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Record: 16-6-3 overall, 11-4-3 ECAC
Hockey (not including Friday’s game)
Standings: Cornell is tied for third
place with St. Lawrence in the ECACH
with 25 points through Feb. 16.
Remaining schedule: Saturday at
Clarkson, 7 p.m.; Feb 24 vs. RPI at
Lynah Rink, 7 p.m.; Feb. 25 vs. Union
at Lynah Rink, 7 p.m.
Playoffs: ECAC Hockey tournament
begins March 3 with the first round
(top four teams earn a bye to the
quarterfinals beginning March 10).
NCAA Tournament begins March 24.
Tickets: Call 607-255-4247, visit
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Road.
Left: Cornell is unbeaten in five straight games heading into Friday’s game against St. Lawrence. Right: Cornell tied Yale, 2-2, in an ECAC
Hockey game on Feb. 11 at Lynah Rink in Ithaca.
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Ithaca Catholic Worker members met with
U.S. Rep. Tom Reed at his Ithaca office.
Surprise
Reed
arrival
Meets with Ithaca
sit-in participants
MATT WEINSTEIN
AND MATT STEECKER
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Big Red men making run at NCAA bid MSTEECKER@ITHACAJOURNAL.COM
After beginning his day meeting
MATT WEINSTEIN MWEINSTEIN@ITHACAJOURNAL.COM with President Donald Trump and Vice
President Mike Pence, U.S. Rep. Tom
If members of the Cornell University men’s hockey team want to see Reed, R- Corning, ended Thursday with
where they sit in the ECAC Hockey standings, they will not find the an- a surprise appearance in Ithaca.
swer anywhere in their locker room. Six people from Ithaca Catholic
“(Standings) have no impact on what’s up next, which is our next Workers began a sit-in Tuesday at
game,” says head coach Mike Schafer. “The only thing we put up there is Reed’s downtown Ithaca office at 401
our next scouting report and lines for the day.” State St., hoping to get the attention of
The Big Red players and coaches are aware they are tied for third the Republican congressman who last
place and are on pace to own one of the four byes in the ECACH tourna- had a town hall in the area on May 2,
ment, but Schafer wants the focus squarely on the final games of the 2016 at Cornell. The number of sit-in
regular season — starting with a pair of road games this weekend in the participants grew slightly over the
next two days and then their efforts
See CORNELL, Page 5A were rewarded around 10:30 p.m.
Thursday when Reed arrived.
Reed met with residents for almost
two hours, discussing both local and na-
tional issues. City of Ithaca Common
Council members Ducson Nguyen and
Seph Murtagh also were on hand dur-
ing Reed’s appearance. Both have been
actively asking for Reed to schedule a
town hall in Tompkins County.
“It was very spontaneous and unex-
pected and fairly informal, but I am
glad that it happened,” Murtagh said
during an interview Friday. “No one ex-
pected Congressman Reed to show up
close to midnight, but we had a positive
discussion.”
See REED, Page 4A
“Hopefully, (Reed) may
better engage this part of
the district that feels
neglected.”
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NY cities back ban lawsuit
Effort to block
immigration order
JOSEPH SPECTOR
JSPECTOR@ITHACAJOURNAL.COM
ALBANY — Cities across the nation
and New York on Friday signed on to sup-
port a federal lawsuit in Brooklyn that
seeks to continue blocking President
Trump’s immigration order issued last
month.
The New York cities, including New
York City, Rochester, Buffalo, Ithaca and
Yonkers, said they would be harmed by
the order because of their sizable immi-
grant and refugee populations.
“Success is never achieved by holding
people down and kicking people out, so,
as mayor, it is my obligation to protect the
residents of my city against discrimina-
tory policies in any way I can,” said Love-
ly Warren, the mayor of Rochester, which
has long defined itself as a “sanctuary
city.”
Upstate cities in New York have been
particularly concerned about Trump’s
Jan. 27 that would block immigrants and
refugees from seven foreign countries
with Muslim majorities from coming to
the U.S.
New York has the second largest im-
migrant population in the nation and the
third largest number of refugees, USA
Today Network’s Albany Bureau report-
ed earlier this month.
Westchester County in 2015 had the
largest percentage of its population who
are not U.S. citizens in the state outside
New York City, federal records showed.
Refugees have continued to enter the
state even after the Jan. 27 order: 193 ref-
ugees since then, with the most in Buffa-
lo, federal records show.
Trump’s order, which he said is needed
to protect the country from terrorism, is
on hold after federal agencies earlier this
month said they would abide by a federal
court decision in Washington state to lift
the travel ban, pending an appeal.
“We have taken decisive action to keep
radical Islamic terrorists out of our coun-
try,” Trump said at a White House press
conference Thursday, calling the courts’
decision an “unsafe ruling.”
Of the nearly 5,000 refugees that set-
tled in New York last year, nearly 94 per-
cent did so outside New York City, finding
safe havens throughout upstate.
Upstate mayors have been outspoken
in opposition to the federal order, and
they have vowed to either bolster or em-
brace status as a “sanctuary city” —
meaning they will not enforce some fed-
FILE PHOTO
Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick.
eral-immigration laws.
“Our country was founded upon the
unalienable rights of life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. Unfortunately, the
president’s executive order does not re-
flect these principles.,” Yonkers Mayor
Mike Spano said in a statement.
Trump has vowed to fight their posi-
tions, threatening to strip federal aid.
“We’ve ordered a crackdown on sanc-
tuary cities that refuse to comply with
federal law and that harbor criminal
aliens,” Trump said.
On Wednesday, some upstate Demo-
cratic state lawmakers urged New York
to add funding to help cities with large
refugee populations.
The cities’ amicus brief in support of
the case,Darweesh v. Trump, argued
their communities would damaged by the
order.
“These deprivations offend the values
of our cities and would inflict deep
wounds on our most basic institutions, in-
cluding our families, businesses, educa-
tional and cultural organizations, and
medical facilities,” the court papers said.
They claimed the order contains no
due process and would not make the
country safer.
“The president’s ban violates both our
Constitution and the values we hold
dear,” New York City Mayor Bill de Bla-
sio said in a statement.
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman
filed papers earlier this month to join the
lawsuit.
The largest cities in the nation signed
onto the amicus brief, including Los An-
geles, Chicago and Philadelphia. Other
New York cities included Schenectady
and Syracuse.

Cuomo plan Baseball: NY’s official sport?

would make
Senator introduces
charity bill plugged by kids
raffles easier in Cooperstown
JON CAMPBELL JOSEPH SPECTOR
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ALBANY — A measure tucked into ALBANY - New York has an official

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s $152.3 billion
budget plan would make it easier for
charities to offer raffles and other
games of chance.
The proposal would ease the rules
for fundraising, allowing charitable
nonprofits to accept
credit cards and checks
for raffle tickets rather
than the cash-only sys-
tem the state currently
allows.
It would also clear the
way for charities to of-
fer alcoholic beverages
Gov. Andrew to raffle winners, allow
Cuomo charities to better ad-
vertise the fundraisers
and make it easier for them to host
gaming fundraisers off their property.
“For too long, red tape and outdated
laws on the books have inhibited the ef-
forts of well-intentioned charities to
raise crucial funds in support of their
good work,” Cuomo said in a statement
Wednesday.
The proposal comes after a number
of charitable raffles and similar games
have run into issues with state rules in
recent years, including popular rubber
duck derbies on the Erie Canal.
Such duck derbies can still happen
in New York, but only after the char-
ities receives a number of authoriza-
tions and clears bureaucratic red tape.
Cuomo’s proposal, however, would
not allow for online sales of raffle
tickets, which his office previously
See RAFFLES, Page 4A
gemstone (the garnet), an official fossil
(the sea scorpion) and an official bush
(the lilac).
But there’s a yawning gap: No offi-
cial sport.
That might change if a central New
York state senator has his way.
Baseball would be named “New
York’s official state sport” under a bill
recently introduced by Sen. James
Seward, a Republican who represents
Cooperstown, the home of the National
Baseball Hall of Fame.
A fourth-grade class at Cooper-
stown Elementary School reached out
to Seward to introduce the bill.
He thought the idea was a home run.
The next NY symbol
“Baseball is known as our national
pastime but the game has deep roots ASSOCIATED PRESS
and a rich history here in New York The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown. State Sen. James Seward,
state,” Seward said in a statement. who represents Cooperstown, wants to make baseball New York's “official sport.”
“From the National Baseball Hall of
Fame and Museum in storied Cooper-
stown, to the Mets and Yankees — the
pinnacles of Major League Baseball — Some of New York’s symbols
to our recently crowned Little League
World Series champions from Maine- New York has more than dozen official state Rose: State flower
Endwell, New York state is clearly the symbols. To add a new one, the state
Ladybug: State insect
epicenter of baseball greatness.” Legislature needs to pass a bill that is signed
Every few years, New York law- by the governor. Bluebird: State bird
makers come up with a new proposal —
Here’s some of them, according to the Beaver: State animal
usually spurred by students in their
Department of State:
district — for a new state symbol. Brook trout: State freshwater fish
In 2011, the big fight at the Capitol Apple: State fruit
Garnet: State gem
was over whether to name sweet corn
Milk: State beverage
or the onion the official state vegeta- Apple muffin: State muffin
ble. Sugar Maple: State tree

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Drunken driver crashed and
overturned vehicle, police say
A 37-year-old drunk driver from
Dryden was arrested after deputies
found him lying next to an overturned
vehicle on Wednesday in Dryden, depu-
ties say.
Jesse Siemon was traveling north on
Thomas Road when he crashed into a
New York State Electric & Gas Corp.
pole, a Tompkins County Sheriff's Of-
fice press release stated. The vehicle
then overturned.
Siemon was transported to a local
hospital for non-life threatening inju-
ries, the release stated. He was
charged with DWI, driving with an
open container and driving at an unrea-
sonable speed.
He was released to a sober party and
is set to appear in the Town of Dryden
Court on March 20.
Two Cortland residents
arrested in meth lab bust
A meth bust Friday led to the arrest
of two Cortlandville residents who had
a meth lab in their home at Lot 14, 15
Kingsley Ave in Cortlandville, police
say.
New York State Police Community
Narcotics Enforcement Team, Special
Operations Response Team, Contami-
nated Crime Scene Emergency Re-
sponse Team, Troop C Uniform Force
and Cortland County Drug Task Force
executed a search warrant at the home
of Glen L. Brenchley III, 43, and Alyce
Sivers, 30, following an investigation in
the manufacturing of methamphet-
amine, a state police press release stat-
ed.
Police found eight spent one-pot
methamphetamine labs, filters, fun-
nels, sulfuric acid, sodium hydroxide, a
coffee grinder with ephedrine residue,
lithium strips and other lab equipment,
the release stated. Brenchley and Siv-
ers were arrested on charges of felony
third-degree unlawful manufacture of
methamphetamine and felony unlaw-
ful disposal of methamphetamine lab
materials.
The New York State Police Contam-
inated Crime Scene Emergency Re-
sponse Team removed the hazardous
materials from the residence for dis-
posal, the release stated. Brenchley
and Sivers were arraigned before the
Town of Cortlandville Court and re-
manded to the Cortland County Jail on
bail.
Raffles
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contended was unconstitutional.
That means it likely won’t save the
popular vintage car raffles held for
years by the Stafford Fire Department
in Genesee County, which ended last
year after the department was told it
couldn’t sell tickets online.
Cuomo’s plan to reform the charita-
ble gaming laws is similar to one he ve-
toed last year. But the bill last year in-
cluded online sales, which Cuomo op-
poses.
Assemblyman Stephen Hawley, R-
Batavia, Genesee County, praised Cuo-
mo for making good on his word to
push for changes to the law early in the
year.
But he said he believes the state can
— and should — allow online raffle
ticket sales if the seller is based in New
York.
“We want to continue to work with
(Cuomo), the Assembly speaker and
the majority leader in the Senate to see
if we can make sure this goes
through,” Hawley said. “But the one
area we have some concern with is the
internet sales.”
The state’s budget is due March 31.
Baseball
Continued from Page 3A
The debate lives on: Neither bill has
passed both the Senate and Assembly.
Home of baseball?
Naming baseball as New York’s offi-
cial sport might be problematic for the
game’s historians.
The belief that baseball was founded
by Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown in
1839 has long been debunked, said John
Thorn, the historian for Major League
Baseball and author of “Baseball in the
Garden of Eden,” the 2011 book the re-
searched the game’s origins.
“Legend always outstrips fact. Abner
Doubleday is the Santa Claus of base-
ball,” Thorn said in an interview Wednes-
day with the USA Today Network’s Alba-
ny Bureau.
He said naming baseball the state’s of-
ficial sport is like “gilding the lily. The
thing is beautiful. It doesn’t need a patina
added to it.”
Defense rests in Clayton trial;
closing arguments are Tuesday
JEFF MURRAY
JMURRAY@ITHACAJOURNAL.COM
The evidence portion of the Thomas
Clayton murder trial is over after the
defense rested Friday morning.
Defense attorney Ray Schlather
called two more witnesses before con-
cluding his presentation.
Clayton, a Binghamton native and
former Elmira Jackals hockey player,
is charged with first- and second-de-
gree murder in connection with the
Sept. 29, 2015 bludgeoning death of his
wife Kelley Clayton
Prosecutors allege that Thomas
Clayton offered former employee Mi-
chael Beard money to kill his wife.
Beard has already been convicted on
the same charges and awaits sentenc-
ing.
Defense attorney Ray Schlather,
who began his case Wednesday after-
noon, called Clayton’s mother, Phyllis,
and her boyfriend, Robert Bates, to the
stand Friday morning.
Bates testified first, and said he
lives in New Jersey and at the time of
Kelley Clayton’s death, was commis-
sary manager for a food service com-
pany that provided dining services at
Monmouth Park Racetrack in Ocean-
port, New Jersey.
Phyllis Clayton was general man-
ager of the food service company at
the time, Bates said.
Bates told the court that the week-
end of Sept. 26-27, 2015 was the final
weekend of the horse racing season,
and that Phyllis Clayton planned to
leave some time Monday to visit
Thomas and Kelley Clayton at their
home in the Town of Caton.
There was a time-off request filled
out by Phyllis Clayton that was pinned
to her office door, Bates said.
He said Phyllis told him she was
only going to work a few hours Mon-
day, Sept. 28, and then drive to New
York, but when he returned home at
3:30 p.m. that day, she was taking a nap.
Phyllis told him she got bogged
down at work and was tired. She did
Reed
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“The sit-in worked!” Nguyen said
on Twitter. “@RepTomReed showed up
in Ithaca. Talking about immigration
and fossil fuels.”
“...It was a cordial discussion and
we do truly appreciate him coming by.
Still much, much disagreement. Hope
he considers concerns.”
Other topics included the Dakota
Access Pipeline, the Affordable Care
Act and his relationship with Ithaca.
Of the 11 upstate New York counties
Reed represents, Tompkins County
was the only one Reed lost in the 2016
election.
Members of the sit-in said they dis-
agreed with Reed’s approval of many
of the president’s policies.
Reed referred to the protesters as
extremists on Wednesday morning’s
“Fox & Friends” and invited them to
town hall meetings he is conducting
this weekend in western New York.
“We support the First Amendment
and know that different opinions are
part of our democracy, and look for-
ward to a respectful conversation,”
Reed said in an emailed statement ear-
lier in the week. “I have held more than
200 town halls since being elected, in-
cluding all counties I represent, and
we will again hold town halls in all 11
counties this year.”
Although the pressure was on Reed,
“Baseball is known as our
national pastime but the
game has deep roots and a
rich history here in New York
state.”
STATE SEN. JAMES SEWARD
Baseball, in various forms, dates back
to the 18th century and in a number of
states, Thorn said.
In fact, New Jersey’s official state
website boasts “Alexander Cartwright is
the father of baseball,” pointing to the
game he organized in Hoboken in 1845.
Cooperstown’s growth
Still, Coopertown thrived after a Mills
Commission in 1905 to investigate base-
ball’s origins used the testimony of Abn-
er Graves, who claimed he saw Double-
day make “changes to a local version of
‘town ball,’” according to the Hall of
Fame’s website.
Kelley Clayton was killed in 2015.
Thomas Clayton, a
Binghamton native and
former Elmira Jackals hockey
player, is charged in the
murder of his wife, Kelley.
not go to New York that day, Bates said.
Special prosecutor Weeden Wetmore
asked Bates about a more than $30,000
check that was made out to him and two
other people.
Bates said he had submitted one of
three bids for remediation at the Clay-
ton home after Kelley’s murder, and that
his was the low bid. He said he never did
any work, however, as Clayton and his
father Scott did most of the work them-
selves.
There was no indication who the
check was from, what other names were
on the check or if it was ever cashed.
Phyllis Clayton confirmed that she
and Bates have been together for six
years and that she was planning to visit
her son and his family the day after the
horse racing season ended.
She said even though she didn’t need
anyone else’s approval to take time off,
the Ithaca constituents said they were
able to understand Reed’s point of view
even though the constituents and Reed
had fundamental disagreements.
“He represents 11 counties and 10 of
those counties are fairly rural,” Mur-
tagh said. “He’s trying to bridge that di-
vide. Last night, we all made attempts to
bridge the divide with conversations on
both sides.”
The Common Council members said
they were grateful for the effort the Ith-
aca Catholic Worker put into the three-
day sit-in at Reed’s Ithaca office.
“From my own experience, we have
not had a strong relationship with his of-
fice,” Murtagh said. “I shouldn’t think it
would be that hard to have a discussion.
The committee’s final report stated,
in part, that “the first scheme for playing
baseball, according to the best evidence
obtainable to date, was devised by Abner
Doubleday at Cooperstown, N.Y. in
1839,” the website said.
That spurred Doubleday Field in the
picturesque village to open in 1920, then
the dedication of the Hall of Fame in 1939
to celebrate the centennial of baseball’s
birth.
Now the museum is a worldwide draw
and the home to the induction ceremony
each summer for new hall of famers.
“Baseball was, it is believed, founded
in Cooperstown by Abner Doubleday,
and New York offers a ‘Birthplace of
Baseball’ license plate,” Seward’s bill
states.
“This legislation is a means of honor-
ing all that this iconic sport has done for
the people of New York since its origina-
tion in Cooperstown in 1839.”
Support at the hall
The hall of fame said Seward’s bill,
which has yet to get an Assembly spon-
sor, is a good idea.
“Cooperstown serves as the spiritual
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she filled out a request Sept. 14 to make
sure that her duties would be covered in
her absence.
Phyllis Clayton also said she discuss-
ed a visit with Kelley Clayton during a
phone call on Sept. 24, and also talked to
Tom about it Sept. 26 and around 8:30
a.m. Sept. 28. At that time, she was still
planning on driving up to Caton from
New Jersey later in the day, she said.
On cross-examination by Wetmore,
Phyllis Clayton said the time off form
that was presented in court was a copy
and that the original had been posted on
her office door and someone later filed
it away.
Wetmore asked Phyllis if she ever
contacted Thomas Clayton or Kelley
Clayton on Sept. 28 to let them know she
was not coming after all, and she said no.
She said they never did that, that the
practice was “I get there when I get
there.”
Kelley Clayton was killed late that
night.
Wetmore did not call any rebuttal
witnesses, and Judge Peter Bradstreet
told the jury that the evidence part of
the trial was over.
As soon as court convened Friday
morning and before the jury was
brought in, Bradstreet told the audience
that he had to clear the courtroom for
consideration of a legal matter. That in-
cluded the attorneys.
Spectators waited in the hall for
about 10 minutes before they were al-
lowed back into the courtroom and the
defense continued its case. The nature
of the legal matter was never disclosed.
The trial started Jan. 9 with jury se-
lection and since that time, Wetmore
called 65 witnesses and introduced
more than 400 pieces of evidence.
Schlather called 10 witnesses for the de-
fense.
The trial is adjourned until 9:30 a.m.
Tuesday. Schlather will make his closing
arguments at that time, followed by
Wetmore’s summation. Bradstreet will
instruct the jury on applicable laws be-
fore they begin their deliberations.
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Ithaca
Catholic
Workers
protested
during a
sit-in at Rep.
Tom Reed's
office in
Ithaca.
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The whole campaign, I thought, was ef-
fective.”
Participants in the discussion said
they hope a town hall meeting may be
held in downtown Ithaca in the spring.
“I don’t think (Reed) will change his
long-term views,” Nguyen said during
an interview Friday. “Hopefully, he may
better engage this part of the district
that feels neglected.”
Reed met with the president and vice
president earlier Thursday to discuss
the controversy that led to the resigna-
tion of National Security Adviser Mi-
chael Flynn.
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on Twitter
home of baseball, our national pastime,
as well as the eternal home of our Hall of
Famers,” the museum’s president, Jeff
Idelson, said in a statement from Sew-
ard’s office.
“Since opening in 1939, more than 16
million fans have made the pilgrimage to
Cooperstown to learn more about the
legends of baseball and to savor the sto-
ries of our game, which are interwoven
into the fabric of American culture and
history.”
Also, New York, particularly New
York City, is tied to the sport’s growth in
the mid 1800s, most notably the New
York Knickerbockers who were one of
the first organized teams.
And as Thorn noted, “This proposal
does no harm, and there will fourth grad-
ers who will be very happy if it passes.”
They sure would.
Anne Reis’ fourth-grade class came
up with the idea as it studied New York
government and symbols.
“The students realized that we lack a
state sport,” Reis said in a statement
from Seward’s office.
“They immediately decided that
baseball would be the perfect fit to fill
the void.”
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Cornell
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North Country.
Cliché? Maybe. Effec-
tive? Definitely.
“I’m sure our guys will
look and find out where
teams are, but there’s a lot
of times, even as coaches,
you get lost and caught up
in the day-to-day prepara-
tion, and that’s the way it
should be,” Schafer said.
“Looking at the standings,
you’re either looking
ahead or you’re looking
back.”
Cornell (16-6-3, 11-4-3
ECACH) is playing some
of its best hockey as the
regular season comes to
an end, earning nine of 10
points in its previous five
games heading into Fri-
day night's matchup at St.
Lawrence University. Go-
ing into the weekend, the
Big Red and the Saints (15-
9-6, 11-4-3) are tied for
third in the conference
with 25 points and hold a
four-point lead over Quin-
nipiac for the final first-
round bye in the confer-
ence tournament. Union
leads the conference with
27 points, and Harvard is
second with 26. The Big
Red, who are ranked No.
12 in the USCHO.com poll,
host Union on Feb. 25 at
Lynah Rink in the final
game of the season before
the playoffs.
The ECACH tourna-
ment begins the first
weekend of March, but if
the Big Red earn a bye,
they would start March
10-12 with home-ice ad-
vantage in a best-of-three
quarterfinal series. Semi-
finalists will meet in Lake
Placid March 17 and 18 for
championship weekend,
which is single elimina-
tion. The 16-team NCAA
Tournament, for which
Cornell has not qualified
since 2012, begins the fol-
lowing week with the six
conference champions
and 10 at-large selections
split into four regionals.
The Big Red, who won
national titles in 1967 and
1970, have been on the
wrong side of the bubble
of the NCAA tournament
recently, but the players
are not worrying about
what happened then, only
on what can happen now.
“(The thoughts) are
there, but we’re focused
on this year’s group,” said
sophomore forward
Mitch Vanderlaan, who
leads the team in scoring
with 20 points. “We want
to make sure we get a spot
at Lake Placid and the
bye, and in the NCAA
tournament if it comes to
that.”
Cornell was knocked
out of the ECACH tourna-
ment by national runner-
up Quinnipiac in the quar-
terfinals last season. The
Big Red last made the
semifinals in 2014, last ad-
vanced to the title game in
2011, and last won the con-
ference championship in
2010 — its 12th.
With no players among
the top 50 scorers in
NCAA Division I, the Big
Red’s success has come
with strong goaltending,
team defense and a bal-
anced scoring attack. Cor-
nell ranks seventh in Divi-
sion I in goals allowed
(third in ECACH) and 13th
in the penalty kill. Among
the scorers, three players
are tied for the team lead
with 10 goals.
The similarities among
the players make for a
competitive environ-
ment.
“There’s internal com-
petitions all over the
team,” said sophomore
defenseman Matt Nuttle.
“That starts with you
wanting to be the best in
your class, position, ev-
erything. It’s healthy to
have that competition,
and I think we all embrace
it.”
Vanderlaan leads the
Big Red with 10 goals and
20 points, junior forward
Trevor Yates has 10 goals
and 19 points, and sopho-
more forward Anthony
Angello, of Manlius, has
10 goals and 16 points. Sen-
ior defenseman Patrick
McCarron leads Cornell
with 15 assists and is tied
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THOMAS LA BARBERA / CORRESPONDENT PHOTO
Senior captain Jake Weidner leads all forwards in NCAA Division I with 61 blocked shots heading into Friday’s game against St. Lawrence.
defense if they ever had
the need. The 6-foot-2-
inch forward is usually
matched against the oppo-
nent’s top scoring line as
well — not only to limit the
opposing line’s produc-
tion but also to use his two-
way ability to generate of-
fense.
“Jake loves to play the
game and doesn’t really
care about individual sta-
tistics and honors,” Schaf-
er said. “When you get a
captain like that who just
wants to win and wants to
play hard, it’s just conta-
gious to the rest of the
team.”
Cornell has scored four
or more goals in four of its
past five games during
the unbeaten streak. An-
gello has also stepped up
offensively for the Big
Red, notching five goals
in his past five games
heading into Friday at St.
Lawrence. He scored
twice in a 5-3 victory the
past Sunday at Brown,
and also scored against
THOMAS LA BARBERA / CORRESPONDENT PHOTO Yale the day before in a
The Cornell band performs at Lynah Rink on Feb. 11 as the Big Red and Yale skated to a 2-2 tie. 2-2 tie.
The man whose perfor-
mance will most correlate
ECAC HOCKEY STANDINGS whose contributions may to a strong postseason is
go unnoticed at times is senior goalie Mitch Gil-
Conference Overall senior captain Jake lam. The senior has ap-
PTS W-L-T W-L-T GF GA Weidner, who is Cornell’s peared in 24 of Cornell’s
Union 27 13-4-1 20-8-2 116 86 top faceoff man. In addi- 25 games, earning a 16-5-3
Harvard 26 12-4-2 18-5-2 101 58 tion to his five goals and 10 record with a 2.16 goals-
Cornell 25 11-4-3 16-6-3 76 55 assists, Weidner also against average and a .917
St. Lawrence 25 11-4-3 15-9-6 87 67 leads all Division I for- save percentage. Gillam
Quinnipiac 21 10-7-1 16-12-2 88 79
wards by a large margin has started all but one of
with 61 blocked shots. He the Big Red’s games over
Clarkson 18 8-8-2 13-13-4 92 89
is fifth overall in the na- the past two seasons. He
Yale 16 6-8-4 10-10-5 74 74 tion in that category — a recorded his 10th shutout
Princeton 15 6-9-3 11-11-3 75 85 rare feat for a forward. of his career two weeks
Dartmouth 14 6-10-2 9-13-3 67 83 Weidner plays on the ago against Colgate with a
Colgate 14 6-10-2 8-17-5 65 94 penalty kill and has been 28-save performance in a
Rensselaer 8 4-14 6-24-1 67 113 used at all three forward 4-0 victory.
Brown 7 3-14-1 4-19-2 57 99 positions. Schafer said Follow @SteinTime44
Weidner also could play on Twitter.
for second in points with fortable with a lot of dif-
19. ferent guys, because we
Schafer has been expect the same from ev-
forced to juggle the lines erybody,” said Vander-
much of the season, with laan, who came into the
injuries and other factors season slimmer, which
weighing on the decisions, Schafer thinks has helped
but Vanderlaan down-
played a need for consis-
his offense and defense.
“Everybody can pass, EVERY THEATER
tent lines.
“We all practice to-
shoot and score, so it’s a
group of guys which you NEEDS ITS STAGE
gether all of the time; we feel comfortable playing
do different types of drills with anybody.”
together, and you get com- One of the players
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until she moved to an Assisted Living Facility in accused foster parents were partly to blame, the re-
port said. Substandard abuse investigations were an-
Ithaca. After retirement Sally enjoyed life traveling other issue. But the biggest problem, the report said,
the world spreading her love of life and music. was the simple failure of the four governmental and
Hall, Gerald (Jerry) D. There will be a celebration of her life for all who one nonprofit child-welfare agencies to share infor-
would like to remember and honor this remarkable mation.
Gerald (Jerry) D. Hall, 85, of Ithaca, NY, passed woman and all the joy she brought to others in late One agency, the Suffolk County Department of So-
away Monday, February 13 2017, at Cayuga Ridge. July, 2017. Time and location will be announced cial Services, became so concerned with the number
Gerald was born in Delhi, NY, on July 5, 1931, son through a webpage (www.sallyg.net). In lieu of of suspected abuse reports against Gonzales-Mugabu-
of the late Maurice and Gladys Hall. He is survived flowers if you would like to honor her, please make ru in 2002 that it asked a contractor to stop placing
by wife of 48 years, Patricia Hall, his daughter children with him.
a donation to your favorite charity in her memory. Yet, the agency did not document the reasoning be-
Melissa Hall, grandchildren Lily and Jackson, and
daughter Erin Bangert, spouse Martin, numerous hind that decision or communicate it to anyone in writ-
ing, including other agencies that were also sending
cousins, brothers and sisters in-law, nieces, nephews, children to the home, the grand jury report said. It
and friends. identifies Gonzales-Mugaburu only by the letter “A,”
Gerald graduated from Ithaca High School in 1949. Van Benschoten , but its description of the allegations against him are
Shortly after joined the navy reserves. His passion Sandra “Sandy” Louise identical to facts that have been made public in his
was farming, and being outdoors, but also worked (Rockwell) criminal proceeding.
for 28 years at Cornell University where he retired. Sandra “Sandy” “The foster care system in the state of New York is
A funeral service will be officiated by Rev. a bureaucratic nightmare,” said Suffolk District At-
Louise (Rockwell) Van torney Thomas Spota, who empaneled the grand jury.
Kirianne Weaver Riehl on Monday, February Benschoten of King “There has to be some corrections that are made, espe-
20th, at 2:00pm. The family will receive friends Ferry, NY (and formerly cially with respect to how these agencies interact with
from 1:00 P.M. till the time of service at the First of Ithaca), passed away each other.”
Presbyterian Church, 315 N Cayuga Street, Ithaca, peacefully surrounded The report recommended a number of reforms.
NY. Arrangements are entrusted to Herson-Wagner by her family on Among them: The state should get rid of the statute of
Funeral home, online condolences may be left at February 14, 2017 due limitations for prosecuting child sex abuse, create a
hersonwagnerfuneralhome.com. to the cumulative effects of her 42 year struggle central registry of foster homes and widen access to
reports of abuse, even if they have been determined to
with Multiple Sclerosis (“MS”). She had recently be unfounded.
celebrated her 69th birthday, having been born on The break that led to Gonzales-Mugaburu’s arrest
Marion, Ivan January 26, 1948 in Cortland, NY to Ross A. and came early last year after detectives say two brothers
Ivan Marion, 95, of Bradenton, FL formerly of Betty J. (Gallow) Rockwell, both predeceasing her. came forward with credible stories of abuse. Others
Ellenton, FL and Dryden, NY passed away at his Sandy was a 1966 graduate of Groton Central credible accusers followed.
residence on Friday, February 10, 2017. School. Soon after her graduation she started Gonzales-Mugaburu, 60, now faces trial next
Ivan was born on December 2, 1921 in Solon, NY working at Ithaca College on July 1, 1966. She began month on charges he sexually abused eight children as
to the late Lester and Nita Hall Marion. He served in Public Affairs, moving in 1973 to Athletics where young as 8 years old inside his home in Ridge, on east-
ern Long Island. Prosecutors said statute of limita-
his country faithfully in United States Army during she enjoyed working over the years for multiple tions laws precluded them from bringing even more
World War II with the 91st Armored Calvary Athletic Directors, hundreds of coaches and staff charges.
Squadron in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. He was and thousands of student-athletes, ending only when Gonzales-Mugaburu has pleaded not guilty. His at-
promoted to the rank of Sergeant and commanded the effects of MS forced her to retire on disability in torney says he denies ever abusing children and con-
a Tank on his own. Following his military service he July 2005. In 2008, she was shocked and humbled tends the accusers are lying.
worked as an Electrician in the Dryden, NY area. to receive word that she would be inducted into the Prosecutors say Gonzales-Mugaburu earned more
While living in Dryden he was a member of The First Ithaca College Athletics Hall of Fame, the first and than $1.5 million in tax-free income caring for foster
Presbyterian Church of Dryden, Veterans of Foreign so far only non-Athlete, Coach or Administrator to children between 1996 and his arrest in January 2016.
All of them were boys, including many deemed to re-
Wars Post 8158 of Dryden, Leonard T. Spaulding be so honored. It was at Ithaca College where she quire special treatment because of emotional or phys-
Post 1134, American Legion and the IBEW Electrical met her life partner, Guy, and they married June 5, ical challenges.
Workers Union in Ithaca, NY. 1976. New York’s clearinghouse for suspected child
Ivan and his beloved wife Eleanor would later on, Sandy is survived by her husband Guy; daughter abuse complaints received 18 reports regarding Gon-
after his retirement in 1986, become winter residents Megan (Tyler) Wagenet of Ithaca and their zales-Mugaburu as far back as 1998, each of which was
of Ellenton, FL. In 1992 the Marion’s actually children Natalie and Ryan; son John (Katrina) investigated by Suffolk County child welfare offi-
moved and became permanent residents of Ellenton Van Benschoten of Rye Brook, NY and their cials.
until 2014 when he moved to the Westminster Shores daughter Olivia; brother Gary (Robin) Rockwell of Some were for less serious issues, including failing
to fill a child’s eyeglasses prescription. There was also
Retirement Community in Bradenton, FL where he Charlottesville, VA, sister Karen (Michael) Porter of at least one allegation of sexual abuse. One complaint,
lived until his passing. In Florida he was a member Cortland, NY; aunt Joyce Stewart of Wellsboro, PA; involving a child with bruises, went as far as a formal
of the First Presbyterian Church of Bradenton. and uncle Gerald (Joan) Rockwell of Alabaster, AL, hearing before officials decided the allegations were
He was predeceased by his beloved wife of 70 years, as well as several cousins, nieces, and nephews. false.
Eleanor in June of 2012, a son, James in February Friends are invited to join Sandy’s family at a All the complaints were ultimately deemed by in-
2015; a brother, Willis Marion; a sister Irene DeOrsey Celebration of Sandy’s life on Saturday, May 20, 2017, vestigators to be unfounded.
and his son-in-law, Gil Rejman. beginning at 11:00 am at the King Ferry / Treleaven Still, in 2001 or 2002, Suffolk County’s Department
Ivan is survived by his loving daughter, Connie Winery in King Ferry, NY. Additional details will of Social Services “verbally requested” that SCO Fam-
ily of Services, one of the state’s largest foster home
Rejman of Venice Center, NY; daughter in law, be provided via social media and the Bangs Funeral providers, stop placing children with Gonzales-Muga-
Cheryl Marion of Grahamsville, NY; two sisters, Home website (http://www.bangsfuneralhome.com). buru, according to the grand jury report. But that re-
Lois Fox of Dryden, NY and Shirley Dickens of In lieu of flowers, those wishing to make a charitable quest was apparently never communicated in writing
Venice, FL and Newfield, NY; a grandson; two contribution may make donations to: Wonderful and no one could explain how the notification oc-
granddaughters; one great grandson and many Wheelchairs, c/o Lifelong Friends, 119 W. Court curred.
extended family members and friends in Florida and St., Ithaca, NY 14850 in memory of Sandy Van B. “One witness, in fact, testified that this notification
New York. Wonderful Wheelchairs is a nonprofit group that could have potentially have been made in passing dur-
A service for Ivan will be held in May at a time to provides wheelchair and other mobility devices ing a conversation in a hallway,” the report said.
“For some reason, and with tragic results,” the
be announced when he will be laid to rest next to to those needing assistance in the Tompkins and grand jury wrote, the decision was never communi-
his beloved wife at Willow Glen Cemetery, Dryden, surrounding areas. cated to other agencies, including New York City’s
NY. Military honors will be provided by the Dryden For those asking what they can do to help, Sandy massive child welfare agency, the Administration for
Veterans Memorial Home Ritual Team. The family and Guy ask that you work with your Primary Children’s Services, which continued to place dozens
requests that in lieu of flowers, memorials be made Care Provider to complete a Medical Order of Life- of children with Gonzales-Mugaburu.
to the First Presbyterian Church, P.O. Box 42., Sustaining Treatment (“MOLST”) form while still The grand jury specifically criticized an arrange-
Dryden, NY 13053 or First Presbyterian Church, fully alert and competent. It removes a huge burden ment under which the New York City agency ceded re-
1402 Manatee Avenue West, Bradenton, FL 34205 from your loved ones in case you are unable to speak sponsibility for overseeing case management to SCO
Family of Services because of a special state waiver.
in his memory. www.perkinsfuneralhome.com for yourself. “There was virtually no contact by ACS with these
children or the foster parent,” Spota said. “They ba-
sically delegated every single responsibility they had
to these nonprofit agencies and said to them, ‘They’re
yours. Goodbye.’ And that is so wrong.”

