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Video: Police flee from man on fire

By Ted Remsnyder Columbia-Greene Media

CATSKILL — As Catskill resident Jason Jones’ upper body and head became engulfed in flames in the Catskill police station after he was shot with a stungun by police Oct. 30, three police officers ran away from Jones and out of the room as Jones fell to the floor attempting to put the flames out, according to videos released Friday by New York State Attorney General Letitia James.

In the graphic footage, a trio of unidentified Catskill officers immediately leave the room

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Catskill Police leave the room after Jason Jones is engulfed in flames on Oct. 30 in Catskill Police Station.

when Jones becomes consumed in flames. Jones doused himself in flammable hand sanitizer before being struck by the stun-gun blast. Jones, 29, subsequently died on Dec. 15 from injuries suffered during the incident.

After Jones’ death, the investigation into the incident was turned over from the office of Greene County District Attorney Joseph Stanzione to the Attorney General’s Office.

At the 30-second mark of the second video, Jones enters the lobby of the police station shirtless and shoeless, trailed by a trio of Catskill officers. Jones

proceeds to grab a container of hand sanitizer off of the floor and covers his body in the substance.

One of the officers then raises his stun-gun and appears to warn Jones before deploying the weapon.

At the 51-second mark of the video, red flames engulf Jones’ head and upper body as he stumbles forward into view of the security camera. Jones falls to the ground with flames covering his face as the three officers exit the room without attempting to put out the fire.

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Garment business aims to revitalize Main Street

By Ted Remsnyder Columbia-Greene Media

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The Made X Hudson garment manufacturing site on Main St. in Catskill.

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The Made X Hudson garment manufacturing site on Main St. in Catskill.

The interior of the Made X Hudson garment manufacturing site on Main St. in Catskill.

CATSKILL — A new business that is attempting to reinvigorate the garment manufacturing industry has made its home on Main Street in Catskill.

Made X Hudson opened its garment factory in November at 391 Main St. The factory was originally based in Leeds in the town of Catskill but moved to its location in the village two months ago.

Made X Hudson Board President Eric De Feo said the company has a mission to produce local, small-batch soft goods.

“We have client work where we produce women’s and men’s apparel,” he said. “We also do home goods. We’re servicing a lot of small brands in the region. We worked with 22 brands over the last seven months since we launched in May. We started regionally and now we’re working nationally with a lot of small brands who are looking to scale because there are only essentially a handful of smallbatch production services in the country.”

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Health care workers required to get boosters

By Kate Lisa Johnson Newspaper Corp.

NEW YORK — COVID-19 booster vaccine doses will be mandated for all New York health care workers and a negative coronavirus test will be required for visitors to state nursing homes and adult-care facilities as part of the state’s latest efforts to slow virus transmission, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Friday.

All health care workers in the state must get a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot within two weeks of eligibility or face suspension or termination.

“Staff is getting sick, they’re leaving,” Hochul said. “We need them to get well. We need them to have the best fortification they possibly can and that

means getting a booster shot as well.”

The order with more details was not released as of press time Friday afternoon.

The requirement will not allow health workers to have a test-out option and only permits requests for medical exemptions.

All state health personnel were required to have at least one dose of an approved COVID vaccine by Sept. 27 or potentially lose their employment. A court challenge to allow religious exemptions for the mandate was struck down in the fall.

Opponents of the rule say it will exacerbate staffing shortages burdening an exhausted workforce as the pandemic

continues for the 22nd month.

Hochul countered Friday the state’s limited health workforce has increasingly gotten sick with the surging COVID-19 infections, and the order would increase vaccine boosters in the state health workforce to prevent them from severe illness.

“We get them the booster and they can get back to work faster without symptoms,” the governor said. “...We think it’s worth it to ask them to do the right thing one more time.”

The state’s visitation rules for nursing homes and adultcare facilities will also require all visitors and vendors provide proof of a negative COURTESY OF GOV. KATHY HOCHUL’S OFFICE

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Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks during a COVID-19 briefing Friday in her Manhattan office.

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this month Betty White turns 100

of As fans await the turn es on personal odometer, when — behind-the-scen with her office White’s nationwide on Jan. 17, make plans to Girl” set, working home, and perhaps a movie thethe onetime “Golden staff, entertaining at it in hits the century mark. as a lending her voice as an ani- celebrate life advice she according ater, some 2017 still holds The movie is billed with mal advocate,” and in- offered in star-studded event, “The to a press release, birthday today. guests including her Ryan cludes her “actualmarks the “Don’t focus everything Proposal” costar where she you,” White told Katic Fey, Rob- party,” with celebrity on out Betty Reynolds, Tina Couric. “That wears to LOS ANGELES — Lin-Manuel milestone this- ert Redford, friends.

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States has outsourced the vast majority of its garment manufacturing overseas in the last several decades, leaving an opportunity for a local garment business to thrive.

“So we are on a mission to revitalize the industry and bring it back,” he said.

De Feo, who lives in Hudson, is also the founder of the Hudson Community Incubator, a structured community of startup businesses that aims to provide mentorship, training and services for local entrepreneurs.

When looking for a home for Made X Hudson, the company found a hospitable landing spot in downtown Catskill. Made X’s new home has a historic pedigree. The landmark building is the former headquarters of Central Hudson Gas and Electric and the second floor housed the former offices of the Catskill Daily Mail.

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second video, Jones appears to leave the station before immediately returning and grabbing the jug of hand sanitizer.

The Attorney General’s Office released a pair of videos from the incident Friday in accordance with James’ directive that videos obtained by her office in the course of investigations conducted by the Office of Special Investigation be released to the public in order to increase transparency and strengthen public trust in these matters.

“The family is sickened by what happened to their family member and they want what’s right to be done,” Luibrand said. “They’re not going to comment right now on what they consider right.”

Catskill police did not immediately return a call for comment.

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The Made X Hudson garment manufacturing site on Main St. in Catskill.

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from Catskill and we settled in Catskill because it was frankly more affordable,” De Feo said with a laugh. “We also thought Catskill had a really great creative community and it was nice synergy for us to work around.”

The company sells home goods online but the Main Street location does not have a retail operation on site.

In short order, the company has become a destination for clothing designers who want to expand their operations.

“We’ve discovered that a lot of people, especially designers, needed support in scaling up their businesses,” De Feo said.

“The only way to do that was to outsource part of their production so that they could focus on their business growth.”

De Feo said the Catskill company hopes to expand in the coming years while maintaining ethical labor practices.

“We want to continue to grow while supporting small businesses,” he said. “We’re figuring it out as we go, but ultimately we want to be a nation space for the area because we feel like it’s desperately needed.”

the attorney general’s investigation and will cooperate with their investigation completely. But we’re running our own parallel investigation.”

In the first video, Jones is seen entering the lobby of the Catskill Police Station at 10:32 p.m. on Oct. 30.

The video, which does not contain audio of the incident, shows Jones dressed in a blue pants and a blue sweatshirt.

In the video, Jones, who police say was inebriated at the time of the incident, has a seemingly fraught conversation with the officers and unsuccessfully tries to open a door into the back of the station before removing his shirt while officers attempt to calm him down.

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Sixty-five seconds into the video, Jones frantically attempts to put out the flames on his head before one of the officers re-enters the room and attempts to pat down the flames on his face.

By the time the flames are extinguished by Jones and the officer, the victim had been covered in fire for 20 seconds.

In the video, a person whose face has been redacted from the footage, then enters the room and appears to console Jones, whose upper torso is severely reddened from the aftermath of the fire.

First responders arrived at the scene a little over 14 minutes later, who then initially treat Jones at the scene before

transporting him out of the police station.

Jones’ attorney, Kevin Luibrand of the Luibrand Law Firm PLLC in Latham, said Friday that Attorney General James had shared the video with the Jones family two-anda-half weeks ago in a meeting.

“They were sickened,” Luibrand said of the family’s reaction. “It’s their son and it’s their brother. They’re sickened about what happened to him.”

Luibrand declined to comment about the possibility of the Jones family bringing a lawsuit against the Catskill police.

“We’ve started our own investigation,” he said. “We’ve interviewed some witnesses.

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COVID-19 test within 24 hours.

Visitors must also wear a disposable surgical mask while inside the facility.

“The last thing we want to do is create a situation where visitors are coming in and out and are getting people that they love or their neighbors in the next room sick,” Hochul said of rising nursing home infections.

The guidelines were not released as of press time Friday.

The new COVID protocols come after weeks of continuous rising infection rates, hospitalizations and deaths.

Following the anticipated winter and holiday season surge, the state’s COVID-19 infection rate has climbed to more than 22% — its highest since 2020.

Representatives with Hochul’s office referred to the governor’s statements during the briefing Friday about why the requirements to curb the spread were not implemented earlier.

The governor spoke with U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services officials on the phone this week requesting they allow New York to place restrictions on visitors after the federal agency put a broad ban on visitor restrictions.

“Ideally, every visitor would be vaccinated and boosted, but we don’t have

the authority to create that restriction because of the CMS laws, which they enacted, the regulations they put in place,” she said.

The state will send a supply of COVID testing kits to all adult-care facilities to help test visitors, but the governor asked New Yorkers to get a test with the proof of negative result beforehand to relieve stress on overtaxed staff.

“I ask you to do it in advance not to overtax the workers in the nursing home,” Hochul said. “...Bring the results, show us or do it in the parking lot. But we’ll make sure that every nursing home has the supply they need to make sure that visitors are tested and not positive when they walk in the door to go possibly expose an entire facility.”

The state has deployed 120 National Guard medics to assist, but has exhausted the resource. Eighty additional guard members will

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be deployed to help medical facilities in a matter of weeks, Hochul said, as they complete training.

The White House will send 50 ambulances to the state after Hochul requested additional staffing and teams while on a call with White House officials this week, she said.

A little less than half the number of people hospitalized in the state with the coronavirus are receiving treatment for severe infections, Hochul said.

An average of 42% of the state’s 11,548 total COVID patients in the hospital were admitted for reasons unrelated to their infection.

About 32% of people hospitalized with coronavirus infections in the North Country and Finger Lakes, and 22% of virus patients in the Capital Region, are there for other purposes.

The state reports 155 New

Yorkers died from virus complications Thursday, totaling at least 60,166 total fatalities.

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Columbia-Greene Humane Society is hoping to raise $10,000 from the Betty White Challenge.

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Betty White, with her furry friends, in 1988.

Comedic icon’s legacy lives on with ‘Challenge’

By Bill Williams Columbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — Following the death of actress and comedienne Betty White, a nationwide challenge is resulting in donations for the Columbia-Greene Humane Society, shelter president/CEO Ron Perez said Friday.

“The Golden Girls” star, who died Dec. 31 at age 99, was a lifelong animal lover who worked tirelessly to raise money for numerous animal organizations.

“The challenge that has been put forth nationally is for everyone to consider making a donation to a local animal shelter on Betty’s would-be 100th birthday on Jan. 17, 2022,” Perez said. “As a specific bonus to CGHS/SPCA, a generous donor will match up to $5,000 of the

contributions received by the shelter on Betty’s behalf.

“We’re hoping to at least raise $5,000, which will be matched for $10,000,” Perez said.

The shelter has seen a strong response from the public, Perez said.

The private donor, who is a huge Betty White fan, would like to extend the challenge through the end of the month, Perez said.

To make a donation, call the shelter at (518) 828-6044, or visit cghs.org. You may also mail a donation to CGHS, Attn: Betty White, 111 Humane Society Road, Hudson, N.Y. 12534, Perez said.

Among the animal organizations that White was connected to included American Humane, Greater Los Angeles Zoo

Association, Guide Dogs for the Blind and the Morris Animal Foundation.

In 1971-1972, White wrote, produced and hosted a syndicated television show called “The Pet Set.” It featured celebrities who brought their dogs and cats to the show.

In 1983, White wrote a book entitled “Betty White’s Pet Love: How Pets Take Care of Us.” The book is about the bond between humans and their companion animals and the diverse benefits of owning a pet.

She wrote a second animalrelated book in 2011 entitled “Betty & Friends: My Life at the Zoo.” The book offered intimate and funny anecdotes about her animal friends at the zoo.

In addition to the donation to the shelter, in Betty White’s

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Senji is a 4 year old female, Domestic Longhair/Mix, and is available for adoption at the Columbia-Greene Humane Society.

Trixie is a 3 year old female, Australian Cattle Dog/Mix, and is available for adoption at the Columbia-Greene Humane Society.

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Ace is an 8 year old male, Domestic Shorthair/Mix, and is available for adoption at the Columbia-Greene Humane Society.

Peaches is a 2 year old female, Australian Cattle Dog/Mix, and is available for adoption at the Columbia-Greene Humane Society.

honor, the Columbia-Greene Humane Society wants supporters to consider adopting a new member of the family. The shelter lists six dogs and 66 cats available for adoption, as well as

a few guinea pigs and rabbits.

A list of all available pets for adoption and photos can be found on Humane Society website at: cghs.org, Perez said.

Athens awarded Clean Energy funding

By Ted Remsnyder Columbia-Greene Media

ATHENS — The Village of Athens is primed to receive $20,000 in clean energy funding from the state after the municipality took steps to become a Climate Smart Community this year.

As part of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) Clean Energy Communities initiative, the village qualified for the funding through the state’s point-based system.

In order to receive funding, the village had to take steps to become a Clean Energy Community, by completing a series of climate-friendly tasks, including the village securing the commitment of 10 residents to sign up for a community solar program.

The village can use the $20,000 in funding on upgrading its energy infrastructure how it sees fit.

“The money is limited to things that reduce energy use or that switch over from the use of dirty energy to clean energy,” Village Trustee Dr. Joshua Lipsman said on Thursday. “So we’re in the process of determining which projects that we have in the village will fit that goal and that we can spend that money on.”

Lipsman, who is chairman of the Conservation Advisory Council and leads Athens’ Clean Energy Community

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The Village of Athens Community Center. The village is set to receive $20,000 in clean energy state grants.

effort, said that the board will decide which projects to use the money on during the village board’s next meeting on Jan. 12.

“So far we’ve got a couple of things that we’re looking at,” he said. “One is to install some software at our sewage treatment plant that will reduce the use of electricity by 25-30 percent. It looks like that could save us $5,000 to $6,000 per year. So that’s a win-win situation. The second one is the

village has a flagship building called the cultural center, which is an older building on Second Street. The building is in need of a lot of upgrades and renovations, any of which could have the goals that NYSERDA is looking for us to meet.”

Lipsman said the village first applied for the state program in 2019 and received $30,000 in that round of funding. With the initiative on hold in 2020 due to COVID, the village applied for another cycle of funding this year.

“We are delighted at this recognition from New York for our efforts in Athens to help our residents while helping the environment,” Village Mayor Amy Serrago declared in a statement. “This is a win-winwin situation. Our residents win because these programs can save them money. Our village wins cash awards. The environment wins when we reduce our use of fossil fuels that create climate change.”

Doreen Harris, President and CEO of NYSERDA, praised Athens for its commitment to clean energy.

“The Village of Athens continues to make a meaningful impact in fighting climate change, and we applaud their strong leadership and ongoing commitment,” she said in a statement. “These actions lower carbon emissions, save energy, and will create a healthier and more sustainable future while helping New York State meet its climate and clean energy goals.”

The village must choose which projects it intends to use the state funds on by February, and the selected projects must commence within six months and then be completed within three years.

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Another black eye for New York In 2021, scandals of sexual misconduct, a coverup of nursing home deaths and favoritism among the inner circle brought down Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his administration in the most public way possible. It was there for all to see on their televisions and computers.

You couldn’t avoid it.

Two and a half years ago, the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision’s drug testing vendor Microgenics Corporation did work that led to rampant numbers of false-positive drug tests from January through August 2019, which the department did not verify.

Unlike Cuomo’s fall, this did not unfold in public view.

It took place in a world of steel bars, concrete walls and barbed-wire fences.

DOCCS could face legal action or penalties after thousands of incarcerated New Yorkers were unduly punished when Microgenics gave false positives for the opioid buprenorphine, resulting in improperly revoked family visits, delayed parole or time in solitary confinement, according to a report issued Tuesday by state Inspector General Lucy Lang.

We’ve learned this was done without proper legal

or scientific review. We’ve learned that even after DOCCS received a significant number of complaints of false positives, including from long-term inmates who had never before tested positive for illegal drugs, DOCCS took no steps to seek outside confirmation of the test results. We’ve learned DOCCS used only preliminary results as the basis to punish hundreds of incarcerated New Yorkers.

Since then, Microgenics revealed certain over-thecounter medications, or natural sweeteners and sugar substitutes, could produce false-positive results that could be verified by a more sensitive confirmation test.

More than 1,600 state inmates suffered the consequences of preliminary false-positive results for the presence of the opioid buprenorphine. They lost privileges including receipt of packages, commissary and telephone use, confinement to their cells, delays in parole eligibility or missed scheduled parole interviews, loss of access to prison rehabilitation programs and loss of family visitation.

DOCCS entered a drug testing leasing agreement with Microgenics as a costsaving measure. Its former agreement with Siemens

Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. cost about $590,000 annually while Microgenics drug testing systems cost about $320,000 per year.

You would think that what could be seen as human rights abuses would draw a response from DOCCS. It didn’t happen. Department representatives would not answer questions about Microgenics and drug testing protocols, the department’s decision to use Microgenics in the first place, how DOCCS is correcting the improper discipline or how officials will make sure this does not happen again.

DOCCS also may have violated state Finance Law when contracting for commodities and services and procuring drug testing equipment for its Incarcerated Individual Drug Testing Program. The report and relevant evidence has been sent to the state Attorney General’s Office, pending further charges or penalties.

The prison drug-testing mess will stand as another black eye for New York state.

We look to the people who watch over the state’s inmates to take a higher road and treat them like men and women who, whether you agree or disagree, have rights.

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With a perfect storm bearing down, Virginia officials led a horrifically imperfect response The Washington Post

The perfect storm that for 24 hours paralyzed the East Coast’s most congested highway south of Washington this week was matched by a horrifically imperfect response by Virginia transportation and public safety agencies.

Defensive officials, including Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam, are unpersuasive in insisting they were simply outmatched by the intensity of the snowfall and the speedy accumulation of ice. In fact, the National Weather Service had predicted a very heavy storm - one that justified either closing down the highway before disaster struck or intensively pre-positioning emergency and state police resources.

In the event, hundreds of motorists were stuck in their cars overnight and for much of Tuesday along a hilly segment of highway notorious for gridlock on ordinary dry and sunny days.

Inexcusably, many drivers saw no help - no police, no tow trucks, no emergency

vehicles - even as they ran low on gasoline, water and food in subfreezing temperatures.

At the very moment that people needed their government’s urgent assistance, they felt abandoned.

Stranded motorists said they received no push notifications from the authorities on their phones until Tuesday morning - after many had sat snowbound on the highway for a dozen hours or more.

Problem No. 1 was a failure of communication.

Virginia’s Department of Transportation said its messaging, urging drivers to stay off the roads ahead of the storm, was clear and consistent. But how visible, audible and urgent were those messages? Were warnings transmitted visually, on electronic billboards, at busy entrance ramps? Were they broadcast promptly starting Sunday, when the National Weather Service warned that the storm might dump several inches of snow in the D.C. area?

Granted, closing down

an artery as critical as I-95 is a drastic measure, and a staggering inconvenience to thousands of people. But in this storm, the alternative scenario - a survivalist nightmare - was no less drastic, and even more staggeringly inconvenient to those who made the mistake of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

It is something of a miracle that no deaths or serious injuries were reported given that some motorists were unable to extricate themselves overnight, and were subjected to freezing temperatures, extreme stress and sleeplessness.

Government cannot be expected to predict the future, prevent every mishap, or prepare for every eventuality. But when the threat is as banal, recurrent and well understood as the winter weather, contingency planning should focus on addressing - and avoiding - the worst disasters. If that means erring on the side of excessive caution, then so be it.

Two cheers for the first college football national championship of the name-image-likeness era WASHINGTON — Monday night’s national championship game is the maraschino cherry atop the sundae of post-season college football. The nation’s highestpaid government employee — coach Nick Saban, $9.75 million — will lead the University of Alabama’s studentathletes against their counterparts from the University of Georgia. They are coached

by Kirby Smart, whose salary ($7.13 million) ranks only fifth among Southeastern Conference coaches, but is 40 times larger than that of Georgia’s governor.

The game will be watched by perhaps 20 million potential purchasers of beer and trucks and other stuff that corporations pay broadcast entities to advertise. ESPN reportedly pays about $470 million annually under a 12-year, $5.64 billion agreement for the right to broadcast major postseason games.

There always are, however, solemn warnings that the appeal of high-revenue college sports — football and basketball — is jeopardized by any departures from the “revered tradition of amateurism in college sports.” Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote those words in a 1984 case that came from the University of Oklahoma.

(One of OU’s wittier presidents, when a state legislator asked why the school needed more money, answered, “I would like to build a university of which the football team would be proud.”) The 1984 court weakened the NCAA’s grip on schools’ football television arrangements, but the court’s rhetoric strengthened the lucrative myth that sustains the business model of the academia-entertainment complex: Amateurism is beautiful, so don’t pay the talent.

Andrew Perloff, writing in Education Next, says “student athlete” entered academia’s lexicon in 1957 when a widow lost a claim for workmen’s

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WILL compensation death benefits from Fort Lewis A&M College for fatal injuries her husband suffered playing football. The school said the player was not an employee because the school was not in the “football business.” The NCAA adopted the “student athlete” mantra, but Perloff says: “Between long daily practices, ongoing physical conditioning, and cross-country travel, playing on a team can stand in for a full-time job.”

The supposedly precious aura of amateurism is supposedly imperiled by new rules that allow those who make $9 million coaches possible — the players — to earn a comparative pittance. Last summer, the NCAA (2019 athletics revenue: $18.9 billion), having uneasily watched more than two dozen states pass laws to give college athletes some rights to market themselves, faced this fact of federalism: Schools in states where athletes cannot be punished for monetizing their fame will have an advantage in recruiting blue-chip prospects.

So, welcome to the NIL era: Increasingly, an athlete can earn money from his or her name, image and likeness. A few football and basketball players will benefit a lot; volleyball and field hockey players not so much.

Gender disparities will energize the “equity” police. And what boosters used to do by passing cash under the table can now be done on the top of the table, which might be progress, of sorts. But if you graft a multibillion industry onto higher education, some

awkwardness is unavoidable.

In most states, the highestpaid government employee is a state university football or basketball coach. Louisiana State University recently gave its (now-former) football coach Ed Orgeron — he won the national championship game just two years ago -- a $16.9 million severance payment to go away. (This was less than the $21.45 million Auburn paid in order to fire coach Gus Malzahn in 2020.)

Orgeron’s replacement, Brian Kelly, was lured from Notre Dame by a contract worth $9 million per year, plus a $500,000 “longevity” bonus every July. Plus $500,000 if LSU wins half of its regularseason games: Inflation has lifted the price of mediocrity.

In 2018, Georgia spent $2.6 million recruiting players. Given the likely return -- in money, and in prestige, which has monetary value -from getting the Bulldogs into Monday night’s game, this was a good investment. As is Saban’s compensation, which is scheduled to soon pass $10 million per year.

Schools increasingly compete for customers, a.k.a. students, by emphasizing the college “experience.” This is enhanced by decreasing academic demands: There is less studying — Education Next reports that students spent 27 hours a week on studies in 2003, down from 40 hours in the 1960s — and more grade inflation. In “The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe,” the Wall Street Journal’s Josh Mitchell reports that one school’s experience includes “amenities like a state-of-theart recreation center with a climbing wall and a ‘lazy river’ pool complex with a 30-foot water slide. . . . A campus dining hall served steak cooked to order.” Which school? Roll Tide!

