 p.m.); St. Louis at Colorado
MIXED MARTIAL ARTS: World Series of Fighting 30, middleweight (NBC Sports Network, 8 p.m.)
champ David Branch vs. Clifford Starks, in Las Vegas (main card, SOCCER: Premier League, Southampton at Leicester City (NBC
NBCSN, 11:30 p.m. ET) Sports Network, 8:25 a.m.); Bundesliga, Hertha BSC Berlin at Bo-
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL: Spring training, Boston vs. Toronto, in russia Monchengladbach (Fox Sports 1, 9:30 a.m.); Premier
Montreal (MLB Network, 1 p.m.); San Francisco at Oakland (MLB League, match TBA (USA Network, 10:30 a.m.); MLS, Portland at
Network, 4 p.m.); Los Angeles Dodgers at Los Angeles Angels Orlando City (Fox Sports 1, 8 p.m.)
(MLB Network, 9 p.m.) TENNIS: ATP World Tour, Miami Open, mens championship
MOTOR SPORTS: AMA Monster Energy Supercross, in Santa Cla- (ESPN2, 1 p.m.)
ra, Calif. (Fox Sports 1, 10 p.m.)
NBA: Detroit at Chicago (NBA TV, 8 p.m.)
RUNNING: Paris Marathon (NBC Sports Network, 1:30 a.m. Sun-
day)
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JACK RAMSDALE

LIFELINE MOVIES

HOW WAS YOUR DAY?

GOOD DAY
Rick-opedia Linklater rocks back to 1980 with
KEVIN HART
Comedy Central green-lighted
two series from the comic. The
first, Kevin Hart Presents: Hart of
the City, follows Hart as he travels
across the country to explore
Everybody Wants Some!!
local comedy scenes. The second Bryan Alexander
is a stand-up show in which he
USA TODAY
spotlights one up-and-coming
comedian.
LOS ANGELES Director Richard
Linklater knew he wanted to
travel back to 1980 for Everybody
Wants Some!!, a semi-autobio-
graphical look at his college expe-
rience. But he wasnt quite sure if
the movie would capture the big
comedy feel he was after.
During disco dance lessons for
his young cast of actors, it became
shockingly apparent that Linkla-
ter was going to be just ne.
Maybe it was the disco shirts.
One of mine had this swan on it,
it was cool, says lead actor Blake
Jenner, 23, sitting cabana-side at
the Sunset Marquis hotel with his
director. Or those tight pants.
They were like, You really
wore these pants? adds Linkla-
ter, 55. I was like, Yeah, man,
they were the thing. To see how
the cast was discovering that pe-
riod the hair, the clothes, the
music it hit me: This was a
ROBERT DEUTSCH, USA TODAY really fun time in my life. And
that shows in the movie.
Everybody Wants Some!!
STYLE STAR (now showing in New York
Outlanders Caitriona and Los Angeles and ex-
Balfe dressed to panding across the na- Look back
impress at the tion through April 15) is Before they were
TV Guide what Linklater calls the stars, they were
Magazine spiritual sequel to his Dazed and
Celebrates 1993 classic Dazed and Confused 2D DAN MACMEDAN, USA TODAY
Outlander Confused, which inhabited
small-town 1970s high Blake Jenner, left, who stars
event in as Jake, says director Richard
Hollywood school life.
With a title taken from a rowdy Linklater helped him get into
Wednesday the spirit of the 80s.
night. The ac- Van Halen song, the new lm fol-
tress rocked a lows Jenners freshman Jake as
blue-and-white he moves into a house with fel- starred as Ryder Lynn on Glee,
asymmetrical low members of his university knocked out killer auditions but
dress from baseball team. Linklater played was told hed need to cover his
the pre-fall left eld for Sam Houston State buzz cut with a circa-1980 wig.
Jonathan University for two years and lived The hair was just bigger, long-
Simkhai in a baseball house off-campus. er, says Linklater. Back then, a
collection. I showed up and it was 18 guy would have a hairdryer. Car-
VAN REDIN
roommates in two houses. Just ing about their hair at all, that was
like the movie, says Linklater. Plummer (Temple Baker), Roper (Ryan Guzman) and Jake a new thing.
JB LACROIX, WIREIMAGE We were like a fraternity. Wed (Jenner) navigate college life in Everybody Wants Some!! Jenner knew he had captured
have mixers with sororities. Ani- the time period as he cruised
mal House had only just come of his encyclopedic knowledge of on everything. Music, cars, ward- down the street in a classic Olds-
out. So we were like, this is kind the era. robe, every detail, says Linklater. mobile 442 with his new hair on
of our own Animal House. He insisted on vintage Wilson You have to set a really strict his way to disco lessons.
Linklater was resolute about A2000 baseball gloves and asked tone. Its like, if you make one I was in love with that car.
CAUGHT IN THE ACT capturing the 1980 mood, which that a Farrah Fawcett poster to be mistake, we all fail. And I was driving around playing
Co-stars Chris Hemsworth, skewed closer to the 1970s than replaced with a Susan Anton His young actors were chosen My Sharona in my head, kind of
Nick Frost and Emily Blunt, who is the Reagan years. And he nailed poster. (Farrah was two years for their ability to look effective chillin, checking out the girls,
pregnant with her second child, the specics. On the set, his cast earlier.) on both the baseball eld and in says Jenner. And it was like, All
had some fun while attending called him Rick-opedia because Youve got to be so adamant the disco club. Jenner, who right, were doing this.
a photocall for their film, The
Huntsman: Winters War,
Wednesday in London. MOVIES

Bad reviews: Kryptonite for Batman v Superman?

