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CEO:
Dick’s
will be ‘a
winner’
Jeff Platsky
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin
USA TODAY NETWORK

As the 500-pound gorilla of retail-

ing — Amazon — bears down on the in-
dustry, it might seem counter intuitive
to open a new 630,000-square-foot,
$80 million distribution center.
Not for Dick’s Sporting Goods. It is
determined to be a “retail survivor,”
analysts say.
On Thursday, company executives
and local officials came together in
Conklin to celebrate the opening of the
company’s fifth warehouse nation-
wide, a 650,000-square-foot opera-
Gabby Laubisch, age 5, of Apalachin, was first diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia in August 2014 and tion that will eventually serve 160 of
underwent several long hospitalizations before receiving a bone marrow transplant in 2016. KATE COLLINS/STAFF PHOTO the chain’s more than 800 stores.
There was no hint of woe at the 45-

Beating cancer twice

minute ceremony in the center’s ex-
pansive break room, distinguished by
a small baseball diamond etched into
the flooring. Company Chief Executive
Officer Edward Stack, son of founder
Dick Stack, says the Pittsburgh-based
After being diagnosed at 2, Gabby is back to living life as a ‘normal kid’ sporting goods retailer is nearly ready,
after a short break, to continue aggres-
sive expansion as costs for retail space
Stories to Share Dozens of tiny collectible Shopkins toys are scattered on the floor, sur-
Katie Sullivan See RETAIL, Page 2A
Binghamton Press & rounded by more toys, books and games along the back wall of the Lau-
Sun-Bulletin bisch family’s well-used living room in Apalachin. z Gretchen Laubisch
places a pillow on the floor to make room for herself on the couch next to her 5-year-old daughter. Her
son climbs up beside her. z Then a door at the side of the room opens and Lucas and Gabby Laubisch
look up expectantly. Dad’s home. z “Hey guys, how was your day?” Greg Laubisch asks before taking a
Inmate dies
seat on the floor beside them.
in Broome
On the pillow, now propped against the foot of the couch, a
scripted message reads:
“Just the 4 of us; hockey playing, princess loving, full of
uncertainty lingered here just a year ago.
On Aug. 9, 2014, a few weeks after she’d turned 2, Gabby
Laubisch was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia,
County Jail
love, fabulous family: The Laubisch Family.” a type of cancer that starts in the blood-forming cells of the Hannah Schwarz
It’s a quiet Thursday evening for the Laubisches, sand- bone marrow. Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin
wiched between the dance practices, gymnastics classes and In that instant, Greg and Gretchen Laubisch were over- USA TODAY NETWORK

hockey games they juggle just about every other day of the whelmed by a single emotion: fear.
week. Moments like these — simple, normal — are treasured An inmate died in the Broome
in this house; they give no indication that turmoil, fear and See CANCER, Page 6A County jail Thursday morning, the
third known inmate death in the past
16 months.
Broome County Sheriff David Hard-
er confirmed the death, but declined to

‘Operation Hailstorm’ meth suspects face trials
Anthony Borrelli
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin
USA TODAY NETWORK
Federal jury trials are scheduled April
2 for six defendants who were indicted
as part of the “Operation Hailstorm”
crystal meth bust in the Southern Tier.
Alonzo Harris, 42, from Arizona;
Binghamton residents Charles Green,
42, and Amanda Kamp, 27; along with
Endicott residents Vincent Harrell, 39,
Misti Evans, 37, and Rachel Millard, 35,
were among 10 defendants charged in
the meth trafficking operation and their
anticipated trials will be held at the fed-
eral courthouse in Syracuse.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office alleges
multi-pound shipments of meth were
brought into the Binghamton area
from Arizona, where Harris was resid-
ing.
The conspiracy allegedly spanned
from January 2015 until Sept. 5, 2017.
Harris allegedly communicated
See TRIALS, Page 13A
release the name of the inmate or the
exact time of death. He said the in-
mate’s next of kin and the New York
State Commission of Correction had
been notified.
The last known death in the Broome
County Jail occurred on Oct. 22, 2016.
That death was reported to the Com-
mission of Correction as a suicide.
Harder declined then to release the
See DEATH, Page 2A

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Retail
Sunshine Partly cloudy A passing Continued from Page 1A
mixing with afternoon
some clouds shower drops in the face of industry tumult.
Based on Stack’s previous comments
SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY to Wall Street analysts, Dick’s is using
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termine its next move to blanket the na-
Clouds Cloudy with A thick cloud
tion with its three sporting goods
breaking for snow at times cover
brands — Dick’s Sporting Goods, Field &
some sun
Stream and Golf Galaxy.
FOR THE LATEST FORECASTS www.pressconnects.com/weather Over the past several years, Dick’s Edward Stack’s speech became
BY THE NUMBERS REGIONAL has seen two of its former competitors emotional at times while discussing
fold: Sports Authority and Gander his father’s legacy.
BINGHAMTON ITHACA ELMIRA Today Saturday
Mountain. Other competitors are on ASHLEY BIVIANO/STAFF PHOTO
City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W
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Albany
Atlantic City
32 24 s
42 36 s
46 37 s
53 45 s
shaky ground. Yet, Stack said, Dick’s
Normal high 29° Normal high 31° Normal high 33° Buffalo 46 38 pc 45 30 r has maintained a solid financial footing,
Erie 47 38 pc 43 30 r
Normal low 15° Normal low 15° Normal low 15°
Harrisburg 47 29 s 57 41 pc and stands ready to embark on expan- will necessitate 200 more people.
Record high 63° in 1967 Record high 68° in 1967 Record high 72° in 1950
Record low -9° in 1963 Record low -16° in 1948 Record low -13° in 2004
New York City
Philadelphia
39 32 s
46 33 s
54 46 s
57 47 s sion after the retail industry shakeout. Making the distribution center
Rochester 45 36 pc 48 33 c “There’s going to be some (retail) work on the 123-acre site was a nearly
Scranton 40 31 s 48 37 s
PRECIPITATION PRECIPITATION PRECIPITATION Syracuse 39 29 s 46 31 sh winners and losers, and we’re going to Herculean task. A hillside was shaved,
Thursday Trace Thursday Trace Thursday Trace be a winner,” Stack said. requiring the removal of 900,000 cu-
Month to date 2.72” Month to date 1.65” Month to date 1.40” NATIONAL Dick’s has come a long way from its bic yards of dirt; a wetland had to be
Normal m-t-d 1.99” Normal m-t-d 1.69” Normal m-t-d 1.56” Today Saturday
Year to date 2.72” Year to date 1.65” Year to date 1.40” City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W humble 1948 start as a 1,500-square- negotiated; and two trucking termi-
Normal y-t-d 1.99” Normal y-t-d 1.69” Normal y-t-d 1.56” Albuquerque 49 19 s 47 23 s foot bait and tackle shop on Bingham- nals were relocated.
Amarillo 63 23 pc 55 24 s
ton’s Court Street. And Stack, appearing “Even with all the hurdles we were
BINGHAMTON SNOWFALL in inches Anchorage
Asheville
15 10 pc
51 34 s
17 8 pc
49 44 sh
emotional on Thursday, said his father going to find a way to make this thing
Aspen 27 5 sn 34 13 s
Thursday 0.3 Season to date 26.6 Atlanta
Austin
57 45 pc
69 56 sh
57 49 c
69 50 sh
would have welled up with tears if he work,” Stack said. “We were commit-
Month to date 13.5 Normal s-t-d 42.7
Normal m-t-d 18.1 Last season 63.2 Baltimore 49 33 s 58 46 s had lived long enough to see the compa- ted to building it here.”
Baton Rouge
Billings
65 55 c
39 24 pc
62 54 t
34 20 pc ny return to its roots with a modern, 170- Seven miles of conveyors transport
Birmingham 61 47 pc 58 50 r bay distribution center just a few miles goods from receiving to shipping, 100
EXTREMES: High: 77°, El Centro, CA; Low: -12°, Antero Reservoir, CO Bismarck
Boise
36 15 pc
43 31 sf
19 -3 c
41 35 sn from the East Side neighborhood the fork lifts move material down the
Boston 33 27 s 51 41 pc
family called home. 1,400-foot warehouse length, and
THE MOON SKYWATCH Bridgeport
Burlington
35 29 s
26 21 pc
46 38 s
43 34 c “Our deep roots in the community rows of warehouse shelving hold ma-
RISE SET Casper 30 17 sn 32 20 pc
Sun 7:23 a.m. 5:10 p.m. Charleston, SC 63 49 s 69 55 c played a part in considering this loca- terial waiting to be shipped as stores
Charleston, WV 59 35 s 56 42 pc
Moon 12:40 p.m. 2:03 a.m. Charlotte, NC 58 37 s 59 48 sh tion for our fifth distribution center,” show the need.
Venus 7:43 a.m. 5:27 p.m.
Mars 2:44 a.m. 12:21 p.m.
Chicago
Cincinnati
53 37 pc
54 44 pc
49 27 pc
50 32 r
Stack said. “If I had one wish I wish he “This is an American success story,”
Full Last New First Jupiter 1:55 a.m. 11:55 a.m. Cleveland 52 42 pc 48 33 r (Dick Stack) could be here today.” said New York Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul.
Columbia, SC 62 40 s 65 52 sh
Jan 31 Feb 7 Feb 15 Feb 23 Saturn 5:24 a.m. 2:35 p.m. Columbus, OH 51 40 s 49 32 r Ironically, the modern warehouse is “This can also telegraph to other com-
Concord
Dallas
29 13 s
64 55 c
45 34 pc
66 41 c nearly within eyeshot of the company’s panies that this is a great location for
NATIONAL FORECAST Dayton 50 43 s 48 30 r original distribution center, since distribution centers.”
Daytona Beach 66 58 pc 70 60 pc
Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation.
Temperature bands are highs for the day.
Denver 40 20 c 44 22 s closed. New York offered up to to $12 million
Des Moines
Detroit
54 31 pc
49 41 pc
47 23 pc
48 29 r Although the company relocated in incentives to entice the center from
110s
Duluth
Fairbanks
40 22 c
-20 -26 pc
26 8 c
-17 -27 s
headquarters to Pittsburgh in 1994 — for other states. The Agency, formerly the
100s Fargo 37 20 c 23 1 sn the stated reason of being closer to an Broome County Industrial Develop-
Flagstaff 42 12 s 47 19 s
90s
Great Falls 37 17 c 27 15 pc airport with greater travel options — ment Agency, is developing a 30-year
80s Green Bay
Hartford
46 32 pc
35 23 s
40 21 c
48 40 s
Stack said “our hearts are still in Bing- payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement,
70s
60s
Honolulu 83 69 pc 84 70 sh hamton.” and New York State Electric & Gas
Houston 66 57 c 68 55 t
50s Jackson, MS 63 51 c 59 51 r For Broome County, the project rep- Corp. is committing up to $540,000 in
40s Jacksonville
Juneau
65 53 pc
23 14 c
70 57 c
23 10 pc
resents an economic development economic development grant assis-
30s Kansas City 58 29 pc 53 27 s coup. Long lagging the national econo- tance for electric and natural gas infra-
20s Key West 73 66 c 74 67 pc
10s Las Vegas 59 39 pc 62 44 s my in job growth, the region has only re- structure, and energy efficiency im-
0s
Lexington
Little Rock
57 43 s
57 49 c
51 36 r
57 34 r cently seen an uptick in jobs. The open- provements.
-0s Los Angeles
Louisville
67 48 s
58 47 pc
76 55 s
53 35 r
ing of Dick’s distribution center also At the end of the third quarter,
-10s
Memphis 61 50 s 55 42 r makes the recently announced closing Dick’s had 852 stores nationwide and
Miami
Milwaukee
74 69 c
47 36 s
76 72 pc
44 26 pc of the Sanmina circuit board plant in nearly 42 million square feet of retail
Cold Warm Stationary Showers T-storms Rain Flurries Snow Ice
Minneapolis
Nashville
43 26 c
61 47 s
34 9 c
57 45 r
Owego a little easier to bear. space.
New Orleans 65 57 c 62 56 t A staff of 230 people, working two For the first nine months of the
INTERNATIONAL Norfolk, VA 52 37 s
Oklahoma City 62 35 pc
59 49 s
60 29 s shifts, staff the warehouse. That’s for company’s fiscal year, the company re-
Today Today Today
City Hi Lo W City Hi Lo W City Hi Lo W
Omaha
Orlando
50 27 pc
70 57 pc
46 22 s
73 61 pc
now. An expansion planned, with a still ported net income of $207 million,
Amsterdam
Athens
46 36 pc
52 40 pc
Geneva
Guatemala City
46 39 r
73 57 pc
Panama City
Paris
92 74 pc
48 36 pc
Phoenix 69 45 s 74 49 s undetermined timetable, will eventual- $1.91 a share, on sales of $5.9 billion,
Pittsburgh 51 37 s 47 32 r
Auckland
Baghdad
83 68 c
68 47 s
Hanoi
Havana
71 60 r
77 67 pc
Perth
Prague
84 65 s
41 32 pc
Portland, ME 27 16 s 43 37 pc ly take the distribution center’s foot- compared with net income of $197 mil-
Bangkok 88 75 pc Helsinki 38 30 c Rio de Janeiro 85 76 sh
Portland, OR
Providence
45 41 sh
36 27 s
51 46 r
51 41 pc
print to 923,000-square-feet at an esti- lion, $1.75 a share, on sales of $5.4 bil-
Barbados
Barcelona
82 76 pc
53 44 sh
Hong Kong
Jakarta
71 58 s
86 74 t
Rome
San Jose
58 45 pc
85 67 pc
Raleigh 56 35 s 62 49 s mated price of $60 million, a move that lion.
Richmond 57 34 s 61 50 s
Beijing 26 9 s Jerusalem 43 39 t San Juan 83 74 sh
Sacramento 52 36 c 58 38 pc
Beirut 55 49 c Johannesburg 80 59 pc San Salvador 89 64 pc
St. Louis 60 42 pc 56 31 pc
Belgrade 50 29 pc Kabul 53 23 s Seoul 13 2 s
St. Thomas 83 74 sh 83 74 sh
Berlin 45 39 sh Lima 76 68 pc Singapore 87 78 c
Salt Lake City 40 27 c 43 33 pc
Bermuda 60 56 c Lisbon 55 46 pc Sofia 39 19 s
San Antonio 68 58 sh 68 52 sh
Brasilia 79 63 t London 46 38 pc Stockholm 40 31 c
San Diego 64 47 s 72 53 s