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The Olympics: The Senior edition

By Dick Brooks For Columbia-Greene Media

I arose at my customary hour, proceeded to the bathroom accompanied by the cartilage chorus as each body part settled into its usual location.

Having performed my morning ablutions, I headed downstairs to my morning coffee and bagel which I shared with my trusty canine companion, Telly. A little pleasant conversation with the Queen who then left to do Queenly things. Telly and I then went for our morning walk and sniff around the property.

All in all a pleasant start to the day. I then settled into my recliner with my second cup of coffee and started watching the morning news. An article about the coming winter Olympics caught my attention and set off my first ponder of the day.

If you’re not familiar with the process of pondering, it’s fairly simple. Just relax and focus all your attention of any topic of your choosing. You’ll be amazed at the things you can cover. I chose the Olympics. As a youth, I always thought I would make a good Olympian. After all I had been the fastest runner in the fifth grade field day in the North Bangor Union Free School. I had played football for Franklin Academy when I was in

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BROOKS high school and even got to play occasionally. I played soccer for Potsdam State and even earned a letter. Life interfered with my athletic career and I spent most of my middle years chasing elementary students around the playground at lunch time. Eight decades sitting on top of my once finally tuned body has left me doubting my ability to compete against the athletes who will be the focus of attention in a few weeks.

I could compete against those in my age and ability group, I think I’ll start an Olympics for seniors. Seniors don’t run, jump or throw things often but we all do a lot of things that we could compete in.

How about Sock Wrestling, contestants would wet their feet as if they had just showered, be given a pair of socks and a bed to sit on. A judge

would time them and the first to get them on would be the medal winner.

Underwear balance would be an interesting event, start it by putting one foot into the leg hole on a pair of jockey shorts and the first one to get the other leg into its proper hole and pull them up without falling would be the medalist.

Senior athletes could be lined up with their wheeled walkers and at the sound of a whistle race through a room full of furniture, sleeping dogs, scatter rugs and newspapers to a bathroom on the far side.

Winner gets a medal and use of the bathroom.

Finally how about a row of old folks all dressed in their national colors are given a pill bottle with a child proof cap and at the sound of the judge’s signal pistol see who can get it open first.

Sounds like fun doesn’t it?

Why don’t you have a little ponder and see what you could contribute to the Senior Olympic Games or SOG as I think we should call them?

Thought for the week — How come Johnny cracked corn and nobody cared.

Until next week, may you and yours be happy and well Reach Dick Brooks at Whittle12124@yahoo.

More on firewood, a few important points

By Bob Beyfuss For Columbia-Greene Media

My columns on wood burning a few weeks ago brought more than a few comments, via email. As usual, I forgot to mention a few important points that readers have reminded me about and there are some legislative issues that I also failed to discuss. I hardly mentioned the possibility of woodstoves causing chimney fires and yet this risk is perhaps the most significant issue to consider when thinking about using wood for fuel.

When wood burns completely and efficiently, the result is carbon dioxide and water. Almost everyone has heard that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming, but wood rarely, actually never, burns completely. Carbon dioxide is a colorless gas, so any time you see smoke rising from a chimney, you can be certain that there is more than CO 2 being emitted. Most of the smoke you see is water vapor, a pretty harmless gas, but before the wood can actually burn the water must be boiled off. Green, or not fully seasoned, firewood contains as much water by weight as the wood itself. As wood begins to combust, the residual water cools the chemical reaction, creating lots of smoke that contains some nasty chemicals. The nastiest of these gaseous chemicals are collectively called creosote.

Creosote may be simply defined as “unburned smoke.”

It can occur in three different forms, depending on the temperature of the surface that the smoke encounters. When wood smoke meets surfaces that are cool, the result is a watery, foul smelling liquid that can run down chimneys, both inside or out, creating black or brown stains. It is certainly ugly to look at, but not dangerous. When the smoke hits surfaces that are somewhat warmer, the result is a sticky, gooey, tar like substance that

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BEYFUSS can also run down stovepipes or chimneys. This nasty stuff is also not dangerous, but when it is further heated, it can solidify into a highly flammable form that resembles chunky charcoal. This charcoal like creosote can accumulate in stovepipes or chimneys, blocking air flow and creating a serious hazard. Just like the charcoal that you cook a steak on your grill, creosote requires a pretty significant amount of heat to get it burning, but when it does ignite, it burns at temperatures exceeding 1,000 degrees.

Many chimneys and stovepipes cannot tolerate temperatures that hot for very long.

Sections of metal stovepipes with creosote burning inside them will rattle and shake violently and unless securely attached to each other, they may come apart.

Combustible surfaces that are very close to, or touching stovepipes, such as wood framing inside a wall, may be ignited by red hot, steel stovepipe. Proper installation, with safe clearances to combustible surfaces usually prevents this from happening. The really serious problem is that burning creosote creates a huge draft that can spew sparks of burning matter onto shingle roofs, setting them on fire. So called “chimney fires” are always accompanied by a loud, roaring sound created by the rush of air, fueling the fire. The sound has been described as “a train or airplane taking off.”

The whole process of chimney fires occurring is rather insidious and not easily noticed

by novice woodburners. On relatively warm days, or at bedtime, the stove is banked down by reducing air intake.

The reduced air hampers wood combustion, creating creosote that silently accumulates. When it gets very cold, perhaps a week later, a really hot fire is built that ignites the creosote and the result is a house threatening, chimney fire.

If you decide to install a wood stove, you must have it professionally installed. Your woodstove should also be properly sized for your heating space. A woodstove that is too large for the area to be heated, will often be banked down much of the time, creating more creosote. Some woodstoves are equipped with catalytic converters that serve to lower the combustion temperatures required to burn the gases. Fireplaces, in general, are less dangerous, since unlimited airflow into the fireplace allows for more complete combustion.

Finally, you may have heard that New York state may ban burning wood completely, as a result of the “New York State Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act” which was passed in 2019. The bill creates a “permanent environmental justice advisory group as proposed,” except that the community air monitoring program takes effect on Oct. 1, 2022. Similar to the reasons why there won’t be any gas ATV’s available in New York state, this new law aims to end the damage to the environment that is caused by outdoor boilers/wood-burning furnaces.

Regarding this law, DEC has issued the following statement. “The Climate Action Council’s Draft Scoping Plan does not contain any recommended actions directed specifically at wood burning.”

Reach Bob Beyfuss at rlb14@cornell.edu.

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JAN. 8 CATSKILL — The Catskill United Methodist Church, 40 Woodland Ave., Catskill, will hold an American Red Cross blood drive 7:45 a.m.-1 p.m.

Jan. 8 in the Fellowship Happ.

To schedule an appointment, call 1-800-RED-CROSS or call Ernie Moss at 518-943-5477.

JAN. 14 DELMAR — Q.U.I.L.T. Inc., a not-for-profit guild of quilters interested in learning about the art of making quilts, will meet 9:30-11:30 a.m. Jan. 14 via Zoom. Members live in the Capital Region and surrounding communities. All levels of quilters are welcome. Meetings are held at the Delmar Reformed Church the second Tuesday of each month (September through June.) Due to the pandemic, meetings are currently held virtually. For the January meeting, members and guests join on Zoom at

9:30 a.m. to greet fellow quilters. A brief business meeting begins at 9:45 a.m. which will be followed by Mini-Workshops and Show and Share.

Preregistration is required on the Q.U.I.L.T. Inc. website https://www.quiltinc.org/ to receive the Zoom link.

JAN. 15 HUDSON — The FASNY Museum of Firefighting will be hosting the monthly Super Saturday event at 10:30 a.m.

Jan. 15, Weird Science with Professor Sparks. Spend the morning exploring the science of fire. Professor Sparks and her robot canine companion, Spot 2000, will present an interactive program that is full of surprises. After the program make your own “slime” to take home. Only Professor Sparks can make learning about science this much fun. This hands-on program is appropriate for children 5 and older. Admission is free for for Columbia County residents and Museum members.

JAN. 20 GREENPORT — Sacred Heart-Mt. Carmel Shrine, 442 Fairview Ave., Greenport, will serve a Polish dinner, take

out only, 11:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m.

Jan. 20. Menu includes kielbasa, stuffed cabbage, pierogies and dessert. Cost is $12.

Call 518-828-0342 to preorder or 518-828-8775 10 a.m.-6 p.m. day of event.

JAN. 21 TANNERSVILLE — The Kaaterskill UMC, 5942 Main St., Tannersville, will serve a Brooks chicken barbecue, take out only, 4-7 p.m. Jan. 21. The cost is $15. For information and tickets, call Kelly at 518-263-6069 and leave a message.

JAN. 29 COBLESKILL — The Schoharie County Master Gardeners are happy to be participating in the National Seed Swap 10 a.m.-noon Jan. 29 at the Extension Center, 173 South Grand St., Cobleskill. Participation is free, and you do not have to donate seeds to benefit. National Seed Swap Day is designated as the last Saturday in January. The mission is to conserve and promote crop diversity in local communities through a planned event at which neighbors gather to exchange seeds and chat about plans for the upcoming season.

Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Homeschool Naturalist Program CORNWALL-ON-HUDSON — The Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Homeschool Naturalist Program for children 6-9 has quickly become one of the Nature Museum’s most beloved programs. Originally created out of the needs of families undertaking distance/learning, the program has proved so popular it has remained in place by demand.

Located at the Nature Museum’s Wildlife Education Center, 25 Boulevard, Cornwall-on-Hudson, this 8-week series meets on your choice of Tuesday or Wednesday and runs from Jan. 11 to March

8 or Jan. 12 to March 9, both from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Classes will not meet on Feb. 8 and 9.

This unique program provides children the opportunity to explore, play and learn outdoors. Daily activities, games, stories and nature play support our seasonal curriculum and provide crucial time to develop the social-emotional skills that are at the foundation of a child’s learning journey.

Environmental Educators ensure that each child’s educational needs are met while nurturing more awe and wonder for the natural world.

At each session, students will learn about a specific ecology

topic and spend at least half the day outdoors (rain, snow, or shine) doing a combination of guided activities and free play.

Guidelines from the State of New York, the CDC, Orange County Department of Health, and the ACA (American Camping Association) are followed to ensure that the program meets the highest standards for health and safety, and have modified policies and procedures to facilitate all recommended safe physical/social distancing practices. Visit hhnm. org/homeschool-naturalist for more information and call 845-534-5506 to register.

DEC encourages outdoor enthusiasts to purchase new recreation-themed trail supporter patches ALBANY — New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos announced the release of the latest New York State Trail Supporter Patches. The 2022 patches consist of five designs that resemble the international symbols for some of New York state’s most popular outdoor recreation activities — cross-country skiing, hiking, horseback riding, camping and biking. Each patch will be available individually for a limited time; however, the entire series can be purchased at any time.

“New York State residents and visitors can show their love for New York’s premier recreational trails by purchasing this year’s trail supporter patches, starting with the seasonally appropriate cross-country skiing patch,” Commissioner Seggos said.

“All funds received will support projects to increase public access to outdoor recreation opportunities.”

The public can purchase a Trail Supporter Patch for $5 (or the full series for $25) at any sporting license sales outlet, or online at the DECALS website. The proceeds from patch sales go into the Conservation Fund’s Outdoor Recreation, Trail Maintenance and Development account to help maintain and enhance DEC’s nonmotorized recreation trails

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2022 Trail Patches

throughout the state.

Since its introduction in 2007, patch sales have funded a variety of projects including the construction of a boardwalk and pit privy in Texas Hollow State Forest, foot bridges on the Northville-Placid Trail and at the Catskill Visitor Center, an accessible horse mounting platform at Brookfield horse assembly area, and multiple lean-tos in the High Peaks Wilderness. Patch funds were also used to purchase materials for the new mountain bike trails at Elm Ridge Wild Forest and to maintain the Otter Creek horse trails.

For more information on the Trail Supporter Patch visit DEC’s website.

DEC remains committed to promoting opportunities

for outdoor recreation throughout the state and is actively working with partner organizations and tourism promotion agencies to highlight and encourage sustainable recreation and responsible use on State lands. DEC’s ‘Love Our New York Lands’ campaign was launched in response to the steady increase in the number of visitors to state lands, both during the COVID-19 pandemic and in the decade prior, as more and more New Yorkers and visitors from other states and countries discovered the natural beauty of New York State. For details and more information, visit the Love Our New York Lands page on DEC’s website.

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Roger B. Clarke January 13, 1941 — January 6, 2022 GERMANTOWN — Roger B. Clarke, 80, of Germantown died Thursday January 6, 2022 at home with his loving family at his side. Born January 13, 1941 in Kingston, he is the son of the late Olin and Olive (Atkins) Clarke.

Roger worked as a deck hand for forty-seven years aboard tug boats for Local 333 of the United Marine Division out of New York Harbor. He enjoyed golf, playing cards, traveling, and camping. Most importantly, he loved time spent with family.

Surviving is his wife of fifty-two years Linda Carol (Van Warner) Clarke, children Jennifer Staats and her husband Raymond, Marcie Clarke (Eric Beiter), Brian Clarke and his wife Shana, Randy Clarke, grandchildren Morgan, Kyle, Bren, Dylan, Tiffany, Tyler, Corey, and great granddaughter Sofia. He is survived by several brother and sister in laws. A special mention to Terry Van Warner, a dear friend and brother-in-law. Two nieces in Georgia also survive.

In addition to his parents, a brother Bruce Clarke predeceased him.

Cremation arrangements are under the guidance of the Joseph V. Leahy Funeral Home, Inc. 27 Smith Avenue, Kingston. www. jvleahyfh.com. Expressions of sympathy may be made in the form of contributions to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital- 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105.

William J. White Jr. December 18, 2021 William J. White Jr. died on December 18 in Longmont, Colorado where he had resided since 2010.

Bill was born in South Ozone Park, Queens, New York and moved upstate to Coxsackie in 1943 where he attended Coxsackie High School. In 1951, he graduated from Manhattan College having majored in Finance and Labor Management. He served stateside in the U.S. Army Finance Corps during the Korean conflict. In 1954, he married Mary Kathryn Kruse of Richmond Hill, NY, and settled in Coxsackie where he worked alongside his father as a salesman at the American Valve Manufacturing Corp, rising to serve as the firm’s General Manager. In 1984, Bill established a new business, Guardian Security Systems, Inc. and in 1985, purchased Corin Security, Inc. He retired in 1999.

With their growing family, Bill and Mary moved to Catskill in 1961 and raised four accomplished children in a beautiful, hundred-year-old estate home, Stillwood, on the banks of the Hudson River. A natural taskmaster, Bill never tired of concocting chores for his children who recall fondly, and with great humor, endless hours of lawn mowing, leaf raking, snow shoveling, fence painting, rock piling, and “holding the light.”

Starting as a young man in Coxsackie, Bill began a lifetime of public service and volunteerism by serving as the Charter President of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Upon moving to Catskill, Bill continued to serve on numerous boards and commissions including the Village of Catskill Recreation Commission, was a founding member of the Greene County ARC, was Charter Chair of the Greene County Planning Board, served as President of the Board of Managers of the Memorial Hospital of Greene County, was Finance Chair of the School Board of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, and active in the Parents’ Council of St. Patrick’s Catholic Central High School. He was a Diocesan Representative on the N.Y.S. Federation of Catholic School Parents. Despite these endless hours of community service, Bill rarely missed any of his children’s school activities or sporting events.

In 2000, he and Mary downsized to Sleepy Hollow Lake, a small lakefront community north of Catskill, where he served on the Sleepy Hollow Lake Ballot and Election Committee and the Rules Committee. In 2005, he was appointed Chairman of the Coxsackie Town Planning Board. He volunteered at the Coxsackie Food Pantry and was an avid Bridge player. Ever the adventurer, Bill earned his Private Pilot’s License in 1983, and on his 85th birthday in 2011 lived out a lifelong dream of skydiving earning the moniker “Wild Bill.” Bill and Mary traveled extensively, both in the United States and on all seven continents, ambitiously seeking any opportunity to try a local delicacy. He enjoyed a good costume party, appeared as Puck in a London Elderhostel production, danced with Aboriginals in Australia, was a “background artist” in “War of the Worlds” featuring Tom Cruise. Simply put, Bill enjoyed his life to the fullest.

For several years, his daughter, Joey, had urged her parents to move to Colorado and in October of 2010 they said goodbye to friends and east coast family and moved to Longmont.

Bill joined St. John the Baptist parish and became a volunteer at the Food Bank. He played Bridge at the Senior Center and also joined a Duplicate game in Loveland. After a few years, he started a Duplicate Bridge group in Longmont with four players.

The group is still meeting on Fridays and has grown to seven tables of 28 players who care about the game and each other.

With his wife, he became a Friend of the Longmont Museum and a participant in activities at the Senior Center.

Bill is survived by his loving wife, his daughter, Mary Jo, and her husband, Stephen Loyd, of Boulder, CO; three sons, Jonathan and his wife, Virginia, of Bedford NY; Michael and his wife, Alice, of Charleston SC; Thomas and his wife, Karen, of Philadelphia, PA; twelve grandchildren; and his sister, Mary Veronica White of Adelaide, Australia.

The family will not be holding calling hours. In accordance with Bill’s final act of service, he requested his remains be donated to the Colorado State Anatomical Board at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

A joyous Memorial Mass will be celebrated at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Longmont CO on Saturday, January 22, at 10am, and livestreamed on https://youtu.be/uh9dUorkhEc. In lieu of flowers, Bill would have appreciated a gift in his honor to a charity of your choice.

Eleanor Hedwig Flynn

John Joseph Arazosa

June 17, 1929 — December 21, 2021

January 2, 2022

Eleanor Hedwig Flynn, nee Rossbach, passed away December 21, 2021 at age 92. She was born in the Bronx, June 17, 1929 to Arthur and Hedwig Rossbach. Her brother, Arthur, passed away earlier this year.

Eleanor spent most of her life in her beloved Greene County, NY, ever near the Catskills and Hudson River, both of which she revered. She and her husband, Byron Michael Flynn, who predeceased her in 1986, briefly lived in California. In 1960 the young family began a cross-country adventure driving back east to be close to family. From the front seat Eleanor shared bits of history while pointing out the beauty she observed in the natural world. They settled down in Freehold, NY on a two hundred year old farm. Eleanor embraced the country life, planting a huge vegetable garden every spring. She taught the children to pick apples, wild berries and hickory nuts, all of which wound up in homemade baked treats.

Before she was married a young Eleanor attended Traphagen, a fashion design school in New York City and always retained a unique fashion sense. She loved art, clothes, vintage jewelry, antiques and going to auctions and tag sales. She turned her interest in collecting books into a business during the eighties. She was never idle and incredibly creative. She imbued whatever she attempted with her own unique Bohemian style whether it be painting, drawing, sewing, cooking, baking or even dancing! She approached all things in life with style and verve. She was an artist.

Throughout her life Eleanor was a striking beauty who exercised daily to maintain her perfect figure. She regularly collected compliments from total strangers to which she invariably replied “I’ll pay you later!” Her signature bun, or “up-do”, was iconic. She never lost her quirky sense of humor. In her later years, as Alzheimers gained hold, she became passionate about collecting fallen leaves which she arranged, framed and often gifted. She did the same with magazine pictures of children and animals, turning them into art pieces, giving them to whoever was in her sphere.

She above all loved her family. She is survived by her six children, Ellen Flynn, Karen Salerno(David), Margaret McCornock, Catherine Flynn Hochheiser(Howard), Maureen Flynn Bagshaw and Byron Mark Flynn (Lynn) as well as fourteen grandchildren, twenty-seven great grandchildren and two nephews.

There will be a private funeral for immediate family at Richards Funeral Home of the Mid-Hudson Valley, Inc. Cairo, NY in the Spring of 2022.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Northeast NY Chapter of Alzheimer’s Association (you may donate online) or to the Columbia-Greene Humane Society/SPCA, 111 Humane Society Road, Hudson, NY 12534.

Condolences may be made at www.richardsfuneralhomeinc.net.

John Joseph Arazosa, 73, of Catskill, died January 2, 2022.

In accordance with his wishes there will be no service.

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Dominick Cuti January 13, 1969 — January 5, 2022 CAIRO – Dominick Cuti, 52, passed away on Wednesday, January 5, 2022 at Albany Medical Center Hospital after a brief illness. He was born in Hudson on January 13, 1969, a son of the late Dominick and Dorothy Bonomolo Cuti. Dominick was raised in Cairo and graduated from Cairo-Durham High School. He was the proprietor of Dominick’s Barber Shop in Cairo, and co-owner of Blue Danube Wine & Spirits, and O’Neilleo’s Traveling Kitchen.

Dominick was a man of deep faith, and a communicant of Sacred Heart Church in Cairo. He enjoyed hunting, traveling to Maine, and taking care of his family. Dominick liked to tease people and knew how to push people’s buttons. He would bust your chops, but that was a sign that he liked you. He also made up nicknames for everyone, and was known for his big laugh.

Dominick loved his large family, and was the one who kept the family together. Cairo got a little quieter today, but Heaven got a lot louder.

Dominick is survived by his wife, Lalena Powers Cuti; five children, Ali (Annmarie) Haidar, Melissa Haidar, Jennifer Cuti, Christina Cuti, and Grace Cuti; two brothers, Thomas (Janeth Waldron) Cuti and August Cuti; his cousin, Anthony “Uncle Tony” Grillo; nephews and nieces, Joshua Cuti, Jonathan Cuti, Vincent Cuti, Adam Hunt, A.J. (Lexie) Cuti, Susan Biagioni, Crystal Biagioni, Robert Hladik, and Christopher Hladik. In addition to his parents, Dominick was predeceased by his grandmother, Rose Cuti, who was a very important member of the family.

Calling hours will be Sunday, January 9th, from 1 to 5 p.m. at A.J. Cunningham Funeral Home, 4898 State Route 81, Greenville.

Funeral Mass will be offered on Monday, January 10th at 11 a.m. in Sacred Heart Church, 35 Church Street, Cairo, followed by burial in Round Top Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-9959 will be appreciated. Condolence page is available at ajcunninghamfh.com.

Brother Richard Eckhardt October 7, 1925 — January 1, 2022 “Brother Richard Eckhardt was born on Oct. 7, 1926 in Beaver Falls, PA, a town 30 miles north of Pittsburgh. He was baptized and confirmed in his parish church, (St. Mary’s), went to grammar school there and moved on to Beaver Falls High School, graduating in 1943 - during World War II. Initially rejected for the draft due to poor eyesight, he found employment in a local defense plant. After the war Richard enrolled in college business courses, eventually earning a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in 1949. When the Korean war broke out he was again called up for the draft and this time was accepted, serving in the Finance Corps in the US, Germany and France. After his discharge Richard began to think of a religious vocation.

Active in his parish and a member of the Holy Name Society he joined the Brothers of Holy Cross, making his first profession of vows in 1957, and perpetual vows in 1960.

Completing a Masters in Library Science, Richard served for many years in Holy Cross High School libraries, except for his 13-year ap-

pointment as treasurer at Mackin Catholic High School in Washington DC. He was a very regular, lowkey, precise person with a warm smile, who loved his hobby of jigsaw puzzles.

He said his life at St. Joseph Center gave him time to reflect and strengthen his commitment to live as a Brother in Holy Cross, and he was a faithful participant in Bible study and spiritual discussion groups.

Brother Richard passed away peacefully on January 1st 2022 at his residence in Valatie, New York. His life will be celebrated by his religious community and family at St. Joseph Center on Saturday the 15th of January. May he rest in peace!”

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ALBANY — The state Department of Correction and Community Supervision welcomes proposals Gov. Kathy Hochul included in her State of the State address legislative priorities to assist incarcerated people secure employment after release, officials said Thursday.

Hochul announced a new Jail to Jobs initiative in her State of the State address delivered in the Assembly chamber Wednesday afternoon to expand higher education opportunities for incarcerated New Yorkers to have additional work skills and improve employment opportunities after release.