Brian Truitt
USA TODAY
A bunch of critics tugged on
Supermans cape, but that doesnt
mean he and his super-frenemy
Batman dont have some serious
staying power.
The movie-ticket sales site
DAVE BENETT, WIREIMAGE Fandango.com has seen 30%
more repeat business with Bat-
Compiled by Mary Cadden
man v Superman than the normal
blockbuster, says Erik Davis,
USA SNAPSHOTS managing editor for Fandango
and Movies.com. Its still going
to be the movie most people go to
A DVRd game? see this weekend, he says.
Not the same Batman v Superman: Dawn of
Justice set a March record when
it opened with $166 million last
Sports events weekend and ranked No. 4 of all
account for time with a worldwide debut of
$422.5 million. Even battling neg-
93%
of TV
ativity as well as Lex Luthor, the
big-screen dynamic duo is going
into its second weekend with
programs pretty much no real competition.
Americans The movie, starring Ben Af-
still watch live,
up from 14% eck as Batman and Henry Cavill
a decade ago. as Superman, was met with harsh
reviews: Dawn of Justice has 29%
critical approval on aggregate site
Source Nielsens Year in Sports Media
RottenTomatoes.com. Yet the
Report 2015 polarizing superhero adventure,
TERRY BYRNE AND PAUL TRAP, USA TODAY one designed to jump-start the
Critics may not stop the Man of Steel (Henry Cavill) as Batman
v Superman looks for another weekend atop the box office.
DC cinematic universe, also ral-
lied fans for a backlash against
the many critiques that took di-
rector Zack Snyders lm to task.
Results were just as mixed in
two USA TODAY Life Twitter
polls. In one, almost half (48%)
said bad reviews wont keep them
from seeing Batman v Superman,
while 71% of those who have al-
ready seen the lm say they wont
return for another round.
The social conversation right
now in the movie world is almost
entirely built around Batman v
Superman, which automatically
makes it something you want to
see, says Paul Dergarabedian,
WARNER BROS. PICTURES
comScore senior media analyst.
Whatever gets them in the door.
Even if youre just a curiosity-
seeker, you still have to pay 10
bucks for your ticket.
And with a title like Batman v
Superman, you are not going to
miss this lm, whether its good
or bad, says Jeff Bock, senior box
office analyst for Exhibitor
Relations.
Bock expects a 62% drop in the
movies second weekend which
would give it a three-day haul of
upward of $60 million much
like other lms that opened big
and suffered from less-than-great
reviews. Whats working for it,
though, is that no other studio
lm is opening wide, what he
calls an oddity on the release
schedule.
Davis doesnt see it having
any major competition until The
Jungle Book arrives April 15.
However, for Batman v Superman
to reach a benchmark of $1 billion
worldwide, he says, it has to
do some heavy lifting before
Captain America: Civil War hits
theaters May 6.
Reaching that goal is within
reason, says Dergarabedian, con-
sidering how movies such as
2014s Transformers: Age of Ex-
tinction get savaged by critics
(18% approval on Rotten Toma-
toes) and then do big business
internationally ($1.1 billion). In
the case of Batman v Superman,
it may be even more so about the
brand than the built-in cultural
resonance with the American
audience.
The most important thing
about Dawn of Justice isnt its
bottom line or lack of accolades,
Bock says. It is relaunching a
new universe of upcoming DC
movies such as Suicide Squad and
Wonder Woman, he says. And
that (equals) billions after billions
after billions of dollars down the
road.
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MOVIES

DAZED AND CONFUSED MILLA JOVOVICH

AS MICHELLE
BURROUGHS

GAVE A CRYSTAL-CLEAR LOOK

Jovovich was in a class of her
own among the cast of un-
knowns, having starred in
movies such as 1991s
Return to Blue Lagoon.