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Brisbane 89 73 pc Madrid 49 34 pc Sydney 84 75 c
Brussels 47 36 pc Melbourne 87 68 c Taipei 62 57 r
San Francisco 54 43 pc
Seattle 44 40 sh
57 45 pc
48 44 r Spokesperson Janine Kava said at the
Bucharest 35 19 s Mexico City 67 46 pc Tehran 54 40 sh
Budapest 42 29 pc Montreal 20 16 pc Tel Aviv 55 48 t
Sioux Falls
Spokane
41 25 pc
37 30 sf
38 12 s
38 33 sn
time that the Commission leaves it up to
Buenos Aires
Cairo
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57 52 c
Moscow
Nairobi
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81 57 pc
Tokyo
Toronto
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39 32 pc
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Topeka 61 29 pc 55 27 s
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Dubai 77 62 s Nice 57 48 r Vienna 41 34 pc
Washington, DC 53 39 s 60 49 s A month before the Oct. 2016 death,
Dublin
Frankfurt
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48 37 sh
Osaka
Oslo
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33 17 sf
Warsaw
Zurich
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47 37 sh
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Dana Milbank
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Women ready
to rain down
fire and fury
on Trump
WASHINGTON – As hundreds of thousands of
women took to the streets on Saturday to vent their
discontent with President Trump’s first year in office,
the president, who is supported by just 29 percent of
women, did what he does best. He played the troll.
“Beautiful weather all over our great country, a
perfect day for all Women to March,” he tweeted, in-
structing women to “get out there to celebrate the
historic milestones” of his presidency.
If there is another Women’s March a year from
now, Trump may indeed get his wish to see women
celebrating. It took some time to build, but the wom-
en’s backlash against Trump is ready to rain some fire
and fury on him.
In addition to marching, women are running — for
office — at a pace that is on course to shatter records.
The Center for American Women in Politics at Rut-
gers University reports that 49 women are either run-
ning or planning to run for the Senate this year (pre-
vious record: 40), 389 for the House and 79 for gover-
norships. The vast majority are Democrats.
Even as women marched Saturday, senators were
marching into the office of Sen. Susan Collins, R-
Maine, who led the successful effort to douse the lat-
est conflagration Trump set. Collins, and fellow Re-
publican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, the women
who thwarted the president on Obamacare, were also
at the core of the group defusing an immigration
showdown Trump had fanned with an ad accusing
Democrats of being complicit in murder.
In off-year elections and polls, a gender chasm has
opened. In Virginia’s gubernatorial race, Democrat
Ralph Northam won women by 22 points, larger even
than Hillary Clinton’s 17-point margin in the com-
monwealth. Northam won 48 percent of white wom-
en, up from Clinton’s 41 percent. In the Alabama Sen-
ate race, Democrat Doug Jones beat Roy Moore by 16
points among women and came close to Moore
among white college-educated women.
The new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds
Democrats with a 57 percent to 31 percent advantage
among women going into November’s midterm elec-
tions, twice the advantage Clinton had in 2016. Like-
wise, December’s Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll
found that women favored Democratic control of
Congress by 20 points.
In a sense, gravity is catching up with Trump after
“Access Hollywood,” Roy Moore, talk of women
“bleeding,” and a #MeToo movement that has
reached everywhere but the male-dominated White
House.
Particularly striking is that attitudes of women to-
ward Trump have little to do with the economy or
conventional “women’s issues.” Rather, the antipa-
thy comes from a perception that he’s dangerous and
unstable. Republicans who plan to overcome the
gender gap by talking about the economy and tax
cuts are wasting their breath.
In the Post-ABC poll, there were relatively small
gender gaps on immigration, race and the Russia
probe. But there were huge gaps on Trump’s mental
stability and whether Trump can be trusted with
nukes. Forty-two percent of women are very con-
cerned Trump will launch an unjustified nuclear at-
tack, compared with just 22 percent of men.
When The Washington Post’s polling wizard, Scott
Clement, ran analyses to control for people’s partisan
leanings, he found that gender had no significant ef-
fect on whether people give Trump credit for the
economy. Even after controlling for partisanship,
however, Clement found that women were 6 percent-
age points more likely to think Trump mentally un-
stable and 9 points more likely to be very concerned
about him starting a nuclear war.
This is consistent with what FiveThirtyEight ob-
served this week: Women disapprove of Trump more
than men do, regardless of party or race. That is, Re-
publican women like Trump less than Republican
men, and black Republican women like Trump less
than black Republican men. Why? A combination of
Trump’s nuclear threats, the instability he has set off
at home, and his behavior toward women have left
many anxious, angry and activated.
Years ago, in a long line of misogynistic com-
ments, Trump proclaimed that criticism doesn’t mat-
ter, “as long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece
of ass.”
It’s fitting that this man has sparked a mass move-
ment of women poised to deliver a kick to his.
COMING SATURDAY
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What should NeverTrumpers
make of president’s successes?
Byron York
Columnist
The start of President Trump’s second year in of-
fice has given Republicans and conservatives an op-
portunity to review a solid list of achievements: cor-
porate and individual tax cuts; economic growth;
wage growth; a conservative Supreme Court justice; a
record number of circuit court confirmations; dereg-
ulation; the defeat of ISIS and more. Each is a devel-
opment worth celebrating, either by the standards of
conservatism, or the general welfare, or both.
But for NeverTrump conservatives, the list pre-
sents a challenge. Many support the actions, like cut-
ting taxes and reducing regulation, on Trump’s list.
Yet some have also staked their credibility and pres-
tige on declaring Trump’s election an unmitigated,
historic disaster that will lead to an autocratic, dysto-
pian future. Many want to force Trump out of office,
either by impeachment, the 25th Amendment, or, at
latest, defeat in 2020.
So how to deal with the current good news?
The most extreme NeverTrumpers, like The Wash-
ington Post’s Jennifer Rubin, simply rail against ev-
erything the president does. But more sophisticated
NeverTrumpers are looking for nuanced ways to rec-
ognize the president’s accomplishments while main-
taining that he is a menace.
One strategy is to concede some of Trump’s suc-
cesses while insisting that the sum total of Never-
Trump objections outweighs those gains.
At the Weekly Standard, for example, the editors
recently cited some of Trump’s accomplishments and
asked: “Isn’t it time for Trump’s conservative critics to
acknowledge his election was worth it?” Their an-
swer: No. While citing a few of Trump’s accomplish-
ments, the publication argued that the president’s en-
dorsement of Roy Moore in Alabama, his firing of FBI
Director James Comey, his bombastic tweets about
North Korea, loose-lipped meeting with Russian dip-
lomats, response to Charlottesville, and “shithole” na-
tions remark, along with other things, more than off-
set goods like wage growth, job creation and a victory
against terrorism.
The magazine’s founder and editor-at-large, Bill
Kristol, remains committed to Trump’s defeat. Asked
recently what Americans should do if Trump’s four
years in office turn out well for the country, Kristol an-
swered, “We should pocket those gains (and) heave
an unbelievable sigh of relief.
“I am still very much for constraining Trump to four
years,” Kristol added. “And nothing that could hap-
pen, honestly, at this point could tell me Donald
Trump should be re-elected.”
To that end, Kristol said he is “quietly” working on
DOONESBURY
efforts to mount a 2020 challenge should the presi-
dent run for re-election.
Other NeverTrumpers keep hope alive for im-
peachment. Max Boot, of the Council on Foreign Rela-
tions, worries that Republicans might maintain con-
trol of the House in November’s elections, which
would lower the chances of impeachment to nearly
zero. So Boot, a lifelong Republican, is pulling for
Democrats.
“I worked as an adviser on three Republican presi-
dential campaigns,” Boot said recently, “but now I’m
actively rooting for Republicans to lose the congres-
sional elections … because the Republicans have
shown they are unwilling to uphold their oaths of of-
fice.”
At The New York Times, conservative columnist
Bret Stephens, author of the recent piece, “Why I’m
Still a NeverTrumper,” argues that reflexive Never-
Trumpism actually harms the effort to resist the
president. Stephens recently took on Trump critics
who denounce the president even when news is good
— as when Apple announced that it will bring back
most of the $274 billion it has parked overseas, pay a
$38 billion tax bill, and create another 20,000 jobs in
the U.S. Slamming Trump over a development like
that, Stephens wrote, does “damage … to the anti-
Trump cause.”
Stephens did not spell it out, but a reasonable in-
ference for those in NeverTrump world is that giving
the president his due on good developments will give
NeverTrumpers credibility as they pursue the goal of
getting rid of him. Also at the Times, NeverTrump
conservative columnist Ross Douthat — all of the
Times’ conservative columnists are NeverTrumpers,
which assures the paper a diversity of anti-Trump
opinion — recently debated NeverTrumper David
Frum of The Atlantic on whether Trump’s presidency
has so far been a tragedy or a farce.
Frum, author of the new book “Trumpocracy,” vot-
ed for tragedy, while Douthat said farce. Douthat, who
once hoped Trump might be removed from office via
the 25th Amendment, now seems resigned to the
president finishing his term; Frum, who helped get
the 25th Amendment talk going the day after the elec-
tion, is still hoping for an early Trump exit.
Within the range of implacable opposition to
Trump, there is a lot of variation in the NeverTrump
world — “9,000 cross-currents,” as Kristol remarked
recently. Before the election, NeverTrumpers were
united by simple opposition to the Republican candi-
date. But Trump’s presence in the White House has
made things more difficult.
Trump will surely run into a major reversal some-
day; that’s what happens to presidents. When it does,
NeverTrumpers can say they called it long ago. But as
long as Trump is piling up conservative achieve-
ments, life will remain complicated for the nation’s
NeverTrumpers.
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Gabby Laubisch and her older brother, Lucas, play in the family’s Apalachin
home. Their father, Greg, says Lucas will play anything she wants to.
KATE COLLINS/STAFF PHOTO
Cancer
Continued from Page 1A
Life on hold
Gabby and her mom would, in the
coming months, make a home hours
away from their house in Apalachin, in
alternating hospital rooms at Children’s
Hospital of Philadelphia. Greg, who
works at Lockheed Martin in Owego,
and Gabby’s brother, Lucas, were faith-
ful visitors every weekend, often toting
piles of gifts sent from well-wishers as
Gabby underwent rounds of chemo-
therapy.
They wouldn’t be her last.
“Everything got re-prioritized,” Greg
said.
On New Year’s Eve that year, Gabby
was discharged from the hospital, sent
home with no signs of the leukemia cells
that plagued her. Through 2015, she was
closely monitored for signs of illness.
Fever would be an automatic hospital
visit, Greg said, and her blood — where
the cancer first appeared — was tested
every month.
Every month, her tests came back
with good results.
Gabby bonded with her big brother,
gained back some of the weight chemo
took from her and started taking weekly
dance classes as the Laubisch family
adjusted to this new normal.
Gabby had regular medical visits and
was prescribed up to 15 medications,
but her childhood was otherwise pro-
gressing normally and cancer-free.
As a family, they took a trip to Disney
World, and Gabby had the chance to
meet with Anna and Elsa — Gabby’s a
big fan of “Frozen” — dressed in her full-
skirted Princess Anna ballgown cos-
tume, and then quickly changing into
her Queen Elsa one.
Then, a day before the anniversary of
Gabby’s hospital discharge, a devastat-
ing discovery: The cancer had returned,
this time in her brain and spine.
Cancer’s return
Gretchen and Greg said they’d sus-
pected something was wrong in the
days prior when Gabby, who’d become
an energetic, signing, dancing 3-year-
old, started to look “off.”
“She would fall asleep anywhere,”
Gretchen said.
“And her face was puffy,” Greg added.
Though a blood test two weeks prior
had shown nothing suspicious, an MRI
back at CHOP revealed a tumor at the
base of Gabby’s brain, and several more
in her spine, confirmed acute myeloge-
nous leukemia cells.
Once again, Gabby’s parents faced
the sight of their daughter lying in a hos-
pital bed, with a central line in her chest.
This time there was also an external
ventricular drain, inserted to drain spi-
nal fluid from her brain and, also new,
the plan for after chemo: Gabby would
need a bone marrow transplant.
Again the Laubisch family’s little
fighter underwent chemo at CHOP,
which Gabby had started calling “my
hospital” and “my Philly.” Again Greg
and Lucas visited on the weekends.
They had late-night conversations with
Greg’s sister, Jamie Flerlage, who is a
pediatric oncologist at St. Jude Chil-
dren’s Research Hospital in Tennessee
and who visited frequently for consults.
Friends and neighbors sent gifts. The
Laubisch family’s church, Vestal United
Methodist, put Gabby on their prayer
list, and Lucas’ school, Tioga Hills Ele-
mentary, hosted a coin drive for Team
Gabby — Gabby’s aunts had T-shirts
made emblazoned with the words
“Team Gabby” to raise money for their
niece — for Relay for Life.
Gretchen and Greg took turns going
for walks to clear their head. Gretchen
posted updates on a CaringBridge page
for Gabby, as much to keep friends and
family informed as to “keep our sanity.”
They weren’t always promising,
“We were told on several occasions to
prepare for the worst,” Gretchen said.
Gabby’s time, doctors told her, was lim-
ited to a couple of months.
But, as Gretchen says, Gabby is a
fighter.
Anonymous angel
On June 15, 2016, she finished her
chemo treatments and two days later,
Gabby received a bone marrow trans-
plant.
Compared to everything she’d been
through — the chemo and its side ef-
fects, along with the radiation — this
lifesaving procedure was relatively anti-
climactic.
A day of rest, come in with a syringe
and it’s done, Gretchen said.
None of Gabby’s family members had
been a match to donate their bone mar-
row for her. Unlike blood donation,
matching bone marrow donors and pa-
tients goes beyond blood type. It’s
based on matching human leukocyte
antigen tissue, proteins found on most
cells of the body, according to the Na-
tional Marrow Donor Program.
A Be the Match registry drive had
been held in Gabby’s honor at Vestal
United Methodist Church a few months
prior, where a long line of people took a
swab to their cheeks and added their
names to a global registry — the pro-
gram connects 488 transplant centers
worldwide — but the idea wasn’t neces-
sarily to find a donor for Gabby in Vestal.
Finding a match at home would have
been highly unlikely, Greg said. Be the
Match estimates only one in 430 regis-
try members end up being donors. In-
stead, the drive served as an opportuni-
ty to raise awareness of bone marrow
donation.
In the end, Gabby’s transplant came
thanks to an anonymous donor.
The Laubisch family knew nothing of
the man or woman who’d chosen to reg-
ister as a bone marrow donor at the
time.
“We are beyond thankful for the gift
of life from Gabby’s donor that has al-
lowed our family to return to a normal
life under the same roof,” Gretchen said.
As they’d later find out, the 30-year-
old Boston man who’d undergone the
surgical procedure required to donate
bone marrow for Gabby’s transplant
had completely forgotten he’d regis-
tered a decade prior.
It was back when he was a 19-year-
old Marine, the donor, whose first name
is Paul, would tell the Laubisches a year
after the transplant at Gabby’s aunt’s
home in Boston — anonymous donors
and patients are able to meet if they
both agree to it at least one year after the
procedure — when he passed by a Be
The Match registry table and decided on
a whim to sign up.
“It was random,” Gretchen said.
When the calls and emails came in 10
years later, telling him he was a match
for a patient, the donor assumed they
were spam, not realizing then the pro-
found effect he would have on the life of
a little girl and her family, with whom he
now shares a friendship.
“We kind of felt like we’d known
him,” Greg said of their meeting in Sep-
tember 2017.
Her first ‘re-birthday’
After the transplant, the Laubisch
family temporarily relocated to Phila-
delphia. They moved into an apartment
15 minutes from the hospital — in case
something happened — where the four
of them could stay under one roof.
Greg could use a side room as an of-
fice and continue working remotely and
Gabby’s doctors could keep a close eye
on her progress over the next three
months.
For a while she couldn’t be in public
places. Then she could, but only if she
wore a mask. She had regular checkups
with her team at the hospital, even after
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the family was cleared to move home to
Apalachin.
During that year following the trans-
plant, Gabby was, as Gretchen puts it,
“isolated from the world.”
But each checkup brought good
news, Gabby continued to do well, and
on June 17, 2017, the Laubisch family cel-
ebrated her birthday. Not the anniversa-
ry of the day she was born, but a cele-
bration they call her “re-birthday,”
marking one year since her transplant.
“The big milestone was getting past a
year,” Greg said.
By July, she was back to dance class-
es and enjoying the summer “like a nor-
mal kid,” he said.
Then a week before meeting her do-
nor and 15 months after receiving a life-
saving bone marrow transplant, the big
day arrived. Gretchen and Greg had re-
peatedly been told this day might never
come for their daughter.
‘A normal kid’
On Sept. 7, Gabby Laubisch hopped
on the bus with her big brother and
headed off to Tioga Hills Elementary for
It was a moment they prayed for and
one they’re truly grateful for.
“We are so thankful for everyone’s
thoughts, prayers, and support over the
past few years,” Gretchen said. “Gabby
wouldn’t be where she is without them.”
These days, Gabby has checkups
with her doctors at CHOP every few
months. They’ll be less frequent as she
continues to do well.
Gabby takes medication twice a day:
two in the morning and two at night.
Every day, Gretchen marks it down in
a notebook when she’s given Gabby her
medicine, and adds to the tally of days
since her transplant.
“Helps us keep our sanity,” she said.
“At this point we’re so thankful Gabby’s
doing as well as she is.”
Gabby and her brother Lucas spend a
lot of time drawing and playing together
— he’ll play anything she wants to, Greg
says. Gabby takes tap, ballet and jazz
dance classes at The Dance Shoppe in
Vestal, as well as gymnastics classes
and plays hockey.
“She can just be a normal kid,” Greg
said.
On this particular night, 5-year-old
Gabby sits cuddled in the corner of the
couch with her knees tucked under her,
delicate wire-rimmed glasses perched
on her nose and a pink butterfly head-
How to help
Now reaching stability in their daughter
absentmindedly, content.
They still pray, Lucas says, for Gabby.
They also pray for those children they
Gabby’s health journey, the Laubisch met during Gabby’s hospital stints, oth-
family would like to pay it forward, and er families struggling with the same, or
ask for the community’s help to support worse, circumstances. On Sept. 24, they
the Busch family, of Binghamton, whose participated in the 5K Parkway Run &
4-year-old son, Cooper, is battling Walk in Philadelphia, the proceeds from
leukemia. which go to pediatric oncology research
What: Cooperpalooza, a benefit for the at CHOP.
Busch family “We got tons of help,” Greg says of the
many family members, friends and
When: 1-5 p.m. March 25 neighbors in the community who rallied
Where: Touch of Texas, Northgate around the Laubisch family over the
Plaza, 1240 Front St., Binghamton past few years. Now, he says, they’d like
to “pay it forward” and help those fam-
Cost: $15 adults; $5 children 10 and ilies facing the same battles.
under Gabby giggles and cuddles closer to
More information: kickitcooper@ her mom when asked what she likes
yahoo.com or 607-725-8553 best about school. Math, as it turns out,
is her favorite subject.
Join the bone marrow registry at She’s 5, but Gabby Laubisch also al-
bethematch.org ready knows what she wants to be when
she grows up.
“A doctor.”
band holding most of her dark hair away In Stories to Share, reporter Katie Sul-
from her face. She has a pink iPad in her livan spends time with the Southern
hands, on which she’s playing a color- Tier’s most fascinating people. She’s
by-number game, one of the Laubisch looking for stories that will make you
siblings’ favorites — Lucas says he’s up laugh, cry or be inspired. Know of some-
to 79 different colors now. one who should be featured? Email her
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HOROSCOPE
Aries (March 21-April 19). Your
best friends aren’t the ones who
go along with everything you say
without question. They’re the
ones who will challenge you once
in a while and, in doing so, either
cause you to take a stronger
stand or change your mind.
Taurus (April 20-May 20). There’s
something in you that will keep
you doing things the way you’ve
always done them. It’s not that
you can’t fall in line and follow the
directions; it’s that you think
there might be a better way. So go
on and find it.
Gemini (May 21-June 21). Some
people love sentimentality.
There’s hard evidence of this in
box-office statistics and televi-
sion-watching trends every-
where. But you’d rather take ten-
derness, sadness and nostalgia in
small doses.
Cancer (June 22-July 22). Three is
an age-old magic number, from
building seating, to knocking on
wood, to setting up the punchline
of a joke.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22). Life is root-
ing for you, though you may not
love the cheer. It’s aggressive-
sounding. Unnecessarily acrobat-
ic.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Talent
creates opportunity. Opportunity
creates talent. Neither are crucial
CLOSE TO HOME / John McPherson
PEANUTS / Charles M. Schulz
to success. Desire is the magic.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). People’s
bad vibes can affect you even if
they are not about you. Who
needs that? Get away. Don’t wait
for them to be directed toward
you.
Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You
have an especially tight bond with
family these days. There are those
who might get a little jealous of
the love flowing between you and
your favorite people.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).
Even loners are better off with a
little social support. And for the DILBERT / Scott Adams
socially motivated, it’s especially
important to gather a team. Ac-
countability is key in goal getting.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). If you
can’t figure out how to eliminate
the obstacles in your path, maybe
you can imagine a way to arrange
them differently.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Since
you live inside your own head,
you’re acutely aware of your inse-
curities in a way that no one
around you could ever be.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20). Older
people find the banter of younger
people amusing, or possibly ob-
noxious, as it’s a reminder of how BLONDIE / Dean Young & John Marshall
they themselves used to relate to
others before they knew so much
of life.
GARFIELD / Jim Davis
BEETLE BAILEY / Mort Walker
BETWEEN FRIENDS / Sandra Bell-Lundy
WIZARD OF ID / Brant Parker & Johnny Hart
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE / Lynn Johnston
DENNIS THE MENACE / Hank Ketcham
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ZITS / Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman

HAGAR / Chris Browne

GIL THORP / Neal Rubin & Rod Whigham

BABY BLUES / Jerry Scott & Rick Kirkman

B.C. / Mastroianni and Hart

PICKLES / Brian Crane

JEFF MACNELLYS SHOE / Gary Brookins & Susie MacNelly

HI & LOIS / Brian and Greg Walker

MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM / Mike Peters

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Some local school districts ‘fiscally stressed’

Katie Sullivan
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin
USA TODAY NETWORK
The Cortland, Harpursville, Norwich
and Schenevus school districts are
some of the seven districts considered
in “moderate fiscal stress,” according to
State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s
office.
On Thursday, DiNapoli’s office an-
nounced 26 New York school districts
were designated as fiscally stressed,
down from the 59 districts listed last
year.
Levels of fiscal stress, officials said,
are determined by financial indicators
including year-end fund balance, cash
position, short-term borrowing and pat-
terns of operating deficits.
Those listed as fiscally stressed were
designated based on the fiscal year end-
ed June 30, 2017.
Regionally, central New York and the
Southern Tier had the largest propor-
tions of districts in a fiscal stress cate-
gory, according to the report. The sys-
tem does not cover the New York City
School District.
“While it is welcome news that so few
school districts across the state have
been classified as in fiscal stress,” DiNa-
poli said in a statement, “school officials
should remain vigilant and carefully
consider how their budgeting decisions
will affect their long-term fiscal condi-
tion and local taxpayers.”
Marathon, Richfield Springs, Otego-
Unadilla and Oxford were designated as
“susceptible to fiscal stress” in the re-
port.
Follow Katie Sullivan on Twitter
@ByKatieSullivan.
“While it is welcome news that
so few school districts across
the state have been classified
as in fiscal stress school
officials should remain vigilant
and carefully consider how
their budgeting decisions will
affect their long-term fiscal
condition and local taxpayers.”
Thomas DiNapoli
State Comptroller

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Obituaries
TODAY’S OBITUARIES AND DEATH NOTICES
Name
*Anderson, Ralph W.
*Arcangeli, Michael “Mickey” Paul
*Becker, Trisa M.
*Began, Tillie
*Bowen, Rev. Herbert B.
*Brinser, Donna
*Diesenberg, Jeane
Ellis, Erford P. ‘Bunk’
*Falank, Thelma
*Fletcher (Silba), Alvera
*Frey, Paul Amos
*Goozovat, Dr. Stephen
*Harris, Merry
*Krzyznieski, Joseph A.
*McVannan, Roger
Parrotti, Jr., Samuel A.
*Snyder, David L.
*Verno, Vivian M.
*Wagstaff, Gary W.
Willow, Kimberlea A.
Obituaries appear in print and online at www.legacy.com/obituaries/PressConnects
Ralph W. Anderson
JOHNSON CITY -
83, of Johnson City,
passed away at home
on Wednesday, Janu-
ary 24, 2018. He was
predeceased by his wife
Joan Anderson. He is
survived by his children
Chuck and Julie Ander-
son; John and Nadine
Anderson; Ralph An-
derson, Jr.; Jerry and
Brenda Anderson; 12
grandchildren and sev-
eral great grandchil-
dren. Ralph had a ca-
reer in the Military as
an aviation mechanic.
He served for 22 years
which included 1 tour
in the Korean War and
2 in Vietnam. After the
military he retired from
Universal. Ralph was
a devoted family man
who was loved by all. He
will be greatly missed.
A Funeral Service will
be held on Saturday at
11:00 at the Vestal Hills
Memorial Park Chapel,
3997 Vestal, Rd, Vestal.
In Memoriams
In Loving Memory Of
Marjorie Olcott
01/26/1932 - 04/12/2012
Margie,
Today is your 86th
Birthday and you have
been gone six years.
When my window
closes we will celebrate
it together again. I will
always love you and
never forget you.
All My Love Forever,
Steve
Alvera Fletcher (Silba)
Age Town, State Death Date Arrangements
83 Johnson City 24-Jan Barber Memorial Home, Inc. JOHNSON CITY -
88 Johnson City 19-Jan Laskowski Funeral Home Alvera (Silba) Fletcher,
52 Vestal 19-Jan Thomas J. Shea Funeral Home Inc. 91 went home to be with
92 - 23-Jan Bill Scheider/Chopyak Scheider Funeral Home the Lord on January 16,
87 Owego 22-Jan Estey, Munroe & Fahey Funeral Home 2018, surrounded by her
86 Endicott 21-Jan Coleman & Daniels Funeral Home, LLC family. She was born
95 Binghamton 21-Jan Wm. R. Chase & Son Funeral Home on August 5, 1926, in
70 Lisle 25-Jan MacPherson Funeral Home Binghamton, NY. She
88 Binghamton 22-Jan Fischer-Scholder Funeral Home, Inc. was predeceased by her
91 Johnson City 16-Jan J.A. McCormack Sons Funeral Home husband Gerald (Red)
75 New Milford, PA 24-Jan Tuttle-Yeisley Funeral Home, Inc.
53 Johnson City 27-Jan Wm. R. Chase & Son Funeral Home Fletcher, her parents
67 Binghamton 19-Jan J.A. McCormack Sons Funeral Home Peter and Filomena Silba,
90 Chenango Bridge 18-Jan Wm. R. Chase & Son her sister Lillian Tombs and her brother Anthony
83 Endicott 20-Jan Coleman & Daniels Funeral Home, LLC Silba.
88 Binghamton 21-Jan Thomas J. Shea Funeral Home Inc Vera is survived by her children Lynne (Kevin)
71 Binghamton 22-Jan - Telfer and Jarol Dunlap. Her grandchildren Jackie
82 Owego 25-Jan Estey, Munroe & Fahey Funeral Home Dunlap and David Dunlap, Kelly (Michael) Roma
67 Binghamton 11-Jan Alavon Direct Cremation Service and Kevin (Julia Whetzel) Telfer; her great-grand-
56 Endwell 24-Jan Barber Memorial Home, Inc children Derek and Noah Cardenas and Harper
* Additional information in display obituaries Roma. Her step-great-grandchildren Liam and
Michael Roma, Tyler and Ian Harder, and her son
in law Dave Dunlap. She is also survived by her
sisters and brother; Josephine Fragale, Philomena
(Chickie) Silba, Lena Silba, Adeline and Jim Staf-
ford, Peter and Mary-Grace Silba, Florence and
Steve Nanni and her sisters in law Betty Silba, Lil-
lian Goozovat and Helen Donovan and her lifelong
Rev. Herbert B. Bowen best friend, Betty Durkot. A Funeral Mass will be
OWEGO - Rev. Bowen was predeceased by his offered at St. Mary of the Assumption Church,
wife of 65 years, Helen Y. Bowen and his parents, Court Street, Binghamton, Saturday January 27th
Herbert W.S. and Helen E. Bowen. He is survived at 9:30 a.m. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery,
by his four children and their spouses, Deborah Johnson City. The family will receive friends at the
and Marvin Persons, David and Magdalena Bowen, J.A. McCormack Sons Funeral Home, 141 Main
John Bowen, Jennifer and Michael Lavin; eight Street, Bingamton, Friday January 26th from 5
grandchildren, Sarah, Nathan, and Chris Persons, to 7 p.m.
Bradley and Megan Bowen, Timothy Bowen, Lexi
and Eliana Lavin; and seven great-grandchildren
Kyle, Kailey, and Kevin Hillegass, Cameron and
Kadence Persons, Leopold and Ophelia Bowen;
brother and sister-in-law, Robert and Lorraine Trisa M. Becker
Bowen; sister, Susan Trueworthy and partner Larry Meracle; brother-in-law VESTAL - Trisa M.
and sister-in-law, William and Marilyn Youngs; and a close-knit extended Becker (Raimondi) 52,
family of nieces and nephews. Rev. Bowen graduated with a Bachelors’ of Vestal, NY passed
Degree in English from Hartwick College and from Wesley Theological away unexpectedly from
Seminary with a Masters of Divinity Degree. He was a lifelong scholar with a brief illness on Friday
a passion for reading and religion, loving philosophical discussions of both, January 19, 2018. She
especially if those discussions involved grandchildren. For many years he is predeceased by her
led educational trips to the Holy Land. He served as a Methodist minister mother Brenda Pusen;
for various churches including Cooperstown United Methodist Church, Wa- father and mother-in
verly United Methodist Church and the Westover United Methodist Church. law Joseph and Eileen
Family was the highlight of his life, especially grandchildren and in later Becker; beloved pet Kil-
years, great-grandchildren. He baptized his grandchildren, later performed lian. She is survived by
their marriage ceremonies and always reveled in the accomplishments of her loving husband of 28 years Paul Becker; father
their lives. Rev. Bowen loved sports his entire life. He was a baseball player Peter M. Raimondi; sister Lisa (Jesus) Raimondi
in his youth, and an avid fan of competition. As a young man he loved Garcia, Paula Raimondi Etzkorn, Michelle Nelson,
watching his children play sports and later his grandchildren, and always Nicole (Brian) Pusen-Padgett, Yelile Raimondi
the Yankees! An old 1950’s black and white photo of an early “Yankees - Slaughter; brother and sister in laws Stephanie
Red Sox” game held a prominent place in his office for decades, a reminder (Brian) Kisloski, Michael (Marjorie) Becker, Tim
of the first time he saw them play. Rev. Bowen lived a life of service to the (Jeanna) Becker; beloved godchildren; as well as
communities within which he lived in and the populations they housed.
He was a long-time school board member, developed prison ministries, and
several aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins,
friends and co-workers. She enjoyed going to camp,
supported those who were especially challenged by life, parishioners and wineries and boating on Cayuga Lake. Trisa en-
non-parishioners alike. Military veterans, especially Marines always held a joyed going to the beach for vacation. She attended
special place in his heart. One Christmas Eve he spent hours talking down Broome Community College and worked 26 years
a suicidal Viet Nam vet, convincing him to reach out for help. He was a gift for UHS Neurosurgical Group, formerly Southern
not only to his family, but also to many others whose lives he touched with Tier Neurosurgical Group. The family wishes to
his ministry and care. Memorial services will be held on Saturday, February thank Hahnemann Hospital in Philadelphia, PA
10, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. at the United Methodist Church of Owego with the
for their extraordinary care, and also Dr. Bajwa
Pastors, Jamie Stevens and Alan Jagger, officiating. The family will receive for his friendship, love and care over the years.
friends Saturday from 10:00 to 10:45 a.m. prior to the services at the church.
Visitation will be held on Saturday at St. James
Memorial contributions may be made in Pastor Emeritus Herbert Bowen’s Church from 8:30am until 10:30am. A Funeral
memory to the United Methodist Church of Owego, 261 Main St., Owego, Mass will follow at 10:30am. Entombment will
NY 13827. Condolences may be made to Rev. Bowen’s family at www. be in Calvary Cemetery at the convenience of the
emfaheyfuneralhome.com. family. Arrangements are with Albert J. DeMarco.