The initiative is also aimed at helping reduce recidivism rates and increase public safety.

“Obviously, the department has continuously reviewed and added training programs to what is available to incarcerated individuals in preparation for their release back to the community,” DOCCS

spokesman Thomas Mailey said in a statement Thursday.

The new initiative will make training available to incarcerated people to obtain a commercial driver’s license.

“Vocational training and education all contribute positively to an individual’s successful reentry to the community and there is substantial evidence to support these programs and the impact that they have in reducing reoffending,” Mailey added.

DOCCS and the state Division of Criminal Justice Services will train 100 state parole officers and re-entry specialists this year about career planning and job placement to assist formerly incarcerated people successfully return to their family and community. All of the state’s 700 parole officers will receive the training by 2023.

“Rehabilitation for incarcerated individuals begins from the moment they step into prison when they are evaluated and designated into specific programs to meet their rehabilitation needs,” Mailey said.

“That programming continues

throughout the duration of their sentence, in addition to re-entry services such as education, job readiness, community resourcing, substance abuse and rules of post-release supervision.”

Department programs include guidance and counseling services, library and law library services, religious services, educational and vocational training, alcohol and substance abuse treatment, family development, among others, he said.

Hochul will propose to amend the state Constitution as part of the Jail to Jobs plan to allow for public-private partnerships to enable hybrid work-release programs within state prison facilities. The programs would be voluntary and pay competitive wages while training incarcerated people with job skills.

Incarcerated people who participate in correctional education programs are 43% less likely to be charged with criminal offenses after release and are 13% more likely to obtain and retain employment.

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POLISH DINNER GREENPORT — Sacred Heart-Mt. Carmel Shrine, 442 Fairview Ave., Greenport, will serve a Polish dinner, take out only, 11:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Jan. 20. Menu includes kielbasa, stuffed cabbage, pierogies and dessert. Cost is $12. Call 518828-0342 to preorder or 518828-8775 10 a.m.-6 p.m. day of event.

Hudson River Bells rehearsal is at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays. Masks are worn during rehearsal.

The Sunday School will have a part in the worship service on Dec. 19.

For information, call the church at 518-945-1801.

LIVING FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH MAPLECREST — Living Faith Community Church, 54 Route 56, Maplecrest, welcomes locals and visitors to worship together at 10:30 a.m. Sunday.

Adult Bible Study meets before service at 9:30 a.m. Fellowship meal follows service on the second Sunday of each month. For information, call 518-734-4275.

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TANNERSVILLE — The Kaaterskill UMC, 5942 Main St., Tannersville, will serve a Brooks chicken barbecue, take out only, 4-7 p.m. Jan. 21. The cost is $15. For information and tickets, call Kelly at 518-263-6069 and leave a message.

CATSKILL — The Camp Grace Inc. Soup Kitchen, located at the First Reformed Church of Catskill, 310 Main St., Catskill, is open noon-1 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. For information, call Director Lamont Taylor at 518-249-7009.

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ATHENS —The First Reformed Church of Athens, 16 North Church St., Athens, worships at 10:30 a.m. Sunday. All are welcome to join us. Communion is celebrated the first Sunday of each month. Senior Choir rehearsal is at 6:30 p.m. each Wednesdays. We ask that singers are vaccinated.

HUDSON — St. Mark’s Second Evangelical Lutheran Church, 8 Storm Ave., Hudson, worships 9:30 a.m. Sunday.

Communion is celebrated on the first Sunday of every month with Pastor Stan Webster. Child care is offered during the service and Sunday school after the service ends. For information,

call the Church office at 518828-9514.

ST. JOHN’S LUTHERAN CHURCH STUYVESANT — St. John’s Lutheran Church, 159 Route 26A, Stuyvesant, has in-person and live online worship services at 10:15 a.m. Sunday. Face masks and social distancing is required at this time. The live broadcasts are on www.facebook.com/St-Johns-Lutheran

CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL HUDSON — Christ Church Episcopal, 431 Union St., Hudson, worships at 9 a.m. Sundays in person and live online. Social distancing and face masks required. Live broadcast at 9 a.m. on facebook.com/ChristChurchEpiscopalHudson or at christchurchepiscopalhudson. org. Midweek Eucharist is held at 12:15 p.m. Wednesdays in the church. For information, call 518-828-1329 or email christchurch1802@gmail.com.

saintpaulskinderhook@gmail. com. Office open 1:30-4:30 p.m.

Tuesday-Thursday and by appointment.

KINDERHOOK REFORMED CHURCH KINDERHOOK — The Kinderhook Reformed Church, 21 Broad St., Kinderhook, will have in person and live online Sunday worship at 9:30 a.m. Face masks and social distancing required. Live broadcasts at 9:30 a.m. on https://www.facebook. com/KinderhookReformed Church or https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCTUNikeMHshkf_mqhMNxCw. For information, call 518-7586401 or kinderhookreformedchuch.com.

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CLAVERACK — The Reformed Dutch Church, 88 Route 9H, Claverack, worships at 9:30 a.m. Sundays in the sanctuary.

For information, call 518-8513811.

KINDERHOOK — St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 8 Sylvester St., Kinderhook, Holy Communion in person at 8 and 10 a.m. Sundays. Face masks and distancing required regardless of vaccination status. For information and news, www.saintpaulskinderhook.org/ or follow us on Facebook. Subscribe to our newsletter: http://eepurl. com/cG4YSv; 518-758-6271 or

WEST GHENT — The Ghent Reformed Church, 1039 County Route 22, West Ghent, worships at 9 a.m. Sundays. Sunday School begins at 10:15 a.m. Sunday for pre-school to middle school aged children. In accordance with the New York state mandate, masks will be required. Cleaning is as diligent as always. At present, we feel safe

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enough to have reinstituted coffee time after service.

TRI COUNTY LUTHERAN PARISH VALATIE — The following is the worship schedule for the Tri County Lutheran Parish.

Visit TCLParish.org website for weekly Zoom worship schedule and link.

Columbia County: Emanual Lutheran Church, 506 County Road 46, Stuyvesant Falls, worships at 8:30 a.m. Sunday. St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, 1010 Kinderhook St., Valatie, worships at 10:30 a.m. Sunday with Sunday School also at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday. Emanuel/St. John’s Lutheran Church, 20 South Sixth St., Hudson, worships at 11 a.m. Sunday.

Greene County: Zion Lutheran Church, 102 North Washington St., Athens, worships at 9 a.m. Sunday. St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, State Route 81, Oak Hill, worships at 11 a.m.

Sunday.

Rensselaer County: Trinity Lutheran Church, 68 Green Ave., Castleton, worships at 9 a.m. Sunday. St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church, 751 County Route 7, East Schodack, worships at 11 a.m. Sunday.

GRACE BIBLE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH RHINEBECK — Grace Bible Fellowship Church, 6959 Route 9, Rhinebeck, worships at 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday. Sunday

School for all ages meets at 9:30 a.m. Women’s bible study and Grace Bible Institute meets at 7 p.m. Mondays. Mid-week prayer meeting is at 7 p.m.

Wednesdays. For information, call 845-876-6923 or cdfcirone@ aol.com.

LUTHERAN PARISH OF SOUTHERN COLUMBIA COUNTY GERMANTOWN — Lutheran Parish of Southern Columbia County is planning, for now, to continue in person worship. If the COVID situation changes, plans will be posted on Facebook, the blog, by phone message and the communication tree within each church. This is the worship schedule. St. Thomas Lutheran Church, Churchtown at 11 a.m.; Christ Lutheran Church, Germantown (Viewmont) at 9 a.m.; St. John Lutheran Church, Elizaville (Manorton) at Christ Church at 9 a.m.

The Congregational meetings will be held on Jan. 16, after Worship services: 9 a.m. at Christ Church (with St John’s folks) and 11 a.m. at St Thomas. Two new candidates for St John’s Council are Barbara de Mare and MaryLynn Davis. If you are considering participating on Council, speak with the presidents, Jay Clum, Al MacDonald and John Roberts, or Pastor Jackie.

Cornell Cooperative Extension Albany County offering ‘Resolve to Eat More Fish in 2022’ ALBANY — Cornell Cooperative Extension | Albany County is offering the online program Resolve to Eat More Fish in 2022 7-8 p.m. Jan. 26 via Zoom.

Many of us make resolutions concerning our health as we kick off a New Year. If you have chosen to lose a few pounds or pay more attention to what foods you are eating this year, then this program could be of interest to you. There are many health benefits associated with eating fish. They provide a source of low-fat, high quality protein and are filled with omega-3 fatty acids and vitamins such as Vitamin D and riboflavin. They are also a great source

of minerals such as calcium and phosphorus.

The American Heart Association recommends eating fish at least twice a week as part of a heart-healthy diet that can help lower blood pressure and reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke. Omega-3 fatty acids are in all fish but are especially high in fatty fish and seafood (greater than 10% fat), like salmon, trout, sardines, herring, canned mackerel, canned light tuna and oysters. Our bodies do not produce omega-3 fatty acids, so we must get them from the food we eat.

During this program we will discuss the health benefits of

eating fish, beneficial ways to prepare fish, and environmental issues threatening our fish supply such as chemical contamination and over-fishing.

We will also talk about how important it is to know where your fish comes from, whether you buy it or catch it in the wild.

For instance, there are specific New York State Department of Health fish advisories for New York State waterways, such as the Hudson River, depending on whether you are male or female and how old you are (www.health.ny.gov ). Contaminants of the highest concern continue to be the long-lasting group of chemicals

known as PCBs, which can be especially harmful to children and the unborn since it can affect their developing brain and nervous system. In grocery store fish, the chemical of highest concern is mercury (www. fda.gov/fishadvice or www. epa.gov/fishadvice ). Refer to their charts to find the types of fish to avoid due to potential high levels of mercury and what types of fish are better choices for your family at the store.

The good news is that there are many other safe places to fish in the Capital District, besides the Hudson River, where the whole family can eat up to two 4-ounce fish meals a

week. In Albany County specifically, there is public access to the Normanskill Creek, Onesquethaw Creek, Six Mile Waterworks, Basic Creek and many more. There is a free fishing weekend coming up next month on Feb. 19 and 20, when it is not necessary to have a fishing license from the New York State DEC. Ann Lee Pond in Colonie and Thompson Lake in Berne are two popular spots to go ice fishing in Albany County for trout and panfish, once the ice is frozen at the proper thickness to be safe.

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Hon. Lisa M. Fisher appointed to the Appellate Division by Governor Kathy Hochul

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ALBANY - Governor Kathy Hochul announced the appointment of Hon. Lisa M. Fisher as a Justice of the State’s Appellate Division, Third Department.

Only those candidates deemed “highly qualified” by the Judicial Screening Committee for the Appellate Division were submitted to the Governor for her consideration.

Justice Fisher’s appointment is the first Supreme Court Justice from Greene County to be appointed to the Appellate Division in over a century. There have been two previous Supreme Court Justices from Greene County appointed to the Appellate Division, including Justice

TANNERSVILLE — The Mountain Top Arboretum, 4 Maude Adams Way, Tannersville, presents the webinar, Looking at American Landscapes: A Migrant Perspective with Wambui Ippolito 1011:15 a.m. Jan. 22. Admission is free. Sign up for the webinar at www.mtarboretum.org or 518-589-3903. Every influx of new immigrants has significantly altered American landscapes with the plants they have introduced, their farming and ornamental horticultural practices and their understanding and organization of green spaces. All this change has happened without a clear understanding of what these activities have meant to the land itself. A new

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Emory A. Chase in 1901 and Justice Aaron V.S. Cochrane in 1906.

Justice Fisher will preside over appeals within the Third Department, which covers

28 counties in Upstate New York, ranging from the midHudson Valley to the Canadian border and as far west as Schuyler and Chemung counties in the Southern Tier.

Justice Fisher was elected to the Supreme Court, Third Judicial District, which encompasses Albany, Greene, Columbia, Rensselaer, Schoharie, Sullivan and Ulster counties, in 2014. Justice Fisher resides in New Baltimore with her three children and husband.

Governor Hochul’s appointment of Justice Fisher is effective immediately, as of Jan. 3, 2022.

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TH girls defeat Albany Leadership

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CRARYVILLE — Izzabell Bosko and Sydney Cooper each scored 10 points to lead Taconic Hills past Albany Leadership, 43-34, in Thursday’s PAtroon Conference girls basketball game.

Albany Leadership led 12-11 after one quarter of action, but the Titans surged ahead 22-18 by halftime and extended their lead to 34-24 through three quarters.

Jayla Hughley led Leadership with 19 points. Shy-Nique Faulkner added

15.

Taconic Hills hosts Chatham on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.

ALC (34): Faulkner 6-2-15, Hughley 8-2-19. Totals 14-4-34.

3-pointers: Faulkner, Hughley.

TACONIC HILLS (43): Bosko 3-410, Proper 2-2-7, Atwood 2-1-5, Alvarez 2-0-4, Waterhouse 1-1-3, Cooper 4-2-10, Phesay 1-2-4. Totals 15-1243.

3-pointers: Proper.

Coxsackie-Athens 44, TH 20 COXSACKIE — Riley Sitcer dropped 23 points to spark

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Ex-Mets GM Scott found not guilty of both counts after DWI arrest Matthew Roberson New York Daily News

NEW YORK — On Thursday morning, former Mets acting general manager Zack Scott was found not guilty of driving while intoxicated (DWI). He was also found not guilty of driving while ability impaired by alcohol (DWAI), a lesser charge.

Scott was arrested on Aug. 31 in White Plains after a party at Mets owner Steve Cohen’s mansion in Connecticut. He pleaded not guilty after the incident and was immediately placed on administrative leave by the Mets, who then fired him

in November. Scott had been serving as the acting GM after Jared Porter was fired in January 2021 for sexual harassment.

Porter is currently banned by Major League Baseball until the end of the 2022 season, when he can apply for reinstatement.

“I am thankful for today’s verdict,” Scott said in a statement. “Nonetheless, I regret choices I made on August 31, resulting in circumstances that led to my arrest.”

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Coxsackie-Athens to a 44-20 victory over Taconic Hills in Wednesday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game.

C-A charged out to an 11-3 lead after one quarter and widened the gap to 26-7 at halftime and 32-11 after three quarters.

Grace Bartels added eight points for the Riverhawks.

Izabell Bosko led Taconic Hills with six points.

TACONIC HILLS (20): Bosko 2-2-6, Proper 1-0-2, Atwood 1-0-2, Alvarez 0-1-1, Waterhouse 1-0-2,

Schrader 1-0-2, Cooper 1-1-3, Keeler 1-0-2. Totals 8-4-20.

COXSACKIE-ATHENS(44): Grounds 1-1-3, Luvera 3-0-6, Squier 1-2-4, Sitcer 5-11-23, Bartels 4-0-8.

Totals 14-14-44.

3-pointers: Sitcer 2.

WRESTLING PATROON C-A 46, Greenville 17 COXSACKIE — Coxsackie-Athen earned a 46-17 victory over Greenville in Thursday’s Patroon Conference wrestling match.

Hunter Donovan (285), Ryker Cox

(118), Gage Decker (126) and Anthony Iamunno (172) all won ther matches by pin for C-A. Bernard Davis (145) won by pin and Kieran Cullen (138) won by technical fall for Greenville.

Results 285: Hunter Donovan (CA) over Sawyer Peak (Fall 0:38); 102: Neil Murphy (CA) won by forfeit; 110: TJ Shutter (CA) won by forfeit; 118: Ryker Cox (CA) over Donald Lane (Fall 1:01); 126: Gage Decker (CA) See ROUNDUP B5

Kyrie Irving’s return was tantalizing but also a reminder of what Nets will miss TREVOR RUSZKOWSKI/USA TODAY

Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving (11) dribbles the ball in the second half against the Indiana Pacers at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Wednesday.

Ben Golliver The Washington Post

Kyrie Irving’s big night opened with a standing ovation, signature dance moves and a few extra scoops of shake and bake.

But all the early highlights and adulation belonged to an air-guitaring Lance Stephenson, who briefly overshadowed the return of the NBA’s most prominent unvaccinated player. A nervous Irving, back on the court for the first time since ending his months-long standoff with the Brooklyn Nets, was given the first shot of

“A lot of gratitude to just be present tonight with everyone to go out there and have fun doing what we love to do.”

— KYRIE IRVING SAID AFTER SHOOTING 9 FOR 17 IN 32 MINUTES the game by Coach Steve Nash as a “welcome-back gift.” The wayward jumper glanced off the rim and sputtered harmlessly out of bounds.

Shortly thereafter, Stephenson poured in 20 first-quarter points for the Pacers to the delight of the Gainbridge

Fieldhouse crowd. This was Stephenson’s first game in Indiana since 2019, and the journeyman antihero’s homecoming threatened to spoil Irving’s debut. With the Nets playing defense like absentminded bystanders, Indiana racked up 73 first-half points

and built a 19-point lead early in the third quarter.

Thanks in large part to Irving, the Nets composed themselves, rallying for a 129121 win that snapped a threegame losing streak. After remaining scoreless until early in the second quarter, Irving was crisp down the stretch, scoring 10 of his 22 points in the final seven minutes. He celebrated his first NBA action since June by pumping his fist, hugging Kevin Durant and giving his jersey to his father, who See IRVING B5

Novak Djokovic is desperate to be taken seriously — Now he’s becoming a punchline John Feinstein The Washington Post Novak Djokovic is the world’s No. 1 men’s’ tennis player and may end up as the greatest male player of all time. There are some who think he’s already there.

But he’s also a punchline now, something few truly great athletes ever become. Aaron Rodgers certainly did his best when he got caught misleading the public about whether he had been vaccinated for covid-19, and Antonio Brown took it a step further when he obtained a fake vaccination card.

But neither of them were detained by border officials in Australia and held in a hotel while a court weighs deportation.

Like Rodgers and Brown, Djokovic got himself into an embarrassing mess because he thought he was above the rules of covid decency and refused to get the vaccination that most people understand they need.

Djokovic certainly wasn’t alone in creating the debacle that unfolded when he landed in Melbourne late Wednesday night and was refused entry into the country. One day earlier, Tennis Australia, which runs the Australian Open, had announced that Djokovic was being granted a “medical exemption,” allowing him to compete in the tournament even though he is apparently unvaccinated.

Thinking he’d beaten the system, Djokovic landed in Australia only to find that the

ROBERT DEUTSCH/USA TODAY

Novak Djokovic serves to Daniil Medvedev in the men’s singles final on day fourteen of the 2021 U.S. Open tennis tournament at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Sept. 12.

government didn’t really care that Tennis Australia desperately wanted him to attempt to win a record-setting 21st Grand Slam title,

beginning Jan. 17 at Melbourne Park. The Australian Open is the fourth-most important of the four tennis majors, but it was set to receive

an extra dose of international attention with Djokovic going for a 10th Australian title and a 21st Slam title, which would vault him past Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, the two icons who also have 20 major titles.

Federer is 40 and hasn’t played since last July at Wimbledon. He won’t be in Australia because he’s still recovering from knee surgery last summer. Whether he will ever play again - much less contend for another major - is in doubt. Nadal is 35 and will play in Australia, but Djokovic beat him in Paris last spring, an almost unthinkable upset given that Nadal has won there 13 times.

The French Open was the second of Djokovic’s three major wins last year - he also won in Australia and at Wimbledon and came within a whisker of being the second man in history to win a calendar Grand Slam when he reached the U.S. Open final, only to lose to Daniil Medvedev.

Still, at 34, it felt as if his coronation as the all-time winner of men’s major titles was little more than a formality, especially with Australia - his “home court” - next up on the calendar.

Except Djokovic found a way to mess it up.

Which is very much a part of his history and his legacy. In 2020, during the covid-stricken U.S. Open, he got himself defaulted when he launched a ball off his racket in disgust after losing serve and it hit a lineswoman in the neck.

See DJOKOVIC B5

B2 - Saturday - Sunday, January 8-9, 2022

Pro hockey NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OT SO Pts Tampa Bay 36 23 8 2 3 51 Florida 33 22 7 2 2 48 Toronto 32 22 8 1 1 46 Boston 30 17 11 1 1 36 Detroit 34 16 15 3 0 35 Buffalo 34 10 18 5 1 26 Ottawa 29 9 18 2 0 20 Montreal 34 7 23 4 0 18 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT SO Pts N.Y. Rangers 34 22 8 3 1 48 Washington 34 20 6 7 1 48 Carolina 31 23 7 1 0 47 Pittsburgh 33 20 8 1 4 45 New Jersey 35 14 16 1 4 33 Philadelphia 34 13 15 3 3 32 Columbus 32 15 16 0 1 31 N.Y. Islanders 28 10 12 3 3 26 Western Conference Central Division GP W L OT SO Pts Nashville 34 21 11 1 1 44 St. Louis 34 19 10 3 2 43 Minnesota 32 20 10 0 2 42 Colorado 29 19 8 2 0 40 Winnipeg 32 16 11 2 3 37 Dallas 29 15 12 1 1 32 Chicago 33 11 17 5 0 27 Arizona 31 6 22 0 3 15 Pacific Division GP W L OT SO Pts Vegas 36 22 13 1 0 45 Anaheim 36 18 11 4 3 43 Calgary 32 17 9 6 0 40 Edmonton 34 18 14 2 0 38 Los Angeles 33 16 12 4 1 37 San Jose 35 18 16 0 1 37 Vancouver 34 16 15 1 2 35 Seattle 33 10 19 3 1 24 Wednesday’s games Toronto 4, Edmonton 2 Pittsburgh 5, St. Louis 3 N.Y. Islanders at Vancouver, PPD Thursday’s games Minnesota 3, Boston 2 San Jose 3, Buffalo 2 Tampa Bay 4, Calgary 1 New Jersey 3, Columbus 1 Pittsburgh 6, Philadelphia 2 Toronto at Montreal, PPD Florida at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Winnipeg at Colorado, 9 p.m.

Chicago at Arizona, 9 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Vegas, 10 p.m.

Detroit at Anaheim, PPD Ottawa at Seattle, PPD Nashville at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

Friday’s games Calgary at Carolina, 7 p.m.

Washington at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s games Pittsburgh at Dallas, 2 p.m.

Toronto at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Boston at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.

San Jose at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Florida at Carolina, 7 p.m.

New Jersey at Columbus, 7 p.m.

Seattle at Winnipeg, PPD Buffalo at Montreal, PPD Nashville at Arizona, 8 p.m.

Washington at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Ottawa at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

Chicago at Vegas, 10 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Edmonton, PPD Detroit at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

GF GA 120 104 128 97 108 78 87 79 96 114 91 119 79 107 73 123 GF GA 101 85 119 89 106 66 110 86 102 122 88 116 102 115 64 80 GF GA 104 91 119 96 119 100 123 96 98 92 82 85 77 112 64 120 GF GA 129 110 111 99 101 77 113 111 91 89 99 110 89 95 92 122

Thursday’s games Sharks 3, Sabres 2 San Jose 3 0 0 — 3 Buffalo 0 1 1 — 2 First Period—1, San Jose, Nieto 3 (Cogliano, Bonino) 12:27. 2, San Jose, Meier 14 (Hertl, Ferraro) 13:44. 3, San Jose, Hertl 17 (Barabanov) 17:24.

Second Period—4, Buffalo, Skinner 11 (Olofsson) 7:56.

Third Period—5, Buffalo, Girgensons 7 (Thompson, Dahlin) 18:15 (pp).

Shots on Goal—San Jose 11-5-5—21. Buffalo 8-9-22—39.

Power-play opportunities—San Jose 0 of 1. Buffalo 1 of 3.

Goalies—San Jose Hill 7-9-0 (39 shots-37 saves).

Buffalo Luukkonen 2-4-2 (21-18). A—8,117 (19,070). T—2:22.