AT SOME FUTURE STARS

Milla was probably
one of the only known
stars, Linklater says.
It was a little odd for
her being in a small
part. I wish there had
Bryan Alexander l USA TODAY been a bigger one.
Jovovich, then 16,
The 2014 Oscars gave a made news marrying
true sense of the cultural her onscreen boyfriend
powerhouse that is Richard Shawn Andrews (Pick-
ford). The marriage
Linklaters first studio film, was annulled two
the 1993 cult classic Dazed months later.
and Confused.
With Linklater sitting
nearby, Matthew McCo-
naughey ended his best-actor
acceptance speech for Dallas
Buyers Club with the line he
delivered as an unknown
actor in Dazed and Confused: PARKER POSEY
Alright, alright, alright. AS DARLA
As Linklater, 55, delivers MARKS
his spiritual sequel with The indie-lm
PHOTOS BY UNIVERSAL HOME VIDEO
Everybody Wants Some!! (now queen broke out as
showing in Los Angeles and freshmen-hazing
New York and expanding MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY AS DAVID WOODERSON Darla and made an
McConaughey made his mark at age 23 as the 20-year-old odd- immediate impact.
across the nation through ball still hanging around with the high school kids. Linklater had That Hallow-
April 15), the fan legions cast McConaughey even though he was too clean-cut for the part. een people were
continue to gravitate toward I told him Dont cut your hair and dont shave, Linklater dressing up as
the high school story of says. And he came back with that look, with that slight comb Parkers Darla,
Dazed and Confused set and the tattoo. The tattoo was not particularly popular (in 1976), Linklater says.
in 1976. but it was pretty radical. Thats how this
I received a letter Matthew dug in and found that character, Linklater adds. lm resonated
from a guy who had a Thats what these actors did: reached in with those who
and found these offshoots of them- saw it.
brain injury and selves.
couldnt remember his
past, but he thanked
me for the movie be- BEN AFFLECK
cause it felt like maybe AS FRED OBANNION
that was his high school Affleck has built a career playing
experience, Linklater likable guys, but at 21, he
stepped out as the paddle-mad,
says. Theres some- hotheaded senior OBannion.
thing so common It tweaked Ben out be-
about that movie. Its cause he was the only (jerk) RENE ZELLWEGER IN AN UNCREDITED ROLE
just about hanging out in the lm, Linklater says. Zellweger appears on a pickup holding a beer funnel and later
in high school and with But he had this kind of walks past Wooderson as he says: Thats what I love about these
this great cast. gleeful fun with it. high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.
Here are some of the Besides, nice people Rene didnt quite get the bigger part, but it said a lot about
major stars who stepped out make for better baddies, her that she just sort of hung out and was there, Linklater says.
because you secretly At some point, she was kind of a cast member. It was technicality
as unknowns in Dazed and like them more. They bring more that she doesnt have a line.
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TRAVEL
DISPATCHES
MCCARRAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
No need to wait. You can play (and
win?) while youre in the airport.
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Chicago OHare has its signa-
ture neon tunnel walkway. Los
Angeles International has its sig-
nature LAX welcome sign and
Theme Building that inspires
thoughts of ying saucers.
At Las Vegas McCarran Inter-
national Airport, its the rows and
rows of slot machines that are
among the airports most iconic
features. And just last week, one
of those machines paid out nearly
$1 million to a lucky Las Vegas
traveler.
McCarran revealed the jackpot
via Twitter, saying one lucky lo-
cal won $933,080 on Wheel of
Fortune slots while ying out of
the airport.
Two airport visitors won jack-
pots of at least $1 million in 2015,
when the top slots prize clocked
in at nearly $1.7 million.
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MAJESTY OF THE SEAS
Cruisers will pay more per day to
sail the Majesty of the Seas.
Royal Caribbean
raises gratuity fees
Booked on a Royal Caribbean
sailing this year? Brace yourself
for higher daily fees. Effective
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automatic gratuity for staff that it
tacks onto nal bills by more than
4% to $13.50 per person per day
for passengers staying in most
cabins. Passengers in suites will
pay $16.50 per person per day.
Its the second time the line
has increased the fee in less than
a year. The line pushed through
an 8% increase in automatic gra-
tuities June 1, 2015.
With the increase, a family
of four will pay nearly $400 in
automatic gratuities on a typical
seven-night cruise, one of the
highest levies among major lines.
Carnival adds $12 per person per
day in service charges to passen-
ger bills. Holland America and
Princess add $12.50 and $12.95,
respectively.
The higher gratuity fee at Roy-
al Caribbean is just the latest add-
ed charge at the line. The
company in recent days also an-
nounced it would levy $15 a day
for access to a new, higher-speed
Internet service being added to
its 2,350-passenger Majesty of
the Seas. The company had an-
nounced last year that the service
would be free.