Express
SCO Family of Services said it never uncovered ev-
idence of sexual abuse or improper sexual behavior in
the home. But the organization’s chief strategy offi-

your
cer, Rose Anello, said last summer there were other
issues, “and in retrospect and knowing what we know
now, a decision to close the home should have been
made at that time.”

condolences...
SCO said it has worked with the state, ACS and Suf-
folk County “to diligently address each and every con-
cern about the quality of care provided in this home.”
Spokeswoman Leslie Johnson’s statement added the
agency has “undertaken a rigorous corrective action
ithacajournal.com/obituaries plan to ensure complete transparency and significant-
ly strengthen our foster care program. We are hopeful
the findings included in this report will advance mean-
ingful and systemic foster care reform in New York.”
ACS and Suffolk County child welfare department
representatives did not immediately respond to re-
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I am an American We are One Nation

CORONER BATTLES HEROIN EPIDEMIC

Spike in addiction deaths Q&A WITH PAM GAY
spurs official to challenge What does it mean to you to be an
American?
how problem is treated I am so thankful to be an American. A
friend of mine who lives in a less ad-
vanced country once reminded me that
MIKE ARGENTO people do not get to choose where they
USA TODAY NETWORK are born, and many times that simple de-
mographic detail of where one is born
Each week, this series will introduce can be the factor that determines how
you to an exceptional American who is long they will live, quality of life and if
making a difference to unite, rather than they will ever enjoy the freedoms that
divide, our communities. To read more we are afforded simply by being born
about the American profiled here and here.
more average Americans doing excep-
tional things, visit onenation.usatoday What moment touched and motivated
.com you to launch this effort?
Two things: One happened 13 years ago
When Pam Gay ran for coroner of when my husband and I suddenly were
York County, Pa., heroin wasn’t consid- caught up in the world of drug and alco-
ered a major public health issue. hol addiction when we discovered that
The number of heroin overdoses had our niece was an addict. Fast forward to
been fairly steady, 10 to 12 a year. But in 2014 when I first became coroner, one of
2013, the office investigated 17 overdos- our earliest decedents, who died from
es, and Gay’s chief deputy warned, “I her heroin addiction, was a young moth-
think this may be a problem for us next er of two children who had recently been
year.” working hard to get sober. The media
It was. picked up on the story, and suddenly our
Not a month after Gay took office, the community realized we were in the mid-
number of heroin deaths had already ex- dle of something unlike anything we had
ceeded the number from the previous experienced before.
year. “That’s when we really knew that
we were facing a real problem,” she said. What gives me hope?
By the end of 2014, her first year in of- People give me hope. Especially all the
fice, 62 people died from heroin overdos- wonderful people I’ve met in the three
es, ranking mostly rural York County years I’ve been involved in this effort.
sixth among Pennsylvania’s 67 counties People who’ve lost children and parents,
in per capita heroin deaths. people in recovery from heroin or other
Gay knew then that her role as coro- CHRIS DUNN/USA TODAY NETWORK opioid addiction who bravely tell their
ner would change. In Pennsylvania, cor- York County Coroner Pam Gay saw the heroin-related death total spike in 2014. She has since story, people who are leading efforts to
oners are charged with determining the become an advocate for addiction treatment and helps lead the York County Heroin Task Force. help in the rehab/recovery process,
cause and manner of unattended deaths. elected officials who are trying to learn
Medical training is not a prerequisite, and other first-responders with nalox- as much as they can to craft helpful leg-
but Gay had worked as an emergency de- one, which reverses the effects of an islation, hospital ED physicians and
partment nurse and as an educator. overdose. The drug had been used in Pam Gay nurses and law enforcement/EMS/fire
She also had experience dealing with emergency rooms for years, she said. It’s Location: York County, Pa. departments who administer naloxone
addicts. Her niece had been addicted to easy to use, it is effective and it could during overdose without reservation. All
alcohol and crack, and Gay and her hus- save lives. Age: 55 of these people inspire me to keep fight-
band were drawn into her life, raising Since April 2015, police and first re- Profession: York County Coroner ing this fight.
her children while she struggled with ad- sponders have used naloxone to save
diction. It gave her “a different perspec- more than 330 people. Mission: To use her office to combat the What do I hope to accomplish?
tive” on the issue, she said. (Her niece “I’m just doing my job,” she said. opioid epidemic I hope that through our office being so
has been sober for a decade, and they are “This is what we have to deal with.” vocal about this issue of heroin and
very close now.) opioid addiction that we would one day
Gay set about transforming the coro- see a month, several months, even a year
ner’s office. She became an advocate for go by without a death from this disease.
treatment, specifically methadone ther-
apy. She was a leader in the county’s her- Nominate an American
oin task force. She helped bring a needle- Who are your American heroes? Share stories and nominees at onenation.usatoday.com or via
exchange program to the county. email to onenation@usatoday.com or post a video submission to Twitter, Facebook or Instagram
And she campaigned to equip police (no longer than 2 minutes, please) with the hashtags #IAmAnAmerican #WeAreOneNation.

Four wounded in Binghamton

shooting; police hunt suspect
ANTHONY BORRELLI
ABORRELLI@ITHACAJOURNAL.COM
A fight inside a deli on Susquehanna Street erupted
into a shooting Friday, wounding four people and send-
ing Binghamton police on a hunt for the suspect.
Officers who converged outside 121 Susquehanna
St. after a 911 call around 2:40 p.m. reported shots fired
initially had a difficult time piecing together the “why”
and “how” behind the shooting, according to Bingham-
ton Police Chief Joseph Zikuski. During the initial min-
utes of their investigation, he said, officers who spoke
to witnesses learned limited details about the incident.
Four victims — police did not release their identi-
ties or details of all their injuries — were rushed to
Lourdes Hospital and UHS Wilson Medical Center. Po-
lice said one of the victims was grazed by a bullet, and
an initial assessment of all the wounded did not indi-
cate any life-threatening injuries.
The immediate focus for investigators Friday was a
close look at the area surrounding the crime scene.
“Inside the store, the place is a wreck, the displays
are tipped over ... so there was obviously a fight in the
store, which I’m guessing led to the shooting,” Zikuski
said. “There’s substantial evidence in there.”
Police did not say what could have sparked the fight.
Investigators also found blood outside the deli during
their initial sweep of the crime scene, Zikuski said.
Witnesses were interviewed inside and around
crime scene tape, and a police dog sniffed around the
surrounding neighborhood into downtown.
Several cars fled the scene after the gunshots, and a
description of the suspect was not immediately avail-
able, according to Zikuski, nor was it immediately
clear to police whether the suspect was wounded as
well.
Initial reports from police indicated a male in his
20s was a possible suspect.
The investigation remained active late Friday, and ANDREW THAYER / STAFF PHOTO
anyone with information about the incident was asked Police near the scene of a shooting Friday inside a deli at 121
to contact the Binghamton Police Detective Bureau at Susquehanna St. in Binghamton.
607-372-0645.
On Twitter: Follow @PSBABorrell
Staff writer Maggie Gilroy contributed to this report.
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City of Ithaca Temporary Mandatory Planned Unit Development (TMPUD)

Public Information Session: Proposed Inlet Island Development Project
Day: February 27, 2017
Time: 5:00 PM
Place: 2nd Floor Conference Room, City Hall
108 E. Green St., Ithaca, New York

On February 27, 2017, the City of Ithaca will hold a Public

Information Session for a proposed project on Inlet Island. The
Public Information Session will begin at 5:00 PM, in the 2nd Floor
Conference Room in City Hall, 108 E. Green Street, Ithaca. In
accordance with the requirements of the City of Ithaca Temporary
Mandatory Planned Unit Development (TMPUD), the developer and
project team will present information about the project and answer
questions from the public.

The proposed project involves the construction of 8 attached

townhomes on Inlet Island, on a .242 acre lot. The townhomes will
contain up to 2 dwelling units each for a maximum total of 16 units
and 8 parking spaces. The applicant is proposing zoning for the site
that is identical to the WF-2 Zoning District.

For questions regarding this project, or to see the completed TMPUD

application, please contact Jennifer Kusznir at jkusznir@cityofithaca.
org, or 274-6550.

Department of Planning, Building, Zoning, & Economic Development

108 E. Green St., Third Floor, City of Ithaca (City Hall)
ANDREW THAYER / STAFF PHOTO Ithaca, New York 14850
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vWashington: Trump hires

communications director
President Donald Trump plans to ap-
point the founder of a conservative
media relations firm to be his White
House communications director, an offi-
cial confirmed Friday.
Mike Dubke, founder of Crossroads
Media, follows Jason Miller, who accept-
ed the communications director job but
changed his mind in December, citing
family reasons.
Dubke has essentially already started;
he was spotted at Trump’s news confer-
ence Thursday.
vOcala, Fla.: Man accused
of plot to bomb Targets
A Florida man is accused in a plot to
bomb several Target stores along the
East Coast in an attempt to acquire
cheap stock if the company’s stock value
plunged after the explosions.
Mark Charles Barnett, 48, was
charged in a criminal complaint filed
Thursday with possession of a firearm
affecting commerce by a previously con-
victed felon, according to the U.S. Attor- JOHN MOORE/GETTY IMAGES

ney’s Office. Barnett, a registered sex Border Patrol agent Nicole Ballistrea watches over the U.S.-Mexico border fence in Nogales, Ariz. A Homeland Security
offender in Florida, faces up to 10 years Department memo suggested National Guard troops could be mobilized to round up immigrants in the country illegally.
in prison if convicted.