Wild 3, Bruins 2 Minnesota 2 1 0 — 3 Boston 1 1 0 — 2 First Period—1, Boston, Hall 7 (Reilly, Haula) 6:35 (pp). 2, Minnesota, Kaprizov 14 (Zuccarello, Fiala) 15:25 (pp). 3, Minnesota, Sturm 6 (Brodin, Dewar) 16:48 (pp).

Second Period—4, Minnesota, Boldy 1 (Foligno, Brodin) 12:26. 5, Boston, Marchand 12 (Bergeron, Grzelcyk) 15:35 (pp).

Third Period—None.

Shots on Goal—Minnesota 14-10-6—30. Boston 10-11-17—38.

Power-play opportunities—Minnesota 2 of 8.

Boston 2 of 5.

Goalies—Minnesota Kahkonen 5-2-1 (38 shots-36 saves). Boston Swayman 8-6-2 (30-27).

A—17,850 (17,565). T—2:41.

Devils 3, Blue Jackets 1 Columbus 1 0 0 — 1 New Jersey 1 0 2 — 3 First Period—1, New Jersey, Tatar 8 (Bratt, Hughes) 0:51. 2, Columbus, Domi 8 (Gavrikov, Sillinger) 4:54.

Second Period—None.

Third Period—3, New Jersey, Bratt 10 (Hughes, Bastian) 1:16 (pp). 4, New Jersey, Hughes 9 (Tatar, Graves) 18:40 (en).

Shots on Goal—Columbus 18-7-7—32. New Jersey 5-12-11—28.

Power-play opportunities—Columbus 0 of 4.

New Jersey 1 of 3.

Goalies—Columbus Korpisalo 3-6-0 (27 shots-25 saves). New Jersey Blackwood 9-7-3 (32-31).

A—11,523 (17,625). T—2:20.

Penguins 6, Flyers 2 Pittsburgh 3 0 3 — 6 Philadelphia 0 1 1 — 2 First Period—1, Pittsburgh, Rust 8 (Letang, Crosby) 12:21 (pp). 2, Pittsburgh, Rust 9 (Rodrigues, Letang) 14:55. 3, Pittsburgh, Guentzel 17 (Letang, Dumoulin) 16:16.

Second Period—4, Philadelphia, Atkinson 14 (Farabee, Laughton) 8:10.

Third Period—5, Pittsburgh, Rodrigues 15 (Kapanen) 8:50. 6, Pittsburgh, Guentzel 18 (Crosby, Rust) 10:20. 7, Pittsburgh, Boyle 4 (Marino) 11:51 (sh). 8, Philadelphia, Lindblom 4 (Frost, MacEwen) 13:00.

Shots on Goal—Pittsburgh 15-8-9—32. Philadelphia 9-6-5—20.

Power-play opportunities—Pittsburgh 1 of 1.

Philadelphia 0 of 3.

Goalies—Pittsburgh Jarry 16-5-4 (20 shots-18 saves). Philadelphia Hart 7-9-4 (32-26).

A—17,944 (19,537). T—2:00.

Lightning 4, Flames 1 Calgary 0 0 1 — 1 Tampa Bay 0 1 3 — 4 First Period—None.

Second Period—1, Tampa Bay, Perry 10 (Bellemare, Hedman) 12:21.

Third Period—2, Tampa Bay, Point 12 (Kucherov, McDonagh) 2:52. 3, Tampa Bay, Palat 13 (Kucherov) 10:10. 4, Tampa Bay, Killorn 11 (Stamkos, McDonagh) 10:24. 5, Calgary, Dube 4 (Monahan, Kylington) 15:54.

Shots on Goal—Calgary 8-5-14—27. Tampa Bay 14-13-6—33.

Power-play opportunities—Calgary 0 of 3. Tampa Bay 0 of 3.

Goalies—Calgary Vladar 5-1-1 (33 shots-29 saves). Tampa Bay Vasilevskiy 18-5-3 (27-26).

T—2:35.

College basketball MEN’S SCORES THURSDAY’S GAMES EAST Binghamton 88, Albany 79 Central Conn. St. 0, Sacred Heart 0 LIU 74, Mount St. Mary’s 57 Merrimack 0, Fairleigh Dickinson 0 NJIT 77, Massachusetts Lowell 72 St. Francis (BKN) 70, St. Francis (PA) 53 Vermont 82, New Hampshire 68 Wagner 84, Bryant 81, OT SOUTH Appalachian St. 72, South Alabama 64 Belmont 102, SE Missouri St. 62 Grand Canyon 84, Texas Rio Grande Valley 70 McNeese St. 92, New Orleans 82, 2OT New Mexico St. 0, Lamar 0 Radford 82, South Carolina Upstate 77 Rice 65, Middle Tennessee St. 61 Southeastern Louisiana 90, Houston Baptist 81 Southern Miss 74, Texas-San Antonio 73 Tenn-Martin 94, Tennessee St. 78 Texas A&M-CC 89, Northwestern St. 67

COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA Texas-Arlington 70, Georgia St. 63 Troy 69, Coastal Carolina 59 UAB 69, North Texas 63 UL Lafayette 83, Arkansas St. 77, OT UL Monroe 80, Little Rock 72 MIDWEST Illinois 76, Maryland 64 Indiana 67, Ohio St. 51 Loyola-Chicago 79, San Francisco 74 Nebraska Omaha 98, North Dakota 82 Oral Roberts 81, St. Thomas (MN) 66 Seattle 93, Chicago St. 77 Tarleton State 75, Sam Houston St. 64 Wright St. 90, Illinois-Chicago 72 WEST Brigham Young 73, Pacific 51 Nicholls State 87, Incarnate Word 56 UCLA 96, Long Beach St. 78

Pro basketball NBA Eastern Conference Atlantic W L Pct Brooklyn 24 12 .667 Philadelphia 21 16 .568 Toronto 18 17 .514 New York 19 20 .487 Boston 18 21 .462 Central W L Pct Chicago 25 10 .714 Milwaukee 25 15 .625 Cleveland 21 17 .553 Indiana 14 25 .359 Detroit 7 30 .189 Southeast W L Pct Miami 24 15 .615 Charlotte 20 19 .513 Washington 19 19 .500 Atlanta 17 20 .459 Orlando 7 32 .179 Western Conference Northwest W L Pct Utah 28 10 .737 Denver 18 18 .500 Minnesota 18 20 .474 Portland 14 23 .378 Oklahoma City 13 24 .351 Pacific W L Pct Phoenix 29 8 .784 Golden State 29 9 .763 L.A. Lakers 20 19 .513 L.A. Clippers 19 19 .500 Sacramento 16 24 .400 Southwest W L Pct Memphis 26 14 .650 Dallas 20 18 .526 San Antonio 15 22 .405 New Orleans 14 25 .359 Houston 11 28 .282 Wednesday’s games Charlotte 140, Detroit 111 Philadelphia 116, Orlando 106 Houston 114, Washington 111 San Antonio 99, Boston 97 Brooklyn 129, Indiana 121 Dallas 99, Golden State 82 Toronto 117, Milwaukee 111 Minnesota 98, Oklahoma City 90 Utah 115, Denver 109 Miami 115, Portland 109 Atlanta 108, Sacramento 102 Thursday’s games New York 108, Boston 105 Memphis 118, Detroit 88 New Orleans 101, Golden State 96 L.A. Clippers at Phoenix, 10 p.m.

Friday’s games San Antonio at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Milwaukee at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.

Utah at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.

Washington at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Dallas at Houston, 8 p.m.

Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.

Sacramento at Denver, 9 p.m.

Atlanta at L.A. Lakers, 10 p.m.

Cleveland at Portland, 10 p.m.

Saturday’s games Memphis at L.A. Clippers, 3:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at Charlotte, 7 p.m.

Orlando at Detroit, 7 p.m.

Utah at Indiana, 7 p.m.

New York at Boston, 7:30 p.m.

Miami at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

GB — 3.5 5.5 6.5 7.5 GB — 2.5 5.5 13.0 19.0 GB — 4.0 4.5 6.0 17.0 GB — 9.0 10.0 13.5 14.5 GB — .5 10.0 10.5 14.5 GB — 5.0 9.5 11.5 14.5

424 407 294 PA 332 334 427 394 PA 336 315 429 363 PA 334 409 376 437 PA 345 328 341 336

Transactions COLLEGE FOOTBALL Cincinnati - Announced DE Myjai Sanders will enter the NFL draft.

Clemson - Announced WR Justyn Ross will enter the NFL draft.

Florida - Named Mike Peterson assistant coach and linebackers coach.

Hawaii - Announced DE Jonah Laulu has left the program and will transfer to Oklahoma.

Louisiana State - Announced DB Derek Stingley Jr. will enter the NFL draft.

Michigan - Announced DB Daxton Hill will enter the NFL draft.

Missouri - Announced QB Connor Bazelak has left the program and will transfer to Indiana.

Texas A&M - Announced QB Zach Calzada has left the program and will transfer to Auburn.

Texas Christian - Announced RB Zach Evans has left the program and will transfer to Mississippi.

PRO BASKETBALL National Basketball Association Boston Celtics - Announced the 10-day contract for SF Al-Farouq Aminu and C Norvel Pelle has expired.

Detroit Pistons - Announced the 10-day contract for SF Deividas Sirvydis, PG Cassius Stanley, and PG Derrick Walton Jr. has expired.

Los Angeles Lakers - Signed SF Stanley Johnson to a second 10-day contract.

Orlando Magic - Signed SF Admiral Schofield to a two-way contract.

Portland Trail Blazers - Announced the 10-day contract for SG Jarron Cumberland has expired.

Announced the 10-day contract for SF Cameron McGriff and SF Brandon Williams has expired.

San Antonio Spurs - Signed SF Anthony Lamb to a 10-day contract.

Utah Jazz - Signed SF Danuel House Jr. to a 10day contract.

Washington Wizards - Signed C Greg Monroe to a 10-day contract.

PRO FOOTBALL

Thursday’s games Knicks 108, Celtics 105 BOSTON (105) Tatum 12-21 6-6 36, Williams III 3-3 0-0 6, J.Brown 6-14 2-2 16, M.Smart 4-12 2-2 14, Horford 3-8 0-0 7, Schroder 8-12 2-3 20, Richardson 2-7 0-0 6, G.Williams 0-3 0-0 0, Freedom 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 38-80 12-13 105.

NEW YORK (108) Fournier 15-25 1-3 41, Randle 8-20 4-6 22, Burks 1-10 0-0 3, Barrett 4-15 3-4 13, M.Robinson 3-3 1-1 7, Quickley 6-12 1-1 16, Gibson 3-3 0-0 6, Toppin 0-1 0-0 0, Grimes 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 40-90 10-15 108.

Boston 25 38 21 21 —105 New York 18 29 30 31 —108 3-Point Goals—Boston 17-45 (Tatum 6-11, M.Smart 4-10, Richardson 2-3, Schroder 2-4, J.Brown 2-8, Horford 1-6, G.Williams 0-3), New York 18-36 (Fournier 10-14, Quickley 3-5, Barrett 2-4, Randle 2-8, Burks 1-4, Grimes 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Boston 38 (Williams III 9), New York 42 (Burks 9). Assists—Boston 22 (Tatum 8), New York 23 (Burks 7). Total Fouls—Boston 16 (M.Smart, Tatum, Williams III 3), New York 17 (Quickley, M.Robinson, Fournier 3). A—NA.

Pelicans 101, Warriors 96 GOLDEN STATE (96) Poole 3-14 3-3 11, An.Wiggins 7-17 6-7 21, O.Porter Jr 2-6 0-0 5, Looney 3-7 0-0 6, Payton II 2-3 0-0 4, D.Lee 5-10 1-2 12, Moody 3-6 4-4 10, Bjelica 4-6 0-0 9, Iguodala 2-3 0-0 5, Kuminga 6-14 1-2 13, Chiozza 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 37-87 15-18 96.

NEW ORLEANS (101) H.Jones 4-8 5-6 13, Ingram 12-20 7-8 32, Hart 4-10 5-6 14, Valanciunas 2-6 4-4 8, Graham 3-14 0-0 7, Temple 2-5 0-0 5, Alexander-Walker 3-9 0-0 7, Clark 3-4 1-2 10, J.Hayes 2-2 1-3 5, Alvarado 0-4 0-0 0. Totals 35-82 23-29 101.

Golden State 22 24 26 24 — 96 New Orleans 16 31 28 26 —101 3-Point Goals—Golden State 7-33 (Poole 2-9, Iguodala 1-2, Bjelica 1-3, O.Porter Jr 1-3, D.Lee 1-4, An.Wiggins 1-6, Payton II 0-1, Kuminga 0-2, Moody 0-3), New Orleans 8-34 (Clark 3-4, Alexander-Walker 1-4, Ingram 1-4, Temple 1-4, Hart 1-5, Graham 1-9, Alvarado 0-2, Valanciunas 0-2).

Fouled Out—Hart. Rebounds—Golden State 42 (Looney 9), New Orleans 46 (Ingram 11). Assists— Golden State 22 (Iguodala 7), New Orleans 20 (Ingram 6). Total Fouls—Golden State 24 (Poole 5), New Orleans 19 (Hart 6). A—NA.

Grizzlies 118, Pistons 88 DETROIT (88) Bey 1-9 0-1 3, Cunningham 5-19 0-0 12, K.Hayes 2-10 0-0 5, H.Diallo 5-12 2-3 12, Stewart 3-6 0-0 6, Lyles 3-8 3-4 10, Garza 3-8 1-1 8, McGruder 3-7 0-0 7, Jo.Jackson 4-11 0-0 8, S.Lee 4-7 4-4 14, J.Robinson 1-2 0-0 3. Totals 34-99 10-13 88.

MEMPHIS (118) Jackson Jr 5-13 0-0 11, Z.Williams 5-9 2-2 14, Morant 10-19 2-2 22, D.Brooks 8-17 1-1 18, Adams 0-2 2-6 2, Clarke 5-9 1-2 11, Melton 1-7 1-1 4, Ty.Jones 6-8 0-0 14, Tillie 2-6 0-0 5, Aldama 2-4 3-5 7, Culver 1-3 0-0 2, Jeffries 1-1 0-0 2, Mathias 2-2 0-0 6, Teske 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 48-100 12-19 118.

Detroit 18 28 22 20 — 88 Memphis 32 30 28 28 —118 3-Point Goals—Detroit 10-44 (S.Lee 2-2, Cunningham 2-10, J.Robinson 1-1, McGruder 1-2, Garza 1-4, K.Hayes 1-5, Lyles 1-5, Bey 1-8, H.Diallo 0-3, Jo.Jackson 0-4), Memphis 10-33 (Mathias 2-2, Ty.Jones 2-3, Z.Williams 2-4, D.Brooks 1-4, Jackson Jr 1-4, Tillie 1-4, Melton 1-6, Culver 0-1, Aldama 0-2, Morant 0-3). Fouled Out—None.

Rebounds—Detroit 46 (Stewart 8), Memphis 79 (Adams 14). Assists—Detroit 23 (Cunningham 6), Memphis 31 (Melton, Morant 6). Total Fouls— Detroit 14 (Stewart, Lyles 3), Memphis 19 (Clarke 4). A—13,104.

Pro football NFL American Football Conference East W L T Pct PF Buffalo 10 6 0 .625 456 New England 10 6 0 .625 438 Miami 8 8 0 .500 308 N.Y. Jets 4 12 0 .250 300 South W L T Pct PF Tennessee 11 5 0 .688 391 Indianapolis 9 7 0 .562 440 Houston 4 12 0 .250 255 Jacksonville 2 14 0 .125 227 North W L T Pct PF Cincinnati 10 6 0 .625 444 Pittsburgh 8 7 1 .531 327 Baltimore 8 8 0 .500 374 Cleveland 7 9 0 .438 328 West W L T Pct PF Kansas City 11 5 0 .688 452

L.A. Chargers 9 7 0 .562 442 Las Vegas 9 7 0 .562 339 Denver 7 9 0 .438 311 National Football Conference East W L T Pct PF Dallas 11 5 0 .688 479 Philadelphia 9 7 0 .562 418 Washington 6 10 0 .375 313 N.Y. Giants 4 12 0 .250 251 South W L T Pct PF Tampa Bay 12 4 0 .750 470 New Orleans 8 8 0 .500 334 Atlanta 7 9 0 .438 293 Carolina 5 11 0 .312 287 North W L T Pct PF Green Bay 13 3 0 .812 420 Minnesota 7 9 0 .438 394 Chicago 6 10 0 .375 294 Detroit 2 13 1 .156 288 West W L T Pct PF L.A. Rams 12 4 0 .750 436 Arizona 11 5 0 .688 419 San Francisco 9 7 0 .562 400 Seattle 6 10 0 .375 357 Week 18 Saturday’s games Kansas City at Denver, 4:30 p.m.

Dallas at Philadelphia, 8:15 p.m.

Sunday’s games Green Bay at Detroit, 1 p.m.

Indianapolis at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.

Washington at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m.

Chicago at Minnesota, 1 p.m.

Tennessee at Houston, 1 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

Cincinnati at Cleveland, 1 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Buffalo, 4:25 p.m.

New England at Miami, 4:25 p.m.

Carolina at Tampa Bay, 4:25 p.m.

New Orleans at Atlanta, 4:25 p.m.

San Francisco at L.A. Rams, 4:25 p.m.

Seattle at Arizona, 4:25 p.m.

L.A. Chargers at Las Vegas, 8:20 p.m.

PA 279 270 349 477 PA 329 339 424 446 PA 355 385 376 351 PA 340

National Football League Atlanta Falcons - Added QB Matt Barkley to the practice squad. Removed WR Marvin Hall from the practice squad.

Baltimore Ravens - Activated RB Justice Hill and DB Ar’Darius Washington from the IR/COVID-19 list. Placed RB Patrick Ricard on IR. Placed TE Nick Boyle on IR/COVID-19 list.

Carolina Panthers - Activated DT Daviyon Nixon from the IR/COVID-19 list. Placed DB Stephon Gilmore on IR/COVID-19 list. Placed WR Shi Smith on IR/COVID-19 list.

Chicago Bears - Added DE John Daka to the practice squad. Placed WR Jakeem Grant Sr. on IR. Placed QB Justin Fields on IR/COVID-19 list.

Cincinnati Bengals - Added TE Chris Myarick to the practice squad. Placed DT Larry Ogunjobi on IR/COVID-19 list.

Cleveland Browns - Added RB Benny LeMay and T Alex Taylor to the practice squad. Placed DT Malik Jackson on IR/COVID-19 list. Removed T Elijah Nkansah from the practice squad.

Dallas Cowboys - Placed DB Anthony Brown on IR/COVID-19 list. Placed T Tyron Smith on IR/ COVID-19 list.

Denver Broncos - Protected WR Tyrie Cleveland.

Detroit Lions - Waived DB Saivion Smith.

Houston Texans - Activated LB Kevin Pierre-Louis from the IR/COVID-19 list. Placed QB Jeff Driskel on IR/COVID-19 list.

Indianapolis Colts - Placed DB Andrew Sendejo on IR/COVID-19 list.

Jacksonville Jaguars - Activated DB Shaquill Griffin from the IR/COVID-19 list. Activated T Ben Bartch from the IR/COVID-19 list. Activated LB Dylan Moses from the IR/COVID-19 list. Placed T Will Richardson Jr. on IR/COVID-19 list. Placed LB Chapelle Russell on IR/COVID-19 list.

Las Vegas Raiders - Cut LB Will Compton and LB Justin March. Placed LB Marquel Lee on IR/ COVID-19 list.

Los Angeles Rams - Added WR J.J. Koski to the practice squad. Signed WR Brandon Powell.

Minnesota Vikings - Placed DB Harrison Hand on IR/COVID-19 list.

New England Patriots - Added LB LaRoy Reynolds to the practice squad. Placed DE Ronnie Perkins on IR/Designated for Return list.

New Orleans Saints - Activated TE Nick Vannett from the IR/COVID-19 list.

New York Giants - Activated WR Dante Pettis from the IR/COVID-19 list.

New York Jets - Activated DE Kyle Phillips from the IR/COVID-19 list.

Pittsburgh Steelers - Placed C Kendrick Green and WR Diontae Johnson on IR/COVID-19 list.

San Francisco 49ers - Placed DB Deommodore Lenoir on IR/COVID-19 list.

Seattle Seahawks - Activated DB Sidney Jones IV from the IR/COVID-19 list. Activated G Damien Lewis from the IR/COVID-19 list. Placed DB Ryan Neal on IR/COVID-19 list. Placed DT Al Woods on IR/COVID-19 list.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers - Waived WR Antonio Brown.

Tennessee Titans - Added DB Chris Jones and LB Joseph Jones to the practice squad.

PRO HOCKEY National Hockey League Anaheim Ducks - Assigned G Lukas Dostal, C Benoit-Olivier Groulx, RW Bryce Kindopp, C Danny O’Regan, and D Greg Pateryn to San Diego (AHL).

Recalled D Jacob Larsson from the taxi squad.

Chicago Blackhawks - Assigned RW Kurtis Gabriel and D Alec Regula to Rockford (AHL). Assigned D Nicolas Beaudin and LW Brett Connolly to the taxi squad.

Colorado Avalanche - Assigned C Callahan Burke, LW Mikhail Maltsev, and G Hunter Miska to Colorado (AHL).

Columbus Blue Jackets - Assigned G Cameron Johnson to Cleveland (AHL). Assigned D Scott Harrington to the taxi squad. Recalled D Jacob Christiansen from the taxi squad.

Dallas Stars - Assigned LW Riley Tufte to Texas (AHL).

Edmonton Oilers - Assigned G Ilya Konovalov to the taxi squad. Placed C Connor McDavid, D Tyson Barrie, and C Derek Ryan on IR COVID-19 protocol.

Los Angeles Kings - Assigned D Jordan Spence to the taxi squad.

Montreal Canadiens - Assigned LW Lukas Vejdemo to Laval (AHL). Assigned C Laurent Dauphin, C Cameron Hillis, and D Corey Schueneman to Laval (AHL).

New Jersey Devils - Assigned RW Alexander Holtz and RW Marian Studenic to the taxi squad.

New York Islanders - Assigned RW Simon Holmstrom to Bridgeport (AHL).

Ottawa Senators - Assigned D Maxence Guenette and D Lassi Thomson to Belleville (AHL). Assigned RW Logan Shaw to the taxi squad.

Philadelphia Flyers - Assigned G Felix Sandstrom and G Kirill Ustimenko to Lehigh Valley.

Washington Capitals - Assigned G Hunter Shepard to the taxi squad.

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New York Knicks guard RJ Barrett (9) makes a game-winning three point basket during the fourth quarter as Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum (0) defends at Madison Square Garden on Thursday.

NBA roundup: Knicks rally from 25 down to top Celtics at buzzer Field Level Media

RJ Barrett banked a 3-pointer at the buzzer Thursday night to cap a historic comeback by the host New York Knicks, who overcame a 25-point deficit to stun the Boston Celtics 108-105.

Evan Fournier fueled the comeback – the biggest for the Knicks since they overcame a 26-point deficit to beat the Milwaukee Bucks on March 14, 2004. He scored a career-high 41 points, including the 21-footer that tied the game for the first time at 96-96 with 4:04 left and the 3-pointer that gave New York its first lead, 99-98 with 2:07 left.

Julius Randle finished with 22 points while Immanuel Quickley had 16 points off the bench for the Knicks, who snapped a tie with the Celtics for 10th place – and the final play-in berth – in the Eastern Conference. Barrett’s game-winner gave him 13 points.

Jayson Tatum scored 13 of the Celtics’ final 15 points and finished with 36 points for the visitors, who lost a heartbreaker for the second time in as many nights. Jaylen Brown missed a layup at the buzzer

of a 99-97 loss to the San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday.