Merry Harris
BINGHAMTON - Merry A. Harris passed away
peacefully in the presence of her family on January
19, 2018. Merry was a devoted wife and best friend
to her husband of 36 years, John Perticone, and a
loving mother, mother-in-law, and grandmother.
She was a progressive, public-spirited individual
who was a passionate force in the community over
several decades. In her professional life following her
graduation from SUNY Albany, she demonstrated
the tireless work ethic instilled in her by parents
Neal and Ruth, beginning first at the American Red
Cross in Binghamton as an advocate for veterans.
She also became adept at public relations while providing disaster relief for
hurricanes and floods across the country. While her children were in school,
Merry worked part-time in a number of leadership positions including
Executive Director of the Discovery Center and Executive Assistant to her
friend and County Executive Tim Grippen, where she initiated Partnership
2000 and the Council on Governments, providing the framework for shared
municipal services. Her work was recognized when she was elected to the
Broome County Legislature. She then left the public sector at the behest of
her brother Kent to help him grow a fledgling contract manufacturing firm
as the Human Resource Director and coordinator for the company’s suc-
cessful application for ISO certification. The company grew from a handful
of people to 150 employees. Her desire to serve the public did not wane,
and in 2007 she joined the Ryan administration as the City of Binghamton
Economic Development Director. While holding that position over his two
terms in office, she was a moving force in the renaissance of Downtown
Binghamton, using her charm and wit to coax and prod developers, not-
for-profit agencies, and volunteers for the public good. Her achievements
are visible throughout the City, from the vacant office buildings that were
filled, to the community gardens that have taken root. She was a fabulous and
inspiring mentor of the young people she hired and the student interns she
supervised. Along the trajectory of her career she held numerous positions
on local boards. She was the recipient of many awards, including the Phoe-
nix Award for Community Service, Women of Achievement Award, Master
Gardener, and in 2013, “Merry Harris Day” was celebrated in Binghamton.
She rejoiced in planning family gatherings, displaying matchless wit and
insight while encouraging informed social and political discussions. Her
artistic talents were evident in her flower gardening, painting, photography,
and indeed in every facet of her life. She was capable of expressing bound-
less love and genuine interest in all those she encountered. The loss to her
family is incalculable. Merry is pre-deceased by her parents, Neal and Ruth
Harris, and her brother Keith Harris. She is survived by her husband John
Perticone, her son Christian Perticone and daughter-in-law Alex Rivera,
her two grandchildren Clara and Julia, her daughter Kathryn Basques and
son-in-law Dr. Bryce Basques, her three brothers Dwight, Doug, and Kent
Harris, as well as numerous nieces, nephews and close friends.
All are welcome to join us in celebrating Merry’s life in a brief ceremony
followed by a reception on January 27, 2018 from 12-2 PM at Remlik’s Grille
and Oyster Bar, 31 Lewis St. Binghamton, NY 13901. In lieu of flowers,
donations to VINES Binghamton would be appreciated – online (https://
vinesgardens.org) or P.O. Box 3104 Binghamton, NY 13902. We extend a
special thank you to the nursing staff at Wilson CVICU and ICU for their
untiring support and care to Merry and her family.
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Obituaries
David L. Snyder Michael “Mickey” Paul Arcangeli
BINGHAMTON - JOHNSON CITY - 88, of Johnson City, NY passed
David L Snyder, 71, of away peacefully on January 19, 2018. Mickey was
Binghamton, passed predeceased by parents Mary & Paul Arcangeli,
away unexpectedly mother & father-in-law Mary & Bernard Wnuk,
Monday, January 22, sister and brother-in-law Amelia & James Matteo,
2018. He was prede- brother and sister-in-law James & Mary Arcangeli,
ceased by his parents brother-in-law Ben Conti and beloved special friend
Beth and Leonard Sny- Fred Korutz. Mickey is survived by his wife of 65
der. David is survived years, Katherine, son Michael and wife Gail, son
by his son, Christopher; David and wife Donna and daughter Andrea and
grandchildren, Andrew fiancé John Wright. Grandchildren Jason, Janeil,
and Allison; and step- Anthony, Vincent and Angela. He is also survived
son, Josh Hujack. David by his sister Betty Conti and nieces Denise Casilio and Danette Matteo as
is also survived by his well as his sister-in-law Jeanette and her husband Ed Samuelson. Born in
brother, Chris, (Linda) Endicott, NY, Mickey grew up on Robble Avenue. He was a 1947 Union-En-
of California, sisters dicott High School Graduate and inducted as an Alumni Honoree in 2009.
Colleen Clarke (Patrick) He played football in high school and continued his football career playing
and Tina Pennefeather semi-pro for the Black Knights in Endicott, NY and was co-founder and
(Jim) of Binghamton, Giants Coach for J.C. Pee Wee Football League. Mickey served in the US
as well as many nieces Army during the Korean War and was a member of American Legion Post
and nephews. David 1700. He became a plumber and was a member of the Local 112 working
had many great friends many years at local companies on various local and state projects including
along the way and en- Picciano’s, IBM and SUNY Binghamton. Mickey served proudly on the JC
joyed spending time School Board, Town of Union Zoning Board and was a JC Plumbing In-
with people. While he spector and Town of Union Councilman. He was a long-time member of
was known for his in- the All Saints National Catholic Church where he helped build the Family
genuity and cleaver Center. Mickey also owned and operated the Village Inn. Special thank you
solutions, fishing was to the staff at UHS Wilson South Tower 5 and Bridgewater 2A & 2B staff
his real passion. He left especially his daughter-in-law, Gail Arcangeli, who was his special guardian
behind many friends, angel. Mickey loved his family, his faith, his community, his friends and
really all people. There isn’t anyone who does not have a kind word or a
his closest being Joe
fond memory of him. May he rest in eternal peace. A memorial service
Casey and Tom Burnett,
will be conducted at All Saints National Catholic Church, 42 Harry L. Drive,
who were always there
Johnson City, NY on Saturday, January 27, 2018 with family receiving friends
for him. Burial will be
from 10:00am-12:00pm and mass immediately following. Private burial at
at the convenience of
the convenience of the family. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation
the family.
to All Saints National Catholic Church, 42 Harry L. Drive, Johnson City, NY
13790 or the Alzheimer’s Association, 441 W. Kirkpatrick Street, Syracuse,
Gary W. Wagstaff NY 13204. ((315)472-4201) www.alz.org.
FORMERLY OF BING-
HAMTON - Gary W.
Wagstaff, 67, formerly
of Binghamton, passed
away January 11, 2018
in Daytona Beach, FL. Donna Brinser
He is predeceased by his ENDICOTT - Donna Brinser, 86, Endicott, NY. On
parents Earl and Beverly January 21, 2018, surrounded by her devoted family,
(Quinn) Wagstaff. He our beloved Donna passed from this earthly life to
is survived by one Aunt receive her angel wings as she joined her husband
and Uncle, Carol and and family in heaven. She was born of late Ward &
Bob Inman of San Jose, Reva Stratton and predeceased by husband Charles
CA, and several cous- Brinser Sr., brother Paul Stratton and daughter in
ins. Gary was an Army law Karen (Donahue) Brinser. Donna is survived by
Veteran. Entombment her sister Roberta (James) Block, sisters in law Ger-
is at the Cape Canaveral trude Kotsubka, Isabell Quartararo, Evelyn (Robert)
National Cemetery. Haynes, children Charlotte (Jerry) Bowie, Denise
(Thomas) Johnson, Charles Brinser Jr. (friend Mary
Brush), Deanna Brinser, Christopher (Karen) Brinser, 11 grandchildren plus
their spouses, 12 great-grandchildren, 1 great-great grandchild, and many
nieces, nephews and cousins. After graduating from Newark Valley High
School Donna attended training in Kansas City and was employed as a TWA
Those we love ticket agent at Idlewild Airport, NYC. After meeting her future husband
during a motorcycle ride, she happily married and started her family. She
was an active stay at home mother, participating and supporting all of her
children’s activities. She began working as an AVON representative in 1973
don’t go away, and consistently achieved President’s Club awards throughout her 45 year
career. She achieved her 40th Mrs. Albee award in December of 2017. Donna
became life-long friends with her customers and was known to frequently go
“above and beyond” helping those who were shut-ins or with special needs.
they walk beside us Some of Donna’s other interests include; Spirit of 76 Fife and Drum Corp,
President; Continental Ancient Fife & Drum Corp, President and marching
every day.. member; American Legion Post 1700 Auxiliary member, Honor Guard, and
officer; Treasurer and Trustee of Newark Valley Cemetery; active member
of Central United Methodist Church including Sunday School teacher,
MYF leader and bell choir member. She also enjoyed sewing and crafts,
being a Brownie leader, Red Hats Society, Antique Society, photography,
unseen, unheard, doll collecting, hot air ballooning, 34 years of our annual family reunion
vacations at Sylvan Beach and spending time with her grandchildren. A
service of celebration of life will be held on Saturday January 27, 2018 at 4:00
pm at Central United Methodist Church, 17 Nanticoke Ave., Endicott, NY.
but always near, The family will receive friends from 2 – 4 pm prior to the service. In lieu
of flowers please consider a donation in Donna’s name to Central United
Methodist Shepherd Supper.
still loved,
still missed Gone from us, but leaving memories death
can never take away, memories that will
and very dear.
always linger while upon this earth we stay.
source: The Book of Memoriams
Paul Amos Frey
NEW MILFORD, PA -
Paul Amos Frey, 75, was
promoted to glory on
January 24, 2018. He is
survived by his wife of al-
most 55 years, Deb Frey.
He also leaves behind his
beloved children, Dawn
and Gene Kaercher,
Bartlett, TN, Dean and
Teresa Frey, Bloomsburg,
PA, and Cathy and Mat-
thew Smith, Cortland, NY; 11 grandchildren, Zach
and Flora Frey, Alexis and Levi Lukonen, Miles
Kaercher, Lydia and Johnny Fulks, Levi Frey, Haley
Frey, Benjamin Kaercher, Joshua Smith, Jadon
Kaercher, Chris Smith, and Alexander Smith; 5
great grandchildren, Teylyr, Micayah, Malaki, El-
iseo, and Lenya; three siblings, John and Floss Frey,
Marty Redcay, and Jerry and Judy Frey; and many
nieces, nephews, and extended family members.
Paul was employed with Word of Life Fellow-
ship for 32 years in Schroon Lake, NY. He was
passionate in serving the Lord at home and in
missions overseas. He loved to immerse himself
in God’s Word, especially after his third trip to
Israel in 2017. Paul enjoyed hunting, fishing, and
gardening, and sharing the bounty with family
and friends. Paul was a generous, loving, humble,
Godly, husband, father, grandfather, great grand-
father, brother, and friend. A memorial service will
be held at 4:00 p.m., Sunday, January 28, 2018 at
the South New Milford Baptist Church. Friends
may call from 2-4 p.m., prior to the service at the
church. Memorial contributions in his memory
may be made to Word of Life, Overseas Fund, Box
600, Schroon Lake, NY 12870.
Dr. Stephen Goozovat
JOHNSON CITY - Dr. Stephen Goozovat, 53,
Johnson City passed away peacefully with his fam-
ily by his side after a brief illness. He was prede-
ceased by his father, John Goozovat. Dr. Stephen
is survived by his mother, Lillian Goozovat, his
aunt Helen Donovan, cousin Gerald Goozovat
also many nieces, nephews and cousins. Dr. Ste-
phen received a BA in Science in 1987 and a MS
in Science and Physics in 1990 then a PHD in
Geology Sciences in 2001. Dr. Stephen was a Pro-
fessor at SUNY Broome for many years until his
recent illness. When he was younger he worked the
Goozovat farm where he nurtured a loved for the
earth and farming, later he loved growing potatoes
on his own land. He truly loved geology and what
the earth provided. He was a loving son, cousin
and friend and will be dearly missed by many. A
Funeral Service will be held on Monday January
29, 2018 at 11:00 AM at the Wm. R. Chase & Son
Funeral Home 737 Chenango St. Port Dickinson,
NY 13901, burial will follow in the Chenango
Valley Cemetery. The family will receive friends at
the Funeral Home on Sunday from 3:00-6:00 PM.
Thelma Falank
BINGHAMTON -
Thelma P. Falank, 88,
went to be with the Lord
on Monday, January 22,
2018. She was born in
Hopbottom, PA on Au-
gust 12, 1929 to Doro-
thy and Harry Brotzman.
She was predeceased by
her loving husband,
Frank Falank, Jr. She
will be dearly missed by
her children: Sandra Falank, Nancy (Bill) Chase,
Antoinette (Fred) Marcello, Anthony (Annette)
Falank and Frank (Mary) Falank, III. she will also
be missed by her sister-in-law, Tonina Best; her
grandchildren, many nieces and nephews; her spe-
cial friend, Sister Lucia Mugambi, as well as many
other cherished friends. Thelma was a devoted wife
and mother whose biggest priority and joy were
her family and friends. She was blessed to have
eight grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren and
three great-great-grandchildren. She unselfishly
opened her home to family, friends and others to
share one of many wonderful meals or just share
memories and laughter. She touched many lives.
One of her greatest joys was making others happy.
She also had an amazing love for animals. Being
a devout Catholic, Thelma was very active in her
church, including being a member of the choir,
being a Eucharistic Minister and preparing meals
for Fr. Cory VanKuren.
The family will receive friends at the Fischer-
Scholder Funeral Home, Inc., 269 Chenango Street,
Binghamton on Saturday, January 27, 2018 from
8:30 to 9:30 a.m. A funeral mass will be offered at
10:00 a.m. Saturday at St. Paul’s Catholic Church.
Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery at the con-
venience of the family. Donations in Thelma’s
memory may be made to the Humane Society,
167 Conklin Ave., Binghamton, NY 13903.
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NY expands access to flu vaccine for kids

Jon Campbell
Albany Bureau
USA TODAY NETWORK
ALBANY – Pharmacists across New
York will be able to administer vaccines
to children and teens after Gov. Andrew
Cuomo declared a disaster emergency
as influenza virus continued to spread.
Cuomo issued an executive order
Thursday suspending state law that
prevents pharmacists from administer-
ing season flu vaccines to those under
the age of 18.
Now, pharmacists who are autho-
rized to give vaccines will be able to ad-
minister them to anyone over the age of
2 until Cuomo rescinds his order.
Cuomo’s order comes as the state
continues to see abnormally high in-
stances of the flu, with 7,779 laboratory-
confirmed cases in the past week, ac-
cording to the state Department of
Health.
Of those, 1,759 have resulted in hospi-
talization.
Both numbers are the highest the
state has seen since the state required
reporting in 2004, according to Cuomo’s
office.
“Once again, I urge all New Yorkers to
help us combat this quick-spreading
strain of flu and make sure they and
their loved ones are vaccinated,” Cuomo
said in a statement. “Once again, I urge all
The order does not require anyone to
be vaccinated without their consent, New Yorkers to help us
and it does not apply to those under the
age of 2. combat this
Along with his order, the state De-
partment of Health is increasing its ad-
quick-spreading strain
vertising campaign encouraging people of flu and make sure
to get flu shots.
To learn more about the flu vaccine or they and their loved
learn about vaccine clinics, Cuomo’s of-
fice suggested residents contact their ones are vaccinated.”
local health department or visit vacci- Andrew Cuomo
nefinder.org. Governor of New York

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with co-defendants to arrange the meth
shipments and payments, according to
court documents.
The long-term investigation by
members of the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration, New York State Police,
and other local law enforcement agen-
cies into the meth trafficking operation
ended Sept. 20 with early morning raids
and arrests around the Southern Tier.
If convicted, some of the “Operation
Hailstorm” defendants face penalties
from 10 to 20 years in federal prison.
Four guilty pleas in four months
In the four months since the indict-
ments were unsealed, four defendants
in the case have pleaded guilty.
Most recently, on Jan. 3, Jolene Bar-
rett, 41, admitted guilt in Syracuse to a
felony methamphetamine conspiracy
charge. She remains on conditional re-
lease.
The Syracuse resident is expected to
be sentenced in April, along with three
other defendants: Binghamton resi-
dents Akuan Johnson, 39, and Kenneth
Wilson, 46, as well as Owego resident
Jerome Bell, 35, who pleaded guilty in
December to federal methamphetamine
conspiracy felony charges. Johnson
also pleaded guilty to money laundering
conspiracy.
According to court documents, Bar-
rett received meth shipments from Har-
ris at her Syracuse residence from Janu-
ary 2016 until September 2017. Then she
opened and delivered the packages to
Johnson, Green and others; she was
paid $100 to $300 per package she re-
ceived.
“Barrett was aware that the packages
contained what she referred to as
‘methamphetamine’ and that the doz-
ens of packages that she accepted and
delivered contained well over 50 grams
of ‘methamphetamine,’ ” the U.S. Attor-
ney’s Office said in her plea agreement.
Court records document meth deliv-
“Barrett was aware that the
packages contained what she
referred to as ‘methamphetamine’
and that the dozens of packages
that she accepted and delivered
contained well over 50 grams of
‘methamphetamine.’ ”
U.S. Attorney’s Office
eries on three dates: July 12, July 22 and
Aug. 22, in 2017. According to prosecu-
tors, the packages Barrett received from
Harris in Arizona and delivered in ex-
change for payment cumulatively con-
tained more than one kilogram of meth.