Memo eyed immigration

According to an affidavit, Barnett of-
fered to pay another man $10,000 to
place at least 10 “improvised explosive
bombs” disguised in food packages on
store shelves from New York to Florida.
vWashington: Jewish
group opposes envoy pick
The leaders of the largest branch of
American Judaism declared their oppo-
sition Friday to the combative attorney
President Donald Trump selected to be
his envoy to Israel, citing his “extreme
views” and dearth of foreign policy
experience.
The liberal Union for Reform Judaism
said in a statement that David Friedman
is the wrong person for the job at a criti-
cal time. The group is the largest associa-
tion of synagogues in America.
Friedman apologized for past remarks
and pledged to be “respectful and mea-
sured” should he be confirmed as ambas-
sador to Israel.
vUnited Nations agency:
1M Ukrainian kids need aid
An estimated 1 million children need
humanitarian aid as fighting persists in
eastern Ukraine between government
forces and pro-Russia rebels, the United
Nations International Children’s Fund
said Friday.
That is nearly double the number of
children in need a year ago, according to
UNICEF, which said 1 in 5 of the more
than 740 schools in eastern Ukraine has
been damaged or destroyed.
At least 33 people, including civilians,
were killed and several dozen injured in
fighting earlier this month in eastern Uk-
raine, the Associated Press reported. The
death toll in the fighting that started in
duty for National Guard
White House says
report of Homeland
Security plan ‘false’
Donovan Slack
and Kevin Johnson
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON An internal De-
partment of Homeland Security
memo from last month pro-
posed calling up as many as
100,000 National Guard troops
to round up undocumented im-
migrants, an agency official said
Friday.
But DHS spokeswoman Gil-
lian Christensen said the me-
mo, dated Jan. 25, was an early
draft document that was not se-
riously considered.
“The department is not con-
sidering mobilizing the Nation-
al Guard,” Christensen said in a
statement to USA TODAY.
The memo was first reported
by the Associated Press, which
drew an angry White House re-
sponse. Press secretary Sean
Spicer said the AP report was
“100 percent not true.”
“It is false,” he said. “It is ir-
responsible to be saying this.”
Nevertheless, the draft me-
mo by Homeland Security Sec-
retary John Kelly said troops in
11 states could be mobilized, in-
cluding those bordering Mexico
and as far north as Oregon.
They would be authorized “to
perform the functions of an im-
migration officer in relation to
the investigation, apprehension
and detention of aliens in the
United States.”
The memo said Trump had
determined that detaining im-
migrants would have “a signifi-
cant deterrent effect on illegal
immigration.”
Four states that border Mex-
ico were included in the pro-
posal — California, Arizona,
New Mexico and Texas — but it
also encompasses Oregon, Ne-
vada, Utah, Colorado, Oklaho-
ma, Arkansas and Louisiana.
The memo was written the
same day President Donald
Trump issued an executive or-
der directing federal agencies to
“employ all lawful means to en-
sure the faithful execution of
the immigration laws of the
United States against all remov-
able aliens.” It is addressed to
the then-heads of Immigration
and Customs Enforcement and
U.S. Customs and Border
Protection.
The memo was meant to
work with the executive order
and “implements new policy
designed to deter illegal immi-
gration and facilitate the detec-
tion, apprehension, detention,
and removal of aliens who have
no lawful authority to enter or
remain in the United States.”
On Friday, Spicer told report-
ers aboard Air Force One that
“there is no effort at all to
round up, to utilize the Nation-
al Guard to round up illegal
immigrants.”
He said it is “not a White
House document,” but he could
not rule out whether it had
been under discussion else-
where in the administration.
“I don’t know what could po-
tentially be out there, but I
know that there is no effort to
do what is potentially suggest-
ed,” he said.
Pro-immigrant groups and
Democratic members of Con-
gress were quick in reacting.
“The proposed use of our na-
tion’s military personnel in
such a manner is eerily remi-
niscent of the dark days of
World War II when Japanese-
Americans faced similar treat-
ment,” said Robert McCaw, gov-
ernment affairs director for the
Council on American-Islamic
Relations.
Rep. Kurt Schrader, a Demo-
crat from Oregon, called the
proposal “dangerous” and
wrote on Twitter that it “serves
only to tear apart & destroy
American businesses.”
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchin-
son told the AP that his state
had not received any contact
about the proposal, but “I
would have concerns about the
utilization of National Guard
resources for immigration en-
forcement. I believe it would be
too much of a strain on our Na-
tional Guard personnel.”
Contributing: Associated
Press

Senate confirms Pruitt for EPA

April 2014 has now reached more than
9,800, according to the U.N.
vSpain: Princess found not
guilty in tax fraud case
In a wide-ranging tax fraud case that
captivated Spain, Princess Cristina was
found not guilty Friday of being an acces-
sory to fraud, but her husband was con-
victed and sentenced to more than six
years in prison.
A panel of judges ruled that Cristina,
the 51-year-old sister of King Felipe VI,
will be required to pay more than
$280,000 in fines because the court con-
siders that she indirectly benefited from
the fraud.
Her husband, Inaki Urdangarin, was
found guilty of evading taxes and fraud.
He was sentenced to six years and three
months in prison and fined $545,000.
Democrats fail
to delay vote until
emails are released
Erin Kelly
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON The Senate vot-
ed Friday to confirm Scott
Pruitt to lead the Environmen-
tal Protection Agency despite a
last-ditch effort by Democrats
to delay the vote.
The vote was 52-46 to con-
firm Pruitt. Republican Sen. Su-
san Collins of Maine voted
against Pruitt’s confirmation.
Democratic Sens. Heidi Heit-
kamp of North Dakota and Joe
Manchin of West Virginia
joined the rest of the Republi-
cans in voting to approve him.
An Oklahoma judge ruled
late Thursday that Pruitt must
release about 3,000 emails re-
lating to his communications
with oil, gas and coal companies
while he served as Oklahoma’s
attorney general. Pruitt must
turn over the first batch of
emails by Tuesday, followed by
the rest several days later.
The Center for Media and
Democracy, a liberal watchdog
group, had asked the court to
order the release of Pruitt’s
emails under the state’s open
records law.
But Republican leaders made
clear Friday morning that they
intended to proceed with a con-
firmation vote despite Demo-
crats’ calls to delay until the
emails are made public.
“If it wasn’t one thing, it’d be
another,” said Senate Majority
to delay the vote just for delay’s
sake.
Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. “I have no interest in ob-
“The effort
(by Demo-
structing,” Carper said. “I want
the truth.”
crats) has Democrats said Republicans
been to delay might regret pushing through
the nomina- Pruitt’s nomination once they
tions they see the emails.
have made “The majority leader is put-
controversial ting Republicans in an awful
as long as spot,” said Sen. Brian Schatz,
possible in D-Hawaii.
order to play Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.,
Scott Pruitt to their left- made a motion to extend de-
wing base bate on Pruitt’s nomination for
that will not accept the results an additional 248 hours, until
of last year’s election. ... They 9 p.m. Feb. 27, to give senators a
want to give their left-wing agi- chance to read the first batch of
tators enough time to get up Pruitt’s emails. Republicans de-
and get organized.” feated that motion, which took
Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., place immediately before the
said Democrats weren’t trying confirmation vote.

NASA wants you — to find a missing planet

PAUL HELLSTERN/THE OKLAHOMAN VIA AP
Tech Sgt. Michael Gilliam greets his 11-
month-old-daughter, Adelaide, during a
homecoming Friday in Oklahoma City for
troops back from Turkey.
USA TODAY
Want to work for NASA from
the comfort of your couch? The
space agency is looking to fulfill
an amateur astronomer’s
dream: credit for the discovery
of a new planet.
NASA is looking for help to
find the mysterious Planet 9,
which astronomers think might
be the most distant planet in
our solar system.
A new website — Backyard
Worlds: Planet 9 — lets people
comb through footage captured
by the Wide-field Infrared Sur-
vey Explorer mission a few
years ago. The footage shows
objects gradually moving across
the sky. “There are too many
images for us to search through
by ourselves,” NASA said.
In this case, people are better
than computers at spotting and
identifying objects, such as a
planet, in the footage. Human
eyes can easily recognize the
important moving objects
while ignoring the background
stars and other objects that
computer programs would flag.
Astronomers believe the
planet exists because of strange
orbits of other distant objects
that spin beyond Neptune.
Pluto was the ninth planet
before its demotion to dwarf
planet status 10 years ago.
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V I OE PW IPNOI IONNT S
EDITORIAL BOARD
NEILL BOROWSKI, EXECUTIVE EDITOR WWW.ITHACAJOURNAL.COM/OPINION
CHRIS KOCHER, ENGAGEMENT EDITOR ITH-LETTERS@ITHACAJOURNAL.COM

OUR OPINION

Rep. Reed, stop ignoring Ithaca constituents

Why won’t Rep. Reed face Ithaca
voters? It’s way past time to hear their
concerns.
Finally, U.S. Rep Tom Reed showed
his face in Ithaca. It’s been close to a
year.
The Republican congressman met
with the president and vice president
on Thursday, and he later arrived at his
Ithaca office around 10:30 p.m. Greet-
ing him were the protestors from Itha-
ca Catholic Workers who have been
staying at the site.
Reed spent about two hours meeting
with the small group, discussing their
concerns.
Nice of him to show, but the pro-
testors don’t represent the point of
view of every Ithaca area resident.
The congressman has been holding
his trademark town-hall meetings in
generally solid Trump areas in New
York — spots where he apparently
feels welcomed and shares the point of
view of local residents.
But being an effective elected lead-
er doesn’t mean staying in your com-
fort zone.
Ithaca is dying for a town-hall meet-
ing. Many have invited him.
Yet, nothing is on Reed’s schedule
for Ithaca.
He’s out there: Today, Feb. 18, he’s
scheduled four town-hall discussions in
North Harmony, Cherry Creek, Great
Valley and Fillmore.
On a recent media call, Reed main-
tained he wasn’t avoiding Ithaca.
“When you have a district the size of
New Jersey, we do our best to cover
the entire district and I’m sure in due
time, those conversations will be held,”
the Ithaca Times quoted Reed as say-
ing.
(Congressional District 23 in New
York covers 7,990 square miles of land
and water, according to the Census
Bureau. New Jersey covers 8,723
square miles, according to the bureau.
So Reed’s estimate is close.)
But is the lack of a town-hall meet-
ing in Ithaca — a hotbed of liberalism
different to what Reed is used to — a
function of mileage on his car or a
function of wanting to hear only the
most welcoming messages from his
constituents?
We urge Reed to schedule a town-
hall meeting in Ithaca in the next two
months. Show you’re not afraid to hear
points of views differing from your
own. Demonstrate you represent every
resident of the 23rd District and not
just the ones who voted for you.
We urge Ithaca area residents who
want a meeting to request one through
the easy-to-use form for meeting re-
quests on the congressman’s web site.
And, if a meeting does not get sched-
uled, we urge Ithaca residents to rent
buses (maybe with some business spon-
sorship?) and show up at one of the
far-flung town-hall meetings Reed has
scheduled. Of course, a long bus ride
will put Reed’s constituents in a differ-
ent mood compared to a quick drive
across town.
Represent — and listen to — every-
one, Congressman Reed.

YOUR OPINION
YOUR OPINION
Both parties led
Tax cap to rise of Trump
discriminates KRIS HODGES

Mr. Carl Hayden brings up valid points about

against the rise of Donald Trump (“The Unlikely Presi-

dency of Donald J. Trump,” Feb. 11). However, he
forgets to mention the drip, drip, drip of the past

BOCES 40 years of Democratic Party abandonment of

KATHY ZAHLER
If a local school district wants to build a
state-of-the-art auditorium or refurbish a lec-
ture hall to support distance learning, it can do
so, secure in the knowledge that when it comes
time to pay back any debt incurred from that
building project, that debt service will not count
toward the cap on the district’s tax levy.
It’s different at Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga BOC-
ES. First, BOCES cannot raise its own money.
Any BOCES building project is paid for by the
districts in that BOCES region. Second, because
the law exempting school district building pro-
jects from the tax cap does not specifically
mention BOCES, the commissioner of tax and
finance chooses to interpret that as meaning
that BOCES building projects may affect the
tax cap calculations of our local districts.
At TST BOCES, our buildings are straining at
the seams. Last year, our districts spent nearly
$1.5 million sending students to placements
outside the region. If we had the funds to add
classrooms, these needy students could be edu-
cated closer to home.
Districts are clamoring for more programs
for students with autism and other special
needs, but we cannot accommodate them all in
our current buildings. On the Career & Tech
side of campus, there is increasing interest in
alternate pathways to graduation that involve
hands-on, technical skills that lead to well-pay-
ing jobs. But there is no place to put those stu-
dents.
It is currently impossible for our districts to
cover the costs of a major project that would
add space and bring all of our students back to
Tompkins County. Several districts would go
over the tax cap immediately, even if all of their
other costs remained the same.
Instead, we have proposed a modest project
that focuses on health and safety issues —
things such as repairing sidewalks and upgrad-
ing the HVAC systems. Even so, districts are
hard-pressed to cut their home programs to
support a BOCES building project that will put
them up against the tax cap.
This is not just unfair; it is discriminatory. A
Dryden student who attends school in Dryden is
assured of a safe environment, possibly with a
distance learning lab. But his sister, who has a
disability and attends the Smith School at BOC-
ES, must learn in an elderly building that needs
a new boiler.
TST BOCES serves the most medically
fragile of our county’s children. It serves stu-
TINA SEVOLA / PROVIDED PHOTO
Dustin Wegner, then a senior in the Tompkins-Seneca-
Tioga BOCES Bridges program, watered flowers last May
for an annual plant sale.
dents with a variety of special needs, all of whom
would have to be taught in their home schools if
BOCES did not exist. Career & Tech serves those
students who will be the workforce of tomorrow,
whether they work in auto technology or nursing,
culinary arts or welding.
The governor touts consolidation as a means
of saving money. BOCES represents exactly that
kind of consolidation of services. We are ham-
pered in our mission by this discriminatory in-
terpretation of state law.
You can help. Write to the governor and to the
commissioner of tax and finance. Insist that they
add BOCES to the tax cap exemption for building
projects.
Don’t make districts choose between their
home-based students and their BOCES students
— they are all Tompkins County students, and
they all deserve to learn and grow in a space that
is adequate for their needs.
Kathy Zahler is TST BOCES board president.
working-class Americans. Starting with Jimmy
Carter, the Democratic Party elites have contrib-
uted to the rise of Trump.
Carter started the deregulation trend (airlines,
railroads and banks) and repealed usury laws
(which capped lending rates). He was followed by
12 years of Republicans — Ronald Reagan and
George H.W. Bush and trickle-down economics
that reversed the decline in inequality since the
Depression era. Add to that other policies detri-
mental to the working class, such as banking de-
regulation and related budget cuts that lead to the
1989 savings-and-loan crisis.
Democrat Bill Clinton further undermined the
economic security of the working class and set up
the 2008 financial crisis. During his eight-year
tenure, Clinton’s tough-on-crime program devas-
tated the social and economic structure, especially
of the black working class, and the effects of NAF-
TA are still being felt.
Let us not forget Clinton’s populist quote while
running for president in 1992, saying, “I refuse to
stand by and let our children become part of the
first generation to do worse than their parents.”
Well, here we are, 25 years later, and we have
achieved that goal with Democrats in the White
House for two-thirds of that time.
After eight years of George W. Bush and con-
tinued denigration of the working class (including
cuts to income, capital gains and estate taxes, and
a continued increase in income inequality), Barack
Obama’s populist hope-and-change message res-
onated greatly with Americans in 2008, and he won
handily.
However, he, too, in an attempt to reach across
the divide and unite with the right, failed to be a
consistent champion of core Democratic princi-
ples and the working class. He started his tenure
choosing not to prosecute the Wall Streeters who
contributed to the financial crisis, and continued
the trend of not enforcing anti-trust laws.
Trump is not a new party, as Hayden states —
he is now the public face of the Republican Party,
whose historic base has not and is not standing up
to him.
Polling shows that the country is becoming
more politically divided. The current administra-
tion and some of its supporters are adding fuel to
this fire, dividing and conquering the American
people with a distractive barrage of issues, and
inciting arguments and protests while the admini-
stration goes about dismantling the government.
Our congressional representative, Tom Reed, has
been doing this for a while, hammering a divide in
the 23rd district by derisively labeling Ithaca and
its residents as extreme liberals.
If this divisive discourse continues, we risk
another civil war. Before we get to that point, we
need to find our common bonds and renew a com-
mon civility. Lincoln created a coalition of diverse
interests to rededicate the nation to one that was
of, by and for the people. We can, too.
Kris Hodges is an Ithaca resident.

DOONESBURY

The First Amendment: Congress shall make no law

respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting
the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press; or the right of the people
peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government
for a redress of grievances.
Coming Monday
Kathleen Parker: Despite the public exposure of the nuclear
football, there’s no reason to be worried.
Amy Goodman: The downfall of President Donald Trump’s
selections shows resistance is not futile.
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Zuckerberg’s goal: Remake world community

BARBARA ORTUTAY “(It falls on Facebook) to develop the
ASSOCIATED PRESS
social infrastructure to give people the
NEW YORK - Mark Zuckerberg helped create the
modern world by connecting nearly a quarter of its citi- power to build a global community that
zens to Facebook and giving them a platform to share,
well, everything — baby pictures and Pepe memes, so- works for all of us.”
cial updates and abusive bullying, helpful how-to videos
and live-streamed violence. MARK ZUCKERBERG CHAIRMAN AND CEO OF FACEBOOK
Now he wants to remake it, too, in a way that counters
isolationism, promotes global connections and address-
es social ills — while also cementing Facebook’s central
role as a builder of online “community” for its nearly 2
billion users.
The Facebook founder laid out his thoughts on Thurs-
day in a sweeping 5,800-word manifesto that hews clos-
er to utopian social guide than business plan. Are we, he
asked in the document, “building the world we all want?”
In a phone interview with The Associated Press,
Zuckerberg stressed that he wasn’t motivated by the re- AP
cent U.S. election or any other particular event. Rather, Mark Zuckerberg, chairman and CEO of Facebook, released a
he said, it’s the growing sentiment in many parts of the missive Thursday outlining his vision for the world at large.
world that “connecting the world” — the founding idea
behind Facebook — is no longer a good thing.
“Across the world there are people left behind by tional cultural ties fray. People already use Facebook to
globalization, and movements for withdrawing from connect with strangers who have the same rare disease,
global connection,” Zuckerberg, who founded Facebook to post political diatribes, to share news links (and some-
in a Harvard dorm room in 2004, wrote on Thursday. So times fake news links ). Facebook has also pushed its us-
it falls to his company to “develop the social infrastruc- ers to register to vote, to donate to causes, to mark them-
ture to give people the power to build a global communi- selves safe after natural disasters, and to “go live.” For
ty that works for all of us.” many, it’s become a utility. Some 1.23 billion people use it
daily.
Connecting in Facebook’s interest “Our next focus will be developing the social infra-
structure for community — for supporting us, for keep-
Zuckerberg, 32, told the AP that he still strongly be- ing us safe, for informing us, for civic engagement, and
lieves that more connectedness is the right direction for for inclusion of all,” he wrote.
the world. But, he added, it’s “not enough if it’s good for
some people but it doesn’t work for other people. We Long view
really have to bring everyone along.”
It’s hardly a surprise that Zuckerberg wants to find Zuckerberg has gotten Facebook to this position of
ways to bring more people together, especially on Face- global dominance — one that Myspace and Twitter, for
book. After all, getting more people to come together on instance, never even approached — partly thanks to his
the social network more frequently would give Face- audacious, long-term view of the company and its place
book more opportunities to sell the ads that generate in the world.
most of its revenue, which totaled $27 billion last year. Last fall, Zuckerberg and his wife, the doctor Priscil-
And bringing in more money probably would boost la Chan, unveiled the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative , a
Facebook’s stock price to make Zuckerberg — already long-term effort aimed at eradicating all disease by the
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extremist recruiting.
Today, most of Facebook’s 1.86 billion members — Speaking to the AP, Zuckerberg said he understands
about 85 percent — live outside of the U.S. and Canada. that we might not “solve all the issues that we want” in
The Menlo Park, California-based company has offices the short term.
everywhere from Amsterdam to Jakarta, Indonesia, to “One of my favorite quotes is this Bill Gates quote,
Tel Aviv, Israel. (It is banned in China, the world’s most that ‘people overestimate what they can get done in two
populous country, though some people get around the years and underestimate what they can get done in 10
ban.) years.’ And that’s an important mindset that I hope more
He sees the social network stepping up as more tradi- people take today,” he said.