Suns 106, Clippers 89 Cameron Johnson scored a career-best 24 points and grabbed seven rebounds and Jalen Smith matched his career highs of 19 points and 14 rebounds to help Phoenix beat visiting Los Angeles and become the first NBA team to reach 30 wins this season.

Chris Paul contributed 14 points, a career-best 13 rebounds and 10 assists to register his first triple-double of the season for the Suns, whose 30-8 start is the second-best in franchise history (they were 31-7 in 2004-05).

Marcus Morris Sr. scored a season-high 26 points and grabbed eight rebounds for the Clippers, who lost for the eighth time in their past 11 games. Reggie Jackson had 16 points and Eric Bledsoe and Brandon Boston Jr. each had 10 for Los Angeles.

Pelicans 101, Warriors 96 Brandon Ingram scored a gamehigh 32 points as host New Orleans defeated short-handed Golden State.

Josh Hart added 14 points, Herb Jones scored 13 and Gary Clark had 10 off the bench as the Pelicans ended a three-game losing streak during which they had allowed an average of 124.7 points.

Andrew Wiggins scored 21 points for the Warriors, who played without Steph Curry (quad contusion) and Draymond Green (sore hip).

Grizzlies 118, Pistons 88 Ja Morant had 22 points, nine rebounds and six assists and host Memphis extended its winning streak to seven games by rolling past Detroit, which has lost 20 of its last 23 games.

Dillon Brooks contributed 18 points, five assists and three steals for the Grizzlies. Tyus Jones and Ziaire Williams supplied 14 points apiece, while Jaren Jackson Jr. and Brandon Clarke each added 11.

Saben Lee led the Pistons with 14 points off the bench. Cade Cunningham had 12 points but shot 5-for-19 from the field. Hamidou Diallo also scored 12 points and grabbed six rebounds, while Trey Lyles tossed in 10 points and made six rebounds.

NHL roundup: Stars lose lead late, edge Panthers in shootout Field Level Media

Joe Pavelski and Jason Robertson scored in the shootout as the host Dallas Stars defeated the Florida Panthers 6-5 on Thursday night.

Braden Holtby made 37 saves through overtime and stopped one shot in the shootout to earn the win. Dallas’ goals in regulation were scored by Michael Raffl, Denis Gurianov, Robertson, Tyler Seguin and Jamie Benn as the Stars erased three Panthers leads. Gurianov added two assists.

Florida’s Jonathan Huberdeau scored with 29 seconds left in regulation to send the game to overtime. Aleksander Barkov had two goals and one assist and Aaron Ekblad two assists for the Panthers, who had their four-game win streak snapped. They also got goals from Patric Hornqvist and MacKenzie Weegar.

Panthers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky made 31 saves through overtime but none in the shootout.

Golden Knights 5, Rangers 1 Mark Stone and Mattias Janmark scored in a span of 4:55 in the second period as Vegas cruised past New York in Las Vegas and spoiled the return of former coach Gerard Gallant, who led the Golden Knights to the 2018 Stanley Cup Final.

Jonathan Marchessault scored twice, and former Ranger Brett Howden also tallied as Vegas beat the Rangers for the sixth time in eight all-time meetings. Robin Lehner made 18 saves after missing five games with a lower-body injury and won his sixth straight decision.

Chris Kreider scored his 21st goal in the opening minute of the second for the Rangers, who were unable to win a fourth straight game. Goalie Igor Shesterkin was

placed in COVID-19 protocol before the game. Alexandar Georgiev replaced Shesterkin and allowed five goals on 35 shots.

Predators 4, Kings 2 Filip Forsberg notched a goal and an assist and Juuse Saros made a season-high 46 saves as surging Nashville won its third, defeating host Los Angeles.

Matt Duchene, ex-King Matt Luff and Yakov Trenin also scored while Roman Josi recorded two assists for the Central-leading Predators, who are 10-1-1 in their last 12 games. Forsberg has scored four times over the last three games.

Dustin Brown and Martin Frk had goals and Jonathan Quick made 16 saves for the Kings, who were back in action for the first time since New Year’s Day. Los Angeles entered this contest on a 6-2-1 overall stretch and had won four of five at home.

Avalanche 7, Jets 1 Gabriel Landeskog got his first hat trick in three seasons and added an assist, Nathan MacKinnon had a goal and four assists and Colorado beat Winnipeg in Denver.

Mikko Rantanen had a goal and two assists, Nazem Kadri and Bowen Byram also scored, and Darcy Kuemper stopped 34 shots for the Avalanche, who have won three straight overall and 10 in a row at home.

Mark Scheifele had a goal and Connor Hellebuyck had 35 saves for the Jets, who had their threegame winning streak snapped and fell to 3-2 under interim coach Dave Lowry.

Coyotes 6, Blackhawks 4 Johan Larsson recorded a hat trick and Travis Boyd netted one goal and two assists to lead Arizona past Chicago in Glendale, Ariz.

Clayton Keller and Dysin Mayo also scored, while Shayne Gostisbehere and Phil Kessel recorded two assists for the Coyotes. Goaltender Karel Vejmelka made 32 saves.

Jonathan Toews replied for Chicago with one goal and one assist, while Kirby Dach, MacKenzie Entwistle and Alex DeBrincat also scored. Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 20 shots.

Wild 3, Bruins 2 Matt Boldy highlighted his NHL debut in his hometown arena with his first career goal to help Minnesota snap a five-game losing streak by edging host Boston.

Boldy, a 20-year-old from nearby Millis, Mass., who starred at Boston College, was recalled from AHL’s Iowa to the team’s taxi squad on Monday. The left wing was drafted with the No. 12 overall pick by the Wild in the 2019 entry draft.

Kirill Kaprizov and Nico Sturm each had a goal, and Kaapo Kahkonen made 36 saves for the Wild.

Brad Marchand scored his teamleading 12th goal and Taylor Hall also lit the lamp for the Bruins, and Jeremy Swayman stopped 27 of 30 shots.

Penguins 6, Flyers 2 Bryan Rust had two goals and one assist, Jake Guentzel scored twice and red-hot Pittsburgh defeated host Philadelphia.

Evan Rodrigues added one goal and one assist and Brian Boyle also scored for the Penguins, who have won 10 in a row. Rust has scored eight goals in his last four games.

Cam Atkinson and Oskar Lindblom scored for the Flyers, who dropped their fourth straight.

Flyers goaltender Carter Hart stopped 26 shots.

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Joe Manniello’s Week 18 NFL picks Joe Manniello Newsday

Week 18 presents a big challenge. Unlike past Week 17s, there aren’t as many playoff-implication games, but still plenty of, “Who’s resting?

Who’s playing? And for how long?” questions.

With so much uncertainty, the smart play is to just focus on one or two games where the playing field is even. Let us get all the other games wrong.

Underdogs went 7-9 against the spread (ATS) last week and have lost their season lead after once having a huge advantage. Favorites are 127126-2.

My most confident picks ATS this week are Tampa Bay, Kansas City and the L.A. Chargers.

Stay away from many, especially Dallas-Philadelphia and Cincinnati-Cleveland.

GAME OF THE WEEK L.A. CHARGERS (9-7) AT LAS VEGAS (9-7) TV: NBC, 8:20 p.m.

L.A. by 3; O/U: 49.5 The final game of the final week of the regular season is basically a playoff game, with the winner getting an AFC wild-card spot. Weird scenario alert: I saw on Twitter earlier that if the Colts were to somehow lose to the Jaguars, the Chargers and Raiders would both make the playoffs ... if they tied! Imagine 60 minutes of kneel-downs and a 0-0 finish. John Madden would laugh about that.

Speaking of the legend, my heart wanted to take the Raiders because of him. But my head intervened and said go with the better quarterback and better team talent-wise. Justin Herbert threw three touchdown passes in the Chargers’ 28-14 win over the Raiders on MNF back in Week 4.

Sometimes it’s best to keep NFL picking simple and just take the team that “should” win. That’s the Chargers.

The pick: L.A. Chargers SATURDAY’S GAMES KANSAS CITY (11-5) AT DENVER (7-9) TV: ESPN, ABC, 4:30 p.m.

Kansas City by 11.5; O/U: 45.5 Kansas City’s loss last week knocked itself out of the AFC’s 1 seed. It needs to beat Denver and then hope Tennessee loses to Houston again. The second part is unlikely to happen, but with this game being on Saturday, KC can only take care of its own business and it will. Patrick Mahomes is 8-0 vs. Denver, including a 22-9 win earlier this season.

The pick: Kansas City DALLAS (11-5) AT PHILADELPHIA (9-7) TV: ESPN, ABC, 8:20 p.m.

Dallas by 4.5; O/U: 43.5 Both NFC East rivals are in the playoffs, and only positioning is at stake. The Cowboys are off a loss and may be motivated to enter the postseason with a win. The Eagles have had some COVID issues this week, and it’s unclear who will play, and for how long.

The pick: Dallas SUNDAY’S 1 P.M. GAMES

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Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert (10) throws a pass Las Vegas Raiders during the second half at SoFi Stadium on Oct. 4.

WASHINGTON (6-10) AT GIANTS (4-12) Washington by 7; O/U: 38 These teams played a thriller on TNF in Week 2, a frustrating 30-29 Giants loss. Remember when they used to lose those kinds of heartbreakers?

Now, they’re not even competitive. This is a big number for a road team to lay in a rivalry game, but can Jake Fromm and the Giants (0-5 overall and ATS in their last five) score 14-plus?

The pick: Washington INDIANAPOLIS (9-7) AT JACKSONVILLE (2-14) Indianapolis by 15.5; O/U: 44 It’s win-&-Indy for the Colts, so expect them to run wild against a Jaguars team that has lost eight in a row and can’t wait for this season to be over.

The only thing to worry about is the backdoor cover, but Jacksonville just lost, 50-10, at New England, it likely won’t even be an issue.

The pick: Indianapolis TENNESSEE (11-5) AT HOUSTON (4-12) Tennessee by 10; O/U: 43 The Titans have double motivation: No. 1, well, the No. 1 seed. If Tennessee wins, it gets home field for the AFC playoffs. If that’s not enough, the Texans embarrassed them in Tennessee, a 22-13 shocker back in Week 11.

The pick: Tennessee CINCINNATI (10-6) AT CLEVELAND (7-9) Cleveland by 6; O/U: 38 Joe Burrow and Baker Mayfield are both out, so who knows what will happen in this game? Sit it out like them, but if you must make a pick, take the points. The Bengals’ backups will play hard with the postseason a week away.

The pick: Cincinnati

PITTSBURGH (8-7-1) AT BALTIMORE (8-8) Baltimore by 6; O/U: 41.5 Both need to win and get help to make the playoffs. Expect a close game like their first meeting, a 20-19 Steelers comeback in Week 13 when John Harbaugh went for 2 and didn’t get it. The Ravens’ five-game losing streak started in that game. It wouldn’t shock me if they snapped it here, but the spread seems a tad high for a great rivalry game.

The pick: Pittsburgh GREEN BAY (13-3) AT DETROIT (2-13-1) Green Bay by 3.5; O/U: 44.5 Green Bay laying under a TD against Detroit?

That would usually be the steal of the week, but this isn’t your average week. The Packers have clinched the NFC’s 1 seed, so it’s unclear how long they’ll play Aaron Rodgers and starters.

Maybe a half? Considering the Lions have been a winner ATS all season, let’s take them one last time and hope they show up.

The pick: Detroit CHICAGO (6-10) AT MINNESOTA (7-9) Minnesota by 5.5; O/U: 44.5 Kirk Cousins will be back, and Chicago won’t have the same success against the guys in purple like it did last week against Big Blue. The Vikings won the first matchup, 17-9 (it was 17-3 till a lastsecond TD) on MNF just three weeks ago.

The pick: Minnesota 4 P.M. GAMES JETS (4-12) AT BUFFALO (10-6) Buffalo by 16.5; O/U: 41.5 The Bills are AFC East champs with a win, so expect them to be focused. They won the first

matchup, 45-17, in Week 10. I’ll take a shot that the Jets are more competitive this time. They had the defending champs on the ropes last week, have shown some fight from time to time and you have to think Zach Wilson and a young team will want to end Robert Saleh’s first year with a valiant effort.

The pick: Jets NEW ENGLAND (10-6) AT MIAMI (8-8) New England by 6.5; O/U: 40 Miami hasn’t had this weird of a season since Ace Ventura! The Dolphins started with a onepoint win at New England, then lost seven in a row before becoming the first NFL team to follow up a seven-game losing streak with a sevengame winning streak. The good vibes got crushed last Sunday in Tennessee, as did Miami’s playoff chances. Still, Brian Flores’ bunch won’t quit against a division rival so I expect a close game.

The pick: Miami LOCK OF THE WEEK CAROLINA (5-11) AT TAMPA BAY (12-4) Tampa Bay by 8; O/U: 41.5 This one is simple: Since Tom Brady has joined the Bucs, this NFC South rivalry has been onesided: Bucs 31-17, Bucs 46-23, Bucs 32-6. That last score was just two weeks ago. Tampa Bay will use this as a tune-up for next week’s playoff opener as it begins its title defense.

The pick: Tampa Bay NEW ORLEANS (8-8) AT ATLANTA (7-9) New Orleans by 4; O/U: 40 The Saints can still make the playoffs while the Falcons are out of it, but this is a division rivalry so expect a close one. Atlanta won the first matchup, 27-25, in Week 9, and this could be another down-to-the-wire finish.

The pick: Atlanta SAN FRANCISCO (9-7) AT L.A. RAMS (12-4) L.A. by 4; O/U: 44.5 The Rams are NFC West champs with a win or Cardinals loss. This won’t be easy, not against a 49ers team that also needs to win to clinch a wild-card spot. San Francisco dominated the first matchup, a 31-10 win on MNF in Week 10. The Rams have won five in a row to get their season back on track, but they have a five-game losing streak against the 49ers. Even if they snap it, the spread should come into play.

The pick: San Francisco SEATTLE (6-10) AT ARIZONA (11-5) Arizona by 6.5; O/U: 48 The Cardinals need to win and have the Rams lose to win the NFC West. If not, they’ll stay the 5 seed. Colt McCoy and Arizona won at Seattle, 23-13, in Week 11. Even with Kyler Murray playing this time, I expect a much closer game. If this is Russell Wilson’s final game in Seattle, he won’t want his lasting memory to be a dud.

The pick: Seattle

Todd Haley among four new USFL coaches Field Level Media

Former NFL head coach Todd Haley is among a group of four coaches announced Thursday to head teams for the 2022 USFL season.

Haley is the new head coach of the Tampa Bay Bandits, joining former Texas A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin (Houston Gamblers), former NFL head

coach Mike Riley (New Jersey Generals) and longtime CFL and NFL Europe head coach Bart Andrus (Philadelphia Stars).

The announcement came on the 100th day until kickoff of the season.

The first games will be played on April 16. Every game in the inaugural season will be played in one centralized

location, to be announced.

The four remaining coaches will be revealed at a later date. The other teams are the New Orleans Breakers, Birmingham Stallions, Michigan Panthers and Pittsburgh Maulers.

The USFL’s return comes after the league originally played three seasons starting in 1982 and included players

like Jim Kelly, Steve Young, Reggie White, Herschel Walker, Doug Flutie and Mike Rozier. While the new league obtained original USFL trademarks, including logos and team names, it is not associated with the previous entity.

Haley was the head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs for parts of three seasons from 2009-11. He went 19-26.

He was also a longtime offensive coordinator with the Arizona Cardinals, Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns.

Riley was head coach of the thenSan Diego Chargers from 1999-2001.

He went 14-34. He also coached Oregon State - twice - and Nebraska, racking up a 112-99 record.

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The final week of the NFL’s 17-game season could see several players enter the record books Des Bieler The Washington Post

The NFL’s unprecedented 17-game regular season is giving players an extended opportunity to rewrite the record books - and Cooper Kupp has a bit of an issue with that.

“What those guys did in 16 games, it wouldn’t seem right for those [records] to be broken in 17 games,” the Los Angeles Rams wide receiver said this week. “It wouldn’t hold the same weight to me as it does for guys that have done that in a 16-game season.”

Reporters asked Kupp for his thoughts on the matter because he has a chance Sunday to put up bigger numbers than a pair of “those guys” - in his case, Calvin Johnson and Michael Thomas. While with the Detroit Lions in 2012, Johnson set the NFL’s single-season receiving mark with 1,964 yards, and the New Orleans Saints’ Thomas raised the single-season receptions bar with 149 in 2019.

Kupp enters the Rams’ Week 18 game against the San Francisco 49ers with 138 catches for 1,829 yards in 16 games. He can use the extra game to

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will need to tag along on road trips because Irving still isn’t eligible to play in Brooklyn’s home games because of New York’s vaccine mandate.

“A lot of gratitude to just be present tonight with everyone,” Irving said after shooting 9 for 17 in 32 minutes, “to go out there and have fun doing what we love to do.”

The Nets have been in a bit of a rut since their roster was swamped by coronavirus protocol absences last month, and Irving’s return proved his tantalizing offensive gifts are still capable of helping his team play at a faster and more dangerous pace. At the same time, his clutch jumpers and

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intersection of Fisher Ave. and S. Lexington Ave. on the morning of his arrest. A guilty DWI verdict could have carried up to a year in jail. Instead, the 45-year-old was given two tickets that will cost him $100

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The fact that it was an accident was irrelevant and Djokovic, who seemed a near-lock to win the tournament with Federer and Nadal both not playing, was gone before the end of the first week.

He has, in fact, kept himself in the news off the court since the pandemic began.

He put together an exhibition event in Serbia and Croatia that summer with few covid precautions, leading to an outbreak in which he and his wife, among others, tested positive. Since then, he has repeatedly refused to answer questions about whether he’s

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over Sam Van Auken (Fall 3:14); 132: Schuyler Wilson (G) over Finn Gallogly (CA) (Dec. 9-8); 138: Kieran Cullen (G) over Aidan Smedstad (TF

top Thomas with 12 catches, and to move past Johnson if he goes over 135 receiving yards. Given that Kupp has averaged 13.3 receptions per game for 114.3 yards, and that Los Angeles is playing for a division title, he figures to have a great shot at both marks.

Kupp isn’t the only NFL player who can supplant a 16-game record with a new league standard. Among those set to play Sunday with some history at stake are Tom Brady, T.J. Watt and Ja’Marr Chase.

Of that group, Chase arguably has the best opportunity, because the Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver is within 44 yards of the record for rookie receiving yards, set at 1,473 by the Houston Oilers’ Bill Groman in 1960. Drafted fifth overall last year, Chase has had some ups and downs this season, but he has caught fire in the past two weeks with games of 125 and a franchise-record 266 yards.

Just one catch (so to speak): With the Bengals having already clinched their division, Coach Zac Taylor said this week that Chase will “potentially” be rested Sunday against the Cleveland

Browns.

Another player with a great shot at a rookie record, but who also might not be able to make the most of his Week 18 chance, is Kyle Pitts. The Atlanta Falcons tight end, drafted fourth in April, needs just 59 receiving yards to one-up the mark of 1,076 set at his position by the Chicago Bears’ Mike Ditka in 1961. However, Pitts missed some practice time this week with a hamstring injury.

Assuming Jaylen Waddle is healthy, he should be a shoo-in to break the rookie record for receptions, set at 101 by the Arizona Cardinals’ Anquan Boldin in 2003. Waddle, drafted sixth by the Miami Dolphins, enters Sunday with 99 receptions over 15 games played, having sat out a Week 15 contest while in the coronavirus protocols. Thus it should please Kupp to know that if Waddle bests Boldin, he will have done so in the time-honored span of games.

Watt, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ star pass rusher, has missed two games this season with assorted injuries, so he would need even fewer than 16 to

possibly break the NFL’s single-season sack record Sunday. After racking up four sacks last week in a win over the Browns, Watt is suddenly just one behind the total of 22.5 notched in 2001 by the New York Giants’ Michael Strahan. Watt could easily stay hot against the Baltimore Ravens, who face Pittsburgh and have allowed a league-high 54 sacks this season.

For its part, Baltimore could well make a point of feeding passes to tight end Mark Andrews, in part because that’s been its M.O. all season. In fact, Andrews’s 1,276 receiving yards are already a Ravens record for any position, and his 99 catches are just four away from the franchise mark. More importantly for this exercise, Andrews is 141 yards away from breaking the NFL record for tight ends set by the Kansas City Chiefs’ Travis Kelce in 2020. Andrews has had games with 147 and 136 yards this season, so it’s hardly out of the question, especially if it turns out to be a priority for Ravens Coach John Harbaugh, who has shown in the past that he is willing to be aggressive about making history.

Those who want to see Brady set multiple records Sunday will probably need the Carolina Panthers to put up a surprisingly strong fight, much as the New York Jets did last week in forcing Brady to throw 50 times to secure a comeback win. That put Brady at 682 pass attempts this season, within 45 of the league mark set by the Detroit Lions’ Matthew Stafford in 2012.

With his 410 passing yards against the Jets, Brady got to 4,990, giving him an outside shot of topping old pal Peyton Manning’s record of 5,477, set with the Denver Broncos in 2013.

It has to be considered unlikely that Brady gets there in either category particularly without the pass-catching services of Antonio Brown - but it shouldn’t be too much trouble for him to reach the record for most completions. That’s held at 471, set by the Saints’ Drew Brees in 2016, and Brady goes into Sunday with 456.

Finally, we have a number that not only should be out of reach, but no player would want his team to get there.

timely runouts served as reminders that Irving can only be a half-savior at best for the foreseeable future. The more Brooklyn relies on him in key moments, the more obvious his absence will be when he’s sidelined. Getting Irving to this point was a heavy lift, but the trials have just begun.

Consider that Durant, James Harden and the rest of the eligible Nets will host Giannis Antetokounmpo and the defending champion Milwaukee Bucks on Friday for a rematch of last year’s thrilling second-round playoff series.

Irving, of course, won’t be available for that nationally televised showdown at Barclays Center. He will be sidelined for four of Brooklyn’s next six games as he works on his conditioning, rhythm and fit with his teammates. And

unless New York changes its health guidelines for indoor events, Irving will be ineligible for all home games in the upcoming playoffs.

“I’m just taking it one day at a time,” Irving said when asked if he might consider getting vaccinated to restore his full eligibility. “It’s not an ideal situation. I’m always praying that things get figured out and that we’re able to come to some collective agreement.”

The Nets, who sent Irving home in October because of his vaccine refusal before reversing course shortly before Christmas, now enter the next stage in their maddening cycle of uncertainty. Forced to accommodate Irving, Nash will need to alter his starting lineups and adjust Durant’s and Harden’s minutes as he tries to jump-start his

underperforming offense and coax better defensive effort.

In the afterglow of Wednesday’s comeback, the Nets understandably focused on the benefits of Irving’s return rather than these potential complications.

“It was incredible,” Durant said. “I just missed his presence around the locker room, his energy and vibe around the team. His game is just so beautiful. It makes the game so much easier for everybody out there. It was amazing to see him out there on the floor again. The game of basketball is happy to have him back.”

While the game has missed Irving’s elite ballhandling and shot-making, it remains to be seen how, exactly, his return will be received by the masses.

With so much roster disruption over the past month, his

part-time availability might be easy to gloss over in the short term. But if he remains unvaccinated and there is no resolution by the playoffs, Irving will face another round of intense scrutiny over a decision that he has struggled to explain.

No matter how well he plays, Irving will be the most obvious scapegoat if Brooklyn fails to deliver on its championshipor-bust expectations.

“We have that target on our back,” Irving acknowledged.

“We have aspirations to be playing later in the postseason.”