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STREET ART MOVES FROM
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Once dismissed as vandalism, street art is finding new legitimacy, with pieces attracting huge prices at
auction. Many cities have designated areas for murals, and offer tours. Its real art, majestic colorful
works that require a lot of technique, says Sebastien Laboureau, a Miami-based street art consultant
(moonstar.fr). He shares some top places to see the urban artform with Larry Bleiberg for USA TODAY.
Visitors to Philadelphia can check with the Mural Arts Program for details on more than 3,000 street art pieces around the city.
MIAMI
The Wynwood Art District has
become one of the worlds hot
MORE 10BEST spots for murals and wall paint-
TRAVEL.USA ings, featuring works by promi-
TODAY.COM nent artists, many of whom visit
See lists for during the Miamis annual Art
travel ideas Basel festival. Its an intense
online. concentration. I go to Wynwood
every week, and every week I nd
something new, Laboureau says.
Theres not a single person who
doesnt smile when they enter
the area. 305-814-9290;
wynwoodartwalk.com/
LOS ANGELES
The Southern California metrop-
olis plays a huge role in the street
art world. In 2011, its Museum of
Contemporary Art hosted a con-
troversial exhibit on the topic,
helping legitimize the genre. The
citys arts district on the edge of
downtown is particularly rich
with offerings. Its got an amaz-
ing concentration of open walls
and pieces from some of the most
famous street artists in the
world, Laboureau says.
discoverlosangeles.com
NEW YORK
Street art found an audience in
New York in the late 1970s and
80s, rst in the Bronx and then
across the boroughs. Works from
pioneers such as the late Keith
Haring now adorn books, posters
and shirts around the globe. He
was the father of street art. Ev-
erybody thought he was crazy,
but he was a nice guy, very clear
that he wanted to share his art
with everybody, Laboureau says.
Companies such as Grafftour-
s.com now introduce visitors to
new prodigies in Brooklyn and
Manhattan. NYCgo.com
PHILADELPHIA
Philly began promoting its street
art in the 1970s and boasts a
dynamic Mural Arts Program.
The effort, which started as anti-
graffiti initiative, now features
more than 3,000 murals around
the city. One series, A Love Letter
for You by artist Steve Powers,
includes 50 rooftop paintings.
When you think its the city of
our founders, I nd it spectac-
ular, Laboureau says. Tours
are offered on foot, trolley, train
and Segway. 215-685-0750;
muralarts.org
BOGOT, COLOMBIA
The once violence-plagued South
American city has become a safe
and exciting destination for tour-
ists and street art fans. The
scene got global attention in
2013, when singer Justin Bieber
LIFE 3D
JACK RAMSDALE
SUSAN MOSS PHOTOGRAPHY
Mural Fest in Montreal combines the best of two worlds
outdoor music and street art, some created live.
MONTREAL
Mural Fest, the largest street art event in North America,
attracts more than 1 million visitors to the French-Canadian city
every June. The celebration includes street closures, tours, block
parties and the live creation of art. 800-230-0001;
tourisme-montreal.org
went on a police-escorted graffiti- cal protesters painted messages
painting spree after a concert, on the Berlin Wall. Now, the city
prompting local artists to do the has a rich and varied tapestry on
same. Art is spread all over the its streets, particularly in the East
city, says Laboureau, a regular Side Gallery, a stretch of the wall
visitor. You have a young genera- covered with paintings. One tour
tion of artists that are extremely company even includes a street
talented. bogotagraffiti.com art workshop in a former aban-
doned margarine factory, where
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL guests can create their own
Brazils largest city is dense with designs. alternativeberlin.com
paintings from local and visiting
artists. Most international art- PARIS
ists have come to Brazil, Labou- Laboureaus
reau says. Theres a culture native city has a
of being outside and walking rich street art
outside, and thats good for tradition. Some
street art. aroundsp.com of the most
important
LONDON works are found
Theres no better place in the in the suburbs,
world to see paintings and sten-
cils by Banksy, the worlds leading
and French art
auction houses
street artist, whose work has
fetched nearly $2 million. The
host several
street art sales
artist, known for biting social every year.
criticism, reached a wide audi- Notable artists
ence through his Oscar-nominat- include Invader,
ed 2010 documentary, Exit whose works
Through the Gift Shop. But works are inspired by
from hundreds of others can be cartoon and
TAMMY KENNON
found across the city as well. video game characters, and C215.
Here, street art is more political, Hes painting frescoes and mu- Paris artist
message-oriented, Laboureau rals in churches and jails, the Invaders
says. streetartlondon.co.uk consultant says. Hes using his work is
art to share messages, and show inspired by
BERLIN theres more to our life than daily cartoons and
German street art blossomed problems. streetartparis.fr video games.
during the Cold War, when politi-
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TELEVISION