Wegmans shoppers vow loyalty

despite Trump Winery boycott
TODD CLAUSEN
DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE
A politically motivated boycott of Wegmans over
sales of Trump-branded wines in Virginia?
Some Rochester-area shoppers are calling it non-
sense.
“Wegmans is being ethical by not letting a political
interest group persuade them to pull a brand of wine,”
said Andy Frey, a Henrietta resident who is no fan of
President Trump. “They are being the ethical party in a
free market economy.”
The Gates-based grocer is being called on to remove
Trump Winery products from its Virginia stores, where
it sells 237 different wines from 58 wineries as part of a
shop local program.
The Stop Trump Wine group from Charlottesville
has asked Virginians to boycott grocers, retailers, res-
taurants and other organizations doing business with
Trump Winery.
“Events during Donald Trump’s campaign made it
clear that Eric Trump, the president of Trump Winery
in Charlottesville, Virginia, shares the views of his fa-
ther,” according to the group’s website. “Let’s demon-
strate through economic action that the residents and
businesses of Charlottesville will not stand for the ha-
tred espoused by Eric Trump and those like him.”
The Washington Post reported Tuesday that 300
members of a regional chapter of the National Organi-
zation for Women had made plans to pressure Wegmans
to take Trump wines off its shelves. A spokesperson for
NOW said the organization is not boycotting business,
but individual members
“Personally, I would not buy any products made by
him or his family because of how he treats women,” said
Jacklyn Richard, president of the Rochester chapter or
NOW. “I don’t know I would boycott the whole store.
They have always done good things for the communi-
ty.”
The national president took a harder line, adding that
if Wegmans carried Trump wines, she would not shop
there.
Wegmans said that consumers and not politics will
determine whether it continues to sell products from
the Trump Winery.
“Our response is always the same, no matter the
product: How a product performs is our single measure
for what stays on our shelves and what goes,” said Jo
Natale, a Wegmans spokesperson. “Our role as a retail-
er is to offer choice to our customers.”
Wegmans has been selling bottles from the Char-
lottesville winery since 2008, when it was operated by
Kluge Estate Winery and Vineyard.
Trump purchased the winery in 2011 and gave it to
his son, Eric, to run several months later — before he
announced his campaign to run for president. Weg-
mans operates 10 stores in Virginia, with plans to open
more. It opened a store in Charlottesville late last
year.
CenturyLiquor, purchased by Nicole Wegman 10
years ago, does not sell bottles from Trump Winery.
Marketview Liquor in Henrietta does offer eight
varieties of Trump wines, including a chardonnay,
Meritage, Winery Rose and others. Some varieties
have sold out.
“Up here, it was either love or hate it,” said Mike
Martin, a line manager at Marketview. “Some people
wouldn’t even try it and some people, sight-unseen,
would just buy bottles of it.”
He described the quality of Trump wines as “very
good,” with local sales spurred on by the Trump name.
The boycott is the first time in recent months that
Wegmans has faced political pressure. Some have
criticized its expansion into North Carolina, where a
controversial bathroom blocking transgender indi-
viduals from using public bathrooms based on their
gender identity.
Wegmans has repeatedly said it doesn’t believe re-
versing course is an effective way to influence change
in the Tar Heel State.
Retailers and businesses across the country have
been caught in the crosshairs over lingering resent-
ment over the election of Trump. Some have tried to
move away from the debate by no longer carrying
Trump-branded items.
Burlington Coat Factory, Sears, Kmart and Nord-
strom have said they would stop selling such products.
Nordstrom said its decision based on performance.
“We’ve got thousands of brands — more than 2,000
offered on the site alone,” Nordstrom said in a state-
ment. “Reviewing their merit and making edits is part
of the regular rhythm of our business.”
Several Wegmans shoppers didn’t agree with the
boycott of the store.
“Too bad the wine isn’t in the Rochester Wegmans
stores,” said Irondequoit resident Pamela Beers.
“This makes me want to dig in my heals, stand firm
and buy Trump wine.”
Jim Mayer, a former Rochester resident living in
New Hope, Pennsylvania, said working with current
leaders and focusing on the 2018 election are more
productive ways to stop Trump.
“If Wegmans, as a company, started taking large ef-
forts to politically support Trump I would feel differ-
ently, but I don’t think that carrying Trump branded
wines as a tiny part of their portfolio is significant,” he
said.
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Ex-B-Met Smith
has shaped up for
future in Queens
MATT EHALT
STAFF WRITER, @MATTEHALT
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. – There were
those weekend nights this past offseason
when all Dom Smith wanted to do was
bite into a delicious cheeseburger, yet
the first baseman held his ground.
The Mets’ No. 2 prospect had commit-
ted himself to losing weight to prepare
for his 2017 campaign, and that included
cutting down his hamburgers and his
other weakness, authentic Mexican
food.
“I really just told myself to work
hard,” Smith said Friday afternoon.
“Fast food is not good for me.”
That dedication to his diet paid off as
Smith arrived to camp 24 pounds lighter
than at the end of the 2016 season, and the
first baseman earned praise Friday from
Mets manager Terry Collins.
The former first-round pick is slated
to open the season with Class AAA Las
Vegas, but could make his debut this sea-
son, and may take over the everyday du-
ties at first base in 2018.“I feel great, I
feel more athletic and just more lean.
That was the goal for the offseason”
Smith said. “I’m just glad that I was able
to accomplish it.”
Smith, a former B-Met, has been con-
sidered a top-100 prospect a few seasons
now, but his weight had raised concerns
about his future since added pounds can
affect his production and defense.
When the Mets selected Smith with
the 11th pick in the 2013 MLB Draft, the
youngster weighed about 195 pounds.
lbs. Entering this offseason, Smith, who
is listed at 6-feet, weighed about 258.
Lucas Duda, by comparison, is four
inches taller than Smith but weighs 256
pounds.
Smith, a California native, admitted
Friday he has a soft spot for wet burritos
filled with carne asada, but decided he
needed to change his habit when he felt
“uncomfortable” at the end of the 2016
season.
“I was tired and my legs and knees
hurt. I wanted to change my regimen, eat
healthier,” Smith said. “Not just go on a
diet, but change my lifestyle and have a
clean healthy lifestyle."
Smith traveled to Michigan to work
out with Mets trainer Mike Barwis, and
also spent time in Fresno, Calif., with an-
other trainer. He felt leaner and more
athletic as he trimmed to 234 pounds.,
and he’s now excited to showcase what
he can do with his leaner physique in
2017.
The prospect now eats prepared
meals, featuring healthful items and
lean meats like chicken, brown rice and
salmon instead of his relying on fast
food.
“When I look at myself in the mirror, I
can’t really tell the difference, but when
Waverly
Continued from Page 8B
“It was probably one of the best de-
fensive efforts I’ve seen one of my play-
ers have and he’s not known for defense”
Waverly coach Louis Judson said.
Ward finished with 14 points and,
more importantly, held Section 4’s lead-
ing scorer Austin Grunder to one of his
lowest scoring totals of the season as Wa-
verly defeated Trumansburg, 60-40, at
Tompkins Cortland Community College.
Waverly (20-1), which is ranked No. 8
in Class B by the New York State Sports-
writers Association, wins the IAC cham-
pionship for the second straight year and
also set a school record with its 19th
straight victory. Grunder finished with
23 points, but most came in the second
half with Trumansburg trailing by more
than 10 points.
“The key was Jon Ward, and the rest
of the guys behind him who knew the at-
tention to detail that we needed to exe-
cute in the half court defensively when
(Grunder) had the basketball,” Judson
said. “I was so impressed with Jon’s de-
fense. His ability to keep (Grunder) in
front of him, contest shots, then rebound
the basketball and finish the play off.”
Waverly smothered Grunder and Tru-
mansburg’s other shooters were unable
to pick up the slack in the first half, The
Wolverines led 13-6 after the first quar-
ter and 24-12 at halftime.
Ward had the highlight of the game in
the closing minutes of the first half,
stealing the ball from Grunder at mid-
court and then scoring with a one-hand-
ed slam dunk to get the large Waverly
student section fired up.
“You hold that team to 12 points at that
half, it’s an unbelievable job,” Judson
said. “I thought the score should have
been a bigger margin than it was be-
cause we missed some easy shots in tran-
sition.”
AP PHOTO/JEFF ROBERSON
Dom Smith, who lost 24 pounds, could be
the Mets' starting first baseman in 2018.
I look at pictures I can’t believe I was
that big,” Smith said. “I feel like now I
can stretch some singles into doubles
and people still won’t look at me to run,
but I feel like I will be able to sneak a
few bases or just be more aggressive.”
Collins credited Smith for being
willing to change his habits despite be-
ing a top prospect. Smith is ranked 29th
by ESPN and 63rd by MLB.com.
“When you’re young, because
you’ve always had success, it’s hard to
do,” Collins said. “You look at him to-
day. Lost [24] pounds. He said, 'I’m go-
ing to show them I can do this' and I
really respect that.”
As he’s now at a more comfortable
weight, Smith feels it will help improve
his game, and the first baseman ex-
pects to expand upon his seemingly in-
creasing power.
Smith had hit only 10 homers in his
minor league career entering 2016,
which is shockingly low for a first base-
man, but swatted 14 this past season
with Class AA Binghamton. Mets staff-
ers have long said they always felt the
power would come with Smith, and he
finally turned the corner.
More homers could be in store in
2017 in the hitter-friendly Pacific Coast
League, and that could have Smith in
position for a call-up if the Mets need a
first baseman.
“I just take it one day at a time,”
Smith said. “It’s going to be my first
year there and I am looking forward to
playing in that ballpark and that hitting
environment.”
ANDREW LEGARE/STAFF PHOTO
Trumansburg's Austin Grunder puts up a
shot as Waverly players defend Thursday
night during the Interscholastic Athletic
Conference Large School championship
game at Tompkins Cortland CC.
Senior Hunter Bodine led Waverly
with 15 points and Zach VanHouten
added 11.
The Wolverines are the No. 2 seed in
the Section 4 Class B tournament and
host No. 7 Chenango Valley in a quarter-
final on Feb. 25.
Trumansburg (16-2), which is
ranked No. 4 in the state in Class C, is
the top seed in the Class C Section 4
tournament and will host either No. 8
Walton or No. 9 Unadilla Valley in the
quarterfinals on Feb. 25.
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SECTION 4 BASKETBALL TOURNAMENTS
BOYS BASKETBALL
CLASS AA
Feb. 24 Quarterfinal
5-Elmira (9-10) at 4-Binghamton (9-11), 6
March 1 Semifinals
5-Elmira/4-Binghamton at 1-Ithaca (19-1),
7
3-Horseheads (10-9) at 2-Corning (12-6), 7
March 4 Championship
5-Elmira/4-Binghamton/1-Ithaca vs. 3-Hor-
seheads/2-Corning at Floyd L. Maines Are-
na, 6:45
CLASS A
March 1 Semifinal
3-Vestal (4-15) at 2-Owego (13-6), 7
March 4 Championship
3-Vestal/2-Owego vs. 1-Johnson City (16-3)
at Floyd L. Maines Arena, 3:30
CLASS B
Feb. 25 Quarterfinals
8-Newark Valley (8-8) at 1-Norwich (14-5),
7 O-M at Tompkins Cortland CC, 6
5-Oneonta (9-10) at 4-Susquehanna Valley
(9-9), 6
6-Chenango Forks (8-11) at 3-Seton CC
(14-6), 7
7-Chenango Valley (8-12) at 2-Waverly
(19-1), 7
March 1 Semifinals
8-NV/1-Norwich vs. 5-Oneonta/4-SV, 7
6-CF/3-SCC vs. 7-CV/2-Waverly, 7
March 3 Championship
Semifinal winners at Floyd L. Maines Are-
na, 7:45
CLASS C
Feb. 22 First Round
9-Unadilla Valley (9-10) at 8-Walton (14-5),
7
12-Tioga (7-10) at 5-Groton (14-5), 7
13-Bainbridge-Guilford (10-9) at 4-Elmira
Notre Dame (14-6), 7
11-Greene (8-11) at 6-Union Springs (13-6),
7 10-Schenevus (14-6) at 7-Hunter-Tannersville
10-Spencer-Van Etten (8-9) at 7-Lansing
(10-7), 7
Feb. 25 Quarterfinals
9-UV/8-Walton at 1-Trumansburg (16-1), 7
12-Tioga/5-Groton vs. 13-B-G/4-END, 7
11-Greene/6-US at 3-Sidney (15-3), 7
10-S-VE/7-Lansing at 2-Moravia (15-4), 7
March 1 Semifinals
9-UV/8-Walton/1-Trumansburg vs. 12-Tio-
ga/5-Groton/13-B-G/4-END at Tompkins
Cortland CC, TBA
11-Greene/6-US/3-Sidney vs. 10-S-VE/7-
Lansing/2-Moravia at Tompkins Cortland
CC, TBA
March 4 Championship
Semifinal winners at Tompkins Cortland
CC, TBA
CLASS D
Feb. 18 Play-In Games
17-Davenport (10-9) at 16-Morris (10-10), 3
19-Schenevus (8-11) at 14-Cherry Valley-
Springfield (11-9), 5
Waverly's Fallon Huck (25) and Whitney Point's Dani Hartford fight for a loose ball Thursday
during the Interscholastic Athletic Conference Large School championship game.
Nittinger
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Eight others scored for the Wolver-
ines, who led, 23-6, after one quarter and
forced 13 turnovers in the opening half
to beat the Golden Eagles two years af-
ter losing to them in overtime on the
same court in the league title game.
“It feels really good to get here and
finally beat this team at this place and
win the overall IAC,” Nittinger said. “I
thought we came out really well. We
were hoping to come out really strong
and put this to rest. We’ve been trying to
get here since last year and win again.”
Amy Stevens scored 16 points to top
Whitney Point (12-9), which fell to Wa-
verly, 62-19, at the start of the season.
Waverly coach Robert Kelly said some
of his players didn’t even remember
facing the Eagles in late November, so
he had no doubt his girls would be ready
for a battle.
Waverly (18-2) opened the final with
11 straight points and led by the same
margin — at 34-23 — before Nittinger
made a 3-pointer with 10 seconds left in
the half. She then pounced on a loose ball
at half-court, turning a Whitney Point
turnover into a layup as the half ended.
“It looked like we were kind of climb-
ing back into it,” Whitney Point coach
Tom Kraly said. “It would have been a
different halftime speech, I think.”
Alex Tomasso scored seven of her 11
points in the third quarter to help the
Wolverines increase their advantage to
54-31 entering the fourth.
“We had a really good start,” Kelly
said. “We thought if we could sustain our
pressure they would wear down a little
bit. That team is scrappy. They fought
hard and they battled. We knew that was
going to happen and we needed a good
start to the second half, which is what
S AT U R D AY , F E B R U A R Y 1 8 , 2 0 1 7
18-Franklin (8-8) at 15-Hunter-Tannersville
(10-9), 4
Feb. 22 First Round
Feb. 28 Semifinals
9-NV/8-Dryden/1-SCC vs. 5-CF/4-Waverly at
TBA, 7
6-Oneonta/3-Norwich vs. 7-WP/2-SV at TBA,
17-Davenport/16-Morris at 1-Delhi (17-2), 7
9-Edmeston (13-7) at 8-Milford (13-6), 7
12-Oxford (8-10) at 5-Deposit (12-6), 7
13-Margaretville (11-9) at 4-Laurens (18-2), 7
19-Schenevus/14-CV-S at 3-Newfield (13-4), 5
11-Southern Cayuga (7-13) at 6-Stamford
7
March 3 Championship
Semifinal winners at Floyd L. Maines Arena, 6
CLASS C
Feb. 21 First Round
(12-5), 6 9-Tioga (9-9) at 8-Walton (12-7), 7
10-Roxbury (11-6) at 7-Gilbertsville-Mount 12-Union Springs at 5-Elmira Notre Dame
Upton (14-5), 7 (12-6), 7
18-Franklin/15-H-T at 2-South Kortright 11-Lansing (6-11) at 6-Unatego (12-7), 7
(18-0), 7 10-Sidney (8-9) at 7-Greene (11-8), 7
Feb. 24 Quarterfinals
Feb. 25 Quarterfinals 9-Tioga/8-Walton at 1-Watkins Glen (16-2), 7
17-Davenport/16-Morris/1-Delhi vs. 9-Edmes- 12-US/5-END at 4-Odessa-Montour (16-3), 7
ton/8-Milford at higher seed, 7 11-Lansing/6-Unatego at 3-Moravia (17-2), 7
12-Oxford/5-Deposit vs. 13-Margaretville/4- 10-Sidney/7-Greene at 2-Bainbridge-Guilford
Laurens at higher seed, 7
(19-0), 7
19-Schenevus/14-CV-S/3-Newfield vs. 11- Feb. 28 Semifinals
SC/6-Stamford at higher seed, 7
10-Roxbury/7-G-MU vs. 18-Franklin/15-H-T/2-
9-Tioga/8-Walton/1-WG vs. 12-US/5-END/4-
SK at higher seed, 7 11-Lansing/6-Unatego/3-Moravia vs. 7-
March 1 Semifinals Greene/10-Sidney/2-B-G at Tompkins Cort-
17-Davenport/16-Morris/1-Delhi/9-Edmes- land CC, 7:45
ton/8-Milford vs. 12-Oxford/5-Deposit/13- March 4 Championship
Margaretville/4-Laurens at SUNY Oneonta, Semifinal winners at Tompkins Cortland CC,
TBA TBA
19-Schenevus/14-CV-S/3-Newfield/11-SC/6- CLASS D
Stamford vs. 10-Roxbury/7-G-MU/18-Frank- Feb. 17 Play-In Games
lin/15-H-T/2-SK at SUNY Oneonta, TBA 17-Gilboa 40, 16-Laurens 30
March 4 Championship 14-Cherry Valley-Springfield 50, 19-Daven-
Semifinal winners at SUNY Oneonta, 3 port 45
15-Morris 47, 18-Deposit 41
Feb. 21 First Round
GIRLS BASKETBALL 17-Gilboa (10-8) at 1-South Kortright (18-0), 7
9-Candor (9-10) at 8-Southern Cayuga (10-9),
CLASS AA 6
Feb. 28 Semifinals 12-Edmeston (12-8) at 5-Marathon (13-7), 6
4-Ithaca (8-12) at 1-Elmira (17-2), 6 13-Newfield (7-11) at 4-Stamford (17-2), 6
3-Horseheads (9-10) at 2-Binghamton (11-7), 14-CV-S (12-8) at 3-Hancock (14-3), 7
6 11-Margaretville (13-7) at 6-Milford (14-4), 7
March 4 Championship (14-5), 6
4-Ithaca/1-Elmira vs. 3-HH/2-Binghamton 15-Morris (11-9) at 2-Delhi (17-2), 7
(11-7) at Floyd L. Maines Arena, 5 Feb. 24 Quarterfinals
CLASS A 9-Candor/8-SC vs. 16-Laurens/1-SK at higher
Feb. 28 Semifinals seed, 7
4-Owego (8-11) at 1-Vestal (12-6), 6 12-Edmeston/5-Marathon vs. 13-Newfield/4-
3-Johnson City (10-8) at 2-Maine-Endwell Stamford at higher seed, 7
14-CV-S/3-Hancock vs. 11-Margaretville/6-
(10-8), 6
March 4 Championship Milford at higher seed, 7
4-Owego/1-Vestal vs. 3-JC/2-M-E at Floyd L. 10-Schenevus/7-H-T vs. 15-Morris/2-Delhi at
Maines Arena, 1 higher seed, 7
Feb. 28 Semifinals
CLASS B
9-Candor/8-SC/16-Laurens/1-SK vs. 12-Ed-
Feb. 21 First Round meston/5-Marathon/13-Newfield/4-Stam-
9-Newark Valley (8-11) at 8-Dryden (10-10), 7 ford at SUNY Oneonta, TBA
Feb. 24 Quarterfinals 14-CV-S/3-Hancock/11-Margaretville/6-Mil-
9-NV/8-Dryden at 1-Seton Catholic Central ford vs. 10-Schenevus/7-H-T/15-Morris/2-Del-
(20-1), 7 hi at SUNY Oneonta, TBA
5-Chenango Forks (10-8) at 4-Waverly (17-2), March 4 Championship
7 Semifinal winners at SUNY Oneonta, 1
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7-Whitney Point (12-8) at 2-Susquehanna
Valley (17-3), 6
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we also had. I was very happy with how
we played.”
Defense has been a constant for
Kelly-coached teams at Elmira Notre
Dame and Waverly. Thursday was an-
other example, with the Wolverines
making life difficult on Whitney
Point’s guards with their pressure. Nit-
tinger had eight field goals in the first
half, with many inside the paint follow-
ing turnovers.
“I thought coming into the game we
knew that their defense from baseline
to half-court was what had to be beat-
en,” Kraly said.
“They have such a good team de-
fense and they take the sideline away
and they gave us trouble throughout
the basketball game. And the Nittinger
girl can just score when she wants. She
does it on both ends of the court. Ev-
erything they do, it’s done well as a
team.”
While some players are satisfied to
excel solely on the offensive end, the
Waverly girls get a great deal of satis-
faction taking opponents out of their
offensive game.
“That’s what we want to do,” Kelly
said. “We preach that all the time, just
constant pressure. We may not see the
effects immediately. Hopefully, teams
will wear down. … We want to create
our offense off our defense. If we can
do that, I think we can be a tough team
to beat.”
Waverly is the fourth seed for the
Section 4 Class B Tournament and will
follow a first-round bye with a home
quarterfinal at 7 p.m. Feb. 24 against
No. 5 Chenango Forks (10-8) of the
Southern Tier Athletic Conference.
Seventh-seeded Whitney Point also
has a first-round bye and will play at
second-seeded Susquehanna Valley
(17-3), also of the STAC, at 6 p.m. Feb.
24.
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Pitching expert House says Syndergaard at risk
AROUND NEW YORK
BOB KLAPISCH
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla.
– One of baseball’s lead-
ing pitching gurus has
bad news for the Mets: he
believes Noah Synder-
gaard is likely to be in-
jured by mid-summer.
So says Tom House, who was once
the Rangers’ pitching coach and was
credited by Nolan Ryan for extending
his career. House is a strong proponent
of year-round-throwing, and believes
Syndergaard is at risk by having added
17 pounds of muscle without continuing
to pitch this winter.
“Unfortunately, this is an injury
waiting to happen by the second week
of June,” House said by telephone.
“Unless you’re picking up a ball while
you’re getting stronger, you’re just
adding muscle that doesn’t know how to
throw. It’s unskilled muscle.”
When asked to estimate the chances
of Syndergaard getting injured, House
said, “There’s a 60-63 percent likeli-
hood. I’m sure he feels great today, I’m
sure he’s throwing well. But what he’s
done is the worst-case scenario.”
I made Syndergaard aware of
House’s comments on Friday morning,
asking if he threw at all between No-
vember and the start of camp. The big
right-hander said no.
“I pitched (almost) 200 innings (in
each of) the last two years, that’s why,”
Syndergaard said. “I get what (House)
is saying. He might be right if I was
bunched up and tight. But my arm is
loose, my flexibility is good. I’m not
worried.”
Syndergaard’s comfort-level is bol-
stered by the Mets’ belief that throwing
less, not more, is the key to injury-
prevention. Four of their five starters
NFL
Criminal charges
could mean the end
of Revis’ Jets career
ANDY VASQUEZ
STAFF WRITER, @ANDY_VASQUEZ