If he has an off shooting night, people will wonder if he’s rusty because he’s not playing every night. If he doesn’t consistently play at an all-star level, talking heads will note that he sat out for months. If Brooklyn’s defense

lags, critics will assert that his absence was bad for chemistry. If the Nets lose when he is sidelined, many will blame him for letting down his teammates. If he is unavailable for a do-or-die Game 7, Twitter better reinforce its servers.

By this point, Irving is accustomed to criticism and pressure, and he responded well Wednesday by ripping the headlines from Stephenson’s grasp. Even so, the next five or six months are bound to be exhausting for the Nets, who ran out of gas last year and labored through the first two months of this season before bending their principles in the hope that Irving will help drag them across the finish line.

An aspiring contender with so much talent should never be stuck living such a precarious existence.

each, according to reports.

“We are grateful for the judge’s diligent attention and consideration of the evidence, and believe he arrived at the only conclusion possible,” said Bruce Bendish, Scott’s attorney. “While we understand and appreciate the reasons why the police officers suspected that Mr. Scott was driving while intoxicated, and respect their decision to place

him under arrest, the simple fact was that Mr. Scott was not intoxicated or impaired by alcohol that evening.”

Scott was originally scheduled for sentencing on Dec. 16, but he came down with COVID-19, delaying the case until Thursday. When he was arrested, Scott refused a breathalyzer test and failed a field sobriety test. However, during the court proceedings, Judge

Eric Press said that police bodycam footage from the scene “didn’t indicate a person was intoxicated by any stretch of the imagination.”

“The evidence showed conclusively that Mr. Scott’s ability to operate a car was in no way impaired by alcohol,” Bendish’s statement read after the not-guilty verdict.

The event at Cohen’s home was a fundraiser for the

team’s charity attended by other members of the Mets’ organization as well, including players. Reports indicate that things had wrapped up around 9 p.m., several hours before Scott was found in his 2018 Toyota Highlander.

“I believe this humbling experience will make me a better husband, father, son, friend, and leader, and I look forward to what the future holds,”

Scott added.

vaccinated, making it clear that he’s not.

For months, Australian Open officials insisted that no one - players, staff members, media or fans - would be allowed into their tournament without proof of vaccination or a valid medical exemption.

Djokovic applied for the latter and, on Tuesday, without explaining why, tournament director Craig Tiley announced that Djokovic had been granted the exemption by “two independent panels” and would be allowed to compete.

Needless to say, this set off an uproar in Australia, where strict covid protocols have helped keep the death toll down. A year ago, during the tournament in Melbourne, fans were frequently forced to leave the stadium with

matches still going on because of strict curfews.

No one was buying Tiley’s claim that Djokovic wasn’t being granted a special privilege.

Tiley refused to name the other players who had supposedly received similar exemptions, and refused to explain why Djokovic’s exemption was granted. Djokovic, who would be free to do so, hasn’t given any explanation as to why he applied for an exemption.

In short, if you believe Djokovic wasn’t granted a special privilege, Tiley has some oceanfront land in the Australian Outback he’d like to sell you.

One person who clearly hasn’t bought Tiley’s claims is Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

“Mr. Djokovic’s visa has

been canceled,” Morrison wrote in a tweet after Djokovic was detained. “Rules are rules especially when it comes to our borders. No one is above these rules. Our strong border policies have been critical to Australia having one of the lowest death rates in the world from COVID, we are continuing to be vigilant.”

No hedging there.

The shame in all this is that Djokovic should be venerated by tennis fans the way Federer and Nadal are venerated. The fact that the three stars have each won 20 major titles - Pete Sampras held the record at 14 until they came along - while competing against one another for the bulk of their careers is extraordinary.

Djokovic came up behind Federer and Nadal and for

years has been viewed by many, if not most, tennis fans as an uninvited interloper. Often, he is the black hat to the crowd when playing one of the other two. And yet, he has always hung in and proven to be their competitive equal - at least.

At his best, Djokovic is smart and thoughtful and - in my opinion - likable. At his worst, he is bafflingly stupid for someone who is clearly bright.

He has often treated covid like those who insist it’s little more than a cold, despite the horrifying numbers worldwide that make it clear that’s not the case. Now, he’s also turned it into a political issue, one in which there appear to be no good guys.

Sadly, this is not unusual

for tennis, which has about a dozen different ruling bodies, all of which manage to do a lousy job of running the sport.

When everyone claims to be in charge, no one is in charge.

And now, Djokovic has become the leading man in an international incident. He may yet get to play in Melbourne, and if he does, the tournament will be a soap opera for as long as he’s still playing.

Or, he won’t get to play and will face the embarrassment of being deported and missing a chance - at least for the moment - to become the all-time champion of men’s tennis.

No one has worked harder to be taken seriously as a great champion than Djokovic.

Now, he’s become a sad joke.

15-0 0:00); 145: Bernard Davis (G) over Nicholas Moyer (Fall 1:56); 152: Joseph Martinez (CA) over Joseph Davis (Dec. 9-3); 160: Schyler Caringi (CA) over Eric Heath (MD 13-5); 172: Anthony Iamunno (CA) over Adler Karle (Fall 3:08); 189: Ryan Ulscht (CA) over Cole Flannery (Dec. 10-6); 215: Jack Van Gordon (G) over

Brendan Woytowich (Dec. 7-2).

BOYS VOLLEYBALL PATROON Taconic Hills 3, Cobleskill 0 CRARYVILLE — Taconic Hills blanked Cobleskill-Richmondville, 3-0, in Thursday’s Patroon Conference boys volleyball match.

The Titans won by scores of

25-21, 25-13 and 25-20.

For TH: Ryan Walch 11 digs, Adonias Mercado 10 digs and 6 kills, Ben Nardone 8 kills, Lucas Chamberlain 6 digs and 5 kills.

BOWLING PATROON Maple Hill 4, Catskill 1 Kate Ackerman rolled a 210584 to lead Maple Hill to a 4-1

victory over Catskill in Thursday’s Patroon Conference bowling match.

Owen Leahon had a 268582 for the Wildcats. Cameron Burns added a 211-575 and Hannah Gardner hit a 193534.

Mike Jubie had the hot hand for the Cats, throwing games of 279, 278 and 160 for a 717

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Team president Sandy Alderson assumed the general manager duties after Scott was put on leave, playing out the rest of the season in that role.

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of 216, 245 and 181 for a 642 trio.

Maple Hill had games of 1,138, 1,019 and 1,013 for a total pinfall of 3.170. Catskill hit a 1,019, 1,085 and 977 for 3,081.

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2022 NFL mock draft: Eagles land edge rusher, wide receiver and safety in first-round projections Eddie Brown The San Diego Union-Tribune

Both Jacksonville and Detroit have home games to close out the 2022 season.

The Jaguars face an Indianapolis Colts squad who will clinch a playoff spot with a victory. The Lions are matched up with the Green Bay Packers, who have already locked up home-field advantage by virtue of tiebreakers over the Los Angeles Rams and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

These circumstances favor the Jaguars securing the top overall pick in April’s NFL draft.

Part of my weekly mock preamble explains it is an attempt at figuring out the best players available in this season’s draft class, and which teams they’d match up well with considering the draft order courtesy of NFL.com. The closer we get to draft day, the more I attempt to match what teams will actually do with their draft picks as opposed to what I believe they should do.

Last season, I was the fourth most accurate NFL draft prognosticator in print according to The Huddle Report. I’m tied for seventh overall (out of 133) over the past five years.

The NFL draft has become a nice appetizer before our main course in September. A mock version of said draft is meant to educate, and even entertain. At very least, it helps you pass the time.

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Here’s an updated version of my 2022 NFL mock draft: FIRST ROUND 1. Jacksonville (2-14) -- Aidan Hutchinson, Edge, Michigan, Sr. Before drafting Trevor Lawrence, the Jaguars selected an edge rusher in back-to-back drafts -- K’Lavon Chaisson and Josh Allen -- so auctioning the first pick off would make sense considering all of the holes on this roster. Until we have more clarity, the Jags get the Heisman runner-up. Hutchinson’s season had been on par with Chase Young’s 2019 campaign before Georgia held him to four total tackles (one for loss) in the College Football Playoff semifinal.

Top needs: Edge, WR, DB 2. Detroit (2-13-1) -- Kayvon Thibodeaux, Edge, Oregon, So. The Lions have been near the bottom of the league in sacks and QB pressure rate the last three seasons. It wouldn’t surprise me if evaluators fall in love with Thibodeaux’s upside over Hutchinson’s ready-made package. Top needs: QB, WR, DB 3. Houston (4-12) -- Evan Neal, T, Alabama, Jr. NFL teams usually can’t help themselves when it comes to the quarterback position, but this is too high for a signal-caller in this draft class. Thankfully for the Texans, every position is a position of need. Neal is a physical specimen (6-foot-7, 350 pounds) who has improved every season in Tuscaloosa and thrived at both left and right tackle. Top needs: QB, WR, OL 4. N.Y. Jets (4-12) -- Kyle Hamilton, S, Notre Dame, Jr. There’s been only one safety chosen with a top-five pick since 1992 (Sean Taylor in 2004).

Hamilton exceeded high expectations before suffering a minor knee injury. At 6-foot-4, 220 pounds, a defensive coordinator’s imagination could be the only thing that will limit the modern hybrid defender’s potential. Top needs: Edge, DB, LB 5. N.Y. Giants (4-12) -- George Karlaftis, Edge, Purdue, Jr. Passing on Micah Parsons could haunt the G-Men for years. Karlaftis has been one of the most consistent pass rushers in the nation during his three seasons in West Lafayette. His inside-outside versatility would fit nicely within defensive coordinator Patrick Graham’s scheme. Top needs: OL, Edge, LB 6. Carolina (5-11) -- Kenny Pickett, QB, Pittsburgh, Sr. Matt Rhule recruited Pickett while he was head coach of Temple and actually got him to commit before a bigger program was able to lure him away. This time the Heisman finalist won’t have the final say if the Panthers can’t land Deshaun Watson or Aaron Rodgers this offseason. Top needs: QB, OL, LB 7. N.Y. Jets from Seattle (6-10) -- Derek Stingley Jr., CB, LSU, Jr. The Jets haven’t had a cornerback in the Pro Bowl since Darrelle Revis in 2015. Stingley

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Michigan Wolverines defensive end Aidan Hutchinson (97) in the second quarter against the Iowa Hawkeyes at Lucas Oil Stadium on Dec. 4.

features rare ball-tracking skills that make him a threat to take the ball away anytime it’s in his vicinity. As an 18-year-old, he produced one of the most impressive true freshman seasons in college football history in 2019. Durability has been a concern ever since. Top needs: Edge, DB, LB 8. N.Y. Giants from Chicago (6-10) -- Ikem Ekwonu, T, NC State, So. The Giants need to add toughness and athleticism to their offense and Ekwonu has been the most dominant run-blocking tackle in the country this season -- it really hasn’t been close. Top needs: OL, Edge, LB 9. Washington (6-10) -- Matt Corral, QB, Mississippi, Jr. The Team That Shall Be Named in February could lose some significant contributors to its offensive line in free agency, but there’s no bigger need than who will be handling the snaps.

Corral is slightly undersized, but he’s a NFLcaliber playmaker with genuine arm talent. His X-rays were negative after he injured his ankle in Saturday’s loss to Baylor in the Sugar Bowl.

Top needs: QB, WR, DB 10. Atlanta (7-9) -- Garrett Wilson, WR, Ohio St., Jr. The Falcons have a potential out in Matt Ryan’s deal after this season that would save almost $24 million towards 2022, but the two prospects they’d likely consider as a replacement are off the board. Wilson’s ability to threaten a defense at every level would pair nicely with Calvin Ridley. Ridley and Frank Darby are the only wide receivers Atlanta has under contract beyond the current season.

Top needs: WR, Edge, DB 11. Denver (7-9) -- Devin Lloyd, LB, Utah, Jr. I’d give the Broncos a quarterback here if I wasn’t convinced Aaron Rodgers was a lock to end up in the Mile High city. Instead, I give Vic Fangio (assuming he’s going to remain the coach) the playmaking linebacker he has coveted since he left Chicago. The Otay Ranch product can rush the passer (he has seven sacks), impact the run game and make plays in coverage -- he has four interceptions this season. Top needs: QB, Edge, LB 12. Cleveland (7-9) -- Nakobe Dean, LB, Georgia, Jr. Linebacker will be a priority once again if the Browns lose Anthony Walker and Malcolm Smith in free agency. Dean is a dynamic blitzer who is capable of making plays all over the field and would create one of the fastest linebacking duos with Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah. Top needs: WR, DL, Edge 13. Minnesota (7-9) -- Ahmad Gardner, CB, Cincinnati, Jr. Patrick Peterson and Bashaud Breeland were only signed to one-year deals and neither has played well enough to be asked back -- Breeland has already been released. Gardner made it through the playoff loss to Alabama unscathed. He finished his collegiate career with 1,100-plus snaps with nine interceptions and zero touchdowns allowed. Top needs: CB, G, Edge 14. Philadelphia from Miami (8-8) -- David Ojabo, Edge, Michigan, Jr. It wasn’t long ago that the Eagles had three

of the top 14 picks. It’s been quite the turnaround, but no thanks to the pass rush. The defense is tied for the second-fewest sacks in the league. After playing only 26 snaps for the Wolverines before his junior year, Ojabo has been a revelation this season with 11 sacks and five forced fumbles. A successful showing at the combine could help him crack the top 10.

Top needs: WR, S, LB 15. New Orleans (8-8) -- Jameson Williams, WR, Alabama, Jr. The Saints are either drafting a quarterback or wide receiver in the first round. Williams’ explosiveness has been on full display after transferring from Ohio State to the tune of 1,507 yards on 75 receptions (20.1 yards per catch) and 15 touchdowns. Top needs: QB, WR, S 16. Baltimore (8-8) -- Charles Cross, T, Mississippi St., So. You might want to constantly replenish the talent on your offensive line if running the football is your team’s identity. Cross is a powerful blocker who can do damage at the second level in the run game with premium athleticism and his target-lock awareness. He developed into a dominant pass protector this season and could end up cracking the top-10 in April. Top needs: OL, CB, LB 17. Pittsburgh (8-7-1) -- Sam Howell, QB, North Carolina, Jr. Ben Roethlisberger will likely call it quits at the end of this season. Howell possesses impressive arm talent and proved he is a legitimate threat as a runner this season despite failing to meet big expectations. He also recently accepted an invitation to play in the Senior Bowl. His performance in Mobile will impact his draft stock significantly. Top needs: QB, CB, T 18. Las Vegas (9-7) -- Drake London, WR, USC, Jr. The loss of Henry Ruggs will loom large this offseason. Hunter Renfrow has enjoyed a breakout season, but he’s not a true No. 1 wide receiver. London leads the nation in contested catches with 19 and he hasn’t played since Oct. 30 after his season ended with a broken ankle.

Top needs: WR, DL, OL 19. Philadelphia (9-7) -- Treylon Burks, WR, Arkansas, Jr. Drafting Jalen Reagor over Justin Jefferson remains a mystery to me. You’re not going to find a better combination of size (6-foot-3, 225 pounds) and speed at wide receiver in this class. Burks is a vertical threat, but also features immense YAC ability -- he broke 15 tackles on 66 receptions this season. He’d pair nicely with DeVonta Smith and go along way in correcting the Reagor mistake. Top needs: WR, S, LB 20. Miami from San Francisco (9-7) -- Kenyon Green, OL, Texas A&M, Jr. Offensive line has been a disaster for the Dolphins this season and I expect them to address it in the draft and free agency, where they will have a projected NFL-high $77.1 million. Green can play either guard or tackle -- he made starts at every single offensive line position except center this season. Top needs: RB, OL, LB 21. L.A. Chargers (9-7) -- Jordan Davis, DL,

Georgia, Sr. Only the Texans and Steelers have allowed more rushing yards per game this season. At 6-foot-6, 340 pounds, the Outland and Bednarik trophy winner is an immovable object who could anchor the Chargers’ run defense for years to come. Top needs: DL, WR, Edge 22. Philadelphia from Indianapolis (9-7) -Jaquan Brisker, S, Penn St., Sr. Safeties Rodney McLeod and Anthony Harris have alternated between mediocre and bad this season. Both will be free agents. Brisker is a polished, physical playmaker with few holes in his game. Top needs: WR, S, LB 23. Cincinnati (10-6) -- Tyler Linderbaum, OL, Iowa, Jr. The Bengals’ offensive line has improved with a healthy Jonah Williams at left tackle, but the interior still needs to be addressed. Drafting the Rimington Trophy winner and unanimous All-American is a steal here and would help Joe Burrow (and Who-Dey Nation) rest easier at night. Top needs: OL, DB, LB 24. New England (10-6) -- Trent McDuffie, CB, Washington, Jr. J.C. Jackson will be an unrestricted free agent and has likely priced himself out of the Patriots’ offseason plans. McDuffie plays bigger than his 5-11 frame. He’s one of the surest tacklers at the position in this draft class and his instincts are second-to-none. Top needs: DB, T, WR 25. Buffalo (10-6) -- Darian Kinnard, T, Kentucky, Sr. The Bills offensive line has underperformed so far. Kinnard is a mauler who happens to be a gifted athlete as well. You won’t find many 6-foot-5, 345-pounders who move and change direction like him. Top needs: OL, LB, DL 26. Tennessee (11-5) -- Kaiir Elam, CB, Florida, Jr. The Titans will likely address wide receiver and the tight end position this offseason, but their leaky secondary has to be a priority as well. Elam is a 6-foot-2 corner with elite ball skills who fine-tuned his technique after an underwhelming sophomore season. Top needs: CB, DL, WR 27. Dallas (11-5) -- DeMarvin Leal, DL, Texas A&M, Jr. The interior defensive line has been the weakness of an otherwise improved defense.

Leal features inside-outside versatility and is an asset against the run or pass despite not taking a step forward his junior season. Top needs: LB, S, TE 28. Arizona (11-5) -- Chris Olave, WR, Ohio St., Sr. A.J. Green and Christian Kirk are both free agents following this season. It’s rare you find a route technician with reliable hands who can also run this fast. The Mission Hills product might have slid into the first round had he left school last year and it wouldn’t surprise me if he cracks the top-20. Top needs: WR, OL, DB 29. Kansas City (11-5) -- Cameron Thomas, Edge, San Diego St., Jr. Frank Clark’s inconsistency and Melvin Ingram’s impending free agency makes edge rusher a priority. Thomas has been the most dominant pass rusher in college football this side of Ann Arbor. Top needs: WR, Edge, DL 30. Detroit from L.A. Rams (12-4)-- Roger McCreary, CB, Auburn, Sr. If there’s a quarterback the Lions fall in love with, he’ll likely be selected here if he’s available. Otherwise, they miss out on the top wide receiver talent in this exercise so I address another dire need. McCreary simply doesn’t allow much separation and he’s battle-tested out of the SEC. Top needs: QB, WR, DB 31. Tampa Bay (12-4) -- Drake Jackson, Edge, USC, Jr. Jason Pierre-Paul, William Gholston and Ndamukong Suh are all free agents. Jackson can play in space or rush the passer off the edge, and would be a suitable replacement for Pierre-Paul if he leaves. Top needs: DL, CB, OL 32. Green Bay (13-3) -- David Bell, WR, Purdue, Jr. It’s very likely Davante Adams doesn’t stick around if Aaron Rodgers is elsewhere. Bell has gotten lost in the shuffle with Garrett Wilson, Jameson Williams and Chris Olave, but his route-running is advanced and his YAC ability should make him an impact player early in his career. He definitely deserves first-round consideration. Top needs: WR, DL, G

New York Times reportedly buys sports news start-up the Athletic Matt Bonesteel The Washington Post

The New York Times reported Thursday that the company is buying the Athletic, the subscription-based sports-journalism start-up, in a deal valued at around $550 million.

The two sides reportedly had been in talks for months over an acquisition.

The Athletic launched in January 2016, promising wall-to-wall coverage and analysis of North American sports teams to its subscribers, who initially paid $10 per month or $60 per year for access to all its advertisement-free reporting. To accomplish its goals, the company poached respected sportswriters from other publications and hired others who

had been laid off from their previous jobs in the industry, offering them attractive salaries.

It was seen as an audacious endeavor, fueled by Silicon Valley hubris. In October 2017, co-founder Alex Mather promised to “wait every local paper out and let them continuously bleed. We will suck them dry of their best talent at every moment.” Ironically, he made that comment in an interview with the New York Times, the publication to which Mather and his partners will sell their company (he later apologized for the remark).

To cover its costs, which went well beyond the money generated from subscriptions, the Athletic raised somewhere around $140 million in

venture capital funding, yet it never became profitable. And when the coronavirus pandemic put the sports world on pause in March 2020, the Athletic’s fortunes plummeted along with its subscription numbers. In June of that year, it laid off 46 employees, or around 10 percent of its workforce, and implemented salary cuts: 10 percent for those making $150,000 or less, with steeper cuts for those making more. “[As] the pandemic has set in and as the sports calendar has remained frozen in place ... tough decisions are necessary to guarantee our longterm viability through a period of slower growth and overall uncertainty,” Mather told the staff in an email.

Three months after those cuts, the

Athletic announced it had reached 1 million subscribers and set its sights on expanding globally (it already had established a presence covering Premier League soccer in England) and growing its podcast network, where it did sell advertisements.

“Our investors have been and continue to be incredibly patient,” Mather told CNBC in September 2020. “We just don’t think about exit, and we don’t know the upside here.

There are very few companies doing what we’re doing. The New York Times is the tip of the spear, and they’re growing faster than ever. We don’t know what our ceiling is. When we feel like we know what our ceiling is, then it’s time for Adam and I to have a chat. But we have not come

close to having a chat.”

Nonetheless, the news this year has been mostly about the Athletic’s attempts to market itself to potential buyers such as Axios and the New York Times. Adding the Athletic’s million-plus subscribers will further the Times’s goal of reaching 10 million paid digital-only subscribers by 2025 (as of November, it said it had 8.4 million subscribers, 7.6 million of them digital-only). In recent years, the Times has purchased a number of other smaller media companies, including Wirecutter and the production company behind the podcast “Serial.”

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Mixed signals abound after long separation Dear Abby, I have been talking to my ex-boyfriend of more than 22 years. We have a grown son. We are now in our 50s and talking and texting again. I still love him, and I want a relationship with him, but I’m not sure he DEAR ABBY wants me back. I don’t know if he’s interested in me or just being friendly.

Can you help? At the end of our last phone call he said, “It’s been a long time.

Twenty-two years. We are both different people now. I don’t know if it could be like it was then,” and we said goodnight.

Should I wait for him to text me back? I don’t even know if he’s dating someone. He didn’t say. Please help.

Second Chance In The East

JEANNE PHILLIPS

Continue talking to your ex and let this scenario play out further. Is he initiating these calls and texts, or are you? If it’s him, that’s a hopeful sign. Yes, it is true you are both different people now — but that can be a plus. With the passage of time, you both may have mellowed and matured. If the discussions continue, you will find out soon enough if he’s involved with someone or interested in getting back together. And remember, if he’s just being “friendly,” the son you share is a good reason for keeping that friendship going.

Dear Abby, My wife is very protective of our dog, “Spencer.” I agree with her that Spencer should not receive table food. Yesterday, my wife put a large pile of dog vomit on my desk. She said it “proves” I have been feeding Spencer. Her accusation is not true.

I may have done some peculiar things in my time, but I have never put vomit on someone’s desk. How should I respond?

Pickles

Flabbergasted In Iowa There can be various reasons for a dog having an upset stomach besides having consumed table scraps. Spencer should be checked by a veterinarian to be sure there isn’t something else going on.

As to your wife putting vomit on your desk, well, since you asked — I wouldn’t blame you if you made it plain that SHE is in the doghouse.