Freeman goes searching for God

Journey Jaleesa M. Jones
of USA TODAY

discovery First he played God on lm.

began Now Oscar-winning actor Mor-
with a gan Freeman, 78, tells The Story
of God.
question Executive-produced by Free-
asked man and his Revelations Enter-
tainment partners, Lori
in an McCreary and James Younger,
ancient The Story of God follows Freeman
on an international, interfaith
house of journey as he immerses himself
worship in religious experiences and in-
vestigates cultural beliefs about
God, the meaning of life and life
after death. The six-part series
premieres on National Geograph-
ic Channel April 3 at 9 p.m. ET.
In an interview with USA
TODAY, Freeman says the seeds
for the project were planted dur-
ing a trip to the Hagia Sophia in
Turkey six years ago.
Its a temple in Istanbul that is
very old and has changed hands a
few times, Freeman says. The
structure was built as an Ortho-
dox cathedral in the sixth centu-
ry, converted to a mosque after
the city was captured by the Otto-
man Empire in 1453 and became
a museum in 1935.
On the walls inside, there
Were were all these Christian depic-
tions Jesus in the cradle, Jesus
looking growing up, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
at faith And Lori looked up and asked, PHOTOS BY MATTHEW PAUL TURNER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL

from Well, when this was a mosque,
all ... did they cover those pictures up?
And our guide said, No, this is
different part of Islamic tradition the be-
cultures, lief that Jesus was a prophet.
from all That was a big eye-opener and, as
different Lori explains it, she was a little
put out because, being fairly well-
times read, she felt she should know
in our that and she didnt.
history, to That whole thing just sort of
see what simmered until James came
along and it was decided that we
we can should look further into this
learn. question of religion and God,
Lori McCreary
Freeman says. So we came up
with a concept, we did a sizzle
reel, and then we took it on the
road, and Nat Geo said, Hey, we
got this!
McCreary says she considers
the series an exercise against the
tyranny of certainty.
Questions can sometimes lead
to even a deeper understanding
of ones own belief and faith, and
if we can allow for the questions
without people feeling like were
pulling away at the fabric of
belief, then thats healthy, she
says. Thats why we love this ex-
ploration. Were looking at faith
from all different perspectives
around the world, from all differ-
ent cultures, from all different
times in our history, to see what
we can learn.
Freeman at the temple of Although The Story of God
Tikal in Guatemala. Top, seeks to shed light on ve major
he speaks with His Holiness religions Judaism, Christianity,
the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism
leader of the Karma Kagyu Younger says it does not
sect of Tibetan Buddhism focus heavily on dogma but
at Bodh Gaya, India. rather on core questions of faith.
The aim, he says, is to get Morgan Free-
people to look past ritual and man places
say: What is my faith really his hand on
about? If Im a Buddhist, if Im a the Western
Hindu, if Im a Christian, what Wall in the
am I asking? Old City of
Reecting on his own revela- Jerusalem.
tions after production, Freeman His series for
says: The consistent thread, in the National
any religion, is the search not Geographic
the search, the hope for life af- Channel is
ter death, for life everlasting. The Story
Younger adds that people want of God.
to believe theres something
more than just that angry Dar-
winian struggle for survival, that
there are eternal truths and val-
ues that matter, that we should
run our lives by. All religions con-
nect us to the eternal.
Freeman cuts in with a laugh:
Isnt that what I just said?

MUSIC

Catching up with purist Pet Shop Boys

Neil Elysa Gardner
Tennant @elysagardner
USA TODAY
talks When Neil Tennant and Chris
about Lowe of the pop duo Pet Shop
politics, Boys began writing songs for
their new album, it wasnt with
dictators, the intention of celebrating a
EDM and milestone.
It was only later, says Tennant,
staying that the musicians realized the
Super 30th anniversary of their rst al-
bum, 1986s Please, was ap-
proaching. Im not being blas
about it, he insists. Its amaz-
ing. Or Super, as the new release,
out April 1, is titled. He and Lowe
recorded mostly in Berlin, and
the latter superlative is a favorite
among Germans, Tennant ex-
plains. Americans might even
use it. In England, it sounds a bit
1960s.
Tennant describes Super as a
logical successor to Pet Shop
Boys last outing, 2013s Electric.
Weve become electronic pur-
ists. While that element has al-
ways been central in their music,
he notes, most of our albums
have had orchestras on them, and
guitar. This is all electronic, apart
from backing vocals.
As ever, the pair blend the ro-
mantic and the satirical, along
with a sense of social realism.
The third element is pronounced
in songs such as Sad Robot World,
which reects an ambivalence
about technology, and The Dicta-
tor Decides. The latter was crafted
with Syrias Bashar al-Assad and
North Koreas Kim Jong Un in
mind though some who have
PELLE CRPIN
heard the song assumed the in-
spiration was Donald Trump. club scene in London. Tennant consumption and its become Pet Shop
The whole world is following says it was inspired by a friends the sound of pop music. Boys Chris
the United States right now, says story, though he has observed the Pet Shop Boys own evolution Lowe, left,
Tennant, and not cheekily. The progress of electronic dance will be traced in a four-part BBC and Neil
Englishman sees parallels with music at home and in the USA, Two documentary series this Tennant are
his own country, where people EDM became and found differences. month, and Tennant and Lowe releasing a
new album,
have been disillusioned by the a sort glamorous Youve made EDM over there, will play four sold-out nights at
banking crisis and the nancial really, he says. Youve ramped it Londons Royal Opera House in Super, 30
collapse. It started in the 80s, culture, one of up and created this club culture July. Tennant is hoping theyll years after
their rst
when Reagan and Thatcher de- conspicuous thats very different from the Eu- also perform in the USA in the
regulated the system. ... It was in ropean club culture. At the clubs not-too-distant future. Fans can album,
the 90s that the money culture consumption in Britain, you had people danc- expect their usual attention to vi- Please,
arrived.
really got going, and now its and its become ing with bottles of Evian water. ... sual detail, also obvious in Supers
come to full fruition. (In the USA) there was brandy album art.
Supers rst single, The Pop the sound of and expensive champagne, and I wanted it to be shiny and
Kids, unveiled in March, refer- pop music. the superstar DJ thing got even colorful, Tennant says, which I
ences the early 90s specically bigger. It became a sort glamor- think the album is. With some
not the political climate, but the Neil Tennant ous culture, one of conspicuous darker edges, of course.
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STREAMING