Darrelle Revis already was a long shot
to return to the Jets in 2017 after unprec-
edented struggles on the football field.
Now, with Revis facing felony
charges stemming from an off-the-field
incident, it seems likely that his Jets ca-
reer will soon come to an end.
The 31-year-old cornerback was
charged Thursday with four counts of
first-degree felony — including two
charges of aggravated assault — and one
misdemeanor count for his role in an al-
tercation early Sunday morning on the
streets of Pittsburgh.
A warrant for Revis’ arrest has
reportedly been issued, and the corner-
back planned to surrender to police with-
in 24 to 48 hours, his attorney told ESPN
on Friday morning.
A police complaint provided more de-
tails from the incident, which began
about 2:30 a.m. Sunday.
According to police, Dallas Cousins,
22, of Kittanning, Pa., and roommate Za-
cheriah Jarvis, 21, were walking down a
street in Pittsburgh’s South Side neigh-
borhood when Cousins recognized Revis
and approached him. Revis acknowl-
edged his identity, but when questioned
further, Revis became “irate” and
pushed Cousins in the chest. Revis then
walked away, but Cousins began follow-
ing and recording the Jet with his cell-
phone.
When Revis saw he was being record-
ed, he allegedly grabbed the cellphone
from Cousins’ hand and attempted to de-
lete the video. He then threw the cell-
phone into the street and an argument en-
sued with Revis, Cousins and Jarvis. Dur-
ing the argument, an unidentified man --
who later fled with Revis -- arrived on the
scene. Cousins and Jarvis say the next
thing they remember is waking up to po-
lice.
In the complaint, witness Nathan Watt
said that while the two men were uncon-
scious, Revis approached him and said,
“I got more guys coming.” Then, accord-
ing to the complaint, Revis stepped
“within a foot” of Watt’s face and “with an
aggressive demeanor on his face, fists
clench and stated, ‘Do you want to be
next?’”
According to the complaint, police
viewed a cellphone video showing Revis
“becoming hostile” toward one of the vic-
tims and his friends. The video shows Re-
vis walking away from the group, but
they followed him. The video also shows
Revis standing in front of a bar, saying
several times, “Why are you following
me?” before the video stops.
When asked by police if Revis or the
unidentified man knocked out Cousins
and Jarvis, Watt said, “I don’t know, it
have already undergone Tommy John
surgery, so to preserve their pitchers’
health – Syndergaard’s in particular –
starters now throw off a mound every
three days in camp instead of every
two. And no one actually throws during
drills.
The 68-year-old House, who runs the
National Pitching Academy in southern
California, strongly disagrees. His
credentials date all the way back to the
1970s, when he was a modestly-success-
ful lefthander with the Braves. Today
his specialty is motion analysis and
runs a parallel football school called
3dQB. Among his clients are Tom Bra-
dy and Drew Brees.
But House’s best work was done in
1989, when he was the Rangers’ pitch-
ing coach and helped Ryan’s career
find a second wind. House emphasized
ground force – increasing stride length
– and fine-tuning the synchronicity
between hip rotation and arm position.
House also believed a pitcher could
gain velocity by tossing a football.
Ryan was already 42, but under
House’s tutelage, the Hall of Fame
right-hander won 16 games and led the
majors with 301 strikeouts. Ryan lasted
another four seasons, crediting House
for his longevity.
“Tom taught me things I hadn’t
heard about in my 22 years in the
game,” Ryan said in a telephone in-
terview. “He helped me slow down the
aging process – you can’t stop it, but it
can be slowed down. Tom’s understand-
ing of mechanics was so important.
Every young pitcher should listen to
him.”
Even Hollywood was impressed with
House, carving out a role that was
based on him in Jon Hamm’s “Million
Dollar Arm.” House was played by Bill
Paxton as the expert tasked with turn-
ing two young Indians cricket players
happened so fast.”
Revis’ Pittsburgh-
based attorney, Blaine
Jones, has insisted that
the Jets’ cornerback was
“not the aggressor that
Darrelle night. He was 1,000 per-
Revis cent the victim.”
Guilty or not, the
charges give the Jets yet
another reason — beyond his awful on-
the-field-play — to part ways with one
of the greatest players in franchise his-
tory.
But the situation is a complicated
one, further clouded by this incident.
Even before now, Revis was in grave
danger of being cut. He’s set to make
$15.3 million in 2017 — far too much for
a cornerback who has openly admitted
his skills are eroding.
The Jets stand to clear $9.3 million in
cap space by cutting him — and they
need all the cap space they can get.
They must make a decision to cut or
keep Revis by March 10, the second day
of the new league year, when he stands
to collect a $2 million bonus if still on the
roster.
So why haven’t the Jets already cut
Revis — especially now that he faces a
possible suspension from the NFL for
violating the league’s personal conduct
policy?
First, because of complicated salary
cap reasons, the Jets can’t cut Revis un-
til March 9, when the new league year
begins — cutting him before then would
put them over the cap for the 2016 sea-
son, according to overthecap.com.
Second, the Jets owe Revis $6 million
guaranteed in 2017 — the last of the $39
million guaranteed in the five-year, $70
million deal he signed two years ago. No
NFL owner or general manager wants
to hand $6 million to a player who isn’t
even on the roster. That’s why, at least in
theory, there’s still a chance that Revis
and the Jets could negotiate a pay cut,
keeping Revis on the roster.
With Revis in legal trouble, there’s
also a chance the Jets could get out of
the $6 million guaranteed they owe him.
But that seems unlikely. According to
NJ.com, there are clauses in Revis con-
tract that could void the guaranteed
money if Revis is fined or suspended by
the NFL or team for detrimental con-
duct.
But the NFL usually waits until a le-
gal situation is resolved before issuing
a suspension — and there’s no way Re-
vis’ issues will be resolved by March 10.
Through a spokesperson, the Jets
said Thursday night that they were
aware of the situation and had been in
contact with Revis. The team has added
nothing further.
Email: vasqueza@northjersey.com
AP
Nolan Ryan gives a lot of credit to Tom House.
into major league pitch-
ers.
What does this back-
ground have to do with
Syndergaard? For one,
House is still a fan of the
game, and Thor in partic-
Syndergaard ular.
“I’ve seen the kid
throw; he’s tremendous,”
House said. “And when I say he’s good,
I mean he’s good for the game, too.
Baseball needs more young pitchers
like him. The best-case scenario is that
he added 17 pounds of skilled muscle
that’s trained to throw. But he didn’t.
That’s why I’m concerned about this
(off-season routine).”
Syndergaard isn’t deaf to the dis-
senters, who say heavy weight lifting is
kryptonite to pitchers. He has a rejoin-
der to that argument.
“Bo Jackson trained like a football
The Yankees are still waiting for Michael Pineda to be the front-line starter they thought they
had. He finished 6-12 with a 4.28 ERA but led the AL with 10.61 strikeouts per nine innings.
Pineda pledges to improve
with two outs this season
PETE CALDERA
STAFF WRITER, @PCALDERA
TAMPA, Fla. – Michael Pineda’s
struggles with two out were staggering
in 2016, almost defying explanation for
those who watched all 32 of his Yan-
kees starts.
“It’s hard to figure out,’’ said pitch-
ing coach Larry Rothschild. “Just a lot
of situations where he’d make a good
pitch and they’d foul it off barely and
then he’d try to throw a better pitch and
leave it in the middle of the plate.’’
Opponents batted a hearty .325
against Pineda with two out last season,
compiling a .383 on-base percentage
and a .598 slugging average.
And with two outs and runners in
scoring position, opponents slashed
.305/.387/.683 off the right-hander in
2016.
Without reciting any statistics, Pine-
da is acutely aware of how poorly he’d
been at finishing an inning.
“I watch my games from last sea-
son, and I need to be better focused
when I’m pitching,’’ Pineda said.
“(When I get) two strikes, I need to fin-
ish – especially after two outs. For me,
this year, that’s my focus. When I get
two outs, two strikes, I need to finish.’’
Pineda pounded his right fist into his
left hand for emphasis, punctuating his
sentence.
Talk of Pineda’s concentration
lapses with two outs and two strikes
isn’t new, but Rothschild isn’t sold on
that premise.
“I actually think it’s the other way,’’
Rothschild said. “I think he starts try-
ing too hard and it causes him to make
mistakes.’’
It happens when Pineda attempts to
overthrow a fastball, or guide a break-
ing pitch. Those deliveries tend to flat-
ten out and get mashed since Pineda is
so consistently around the plate.
Even in a 2016 season that produced
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player. He WAS a football player and he
was able to play baseball at the highest
level,” Syndergaard said.
And Thor also used Ryan, a fellow
Texan, to further bolster his defense of
added mass.
“Nolan was a weight-lifter,” Syn-
dergaard said.
To which House countered, “Nolan
never stopped throwing. That’s the
difference. That’s why I’m praying for
(Syndergaard). I really hope I’m
wrong.”
News item: Gooses Gossage goes
off
The former Yankee was the subject
a lengthy Q & A with NJ.com on Friday,
voicing several oft-heard complaints
about the state of the game – “being run
by computers” - and the comparatively
soft life of the one-inning closer. Goose
went as far as to say any comparison to
him and Mariano Rivera is insulting –
to Gossage, not Mariano.
Look, we all love Goose and his get-
off-my-lawn politics. We know most of
his lines by heart. Agree or not, his
un-PC personality helped make him a
feared closer. Just as he doesn’t care
about your opinion of him today, noth-
ing intimidated him in his prime.
But Gossage should at least be more
careful with his facts. In the interview,
he said Rivera “never” pitched in the
eighth inning in the post-season. To the
contrary, Rivera recorded 31 multi-
inning saves in the playoffs and World
Series, 14 of which required him to
record at least six outs.
Gossage made sure to say he re-
spected Rivera, which is undoubtedly
true. But there’s no argument that Rive-
ra will be remembered as the game’s
greatest closer.
Gossage had him beat in pure veloc-
ity. Otherwise, by any other metric,
Rivera was the superior talent.
CHRIS PEDOTA, THE RECORD
a crummy 6-12 record and a 4.82 ERA,
Pineda was ninth among AL pitchers in
strikeout-to-walk ratio. And he led the
AL with 10.61 strikeouts per nine in-
nings, establishing a Yankees record
previously held by David Cone (10.25) in
1997.
That’s why “we scratch our heads
sometimes with Michael,’’ said manager
Joe Girardi. “It’s something that we con-
tinue to remind him, to finish innings.’’
Rothschild has been coaching in the
big leagues since 1990 and can’t recall
anyone of Pineda’s talent level having
such drastically opposing stats in one
season.
Especially for “a guy who can get
swings and misses like that,’’ Rothschild
said of Pineda’s 207 strikeouts in 175.2 in-
nings last season. “A few walks were in-
volved in some of those (poor) innings
and he’s not someone who walks a lot of
guys.’’
Entering his free agent walk year, Pi-
neda, 28, has more incentive than ever to
correct his flaws. But he believes that
winning games is motivation enough.
“I feel like I have a job to do, you
know?’’ Pineda said. “That’s why I’m
here.’’
And the two-out stats against Pineda
were so cartoonish in 2016 that it might
just be a career outlier.
“That’s part of what I do believe, be-
cause the year before, he was good,’’
Rothschild said of Pineda’s .227/.263/.362
slash line against opponents with two out
and .149/.184/.319 line with two out and
runners in scoring position.
So, how do the Yankees begin steering
Pineda back on track? Communication is
key.
“If I can’t go out (to the mound), it’s up
to somebody on the infield or whoever is
catching to slow the game down and re-
mind him,’’ Rothschild said. And Girardi
also put it on his catchers to coach Pine-
da through innings that snowballed on
him in 2016.”
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GOLF ROUNDUP
Rain wipes out afternoon play at Riviera
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wind, rain and the snap of a large tree
limb were enough to stop play Friday in
the second round of the Genesis Open.
Sam Saunders remained atop the lea-
derboard without ever hitting a shot Fri-
day at Riviera.
Jhonattan Vegas joined him at 7-un-
der par and was all too happy to wait until
this morning — maybe — to complete his
second round. The wind made it difficult
to pick the right club. The rain made it
difficult to gauge the speed on the
greens.
But it was the crack of a eucalyptus
tree that made PGA Tour officials sound
the horn to get players — and spectators
— off the course.
“We could have played a little bit
more, but why? It’s going to get nothing
but worse,” said Mark Russell, the PGA
Tour’s vice president of competition.
“We wanted to get them out of there
when the trees started snapping.”
No one was hurt, although Russell
said he heard some spectators had to
scramble to safety when eucalyptus
limb fell some 30 yards behind the third
green.
It was tough on a few players, too, at
least between the ears.
Hideki Matsuyama, who had a mathe-
matical chance to reach No. 1 in the
world this week with a victory, returned
Friday morning to complete the first
round and made three straight birdies
for a 68. He likely will have to finish with
three straight birdies Saturday just to
make the cut. Matsuyama was 6 over
through 15 holes.
Defending champion Bubba Watson
hasn’t had much go his way this week,
even when they do. He couldn’t decide on
a club at No. 5 and came up well short of
the green, only to chip in for a birdie.
Standing on the tee at the par-3 sixth,
with a bunker in the middle of the green
HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
Section 4 Hall of Fame
to welcome 23 inductees
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A two-time Olympian will be among
23 Section 4 Hall of Fame inductees to
be honored next month.
Molly Huddle, a graduate of Elmira
Notre Dame High and the most deco-
rated runner ever from Section 4, will
be joined by 16 athletes, two coaches,
one coach/contributor and three con-
tributors comprising the hall’s Class of
2017.
Induction ceremonies will be held
March 4 between the first two Section 4
basketball championship games at the
Floyd L. Maines Veterans Memorial
Arena (approximately 2:45-3:15 p.m.).
Inductees are:
Athletes — Courtney Adam (Daven-
port), Gavin Backus (Gilbertsville-
Mount Upton), Sara Chrystie (Locke)
(Oxford), Stefanie Collins (Odessa-
Montour), Ashley Constantine (Begeal)
(Binghamton), Jason Houghtaling
(Windsor), Molly Huddle (Elmira No-
tre Dame), Lindsay Kimmel (Harpurs-
ville), Aaron Klumpp (Windsor), Lind-
say Knapp (Elmira Notre Dame), Pat-
rick Manuel (Elmira Notre Dame), Bob
Mastro (Union-Endicott), Jay McIn-
tyre (Whitney Point), Erik Scrivener
(Edmeston), Megan Shay (Gassman)
(Candor), Mary Velan (Stamford), Jim
Wright (Hancock).
Coaches — John Pluta (Harpurs-
ville/Norwich), Tom Sherwood (Stam-
ford).
Coach/Contributor — Lee Schaeff-
er (Unatego/Section 4).
Contributors — Bert Beames (Offi-
cial), Marilyn Ballard (Delaware
League/Section 4), Tom Coddington
(Sports Editor).
Huddle was an All-American in high
school as well as at Notre Dame Univer-
sity. She has competed in three World
HIGH SCHOOL SCOREBOARD
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Moravia 48, O-M 39
IAC Small School Championship
at Tompkins Cortland CC
ODESSA-MONTOUR (16-4): Kennedey Hei-
chel 0 0-0 0, Sage Garrison 1 2-4 5, Olivia Gro-
ver 7 2-8 16, Alexis Saunders 1 0-0 2, Nakiaha
Robinson 2 0-0 4, Grace Vondracek 0 0-0 0,
Sara Gardner 0 0-0 0, Gillian Clark5 1-2 12.
Totals: 16 5-14 39.
MORAVIA (18-2): Allie Genson 4 2-2 11,
Maddy Kelly 5 0-0 13, Sam Russell 0 0-0 0,
Mikaela Withers 1 0-0 2, Grace Wasileski 3
5-8 12, Maddie Funk 1 2-2 4, Sierra Lyon 2 2-3
6, Kaelyn Stanton 0 0-0 0. Totals: 16 11-15 48.
O-M 9 11 11 8 — 39
Moravia 10 7 14 17 — 48
3-pointers: O-M 2 (Garrison, Clark); Mora-
via 5 (Kelly 3, Genson, Wasileski).
Gilboa 40, Laurens 30
Section 4 Class D Play-In
17-GILBOA (10-8): Hailie Shultis 2 0-0 4, Sier-
ra Perry 3 0-2 6, Amaya Grant 3 2-2 8, Keely
VanValkenburgh 2 0-0 4, Hope Cooper 7 4-6
18. Totals: 15 6-10 40.
Players and caddies walk to the clubhouse on the second hole after play was suspended during
the second round of the Genesis Open on Friday.
and the pin left and to the back, Watson
jokingly lamented, “The one time I don’t
want to hit first.”
He still had two holes to play and was
8 over, virtually assured of missing the
cut.
Cameron Percy of Australia was
among 24 players who finished his sec-
ond round. He shot a 71 and was at 5-un-
der 137. Zac Blair and Martin Laird each
shot 68 and were finished at 4-under 138.
Graeme McDowell birdied three of
his last eight holes for a 70 and was at 3
under, along with Daniel Summerhays
(73) and Keegan Bradley (70).
Very much in the mix was Jordan
Spieth, playing in the same group as Wat-
son. He was the last to hit on No. 6 and
SHAUN BOTTERILL / GETTY IMAGES
Elmira-Notre Dame grad Molly Huddle
competes in the women's 10,000-meter finals
at the Rio Olympic Games.
Championships and the two most recent
Olympic Games.
O-M’s Collins similarly continues to
compete professionally, playing basket-
ball in Great Britain, and was Great Brit-
ain’s starting point guard in the 2012
Olympic Games.
For comprehensive biographies of
the inductees, see ithacajournal.com.
16-LAURENS (11-10): Rachelle Soucia 4 1-5
11, Kayla Johnson 2 2-4 6, Karly Barra 0 0-2 0,
Note: Ashley Cicciarelli, Katie McGovern,
Haley Sisenstein, Alexis Shay and Raynbow
Rhia Beers 0 4-4 4, Ashely Wikoff 3 3-8 9. To- Dutcher also qualified for states as mem-
tals: 9 10-23 30. bers of the winning team from Union-Endi-
Gilboa 14 8 8 10 — 40 cott.
Laurens 10 9 4 7 — 30
3-pointers: L 2 (Soucia 2). SATURDAY’S EVENTS
BOYS BASKETBALL
GIRLS BOWLING MAC Championship
Delhi vs. Unadilla Valley at SUNY Delhi, 8
Section 4 State Qualifier
GIRLS BASKETBALL
At Valley Bowling Center MAC Championship
Team scores: 1-Union-Endicott 8,000; 2-Hor- Bainbridge-Guilford vs. Delhi at SUNY Del-
seheads 7,667; 3-Susquehanna Valley 7,243;
hi, 6
4-Windsor 6,943; 5-Watkins Glen 6,702; 6- BOWLING
Hancock 6,616; 7-Waverly 6,519; 8-Oxford
6,498; 9-Bainbridge-Guilford 6,480; 10-Can-
Boys State Qualifiers at Valley Bowling
Center, 9a
dor 6,410; 11-Odessa-Montour 6,089. BOYS SWIMMING
Individuals: 1-Alexis Ripic (U-E) 1,768; 2-
Christina Shara (U-E) 1,717; 3-Mackenzie Bo-
Section 4 Class A Championships: at
Owego, 9a
nyak (TAE) 1,610; 4-Loghan Wagner (Elmira) Section 4 Class C Championships: at
1,601; 5-Rachel Weyant (SV) 1,597; 6-Eliza- Owego, 1
beth Sladish (U-E) 1,594; 7-Michelle Williams Section 4 Class B Championships: at
(HH) 1,575; 8-Brenna Gleim (Hancock) 1,574;
Owego, 5
9-Abby Harder (Windsor) 1,571; 10-Nicole Follow @Section4Scores on Twitter
Gates (C) 1,569.
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had no idea what was going on when he
hit his shot.
Still to be determined was whether
the rain — and any debris — would allow
the second round to resume at 7 a.m. to-
day. Ideally, the second round would end
in the mid-afternoon, making it still pos-
sible for 72 holes by Sunday.
Among those who didn’t play on Fri-
day was Dustin Johnson, who opened
with a 66. He needs a victory to have a
chance to reach No. 1, depending on how
Jason Day fares. The world’s No. 1 player
was at 2 under for the tournament with
three holes to play.
PGA Tour Champions: Miguel Angel
Jimenez had a late eagle and closed with
a birdie for a 7-under 65 and a share of
METS NOTEBOOK
Outfield an emergency
option for Mets’ Reyes
MATT EHALT
STAFF WRITER, @MATTEHALT
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. – Don’t expect
to see Jose Reyes in the outfield that of-
ten.
Mets manager Terry Collins said
Friday that teaching Reyes how to play
the outfield is currently just to be pre-
pared for an emergency situation.
Reyes’ focus will be on third base, sec-
ond base and shortstop.
Reyes said he does not believe he
will encounter problems learning the
outfield.
“I just want Jose to be able to give us
some versatility in case if for some
emergency he’s got to go out there, he’s
had a little time out there,” Collins said.
Reyes is slated to be the team’s su-
per-sub, although that could change if
David Wright is not healthy, since
Reyes would take over at third. If
Wright is healthy, Collins is planning to
use Reyes to spell his infielders since
they all landed on the disabled list in
2016, and he prefers a lineup with
Reyes leading off.
Since Reyes was not able to play
alongside Wright in 2016 since he de-
buted after Wright was lost for the sea-
son, he’s hoping he gets the chance this
year.
“I can’t wait for that to happen,”
Reyes said.
“I never imagined I was going to be
COLLEGE ROUNDUP
Marshall leads Cornell
women to Ivy victory
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Nia Marshall scored a game-high 25
points Friday to help Cornell Univer-
sity to a 72-57 Ivy League women’s bas-
ketball victory over visiting Dart-
mouth.
Nicholle Aston contributed 14 points
and six rebounds and teammate Sa-
mantha Widmann had 11 points for the
Big Red.
Fanni Szabo’s 22 points paced Dart-
mouth (6-16, 1-8).
Cornell (13-9, 4-5) hosts Harvard at 5
p.m. Saturday.
Men’s Basketball
Ithaca 105, Houghton 73: Ithaca
shot 40-for-70 (57.1 percent) from the
field to roll past Houghton College in an
Empire 8 game Thursday at Ben Light
S AT U R D AY , F E B R U A R Y 1 8 , 2 0 1 7
the lead Friday in the PGA Tour Champi-
ons’ Chubb Classic.
Doug Garwood and Scott Parel joined