Obituaries

Roger McVannan Jeane Diesenberg Vivian M. Verno

ENDICOTT - Roger E. McVannan, 83, of Endi-
cott, NY, passed away at home on Saturday, January
20, 2018. Roger was predeceased by his parents
William and Helen (Card) McVannan, and his
grandson, Thomas Colling. He is survived by his
wife of 55 years, Patricia (Lancaster), his daugh-
ters, Mary (Douglas Beck), Elizabeth Lynch, and
Maureen (John Colling) and his grandchildren,
Meghan McCue, Nicholas, Brendan, and Aidan
Lynch, Emma, Jack, Lily, and Ava Colling. He is also
survived by his brother and sister-in-law, Fenton
and Phyllis McVannan, his Lancaster brothers
and sisters-in-law, many nieces, nephews, cousins,
and former sons-in-law, Timothy McCue and
Gerald Lynch. He is also survived by his lifelong
friend, Richard James. He was a 1952 graduate of
Union-Endicott High School, attended Bowling
Green State University and graduated from Har-
pur College (now Binghamton University) and
obtained dual Masters degrees at SUNY Albany.
He spent his life in the Binghamton area, begin-
ning his teaching career at Owego Free Academy
followed by 45 years at BCC/SUNY Broome, re-
tiring in December 2016. He was a proud member
of Endicott Sertoma for over 30 years, sat on the
Broome County United Way Buddy Camp Com-
mittee, and was a Town of Union Conservation
Advisory Council Rep. He was dedicated to being
an educator, and in his own way, he loved his fam-
ily, his friends, his hometown, and his God. The
family would like to thank everyone who helped
keep his spirits up by sending cards and visiting,
it meant a lot to him and to us. Calling hours will
be Sunday, January 28, 2018, at Central United
Methodist Church, 17 Nanticoke Avenue, Endicott,
NY, from 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm with a service im-
mediately following. The family will be hosting a
supper after the service in the church dining room
for family and friends. In lieu of flowers, please
consider a donation to the BCC Foundation, PO
Box 1017, Binghamton, NY, 13902-1017, or En-
dicott Sertoma, PO Box 636, Endicott, NY, 13760.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam (May his soul be at
the right hand of God.)
Perhaps
they are not stars
but rather
openings in Heaven
where the love of our lost ones
SHINES DOWN
to let us know they are
BINGHAMTON - Jeane
L. Diesenberg, 95, passed
away peacefully on Sun-
day, January 21, 2018.
She was predeceased by
her parents Clinton and
Wellma Martin; husband
Valentine Diesenberg;
sister Ellen Small and her
brother William Martin.
She is survived by her sis-
ter Blanche McEwan and
many Loving nieces and nephews. Jeane was a
resident director of the YWCA starting in 1965 and
continued for well over 20 years. She was on the
board of directors of the Broome County Council
on Alcoholism, a deaconess at West Presbyterian
Church, she was also a member of the Interfaith
Action Committee and the social workers advisory
committee to Planned Parenthood of Broome
County. She was a Girl Scout Leader for several
years. Jeane enjoyed photography, gardening, play-
ing cards and collecting miniatures. Her family
will remember her for always being a very gracious
hostess and will dearly miss her. A Graveside ser-
vice will be held in Calvary Cemetery on Saturday,
January 27, 2018 at 10am in the chapel.
Joseph A. Krzyznieski
FORMERLY OF CHENANGO BRIDGE - Joseph
A. Krzyznieski 90 formerly of Chenango Bridge,
passed away on January 18, 2018 in Fort Worth,
Texas. He was predeceased by his wife of 50 years
Helen also 2 brothers and a sister. Joe is survived by
his son, Paul & Catherine Krzyznieski and daugh-
ter, Joan & Bill Stermer, grandchildren, Kyle and
Macy Krzyznieski, Angela (Kyle Balles) Stermer,
Eric & Jennifer Stermer, Brian & Brenna Stermer,
Stephen & Ariel Stermer also David (Matthew
Rummel) Stermer , special friend, Margaret Bayer
and several nieces and nephews. Joe was a former
member of St. Catherine of Siena Church and was
a member of the Knights of Columbus. He was
a Veteran of WW II in the US Navy and a retiree
from Singer Link in Hillcrest with 30 plus years of
service. In more recent years Joe has been living in
the Fort Worth, TX. Joe was a loving and devoted
father, grandfather and friend, he will be dearly
missed by many. A Funeral Mass will be offered
on Tuesday January 30, 2018 at 10:00 AM at St.
Francis of Assisi Church, Hillcrest and burial will
follow in Calvary Cemetery. The family will receive
friends at the Wm. R. Chase & Son Funeral Home,
737 Chenango St., Port Dickinson, NY 13901 on
Monday from 6:00-8:30 PM.
OWEGO - Vivian M.
Verno, 82, of Owego
passed away on Thurs-
day, January 25, 2018.
Vivian was predeceased
by her husband, Alexan-
der Verno; daughter, Les-
lie Stanton; sister, Regina
White; brother, Frederick
White. She is survived
by her two sons, Jeffery
Verno, Gregg Verno;
daughter and son-in-law, Mary Jo and Donald
Brooks; son-in-law, Jim Stanton; five grandchil-
dren; five great-grandchildren; two sisters and
brother-in-law, Esther Wait, Joan and Raymond
Kithcart; sister-in-law, Pat White; several nieces
and nephews. Funeral services will be held on
Monday, January 29, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. at the
Estey, Munroe & Fahey Funeral Home, 15 Park
St., Owego with the Rev. Jamie Stevens, officiating.
Burial will be in the Tioga Cemetery. The family
will receive friends Monday from 10:00 to 10:45
a.m. prior to the services at the funeral home.
Condolences may be made to Vivian’s family at
www.emfaheyfuneralhome.com.
Tillie Began
- - Tillie Began, fell
asleep in the Lord after
a brief illness on Janu-
ary 23, 2018 at Elizabeth
Church Manor. Tillie was
born in Carbondale,
Pennsylvania on Febru-
ary 3, 1925. She was pre-
deceased by her husband
of fifty years, Michael in
1997. Tillie is survived by
her sister, Lillian Young
of Avon Park, FL, her loving nieces Helen Jane
Kachmarik and her husband Richard, of Chenango
Bridge, NY, and Joann Erickson and her husband,
William, of Atkinson, NH. She also has many
nieces, nephews, great nieces and great nephews
and a special neighbor, Alice, who loved her very
much. Tillie was an incredibly loving and generous
person. We will miss her optimism, wonderful
sense of humor and her ability to always speak
her opinion. She loved her church- Dormition
of the Virgin Mary Orthodox Church, watching
the New York Mets, and spending time with her
family. She was a retired receptionist for Dr. Casey.
A funeral service will be offered by Very Rev.
Ilya Gotlinsky on Saturday 11am at Dormition of
the Virgin Mary Orthodox Church, 54 Baxter St.,
Binghamton where the family will receive friends
from 10-11am at the church. Burial will be at the
convenience of the family in the parish cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made
in Tillie’s memory to either her church or to the

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Avenue, Binghamton, NY 13903. Kindly share
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Home DNA test yields heartbreaking surprise

Ask Amy out about their DNA. I wish I hadn’t ex- and a fresh perspective. this confidence, you should try to keep
Amy Dickinson plored mine. Dear Amy: Two days ago, a good it, however.
Through this DNA test site, I was con- friend of mine (and mother of three) told I would frame this less as “secret
tacted by my biological niece. I also have me in confidence that she has been hav- keeping” and more as this not really be-
a half-sister. Amy, she used to babysit ing an affair with a colleague from work. ing your – or your husband’s – business.
Dear Amy: My husband and I decid- me! She has asked me not to share this in- If you told your husband, aside from
ed to do a DNA test for fun. It turns out Also I keep thinking – what if I had formation with my husband, as he is a relieving yourself of this burden, what
that my father and I don’t share DNA. dated one of my own brothers? good friend of her husband’s. I agreed to would be the purpose of your disclo-
I knew my mother had an affair back I feel like I’m living in a soap opera. keep the secret. sure? This knowledge would force him
in the ’50s, but I thought the affair was What do you think about this? I want to honor her request, but I am to make the tough decision about
after I was born. — DNA Regrets also torn, as I now feel I am keeping a whether to tell his friend that his wife is
We had a relationship with the other Dear Regrets: The rise of at-home secret from my husband, whom I would cheating on him. This inserts the two of
family; the husband and his wife were DNA testing seems to be transforming usually turn to for advice. I want to be you into the middle of their marriage.
very dysfunctional alcoholics and I human relationships in a way that re- loyal to my friend, but was her request If your friend decides that you are her
went through school with their kids. minds me of some of the relational unreasonable? special confidant concerning this affair
Turns out this man was my biological changes brought about by the rise of the — Confused and if she chooses to unburden herself
father. Needless to say, it has rocked my internet. Dear Confused: Your friend’s re- further, it would be wisest for you to tell
world and has broken my heart. I think it is important for people con- quest was natural – she was relieving her, “I need you to know that knowing
My mother is 97 and it wouldn’t sur- sidering using a test kit to try to prepare herself of a secret by passing it along to about this makes me very uncomfort-
prise me if she doesn’t know that my fa- themselves for – or at least try to imag- you – but it is also unreasonable. able. I wish you weren’t doing this at all,
ther wasn’t my biological father. My ine – a world-rocking shock, such as you When someone asks you, “Please, but at this point I don’t want you to dis-
parents seemed to have a solid mar- have received. don’t tell this to anyone,” it is legitimate cuss it with me. I realize that your be-
riage. In your case, I hope you will find for you to respond, “I’m sorry, but I don’t havior has a huge impact on you and
Amy, it’s like I don’t know who I am! someone to talk to about this. A profes- think I can do that.” your family, but it has also put me in a
I would warn people about finding sional counselor could offer you support Now that you have agreed to keep very tough spot.”

She talks about disagreement to their mutual friends

Dear Annie terms, you couldn’t ask for a better correct the record by letting these “Sleepless in Spokane” put a nightstand
Annie Lane friend. friends know my side or just be the big- between the twin beds and use a white-
But whenever we have a conflict, she ger person and let it go? – Ears Burning noise machine or even a fan. That is
does something I find frustrating and Dear Ears Burning: It’s bad enough what I do whenever we have company
immature. She tells all our mutual when high schoolers do this. There’s no or are on vacation and hubby and I share
Dear Annie: I have a problem with friends about our disagreement – and excuse for grown adults to be engaging a bed. – Been There
my friend “Julie” that I’m not sure how from her own biased perspective. I’ve in this sort of gossip mill. Rather than Dear Been There: I’m glad to hear
to handle. She’s a really good friend in picked up on this over the years because dive into the mud yourself by trying to that separate bedrooms have worked
many ways. She’s always there when these mutual friends have let slip things explain your side of the story to friends, out for you and your husband. That ar-
I’m going through hard stuff. She’s gen- that she’s told them about our fights. rise above and address the problem at rangement truly does seem to do won-
erous with food and gifts and other I’ve also put it together for myself be- its source. Confront Julie. Explain how ders for many couples these days. The
thoughtful gestures. For instance, last cause whenever she fights with another her oversharing (to put it nicely) hurts white-noise machine is an excellent tip
year, when she was watching my dog friend, she tells me all about it. I know you. If she continues talking behind that I should have mentioned in my
while I was out of town, she took him to that I’m not special and that when we your back after that, reconsider how original answer. Thanks for writing.
the vet when he seemed sick, with no have fights, she does the same thing. close you want to be with her. Send your questions for Annie Lane
hesitation. And one time when there Personally, I think it’s wrong to talk Dear Annie: I understand and sym- to dearannie@creators.com. To find out
was an issue with my apartment that re- negatively about someone to a mutual pathize with “Sleepless in Spokane.” My more about Annie Lane and read fea-
quired me to be out of the unit for a few friend, so I never want to do that myself. husband of 36-plus years and I have tures by other Creators Syndicate col-
days, Julie let me stay with her even But I worry that with everyone just get- successfully slept in separate bedrooms umnists and cartoonists, visit the Cre-
though it was on very short notice. You ting one side of the story, people have a for over 10 years. I like your suggestion ators Syndicate website at www.crea-
get the picture. When we’re on good skewed picture of me. Should I try to of twin beds. I might also suggest that tors.com.

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IN BRIEF
U.S. panel doubts benefits
of heated tobacco device
U.S. government experts rejected a
proposal from Philip Morris Interna-
tional to sell its “heat-not-burn” tobac-
co device as an alternative to ciga-
rettes that reduces disease.
The panel of advisers to the Food
and Drug Administration endorsed a
lesser claim that the product reduces
exposure to harmful chemicals in ciga-
rettes. The mixed review suggests
Philip Morris will be able to market its
device to U.S. smokers but on limited
terms. The panel’s opinion is non-
binding, and the FDA will make a final
decision in coming months.
Engineer misjudged train’s
location before fatal wreck
An engineer said he misjudged the
location of an Amtrak train before it
derailed in Washington state last
month while traveling at about
80 mph — more than twice the speed
limit around a curve, the National
Transportation Safety Board disclosed
Thursday.
The engineer told the NTSB he
knew the curve that had a 30-mph
speed restriction was at milepost 19.8,
and he planned to start braking about
a mile before reaching it. He said he
didn’t see a marker at milepost 18 or a
30-mph speed warning sign.
Companies announce $150M
natural gas plant for N.D.
A $150 million natural gas process-
ing plant is planned in western North
Dakota, bringing to four the number of
projects proposed to capture a record
volume of gas, a byproduct of oil pro-
duction. New York-based Hess Mid-
stream Partners and Targa Resources
announced the Little Missouri Four
plant Thursday.
U.N. official says it’s not safe for
Muslims to go back to Myanmar
It is not safe for the hundreds of
thousands of Rohingya Muslims living
in refugee camps in Bangladesh to re-
turn to Myanmar, a senior United Na-
tions official said Thursday.
Though many Rohingya want to re-
turn to their villages, UNICEF Deputy
Executive Director Justin Forsyth said,
“we have to improve the security situa-
tion inside Myanmar.”
Puerto Rico forecasts falling
economy and population
Puerto Rico’s governor submitted a
revised fiscal plan Thursday that esti-
mates the U.S. Caribbean territory’s
economy will shrink by 11% and its
population drop by nearly 8% next
year. The proposal doesn’t set aside
any money to pay creditors in the next
five years as the island struggles to re-
structure its $73 billion public debt.
The five-year plan assumes Puerto
Rico will receive at least $35 billion in
emergency federal funds for storm re-
covery and an additional $22 billion
from private insurance.
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Immigration plan combines
citizenship and security
White House previews proposal aimed
at avoiding filibuster, another shutdown
David Jackson,
Gregory Korte,
Eliza Collins
and Alan Gomez
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON – A White House
proposal on immigration will contain a
path to citizenship for up to 1.8 million
young people brought into the USA as
children and $25 billion for a border
wall and other security measures.
President Trump’s plan includes a
massive cut in family-based immigra-
tion and the end to a diversity visa lot-
tery system that gives preference to
immigrants from underrepresented
countries, according to a White House
briefing for congressional staffers and
Trump allies hosted by White House
senior adviser Stephen Miller.
Woman challenges notion
Scotch is a man’s drink
Raise a glass to first female to run a whisky distillery in Scotland
“There are women in the whisky business — but I’m the first woman that has
taken the lead solo,” Heather Nelson says. MATTHEW VICKERY/SPECIAL TO USA TODAY
Fossil suggests earlier exit from Africa
Doyle Rice
USA TODAY
Scientists have discovered the ear-
liest modern human fossil ever found
outside Africa.
The fossil, an upper jawbone with
several teeth, was found at a site called
Misliya Cave in Israel.
The jawbone is estimated to be
175,000 to 200,000 years old. The age
was based on three separate, indepen-
dent dating methods.
The jaw belonged to a young adult
of unknown gender.
The finding suggests modern hu-
President Trump says he’s willing to
consider citizenship for people
brought to the USA as children.
MANDEL NGAN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
The Misliya-1 fossil, 175,000 to 200,000
years old, shows dental features.
GERHARD WEBER/UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA
mans left the continent at least 50,000
years earlier than had been thought.
“Misliya is an exciting discovery,”
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The proposal is designed to win 60
Senate votes and break a potential fili-
buster that could trigger another gov-
ernment shutdown next month, Miller
said.
The path to citizenship has been
among the most contentious issues in
the immigration debate over the past
decade, and Trump has taken inconsis-
tent positions on it. Wednesday, the
president said he’s willing to consider
citizenship for “DREAMers” who came
to the USA as children.
“If they do a great job, I think it’s a
nice thing to have the incentive of, after
a period of years, being able to become a
citizen,” Trump said. That period would
be 10 to 12 years, Trump said.
The proposal to cut back family-
based immigration is sure to draw fire
from Democrats as it would be a nearly
25% cut to legal immigration into the
country. Under the new plan, Miller
said, U.S. citizens and green card hold-
See IMMIGRATION, Page 2B
Matthew Vickery
Special to USA TODAY
FEARN, Scotland – Heather Nel-
son, a modest farmer’s daughter, is
becoming a cultural revolutionary as
the first woman to head a whisky dis-
tillery by herself.
Nelson joined the ranks of a re-
vered, male-dominated arena in
Scotland — the world-renowned
home of whisky and varieties of sin-
gle-malt Scotch — by starting her dis-
tillery called Toulvaddie.
“Some people were taken aback
when I said I would start Toulvaddie,”
Nelson, 38, told USA TODAY from the
Fearn and Tarbat Peninsula in far
north Scotland, where her family has
lived for generations. “There are
women in the whisky business — but
I’m the first woman that has taken the
lead solo.”
The previous woman who opened
a Scotch distillery was Helen Cum-
ming, who founded the Cardhu Dis-
tillery with her husband, John — in
1824.
Toulvaddie is a single-malt light
whisky, as it’s spelled in Scotland and
some other countries.
It’s made entirely by hand and pro-
duced in two copper stills in a process
See SCOTCH, Page 2B
said Rolf Quam, a Binghamton Univer-
sity anthropology professor and a co-
author of the study.
The earliest fossils of Homo sapiens,
the same species as us, date to around
315,000 years ago from Africa, Quam
said.
The new discovery means that “mod-
ern humans were potentially meeting
and interacting during a longer period of
time with other archaic human groups,
providing more opportunity for cultural
and biological exchanges,” he said.
The study was published in the jour-
nal Science.
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powered off-grid by solar energy.
To finance the distillery through its
initial years, 100 first-year casks, each
containing 70 liters of the new spirit, are
being sold. Only 13 remain, each costing
about $2,700.
Nelson welcomed the chance to
make history in an industry worth
$5.7 billion a year to Scotland’s econo-
my and to create a product unique to the
market.
“It’s a whisky being created from an
entirely different perspective, as it’s a
female palate from start to finish,” Nel-
son said on a cold day this month in the
Highlands. “This has never been done
before. From not only choosing the type
of barley that goes into it but also what
sort of wood barrel it is stored in. That
doesn’t mean it will be any better or
worse, it’s just something completely
different.” She said the whisky is made
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Negotiations continue on
Trump talk with Mueller
President says, ‘I would
love’ to testify under oath
David Jackson
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON – Though President
Trump said he was willing to testify un-
der oath in the federal investigation into
Russia’s alleged election interference,
officials clarified Thursday that negotia-
tions on the details of an interview with
special counsel Robert Mueller’s team
were ongoing.
The president will “be guided by the
advice of his personal counsel,” White
House attorney Ty Cobb said.
Trump’s legal team and Mueller’s in-
vestigators were working out whether
he would testify under oath, according
to officials familiar with the inquiry who
were not authorized to comment public-
ly. Other issues include a time limit for
the interview, the location of the testi-
mony, whether some areas of question-
ing would be off-limits and whether the
session would be videotaped.
For weeks, Trump’s team has negoti-
ated on the terms and scope of a pos-
sible interview with the president relat-
ed to the wide-ranging investigation
into Russia’s possible collusion with
Trump associates and whether the
president obstructed justice in connec-
tion with the inquiry.
Wednesday night, Trump stressed
that he was eager to testify. “I would do
it under oath,” he said as he prepared to
leave on his trip to an economic confer-
ence in Davos, Switzerland. “I’m looking
forward to it, actually.” Though Trump
said his testimony is “subject to my law-
yers and all of that,” he made one thing
clear: “I would love to do it.”
The officials held out hope of written
testimony from the president instead of
a live interview, noting that President
Reagan followed that approach during
an investigation into the Iran-contra
imbroglio of the 1980s.
It’s unclear whether Mueller’s office,
which has not commented on its talks
with Trump’s lawyers, would accept
such an arrangement.
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the “traditional Scottish Highland way,
hands on, with no mechanics involved.”
“My inspiration for Toulvaddie
comes from the people that used to
make whisky at home with whatever
tools they had,” Nelson said.
The region where the Scotswoman
grew up, as well as other areas of rural
Scotland, were rife in the 18th and 19th
centuries with illicit whisky stills.
Often, the operations were run by
farmers’ wives who distilled the tradi-
tional drink in secret rooms and build-
ings, hiding bottles in sea caves ready to
be smuggled to other parts of the United
Kingdom.
Growing up in the whisky-mad area,
the soft-spoken Nelson said entering
the industry seemed a natural choice.
As a teenager, she was a budding chem-
istry student and became a whisky con-
noisseur in the following years.
“It’s the same ingredients in every
whisky, yet the taste is so different,” she
said. “That you can take the same ingre-
dients and create so many different fla-
vors — that’s the bit that’s so exciting.”
A year ago, when Nelson started
Toulvaddie — named after her grand-
father and great grandfather’s small
farm — she wasn’t aware she was mak-
ing history.
That became apparent only after a
Scotch whisky expert explained to her
that Toulvaddie wasn’t just another
micro-distillery but was a groundbreak-
ing project.
“I didn’t do it to be the first woman to
do it — that’s just a happy coincidence,”
The officials are looking at the pre-
cedent set by President Clinton’s testi-
mony during independent counsel
Kenneth Starr’s investigation in 1998
into his relationship with intern Mon-
ica Lewinsky. Clinton agreed to testify
under oath via videostream from the
White House. The video was transmit-
ted to the grand jury. The testimony
was limited to four hours after negotia-
tions among lawyers.
Trump pointed out that Hillary Clin-
ton did not testify under oath when FBI
agents interviewed her in 2016 about
her use of a private email server during
It’s uncertain whether Robert Mueller
would accept written testimony.
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her time as secretary of State.
Trump addressed another aspect of
the Mueller investigation: whether he
obstructed justice by firing FBI Director
James Comey, who was running the
Russia investigation. Trump said his
critics have been unable to prove any
sort of collusion — so they hype his ef-
forts to “fight back” against what he
considers an unfair investigation.
“There’s no collusion,” Trump said.
“Now they’re saying, ‘Oh, well, did he
fight back? Did he fight back?’ You fight
back ... (they say) ‘Oh, it’s obstruc-
tion.’ ”
Trump did not explain what he
meant by “fight back.”
Mueller would probably ask about
the circumstances surrounding Co-
mey’s firing. The president acknowl-
edged in a television interview that the
Russia investigation was on his mind
when he made the decision.
Heather
Nelson’s
barley
fields in
Fearn,
Scotland,
have long
been the
bedrock of
Toulvaddie
whisky.
BOBBY
NELSON
Nelson said with a smile. “I’m just
someone with a passion.”
Growing up on a farm, Nelson said,
she was treated no differently than her
male relatives.
When a job had to be done, all
hands available were set to the task.
Her mother would enjoy a whisky at
the end of a hard day’s work, just like
her father — the drink had no gender
boundaries.
“Nothing surprises me about her
anymore,” said Nelson’s husband,
Bobby, 46. “She’s her own person,
breaking out of the rural Highland
mold and creating her own path.”
She is quick to note another advan-
tage to making strides in the whisky
business — challenging the age-old
image of whisky as a man’s drink.
It’s a stereotype that female whisky
drinkers want to shed, including
schoolteacher Katy Orwin.
“People often wrongly assume
women don’t drink whisky or that they
have to drink it in a cocktail, because
drinking it straight is what men do,”
said Orwin, 29. “I think what (Nelson)
is doing with Toulvaddie is great and is
needed.”
The mini whisky revolution already
has an heir. Nelson plans to eventually
pass Toulvaddie down to her 19-year-
old daughter, Alice.
“You’re in this industry for life.
Whisky isn’t a quick turnaround,” Nel-
son said. “It takes 10, 15 years before
you even have your product. It’s not a
moneymaking scheme, it’s a passion.”
Americans show less acceptance
of LGBTQ people, survey says
Susan Miller
USA TODAY
For the first time in four years,
Americans are less accepting of
LGBTQ people, a survey found — a set-
back activists said is stunning but not
unexpected after a turbulent 2017.
Less than half of non-LGBTQ adults
— 49% — said they were “very” or
“somewhat” comfortable around
LGBTQ people in certain scenarios, ac-
cording to the Accelerating Accep-
tance report released Thursday at the
World Economic Forum in Davos,
Switzerland. That number was down
from 53% in 2016.
The survey, conducted by the Harris
Poll on behalf of LGBTQ media advoca-
cy group GLAAD, reflects an about-
face from positive momentum reflect-
ed in polls GLAAD has commissioned
since 2014. “We are surprised at the
scale and the swiftness” in the erosion
of tolerance in the course of one year,
Sarah Kate Ellis, GLAAD president and
CEO, told USA TODAY. “But if you are
LGBT and living in America, you are
seeing this every day.”
In 2014, 30% of those surveyed said
they were “very” or “somewhat” un-
comfortable having their child placed
in a class with an LGBTQ teacher. In
2015, that number dipped to 29%; in
2016, 28%. In 2017, it jumped to 31%.
The shift is unsettling fallout from
the 2016 presidential election, Ellis
said, which continued in 2017 amid in-
flammatory rhetoric and policy roll-
backs. The result: “a permission slip
for discrimination and bias” that has
permeated society, she said.
Among issues cited by GLAAD:
❚ LGBTQ content was scrubbed
from White House, Department of
State and Department of Labor web-
sites shortly after the inauguration.
❚ In February, the Justice and Edu-
cation Departments reversed guid-
ance the Obama administration issued
that said Title IX protected the rights
of transgender students to use facili-
ties that match their gender identity.
❚ In July, President Trump proposed
a ban on transgender people from
serving in the military, a challenge that
Immigration
Continued from Page 1B
ers would be allowed to sponsor only
their spouses and minor children to
enter the country.
Among the issues the White House
has insisted be included in any immi-
gration overhaul:
❚ DREAMers. The number of immi-
grants who could qualify for citizen-
ship would be larger than the group
protected under the Obama-era De-
ferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
program. That program covered nearly
800,000 DREAMers, but Miller said
the new plan could protect up to
1.8 million people.
Eligibility criteria would include re-
quirements for “work, education and
good moral character,” according to a
White House summary of the plan.
A bipartisan Senate proposal would
allow DREAMers to become citizens
after 12 years, or 10 years if they were
approved for DACA.
❚ Border security. The White
House proposed a $25 billion “trust
fund” to build at least part of a wall
along the U.S.-Mexican border. That
would be a sharp increase from the
$18 billion the Department of Home-
land Security requested but includes
improvements to ports of entry on the
Canadian border as well.
Though the wall has been a sticking
point for congressional Democrats,
Trump said Wednesday, “If you don’t
have a wall, you don’t have DACA.”
In negotiations over a spending bill
to keep the government open last
week, Senate Minority Leader Charles
Schumer of New York told Trump he
would be willing to provide money for
a border wall in exchange for protec-
tions for DREAMers, but he was turned
down. The government shut down
early Saturday morning and did not re-
open until Monday.
❚ Family-based migration: The
White House plan would restrict the
practice of sponsoring relatives for
green cards to “nuclear families,”
namely spouses and minor children.
According to an analysis of Depart-
ment of Homeland Security data, the
cut would eliminate nearly a quarter of
the roughly 1 million immigrants al-
lowed to enter the USA each year.
Alan Gomez reported from Miami.
Percentage of non-LGBTQ
Americans ‘very’ or ‘somewhat’
uncomfortable with...
Having LGBTQ members 2017
at my place of worship
2016
24%
22%
Learning a family member is LGBTQ
30%
27%
Learning my doctor is LGBTQ
31%
28%
Learning my child has lesson
on LGBTQ history in school
37%
34%
Seeing an LGBTQ co-worker’s
wedding picture
27%
25%
My child placed in a class
with an LGBTQ teacher
31%
28%
Seeing a same-sex couple
holding hands
31%
29%
SOURCE The Harris Poll on behalf of GLAAD
FRANK POMPA/USA TODAY
was later dropped by the administra-
tion.
❚ It was announced last week that the
Department of Health and Human Ser-
vices will create a division that shields
health care workers who refuse to treat
patients such as LGBTQ people because
of religious beliefs.
There has also been an increase in vi-
olence — 52 hate-related homicides in
2017, an 86% increase over 2016, GLAAD
said.
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Rubbermaid maker planning