Revenant, GoT pop up this month

Jayme Deerwester APRIL 8
Catastrophe: Season 2 (Ama-
USA TODAY
zon) What began as an interna-
tional one-night-stand led to a
A look at Aprils streaming offer- shotgun wedding at the end of
ings from Netix, Amazon, Hulu Season 1; nd out what awaits the
and On Demand: new parents (Rob Delaney and
Sharon Horgan).
APRIL 1
The Ranch (Netix) Ashton APRIL 12 HBO

Kutchers new project about a
failed pro football player who re-
turns to his familys Colorado
ranch doubles as a That 70s Show
reunion with Danny Masterson.
APRIL 2
Trainwreck (HBO Now). Amy
Schumer is the writer and star of
this 2015 lm about a party-girl
journalist who tries to straighten
out after meeting an orthopedic
surgeon (Bill Hader).
APRIL 4
11.22.63 (Hulu) The sci- thriller
series built around the assassina-
tion of President John F. Kenne-
dy reaches its conclusion.
The Mindy Project (Hulu) Ev-
eryones favorite wise-cracking
OB/GYN returns with a new
batch of episodes.
APRIL 15
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt:
Season 2 (Netix). Already led
your taxes? Kick back with Kimmy
and Titus, who, we hope, has
thought up a whole bunch of new
phrases that rhyme with peeno
noir.
APRIL 19
The Revenant (On Demand)
Yeah, yeah, Leo nally got his
long-overdue Oscar for this 2015
lm. But we still say the bear
should have gotten a supporting-
Kal Penn, left, joins the cast of the Tyler Labine comedy
Deadbeat, available on Hulu April 20.
actor nomination.
APRIL 20
Deadbeat: Season 3 (Hulu)
Harold & Kumars Kal Penn re-
turns to his best-known character
(sorta) as the new stoner-entre-
preneur business partner to Tyler
Labines New York-based medi-
NICOLE RIVELLI PHOTGRAPHIE, HULU
um. Somehow, we dont think the
4/20 premiere date is a
coincidence.
APRIL 22
Thunderbirds Are Go (Ama-
zon). The Tracy Brothers puppet
heroes return to the small screen
in a new original animated kids
Cord-cutters can check up on
Arya and Game of Thrones.
series. (Prime members can catch
a special preview on April 15.)
APRIL 24
Game of Thrones (HBO Now).
Now, cord cutters can get a Jon
Snow status report along with
cable subscribers when Season 6
opens.
APRIL 29
Special Correspondents (Net-
ix). A desperate radio reporter
(Eric Bana) and his sound tech
(Ricky Gervais) fake their own
kidnapping in South America
(while hiding in New York).

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SONG OF THE WEEK Ride Our favorite song off the album Blurryface.
Twenty One Its crack for the brain! Reminds us of classic 311.
Pilots
Nick Jonas gets Close Lost New artist out of Canada. The song title is exactly
Rezz how it makes you feel in your brain when you
Jonas had a tough 2015, and now hes ready listen to it.
to share his story. The former Jonas Brother JESSE GRANT, GETTY IMAGES, FOR CBS RADIO

overhauled his image from a curly-haired Alex Pall, left, and Im in Control Awesome track from this duo and great
Disney Channel favorite to a surprisingly Drew Taggart AlunaGeorge production!

sophisticated, R&B-courting star with hits

such as Jealous and Chains in 2014. But last THE PLAYLIST Real Friends This beat is classic Kanye West. So vibey.
Kanye West
year, he collided with the ugly side of grown-up
fame, breaking up with former Miss Universe Two years after they snapped
Olivia Culpo and becoming a tabloid favorite their rst #SELFIE, The Chasing Couldnt be happier this lady is back! She
Shadows crushed it ve, six years ago and hopefully she
over his rumored romance with Kate Hudson. Chainsmokers returned to Santigold is back to stay.
And in a stream-of-consciousness series of the Top 40 this year with
tweets, he revealed that his forthcoming al- downtempo dance smash Keep It Mello Homie of ours who has been putting out good
Marshmello music consistently.
bum, aptly titled Last Year Was Complicated, Roses, which peaked at No. 6
would plumb the depths of this heartbreak and on the Billboard Hot 100.
drama. Our rst listen from the album is Close, The EDM duo is climbing Say a Prayer These Aussies are so underestimated at the
For Me moment. Been fans for ages and this album is
a moody collaboration with Swedish singer the chart yet again with RFS DU SOL going to make big waves!
Tove Lo. Over melancholy steel drums, we latest single Dont Let Me
get a preview of the emotionally charged R&B Down as they get ready to hit Landslide Best duo in the game at the moment. Havent put
Oh Wonder out a song that wasnt unique and perfect.
that well likely hear more of on Last Year, the road for a run of sum-
anchored by a painfully earnest chorus, mer music festivals includ-
Cause space was just a word made up by ing Coachella and Bonnaroo. Hear Me A$AP Rocky is life for us. Dude embodies
A$AP Rocky everything we enjoy in an artist!
someone whos afraid to get too close. Before they head out, DJs (feat. Pharrell)
Alex Pall and Drew Taggart
Maeve McDermott share a playlist of favorites Yamborghini Really clever hook on this one. Classic A$AP Mob.
High
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USA TODAY AIRPLAY CHARTS