Jimenez atop the leaderboard on the Tal-
on Course at The TwinEagles Club. Mike
Goodes had a 66, and Scott Hoch, Tommy
Armour III, Bob Tway, Duffy Waldorf
and Tuesday qualifier John Elliott shot
67.
Jimenez hit a 3-wood to 10 feet to set
up the eagle on the par-5 sixth — his 15th
hole of the day — and made a 9-footer for
birdie on the par-4 ninth. The Spaniard
has three victories in 23 career starts on
the 50-and-over tour.
Fred Couples and John Daly topped
the group at 68 along with Jerry Kelly,
the three-time PGA Tour winner making
his senior debut.
Defending champion Bernhard Lang-
er opened with a 69. Also the Chubb Clas-
sic winner in 2011 and 2013, the 59-year-
old German star won the season-opening
event at Hualalai for his 30th tour vic-
tory.
Women's Australian Open: Sarah
Jane Smith shot a 6-under 67 in tough,
windy afternoon conditions Friday at
Royal Adelaide to take a one-stroke lead
after two rounds of the Women’s Aus-
tralian Open. The Australian had a 36-
hole total of 9-under 137.
American Lizette Salas shot 70 to
move into a four-way tie for second. She
was joined by Pornanong Phatlum of
Thailand, who also shot 70, Marissa
Steen of the United States, who had a 71,
and Sweden’s Caroline Hewwall, who
birdied her final three holes for a 69.
First-round leader Katherine Kirk
was in a late share of the lead until she
double-bogeyed the eighth hole, her sec-
ond-last of the day. She was two strokes
off the lead in a tie for sixth after a 74.
Michelle Wie shot 71 and was at 5-un-
der, four behind Smith. Wie had to over-
come back spasms for most of her round,
which started with a double-bogey.
in this situation again, be
here, playing a game with
the New York Mets and be
here with D-Wright. He’s
my big brother. We got a
lot of love for each other
and just to be here, same
Jose Reyes locker room with him, I
still can’t believe it.”
Briefs
Wright is scheduled to play catch Sun-
day in what will be his first time throw-
ing since undergoing surgery to repair a
herniated disk in his neck. … Zack
Wheeler played catch again Friday and
once again felt good afterward, accord-
ing to Collins. He’s slated for a bullpen
this weekend. … Jeurys Familia worked
out at the facility early Friday but then
had to leave to attend to an issue. … Col-
lins is not sure who will lead off if Reyes
isn’t starting. … Kevin Long is working
with Travis d’Arnaud on a consistent
swing.
Quote of the Day
“I think he’s athletic enough to do it.
He comes in in tremendous shape, and I
think he’s the one guy we have that even
though he’s a little older, he has no fear.
He’s not afraid to fail.”— Collins on
Reyes playing the outfield for the first
time as a 33-year-old
Gymnasium.
Riley Thompson led Ithaca with a
game-high 23 points on 9-for-17 shooting,
including five 3-pointers. Joey Flanagan
contributed 15 points and hit four bas-
kets from behind the arc. Matt Flood
made four 3s en route to 16 points for the
Bombers, whose 17 3-pointers fell one
shy of the single-game program record.
Ithaca took a 43-35 lead into halftime
and made 11 3-pointers after the break,
with four coming from Flanagan.
Thompson and Brendan Till hit two
apiece.
The Bombers finished with 24 assists
and outscored Houghton, 16-6, off of
turnovers. Their bench scored 56 points,
compared to 18 for Houghton.
Ithaca finished its season 9-16 overall
and 5-11 in conference play.
Mary Rakas and Paul Groover con-
tributed.
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SATURDAY COLLEGE MEN’S LACROSSE
AUTO RACING Notre Dame at Georgetown 2 p.m. ESPNU
Minnesota at Penn State 8 p.m. BTN Two questions later came this gem from West-
Sprint Cup Series, Daytona 500 practice 11:30 a.m. FS2
SUNDAY
brook:
Sprint Cup Series, Daytona 500 practice noon FS1
“Man, you see the new public school clothing? Cra-
ARCA Series, Lucas Oil Complete Engine 4 p.m. FS1 AUTO RACING
zy, dog. They got like the new Jordan hoodie. … It’s
Treatment 200 Sprint Cup Series, Daytona 500 Qualify- 3 p.m. FOX
crazy man. A lot of new, great things at fashion week
Advance Auto Parts Clash 8 p.m. FS1 ing I’ve seen, man.
GOLF GOLF “What other designers? Gucci? The new Gucci
PGA Tour, Genesis Open 1 p.m. GOLF PGA Tour, Genesis Open 1 p.m. GOLF stuff is dope. Good stuff, man.”
PGA Tour, Genesis Open 3 p.m. CBS PGA Tour, Genesis Open 3 p.m. CBS Later came another, more general question about
Champions Tour, Chubb Classic 3 p.m. GOLF playing with four members of Golden State on the
Champions Tour, Chubb Classic 3 p.m. GOLF
NHL
West team, and Westbrook shot back:
LPGA Tour, Australian Open 9 p.m. GOLF
“What’s your favorite fashion brand? What you
NHL Capitals at Rangers 12:30 p.m. NBC
like?”
Blues at Sabres 1 p.m. MSG Red Wings at Penguins 3:30 p.m. NBC
For his part, Durant was curt, or vague or some-
Islanders at Devils 7 p.m. MSG/MSG+ Blackhawks at Sabres 6 p.m. NBCSN times critical of the media for obsessing over things
NBA Bruins at Sharks 8:30 p.m. NBCSN that aren’t important, not to him anyway.
All-Star Night 8 p.m. TNT NBA Durant used a total of five words to respond to his
All-Star Game from New Orleans 8:20 p.m. TBS/TNT first question about the opportunity to play with West-
SOCCER
SOCCER
brook again:
Bundesliga, Hertha Berlin vs. Bayern 9:30 a.m. FS2
“I’m excited to be here.”
Munich FA Cup, Fulham vs. Tottenham 9 a.m. FS1
Later, Durant said more directly, “I don’t want to
FA Cup, Huddersfield vs. Manchester 10 a.m. FS1 Bundesliga, Borussia Monchengladbach 9:30 p.m. FS2
talk about it.”
City vs. Leipzig At other times, Durant became philosophical, mini-
FA Cup, Wolves vs. Chelsea 12:25 p.m. FS2 FA Cup, Blackburn vs. Manchester 11 a.m. FS1 mizing the significance of contract talks, trades or
MLS Preseason, New York City vs. Hous- 8 p.m. YES United when stars change teams.
ton Bundesliga, Cologne vs. Schalke 04 11:30 a.m. FS2 “It’s not real-life problems,” Durant said, so he pre-
RUGBY FIFA Ultimate Team Championship 7 p.m. ESPN fers to “just block it out.”
Premiership, Bath vs. Harlequins 10 a.m. NBCSN Series He added: “Stuff you guys may think is important, I
PBA don’t really think is important at all, so when I look at it
ICE SKATING
Tournament of Champions 1 p.m. ESPN
that way, it’s pretty easy to me.”
Four Continents Championships 11 p.m. NBCSN
Ultimately, which five players are on the court at
RUGBY
MIXED MARTIAL ARTS any given time will be up to West coach Steve Kerr .
MMA Bellator 172 9 p.m. SPIKE Premiership, Sale vs. Wasps 10 a.m. NBCSN
So far, Kerr has been coy about how he’ll handle his
COLLEGE MEN’S BASKETBALL MIXED MARTIAL ARTS rotations.
Notre Dame at North Carolina State noon ESPN UFC Fight Night, Lewis vs. Browne 9 p.m. FS1 Of course, the coach used to work in TV, so he
Northern Iowa at Wichita State noon ESPN2
(heavyweights) knows as well as anyone how to maintain intrigue.
COLLEGE MEN’S BASKETBALL
Tulsa at Cincinnati noon ESPNU
George Washington at Duquesne noon NBCSN
Davidson at Massachusetts noon NBCSN
Bucknell at Boston University noon CBSSN
Sacred Heart at LIU (Brooklyn) noon MSG
Maryland at Wisconsin 1 p.m. CBS Columbus 56 36 15 5 77 182 138 Phil Mickelson 35-32 - 67 -4
Clemson at Miami noon YES
Penn at Yale 1 p.m. SNY N.Y. Rangers 57 37 19 1 75 194 151 Pat Perez 34-33 - 67 -4
Villanova at Seton Hall 12:30 p.m. FOX N.Y. 56 26 20 10 62 166 167 Branden Grace 31-36 - 67 -4
DePaul at Butler 1:30 p.m. FS1 Islanders Kevin Na 30-37 - 67 -4
Kansas at Baylor 1 p.m. CBS Philadelphia 58 27 24 7 61 151 177 Byeong Hun An 32-35 - 67 -4
Canisius at Marist 2 p.m. TWCS New Jersey 57 24 23 10 58 131 162 Ollie Schniederjans 35-33 - 68 -3
Wake Forest at Duke 1 p.m. WBPN
Carolina 53 24 22 7 55 140 156 Scott Brown 34-34 - 68 -3
Alabama (Birmingham) at Western 2 p.m. CBSSN
Patrick Rodgers 35-33 - 68 -3
Missouri at Tennessee 1 p.m. SECN
Kentucky WESTERN CONFERENCE Adam Scott 34-34 - 68 -3
Army at Navy 1:30 p.m. CBSSN Central Division Charley Hoffman 33-35 - 68 -3
Georgetown at Creighton 3:30 p.m. FS1
GP W L OT Pts GF GA Luke Donald 31-37 - 68 -3
Florida at Mississippi State 2 p.m. ESPN Charlie Beljan 35-33 - 68 -3
Connecticut at Temple 4 p.m. ESPN Minnesota 57 38 13 6 82 190 131
Texas Tech at West Virginia 2 p.m. ESPN2 Chicago 57 35 17 5 75 166 147 Adam Hadwin 33-35 - 68 -3
UNLV at San Diego State 4 p.m. CBSSN St. Louis 58 31 22 5 67 167 168 Whee Kim 35-33 - 68 -3
South Florida at Tulane 2 p.m. ESPNEWS Nashville 56 27 21 8 62 158 151 Cameron Smith 36-33 - 69 -2
Loyola (Chicago) at Illinois State 4 p.m. ESPNU
Winnipeg 60 26 29 5 57 174 191 Brian Harman 35-34 - 69 -2
St. Bonaventure at Dayton 2 p.m. NBCSN
Dallas 59 22 27 10 54 161 190 Shawn Stefani 33-36 - 69 -2
Syracuse at Georgia Tech 6:30 p.m. ESPNU Robert Streb 35-34 - 69 -2
Illinois at Iowa 2 p.m. BTN Colorado 55 15 38 2 32 109 186
Michigan at Minnesota 7 p.m. BTN Matt Kuchar 35-34 - 69 -2
Colorado at Oregon 3 p.m. FOX Pacific Division Jim Furyk 31-38 - 69 -2
Utah at Oregon State 8:30 p.m. ESPNU GP W L OT Pts GF GA Justin Rose 34-35 - 69 -2
LSU at Alabama 3:30 p.m. SECN
San Jose 58 34 18 6 74 161 141 Brendan Steele 34-35 - 69 -2
COLLEGE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Paul Casey 34-35 - 69 -2
North Carolina (Wilmington) at Hofstra 4 p.m. SNY Edmonton 58 31 19 8 70 168 151
North Carolina at Louisville noon ESPNU Anaheim 58 30 18 10 70 152 147 J.J. Henry 34-35 - 69 -2
Michigan State at Purdue 4 p.m. ESPN Calgary 58 29 26 3 61 152 165 Cameron Tringale 34-35 - 69 -2
Iowa at Purdue noon BTN Los Angeles 56 28 24 4 60 141 141 Keegan Bradley 34-35 - 69 -2
Florida State at Pittsburgh 4 p.m. ESPN2 Vancouver 58 25 27 6 56 138 168 Tony Finau 36-33 - 69 -2
Temple at South Florida 1 p.m. ESPN2
Arizona 56 20 29 7 47 136 177 Graeme McDowell 34-35 - 69 -2
Central Florida at East Carolina 4 p.m. ESPNEWS Patton Kizzire 33-37 - 70 -1
Miami at Duke 1 p.m. YES
NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for Anirban Lahiri 35-35 - 70 -1
Auburn at Texas A&M 4 p.m. ESPNU
Thomas Pieters 37-33 - 70 -1
Florida at Kentucky 1 p.m. SECN overtime loss.
Rhode Island at George Mason 4 p.m. NBCSN Thursday’s Games Camilo Villegas 36-34 - 70 -1
Dayton at Fordham 2 p.m. NBCSN Ottawa 3, New Jersey 0 Stewart Cink 33-37 - 70 -1
St. Joseph’s at La Salle 4 p.m. CBSSN
N.Y. Islanders 4, N.Y. Rangers 2 James Hahn 34-36 - 70 -1
Michigan State at Michigan 2 p.m. BTN Ryan Moore 34-36 - 70 -1
Middle Tennessee State at Marshall 6 p.m. WBPN Pittsburgh 4, Winnipeg 3, OT
DePaul at Marquette 2 p.m. FS2 Jimmy Walker 35-35 - 70 -1
Buffalo 2, Colorado 0 Charles Howell III 34-36 - 70 -1
Kentucky at Georgia 6 p.m. ESPN St. Louis 4, Vancouver 3
Wake Forest at North Carolina State 3 p.m. ESPNU Aaron Baddeley 34-36 - 70 -1
SMU at Houston 6 p.m. ESPN2 Minnesota 3, Dallas 1 Jamie Lovemark 37-33 - 70 -1
Delaware at Drexel 3 p.m. SNY Edmonton 6, Philadelphia 3 David Hearn 33-37 - 70 -1
TCU at Iowa State 6 p.m. ESPNEWS Arizona 5, Los Angeles 3 Zac Blair 33-37 - 70 -1
South Carolina at Missouri 3 p.m. ESPN2 Friday’s Games Martin Laird 33-37 - 70 -1
Rutgers at Northwestern 6 p.m. ESPNU
Pittsburgh at Columbus, late
Virginia at Virginia Tech 3 p.m. YES
Leaderboard at time of suspended play
New Mexico at Fresno State 6 p.m. CBSSN Colorado at Carolina, late
Arkansas at Tennessee 3 p.m. SECN Florida at Anaheim, late Golfer Score Through
Nebraska at Ohio State 6 p.m. BTN Saturday’s Games Sam Saunders -7 F
Notre Dame at Syracuse 5 p.m. ESPN2
St. Louis at Buffalo, 1 p.m. Dustin Johnson -5 F
Mississippi at Arkansas 6 p.m. SECN
J.T. Poston -5 F
Mississippi State at Texas A&M 5 p.m. SECN Winnipeg at Montreal, 2 p.m.
Niagara at Siena 8 p.m. TWCS Washington at Detroit, 2 p.m. Daniel Summerhays -5 F
St. John’s at Creighton 6:30 p.m. YES N.Y. Islanders at New Jersey, 7 p.m. Brett Stegmaier -5 F
Arizona at Washington 8 p.m. ESPN2
Edmonton at Chicago, 7 p.m. Cameron Percy -5 F
COLLEGE WOMEN’S HOCKEY
Xavier at Marquette 8 p.m. CBSSN Ottawa at Toronto, 7 p.m. 11 tied at -4
Wisconsin at Minnesota 4 p.m. BTN San Jose at Arizona, 8 p.m.
Oklahoma at Oklahoma State 8 p.m. ESPNU Tampa Bay at Dallas, 8 p.m. Champions Tour-Chubb Par Scores
Nashville at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Virginina at North Carolina 8:15 p.m. ESPN
Calgary at Vancouver, 10 p.m.
Friday
At The TwinEagles Club (Talon Course)
South Carolina at Vanderbilt 8:30 p.m. SECN RADIO LINEUP Florida at Los Angeles, 10 p.m.
Naples, Fla.
St. Mary's (Cal.) at BYU 10 p.m. ESPN2 SATURDAY Purse: $1.6 million
COLLEGE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL COLLEGE MEN’S BASKETBALL COLLEGE BASKETBALL Yardage: 7,193; Par: 72 (36-36)
First Round
Army at Navy 11 a.m. CBSSN Michigan State at Purdue 4 p.m. ESPN (1160⁄107.1) USA Today Men’s Top 25
Record Pts Pvs Doug Garwood 32-33- 65 -7
Rutgers at Wisconsin noon BTN Virginia at North Carolina 8:15 p.m. ESPN (1160⁄107.1) 1. Gonzaga (29) 26-0 797 1 Miguel Angel Jimenez 32-33- 65 -7
2. Villanova (3) 24-2 770 2 Scott Parel 33-32- 65 -7
Texas at Oklahoma 2 p.m. MSG+ SUNDAY Mike Goodes 32-34- 66 -6
3. Kansas 22-3 735 3
COLLEGE WRESTLING 4. Baylor 22-3 665 8 Scott Hoch 33-34- 67 -5
Connecticut at Tulane 7 p.m. SNY Tommy Armour III 35-32- 67 -5
5. UCLA 23-3 636 9
COLLEGE WOMEN’S HOCKEY Ohio State at Cornell 1 p.m. ESPN (1160⁄107.1) 6. Arizona 23-3 620 10 Bob Tway 33-34- 67 -5
ESPNIthaca.com 7. Louisville 20-5 607 4 Duffy Waldorf 33-34- 67 -5
St. Lawrence at Colgate 3 p.m. TWCS 8. Oregon 22-4 581 6 John Elliott 33-34- 67 -5
COLLEGE MEN’S BASKETBALL 9. North Carolina 21-5 511 7 Rod Spittle 34-34- 68 -4
COLLEGE MEN’S HOCKEY 10. Wisconsin 21-4 494 5 Tom Byrum 32-36- 68 -4
Syracuse at Georgia Tech 6:30 p.m. ESPN (1160⁄107.1) Skip Kendall 34-34- 68 -4
Notre Dame at Providence 7 p.m. NBCSN 11. Kentucky 20-5 456 12
12. West Virginia 20-5 448 14 John Daly 35-33- 68 -4
13. Florida 20-5 371 17 Billy Andrade 33-35- 68 -4
14. Duke 20-5 367 19 Fred Couples 35-33- 68 -4
Jeff Sluman 34-34- 68 -4
MEN’S BASKETBALL ter, Florida, 4
TRACK & FIELD
Thursday’s Games
Washington 111, Indiana 98
Nick Young, LA Lakers G-F 15. Virginia
16. Purdue
18-6 363
20-5 318
13
18 Jerry Kelly 32-36- 68 -4
SLAM DUNK Larry Mize 34-35- 69 -3
Ivy League Standings Marc Denault Invitational, 10 a.m. Chicago 104, Boston 103 Participant, Team Pos 17. Cincinnati 22-3 312 11
Ivy Overall 18. Florida State 21-5 268 15 Mark Brooks 35-34- 69 -3
Follow @Section4Scores on Twitter Sunday’s Games Aaron Gordon, Orlando F Joey Sindelar 34-35- 69 -3
W L W L 2017 NBA All-Star Game DeAndre Jordan, LA Clippers C 19. South Carolina 20-5 198 16
Princtn 8 0 15 6 20. Notre Dame 19-7 167 24 Joe Durant 35-34- 69 -3
Eastern Conference vs. Western Conference Derrick Jones Jr., Phoenix F Jerry Smith 36-33- 69 -3
Yale 6 2 14 7 at New Orleans, LA, 8:30 p.m. Glenn Robinson III, Indiana G-F 21. Saint Mary’s 22-3 131 20
Harvrd 6 2 14 7 22. Creighton 21-4 130 23 Mark Calcavecchia 35-34- 69 -3
Colum 4 4 10 11 NBA NBA All-Star Weekend Rosters 2017 NBA All-Star Game Roster
23. SMU 22-4 127 — Bernhard Langer
Scott McCarron
37-32- 69 -3
34-35- 69 -3
Brown 2 6 11 13 24. Maryland 21-4 90 22
Penn 2 6 9 12 All Times EST At Smoothie King Center All-Star Game: Feb. 19 25. Butler 19-6 80 21 Billy Mayfair 35-34- 69 -3
Cornell 2 6 6 17 EASTERN CONFERENCE New Orleans At Smoothie King Center Kevin Sutherland 34-36- 70 -2
Dartmth 2 6 5 16 Tim Petrovic 36-34- 70 -2
Atlantic Division Friday, Feb. 17 New Orleans USA Today Women’s Top 25 Michael Bradley 34-36- 70 -2
Friday’s Games (i-injured; r-injury replacement) (i-injured; r-injury replacement) Record Pts Pvs Brandt Jobe 34-36- 70 -2
W L Pct GB 1. UConn (32) 25-0 800 1
Cornell at Dartmouth, 7 p.m. Boston 37 20 .649 — RISING STARS CHALLENGE EASTERN CONFERENCE Stephen Ames 34-36- 70 -2
Columbia at Harvard, 7 p.m. 2. Maryland 25-1 766 2 Marco Dawson 34-36- 70 -2
Toronto 33 24 .579 4 USA TEAM Starters 3. Mississippi State 25-1 726 3
Princeton at Yale, 8 p.m. New York 23 34 .404 14 Player, Team Pos LeBron James, Cleveland; Giannis Anteto- Michael Allen 37-33- 70 -2
Penn at Brown, 8 p.m. 4. Baylor 24-2 697 5 Olin Browne 35-35- 70 -2
Philadelphia 21 35 .375 15½ Devin Booker, Phoenix G kounmpo, Milwaukee; Jimmy Butler, Chicago; 5. South Carolina 21-3 642 6
Saturday’s Games Brooklyn 9 47 .161 27½ Malcolm Brogdon, Milwaukee G Kyrie Irving, Cleveland; DeMar DeRozan, To- Wes Short, Jr. 33-37- 70 -2
6. Notre Dame 23-3 626 7 Woody Austin 35-35- 70 -2
Princeton at Brown, 6 p.m. Marquese Chriss, Phoenix F ronto. 7. Florida State 23-3 600 4
Cornell at Harvard, 7 p.m. Southeast Division Brandon Ingram, LA Lakers F Reserves 8. Texas 21-4 597 10
Columbia at Dartmouth, 7 p.m. W L Pct GB Frank Kaminsky, Charlotte C r-Carmelo Anthony, New York; Paul George, 9. Washington 24-3 577 8 LPGA Women’s Australian Open Par
Sunday’s Games Washington 34 21 .618 — Jahlil Okafor, Philadelphia C 10. Stanford 22-4 494 11 Scores
D’Angelo Russell, LA Lakers G Indiana; i-Kevin Love, Cleveland; Kyle Lowry,
Penn at Yale, 1 p.m. Atlanta 32 24 .571 2½ Toronto; Paul Millsap, Atlanta; Isaiah Thomas, 11. Oregon State 23-3 464 9 Thursday
Miami 25 32 .439 10 Jonathon Simmons, San Antonio G-F 12. Ohio State 22-5 450 13
Karl-Anthony Towns, Minnesota C Boston; Kemba Walker, Charlotte; John Wall, At Royal Adelaide GC
Charlotte 24 32 .429 10½
SATURDAY’S LOCAL Orlando 21 37 .362 14½ Myles Turner, Indiana C Washington. 13. Louisville
14. Duke
22-6 416
22-4 399
14
15
Grange, Australia
WESTERN CONFERENCE
EVENTS Central Division Player, Team
WORLD TEAM
Pos Starters
15. DePaul 22-5 328 16 Purse: $1.3 million
Yardage: 6,681; Par: 73 (37-36)
16. UCLA 18-7 299 12
PROFESSIONAL W L Pct GB r-Alex Abrines, Oklahoma City G Kevin Durant, Golden State; Kawhi Leonard, 17. Miami 19-6 289 17 First Round
HOCKEY Cleveland 39 16 .709 — i-Joel Embiid, Philadelphia C San Antonio; Anthony Davis, New Orleans; 18. N.C. State 19-6 275 17
Elmira at Reading, 7 Dante Exum, Utah G (a-amateur)
Indiana 29 28 .509 11 Stephen Curry, Golden State; James Harden, 19. Oklahoma 20-6 214 20
Rochester at Binghamton, 7:05 Chicago 28 29 .491 12 r-Willy Hernangomez, New York F Houston. 20. Michigan 21-5 168 22 Katherine Kirk 33-32- 65 -8
COLLEGE Detroit 27 30 .474 13 Buddy Hield, New Orleans G Reserves 21. Syracuse 18-8 165 19 Min Lee 33-34- 67 -6
BASEBALL Milwaukee 25 30 .455 14 Nikola Jokic, Denver C 22. South Florida 20-4 129 23 Chella Choi 34-33- 67 -6
DeMarcus Cousins, Sacramento; Marc Gasol, Jane Park 34-33- 67 -6
Binghamton at New Mexico, 4 Trey Lyles, Utah F Memphis; Draymond Green, Golden State; 23. Arizona State 16-9 107 21
MEN’S BASKETBALL WESTERN CONFERENCE i-Emmanuel Mudiay, Denver G 24. Texas A&M 19-6 66 — Marissa L Steen 34-33- 67 -6
Gordon Hayward, Utah; DeAndre Jordan, L.A. Lizette Salas 34-34- 68 -5
Elmira at Utica, 4 Southwest Division Jamal Murray, Denver G Clippers; Klay Thompson, Golden State; Rus- 25. Temple 19-5 21 —
Cornell at Harvard, 7 Kristaps Porzingis, New York F Pornanong Phatlum 33-35- 68 -5
W L Pct GB Domantas Sabonis, Oklahoma City F sell Westbrook; Oklahoma City. Michele Thomson 33-35- 68 -5
Binghamton at Stony Brook, 7 Lindy Duncan 34-35- 69 -4
San Antonio 43 13 .768 — Dario Saric, Philadelphia F
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Elmira at Utica, 2
Houston 40 18 .690 4 SKILLS CHALLENGE GOLF Laetitia Beck 34-35- 69 -4
Stony Brook at Binghamton, 4
Memphis
New Orleans
34
23
24
34
.586 10
.404 20½
Participant, Team Pos NHL Caroline Hedwall
Ally McDonald
36-33- 69 -4
35-34- 69 -4
Harvard at Cornell, 5 Devin Booker, Phoenix G
Dallas 22 34 .393 21 DeMarcus Cousins, Sacramento F-C All Times EST PGA-Genesis Open Par Scores Hannah Green 36-33- 69 -4
MEN’S HOCKEY EASTERN CONFERENCE Thursday Gaby Lopez 35-34- 69 -4
Elmira at Hobart, 7 Northwest Division Anthony Davis, New Orleans F-C
i-Joel Embiid, Philadelphia C Atlantic Division At Riviera Country Club Marina Alex 36-33- 69 -4
Cornell at Clarkson, 7 W L Pct GB Brooke M. Henderson 36-33- 69 -4
r-Nikola Jokic, Denver C GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles
WOMEN’S HOCKEY Utah 35 22 .614 — Gordon Hayward, Utah F Jodi Ewart Shadoff 36-34- 70 -3
Potsdam at Elmira, 3 Montreal 58 31 19 8 70 165 150 Purse: $7 million Su Oh 34-36- 70 -3
Oklahoma City 32 25 .561 3 Kristaps Porzingis, New York F Ottawa 55 30 19 6 66 148 146
Clarkson at Cornell, 3 Denver 25 31 .446 9½ Isaiah Thomas, Boston G Yardage: 7,322; Par: 71 (35-36) Peiyun Chien 37-33- 70 -3
MEN’S LACROSSE Portland 23 33 .411 11½ Boston 58 29 23 6 64 157 155 Partial First Round Michelle Wie 36-34- 70 -3
John Wall, Washington G Toronto 56 26 19 11 63 174 167
Colgate at Binghamton, noon Minnesota 22 35 .386 13 Sam Saunders 32-32 - 64 -7 Simin Feng 36-34- 70 -3
THREE-POINT CONTEST Florida 55 25 20 10 60 140 158 Xi Yu Lin 37-33- 70 -3
Cornell at Penn State, noon Participant, Team Pos Buffalo 58 25 23 10 60 143 161 Dustin Johnson 34-32 - 66 -5
WOMEN’S LACROSSE Pacific Division Sarah Jane Smith 34-36- 70 -3
Eric Gordon, Houston G Tampa Bay 56 25 24 7 57 154 160 J.T. Poston 32-34 - 66 -5
Cornell at Villanova, 3 W L Pct GB Daniel Summerhays 32-34 - 66 -5 Ha Na Jang 35-35- 70 -3
Kyrie Irving, Cleveland G Detroit 57 22 25 10 54 141 171 Maude-Aimee Leblanc 35-36- 71 -2
Binghamton at Syracuse, 7 Golden State 47 9 .839 — Kyle Lowry, Toronto G Brett Stegmaier 30-36 - 66 -5
SOFTBALL L.A. Clippers 35 21 .625 12 Metropolitan Division Cameron Percy 31-35 - 66 -5 a-Hye Jin Choi 36-35- 71 -2
Wesley Matthews, Dallas G-F Moriya Jutanugarn 36-35- 71 -2
Binghamton vs. Hofstra at Clearwater, Flori- Sacramento 24 33 .421 23½ CJ McCollum, Portland G GP W L OT Pts GF GA Marc Leishman 35-32 - 67 -4
da, 11 a.m. L.A. Lakers 19 39 .328 29 Padraig Harrington 34-33 - 67 -4 Rebecca Artis 38-33- 71 -2
Klay Thompson, Golden State G Washington 56 39 11 6 84 192 121 Karine Icher 36-35- 71 -2
Binghamton vs. James Madison at Clearwa- Phoenix 18 39 .316 29½ Kemba Walker, Charlotte G Billy Hurley III 32-35 - 67 -4
Pittsburgh 56 36 13 7 79 201 158 Alena Sharp 39-32- 71 -2
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S P O R T S D E P A R T M E N T • 2 7 4 - 9 2 1 4 • I T H - S P O R T S @ G A N N E T T. C O M S AT U R D AY , F E B R U A R Y 1 8 , 2 0 1 7 • 8B