Dear Abby, When someone gives a gift to someone, shouldn’t it be opened in the presence of the giver? My 12-year-old daughter ran cross country, and after the season ended, there was a banquet. At the banquet, several kids approached the coach and gave him cards. We gave him a gift certificate. When my daughter gave him the envelope, he laid it down with the other cards and said, “thanks.” I think he should have opened it and read the contents while my daughter was standing there (my daughter would have been so pleased). What do you think?

Lisa In Colorado Once a gift is given, it belongs to the receiver to do with as he or she pleases. Your daughter’s coach was under no obligation to open the envelope in your daughter’s presence. If he recognized the envelope contained more than good wishes, he may have wanted to spare the other athletes embarrassment if they could not afford to be as generous as your family.

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Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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Dark Side of the Horse

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are going to learn, at a remarkably early age, to enjoy your own company and to cherish the moments you have entirely to yourself — for it is likely that you will be thrust into the limelight when still young, and you don’t want to be robbed of the kind of inner life that others enjoy because they are not in the public eye all the time. You have singular talents, however, so retiring from public life, once you’ve been thrust into it, is not likely to be an option.

When you are using your talents to the fullest, you are the happiest of individuals — and there is nothing anyone can do to bring you down when you are riding high doing what you love. You must take care, however, that success at work doesn’t come at too high a price; you must satisfy your personal or private needs as well, to be sure!

Also born on this date are: Elvis Presley, singer and actor; Stephen Hawking, physicist; David Bowie, singer and actor; Bob Eubanks, game show host; Yvette Mimieux, actress; Larry Storch, actor; Ron Moody, actor; Jose Ferrer, actor.

To see what is in store for you tomorrow, find your birthday and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 9 CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Your passions may be ignited today, but by the most unusual of events. A pending new undertaking requires some careful planning.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You may be thrust into a situation that will require you to learn very quickly. Comparisons to someone before you are inevitable.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Controlling

yourself may prove difficult today, especially as there are those who might well go out of their way to create trouble for you.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Take care that in pursuing your own agenda today you don’t trample on someone else’s. There’s room for everyone’s plans and ideas at this time.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Take care that your trust isn’t abused today. No one has the right to take what is offered and turn it against you. Protect yourself.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You’re likely to be immersed in something today that, while new, reminds you of something familiar. You can use this to your advantage.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You’re approaching certain obstacles today that will require you to make use of knowledge only recently gained. This turns out well.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — The more creative you are today, the more you will be able to do what pleases the powers that be — who are expecting you to excel, in fact.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Thoughts of recent expenses may have you fearing any further outlay of cash, but saving every penny may not be possible for you right now.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — It’s time for you to tend to some practicalities, even as you focus on something that is much more along the lines of a dream or fantasy.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You can get things done, surely, but that may not be enough today. Look back at a recent accomplishment to know what’s required.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You may have trouble convincing another of the importance of following the rules. A surprise event gives you more power than usual.

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1/8/22 Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9.

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9 Year of the 9/11 attacks 10 Beer mugs 11 Other __; besides 12 Gets it wrong 13 Think deeply 19 Mountain path 21 Coral & Caribbean 24 __ sway; ruled 25 Shemar Moore TV series 26 Light on one’s feet 27 Bed size 28 Tim Daly’s sis 29 Do an about-face 30 Pungent; flavorful 32 Late Kennedy matriarch 33 Pore secretion 35 Primates

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Betty White turns 100 this month And you’re invited to her birthday party (sort of)

By CHRISTIE D’ZURILLA Los Angeles Times

Was Led Zeppelin the best or the worst?

Betty White

LOS ANGELES — Betty White is turning 100 thismonth and she’s inviting everyone to her party. Everyone who buys a ticket, that is.

Tickets are available starting today for “Betty White: 100 Years Young — A Birthday Celebration,” a movie event that will screen

nationwide on Jan. 17, when the onetime “Golden Girl” hits the century mark.

The movie is billed as a star-studded event, with guests including her “The Proposal” costar Ryan Reynolds, Tina Fey, Robert Redford, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Jay Leno, Carol Burnett, Craig Ferguson, Jimmy Kimmel, Valerie Bertinelli, James Corden, Wendy Malick and Jennifer Love Hewitt.

It “offers a revealing glimpse into her life

— behind-the-scenes on set, working with her office staff, entertaining at home, lending her voice as an animal advocate,” according to a press release, and includes her “actual birthday party,” where she marks the milestone with celebrity friends.

“Betty White: 100 Years Young” will screen in almost 900 movie theaters nationwide at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. local time on Jan. 17. Tickets can be purchased at FathomEvents.com or at participating theater box offices.

As fans await the turn of White’s personal odometer, and perhaps make plans to celebrate it in a movie theater, some life advice she offered in 2017 still holds today.

“Don’t focus everything on you,” White told Katic Couric. “That wears out pretty fast. It’s not hard to find things you’re interested in. Enjoy them. Indulge them.”

However, given the current pandemic circumstances, maybe wear a mask while you indulge.

A new book on the rock ‘n’ roll band will help you decide

By ZACHARY LIPEZ Washington Post

By Bob Spitz Penguin Press. 688 pp. $35 Depending on whom you ask, Led Zeppelin embodied either the best or worst of rock ‘n’ roll. The band — Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John “Bonzo” Bonham — epitomized either the dreamy idealism of the ‘60s or the bloated vapidity of the ‘70s. It was either an appreciation of blues and folk or a wholesale theft of those genres.

While critically underappreciated for the 12 years it existed, Led Zeppelin’s art has since been both revered and mocked. It’s generally accepted that punk rock was — to a degree — a response to what many saw as the self-indulgence and pompousness of the band and others of its ilk who shared a proclivity for stadium spectacle and extended drum solos. The 1984 satirical rockumentary, “This Is Spinal Tap,” was inspired in part by the same aspects; the film got some of its biggest laughs by utilizing Led Zeppelin’s absurd 1977 Stonehenge stage set. Today, few deny the artistic value of the group’s catalogue, but it would be an understatement to say that the Led Zeppelin’s history is complicated.

The cheeky subtitle of Bob Spitz’s new book “Led Zeppelin: The Biography” is bold considering the numerous books about the band.

Spitz, who has written well-regarded biographies of the Beatles and Julia Child, delivers a 600-page tome that collects every (reliable) story previously reported, and is bolstered by original reporting and interviews — all delivered in brisk and straightforward prose. But readers be warned: Spitz doesn’t hold back in describing the band’s antics, its displays of ego and cruelty that today’s audiences might find less than acceptable.

The book begins with a witty prologue chronicling what it was like for a young Steven Tyler (later of Aerosmith and being Liv Tyler’s dad) to see the band that arguably invented heavy metal play the heavy, progressive blues that it didn’t invent but exemplified. The prologue is breathless and slangy, befitting the point of view of a hormonal rocker having his mind blown. It’s cute.

The reader is happy for Steven Tyler.

Then the book gets serious.

“In the beginning there was the blues,” Spitz intones, before jumping right into postwar England and See LED C2

Zachary Levi in “American Underdog: The Kurt Warner Story.” Michael Kubeisy/Lionsgate/TNS

Winning against adversity Ex-quarterback Kurt Warner, wife hope ‘American Underdog’ will help others

By DANIEL NEMAN St. Louis Post-Dispatch

ST. LOUIS — Brenda Warner doesn’t like sports in general and doesn’t like football in particular.

That’s awkward, because she’s married to Kurt Warner, the Hall of Fame quarterback who guided the St. Louis Rams to a Super Bowl victory in 2000 and who was twice named the league’s MVP. The two have been married for 24 years, and the story of their love and relationship is the backbone of “American Underdog,” now playing in theaters.

An undrafted prospect out of a college not known for football, Warner famously was stocking shelves at an Iowa grocery store before playing arena football and eventually finding fame in the NFL. The film focuses on how the couple overcame adversity in any number of ways.

“I think it’s going to inspire people; I think it’s going to encourage people,” he says.

It is the inspirational, feel-good aspect of the film that he believes will appeal to audiences no matter where they are in their lives.

Even people who aren’t fans of football — like his wife — will enjoy it, he says.

The Warners were speaking in a Delmar Loop restaurant in October, while the movie was screening nearby at the Tivoli as part

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of the St. Louis International Film Festival.

“American Underdog” is based on the former quarterback’s autobiography, and he served as an executive producer.

“It is one of those hard things to say, ‘Here is my story — take it and do what you want with it,’” he says. “That would have been very hard for us to let go. I think we feel like we really have ownership in what this film became.”

The football player is played by Zachary Levi, who is best known from DC’s 2019 superhero comedy “Shazam!”— a movie Warner knew through his children. Though he had seen some of Levi’s work, Warner didn’t know who the actor was “as a person.”

“I think Zachary was phenomenal,” he says.

“I think who he is, what he is all about, is true to my essence. And I thought in the movie he hit the nail on the head.

“I’m just really happy with Zachary Levi, not only how he’s going to represent the film but how he’s going to represent it outside the theater as well.”

Brenda Warner is played by Oscar winner Anna Paquin.

“It was such an honor,” she says. “It was exciting to know that she cared about the character, she wanted to know more about me, she

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read everything that I ever wrote, she watched every interview, every speech that I gave. We FaceTimed. She would ask me why I believe what I believe. She was taking it seriously and wanted to do it right.”

Kurt Warner is a public figure and accustomed to being in the spotlight, but making the movie was harder on his wife because it reveals some of her most vulnerable times.

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32 things I learned about everyday cooking

By DAN RODRICKS Baltimore Sun

I like to cook, and I cook a lot. My late mother was a good cook of Italian food. The Baltimore woman who considers me her second son is an excellent cook of Italian food. My late father-in-law was an accomplished French chef in New York City. So I’ve had culinary influences. I’ve interviewed chefs and professional foodies. So here, in time for the holiday cooking and baking season, are 32 things I’ve learned dans la cuisine, if you know what I mean: n For better results without greasy splatter, slow-bake bacon at a low temperature in the oven instead of cooking in a skillet. (If you must cook bacon in a skillet, always wear a shirt.) n In preparing a chicken for roasting, loosen the skin, then slip tabs of butter under the skin in the breast area. n When making a frittata, use a cast-iron skillet. When the frittata is just about done, slip it under the broiler for 40 seconds for a nice finish. n Leeks are amazing. Use the white parts in soup or sautee them in butter as a side dish. Save the green parts in the freezer for future soup stock. n Same with onion skins. Save some in the freezer for stock. n After you’ve made a big pot of chicken or vegetable stock, pour and strain the batch through a colander in the sink. Make sure you put another pot under the colander first.

Otherwise, your flavorful stock will go down the drain. Been there, done that. Don’t let this happen to you. n Everyone is entitled to a decadent dish. Pick one and make it once a year.

Mine is spaghetti alla carbonara. n For fluffy and moist scrambled eggs, cook them in a double boiler with a generous tab of butter and

Get your knives professionally sharpened once in a while. It’ll make preparing meat and vegetables a pleasure. blend in a small glob of cream cheese. n Get your knives professionally sharpened once in a while. It’ll make preparing meat and vegetables a pleasure. Don’t be afraid. Just keep paper towels, bandages and a tourniquet nearby. n Slip a slightly damp towel under the cutting board to keep it from slipping on your countertop. n Invest in a meat hammer. A little pounding tenderizes chicken breasts and makes their thickness uniform, so, when sauteing, both ends finish at the same time. n Don’t crowd food in a skillet.

They’ll get steamy and soggy instead of crispy and brown. Five chicken thighs cook better together than six. n Julia Child’s recipe for coq au vin is absolutely perfect if you follow it absolutely perfectly. n For spaghetti, salt the boiling water just seconds before adding the pasta. Do not add oil. If you do, your marinara won’t stick to the noodles. n In preparing lasagna, cook the pasta at a slow boil, remove each piece to a large bowl of iced water, then to clean kitchen towels for drying. This makes lasagna assembly expeditious. n Items worth keeping in the pantry because they come in handy for all sorts of quick meals: Cans of cannellini beans, kidney beans and chickpeas; a box of orzo; diced tomatoes.

Fresh plum tomatoes from the summer garden should not be refrigerated, but used as soon as possible to make a marinara sauce. Baltimore Sun file photo/TNS n To thicken a soup, add a puree of cannellini beans from a can. n If you have some breakfast cereal you’re sick of looking at, crumble it and use it in a bake with sliced apples, honey, butter and brown sugar. n “London Broil rocks,” a friend says, and I agree. Just make sure you marinate it for two days. n Do not refrigerate tomatoes unless you’re making a summer

sandwich with mayo that you plan to eat over the sink. Otherwise, do not refrigerate; it kills off flavor and aroma, and that’s been scientifically proven. n Codfish is an underrated, reasonably priced all-purpose, white meat fish. You can bake it or fry it. You can use it as the foundation of a hearty seafood chowder. I also mix it with crabmeat for the Crab Corn Coddie, perfected by Chef Nancy Longo of

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St. Louis Rams quarterback Kurt Warner throws a pass against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sept. 23, 2002, at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. Andy Lyons/Getty Images/TNS

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and was on food stamps when she first met Warner.

Her dreams of being a career Marine ended with a hardship discharge after her first child was permanently disabled in an accident.

“I have a lot of walls up, so to let them down and to let somebody write about my story and just those personal moments, it’s not normal,” she says. “It wasn’t easy.”

She says she’s looking forward to the movie being seen by mothers and members of the military.

The Warners were involved in the filmmaking process from the beginning. Their input helped make the movie accurate — up to a degree, Kurt Warner says.

They came to learn that some creative license is needed to efficiently and effectively get the points across. What is most important to them is that the essence and the spirit of their story is captured.

Even so, there were some filmed scenes that they wish had been included in the final product. Early in the story, Kurt wants to catch Brenda’s eye with his country dancing, but he doesn’t know how to dance.

So a friend and teammate teaches him some moves.

The scene ended up on the cutting room floor.

Another omitted scene that the Warners wanted to see came early in their relationship, when Kurt’s mother caught them making out. Their eyes light up even now when they talk about it.

“It was one of those fun moments when you’re going through the process (of dating),” Brenda Warner says.

Now 50, Kurt Warner is still involved in football as an analyst for the NFL Network, and his wife still disapproves.

“After all this time, he was at Monday Night Football, and I get a text saying, ‘I miss you, I love you, but I really love football,’” she says. “And I thought after

all these years, that’s his passion still. That’s what he loves to do.”

One of their children plays wide receiver at Kansas State, and another is a quarterback in high school in Phoenix, where they live.

“I taught them everything I know,” Brenda Warner says with a laugh. Meanwhile, her husband — with a Super Bowl ring and a couple of MVP awards — coaches quarterbacks at his son’s high school.

“It can’t be easy on him, huh?” he says. “We’ve said that oftentimes, me because of my expectations and them because, obviously, there’s outside expectations on them, as well. And they put some internal expectations on themselves because of what Dad accomplished.

“I don’t envy their position, but at the same time I enjoy coaching them and trying to help them chase after their dream of playing football.”

The Warners have seven children, ranging from twin 15-year-old girls to a 32-year-old son, who is blind and intellectually disabled.

“We realized that when he graduated from high school that there aren’t a lot of opportunities to give people like him a full life,” Brenda Warner says of her first child. So we decided to build a residential facility in Phoenix that has 29 residents right now — completely full, getting a waitlist.

“Now we want to take it everywhere in every state so other parents can experience what this is like to watch their son or daughter with intellectual disabilities live a full life.”

The Warners’ charitable work stems from their devout Christianity, which underpins all aspects of their lives. It is a theme that runs gently throughout the film, an unspoken beacon that guides them.

“You have to know that there is a plan for your life,” she says. “We believe in faith, we believe that you have to have faith in your own strength and faith in each other, your relationship to make it through, no matter what.

“And we have faith in a higher power that has a reason for us being here. We just want to figure out what that is and fulfill it.”

recounting the seismic effect the blues had on the country’s nascent youth culture. The book is peppered with musical references that Spitz describes as evocatively as mere writing can describe music, and cultural references (at one point Spitz says that a manager of the Yardbirds had “his fingers in as many pies as Mrs. Lovett”) that may cause some readers to fall into a rabbit hole of music minutia. It may cause others to give up.

Spitz is admirably unsparing, without being egregiously harsh, in his assessments of the attempts by White British musicians to approximate the sounds coming from imported, eagerly collected records by legends such as Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters. When American blues musicians start touring the U.K., the joy felt by wide-eyed young Eric Claptons and Jimmy Pages is contagious. Also contagious, at first, is Spitz’s affection for the book’s main subjects. At first, all four men who formed Led Zeppelin are lovable. Whether it’s Page and Jones’ Zeligesque studio work (the number of pop classics Page in particular worked on before becoming famous never fails to impress) or Bonham and Plant striving as a working-class mid-country bar band, the reader is pulling for each of them.

But after Led Zeppelin forms, or at least once they gain even a modicum of success, little is endearing about any of the band members besides the music they make. Once the group’s thuggish manager, Peter Grant, enters the picture and it becomes clear, over and over, that nobody will tell him or any member of the band “no” for the next decade, human decency joins the hotel televisions in going out the window.

Many people might insist on separating the art from the artist or believe that ethics in touring culture can occasionally be situational. But the stories Spitz unearths and reiterates about what Led Zeppelin and their entourage got away with are, even to readers jaded to bad celebrity behavior, appalling. Many anecdotes in “Led Zeppelin” inspire a visceral disgust — sexual violence and other crude behavior that can’t be detailed in a family newspaper.

Spitz delves into some of the more infamous incidents, adding new details that make these tales ever more shocking. The reader is frankly relieved when the band eventually settles into the banality of inconsistent live shows and tax troubles.

Spitz’s handling of all this is patchy. At times, he denounces. At times he equivocates. At times, he slyly hints at judgment at the band’s various inanities and unsavory behavior. He lets Robert Plant’s famous proclamation of “I am the golden god” lay flat on the page in a way that allows the idiocy to speak for itself. He follows Lori Mattix’s name repeatedly with “the fourteen year old,” so that even the most fervent Jimmy Page fan is hopefully forced to reckon with the guitarist’s

Pierpoint restaurant. (Email me for the recipe: drodricksbaltsun.com). n Look for fresh (not canned) sardines in a local seafood market. Fire up a grill. Toss the sardines in olive oil and a little kosher salt. They grill fast and crispy, and the taste is fantastic. n Baking is fun but requires precision. Pastry recipes are unforgiving.

Veer off course at great risk. n Take care of your wooden cutting board with Boos Block Mystery Oil. n A 16-inch cast iron pizza pan works great and doubles nicely as a stovetop griddle. n Rice flour is a good substitute in pancakes, waffles or crepes when you need to go gluten-free. n Grill lean meats at a low temperature. If you see the edges curl up, lower the heat. n If you must buy spaghetti sauce by the jar, two things: Always add some of your own herbs and spices for a more flavorful sauce, and save some of the jars for storing leftovers. n Invest in a digital thermometer.

It takes all the guesswork out of roasting and grilling and gives you more confidence as a carnivorous cook. n Extra virgin olive oil is wasted in most cooking. Save it for salads and pizza. n Kitchen shears come in handy for opening frozen food packages, clipping herbs, cutting a chicken into parts and dividing up next-day pizza to avoid fights. n For great meatballs, remove the casing from a few mild Italian sausages and add to the beef mixture. Also, mix some milk with the breadcrumbs, and chill the gently rolled balls before baking them. (If you must fry them in a skillet, always wear a shirt.)

relationship with a teen. As for Mattix herself (also known as Lori Maddox), readers will have to look elsewhere to hear her complicated, evolving perspective on her own experience.

Sure, Spitz allows, not all of the band members or roadies preyed on teenage girls, and defecated and urinated on fans, but all were at various times either complicit or, at best, voyeurs to a nauseating level of violence and degradation. And, yes, even in the context of the times. While there are numerous available examples of rock stars behaving in similar fashion as the members of Led Zeppelin, there were plenty of musicians in the ‘60s and ‘70s who were aware that women, even young women, were human beings. Buffy SaintMarie, who was arguably as innovative as Zeppelin in her work within folk traditions, never degraded her fans. The Monkees were famously sweet to their legions of fans. Even the inventor of shock rock, Alice Cooper, is considered (as described in Michael Walker’s excellent “What You Want is in the Limo”) to be a nice guy. It was possible.

“Led Zeppelin: The Biography” was written without the cooperation of any surviving members of the band. It’s hard to blame them. While largely admiring in tone, no grisly detail is omitted — and who would want to answer for any number of the stories told, especially when, in 2021, young and extremely high is no longer considered exculpatory. Even without the assistance of Led Zeppelin or its inner circle, Spitz manages to tell a compelling story (despite a few factual errors in my edition). The music criticism is often insightful and evocative: Spitz describes the bass in “Good Times, Bad Times”as pulling “at the center like an undertow,” and Robert Plant’s singing as “otherworldly, like it was coming out of a pneumatic compressor.”

The world Led Zeppelin inhabited is fascinating. But without the protagonists’ input, the center feels incomplete — sketches within a painting. John Paul Jones comes off best by not coming off at all. Robert Plant’s feckless pliancy throughout is hard to square with the exploratory nature of his later work. Jimmy Page comes off as a caricature of not-exactly-dumb-but-hardly-smart mystical libertarianism. John Bonham and Peter Grant, both dead, are portrayed as designated monsters.

The book ends abruptly, with sputtering reunion attempts and amiable charity gigs. Fans and naysayers alike will be disappointed that in Spitz’s telling nothing any of the men did after Led Zeppelin broke up seems to warrant much discussion. As a compendium of the often brilliant music created by ravaged souls, the book works well enough, but at this point both Led Zeppelin’s fans (and critics) yearn for more.

Zachary Lipez has co-authored (with Stacy Wakefield and Nick Zinner) a number of books of essays, poetry and photography. He sings in the gothic metal band Publicist UK and has a newsletter on Ghost titled “Abundant Living.”

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One-pan pizza broccoli quick and tasty

for fall and winter

By ANN MALONEY

Our 6 favorite

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This week, you may be tempted to write me a note along the lines of, hey, just putting the word pizza in front of something doesn’t make it pizza. That’s fair enough, but as a colleague noted, this Pizza Broccoli recipe from food writer and editor Dawn Perry was devoured by her family, including her 6-year-old. She urged me to make it. I did and I was sold on the recipe and, subsequently, Perry’s new cookbook, “Ready, Set, Cook.”

If de-stressing or simplifying your life is one of your 2022 resolutions, then Perry’s dinner-making philosophy of stocking your pantry and refrigerator with food you really like and then making dinner with what’s on hand might be one key to success. Yes, it may seem obvious, but truly putting this into practice takes, well, practice.

“Pantry cooking isn’t just a hook for this book — it’s how I cook in real life,” writes Perry, who has two small children and a career. She empathizes with busy folks and those without access to specialty markets (or equipment). Economy and cutting waste are top of mind with her, as well.

As I read through Perry’s cookbook, I was inspired to adopt some of her recommendations for setting myself up for success. I started, as she recommends, with an assessment of my cabinets, refrigerator and freezer contents.

I checked the labels and dates on everything. We finished off that frozen squash soup and chili, grilled the various chicken thighs, chops and sausages. We quick-pickled fresh peppers in the crisper and made Perry’s Any Vegetable Fritters with some sad carrots and squash. I made hummus from a few of the six (six!, how’d that happen?) cans of garbanzo beans.

That meant a couple of weeks of eating with minimal cooking and shopping. Best of all, by the end, I had space to smartly restock, and I truly knew what I had on hand.

Goal!

One other bit of advice from Perry: If you bought boxed or canned food that, if you’re

By JOSEPH HERNANDEZ The Philadelphia Inquirer

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s the night continues to encroach on the light of day, we begin to look forward to cozy nights at home. We crank on the oven or stove, finding comfort (and ease) in casseroles, baked goods and soups, while at the market, even the produce seems heartier: bushels of sweet potatoes, beets, mushrooms.