to cut customer base in half
Nathan Bomey
Walmart announced an alliance with Japanese USA TODAY
company Rakuten on Thursday. AFP/GETTY IMAGES
The conglomerate that makes the Rubbermaid,
Sharpie and Coleman brands plans to offload about

Walmart, Apple, half of its manufacturing plants and warehouses and

cut its customer base in half amid disappointing
sales and profits.
Google offer new Newell Brands plans to significantly reduce its cor-
porate focus by “exploring strategic options” for nu-

options on books merous products, including Rawlings, Rubbermaid

Elizabeth Weise
and Charisse Jones
USA TODAY
SAN FRANCISCO – Readers rejoice. Some of the
world’s biggest companies are rolling out new elec-
tronic and audiobook offerings that will compete
with giant Amazon for your eyes and ears, a digital
tussle that could result in lower prices.
The latest volley came from Walmart, which said it
was teaming with Rakuten, Japan’s top e-commerce
company, to start offering e-books and audiobooks in
the U.S. later this year. Prior to this Walmart hasn’t
sold either.
Rakuten’s digital book division, called Kobo, offers
nearly 6 million electronic books and audio books
from tens of thousands of publishers. Walmart shop-
pers will be able to access the books through a co-
branded app, which will launch later this year, and
commercial assets, Goody, refuse and garage items
and playing cards.
The Hoboken, N.J.-based company said it would
“begin the evaluation process immediately” and fin-
ish by the end of 2019.
When companies announce they are exploring
“strategic” alternatives for assets, it often involves
sales or closures.
It was not immediately clear whether the company Newell Brands, maker of Rubbermaid, plans to close
is targeting a specific number of job cuts or cost re- about half of its plants and warehouses. REVIEWED.COM
ductions.
The company also announced a shakeup for its
board of directors with the immediate resignations of
“A stronger, simpler, faster Newell, together
three members: Ian Ashken, Domenico De Sole and
Martin Franklin. with leading brands, brilliant marketing,
The moves come less than two years after Newell outstanding innovation and an advantaged
Rubbermaid completed its acquisition of goods mak- e-commerce capability, better positions us
er Jarden, whose brands included Sunbeam, Raw-
lings and Coleman. The combined, renamed compa-
to win in these dynamic times.”
ny had more than 45,000 employees worldwide after Michael Polk
the deal. Newell CEO

the Kobo e-Reader, which will go on sale at Walmart
later this year. In a swap, Walmart will use its grow-
ing expertise in the realm of online grocery ordering
and delivery to launch a a new collaboration with Ra-
kuten in Japan.
Walmart’s announcement comes as two other
players also make bookish moves, Apple with a ru-
mored new e-book app that comes with hints about
an audiobook tab, and an audiobook offering from
Google, which said it will begin selling audiobooks
through the Google Play Store, with many best-sell-
ing titles priced at under $10 each, at least to start.
Contributing: Ed Baig in New York City
Newell already sold its tools division to Stanley
Black & Decker for nearly $2 billion in October 2016.
Concerned investors drove Newell’s stock down
more than 20%.
The company warned that its 2017 full-year “core”
sales would increase only 0.8% after previously pre-
dicting an increase of 1.5% to 2%. The company also
said its earnings would fall short of projections.
Struggling retailers are taking a toll on Newell. The
company said retailers are “rebalancing” their inven-
tory, which has undermined its business.
Newell also said the bankruptcy of “a leading baby
retailer” had left a mark — likely a reference to 2017’s
Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing of Babies R Us owner Toys
R Us.
“We believe that exiting non-strategic assets, re-
ducing complexity and focusing on our key consumer-
focused brands will make us more effective at unlock-
ing value and responding to the fast-changing retail
environment,” Newell CEO Michael Polk said in a
statement.
“A stronger, simpler, faster Newell, together with
leading brands, brilliant marketing, outstanding inno-
vation and an advantaged e-commerce capability, bet-
ter positions us to win in these dynamic times.”

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cheap stocks left? Price target boosted, shares hit record high. TOP 10 EXCHANGE TRADED FUNDS
ETF, ranked by volume Ticker Close Chg. % Chg %YTD
SPDR S&P500 ETF Tr SPY 283.30 +0.18 +0.1% +6.2%
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iShares Brazil EWZ 46.81 +0.46 +1.0% +15.7%
For example, there are some bargains Keeps early rise as company is defended by analyst.
to be had in the financial sector. Gold- YTD INTEREST RATES MORTGAGE RATES
LOSERS Company (ticker symbol) Price $ Chg % Chg % Chg
man Sachs, which recently reported Type Close 6 mo ago Type Close 6 mo ago
Prime lending 4.50% 4.25% 30 yr. xed 4.08% 3.85%
disappointing trading revenue, looks Federal funds 1.42% 1.16% 15 yr. xed 3.44% 3.02%
Newell Brands (NWL) 24.81 -6.42 -20.6 -19.7
very attractive from a long-term per- Company considers selling businesses; rating lowered. 3 mo. T-bill 1.42% 1.15% 1 yr. ARM 3.49% 3.12%
5 yr. T-note 2.42% 1.88% 5/1 ARM 3.90% 3.12%
spective. The investment bank trades 10 yr. T-note 2.62% 2.33% SOURCE: BANKRATE.COM
for less than 13 times 2017 earnings and Range Resources (RRC) 15.32 -1.68 -9.9 -10.2
has lots of potential to grow. Shares sink on flat Terryville Field production. COMMODITIES
Real estate is another area that looks Commodities Close Prev. Chg. % Chg. % YTD
Union Pacic (UNP) 133.60 -7.59 -5.4 -.4 Cattle (lb.) 1.22 1.25 -0.03 -2.4% -0.4%
great from a long-term perspective. The Prot disappoints investors, shares slide. Corn (bushel) 3.55 3.57 -0.02 -0.4% +1.3%
sector has been beaten down lately Gold (troy oz.) 1,362.40 1,355.90 +6.50 +0.5% +4.3%
Hogs, lean (lb.) .72 .73 -0.01 -0.6% +1.0%
thanks to expectations of rising interest F5 Networks (FFIV) 134.94 -7.19 -5.1 +2.8 Natural Gas (Btu.) 3.45 3.51 -0.06 -1.8% +16.7%
rates. As the economy continues to Beats estimates, price target raised, dips on weak sales. Oil, heating (gal.) 2.12 2.11 +0.01 +0.4% +1.9%
Oil, lt. swt. crude (bar.) 65.51 65.61 -0.10 -0.2% +8.4%
strengthen, rate hikes are seen as more Silver (troy oz.) 17.55 17.43 +0.12 +0.7% +2.9%
likely, and this is a negative catalyst for Xilinx (XLNX) 69.74 -3.74 -5.1 +3.4 Soybeans (bushel) 9.92 9.92 unch. unch. +4.3%
Falls as sector suffers amid earnings, iPhone concerns. Wheat (bushel) 4.35 4.33 +0.02 +0.4% +1.8%
real estate investment trusts (REITs).
One that I have my eye on right now is Lam Research (LRCX) 199.25 -10.48 -5.0 +8.2 FOREIGN CURRENCIES
leading health care REIT Welltower. Price target increased yet falls with peers in losing sector. Currency per dollar Close Prev. 6 mo. ago Yr. ago
Health care real estate is a recession-re- British pound
Canadian dollar
.7081
1.2361
.7034
1.2321
.7670
1.2507
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1.3080
sistant property type, and Welltower’s United Continental Holdings (UAL) 66.08 -2.97 -4.3 -2.0
Chinese yuan 6.3237 6.3668 6.7511 6.8798
Low fare fear pushes shares lower again. Euro .8070 .8061 .8582 .9309
portfolio of senior-specific properties is Japanese yen 109.41 109.05 111.89 113.60
well-positioned to grow over the coming Alaska Air Group (ALK) 62.07 -2.62 -4.1 -15.6 Mexican peso 18.5856 18.4604 17.7790 21.3023

decades as the U.S. population ages. Shares drop again on potential prot squeeze.
The stock currently trades near its FOREIGN MARKETS
52-week low and has a dividend yield of Ameriprise Financial (AMP) 173.13 -7.18 -4.0 +2.2 Country Close Prev. Change %Chg. YTD %
Reverses gain on earnings beat and dividend declaration. Frankfurt 13,298.36 13,414.74 -116.38 -0.9% +3.0%
nearly 6%. Hong Kong 32,654.45 32,958.69 -304.24 -0.9% +9.1%
Japan (Nikkei) 23,669.49 23,940.78 -271.29 -1.1% +4.0%
Matthew Frankel has no position in Ford (F) 11.57 -.48 -4.0 -7.4 London 7,615.84 7,643.43 -27.59 -0.4% -0.9%
any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Negative analyst notes, tough truck market sink shares. Mexico City 50,777.90 50,746.93 +30.97 +0.1% +2.9%

Fool recommends Welltower. SOURCE Bloomberg and The Associated Press

SOURCE Morningstar, Dow Jones Indexes, The Associated Press
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THE GRAMMY AWARDS

Who will, and should, win the gold

Maeve McDermott
USA TODAY
The 2018 Grammy Awards land in
New York City on Sunday, and the eve-
ning’s most compelling storylines have
already emerged. The biggest categories
— album, song and record of the year —
pit hip-hop heavyweights Jay-Z and
Kendrick Lamar against one another,
their most formidable challengers being
Bruno Mars, a Grammys-favored artist
with the potential to run the board, and
Despacito, 2017’s biggest single, which
already routed the Latin Grammys.
Beyond the night’s headlining names,
there’s the distinct chance history will
be made. Neither a rap or Spanish-lan-
guage song has ever won a song- or rec-
ord-of-the-year trophy in the awards’
modern history, which seems likely to
change at the hands of Despacito or one
of the strong hip-hop nominees.
Our predictions for who will win the
song, album, record and best-new-
artist categories — and which artists
actually deserve the prizes:
Album of the year
Will win: Bruno Mars, 24K Magic
With Lamar’s Damn nominated
alongside Jay-Z’s 4:44, album of the
year is hip-hop’s to lose. But the danger
of vote-splitting means the Grammy
may go to one of the more pop-oriented
artists. The obvious front-runner is
Mars, who earned the third-most
nominations behind Lamar and Jay-Z.
While critics loved Lorde’s Melodrama,
she’s the only album-of-the-year nomi-
nee who isn’t nominated for one of the
other major categories, which may sig-
nal that Grammys voters aren’t as keen
on her as a winner. And then, there’s
Childish Gambino’s psych-R&B of
Awaken, My Love, an intriguing spoiler.
Should win: Kendrick Lamar,
Damn
Despite his seven Grammy wins and
29 nominations, Lamar has a history of
Grammys heartbreak. In 2014, Seattle
rapper Macklemore took home best rap
album for The Heist over Lamar’s Good
Kid, m.A.A.d City, then infamously text-
Bruno Mars is up for all the major awards at the Grammys Sunday, and he could
run the table if hip-hop votes are split. MATT SAYLES/INVISION/AP
ed Lamar to apologize. In 2016, Lamar’s
breathlessly acclaimed To Pimp a But-
terfly lost to Taylor Swift’s 1989. Now,
with a third universally praised release
competing for the night’s biggest award,
Lamar deserves to win for Damn, not
just for the sake of cosmic retribution,
but because his album is the category’s
best, a singular artistic statement from
the best rapper of a generation.
Song of the year
Will win: Logic, 1-800-273-8255
feat. Alessia Cara and Logic
This is a songwriters’ award, and this
decade’s winners have almost exclu-
sively been pensive, sweeping anthems.
Of all the nominees this year, the song
that best suits the category’s recent tra-
jectory is Logic’s 1-800-273-8255, with
its suicide-awareness message. The
song would make history as the first hip-
hop track to win the category, though
there’s very little rapping, making it
poppy enough not to seem like an out-
lier. Yet, with Mars earning nominations
for album, song and record of the year,
voters may be signaling an Adele-style
domination for the singer, whose That’s
What I Like is up for best song.
Should win: Luis Fonsi and Daddy
Yankee, Despacito feat. Justin Bieber
Charts domination aside, Luis Fonsi
and Daddy Yankee’s runaway hit isn’t
the obvious choice to win. The last time
a Spanish-language song won the cate-
gory was in 1959. Yet, a win for Despaci-
to would be a well-deserved reward for a
song well-written enough to transcend
American listeners’ English-oriented
tastes to become a global phenomenon.
Record of the year
Will win: Luis Fonsi and Daddy
Yankee, Despacito feat. Justin Bieber
Mars has found success in this cate-
gory, winning in 2016 for Uptown Funk.
24K Magic is similarly crowd-pleasing.
Yet, the category has favored pop hits
that dominated the charts. That may tip
the scales in Despacito’s favor.
Should win: Kendrick Lamar,
Humble
Chances are, Humble won’t win, con-
sidering no rap song has won the cate-
gory, and Lamar faces the same vote-
splitting danger against Jay-Z’s The Sto-
ry of OJ as he does for album of the year.
Yet, it’d still be a thrill for the rapper’s
fans to see him win for the joyously pro-
duced Humble, Lamar’s first No. 1.
Best new artist
Will win: Alessia Cara
Despite SZA’s status as the Gram-
my’s most-nominated female artist this
year with five nods, Cara seems like the
preordained choice to win this category.
With years of major-label support, Cara
is a high-profile industry darling who
was nominated for new artist in other
awards in 2016 on the strength of her
2015 breakthrough single, Here. The
Grammys likely try will to make up for
lost time by granting her the trophy.
Should win: SZA
SZA was one of 2017’s best breakout
stories, an R&B singer on Lamar’s label
whose cult following exploded once she
released CTRL, the album she spent
three years perfecting, to critical raves.
In a category meant to honor the year’s
most promising debut, SZA is a cut
above the rest.