AN AWKWARD
BEGINNING TO
STAR REUNION
ANDREW LEGARE / STAFF PHOTO
Waverly's Elle Nittinger drives toward the basket as Elaina
Burchell defends for Whitney Point on Thursday during the
Interscholastic Athletic Conference Large School girls
basketball final at Tompkins Cortland Community College.

Nittinger, ‘D’
carry Waverly
girls to crown
Junior’s 27 points too much for
Whitney Point in IAC Large final
ANDREW LEGARE ALEGARE@ITHACAJOURNAL.COM

Waverly had too much defense and too much Elle

Nittinger for Whitney Point on Thursday night in the
Interscholastic Athletic Conference Large School
girls basketball final at Tompkins Cortland Communi-
ty College in Dryden.
Junior guard/forward Nittinger scored 21 of her 27
points in the first half to carry the Wolverines to a 71-
39 victory. That included five points on a 3-pointer and
layup in the closing seconds, turning an 11-point lead
into a 39-23 halftime advantage.

See NITTINGER, Page 4B

AP
Teammates a year ago in Oklahoma City, Russell Westbrook, left, and Kevin Durant are teammates again this weekend for the
NBA All-Star game, Westbrook still representing the Thunder while Durant is now a member of the Golden State Warriors.

ANDREW LEGARE /STAFF PHOTO

Westbrook, Durant are together again, Trumansburg's Luke Richards drives with the ball as
Waverly's Zach VanHouten defends Thursday during the
Interscholastic Athletic Conference Large School

but just for West squad this weekend championship game.

BRETT MARTEL AP SPORTS WRITER

NEW ORLEANS - Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant had plenty to say at their
first All-Star appearance.
Trumansburg
Just not about one another.
Reunited on the Western Conference All-Star team, the former Oklahoma City
Thunder teammates — until Durant left for Golden State last summer — will have to
falls in final
practice together on Saturday and play together on Sunday.
If either of them expects it to be awkward — particularly after the way they jawed Waverly wins IAC Large boys title
at one another in a recent regular season game — they weren’t discussing it on Fri-
day.
Westbrook smirked and responded to questions about any potential awkward in- MATT WEINSTEIN MWEINSTEIN@ITHACAJOURNAL.COM
teraction with Durant and or the other Warriors with thoughts on New York City’s
Fashion Week. Waverly senior Jon Ward was one of his team’s top
“Man, you know what? Fashion week has been great. You seen fashion week? You scorers Thursday night in the Interscholastic Athletic
been paying attention to fashion week?” Westbrook responded to a question about Conference Large Schools boys basketball champion-
Durant. “Man. There’s a lot of great-looking things at fashion week, man. I’m looking ship game, but his defense is what earned praise from
forward to new collections. It’s been good, man.” his coach.

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SECRETS OF
A BIG APPLE GREETER Here are some tips for first-timers in NYC —
or for those who want to visit smarter
BETH J. HARPAZ ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK - As a native New Yorker, a licensed city tour guide and a volunteer Big Apple Greeter, I’ve answered lots of
questions from tourists over the years. Among them: “Is it safe to drink the water?” (Yes.) “What does ‘curb your dog’
mean?” (Dogs should not use sidewalks as a bathroom.) And my favorite: “Where are all the supermodels?” (I don’t know.) ♦
The Big Apple Greeter organization matches out-of-towners with locals for free neighborhood visits and other outings, and
as a greeter, I’ve also shepherded tourists from around the world on their first subway rides, visits to Harlem and Brooklyn,
and tastes of local delicacies (like bagels). Along the way I’ve given lots of advice on enjoying the city while staying safe,
having fun and sticking to a budget. Here are some tips. See NEW YORK CITY, Page 5D

Above: The Staten Island Ferry is one of New York City’s greatest free attractions, with wonderful views of Lower Manhattan and New York Harbor. ASSOCIATED PRESS

Irreverence, affection click nicely in ‘Lego Batman Movie’

JOCELYN NOVECK ASSOCIATED PRESS
Turns out, Batman can take a joke. Hundreds, actu-
ally.
It’s not the simplest thing to take a character as
embedded in our culture as Batman and make wick-
edly irreverent fun of him while simultaneously pay-
ing tribute to his storied past and keeping him likable
for the next round.
If a kids movie can do all that AND get in a per-
fectly placed clip from “Jerry Maguire” — and you
know which one we’re talking about — well, then, you
had us at hello, “Lego Batman Movie.”
The laughs at the Dark Knight’s expense start
early in director Chris McKay’s manic romp of a
movie — in the first seconds, actually, with a very
husky Christian Bale-like voice opining on the impor-
tance of starting a superhero movie with a black
screen.
That gruff voice again belongs to Will Arnett, ex-
Digital
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panding on a supporting role in the popular 2014 “Le-
go Movie” (clearly this self-important superhero was
not pleased with a mere supporting role). Arnett’s
Batman is not a happy guy, weighted down as he is by
a limitless sense of self-grandeur. Since nobody can
do what he does, he has to do everything alone.
And one, as the soundtrack tells us, is the loneliest
number. Sure, the bat cave is amazing — but what’s a
superhero to do after a long day saving Gotham? He
comes home to a few trivial pieces of mail — one of
them a coupon for Bed, Bath and Beyond. His only
companion is his computer voice (voiced by Siri, of WARNER BROS. PICTURES VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lego Batman’s voice belongs to Will Arnett, expanding on a
See LEGO BATMAN, Page 5D supporting role in the popular 2014 “Lego Movie.”
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CASTING OSCAR, IN N.Y.

Upstate foundry creates each of
the 60 statuettes as a work of art
MICHAEL HILL
ASSOCIATED PRESS

ROCK TAVERN - Every Oscar fist-pumped or

tearfully cradled by Academy Award winners is first
cast, buffed and fussed over at a foundry far from
Hollywood.
Workers at the Polich Tallix fine art foundry, about
50 miles north of New York City, began work in late
September on the awards to be handed out Feb. 26.
Each of the 60 Oscars shipped from the hangar-like
production floor is 131⁄2 inches tall with the same dis-
tinctive Art Deco features polished to a mirror finish.
Each glossy black base lacks only a winner’s name-
plate, which is added after the ceremony.
Polich Tallix, which began making the awards last
year, tweaked the look of the stylized knight with an
eye toward the original statuettes handed out in 1929.
The path of these new statues from a small town in
upstate New York to center stage in Hollywood might
not be the stuff of movies.
But it’s worth a close-up.
Every Oscar starts with a version made of wax,
which is repeatedly dipped into a cream-colored ce- ASSOCIATED PRESS
ramic slurry. The ceramic hardens and the wax is Oscar statuettes, some wrapped in cloth, wait to be inspected before being finished at the Polich Tallix Fine Art Foundry in Rock
melted out to make way for molten bronze. What’s left Tavern, Orange County.
once the ceramic mold is chipped away is a sort of
rough-hewn version of the elegant icon.
John Menzie and other workers make sure every
surface detail — from Oscar’s hairline to the film reel
it stands on — is hand-sanded and polished to a fine
finish.
Menzie said it’s a kick to see the pieces you worked
on for hours handed out on TV, like he did last year
while watching the Academy Awards.
“When Leonardo DiCaprio gave his speech and he
was holding his Oscar I was just thinking … I might
have worked on that one,” Menzie said. “I wish in his
acceptance speech, he would have said the serial
number that was on the back, you know? So I could
say, “That’s the one I worked on!’ ”

Best visual effects

When Polich Tallix took over production from a
Chicago company, the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences asked the foundry to create a stat-
ue truer to the original. Foundry artist Daniel Plonski
made 3-D scans of an early statue and a recent statue,
and took desired qualities from each for the newest
iteration. Oscar’s restoration was subtle; his stylized ASSOCIATED PRESS ASSOCIATED PRESS
facial features are more defined, there’s a greater Leo Sotelo works on an Oscar statuette at the Polich Tallix Fine A worker at the Polich Tallix Fine Art Foundry fills small pits on
hint of his ears and a hair part, and his sword rests in Art Foundry. an Oscar statuette.
sharper relief between his legs.
“The trick was not to make it too shockingly differ-
ent,” Plonski said.
The most substantial difference is one people don’t
see. The statue is once again cast in bronze, instead of
a pewter-like alloy.

And the award goes to ...

The statues are shipped to Brooklyn for 24-karat-
gold electroplating at Epner Technology, which also is
in its second year of Oscar making.
President David Epner said that before his compa-
ny became involved in Oscar production, actor F.
Murray Abraham and a couple of other award win-
ners had asked him to plate gold finishes that were
wearing off. He vows that won’t happen under his
process, which includes copper plating and nickel
plating each statue before gold plating.
“The gold is guaranteed — not for the life of the
recipient, but for the life of the statue,” Epner said
Polich Tallix has one more task after the nominees
are announced: making a nameplate for each potential
winner. The award winners are handed an Oscar on
stage with no nameplate on it. Winners can later take
their statue to a table backstage to get their name-
plate affixed. ASSOCIATED PRESS
The unused plates are destroyed. A nickel-plated Oscar statuette is run through a series of chemical baths at Epner Technology in Brooklyn.

CALENDAR
SATURDAY
Concerts & Tour Dates
Brews & Tunes w/ An Art-
ist’s Depiction, 7-10 p.m.,
Heavily Brewing Co, 2471 Hayes
Road, Montour Falls.
Dapper Dan, 9:30 p.m., The
John Barleycorn Tavern, 216
Front St., Owego.
Education
Adventures in Time Story
Hour, 10-11 a.m., Cortland
County Historical Society, 25
Homer Ave., Cortland. Free.
Amateur Radio Technician
License Class, 9 a.m.-noon,
Tompkins County Department of
Emergency Response, 92 Brown
Road, Ithaca.
Farm Transition Planning
Seminar, 10 a.m.-noon, Dryden
Fire Hall, 26 Main St., Dryden.
Open to both Farm Bureau
Members and Non-Members.
Film
Doctor Strange, 9:40 p.m.,
Willard Straight Theatre, 104
Willard Straight Hall, Ithaca.
$8.50 general admission, $6.50
seniors, $6 CU graduate stu-
dents, $5.50 students and kids 12
and under.
I Am Not Madame Bovary,
7 p.m., Willard Straight Theatre,
104 Willard Straight Hall, Ithaca.
$8.50 general admission, $6.50
seniors, $6 CU graduate stu-
dents, $5.50 students and kids 12
& under.
Moana, 2 p.m., Willard
Straight Theatre, 104 Willard
Straight Hall, Ithaca. $5 all, kids
12 and under $4.
Food & Wine
Build Your Own Bloody
Mary Bar, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Finger
Lakes Distilling, 4676 State
Route 414, Burdett.
Fundraising & Charity
Winter Chicken Barbeque,
Noon-3 p.m., Newark Valley
United Church of Christ, 32 S.
Main St., Newark Valley.
Performing Arts
Cabin Fever Cabaret, 7:30-
10 p.m., Old Havana Courthouse
Theatre, 408 W. Main St., Mon-
tour Falls.
Comedy On The Commons
& The Roast of Francisco
Ruben Arce, 8:30-10 p.m.,
Acting Out NY, 107 S. Cayuga St.,
Ithaca.
Greg Neff - Acoustic Tunes
of the 60’s & 70’s, 1-3:30 p.m.,
Carol’s Coffee & Art Bar, 177
Front St., Owego.
The Small Kings @ Grist
Iron Brewing, 7-10 p.m., Bur-
dett.
Science
Beginner Bird Walks, 9 a.m.,
Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159
Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca.
Sports
Take a Friend Snowmobil-
ing, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Broome-
scholarships are available.
Film
Doctor Strange, 7 p.m.,
Willard Straight Theatre, 104
Willard Straight Hall, Ithaca.
$8.50 general admission, $6.50
seniors, $6 CU graduate stu-
dents, $5.50 students and kids 12
& under.
Moana, 4:30 p.m., Willard
Straight Theatre, 104 Willard
Straight Hall, Ithaca. $5.50 all.
Health & Wellness
Meditation: Sundays,
10:30-11:30 a.m., Rasa Spa Tran-
quility Room, 310 Taughannock
Blvd., Suite 2A, Ithaca. $5 dona-
tion.
Nightlife & Singles
Vocal Jazz Jam, 4-7 p.m., The
Range, 119 E. State St., Ithaca.
No cover charge (tips support
the band).
MONDAY
Education
Road, Ithaca.
Food & Wine
Lets Try It Again Pork
Dinner, 4:30-6 p.m., Breesport
United Methodist Church, 110
Church St., Breesport. $9.
Organizations & Meetups
Trumansburg Community
Chorus, 7-9 p.m., Jacksonville
Community United Methodist
Church, Route 96, Jacksonville.
Performing Arts
Craig Russell--acoustic
originals and more, 12:30
p.m.-3 p.m., Carol’s Coffee & Art
Bar, 177 Front St., Owego.
TUESDAY
Concerts & Tour Dates
Renowned bass Darren
Stokes and Dorothy Cotton
Jubilee Singers concert Feb.
21, 7-8 p.m., Ford Auditorium,
Ithaca College, Ithaca.
Education
Quartet, 8-10 p.m., Madeline’s
Restaurant, Ithaca Commons,
215 E State St. # 10, Ithaca.
Wings and Things, 5:30-7:30
p.m., VFW Glen A Warner Post
1371, 207 Main St., Owego.
Health & Wellness
American Sign Language
Practice Group, 6 p.m., Barnes
& Noble Booksellers Ithaca, 614
South Meadow, Ithaca. Free to
the Public.
Performing Arts
Crystal Chords Celebrate
Harmony Awareness Week,
6:30-9 p.m., Horseheads United
Methodist Church, 1034 Broad
St., Horseheads.
WEDNESDAY
Film
Pulp Fiction, 9:20 p.m.,
Willard Straight Theatre, 104
Willard Straight Hall, Ithaca.
$8.50 general admission, $6.50
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Do you have an underlying policy of hatred?

PSYCHOLOGICAL
FITNESS
DR. ART FRENZ
A mother tries to get
her young child to eat
broccoli. “No! I don’t like
it!” shrieks the child.
“How do you know
you don’t like it? You’ve never tried it!”
pleads the mother.
“No, I hate it!” Case closed. Tater
tots it is.
The child has his mind made up.
Maybe it’s because of the smell, or the
green color. Maybe it’s the texture that
the child imagines it will have. Maybe
it’s something about the sound of the
syllables of “broc-co-li.” Maybe the
child saw his friends react with disgust
to the sight of broccoli, and that was all
it took to lock in the negative impres-
sion.
‘That’s the policy’
Whatever the origin of the opinion,
somehow the child has reached a deci-
sion that broccoli is bad. In a sense, the
child has developed a policy on broccoli
— a no-broccoli policy.
Like many policies, once they are
established, they can become fixed and
non-negotiable. In a business negotia-
tion, the last thing we want to hear is
“I’m sorry, that’s the policy. There’s
nothing I can do about it. I wish I could
help you, but my hands are tied.”
If you’re on the receiving end of “the
policy,” running into it is like hitting a
brick wall, a dead end. There’s nothing
you can do unless someone were to
change the policy, which takes con-
scious effort.
If you’re the person implementing
the policy, one advantage you have is
that you don’t have to think very much.
“No refunds after 30 days. Period.”
Once you decide which policy to enact,
there’s really no need to listen, consider
or discuss any further.
The policy of hatred
Sometimes we hear ourselves say
that we hate things. How innocuous it
When we think of the things or people
we hate — or dislike, or reject — we
often have the sense that that’s just
the way it is. We tend to accept it, too
readily, as an indisputable truth, a
fact of life.
would be if hating things like broccoli
were the extent of it.
Unfortunately, it goes much further
than that.
We hate things that people say and
do. We hate things that people think and
believe. Then we take the giant leap to
hating the people themselves, for what
they say, do, think and believe. We hate
people for what they look like, what
they value, whom they pray to and
whom they vote for.
A curious thing is that when we
think of the things or people we hate —
or dislike, or reject — we often have
the sense that that’s just the way it is.
We tend to accept it, too readily, as an
indisputable truth, a fact of life. “I just
hate broccoli. I can’t help it.”
Maybe our hatred is not so much a
fact of life, for which we bear no re-
sponsibility, but effectively a policy
that we somehow created or adopted,
and which we continue to uphold and
enact without really thinking about it.
If you work long enough at a busi-
ness that has a “No refund after 30
days” policy, you might unconsciously
begin to believe that there’s something
inherently true and obviously sound
about such a policy. You may forget
that if you are the owner of the busi-
ness, you have the option to change the
policy if you want to.
Similarly, if we, and people in our
circle, effectively have a policy of not
liking people who look, think or believe
differently than we do, we don’t have to
continue to blindly follow that policy.
We have the option to look more closely,
listen more openly, consider more gen-
uinely when dealing with those who are
not just like us.
Art Frenz is a clinical psychologist in
private practice in Vestal. Visit his
website at artfrenzphd.com.

How Medicare covers preventive health services

SAVVY SENIOR
JIM MILLER
Question: Does Medi-
care cover 100 percent of
all preventive health care
screenings? I’m due to
get a colonoscopy and a
few other tests, but I
want to find out if I’ll have to pay any-
thing before I proceed.
Answer: Medicare currently covers
a wide array of free preventive and
screening services to help you stay
healthy, but not all services are com-
pletely covered. Here’s how it works.
Free preventive services
Currently, most of Medicare’s pre-
ventive services are available to all Part
B beneficiaries for free, with no copays
or deductibles, as long as you meet ba-
sic eligibility standards. Mammograms;
colonoscopies; shots against flu, pneu-
monia, and hepatitis B; screenings for
diabetes, depression, and heart condi-
tions; and counseling to combat obesity,
alcohol abuse, and smoking are just
some of Medicare’s lengthy list of cov-
ered services. But to get these services
for free, you need to go to a doctor who
accepts Medicare “on assignment,”
agreeing to accept the Medicare ap-
proved rate as full payment.
Also, the tests are free only if they’re
used at specified intervals.
Medicare also offers a free “Wel-
come to Medicare” exam with your
doctor in your first year, along with
annual wellness visits thereafter. But
don’t confuse these with full physical
examinations.
For a complete list of services along
with their eligibility requirements, visit
Medicare.gov and click on the “What
Medicare Covers” tab at the top of the
page, followed by “Preventive & screen-
ing services.”
Hidden costs
You also need to know that while the
previously listed Medicare services are
completely free, you can be charged for
certain diagnostic services or additional
tests or procedures related to the pre-
ventive service. For example, if your
doctor finds and removes a polyp dur-
ing your preventive care colonoscopy
screening, the removal of the polyp is
considered diagnostic and you will like-
ly be charged for it. Or, if during your
annual wellness visit, your doctor needs
to investigate or to treat a new or exist-
ing problem, you will probably be
charged here, too.
You may also have to pay a facility
fee depending on where you receive the
service. Certain hospitals, for example,
will often charge separate facilities fees
when you are receiving a preventive
service.
And, you can also be charged for a
doctor’s visit if you meet with a physi-
cian before or after the service.
To eliminate billing surprises, talk to
your doctor before any preventive ser-
vice procedure to find out if you may be
subject to a charge and what it would
be.
Cost-sharing services
Medicare also offers several preven-
tive services that require some out-of-
pocket cost sharing. With these tests,
you’ll have to pay 20 percent of the cost
of the service, after you’ve met your
$183 Part B yearly deductible. The serv-
ices that fall under this category include
glaucoma screenings, diabetes self-
management trainings, barium enemas
to detect colon cancer, and digital rectal
exams to detect prostate cancer.
Medicare Advantage members
If you have a Medicare Advantage
plan, your plans are also required to
cover the same free preventive services
as original Medicare as long as you see
in-network providers. If you see provid-
ers that are not in your plan’s network,
charges will typically apply.
Send your senior questions to: Savvy
Senior, P.O. Box 5443, Norman, OK
73070, or visit SavvySenior.org.

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Bird watching at the landfill, reluctantly

GREAT OUTDOORS RICK MARSI
They used to be dumps, but how
times have evolved. Now, they are land-
fills and touted as great birding spots.
Case in point: a recent New York
Times article featuring the Brevard
County Central Disposal Facility in
Florida as a can’t-miss destination dur-
ing the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival.
Follow the stench, it turns out, and you just might
see a lesser black-backed gull. This European resi-
dent has been showing up stateside in increasing
numbers of late. Birders in search of a life bird know
just where to find it: hovering over Brevard County
dozers in search of fresh human detritus.
I smiled as I read about all the great landfills our
country now offers for birding. I smiled because,
once, I admit I decried the mere thought of bird
watching a dump.
“Landfill snob,” my friends called me. Mea culpa.
If the shoe fits, you wear it.
But those days have passed. Three years ago, I saw
the light. Shining it on me were owls from the north,
white as snow, thickly feathered for winter.
The snowy owl invasion of 2014 was a birder’s pipe
dream realized. Thousands of huge Arctic owls began
appearing in the Northeast. An unusually successful
breeding season had created a surplus of owls on the
tundra. Come winter, large numbers of birds had no
RICK MARSI / CORRESPONDENT PHOTO
A snowy owl at the Broome County landfill in February 2014.
choice but to move south or confront starvation.
And where did they go when they headed our way?
To places without trees, reminiscent of Arctic envi-
rons. Two such environments appealed to the owls:
sand dunes on the coast and — you guessed it — the
local landfill.
The snowies weren’t lured to the active part of
landfills, where the garbage trucks tip up their trash
and the gulls supervise. Instead, they made tracks for
the capped landfill mountains, covered over with sod
and kept free from the growth of all trees.
My landfill in Broome County found itself hosting
several owls. Local birders wasted no time ingratiat-
ing themselves with keepers at the tipping station,
and soon, they were prowling the landfill with daily
success.
“You can’t pass this up,” my friend Linda insisted.
“The owls are right there for the taking.”
I, the owl snob, replied, “Thanks, but no thanks. I’m
going to Cape Cod for my photos.”
And I did, driving hundreds of miles through bad
weather, humping my way over dunes and their 6-
inch-deep sand. The results were quite good: several
really nice shots of owls checking me out from high
perches on sand promontories.
Back home, feeling smug, when the phone rang, I
let down my guard. All right, I would go to the land-
fill.
Fifteen miles from my house, perched in snow on a
hill, sprigs of grass right beside it (the perfect back-
drop), a snowy owl offered as perfect a pose as I’d
seen from those distant sand owls. Fifty yards down
the road, hit the brakes, there’s another. Two snowy
owls in 10 minutes, each photographed against a tun-
dra-like background — the landfill snob had to eat
crow.
That conversion from detractor to fan still holds
true. Sitting here as we speak, I can only hope some-
one will call with the news that an owl has arrived at
the dump.
To follow Rick Marsi’s outdoor exploits, visit
rickmarsi.com.