T This week
COMPILED BY MEDIABASE Increase in Spins
IN-DEPTH CHARTS
Debut L Last week LIFE.USATODAY.COM
TOP 40 COUNTRY
T L ARTIST SONG SPINS T L ARTIST SONG POINTS
1 1 FLO RIDA My House 17,147 1 3 BRETT ELDREDGE Drunk On Your Love 27,403
2 4 SELENA GOMEZ Hands To Myself 15,459 2 2 COLE SWINDELL You Should Be Here 26,761
3 2 TWENTY ONE PILOTS Stressed Out 15,310 3 4 RASCAL FLATTS I Like The Sound Of That 24,996
4 3 JUSTIN BIEBER Love Yourself 15,026 4 6 FLORIDA-GEORGIA LINE Confession 23,937
5 5 G-EAZY f/BEBE REXHA Me Myself & I 15,014 5 7 CHASE BRYANT Little Bit Of You 22,206
6 6 DNCE Cake By The Ocean 13,963 6 1 ZAC BROWN BAND Beautiful Drug 20,412
7 7 ZAYN Pillowtalk 12,315 7 8 OLD DOMINION Snapback 19,972
8 10 MIKE POSNER I Took A Pill In Ibiza 11,660 8 5 CARRIE UNDERWOOD Heartbeat 19,298
9 9 RIHANNA f/DRAKE Work 11,562 9 9 CHRIS YOUNG & CASSADEE POPE Think Of You 18,689
10 12 MEGHAN TRAINOR NO 9,619 10 11 DUSTIN LYNCH Mind Reader 16,777
11 13 LUKAS GRAHAM 7 Years 8,421 11 13 DIERKS BENTLEY Somewhere On A Beach 16,727
12 11 CHARLIE PUTH One Call Away 8,137 12 10 CHRIS STAPLETON Nobody To Blame 16,549
13 14 ZARA LARSSON & MNEK Never Forget You 7,915 13 12 MAREN MORRIS My Church 16,526
14 15 FIFTHHARMONY f/TY DOLLA$IGN Work From Home 7,416 14 15 LEE BRICE That Dont Sound Like You 15,301
15 --- DJ SNAKE f/BIPOLAR SUNSHINE Middle 6,750 15 --- TIM MCGRAW Humble And Kind 15,127

URBAN RHYTHMIC
T L ARTIST SONG SPINS T L ARTIST SONG SPINS
1 1 RIHANNA f/DRAKE Work 5,399 1 1 RIHANNA f/DRAKE Work 7,064
2 2 JEREMIH Oui 4,011 2 2 G-EAZY f/BEBE REXHA Me Myself & I 5,301
3 3 BEYONCE Formation 3,795 3 3 FLO RIDA My House 4,572
4 5 LUKE NASTY Might Be 3,759 4 5 CHRIS BROWN Back To Sleep 4,260
5 4 BRYSON TILLER Dont 3,651 5 7 JEREMIH Oui 4,217
6 7 BRYSON TILLER Exchange 3,598 6 8 BELLY f/THE WEEKND Might Not 3,937
7 8 KEVIN GATES 2 Phones 3,314 7 9 KID INK f/FETTY WAP Promise 3,408
8 6 CHRIS BROWN Back To Sleep 3,043 8 11 TY DOLLA $IGN f/E-40 Saved 3,206
9 13 O.T.GENASIS f/YOUNGDOLPH Cut It 2,704 9 4 YO GOTTI Down In The DM 3,182
10 10 TORY LANEZ Say It 2,692 10 6 THECHAINSMOKERS f/ROZES Roses 3,130
11 12 DRAKE Summer Sixteen 2,544 11 12 ZENDAYA f/CHRIS BROWN Something New 2,799
12 14 YOUNG GREATNESS Moolah 2,491 12 15 MIKE POSNER I Took A Pill In Ibiza 2,682
13 9 YOUNG THUG Best Friend 2,290 13 13 LUKE NASTY Might Be 2,580
14 15 RO JAMES Permission 2,135 14 --- THE WEEKND Acquainted 2,535
15 --- DREEZY f/JEREMIH Body 1,856 15 --- KEVIN GATES 2 Phones 2,498