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Sports High school wrestling

z Elmira, Horseheads seek postseason
success. 4C

Rivera, Halladay set to headline HoF ballot

Former Yankees reliever Mariano
Rivera, who is eligible for induction
into the baseball Hall of Fame in 2019,
is considered by many to be the
greatest closer in major-league
history. BILL KOSTROUN/AP
Noah Trister
ASSOCIATED PRESS
These crowded Hall of Fame cere-
monies are becoming the norm, and
2019 might be more of the same.
With newcomers Mariano Rivera and
Roy Halladay headlining the ballot —
and Edgar Martinez up against a dead-
line — next year’s induction class could
be another sizable one. That would cer-
tainly fit with the recent trend after four
players were elected this week in the
2018 class.
Chipper Jones, Vladimir Guerrero,
Jim Thome and Trevor Hoffman were
voted in this year by the Baseball Writ-
ers’ Association of America, marking
the second time in four years the
BBWAA elected four players. Since 2013,
when the writers elected no one, there
has been a veritable flood of BBWAA in-
ductees — at least two per year for five
straight votes. The last time the BBWAA
voted in multiple players for that many
years in a row was from 1951 to 1956.
Next year could be another multi-
player induction. Here are a few things
to look ahead to in the 2019 Hall of Fame
vote:
Top newcomers
Rivera is viewed by many as the
game’s greatest closer, and his domi-
nance might transcend whatever mis-
givings voters have about the value of
low-workload relievers. Hoffman re-
ceived 80 percent of the vote this year.
Goose Gossage got 86 percent when he
was elected, and Bruce Sutter got 77. Ri-
vera has a chance to do what none of
those three relievers did — enter the
Hall on the first ballot.
Halladay will likely have plenty of
support after winning two Cy Young
Awards and finishing his career with 67
complete games. Last season’s major
league leaders in complete games were
Corey Kluber and Ervin Santana with
five each. Halladay had five or more in
seven seasons.
See HALL OF FAME, Page 3C

What the
NBA wants
if betting is
approved
Jon Campbell
Albany Bureau
USA TODAY NETWORK

ALBANY – The National Basketball

Association called on state lawmakers
this week to allow wagering over the
Internet and mobile devices if betting
on sports is ultimately approved.
Dan Spillane, the NBA’s senior vice
president and assistant general coun-
sel, said Wednesday the league sup-
ports a “comprehensive sports betting
bill” that would allow fans to wager on
games.
But the NBA’s support is contingent
on certain safeguards and measures
being put in place, including each
sports league receiving a 1 percent cut
of all wagers placed on their games.
Spillane’s comments came at a
state Senate hearing on sports gam-
bling, which was held as the U.S. Su-
preme Court weighs a challenge to the
federal ban on the practice in nearly all
states.
Here are the five things the NBA
says it would want in a sports-betting
bill:

Tioga’s John Worthing, right, wrestles Central Valley Academy’s Jon Charles in 2016’s 99-pound Division II state final at 1. Online wagers
Albany. Charles won the match, 5-1 and it’s possible the two could meet again in the NYSPHSAA Division II Dual Meet
Championships on Saturday at Onondaga Community College. FILE PHOTO New York has a law on the books
that would allow the state’s four pri-

Norwich, Tioga look to

vate casinos to offer sports betting if
the Supreme Court strikes down the
federal ban.
But the NBA says that would cause

make splash in tourney

Rob Centorani
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin
USA TODAY NETWORK
There will be nothing ceremonial about ap-
pearances by Norwich and Tioga in the first New
York State Public High School Athletic Associa-
tion Dual Meet Championships.
Neither of Section 4’s Division II representa-
tives will be favored when wrestling starts at 9
a.m. Saturday at Onondaga Community College.
But the fourth-seeded Purple Tornado and the
sixth-seeded Tigers have enough talent to com-
pete with the state’s best.
“We’re certainly proud to be the first team to
represent Section 4 in the New York State tourna-
ment,” Norwich coach Bob Hagenbuch said after
beating host Tioga, 38-30 in the Section 4 Divi-
sion II Dual Meet title match Jan. 18. “Our guys
want it as badly as anybody.
“We have some of the top kids in the state. I
feel we’re going to give a lot of teams a run for
their money. Hopefully, we’ll come out on top and
people will know where Norwich is when it’s all
significant issues.
Since the four casinos are located
outside of the state’s major population
centers, including New York City, peo-
ple would still “bet illegally through
offshore websites and other illegal
over.”
Tioga coach Kris Harrington had similar See BETTING, Page 3C
thoughts on his team’s chances. “CVA, what a
“We’re looking tough,” said Harrington,
whose team received an at-large berth into the matchup for
Division II tournament. “We put 10 into our
league finals. We feel really good about where
us in the first
everyone is.” round. If you
The 12 teams will be placed into four three-
team pools. Each pool contains two seeded look at those
teams. Four pool winners advance to the semi- matchups,
finals at 2:30 p.m. and the championship match
will start at 6 p.m. there are a
Norwich (13-2) and Tioga (13-3) will open
with their toughest pool-play tests at 9 a.m. The couple of
Purple Tornado will oppose fifth-seeded Can- potential
isteo-Greenwood and Tioga will face third-
seeded Central Valley Academy. state finals
“CVA, what a matchup for us in the first
round,” Harrington said of a squad that defeat- matchups in
ed Norwich, 42-31 on Dec. 9. “If you look at there.” 76ers guard Ben Simmons dunks
those matchups, there are a couple of potential during the second half against the
Kris Harrington Bulls on Wednesday in Philadelphia.
Tioga coach
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LOCAL SCOREBOARD
HIGH SCHOOLS 0-0 2, Kori Thornton 1 0-0 3, Megan Palmatier Susquehanna Valley 43, Corning 41 Stewart 0-0 0-0 0, Perovic 0-2 0-0 0, Muham- North Division HS BOYS BASKETBALL
3 5-6 11. Totals: 27 7-9 66. Tuesday at Corning mad 4-8 0-0 11, T. Stewart 6-13 1-2 13, Odero W L OL SOL Pts GF GA Union-Endicott at Maine-Endwell, 6:45
BOYS BASKETBALL Deposit/Hancock (9-3): Kayla Scuderi 0 0-0 99 pounds: Darren Deitrichh (SV) won by for- 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 22-57 8-17 57. Toronto 30 11 0 1 61 132 83 Unatego at Harpusville, 7:15
Maine-Endwell 62, Trumansburg 32 0, Kristin McNamara 1 0-0 2, Erin Ballard 2 feit. 106: Ethan Hart (C) tech. fall Richie Dif- UMBC (14-8): Horvath 4-8 1-1 9, Akin 2-3 4-8 Rochester 24 9 5 5 58 131 115 Corning at Elmira, 7:15
Maine-Endwell ..... 30 15 6 11 - 62 0-0 4, Hanah Jones 0 0-0 0, Mikayla Kravetsky fendorf, 20-2. 113: Drew Witham (C) won by 8, Maura 2-7 0-0 4, Lyles 6-11 2-2 17, Sher- Syracuse 25 14 2 2 54 141 115 Johnson City at Owego, 7:15
Trumansburg ..... 5 4 13 10 1 0-0 2, Bryn Martin 0 0-0 0, Trinity Gotthardt forfeit. 120: Jeremiah Adams (C) won by for- burne 7-11 0-0 18, Curran 0-1 1-2 1, Gerrity 1-2 Utica 20 14 6 3 49 124 123 Seton Catholic Central at Chenango Forks,
Maine-Endwell: Tyree Brodley 4 1-2 9, An- 1 0-0 2, Malorie Rutledge 1 0-1 2, Kaylee Gill 0 feit. 126: Jacob Rizkallah (C) won by forfeit. 0-0 2, Jabbie 0-1 0-0 0, Grant 4-7 0-1 10. To- Laval 17 20 5 2 41 129 150 7:15
drew DeSantis 1 1-2 3, Jordan Gallagher 1 0-0 0-0 0, Alyssa Makowski 0 0-0 0, Rainna Butler 132: Chase Daudelin (C) won by forfeit. 138: tals 26-51 8-14 69. Belleville 18 23 0 3 39 109 163 Norwich at Susquehanna Valley, 7:15
3, Connor Green 3 1-2 8, Joseph Mancini 1 0-0 1 0-0 3, Laycee Drake 7 1-1 15. Totals: 13 1 1-2 Aidan Lupole (SV) pinned Dominic Bulkley, Halftime: UMBC 36-18. 3-pointers: BU 5-20 Binghamton 12 22 5 2 31 101 140 Elmira Notre Dame at Thomas A. Edison, 7:15
2, William McFadden 2 0-0 4, Brennan 30. 3:31. 145: Paddy Lupole (SV) maj. dec. Jeremy (Muhammad 3-7, Davis 1-2, Show 1-5, Newark Valley at Windsor, 7:15
McQuade 1 0-2 2, Cody Petro 13 2-3 28, Sam- 3-pointers: B-G 7 (E. Selfridge 5, Leizear, Ahearn 0-1, Rodriguez 0-2, T. Stewart 0-3); Western Conference Candor at Odessa-Montour, 7:15
Spear, 17-4. 152: Matthew Kline (C) pinned
uel Siock 1 0-0 3. Totals: 27 5-12 62. Thornton); D/H 1 (Butler). JV: B-G won. Sethan King, 1:07. 160: Kyle Leonard (SV) dec. UMBC 9-23 (Sherburne 4-6, Lyles 3-5, Grant Central Division Newfield at Tioga, 7:15
Trumansburg: Isaiah Black 2 1-1 6, Marcus Nathan Mapes, 6-3. 170: Chris Harold (SV) 2-4, Curran 0-1, Jabbie 0-1, Horvath 0-2, Mau- W L OL SOL Pts GF GA Marathon at Moravia, 7:15
Harrison 1 0-0 3, Dalton Kenney 4 3-4 13, Jack won by forfeit. 182: Mithell Knapp (SV) ra 0-4). Rebounds: BU 37 (Rodriguez 11); Manitoba 27 10 3 2 59 152 102 Union Springs at Southern Cayuga, 7:15
Lincoln 1 0-0 2, Zebulon Whitford 4 0-0 8. To- SWIMMING UMBC 28 (Akin 8). Assists: BU 9 (Davis 4); Rockford 23 16 2 3 51 141 133 Watkins Glen at Spencer-Van Etten, 7:15
pinned Damien VanEtten, 1:07. 195: Richie
tals: 12 4-7 32. Windsor 87, Owego 74 Knapp (SV) pinned David Rowe, 1:41. 220: UMBC 20 (Maura, Lyles, Sherburne 4). Iowa 19 13 7 3 48 134 134 Whitney Point at Lansing, 7:15
3-pointers: M-E 3 (Siot, Green, Gallagher); At Windsor Mitchell Enright (SV) won by forfeit. 285: Chicago 21 15 5 2 49 131 122 Groton at Trumansburg, 7:15
Trumansburg 4 (Black, Harrison, Kenney 2). 200-yard medley relay: Owego (Peter Ko- Thomas O`Connor (C) pinned Connor Cleary, Milwaukee 21 17 4 0 46 117 130 Walton at Bainbridge-Guilford, 7:15
JV: M-E won. valovsky, Brandon Lavo, Noah Bingley, John WOMEN’S BASKETBALL G. Rapids 21 18 1 4 47 139 136 Sidney at Delaware Academy, 7:15
2:58.
Notes: Maine-Endwell’s Cody Petro shot 13- McDonald) 1:54.84; 200 freestyle: Bingley Binghamton 81, UMBC 51 Cleveland 13 21 3 3 32 93 130 Unadilla Valley at Afton, 7:30
Windsor 44, Maine-Endwell 31 UMBC (2-18, 1-6 AE): Laura Castaldo 5-14
for-13 from the field and had three steals and (O) 2:08.71; 200 individual medley: Lavo Chenango Valley at Oneonta, 7:45
(O) 2:16.06; 50 free: Brady Weingartner (W) At Windsor 0-1 13, Janee’a Summers 4-8 1-2 10, Brittani Pacific Division
three assists. 99 pounds: Payton Bennett M-E pinned Troy HS GIRLS BASKETBALL
25.12; Diving: Dante Kimbrough (W) 348.85; Burgess 2-7 2-2 6, Lucrezia Costa 0-4 1-2 1, W L OL SOL Pts GF GA
Bainbridge-Guilford 65, Hayes, 3:21. 106: Alex Wilber (M-E) pinned Tucson 22 12 2 1 47 122 105 Unadilla Valley at Afton, 6
100 butterfly: Ben Panziera (W) 1:06.35; 100 Allison McGrath 0-5 0-0 0, Te’yjah Oliver 2-10 Deposit/Hancock at Oxford, 7:15
Desposit/Hancock 56 Ryan Kennedy, 3:18. 113: Dylan Hawk (W) Texas 23 15 4 2 52 132 138
free: Weingartner (W) 54.97; 500 free: Mc- 1-2 7, Lakiah Sims 2-7 0-1 5, Tyler Moore 2-4 Thomas A. Edison at Elmira Notre Dame, 7:15
Bainbridge-Guilford ..... 11 19 14 21 - 65 won by forfeit. 120: Mike McDaniels (W) S. Antonio 22 16 4 0 48 117 119
Donald (O) 5:27.87; 200 free relay: Windsor 0-0 5, Chukwuma Chiamaka 1-3 0-0 2, Jen Odessa-Montour at Candor, 7:15
Deposit/Hancock ..... 15 6 10 25 - 56 pinned Ryan Dowdle, 3:37. 126: Deekon Flint Stockton 19 14 2 3 43 117 107
(Kimbrough, Lucas Casey, Devin Truman, Gast 1-2 0-0 2, Carly Harris 0 0-0 0. Totals: Tioga at Newfield, 7:15
Bainbridge-Guilford: Devon Scherhaufer 3 (W) forfeit. 132: James Hoover (W) won by Ontario 21 16 1 1 44 109 107
Weingartner) 1:48.27; 100 backstroke: Ko- 19-64 5-10 51 Moravia at Marathon, 7:15
0-0 9, Xavier Cherniak 2 4-4 10, Shawn Lind- forfeit. 138: Langdon Sibley (W) tech. fall San Jose 19 16 1 2 41 96 110
valovsky (O) 1:04.40; 100 breaststroke: La- BU (13-7, 4-3): Alyssa James 10-14 2-2 22, Kai Southern Cayuga at Union Springs, 7:15
sey 5 5-5 15, Trevor Halaquist 8 4-4 23, Tom Cobe Sisenstein, 15-0 (5:36). 145: Mason Pel- San Diego 20 17 1 0 41 121 122
vo (O) 1:11.49; 400 free relay: Owego (Eric Moon 5-7 8-10 20, Imani Watkins 6-19 5-7 19, Spencer-Van Etten at Watkins Glen, 7:15
Palmatier 4 0-0 8, Parker Lord , Collin Puerile 0 ton (M-E) maj. dec. 11-3. 152: Gabe Monroe Bakersfield 17 16 7 0 41 109 119
Pheal, Joesph Criscitello, James Morton, Aus- Carly Boland 3-7 0-0 8, Rebecca Carmody 2-5 Lansing at Whitney Point, 7:15
0-0 0, Adam Ives 0 0-0 0. Totals: 22 13-13 65. (W) pinned Spencer Portararo, 1:47. 160: An-
tin Tompkins) 4:38.51. Records: Windsor 0-0 5, Jasmine Sina 1-3 0-0 3, Lizzy Spindler 0 NOTE: Two points are awarded for a Trumansburg at Groton, 7:15
Deposit/Hancock (9-6): Austin Lenio 5 0-0 thony Bonnano (M-E) dec. Noah Yadlosky,
8-2. 2-2 2, Kennedi Thompson 1-2 0-0 2, Karlee win, one point for an overtime or HS BOYS BOWLING
12, Jackson Miller 0 3-4 3, Ray Rynearson 0 9-4. 170: Dave Flora (W) dec. Gabe Fuller, 3-1.
Corning 104, Union-Endicott 78 Krchnavi 0 0-2 0, Kaylee Wasco 0-1 0-0 0, Cor- shootout loss. Union Springs at Newark Valley, 4
0-0 0, Darren Shaver 9 1-2 21, Tyler Young 4 182: Greg Davis (M-E) won by forfeit. 195:
At Corning rinne Godshall 0 0-0 0. Totals: 28-58 17-23 Tuesday’s Games Marathon at Odessa-Montour, 4
2-2 10, Cole Russell 3 3-5 10, Nick Staton 0 Steve Lageman (M-E) won by forfeit. 220:
200-yard medley relay: Corning (Yushi 81. Cleveland 5, Milwaukee 0 HS GIRLS BOWLING
0-0 0. Totals: 21 9-13 56. Collin Bidwell (W) pinned Matt Raleigh, 4:51.
Portwood, Cal Bartone, Jerry Hou, Roger Liu) Halftime: BU 37-31. 3-pointers: UMBC 8- Rockford 4, Bakersfield 1 Union Springs at Newark Valley, 4
3-pointers: B-G 8 (Scherhaufer 3, Halaquist 285: No match.
1:50.47; 200 freestyle: Ryan McNutt (C) 29 (Castaldo 3-8, Summers 1-3, Burgess 0-2, Texas 3, San Jose 2, OT Marathon at Odessa-Montour, 4
3, Cherniak 2); D/H 5 (Lenio 2, Shaver 2, Rus-
1:59.53; 200 individual medley: Domenic McGrath 0-5, Oliver 2-7, Sims 1-1, Moore 1-3); HS SWIMMING
sell). COLLEGES Wednesday’s Games
Palumbo (C) 2:20.26; 50 free: Liu (C) 24.58; BU 8-21 (Moon 2-3, Watkins 2-8, Boland 2-6, Elmira at Windsor, 5
Newark Valley 73, Thomas A. Edison 52 Carmody 1-1, Sina 1-3). Rebounds: UMBC 37 WB/Scranton 4, Hershey 0
Thomas A. Edison ..... 10 17 13 12 - 52 Diving: Kurt Mueller (U-E) 249.30; 100 but- IVY LEAGUE MEN’S BASKETBALL Bridgeport 3, Springfield 1 Union-Endicott at Ithaca, 5:30
terfly: Portwood (C) 58.30; 100 free: Daniel Con All (Burgess 8); BU 46 (Carmody 8). Assists: Binghamton at Vestal, 5:30
Newark Valley ..... 23 18 19 13 - 73 UMBC 13 (Sims 4); BU 17 (Moon 5). Hartford 4, Utica 3, OT
Thomas A. Edison (4-10): Jared Slaven 0 0-0 Hursh (C) 55.58; 500 free: McNutt (C) W L W L Manitoba 4, Belleville 1 Dryden at Waverly, 5:30
0, Logan Scheepsma 1 0-0 2, Nate Chorney 8 5:33.10; 200 free relay: Corning (Bartone, Penn 3 0 12 6 Lehigh Valley 3, Providence 2 Southern Cayuga at Lansing, 5:30
Liu, Owen Fisher, Ethan Kang) 1:37.42; 100 Harvard 2 0 7 10 ECAC HOCKEY MEN Syracuse 3, Laval 2 Watkins Glen at Odessa-Montour, 5:30
3-4 22, Ryan Benedict 2 0-0 4, Jack Hourihan Princeton 2 1 9 8
2 0-0 4, Josh Tryon 1 0-0 2, Jack Shaw 2 2-2 8, backstroke: Palumbo (C) 1:03.72; 100 Con All Thursday’s Games Greene at Odessa-Montour, 5:30
breaststroke: Liu (C) 1:12.77; 400 free re- Brown 1 1 8 7 HS WRESTLING
Aronde Terpolilli 1 0-0 2. Totals: 20 6-8 52. Yale 1 1 8 10 W L T W L T Iowa at Cleveland, 7 p.m.
Newark Valley (8-5): Micah Williams 0 0-0 lay: U-E (Travis Daly, Charles Arbusio, Ben Clarkson 10 1 1 18 4 2 San Jose at San Antonio, 8 p.m. Norwich at Horseheads, 5
Hatala, Dominic Johnson) 4:19.86. Columbia 1 2 4 12
0, Patrick Pennay 2 0-0 5, Jason Graham 1 0-0 Dartmouth 0 2 4 11 Cornell 10 1 1 16 2 1 Friday’s Games
2, Jackson Vaughn 1 0-0 3, Kyle Coffin 9 1-3 Cornell 0 3 6 10 Union 10 4 0 14 12 1 Rochester at Toronto, 7 p.m. SATURDAY’S EVENTS
20, Ryan Crispell 6 0-0 13, Quartus Steika 8 WRESTLING Harvard 8 3 3 9 6 4 Belleville at Syracuse, 7 p.m. PRO HOCKEY
Friday’s Games Colgate 6 5 1 10 10 4
1-2 21, Daniel Lindhorst 4 1-1 9. Totals: 31 3-6 Bainbridge-Guilford 72, Deposit Harvard at Yale, 7 p.m. WB/Scranton at Lehigh Valley, 7:05 p.m. Binghamton at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, 7:05
73. Dartmth 6 6 1 8 10 2 Bridgeport at Springfield, 7:05 p.m.
Hancock 9 Dartmouth at Brown, 7 p.m. Yale 6 7 1 9 9 1 LOCAL BASKETBALL
3-pointers: TAE 5 (Chorney 3, Shaw 2); NV 8 Hershey at Providence, 7:05 p.m. WNY at Binghamton, 7
(Steika 4, Pennay, Vaughn, Coffin, Crispell). Started at 132 Saturday’s Games Quinnipc 4 7 2 9 12 4
132: Haiden Burns (BG) won by forfeit. 138: Columbia at Cornell, 4 p.m. Utica at Binghamton, 7:05 p.m. COLLEGE MEN’S BASKETBALL
JV: NV won. Brown 5 9 0 6 11 3 Charlotte at Hartford, 7:15 p.m.
Ben Bivar (BG) dec. River Burgess, 3-0. 145: Harvard at Brown, 6 p.m. Princeton 4 8 1 7 10 3 New Hampshire at Binghamton, 4
Corning 60, Binghamton 54 (OT) Austn Eggelston (BG) won by forfeit. 152: Saint Joseph’s at Penn, 7 p.m. Manitoba at Laval, 7:30 p.m. Columbia at Cornell, 4
Binghamton ..... 7 12 18 15 2 - 54 RPI 3 10 2 4 18 4
Hayden Lewis (BG) won by forfeit. 160: Shane Dartmouth at Yale, 7 p.m. St.Lwrnce 0 11 1 4 18 2 Ontario at Rockford, 8 p.m. Elmira at Alfred, 2
Corning ..... 14 15 11 12 8 - 60 Hoover (BG) won by forfeit. 170: Mike Wilmot Stockton at Texas, 8:30 p.m. Jefferson CC at SUNY Broome, 3
Binghamton (6-6): Isaiah Rogers 3 4-5 10, (BG) won by forfeit. 182: Ben Roberts (BG) Friday’s Games Chicago at Tucson, 9:05 p.m. COLLEGE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Damani Mizel 1 1-2 3, Jarrid Kirkland 6 2-4 15, won by forfeit. 195: Rocco Aurduin (BG) won AMERICA EAST MEN’S BASKETBALL Cornell at Harvard, 7 p.m. San Diego at Bakersfield, 10 p.m. Binghamton at New Hampshire, 1
Angel Camacho-Cintron 0 0-0 0, Jose Ramos Con All Yale at Clarkson, 7 p.m.
by forfeit. 220: Brock Wiest (BG) won by for- W L W L Columbia at Cornell, 1
0 0-0 0, Kahlil Terry 2 0-0 4, Peter Stefos 0 0-0 feit. 285: Dalton Griffith (BG) won by forfeit. Vermont 7 0 17 5
Brown at St. Lawrence, 7 p.m. LOCAL Elmira at Alfred, 4
0, Yachezqel Ogbonna 2 2-4 8, Emanuel 99: Jacob Terpstra won (BG) by forfeit. 106: Colgate at Dartmouth, 7 p.m. Jefferson CC at SUNY Broome, 1
McAllister 1 0-0 2, Nick Gregoris 3 0-0 7, UMBC 5 2 14 8 CYO BASKETBALL
Dylan Decker (BG) won by forfeit. 113: Indigo Hartford 4 3 11 10 Saturday’s Games COLLEGE MEN’S HOCKEY
Brandon Sprouse 2 0-0 5. Totals: 20 9-15 54. Union at RPI, 6 p.m. Varsity Boys
Busrgess (D/H) dec. Teague Rezucha, 7-4. New Hamp. 4 3 8 13 Cornell at Dartmouth, 7
Corning (7-6): Ivan Jubilee 4 4-4 13, Justin Cornell at Dartmouth, 7 p.m. St. Mary’s 59, St. Vincent’s Gold 57. Scor-
120: Hunter Couse (D/H) won by forfeit. 126: Albany 4 4 16 7 Utica at Elmira, 7
Rodriguez 3 0-0 7, Noah Walker 0 0-0 0, Nick Brown at Clarkson, 7 p.m. ing leaders: St. M, Tayyib Pearson 22 points,
Brady Buttice (BG) dec. Connor Obayle, 10-9. Stony Brook 3 4 8 13 COLLEGE WOMEN’S HOCKEY
Nickerson 0 0-0 0, Jacob Tober 0 0-0 0, Zach Colgate at Harvard, 7 p.m. JJ Holmes 15 points, Yordanel Peredes 12
Vestal 72, Binghamton 18 z-Mass.-Lowell 2 5 8 12 St. Lawrence at Cornell, 3
Drewno 0 0-0 0, Jason Drapikowski 1 1-3 4, Yale at St. Lawrence, 7 p.m. points.
At Vestal Maine 2 5 5 17 Elmira at Lebanon Valley, 3:30
Jason Rodriguez 7 2-5 20, Myles Bankston 7 Saints John and Andrew 76, Holy Family
99 pounds: Hasan Wakefield (V) won by for- Binghamton 1 6 10 12 COLLEGE WRESTLING
2-6 16. Totals: 22 9-18 60. 37. Scoring leaders: SJA, Mosher 21 points,
3-pointers: B 5 (Ogbonna 2, Gregoris, feit. 106: Desawn Quirry (V) won by forfeit. z-ineligible for post-season play PROFESSIONAL Smith 11 points, McLaughlin 11 points.
Delaware Valley at Ithaca, 11 a.m.
113: Jeter Sacco (V) won by forfeit. 120: Cole Wednesday’s Games<QC> Brown at Cornell, 1
Sprouse, Kirkland); C 7 (Jason Rodriguez 4, Ju- AHL JV Boys
Wager (V) won by forfeit. 126: Zayne Benedict UMBC 69, Binghamton 57 Binghamton at UPenn, 2
bilee, Justin Rodriguez, Drapikowski). JV: Eastern Conference St. Vincent 47, Holy Family White 21.
(V) pinned Aidan Ehmke, :15. 132: Isaiah Cal- Mass.-Lowell 82, Stony Brook 79, OT Harvard at Cornell, 3
Binghamton won. Atlantic Division HS BOYS BASKETBALL
lender (V) pinned Kyciem Cooper, 1:46. 138: Maine 69, New Hampshire 68 FRIDAY’S EVENTS
Co-de Petticrew (V) won by forfeit. 145: Collin Vermont 61, Albany (NY) 50 W L OL SOL Pts GF GA Johnson City at Elmira, 2:45
GIRLS BASKETBALL Kinter (V) won by forfeit. 152:Isiah Cogan (V) Saturday’s Games WB/Scrantn 25 11 3 1 54 140 107 PRO HOCKEY Ithaca at Bishop Grimes, 7
Bainbridge-Guilford 66, won by forfeit. 160: Nate Staples (B) won by Maine at UMBC, 1 p.m. Lehigh Val. 25 13 2 3 55 145 139 Utica at Binghamton, 7:05 HS GIRLS BASKETBALL
Deposit/Hancock 30 forfeit. 170: Phillip Steele (B) won by forfeit. New Hampshire at Binghamton, 4 p.m. Providence 24 14 3 1 52 123 106 COLLEGE MEN’S HOCKEY Norwich at Elmira, 6
Bainbridge-Guilford ..... 14 13 23 16 - 66 182: Todd Degroat (V) pinned Chris Kovach, Hartford at Mass.-Lowell, 5 p.m. Charlotte 24 17 0 1 49 145 128 Cornell at Harvard, 7 Seton Catholic Central vs. Mercy at Ononda-
2:46. 195: Eli Socash (V) pinned Caleb Le, Bridgeport 21 15 4 2 48 120 114 Nazareth at Elmira, 7 ga CC TBA
Deposit/Hancock ..... 10 8 8 4 - 30 Albany (NY) at Stony Brook, 7 p.m. Hershey 17 19 3 4 41 110 138
Bainbridge-Guilford (11-1): Jillian Cannis- 3:34. 220: Matt Kovach (B) won by forfeit. UMBC 69, Binghamton 57 COLLEGE WOMEN’S HOCKEY HS WRESTLING
Hartford 18 20 3 3 42 120 153 Clarkson at Cornell, 6 Binghamton at Avoca, 9 a.m.
tra 2 0-0 4, Matraca Harmon 0 0-0 0, Abigail 285: Brandon Taylor (V) pinned Isaiah Zones, Binghamton (10-12): Rodriguez 3-10 0-4 6, Springfield 19 24 1 1 40 131 143
Selfridge 8 1-2 17, Erica Selfridge 1 5 1-1 18, 2:03. Records: Vestal 15-0. Bruce 2-3 0-1 4, Show 1-8 0-0 3, Rose 0-0 0-0 COLLEGE WRESTLING Chenango Valley vs. Ithaca at Cornell, 9:30
Macie Leizear 4 1 0-0 11, Zamira Coldwell 1 0, Davis 3-5 7-10 14, Ahearn 3-7 0-0 6, C. Nassau CC at Ithaca, 7 State Duals at Onondaga CC TBA
Vernon-Verona-Sheryl Tournament TBA