Advice for doctors and patients on partnership in care

CANCER CONNECTIONS
BOB RITER
I spend much of my time helping
seriously ill patients navigate the
health care system. As a result, I’m
constantly talking with patients about
their interactions with doctors and
other health professionals.
Although each encounter is unique, I’m increasing-
ly aware of some universal truths that contribute to
good patient-doctor encounters. Not surprisingly,
good encounters require a shared spirit of respect
and communication.
Suggestions for doctors and other health pro-
fessionals:
» Always introduce yourself to new patients.
» Listen for a while without interrupting. Get the
big picture before filling in the details. Focus on the
patient and not on the computer screen, especially
during the first few minutes of the visit.
» Be kind.
» Remind yourself that patients newly diagnosed
with a serious illness are scared. If you deal with sick
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Good encounters require a shared spirit of respect and
communication.
people every day, it becomes routine. It’s not routine
for the new patient.
» Make a special effort to establish communication
and a sense of partnership during the initial visit.
Subsequent visits will benefit.
» Recognize that medical care is costly for most
people, even those with good insurance.
» Make good communication between patients and
the entire office staff an ongoing priority. Few offices
do this really well, and every office could do it better.
Suggestions for patients:
» Recognize that you are not your doctor’s only
patient.
» Respect your doctor’s time. If you have multiple
questions, ask the most important questions first.
» Don’t think of your doctor as the enemy. If you
don’t like your doctor, get a new one. Everyone will be
happier.
» Be open and honest about your medical history
and your present concerns.
» Recognize that good health is largely your re-
sponsibility. Eat sensibly. Exercise. Don’t smoke.
» Recognize that medicine is not a perfect science.
A bad outcome does not mean bad care.
» Be reasonable. And be polite.
Good health care is a partnership. It’s all about
communication and respect. And it flows in both di-
rections.
Bob Riter is the executive director of the Cancer
Resource Center of the Finger Lakes. He can be
reached at bob@crcfl.net or 277-0960.

BOOK REVIEW

‘Rush of Blood’ is an absorbing thriller

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the 14-year-old daughter
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Back in England,
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couples to get together to
continue the friendship
that came so easy in
Florida, though enthusi-
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Safety
Street food is safe to eat. Crime is
very low but safeguard your wallet
from pickpockets and don’t drape your
purse over your chair.
Many people will accost you, trying
to sell you things. Keep walking.
It’s not uncommon to hear of pedes-
trians hit by bikes or even cars. Look
both ways when crossing the street.
Use seatbelts in cabs.

The best things are free

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day. Beautiful at night with the city lit apartments. It’s also one of the city’s greatest free attractions for visitors.
up. No. 1 subway to South Ferry or 4 or
5 trains to Bowling Green.
9/11 park. A powerful symbol of the painted women must stay confined to a
city’s resilience, with One World Trade teal-colored zone. ASSOCIATED PRESS
rising above. Reflecting pools built in Walking across the Brooklyn Bridge is one of
the footprints of the twin towers are a The subway the city’s best free experiences.
moving tribute to those who perished.
Be sure to stop at the Survivor Tree. It’s noisy, dirty and confusing but
Check out the Oculus nearby, a cool and generally safe and efficient. Chances whereas much of what you see from
curious white-winged structure with are you will encounter homeless peo- One World Trade is the harbor and New
shops and eateries inside. ple, panhandlers, musicians and trains Jersey.
Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. so crowded you can’t get on. It runs 24 Many museums schedule a few free
Take the C or A train to the High Street hours a day, though trains and riders hours each week. The Metropolitan
stop on the Brooklyn side and walk thin out overnight. Trust your gut: If Museum of Art lists a suggested admis-
back to Manhattan. someone is acting strangely or aggres- sion but you don’t have to pay it. To me,
Central Park. New Yorkers live in sively, make like a New Yorker and the Museum of Modern Art’s perma-
tiny apartments. City parks are our walk away. If you bump someone acci- nent collection is worth the steep $25
collective backyards. Enter at 59th dentally, a sincere apology is expected. admission (don’t miss Van Gogh’s “Star-
Street and Fifth Avenue, just north of Get a free map from a manned ry Night”).
the Manhattan White House, aka Trump booth. There’s also a map in every car
Tower. of every train. Most New Yorkers can Neighborhoods
The High Line. This vertical park provide basic directions but a good app
built on an old rail line 30 feet above the for route-planning is citymapper.com/ A few of my favorites: In Harlem,
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low 14th Street. Expect crowds. er.html . designated activity zone in Times Square. across the neighborhood’s main street,
Grand Central, 42nd Street and Each one-way ride costs $2.75. Best 125th Street. Joe Shanghai on Pell
Lexington Avenue. Notice the famous deal is an unlimited seven-day pass for Street in Chinatown is cheap, crazy, fun
four-faced clock, cathedral windows, $31. Or put $20 on a regular pay-per- and good; be prepared to wait for a
grand staircases and zodiac signs in the ride MetroCard and the machine will Attractions table and beware the hot broth inside
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west corner of the ceiling is a reminder covering 8 rides total. If you pay in The most famous places are crowd- walk to Little Italy for dessert at Ferra-
of the days prior to a 1990s renovation cash and don’t have exact change, you’ll ed. Arrive a half-hour before opening ra’s, 195 Grand St. Hang with the hip-
when the entire ceiling was black from get coins back. If you pay by credit time to reduce your wait. sters in trendy Brooklyn: Take the L
decades of tobacco smoke. card and you’re from abroad, type in Empire State Building, Top of the train to Bedford in Williamsburg or
Times Square. New Yorkers hate 99999 as your zip code. There’s a $1 fee Rock or One World Trade observa- Jefferson in Bushwick. Among many
this place. Under new rules, tip-hungry for the card, but you can refill it. Prices tories? I prefer the first two because options for great pizza, I like Lombar-
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Lego Batman Review:

‘The Lego Batman Movie’
Continued from Page 1D eee (out of four)
104 minutes, Warner Bros. Pictures
course!) His loyal butler, Alfred (a Rating: PG for rude humor and some action
silken-toned Ralph Fiennes) has left Starring: Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis,
some Lobster Thermidor to heat up in Michael Cera, Rosario Dawson
the microwave. Alone in his cavernous
abode, he munches on his crustaceans, Director: Chris McKay
plays a little solo guitar, and watches
one of his favorite chick flicks, er,
movies — yup, “Jerry Maguire.” many iterations of Batman over the
We all know that Jerry ends up with years, including a precious black-and-
a family at the end, but will Batman white clip of Adam West in the ’60s.)
ever have a family to, um, complete And young orphan Dick Grayson (the
him? A photo of young Bruce Wayne future Robin, voiced by Michael Cera)
and his ill-fated parents is a sad re- manages to get Batman to adopt him —
minder of his childhood. inadvertently. Gradually, our superhero
Batman is being challenged on sev- warms to the idea of being a dad.
eral fronts. First, old nemesis Joker WARNER BROS. PICTURES VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS To a point, anyway. The essential
(Zach Galifianakis, delightful), is up to The essential struggle of the movie is Batman’s struggle with his own loneliness, and his thorny struggle of the movie (besides the con-
his usual destructive mischief. But path toward accepting the help — and companionship, and maybe even love — of others. stant battling of returning criminals —
there’s something else Joker craves, too many to mention — and defusing of
even more than flattening Gotham: apocalypse-threatening bombs, of
recognition. He wants to be Batman’s rio Dawson), Gotham’s new police com- team effort. Batman does NOT like this course) is Batman’s struggle with his
ONLY bad guy. Thing is, Batman’s just missioner. She’s highly qualified — idea. own loneliness, and his thorny path
not that into him. “I don’t do ’ships” — heck, she graduated from “Harvard for Meanwhile, two key people are try- toward accepting the help — and com-
meaning relationships — he says. “I Police” — and has sensible ideas about ing to soften Batman up, in a personal panionship, and maybe even love — of
like to fight around.” Even worse: “Bat- fighting crime. After all, she points out, sense. One is Alfred, attempting to others.
man and Joker are not a thing.” Joker is Gotham is still crime-ridden. Maybe bring out the emotions he knows are Will he get there? Perhaps that’s
devastated. relying on a masked vigilante savior there somewhere. (A highlight for us obvious. But the fun comes in seeing
Then there’s Barbara Gordon (Rosa- isn’t the best strategy; it’s gotta be a old folks is when Alfred reviews the how it all clicks together.

When your family’s at work

or maybe at school,
and you’re all by yourself,
it’s not always cool.

It can get lonely and

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Groom ponders bridal shower etiquette
ASK AMY
AMY DICKINSON
Dear Amy: I am a
groom-to-be. My fiancee
and I grew up eight hours
away from each other.
My mother and my fian-
cee are close. Several
months ago, my mom planned a bridal
shower in my hometown. My fiancee’s
family was annoyed, upset and some-
what hostile about this, thinking that my
mother was trying to usurp their role.
My mother had assumed that they
would also host a bridal shower in their
hometown.
They said they have never heard of
someone having more than one bridal
shower. They were quite vocal with me
about it.
My future in-laws have not yet met
my mother, who is one of the kindest,
most polite people you could ever meet.
This was quite hurtful to me.
After planning their own shower, my
fiancee’s family has now decided not to
have it. They have basically invited
themselves to the one my mother is
hosting.
This makes things super-awkward,
because we don’t have room for them at
the venue. We already had to trim the
list to fit.
Adult siblings’ falling-out affecting their mother’s health
DEAR ANNIE
ANNIE LANE
Dear Annie: It has
been over a year since
my sister and I had a
falling-out. She used to
live with me but moved in
with my mother. I have
tried to reconcile with her to keep har-
mony within the family. I have been
unsuccessful.
It appears that our mother has taken
my sister’s side in our disagreement and
has treated me disrespectfully on many
occasions within the past year. Since my
daughter passed away, I have struggled
with bouts of depression from time to
time. My mother’s treatment of me
hurts me, and I had to stop calling and
visiting her as frequently as I used to in
order to avoid her harmful behavior
toward me. My mother also appears to
be alienating my brother from her life.
‘SNL’ and TV comics capitalize on Trump, administration
DAVID BAUDER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK - NBC’s comedy institu-
tion “Saturday Night Live” reached its
largest audience since 2011 with last
weekend’s episode hosted by President
Trump impersonator Alec Baldwin and
featuring the return of Melissa McCar-
thy portraying White House press sec-
retary Sean Spicer.
The show reached 10.8 million view-
ers, the Nielsen company said. To put
that in perspective, the late-night show
had a bigger audience than all but four
prime-time programs on TV the week of
Feb. 6-12. Among younger viewers, only
the Grammys had better ratings.
The viewership estimate is only a
portion of their audience; it doesn’t
count millions of people who recorded
the program for later viewing or
watched clips of its skits online.
McCarthy opened Saturday’s show
with her Spicer portrayal and Baldwin,
who has been host for a show-record 17
times, rolled out his version of Trump
appearing on “People’s Court.” Kate
McKinnon also did an impersonation of
Trump aide Kellyanne Conway in a
SUNDAY’S HOROSCOPE
Aries (March 21-April 19). People who love you
sometimes try to decide things for you. This is a
waste of time for them, considering you’re not
about to adopt anyone else’s choice unless it also
happens to be your own.
Taurus (April 20-May 20). Thinking about the
problems of the world again? The solution is near
— and the solution is you. You so clearly see what
needs to be done, and there’s no reason you
shouldn’t be the one to do it.
Gemini (May 21-June 21). The great thing about
being born under the sign of the twins is that
you’re not tied to reacting to life in any one way.
Instead of saying “that’s who I am,” you believe
that you are who you decide to be.
Cancer (June 22-July 22). Light travels faster than
the speed of sound, creating an out-of-sync
relationship between seeing a thing and hearing
it. In the delay between, second guesses will
abound.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22). Virtues often seem far less
exciting than vices. Take patience, for instance —
not exactly a glamorous quality to strive for.
However, to be patient in a moment of anger
Did my mother violate etiquette by
planning a shower? Is there a polite way
to tell my fiancee’s family (mother and
two sisters) that there is no space for
them?
— Frustrated Groom
Dear Groom: The most appropriate
people to throw bridal showers are not
mothers or mothers-in-law, but brides-
maids, or friends of the couple who live
in the town where the couple resides.
This current dust-up illustrates one
good reason behind this recommenda-
tion. But yes, it is fine to have two par-
ties in two different towns.
Yes, your family must find space for
these three women at your hometown
shower. Even if they were planning
their own shower, the polite thing would
have been to include and invite them
from the start.
It is a shame that this is happening —
normally in-laws have to meet personal-
ly before they commence the sniping.
You and your fiancee need to work hard,
and as a team, to establish that you ex-
pect people to behave and to respect
your various family relationships.
Dear Amy: I have a friend of almost
30 years, who has really hurt me.
It started when her Facebook com-
ments started revealing the dirt in her
marriage. These comments came out of
left field, but I didn’t draw attention to
Recently, my mother sold her home
and moved in with my sister and is sup-
posedly going to move in to a retirement
home. My brother and I were not con-
sulted or made a part of any decision-
making. Prior to the disagreement be-
tween my sister and me, this situation
would not have been handled this way.
All of us would have been involved in
the decision, as well as assisting her
with her move, etc.
Whether my sister is purposely con-
trolling our mother’s affairs or not, my
mother resides with her now, and she
does have influence over her. My sister
has had the opportunity for the past
year to influence my mother in a
healthy way but has chosen to foster her
ill feelings toward her other children.
Until Mom moves in to a facility, I am
unable to visit her. I feel as if my mother
doesn’t want me in her life at all. I have
accepted my relationship with my sis-
ter; should I learn to not have one with
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Alec Baldwin as President Donald Trump
during a “People’s Court” spoof on NBC’s
“Saturday Night Live” last week.
“Fatal Attraction” type relationship
with CNN’s Jake Tapper; she also imper-
sonated Jeff Sessions and Elizabeth
Warren.
It was the most-watched episode of
“SNL” since Jan. 8, 2011, a show that
featured Jim Carrey and the Black
Keys. “SNL” ratings generally jump
during election years and fade — but
interest in the Trump administration has
kept the numbers high.
NBC wouldn’t put forth an executive
today will help you escape future days of sorrow.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Games are more fun
when everyone understands and plays by the rules.
Also, the rules should be explicit in determining
when the game is over. It’s easier to commit fully
when we know it’s only for a limited time.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You’re the official greeter
of the zodiac now, making people feel welcome
around you. It’s perfect because there are new
people coming into your world, and they will
always remember the warm first impression you
made.
Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Something is going
wonderfully right in your world, and you can
create even more of it, too, if you can only
remember your recipe. This is the moment to
reflect, observe yourself and write it all down.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Why do you want to
do it? What or who gives you the impulse? You can
work without being inspired, but you’ll be so much
more effective if you take the time and make the
effort to find your inspiration first.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Short-term comforts
will keep you going today. Pepper your life with
them.
Then her husband made a very pub-
lic posting on Facebook to acknowledge
his wife’s accusations and to say he
loved her. I made a supportive comment
to his post. He has since deleted his
page, so I have no idea how it read or
what exactly I said.
Later that same day I texted my
friend and asked her how they were
doing. I said I hoped things were getting
better. She supplied many more unsa-
vory details about his behavior, and I
was livid with him. Then she disap-
peared.
When months passed with no re-
sponse to my texts, I got worried so I
called a relative of hers to find out if she
had been heard from.
She replied that I was not to contact
her family and that the comment I left
on her husband’s Facebook page was
misinterpreted by her friends, and they
questioned whether I was the person he
was sleeping with!
I am furious. She has decided I’m
sleeping with her husband because I
wrote something supportive to him? Am
I in the wrong?
— Furious
Dear Furious: You are not in the
wrong, but consider this a very useful
lesson: Never, ever, violate your own
marital and friendship neutrality on
my mother?
— Very Sad
Dear Sad: First, I’m so sorry for the
loss of your daughter. It’s odd that your
sister and mother aren’t more sympa-
thetic. It’s possible that your mom’s
mental health is deteriorating.
I think you and your brother should
pay the two of them a visit (even if your
sister is opposed to the idea). Try recon-
ciling one more time, but mainly, use the
visit to assess your mom’s health and
mental state.
If your sister refuses to reconcile and
continues to wield an unhealthy influ-
ence over your mother, consult an elder
law attorney to figure out whether Mom
is being taken advantage of and what
options you have. She may really need
your help, whether she realizes it or not.
Dear Annie: A friend gave me your
column that appeared in our local paper
last month. It was about a couple whose
three children have rejected them for
to talk about its good fortune on Tues-
day. James Andrew Miller, an author of
an oral history of “Saturday Night Live,”
noted how Trump’s tweets about the
show have helped give it new life (he did
not offer a Twitter critique on last week-
end’s show). There have been reports
that NBC is also mulling a prime-time
edition of the show’s “Weekend Update”
segment.
“Even if he’s not tweeting about it,
they know that someone in the White
House is paying attention to it, and I
think that increases the currency of the
show,” Miller said.
Trump has helped other comics, too.
HBO’s John Oliver returned Sunday
from a three-month hiatus to his best
ratings for a season premiere. For the
second straight week, CBS’ Stephen
Colbert, who has concentrated on point-
ed political comedy in recent months,
beat NBC’s usually dominant “Tonight”
show in viewership, Nielsen said.
The Grammys were the biggest TV
event during the past week, reaching 26
million viewers for its biggest audience
since 2014.
CBS easily won the week in prime
time, averaging 10.3 million viewers.
treats. A nap, a snack, your favorite show — all
sparks of pleasure to enjoy in very small bursts
between the main events of life’s work and
purpose.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). The ancients suggested
you should not climb trees to look for fish. Though
it’s not entirely impossible to catch fish from a tree
today, if you’re hungry for fish you’ll go where the
probability factor is more in your favor.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20). It’s fun to spend money
on a friend! It will make you happy to do so today,
and your friend will also be quite pleased.
Furthermore, the generous act will attract good
fortune, financial and otherwise.
Today’s birthday (Feb. 19). Embrace your
ambitions at the top of this solar return and others
will, too. This isn’t about getting what you
deserve; it’s about giving what you know you can.
The world needs it. Love fortifies and motivates
you. May is your chance at a prize. There’s a
strange turn that begins a mysterious adventure in
July. Virgo and Scorpio adore you. Your lucky
numbers are: 9, 4, 29, 1 and 15.
Forecast for the week ahead: It’s the first week
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Facebook. If you’re wondering, the way
to express your neutrality on social
media is by being silent.
I have a blanket policy never to re-
spond publicly when someone exposes
their marital or relationship troubles on
social media. No good can come of it.
Any comment you make is seen not only
by the person you intend to receive it,
but by circles upon circles of their
friends and connections, with predict-
able results: Someone who has never
met you will dive into a false assump-
tion and your real-world relationship
will suffer.
Dear Amy: OMG I almost spit out my
cornflakes when I read the letter from
“Sam, in Los Angeles, CA” who won-
dered why none of the women he took
out wanted to sleep with him. I knew
you would deliver the response he de-
served. Thank you for making me laugh.
— A Fan
Dear Fan: Thank you! I’ll be here all
week, appearing at breakfast tables
throughout North America.
Contact Amy Dickinson via email:
askamy@amydickinson.com. Send post-
al mail to Amy Dickinson, c/o Tribune
Content Agency, LLC., 16650 Westgrove
Drive, Suite 175, Addison, TX 75001.
Follow her on Twitter @askingamy or
“like” her on Facebook.
22 years. I am in the same situation. I
have three children who have divorced
themselves from the whole family for
the past 25 years, and I do not know why.
I have not seen my children or heard
from them for 25 years. Is there any
way that you can forward my message
to the couple whose children have done
the same to them? It helps the hurt to
know that there are others who are in
the same situation.
— J in Nebraska
Dear J: I will publish this as a remind-
er to all the children out there who are
not speaking to their parents that it
really hurts. There are cases in which
cutting a toxic relative out of your life is
the only healthy option, but that should
be a last resort. Family is a beautiful
thing, and it is not something to be dis-
carded easily.
Send your questions for Annie Lane to
dearannie@creators.com.
ABC had 5.1 million viewers, NBC had
4.5 million, Fox had 3.1 million, Uni-
vision had 1.9 million, the CW had 1.6
million, Telemundo had 1.5 million and
ION Television had 1.3 million.
Fox News Channel was the week’s
most popular cable network, averaging
2.89 million viewers. HGTV had 1.666
million, AMC had 1.665 million, USA had
1.59 million and MSNBC had 1.4 million.
ABC’s “World News Tonight” topped
the evening newscasts with an average
of 9.1 million viewers, NBC’s “Nightly
News” had 9 million and the “CBS Eve-
ning News” had 7.5 million.
For the week of Feb. 6-12, the top 10
prime-time shows, their networks and
viewerships:
» “Grammy Awards,” CBS, 26.07 million
» “NCIS,” CBS, 15.57 million
» “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 14.15 million
» “The Walking Dead,” AMC, 12 million
» “Bull,” CBS, 10.78 million
» “Blue Bloods,” CBS, 10.65 million
» “Grammy Awards Red Carpet,” CBS, 10.07
million
» “Hawaii Five-O,” CBS, 9.86 million
» “This Is Us,” NBC, 9.57 million
» “NCIS: New Orleans,” CBS, 9.01 million
of the solar journey through the last sign of the
zodiac. Pisces is the sign of summary. In the same
way that classic dramatic structure often includes a
final-act wrap-up of all previous story lines, the
solar journey through Pisces, the last act of our
zodiac story, touches on themes of the previous 11
solar stations. With the new moon and solar
eclipse but a few days away, it’s the ideal moment
to review, take stock and try to see the big picture.
There is no need to try to force your current efforts
into that panoramic view, as this is mostly a time
of observation and noticing. There is nothing to
decide and much to be aware of. There is very little
to do and much to be.
Pisces is the sign of spiritual incorporation. The
explorations of December, the conquests of
January and the breakthroughs of early February
will now order themselves in our spiritual
evolution. It’s as if the information is settling into
its own pattern, a poem of our lives, a fabric of our
being. The conscious efforts will seem almost
optional now. Let life sing to you. You don’t even
need to dance; the music will do it for you.
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HOROSCOPE
Aries (March 21-April 19). Just as
you have often clicked “Agree”
without reading the jargon, you
might have agreed to what a
loved one wants without fully
understanding what it is.
Taurus (April 20-May 20). It’s
human nature to feel entitled to
the things that the other hu-
mans close by seem to have.
Gemini (May 21-June 21). There
ADAM@HOME BRIAN BASSET are people with similar talents to
yours who do a similar job to
what you can do. But no one else
can do what you do in the way
you do it.
Cancer (June 22-July 22). It’s the
people who have known one
another for a long time who find
it the most challenging to refrain
from argument and bickering
that they would never engage in
Cryptoquip is a substitution cipher in which one with less-familiar people.
letter stands for another. If you think that X equals O, it Leo (July 23-Aug. 22). Create a
will equal O throughout the puzzle. Single letters, short ritual around the habit you want
words and words using an apostrophe give clues to to incorporate in your daily life.
THE WIZARD OF ID BRANT PARKER locating vowels. Solution is by trial and error. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’d
rather be acknowledged for
something minute and very spe-
cific to you than accept big, gen-
eral praise.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). What if
you thought that it was perfectly
acceptable to want whatever
you want in whatever quantity
you believe would be most satis-
fying?
Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Good
fortune follows your indulgence
in an artistic whimsy; appreciat-
ing the arts in any way at all
BLONDIE DEAN YOUNG & JOHN MARSHALL Word sleuth counts.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).
Your light, casual curiosity about
the people you encounter today
is nonetheless focused enough
to be flattering.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You
may realize that there is much
you know that can never really
be understood by people who
weren’t your age when it hap-
pened.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).
Those who are not used to the
perks that come with being your
friend may experience it as such.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20).
BABY BLUES Jerry Scott & Rick Kirkman Today’s scenario features heroes
who save themselves through
the process of helping others.
Today’s birthday (Feb. 18).
Family business booms this year.
Aesthetic choices will matter
more than you might have
guessed over the next 10 weeks.
As you make your environment
better suited to you, you attract
fascinating people. The opportu-
nities in July and September will
pay double on the investment.
Sagittarius and Virgo adore you.
Your lucky numbers are: 14, 18,
20, 45 and 33.
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