HOT ADULT CONTEMPORARY ADULT CONTEMPORARY

T L ARTIST SONG SPINS T L ARTIST SONG SPINS
1 1 JUSTIN BIEBER Love Yourself 6,966 1 1 ADELE Hello 2,464
2 2 TWENTY ONE PILOTS Stressed Out 6,076 2 3 SHAWN MENDES Stitches 2,297
3 4 CHARLIE PUTH One Call Away 5,890 3 4 MEGHAN TRAINOR Like Im Gonna Lose You 2,273
4 6 LUKAS GRAHAM 7 Years 5,486 4 2 TAYLOR SWIFT Wildest Dreams 2,103
5 3 ADELE When We Were Young 5,300 5 5 ELLE KING Exs And Ohs 2,016
6 5 JAMES BAY Let It Go 5,254 6 6 ADELE When We Were Young 1,846
7 8 DNCE Cake By The Ocean 4,721 7 8 JUSTIN BIEBER Love Yourself 1,399
8 7 SHAWN MENDES Stitches 4,419 8 7 RACHEL PLATTEN Stand By You 1,247
9 --- MEGHAN TRAINOR NO 3,770 9 --- CHARLIE PUTH One Call Away 951
10 9 RACHEL PLATTEN Stand By You 3,170 10 9 CHARLIE PUTH See You Again 923

URBAN ADULT CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN

T L ARTIST SONG SPINS T L ARTIST SONG SPINS
1 1 LALAH HATHAWAY Angel 2,055 1 1 CASTING CROWNS Just Be Held 1,938
2 5 KEITH SWEAT Good Love 1,736 2 2 STARS GO DIM You Are Loved 1,854
3 3 JOHNNY GILL This Ones For Me And You 1,623 3 4 JORDAN FELIZ The River 1,793
4 4 ADELE Hello 1,342 4 3 MATTHEW WEST Grace Wins 1,715
5 2 TYRESE Shame 1,240 5 8 LAUREN DAIGLE Trust In You 1,630
6 6 THE WEEKND Earned It 1,181 6 6 CHRIS TOMLIN Good Good Father 1,620
7 8 ANTHONY HAMILTON Amen 1,161 7 5 BIG DADDY WEAVE My Story 1,492
8 9 GUORDAN BANKS Keep You In Mind 1,152 8 9 DANNY GOKEY Tell Your Heart To Beat Again 1,424
9 --- FANTASIA No Time For It 1,130 9 7 MERCYME Flawless 1,396
10 --- AFTER 7 I Want You 1,109 10 10 FOR KING & COUNTRY Its Not Over Yet 1,319

ALTERNATIVE ACTIVE ROCK

T L ARTIST SONG SPINS T L ARTIST SONG SPINS
1 3 TWENTY ONE PILOTS Ride 2,716 1 1 DISTURBED The Sound Of Silence 2,135
2 1 NOTHING BUT THIEVES Trip Switch 2,560 2 2 3 DOORS DOWN In The Dark 1,782
3 4 X AMBASSADORS Unsteady 2,375 3 3 MUSE Reapers 1,718
4 2 FOALS Mountain At My Gates 2,363 4 4 BRING ME THE HORIZON Happy Song 1,437
5 6 THE STRUMBELLAS Spirits 2,302 5 5 RED SUN RISING Emotionless 1,425
6 5 COLDPLAY Adventure Of A Lifetime 2,143 6 9 FROM ASHES TO NEW Through It All 1,085
7 10 EMPIRE OF THE SUN Walking On A Dream 2,102 7 8 SHINEDOWN State Of My Head 1,065
8 7 COLD WAR KIDS First 2,033 8 --- PAPA ROACH Falling Apart 1,028
9 8 TWENTY ONE PILOTS Stressed Out 1,899 9 --- FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH My Nemesis 981
10 9 CAGE THE ELEPHANT Mess Around 1,813 10 --- SIXX A.M. Rise 977

ADULT ROCK LATIN

T L ARTIST SONG SPINS T L ARTIST SONG SPINS
1 1 LUMINEERS Ophelia 730 1 2 LAARROLLADORABANDAELLIMON Ya Te Perdi La Fe 2,271
2 3 ELLE KING Under The Influence 587 2 1 BANDASINALOENSEMSSERGIO... Solo Con Verte 2,206
3 4 RAY LAMONTAGNE Hey, No Pressure 552 3 4 CALIBRE 50 Prestamela A Mi 2,002
4 2 KURT VILE Pretty Pimpin 551 4 5 LA TRAKALOSA DE MONTERREY Broche De Oro 1,763
5 8 THE RECORD COMPANY Off The Ground 482 5 6 LA SEPTIMA BANDA Me Empezo A Valer 1,687
6 7 LEON BRIDGES Smooth Sailin 456 6 3 GERARDO ORTIZ Por Que Terminamos 1,651
7 --- THE STRUMBELLAS Spirits 449 7 --- BANDACLAVENUEVADEMAZPERAZ Nadie Como Tu 1,479
8 6 COLDPLAY Adventure Of A Lifetime 443 8 9 GENTEDEZONA f/MARCANTHONY Traidora 1,456
9 --- MATT SIMONS Catch & Release 428 9 7 PRINCE ROYCE Culpa Al Corazon 1,367
10 9 BRNS 10,000 Emerald Pools 404 10 8 ADRIEL FAVELA f/LOS DEL ARROYO Tomen Nota 1,343