NATIONAL SCOREBOARD
NFL Orleans; Jared Goff, Los Angeles Rams; Rus-
sell Wilson, Seattle
Dallas 16 32 .333
Northwest Division
19 Buffalo 48 13 26 9 35 110 163 MINNESOTA (4) — Signed Michael Pineda,
rhp, New York Yankees, to a $10 million, two-
vor Cahill, rhp; q-Lorenzo Cain, of; Alcides Es-
cobar, ss; q-Eric Hosmer, 1b; q-Mike Mousta-
Playoff Glance WIDE RECEIVERS (4) — Davante Adams, W L Pct GB
Metropolitan Division year contract; signed Fernando Rodney, rhp, kas, 3b; Peter Moylan, rhp; Jason Vargas, lhp.
All Times EST Green Bay; Doug Baldwin, Adam Thielen, Minnesota 31 19 .620 — GP W L OT Pts GF GA Arizona, to a $4.5 million, one-year contract; LOS ANGELES (10) — Andrew Bailey, rhp;
Wild-card Playoffs Minnesota; Michael Thomas, New Orleans Oklahoma City 27 20 .574 21⁄2 Washington 48 28 15 5 61 146 136 signed Zach Duke, lhp, St. Louis, to a $2.15 Jesse Chavez, rhp; Yunel Escobar, 3b; Ricky
Saturday, Jan. 6 RUNNING BACKS (3) — Todd Gurley, Los Portland 26 22 .542 4 New Jersey 47 24 15 8 56 144 143 million, one-year contract; signed Addison Nolasco, rhp; Bud Norris, rhp; Cliff Penning-
Tennessee 22, Kansas City 21 Angeles Rams; Mark Ingram, New Orleans; Denver 24 23 .511 51⁄2 Philadelphia 48 24 16 8 56 140 136 Reed, rhp, Boston, to a $16.75 million, two- ton, inf; Brandon Phillips, 2b; Ben Revere, of;
Alvin Kamara, New Orleans Utah 20 28 .417 10 Columbus 48 26 19 3 55 129 136 year contract. Fernando Salas, rhp; Huston Street, rhp.
Atlanta 26, Los Angeles Rams 13 Pittsburgh 50 26 21 3 55 145 150
Sunday, Jan. 7 FULLBACK (1) — Kyle Juszczyk, San Francis- Pacific Division NEW YORK (1) — Re-signed CC Sabathia, MINNESOTA (4) — Matt Belisle, rhp; Barto-
co W L Pct GB N.Y. 49 24 20 5 53 170 179 lhp, to a $10 million, one-year contract. lo Colon, rhp; Glen Perkins, lhp; Hector Santia-
Jacksonville 10, Buffalo 3 Islanders
New Orleans 31, Carolina 26 TIGHT ENDS (2) — Kyle Rudolph, Minneso- Golden State 38 10 .792 — OAKLAND (1) — Signed Yusmeiro Petit, rhp, go, lhp.
ta; Jason Witten, Dallas L.A. Clippers 23 24 .489 141⁄2 N.Y. Rangers 49 24 20 5 53 147 146 Los Angeles Angels, to a $10 million, two-year NEW YORK (3) — Todd Frazier, 3b; Jaime
Divisional Playoffs L.A. Lakers 18 29 .383 191⁄2 Carolina 48 21 19 8 50 131 149
TACKLES (3) — Duane Brown, Seattle; Joe contract. Garcia, lhp; Matt Holliday, dh.
Saturday, Jan. 13 Phoenix 17 31 .354 21
Staley, San Francisco; Andrew Whitworth, Los WESTERN CONFERENCE SEATTLE (3) — Re-signed Hisashi Iwakuma, SEATTLE (3) — Jarrod Dyson, of; Carlos
Philadelphia 15, Atlanta 10 Sacramento 14 33 .298 231⁄2
Angeles Rams Central Division rhp, to a minor league contract ($2.5 million); Ruiz, c; Danny Valencia, 1b-3b.
New England 35, Tennessee 14 Friday’s Games
GUARDS (3) — T.J. Lang, Detroit; Trai Turner, signed Juan Nicasio, rhp, St. Louis, to a $17 TAMPA BAY (7) — Peter Bourjos, of; q-Alex
Sunday, Jan. 14 Carolina; Larry Warford, New Orleans Atlanta at Charlotte, 7 p.m. GP W L OT Pts GF GA million, two-year contract; re-signed Gordon Cobb, rhp; Lucas Duda, 1b; Logan Morrison,
Jacksonville 45, Pittsburgh 42 Indiana at Cleveland, 7:30 p.m. Winnipeg 49 29 13 7 65 161 132
CENTERS (2) — Travis Frederick, Dallas; Nashville 46 28 11 7 63 142 123 Beckham, inf, to a minor league contract 1b; Trevor Plouffe, 3b; Colby Rasmus, of; Ser-
Minnesota 29, New Orleans 24 Alex Mack, Atlanta Utah at Toronto, 7:30 p.m. ($800,000). gio Romo, rhp.
Conference Championships St. Louis 50 29 18 3 61 145 129
DEFENSE (18) Brooklyn at Milwaukee, 8 p.m. Dallas 49 28 17 4 60 154 130 TEXAS (3) — Signed Doug Fister, rhp, Bos- TEXAS (4) — Andrew Cashner, rhp; Carlos
AFC DEFENSIVE ENDS (3) — Michael Bennett, Houston at New Orleans, 8 p.m. ton, to a $4 million, one-year contract; re- Gomez, of; Jason Grilli, rhp; Mike Napoli, 1b.
Colorado 47 27 17 3 57 156 136
Patriots 24, Jaguars 20 Seattle; Cameron Jordan, New Orleans; De- L.A. Clippers at Memphis, 8 p.m. Minnesota 48 26 17 5 57 141 134 signed Tony Barnette, rhp, to a $1.5 million, TORONTO (5) — Brett Anderson, lhp; Dar-
NFC marcus Lawrence, Dallas L.A. Lakers at Chicago, 8 p.m. Chicago 48 22 19 7 51 141 135 one-year contract; signed Mike Minor, lhp, win Barney, 2b; Jose Bautista, of; Miguel
Eagles 38, Vikings 7 INTERIOR LINEMEN (3) — Mike Daniels, Philadelphia at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m. Kansas City, to a $28 million, three-year con- Montero, c; Michael Saunders, of.
Pro Bowl Green Bay; Linval Joseph, Minnesota; Gerald Portland at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Pacific Division tract. NATIONAL LEAGUE
Sunday, Jan. 28 McCoy, Tampa Bay New York at Phoenix, 9 p.m. GP W L OT Pts GF GA TORONTO (1) — Signed Curtis Granderson, ARIZONA (5) — Gregor Blanco, of; Jorge De
At Orlando, Fla. OUTSIDE LINEBACKERS (3) — Thomas Da- Saturday’s Games Vegas 47 32 11 4 68 163 126 of, Los Angeles Dodgers, to a $5 million, one- La Rosa, lhp; David Hernandez, rhp; J.D. Mar-
AFC vs. NFC, 3 p.m. (ESPN/ABC) vis, Carolina; Chandler Jones, Arizona; Ryan Oklahoma City at Detroit, 5 p.m. San Jose 47 26 14 7 59 138 127 year contract. tinez of; Adam Rosales, inf.
Super Bowl Kerrigan, Washington Orlando at Indiana, 7 p.m. Calgary 48 25 16 7 57 134 131 NATIONAL LEAGUE ATLANTA (2) — R.A. Dickey, rhp; Jason
INSIDE/MIDDLE LINEBACKERS (2) — Kwon Charlotte at Miami, 7:30 p.m. Los Angeles 49 26 18 5 57 139 121 CHICAGO (4) — Signed Tyler Chatwood, Motte, rhp.
Sunday, Feb. 4 Anaheim 49 23 17 9 55 137 138
Alexander, Tampa Bay; Deion Jones, Atlanta Washington at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. rhp, Colorado, to a $38 million, three-year CHICAGO (6) — q-Jake Arrieta, rhp; Alex
At Minneapolis Edmonton 48 21 24 3 45 131 154
CORNERBACKS (4) — Marshon Lattimore, Boston at Golden State, 8:30 p.m. contract; signed Brandon Morrow, rhp, Los Avila, c; Jon Jay, of; John Lackey, rhp; Rene
New England vs. Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m. Vancouver 48 19 23 6 44 127 155
New Orleans; Patrick Peterson, Arizona; Xavi- Brooklyn at Minnesota, 9 p.m. Angeles Dodgers, to a $21 million, two-year Rivera, c; Koji Uehara, rhp.
(NBC) Arizona 49 12 28 9 33 117 170
er Rhodes, Minnesota; Darius Slay, Detroit Dallas at Denver, 9 p.m. contract; signed Steve Cishek, rhp, Tampa CINCINNATI (3) — Bronson Arroyo, rhp;
FREE SAFETY (1) — Earl Thomas, Seattle NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for Bay, to a $13 million, two-year contract; re- Scott Feldman, rhp; Drew Storen, rhp.
2018 Final Pro Bowl Selections
STRONG SAFETIES (2) — Keanu Neal, Atlan- 2018 NBA All-Star Game Roster overtime loss. Top three teams in each divi- signed Brian Duensing, lhp, to a $7 million, COLORADO (5) — Carlos Gonzalez, of;
Sunday, Jan. 28 ta; Harrison Smith, Minnesota two-year contract. Ryan Hanigan, c; q-Greg Holland, rhp; Jona-
All-Star Game: Feb. 18 sion and two wild cards per conference ad-
At Camping World Stadium SPECIALISTS (4) COLORADO (4) — Signed Chris Iannetta, c, than Lucroy, c; Mark Reynolds, 1b.
At Staples Center vance to playoffs.
Orlando, Fla. PUNTER (1) — Johnny Hekker, Los Angeles Arizona, to an $8.5 million, two-year con- LOS ANGELES (5) — Yu Darvish, rhp; Andre
Los Angeles Friday’s Games
(Subject to Change) Rams No games scheduled tract; re-signed Jake McGee, lhp, to a $27 mil- Ethier, of; Franklin Gutierrez, of; Chase Utley,
Team LeBron
(y-replacement; z-Super Bowl PLACEKICKER (1) — Graham Gano, Caroli- lion, three-year contract; signed Bryan Shaw, 2b; Tony Watson, lhp.
Starters
participant) na rhp, Cleveland, to a $27 million, three-year MIAMI (4) — Mike Aviles, inf; A.J. Ellis, c;
LeBron James, Cleveland; DeMarcus Cousins,
AFC LONG SNAPPER (1) — Jake McQuade, Los contract; signed Wade Davis, rhp, Chicago Dustin McGowan, rhp; Ichiro Suzuki, of.
OFFENSE (21) Angeles Rams
New Orleans; Anthony Davis, New Orleans;
Kevin Durant, Golden State; Kyrie Irving, Bos-
MLB Cubs, to a $52 million, three-year contract. MILWAUKEE (2) — Matt Garza, rhp; Neil
QUARTERBACKS (3) — Derek Carr, Oak- RETURN SPECIALIST (1) — Pharoh Cooper, 2018 Hall of Fame Voting MILWAUKEE (3) — Signed Yovani Gallardo, Walker, 2b.
ton.
land; Ben Roethlisberger, Pittsburgh; Alex Los Angeles Rams 422 votes cast, 317 needed rhp, Seattle, to a $2 million, one-year con- NEW YORK (1) — Jose Reyes, inf.
Reserves tract; signed Jhoulys Chacin, rhp, San Diego, PHILADELPHIA (4) — Andres Blanco, inf;
Smith, Kansas City. SPECIAL TEAMER (1) — Budda Baker, Arizo- x-Chipper Jones 410 (97.2); Vladimir Guer-
LaMarcus Aldridge, San Antonio; Bradley to a $15.5 million, two-year contract; signed Clay Buchholz, rhp; Hyun-Soo Kim, of; Daniel
WIDE RECEIVERS (4) — Keenan Allen, Los na rero 392 (92.9); x-Jim Thome 379 (89.8); Tre-
Beal, Washington; Kevin Love, Cleveland; Vic- Boone Logan, lhp, Cleveland, to a $2.5 mil- Nava, of.
Angeles Chargers; Antonio Brown, Pitts- NOTE: Ten players from the two teams par- vor Hoffman 337 (79.9); Edgar Martinez 297
tor Oladipo, Indiana; Kristaps Porzingis, New lion, one-year contract. PITTSBURGH (3) — Joaquin Benoit, rhp;
burgh; T.Y. Hilton, Indianapolis; Jarvis Landry, ticipating in the Super Bowl, the New England (70.4); Mike Mussina 268 (63.5); Roger Clem-
York; John Wall, Washington; Russell West- NEW YORK (3) — Signed Jose Lobaton, c, John Jaso, 1b; Chris Stewart, c.
Miami Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles, were select- ens 242 (57.3); Barry Bonds 238 (56.4); Curt
brook, Oklahoma City. Washington, to a minor league contract ST. LOUIS (2) — q-Lance Lynn, rhp; Seung-
RUNNING BACKS (3) — Le’Veon Bell, Pitts- ed to the original Pro Bowl roster: quarter- Schilling 216 (51.2); x-Omar Vizquel 156
back Tom Brady, fullback James Develin, tight Team Stephen ($1.25 million); signed Anthony Swarzak, rhp, Hwan Oh, rhp.
burgh; Kareem Hunt, Kansas City; LeSean Mc- (37.0); Larry Walker 144 (34.1); Fred McGriff
end Rob Gronkowski and special teamer Starters Milwaukee, to a $14 million, two-year con- SAN DIEGO (1) — Erick Aybar, ss.
Coy, Buffalo 98 (23.2); Manny Ramirez 93 (22.0); Jeff Kent
Matthew Slater of the Patriots and guard Stephen Curry, Golden State; James Harden, tract; signed Jay Bruce, of, Cleveland, to a $39 SAN FRANCISCO (3) — Matt Cain, rhp; Jae-
FULLBACK (1) — Roosevelt Nix, Pittsburgh 61 (14.5); Gary Sheffield 47 (11.1); Billy Wag-
Brandon Brooks, interior lineman Fletcher Houston; Giannis Antetokounmpo, Milwau- million, three-year contract. Gynn Hwang, 1b-3b; Michael Morse, ib-of.
TIGHT ENDS (2) — Jack Doyle, Indianapolis; ner 47 (11.1); x-Scott Rolen 43 (10.2); Sammy
Cox, tight end Zach Ertz, strong safety Mal- kee; DeMar DeRozan, Toronto; Joel Embiid, PHILADELPHIA (3) — Signed Tommy Hunt- WASHINGTON (9) — Matt Albers, rhp; Joe
Delanie Walker, Tennessee Sosa 33 (7.8); x-Andruw Jones 31 (7.3);
colm Jenkins, tackle Lane Johnson and quar- Philadelphia. er, rhp, Tampa Bay, to an $18 million, two-year Blanton, rhp; Alejandro De Aza, of; Stephen
TACKLES (3) — Taylor Lewan, Tennessee; By receiving fewer than 22 votes (less than 5
Russell Okung, Los Angeles Chargers; Alejan- terback Carson Wentz of the Eagles. Safety Reserves percent), x-Jamie Moyer 10 (2.4); x-Johan contract; signed Pat Neshek, rhp, Colorado, to Drew, 2b; Edwin Jackson, rhp; Adam Lind, 1b;
dro Villanueva, Pittsburgh; Devin McCourty and tackle Nate Solder of the Jimmy Butler, Minnesota; Draymond Green, Santana 10 (2.4); x-Johnny Damon 8 (1.9); x- a $16.25 million, two-year contract; signed Oliver Perez, lhp; Ryan Raburn, of; Jayson
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Richie Incognito, Buffalo; Kelechi Osemele, Horford, Boston; Kyle Lowry, Toronto; Klay (0.5); x-Kerry Wood 2 (0.5); x-Livan Hernan- lion, three-year contract.
Oakland Thompson, Golden State; Karl-Anthony dez 1 (0.2); x-Carlos Lee 1 (0.2); x-Orlando ST. LOUIS (1) — Signed Luke Gregerson, rhp,
Towns, Minnesota. Houston, to an $11 million, two-year contract.
CENTERS (2) — Rodney Hudson, Oakland;
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Binghamton’s rallies are stymied by UMBC
Staff Report
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin
USA TODAY NETWORK
Joe Sherburne scored 18 points, in-
cluding a dagger of a 3-pointer from the
corner to blunt a comeback and the Uni-
versity of Maryland, Baltimore County
defeated the visiting Binghamton Uni-
versity men’s basketball team 69-57
Wednesday night.
Sherburne made seven of 11 shots, in-
cluding four of six 3-pointers, had four
assists, two steals and a blocked shot for
UMBC (14-8, 5-2 America East Confer-
ence), which rebounded from a 44-
point loss at Albany. The Retrievers
have won four of their last five games
Hall of Fame
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Halladay died Nov. 7 at age 40 when
a plane he was piloting crashed off
Florida’s Gulf Coast. It was too late to
add him to this year’s ballot — a player
who dies less than five full years after
retiring is eligible in the next election
six months following his death. He will
be eligible for the Hall of Fame next
year, when his five-year wait was ex-
piring anyway.
Edgar’s hopes
Martinez will be on the BBWAA bal-
lot for the 10th time — and that’s the
most a player is allowed. He will either
be voted in or have to start waiting for a
veterans panel to take up his case. He
received 70 percent of the vote this
year, up from 59 in 2017 and 43 the pre-
vious year. There’s still some opposi-
tion to Martinez, who spent much of
his career as a designated hitter, but he
doesn’t need much more of a gain to
reach the threshold of 75 percent for
induction.
Coors cases
Todd Helton joins next year’s ballot,
giving voters a chance to consider an-
other slugger who put up big numbers
in hitter-friendly Colorado. Larry
Walker received just 34 percent of the
vote this year, although that was up
from 22 percent in 2017. Helton had a
career OPS of .953, but the favorable
environment at Coors Field might in-
vite skepticism from the voters.
Bonds and Clemens
Another year came and went, and
Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens aren’t
much closer to Cooperstown. Their
Hall chances seemed to be growing
when they crossed 50 percent for the
first time in 2017, but their progress
slowed considerably this year, with
Clemens finishing at 57 percent and
Bonds at 56.
Others to watch
Andy Pettitte joins the 2019 ballot,
but the terrain has been difficult for
starting pitchers, with Mike Mussina
(64 percent this year) and Curt Schil-
ling (51 percent) still needing to make
up ground. Pettitte might be overshad-
owed by Halladay’s arrival on the bal-
lot.
Lance Berkman, another of next
year’s newcomers, had a .943 career
OPS. That’s similar to Helton’s — and
without the benefit of Colorado home
games — but Berkman had more than
1,600 fewer plate appearances.
TV HIGHLIGHTS
CRICKET
3 a.m. (Saturday)
NBCSN — Big Bash League, Brisbane vs.
Melbourne Stars
EXTREME SPORTS
10:30 p.m.
ESPN — X Games Aspen, at Aspen,
Colo.
FIGURE SKATING
2 p.m.
NBCSN — Four Continents Champi-
onships, Pairs’ Free Skate
GOLF
11:30 a.m.
GOLF — LPGA Tour, Pure Silk-Bahamas
and retain sole possession of second
place in the conference behind Ver-
mont.
BU (10-12, 1-6) trailed by 18 at half-
time, but scraped back with a 23-8 run
and twice came as close as five points
with less than five minutes to play. Ever-
son Davis’ 3-pointer pulled the Bearcats
to 59-54 before Sherburne stepped up.
He fed Jourdan Grant for a 3-pointer,
then stole the ball from Willie Rodriquez
and dished to K.J. Maura for a jump
shot. Sherburne ended the 8-0 run with
the corner 3 that put UMBC up 67-54
with 1:31 to play.
Jairus Lyles added 17 points and
Grant 10 for UMBC, which shot 51 per-
cent from the field (26 of 51).
Betting
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channels,” Spillane said.
The solution? Allow wagers over the
Internet, he said.
“The law should authorize betting
on Internet and mobile platforms,”
Spillane said.
2. 1 percent cut
If sports betting is allowed, the NBA
says it and other sports leagues should
get a cut.
Spillane said sports leagues should
get 1 percent of all bets placed on their
games in recognition that the leagues
“provide the foundation for sports bet-
ting while bearing the risks.”
The revenue could be significant:
Spillane said many experts believe
there is between $100 billion and $200
billion in illegal betting revenue each
year, with some believing the number
is actually higher.
“Without our games and fans, there
could be no sports betting,” he said.
“And if sports betting becomes legal in
New York and other states, sports
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state finals matchups in there.”
CVA’s lineup includes three state
place-winners from a year ago: 120-
pounder Jon Charles, who defeated
Tioga’s John Worthing, 5-1 in the 99-
pound Division II state final in 2016,
99-pounder Mason Bush, who defeat-
ed Norwich’s Dante Geislinger, 3-0 in
December, and 113-pounder Marek
Bush, who has 41 wins this season.
Tioga will wrestle Port Jervis at
noon.
Canisteo-Greenwood’s lineup fea-
tures five wrestlers with two or fewer
(of roster members who’ve wrestled at
least 10 matches). They are Christo-
pher Graham (33-0 at 120); Bradly
Cheek (37-1 at 126); Zach Flaitz (38-1 at
138); John Davis (38-1 at 152); and
Hunter Kurtz (31-2 at 106).
The Purple Tornado will wrestle
Pearl River at 10:30 a.m.
In conference tournaments Satur-
day, Norwich and Tioga crowned five
individual champions apiece. Geislin-
ger (99 pounds), Mikey Squires (126),
Ty Rifanburg (170), Brennan Slater
(182) and Tyler Rice (220) won South-
ern Tier Athletic Conference titles at
Chenango Valley. Two-time sectional
champion Eli Rodriguez (132), Nick
Glanville (113) and Andrew Brown (106)
Classic
3 p.m.
GOLF — PGA Tour, Farmers Insurance
Open
3:30 a.m. (Saturday)
GOLF — European PGA Tour, Omega
Dubai Desert Classic
NBA
8 p.m.
ESPN — Houston at New Orleans
YES — Brooklyn at Milwaukee
9 p.m.
MSG — New York at Phoenix
SOCCER
2:30 p.m.
FS1 — FA Cup, Fourth round, Yeovil
Town vs. Manchester United
FS2 — Bundesliga, Eintracht Frankfurt
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Davis scored 14 points and Tyler
Stewart added 13 for the Bearcats, who
will return home to face New Hamsphire
at 4 p.m. Saturday.
BU women rout UMBC
Binghamton University earned its
second straight win with an 81-51 vic-
tory over the University of Maryland,
Baltimore County at the Events Center.
Senior center Alyssa James led BU
with 22 points, 11 rebounds and three as-
sists. She was honored before the game
for setting the program and America
East record for blocks, and moved into
17th place in program history with 972
points. James is also in ninth place in
“Without our games and fans,
there could be no sports
betting. And if sports betting
becomes legal in New York and
other states, sports leagues
will need to invest more in
compliance and enforcement.”
Dan Spillane
NBA senior vice president
leagues will need to invest more in com-
pliance and enforcement.”
3. Prevention measures
The NBA says it wants any sports-
betting law to include measures meant
to flag any unusual or potentially cor-
rupt activity.
If a gambling operator spots any
strange activity, for example, the NBA
wants them to be required to issue an
alert.
Gambling data also should be cen-
tralized, meaning regulators would be
able to see bets being placed across dif-
ferent operators and city or county
lines, according to the NBA.
The league also wants tougher crimi-
NYS Dual Meet
Championships
WHEN: Saturday, Jan. 27.
WHERE: SRC Arena and Events Center
at Onondaga Community College in
Syracuse.
DIVISION I TEAMS: Pool 1 – Wantagh,
Elmira, Fox Lane; Pool 2 – Fulton, Hilton,
Shenendehowa; Pool 3 – Spencerport,
Jamesville-DeWitt, Rocky Point; Pool 4
– Minisink Valley, Lancaster,
Horseheads.
DIVISION II TEAMS: Pool 1 – Locust
Valley, Warrensburg, Peru; Pool 2 –
Norwich, Canisteo-Greenwood, Pearl
River; Pool 3 – Central Valley, Tioga,
Port Jervis; Pool 4 – Mount Sinai,
Falconer, Gouverneur.
TIMES: Pool meets at 9 a.m., 10:30 and
noon; semifinals at 2:30 p.m.; finals at 6
TICKETS: $12 (available at gofan.co/
app/events/19423)
provide depth to Norwich’s lineup.
Squires, Rifanburg and Rodriguez have
placed in past state meets.
En route to a dominant performance
in the Interscholastic Athletic Confer-
ence tournament at Newark Valley, Tio-
ga received titles from Mason Welch
(99), Jacob Welch (106), John Worthing
(113), Brady Worthing (120) and Austin
vs. Borussia Monchengladbach
TENNIS
3:30 a.m. (Saturday)
ESPN — Australian Open, Women’s
championship
COLLEGE MEN’S
BASKETBALL
5 p.m.
ESPNU — Wagner at St. Francis (Pa.)
7 p.m.
ESPNU — St. Peter’s at Rider
8 p.m.
FS1 — Wisconsin at Michigan St.
9 p.m.
ESPNU — Oakland at N. Kentucky
BU history with 634 rebounds.
Teammate Kai Moon scored 20
points and had a collegiate-high seven
steals. She also had five assists and six
rebounds. Imani Watkins sored 19
points.
The Bearcats used a 15-3 run with six
minutes, 14 seconds left in the third
quarter to take a 59-40 lead heading into
the fourth. BU extended its lead to 77-41
in the final frame after holding UMBC to
no field goals over the first six minutes.
Laura Castaldo and Janee’a Sum-
mers led the Retrievers with 13 and 10
points, respectively.
Binghamton travels to New Hamp-
shire for a 1 p.m. game Saturday.
nal laws against gambling-related cor-
ruption, as well as “eligibility require-
ments” that restricts league insiders
from placing bets on their sport.
4. Ability to restrict
Sports leagues should be able to set
their own restrictions on wagers, Spil-
lane said.
If the NBA wants to block a certain
type of bet — like a prop bet on which
player commits the first foul in a game —
it should be able to do so, he said.
“Certain types of bets are more sus-
ceptible to manipulation than others,
such as whether a player will commit
the first foul of the game,” Spillane said.
5. Consumer protections
The NBA backs a series of rules
meant to protect its consumers, Spil-
lane said.
Among them: Age restrictions, regu-
lations on advertisements and a re-
quirement that gambling operators use
official league data to determine the
outcome of bets.
Jon Campbell is a correspondent for
the USA TODAY Network’s Albany Bu-
reau.
Lamb (138). Trey Floyd (195), David
MacWhinnie (113), Emmett Wood (145)
and Stephen Taylor (285) are among
other Tigers wrestlers to watch. John
Worthing has placed in the last two
state tournaments and Lamb earned a
podium finish in 2017.
“Right out of the gate, right off the
scale, we’re wrestling CVA,” Harrington
said. “That’s why we’re there, to wrestle
the best.”
Locust Valley is the top seed, fol-
lowed by Mount Sinai. Falconer and
Warrensburg are seeded seventh and
eighth, respectively.
Elmira and Horseheads will repre-
sent Section 4 in the Division I tourna-
ment.
Admission is $12.
Looking ahead
In a change of format, the Section 4
class meets that determine which wres-
tlers qualify for the Section 4 Division II
tournament will go from three tourna-
ments to two.
Delhi and Whitney Point will host 13-
team tournaments Feb. 3. The top eight
finishers in each weight class from the
two tournaments will advance to fill out
16-wrestler brackets for the two-day Di-
vision II state qualifier the following
weekend at Watkins Glen.
Follow @PSBRob on Twitter.
COLLEGE WOMEN’S
BASKETBALL
11:30 a.m.
YES — Seton Hall at Providence
COLLEGE MEN’S HOCKEY
8 p.m.
ESPN2 — Notre Dame at Minnesota
HIGH SCHOOL
BASKETBALL
6 p.m.
SNY — Archbishop Molloy at Long Is-
land Lutheran
8 p.m.
SNY — Cardinal Hayes at Hudson Catho-
lic
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Elmira, Horseheads seek postseason success
Andrew Legare
Elmira Star-Gazette
USA TODAY NETWORK
Elmira High School and Horseheads
won two significant postseason cham-
pionships two days apart last weekend.
This weekend, the Chemung County
neighbors will be among an elite dozen
Division I teams competing in the first
New York State Dual Meet Wrestling
Championships.
The meet will be held Saturday at On-
ondaga Community College’s SRC Are-
na and Events Center in Syracuse. The
action gets started at 9 a.m., and the fi-
nals in Division I and Division II are ex-
pected to begin at 6 p.m. Norwich and
Tioga will represent Section 4 in the Di-
vision II meet.
Elmira earned an automatic berth
with a 47-22 victory over Horseheads on
Jan. 18 in the Section 4 Division I cham-
pionship meet. Horseheads coach
Shane Lese found out Monday his team
gained a bye into the state tournament,
two days after the Blue Raiders repeated
as champions at the Southern Tier Ath-
letic Conference championship meet at
Chenango Valley.
While Horseheads and Elmira spend
the season competing against each oth-
er, both enter the meet with a sense of
regional pride.
“It’s really cool they made the tourna-
ment also,” Elmira coach Dave Guyette
said of Horseheads. “A lot of the kids are
friends with each other and train with
each other in the offseason. Shane is a
good friend of mine, and I have a lot of
respect for him as a coach. Any team
competing and representing Section 4,
it’s awesome. We have four total teams
in there.”
Horseheads received a wild card into
the tournament based largely on its 13-2
record this season.
“For us to be in the tournament
alongside Dave and Elmira says the
STAC West is vastly improved and the
Syracuse uses balanced attack
to cruise past Boston College
Mark Frank
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SYRACUSE – Maybe the answer to
Syracuse’s often sluggish offense is a
week off between games.
Fresh off a victory over Pitt eight
days ago, the Orange turned in its best
first half of the year and possibly its
best overall effort on offense in a dom-
inating 81-63 victory Wednesday over
Boston College.
Five Syracuse players scored in dou-
ble figures and the Orange rode an 11-0
run early in the second half to take con-
trol.
“I think the time off was beneficial,”
said Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim, “but
you never know whether it’s really gon-
na help or not. I think overall it was a
positive. This was probably the best of-
fensive game we played all year, by all
measures.”
The Orange hit 64 percent from the
field and 56 percent from beyond the
arc in the first half and 60 percent from
the field and 44 percent from 3-point
range for the game. The 47 points
marked the biggest first half of the sea-
son for Syracuse.
Tyus Battle led Syracuse (14-6, 3-4
Atlantic Coast Conference) with 24
points. Frank Howard added 18 and
Paschal Chukwu chipped in with 14.
Oshae Brissett had 13 and Marek Dole-
zaj had a career-high 12. Brissett, Chuk-
wu and Battle played the entire 40 min-
utes.
The Eagles (13-8, 3-5) were led by Je-
rome Robinson’s 21 and Ky Bowman
had 20.
Syracuse took advantage of 17 turn-
overs, scored 17 points on Eagles mis-
takes and had a 30-14 advantage in the
paint.
“The week off definitely helped. We
were able to rest our minds and bodies,”
said Howard, who had six assists and
no turnovers. “We worked on picking
up our pace, pushing the ball, and get-
ting back to moving the ball, sharing the
ball with everyone and not limiting our-
selves to three guys (Howard, Battle
and Brissett).
“We’ve been working on our move-
ment on offense. We wanted to be en-
gaged on defense,” Howard added. “I
think we did that tonight. It was prob-
ably our best half offensively, in terms
of movement and scoring the ball. We
got a lot of easy shots.”
Horseheads’ Devin Woodworth, top, makes his way to a win over Elmira’s Ryan
Mahon in the Section 4 Division I Dual Meet Tournament. He improved to 26-0
this season by winning the 120-pound STAC title. ANDREW LEGARE/STAFF PHOTO
Southern Tier is vastly improved,” Lese
said. “Our kids work hard on both
teams, and they’re getting exactly what
they deserve, which is a shot. That’s all
you can ask for.”
Each division will be divided into
four groups of three teams. The top
team from each group advances to the
semifinals at 2:30 p.m. Eight mats will
be used for the preliminary rounds, four
for the semifinals and two for the finals.
The first tiebreaker if all three teams go
1-1 in pool competition will be combined
point differential, with the second tie-
breaker head-to-head results.
The eighth-seeded Express (6-0) re-
ceived a tough draw out of the gate, fac-
ing top-seeded Long Island power Wan-
tagh at 9 a.m. Elmira has a bye in the
second round, then meets unseeded Fox
Lane, of Section 1, at noon in its second
meet.
Syracuse center Paschal Chukwu delivers a dunk against Boston College during
the second half Wednesday night at the Carrier Dome. Chukwu finished with 14
points, seven rebounds and two blocked shots. MARK KONEZNY/USA TODAY SPORTS
Syracuse went on an 11-0 run in the
first five minutes of the second half to
extend to a 58-40 lead. BC closed to 67-
55 on Bowman’s 3-pointer, but two foul
shots by Chukwu, and a 3-pointer by
Battle gave Syracuse breathing room
down the stretch.
Boston College rode four consecu-
tive 3-pointers to jump to a 14-7 lead but
the Orange went on a 30-11 run to take a
37-25 lead with 4:35 left in the first half
and led 47-37 at the break.
Injured Orange
Freshman forward Matt Moyer
sprained his left ankle with 14:58 left in
“My kids are excited,” Guyette said.
“They’re definitely fired up, they’re ex-
cited about winning their first section ti-
tle, and ready to go and see what they
can do against the best in the state.
“This is a great format. It should be
interesting to see what we’re made of,
and we’ll find out right away with one of
the best teams right off the bat.”
Elmira was without the banged-up
Charlie Mahon, a two-time Section 4
champion, during its third-place finish
at the STAC meet. Horseheads finished
with 215 points, runner-up Norwich
scored 198.5, and Elmira had 191.5.
The Express had four STAC champi-
ons: Blake Brooks at 106, Mat Reese at
132, Ben Howe at 138, and Garret An-
driene at 160.
Elmira will have extra wrestlers
available to try to get the best possible
matchups, though Guyette said he has
the first half and didn’t return. Boeheim
said Moyer could be out “a while.”
Chukwu is a force
Paschal Chukwu had three putbacks
in the first half. In addition to his 14
points, Chukwu had seven rebounds
and two blocks.
Up next
Boston College has a week off before
playing host to Virginia Tech on
Wednesday.
Syracuse hits the road for a Saturday
afternoon matchup against Pitt.
some wrestlers who aren’t ready to com-
pete because of injuries.
“We’re there to compete and try to get
the best matchups and prepare for our
ultimate goal, which is sectionals and
the state tournament,” Guyette said.
Horseheads will have its bye in the
first round before meeting second-
seeded Minisink Valley, of Section 9, at
10:30. Horseheads’ second meet starts
at noon against seventh-seeded Lan-
caster from Section 6.
The Blue Raiders regrouped quickly
after losing to Elmira for the second
time this season in the Section 4 final.
They had a strong showing the next day
to start the STAC Tournament before
closing out the title Saturday.
Junior Devin Woodworth improved
to 26-0 this season in winning the 120-
pound STAC title for Horseheads. The
Blue Raiders had five second-place fin-
ishes, three third-place finishes and a
fourth-place effort.
“They had to come back after a tough
loss to Elmira in the Section 4 Dual Meet
Tournament and compete in STAC,”
Lese said. “The turnaround was so
quick, and they adapted to that turn-
around. We warned them beforehand
what was at stake, and they responded
brilliantly. They wrestled extremely well
both days.”
Horseheads is certainly a long shot to
break through to the semifinal round.
Lese said his team will use the first-
round bye to scout the other two teams
in its bracket. Horseheads hasn’t seen
Minisink Valley this season, but the
Blue Raiders were part of the Penfield
Tournament, won by Lancaster. Horse-
heads finished third there.
“You’re dealing with some of the best
teams in the state, quite obviously,”
Lese said. “All I’m looking for with our
kids is to go out there and they compete
and they wrestle hard. That’s about all I
can expect from them.”
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ter
Raisman,
other Nassar
victims react
to sentence
Scott Gleeson
USA TODAY
In the wake of former USA Gymnas-
tics doctor Larry Nassar’s sentence of
40 to 175 years in prison, which was
preceded by 156 victim-impact state-
ments over seven days, several of Nas-
sar’s victims shared their feelings
about the sentence on Thursday
morning TV shows.
Olympic gold medalist Aly Rais-
man, who last week read a blistering
statement to Nassar, appeared on “To-
day.” She said she operated with tun-
nel vision — similar to her gymnastics
meets — before delivering her state-
ment. Raisman said Nassar “looked at
me the whole entire time. It was crazy.”
But Raisman struggled to believe
justice was fully served.
“It’s not something where you feel
instantly better,” she said. “We need to
hold these organizations accountable
— USA Gymnastics, the USOC, Michi-
gan State — this is bigger than Larry
Nassar. We have to get to the bottom of
how this disaster happened.”
Former gymnast Rachael Denhol-
lander, the first to publicly accuse Nas-
sar of sexual abuse, shared her reac-
tion on Megyn Kelly on “Today.”
“I cried,” she said. “To be able to put
the shame and blame back where it be-
longs — on the abuser — is an incred-
ibly powerful thing to witness. It was
also devastating to witness.”
She also called out USA Gymnas-
tics: “If you have to pay a private inves-
tigator to come in and tell you you need
to report the sexual assault of a child,
you have no business being on that
board.”
Kyle Stephens, the first woman to
read a statement in the sentencing,
discussed how Nassar played a role in
her father’s suicide.
Nassar “started abusing me when I
was 6,” Stephens said.
In the same segment, former gym-
nast Mattie Larson described how she
once hurt herself — what she consid-
ered a “victory” — so she didn’t have to
face Nassar for medical treatment. She
described herself as “a shell of a child”
with “no way out.”
“He made me almost give up hope,”
she said.
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