These darker days are also an invitation to curl up to this year’s batch of new cookbooks, whether to find nourishment in exciting global flavors or find joy in the form of cakes and cookies. Whether you’re cooking for you and your family, or seeking out books to gift to your kitchencurious loved ones, these are this season’s books we’re obsessing over, already well-loved with stained fingerprints and rainbow-leafed with Post-Its. “Life is What You Bake It: Recipes, Stories, and Inspiration to Bake Your Way to the Top” Vallery Lomas, Clarkson Potter, $29,bookshop.org From growing up in Louisiana to practicing law in Manhattan, Vallery Lomas found home in her kitchen. Over time, she nurtured her passion and love of baking and eventually won the first season of “The Great American Baking Show.”

But in the wake of MeToo, her season was canceled when one of the judges was accused of sexual misconduct. Her win, it seemed at the time, would be overshadowed and forgotten, but Lomas changed that narrative, eventually presenting an award at the James Beard Foundation Awards (“the highest awards in food”) and being featured in publications like Food & Wine and People. In her debut cookbook, Lomas shares her hard-won wisdom (in baking and life) during that time and beyond. In chapters that recall her budding Francophilia by way of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean, to See BOOKS C6

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Embrace the tangy, salty balance of Filipino adobo This adaptable recipe allows for chicken or tofu

By G. DANIELA GALARZA Washington Post

I had a lot of babysitters before I turned 12, women who would watch me and my brother after school, and sometimes make us dinner when my parents had to work late. Lina, who was born in Manila, was one of my favorites. Among other things, she instilled in me a love for the salty, lightly spiced tang of adobo.

Lina’s kitchen was tight, so when she started making dinner, I’d lean over the white Formica breakfast bar and watch her rummage through her crisper drawers and pantry, lining ingredients up between the sink and stove. Almost every meal would start with an onion, which she’d pass to me to peel as she started to prep. “Every person is an onion,” she’d sometimes say, “full of hidden layers.”

Like a ballerina, Lina transitioned swiftly from precise,

Tofu adobo. Rey Lopez/Washington Post

Chicken adobo. Rey Lopez/Washington Post

quick movements to calm efficiency as she cooked. I’d watch her turn on the rice cooker, add rice, oil, salt and water, and set it with a few beeps. Then, she’d put a large pot on an electric burner to

start heating up as she sliced the onion into half-moons and opened a package of chicken, usually drumsticks and thighs.

They’d get seared in the pot alongside the garlic and onions. Even if I wasn’t watching

her, I knew we were having adobo when the smell of vinegar and black peppercorns, heady and alive, hit the hot metal and started to tickle my nose.

Though adobo is a Spanish

word, the technique for making Philippine adobo predates the centuries-long Spanish colonization of and rule over the 7,000-island archipelago.

In the Philippines, adobo is both a preparation — the process of marinating and infusing ingredients with vinegar and other flavorings — and the resulting dish. Some versions take more than a day to make; others, like the basic recipe I adapted below, can be on the table in an hour.

There are probably thousands

of variations — adobo can be made around any protein or vegetable; it can be wet or dry, sweet or spicy, silky or thick as soft wool — but they are united by the sour, briny punch of vinegar.

Vinegar was long employed as a preservative in the days before reliable refrigeration, so many cultures developed an affinity for the flavor. But in adobo, vinegar doesn’t sit slyly in the background — it dominates. That said, as with every See ADOBO C6

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Books & authors

Shaping the fates of nations How mountains, rivers and seas impact the path of society

Britain’s literal insularity obviously played a role in Brexit, and few would deny that Iran’s mountainous terrain has helped protect it from invasion. But the meaning of geographic features changes as the rest of the world does. Islands, for example, don’t always shape the lives of those who live on them in the same way.

By JOSHUA KEATING Washington Post

“The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World” Tim Marshall Scribner. 304 pp. $27 If you were an alien newly arrived on this planet, fully unaware of the last 2,000 years of human history and looking for a primer on the nations of the Earth, you could do much worse than the books of Tim Marshall, whose latest, “The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World,” a sequel to 2015’s “Prisoners of Geography,” takes readers on a tour of places — from Australia to Iran to Ethiopia — that he sees as pivotal to global politics and conflict.

Of particular interest for the extraterrestrial visitor, the last chapter heads into orbit to look at the potential for international conflict in space.

Marshall, a British longtime foreign correspondent and former diplomatic editor of Sky News, makes the case that sea lanes, rivers and mountain ranges are as determinative of a nation’s actions as the ideological and cultural factors that get more attention, and that those factors are themselves partly determined by geography. In this, he is one of several current writers — including the journalist Robert Kaplan, author of the similarly titled “Revenge of Geography,” and the energy guru Daniel Yergin, author of “The New Map” — whose works aim to put the “geo” back in “geopolitics.” The popularity of this genre makes sense at a time when the world is returning to a mind-set of more traditional greatpower conflict between nationstates.

Marshall’s method is to provide potted histories showing how wars and political decisions were influenced by physical territory. With this project, he is pushing back against the trendy notion among

thought leaders that, as he puts it, we live in a “ ‘flat world’ in which financial transactions and communications through cyberspace have collapsed distance, and landscape has become meaningless.”

But even as he insists that maps still matter, he rejects the charge of determinism, arguing that he is merely describing the limits geography places on leaders’ decisions.

He’s hardly a Marxist but would probably concur with Marx that “men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.”

At times, the approach can be refreshing and very useful. The chapter on Ethiopia demonstrates how the country’s status as the “water tower of Africa” has the potential to make it a dominant regional power in coming years (as demonstrated by itsdispute with Egypt over a massive hydroelectric dam under construction on the Nile) while also showing that its internal geography contributes to separatism and regionalism, as demonstrated by the brutal violence in Tigray. Marshall is also great at knocking down lazy assumptions about the shape of the world: We think, for example, of Australia and China as sharing a region, “but Beijing is as close to Warsaw as it is to Canberra.”

At times, however, Marshall’s fixation on territory leads him into some odd revisionism. He suggests that Iran agreed to the 2015 nuclear

deal primarily because it hoped that doing so would “open the door to discreet cooperation with the Americans” in the fight against the Islamic State, which threatened Tehran’s corridor to the Mediterranean. But this explanation doesn’t match the timeline of the Islamic State war and downplays the far more decisive influence of sanctions in pressuring Iran to accede.

The role of the dollar in the global financial system and the U.S. shale oil revolution had far more to do with America’s leverage against Iran leading up to the nuclear deal than any regional conflict.

And sometimes the arguments are contradictory. Marshall writes that “there is always geography to limit how far Turkey travels” — just after recounting the history of an empire that lasted more than five centuries, at times controlling wide swaths of three continents.

A few of Marshall’s claims just seem like a stretch. He argues that Catalan or Basque independence would be “anathema to Madrid” in part because Spain relies on these regions to protect itself against armies on the march. He writes, “Throughout Spain’s history, armed forces from the north have moved into the country” via these “narrow belts of flatter land each side of the Pyrenees.” If this is a major factor in the current Spanish government’s thinking, it’s a deeply sublimated one. If Spain were seriously concerned about an imminent ground invasion from France, internal independence movements would surely be the least of its worries.

But Marshall never really addresses the changing nature of armed conflict. He sees states as constantly motivated by fear of invasion or the desire for territorial expansion. And yet, conventional conflicts between states over the

control of territory are nearly unheard of today. The exceptions — Russia’s incursions into its postSoviet neighbors, China’s threats against Taiwan — only prove the rule, as leftover disputes from the breakup of the Soviet Union and China’s civil war, respectively.

When countries do fight over territory today, the battles are strictly limited: Consider troops from India and China, two nuclear-armed superpowers, going at it, by mutual agreement, with rocks and metal rods on their disputed Himalayan border. Few of Marshall’s explanations for the decline of territorial conflict — among them the risks of nuclear war, the rise of globalization and economic interdependence, and the contention that human society has generally become more civilized and rational — have much to do with geography.

Of course, even without explicit fights over territory, the map still matters, even in an era of drones and “over-the-horizon” warfare.

Britain’s literal insularity obviously played a role in Brexit, and few would deny that Iran’s mountainous terrain has helped protect it from invasion. But the meaning of geographic features changes as the rest of the world does. Islands, for example, don’t always shape the lives of those who live on them in the same way. Where ocean-bound Britain’s fleets helped it reach out into the world in a more nautical age, its shores now cut it off from the rest of Europe more dramatically.

At times Marshall seems to be arguing that geographic features are fixed constraints, unchanged since antiquity. For instance, he writes of modern Greeks: “At a strategic level, what concerns them is much the same as when they looked up to Zeus, Apollo, and Aphrodite on the heights of Mount Olympus.

The gods have gone, empires come and go, alliances shift, but the constants for Greeks remain what made them — the mountains and the seas.” Yes, mainland Greece is mountainous, but that hasn’t exactly deterred the thousands of refugees and migrants who have traveled there as an access point to the European Union nations to the north.

Elsewhere, he rightly acknowledges that the significance of physical features changes over time.

This is particularly true when it comes to energy. Oil made Saudi Arabia an unlikely global superpower, but, as Marshall writes, we are “approaching a time in which there is no way the Americans will fight to defend Saudi Arabia’s solar panels.” Meanwhile, worsening drought in Africa’s Sahel region, brought on by climate change, is driving political violence there as well as mass migration to Europe.

As the British geographer Alastair Bonnett has written, we live in a fluid “age of islands” in which sea level rise is reshaping coastlines and threatening sovereign nations with extinction, even as China is constructing new artificial islands to bolster its territorial claims in the South China Sea. It’s not just that the significance of the landscape is changing — the landscape itself can’t be taken for granted. Marshall is right to urge us to keep the land and seas in mind even in a world of cyberconflict and frictionless flows of capital. But what sets out to be an effort to define fixed and unchangeable rules for international conflict ends up revealing how chaotic and unpredictable our world really is.

Joshua Keating is the author of “Invisible Countries: Journeys to the Edge of Nationhood.”

Inspired by real murderers, Dostoevsky wrote a new kind of novel

By KATHRYN HUGHES Washington Post

“The Sinner and the Saint”

By Kevin Birmingham.

Penguin Press. 432 pp. $30 In September 1865, Fyodor Dostoevsky reached his lowest ebb. The 43-year-old Russian was holed up in a cheap hotel room in Wiesbaden, the spa town in central Germany where he had come to recoup his fortunes at the roulette table. The military engineer turned writer had been in debt most of his adult life, having exhausted the lines of credit through which Russians kept their sclerotic financial system going — personal loans, promissory notes, even pawnshop tickets. A final devastating loss at the tables left Dostoevsky destitute, whereupon the Hotel Victoria promptly stopped providing its troublesome guest with candles and clean sheets.

In one last desperate throw of the dice, Dostoevsky decided to embark on a new novel, even though it had been some years since he had enjoyed critical or commercial success. It would be a story featuring a hideous murder, but there would be one significant departure from the usual crime format. The story would be told from the murderer’s point of view, with the result that readers would find Raskolnikov, whose name means “schism” or “split,” sympathetic and even admirable. They might wonder if they were capable, in extremis, of doing something similar themselves.

In his tautly constructed narrative, “The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece,” Kevin Birmingham traces the story of how “Crime and Punishment” came into being, wrenched up from the feeble frame of Dostoevsky, whose financial misery was compounded by his escalating epilepsy and grief over the recent deaths of his beloved brother and estranged wife.

Published in installments in the Russian Messenger, the novel was an immediate success. Crime fiction was all the rage in Europe: Dostoevsky’s new novel would share page space with Wilkie Collins’s similarly unsettling “Armadale.” More than that, though, in “Crime and Punishment” Dostoevsky unveiled an entirely new literary sensibility. Telling the story from the point of view of a protagonist who is alienated from society, he created a narrative in which stable egos dissolve and tangle with the external world so that the distinction between “inside” and “outside” no longer adheres. It was a technique that James Joyce and Virginia Woolf would bring to perfection, but not for another 50 years.

It is also a technique that Birmingham employs in this masterly book. As narrator, he sits as tightly on Dostoevsky’s shoulder as Dostoevsky does on Raskolnikov’s, so that we feel as if we are seeing the world — a terrifying, claustrophobic world — from their doubled perspective.

Birmingham sketches out Russia’s mid-century byzantine chaos with a deft hand, up to the point in 1849 when Dostoevsky was sentenced to death for associating with the Petrashevsky Circle, a progressive group that advocated the ending of serfdom and other measures inimical to czarist autocracy. Marched to the killing yard, the 28-yearold Dostoevsky was spared at the last minute, his sentence commuted to four years’ hard labor in a Siberian prison followed by several years of compulsory military service. It was in end-of-theworld Omsk, bunking down with 54 convicted murderers, that Dostoevsky became fascinated with accounts of intentional killing. “Fictional murders, from that point on, seemed cartoonish,” reports Birmingham, who has an uncanny ability to access his hero’s inner world.

When it came to source material for “Crime and Punishment,” Dostoevsky supplemented the stories of his prison buddies with a written account of the minor French poet Pierre-Francois Lacenaire, who in 1836 was convicted of murdering a scam artist. Lacenaire’s motive was not revenge, even though he had first come across JeanFrançois Chardon while serving in prison, so much as a desire to see what it felt like to kill. Also, by scooping up Chardon’s ill-gotten gains, much of them acquired through blackmailing gay men, Lacenaire convinced himself that he was performing a public service. The fact

“The Sinner and the Saint” is gripping, even for those who have not read “Crime and Punishment” for years or, indeed, have never even skimmed it. Birmingham provides just enough of Dostoevsky’s plot to make the novel intelligible without feeling the need to spend pages on deadening summary. that this would also involve murdering Chardon’s elderly mother, who lived with him, was merely a minor detail.

Despite his crime being essentially back-street and sordid, Lacenaire had the style and wit to turn his trial and subsequent appointment with the guillotine into a kind of performance art.

Birmingham has enormous fun braiding Lacenaire’s outrageous story into the altogether more dour trajectories of Dostoevsky and Raskolnikov. This is not as arbitrary as it sounds, since Russia had long looked to France as a warning about what to expect when a totalitarian regime topples into the revolutionary abyss.

“The Sinner and the Saint” is gripping, even for those

who have not read “Crime and Punishment” for years or, indeed, have never even skimmed it. Birmingham provides just enough of Dostoevsky’s plot to make the novel intelligible without feeling the need to spend pages on deadening summary (so often a failing in books about books). Particularly fascinating is the scrutiny he gives to Dostoevsky’s working notebooks, revealing the many tortured iterations before he settled on the novel’s final form. In some drafts, Raskolnikov commits suicide, while in others he heroically redeems himself by rescuing people from a fire. The French writer Hélène Cixous put it best when she described Dostoevsky’s notebooks as “the crazy and tumultuous forge, where Love and Hate embrace, rolling around on the ground in convulsions which thwart all calculation and all hope.”

In fact, when it came to Dostoevsky’s external life,

there was ultimately hope, if not exactly calculation. Birmingham writes with obvious relief at the way “Crime and Punishment” marked a turning point in his hero’s realworld fortunes.

While producing the next installment for serialization, Dostoevsky was obliged to break off to complete another novel quickly to pay a long-standing debt. A friend suggested that he work with a stenographer to speed things up, which resulted in Dostoevsky’s introduction to the delightful Anna Grigorievna Snitkina, who visited him every day with her shorthand notebook. Within a month the two were engaged, oblivious to the 25 years between them.

We know from Birmingham’s introduction that this was merely the overture to happier times. Three more masterpieces would follow — “The Idiot,” “Demons” and “The Brothers Karamazov” — and, although life would never be easy for Dostoevsky, he had all the things which had seemed impossible when he was holed up in the Hotel Victoria: a wife he loved, children and literary stardom. More than that, though, by the time of his death in 1881 at the age of 59, he would also have the first glimmerings that his new way of inside-out writing would become nothing less than the foundation stone of literary modernism.

Kathryn Hughes’s most recent book is “Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum.”

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By Stella Wilder Born Sunday, you are going to have to guard against reacting to the world around you in a negative way, for this tends to be your “default” and can bring you face to face with all manner of difficulty if you’re not careful! It’s essential that you engage your considerable brainpower to assess any and all things that happen to you so you can determine how best to respond — if to respond at all is, indeed, best!

All of this is perhaps the result of a rare kind of insecurity that goes hand in hand with a sense of pride and entitlement. This combination is a dangerous one, and you must do all you can to keep yourself from thinking that what you want can be yours for the asking. You must earn what you want and truly deserve all rewards that come your way.

Also born on this date are: Richard Nixon, U.S. president; John Smith, American colonist; Simone de Beauvoir, existentialist, philosopher and writer; Crystal Gayle, singer; Joan Baez, singer; Bart Starr, football player; Susannah York, actress; Lee Van Cleef, actor; Chic Young, cartoonist, creator of “Blondie”; Fernando Lamas, actor;

Judith Krantz, writer.

To see what is in store for you Monday, find your birthday and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide.

MONDAY, JANUARY 10 CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Putting another’s concerns before your own today is one way to understand them better. You’ll realize you have much in common.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You may find that the position you are in today allows you to see things from all different angles, which gives you a real advantage.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — The challenge that arises for you today is one that is both familiar and new. The secret lies in approaching it directly and indirectly, too.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Now is no time to give orders, but rather to suggest ways of doing things that could prove effective under pressure. Be encouraging!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Others may choose to let you continue on your current journey alone for a while — but this suits you just fine. Many discoveries await.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You can further your agenda today without turning your

back on anyone. Someone who needs your help raises the stakes.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — It’s imperative that you protect your immediate resources at this time. Do nothing that will eat into what should be your emergency stores.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — A combination of skill and timing puts you right where you want to be, at least for a little bit today. If you’re lucky, you can stay there awhile.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Your methods may have to evolve very quickly today if you’re going to avoid running afoul of those who want everything to be ultra-modern.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Something old and something new can be combined today to allow you to free yourself from the expectations of another and follow your vision.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You are eager to see what a new experience can teach you. Something you’ve long looked forward to can happen now and leave you breathless.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You can go farther today than anyone had expected and reach your destination in record time, perhaps. Others want to know how you do it.

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Foods ping-pong between a variety of cuisines but also recreate or pay homage to food he’s eaten on his travels.

There are the few pages dedicated to mastering pizza dough and ways to troubleshoot dough gone awry. In a chapter on wine, Wareheim teaches one how to safely saber bottles but also demonstrates hiswine fluency and taste in interesting natural winemakers. There’s even an interlude featuring tiny horses (sans recipes), just cuz.

In short, this book reads like most fun dinner party you’ve ever been to, with Wareheim as your gregarious, knowledgeable host.

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pages celebrating the cobblers and pies of her Southern upbringing, Lomas balances the technical baking for which she is known with charming stories filled with heart.

“The Korean Vegan Cookbook: Reflections and Recipes from Omma’s Kitchen” Joanne Lee Molinaro, Avery Books, $35,bookshop.org Poetic and personal, Joanne Lee Molinaro’s “Korean Vegan Cookbook” is a wonderful exploration of popular Korean dishes and flavors, but through a plant-based lens. Molinaro has been blogging about food for a while now, but her lyrical stories about her immigrant upbringing and life — paired with gorgeous, mood-inflected visuals — gained her 2.7 million TikTok followers over the last year, her adapted vegan recipes a bridge to her heritage.

A whole chapter on ban chans, the bevy of Korean side dishes that are the delightful workhorses of any meal, is stacked with varied, flavorful dishes like dooboo jeon (tofu cakes), braised Lion’s Mane, and simply roasted-and-glazed onions. Meanwhile, bulgogi, famously made with marinated beef, gets the vegan treatment thanks to chewy Soy Curls. Molinaro also offers clever variations on fusion, like her Korean-inspired takes on lasagna or her tteokbokki arrabiata, favoring delightfully chewy rice cakes over pasta.

Adobo From C3

great dish, a good adobo is all about balance.

“If you taste the sauce right after you add the liquids, it’ll be too tart. Over time, the sauce mellows into something slightly sour yet balanced,” writes chef Nicole Ponseca, in “I Am a Filipino: And This Is How We Cook,” a cookbook she wrote with Miguel Trinidad and Rachel Wharton.

“Some people add coconut milk; some cooks add a bit of sweetness in the form of sugar, honey, ripe fruit or even preserves to round out the adobo’s sharp acidity and saltiness,” Ponseca writes. “Think of it like you do music: the notes are familiar, but the arrangement is what makes it unique.”

FILIPINO ADOBO Active time: 20 minutes | Total time: 1 hour 2 to 3 servings Filipino adobo, a stew known for its pungency — from vinegar, soy sauce, garlic and peppercorns or chiles — is an incredibly adaptable dish. The proportions of its key ingredients can be added in varying ratios to suit the tastes of the cook, meaning that no two adobos are exactly alike. It’s traditionally made with cane vinegar and light soy sauce; sometimes lime juice or sugar is added, as well. This version, adapted from “The Filipino Cookbook”

by Miki Garcia and “I Am a Filipino” by Nicole Ponseca and Miguel Trinidad, uses onions for a touch of sweetness

“Grist: A Practical Guide to Cooking Grains, Beans, Seeds and Legumes” Abra Berens, Chronicle Books, $35,bookshop.org Abra Beren’s first book, 2019 s “Ruffage,” transformed the way I used vegetables. Covering endless riffs and variations on two dozen-plus vegetables, it was a master class in seasonality and kitchen improv, the pillars for becoming a more intuitive home cook. In “Grist,” the chef of Granor Farms in Three Oaks, Michigan delivers the same empowering knowhow, but this time with an eye towards shelf-stable grains, beans and other legumes.

If the pandemic showed us the value in long-haul, high-nutrient dry ingredients, then Grist shows us how to celebrate them in daily use. There are the basics (whether to soak or not) but Berens also dives deep into the histories and origins, tying ingredients to people and places.

Where Grist shines most is her honest, straightforward writing that honors the stories of farmer and land but also the dangers of monoculture farming, the threat of climate change, and and can be made with either chicken or tofu. If you have time, you can marinate the protein overnight, but it’s not necessary.

If adobo is unfamiliar to you, make this recipe as written before playing around with it. Here are a few suggested variations: Instead of chicken or tofu, you can use an equal weight of pork belly, cut into 1-inch cubes. You also can use a whole cauliflower, cut into eight roughly equal chunks — or combine two of these options in one pot.

The onion isn’t as crucial as the garlic, so skip it if you must. If you enjoy garlic, use more than the recipe suggests.

Cane vinegar or coconut vinegar are traditional here, but white or rice vinegar work, too (see NOTES).

In addition to the onions and garlic, you could add: sliced mushrooms, chopped tomatoes or slices of fresh sweet or hot peppers.

To spice things up, consider adding: more peppercorns, a cinnamon stick, a star anise pod and/or a couple of cloves.

NOTES: Wrap the tofu in a clean dish towel and microwave on high for 1 minute.

Unwrap, rewrap with a fresh towel and repeat. (This gets rid of excess liquid and is faster than pressing the tofu.)

Unwrap, and slice the tofu as directed.

If using tofu, there’s no need to season it with salt before searing.

If you don’t have cane vinegar, use white or rice vinegar plus 2 teaspoons of brown sugar. Instead of soy sauce, you can use liquid aminos. If using coconut aminos, which are sweeter, add ½ teaspoon fine sea salt or table salt, or more to taste.

Storage Notes: Leftovers can be refrigerated in a covered container for up to 4 days.

Where to Buy: Cane vinegar and light soy sauce can be found at Asian markets or

the plight of growers throughout the country. With 140 recipes, Berens provides endlessly riffable recipes that are not only packed with nutrients (hello, fiber and protein) but will prove to be a comfort during the cold days ahead.

“Foodheim: A Culinary Adventure” Eric Wareheim with Emily Timberlake, Ten Speed Press, $35,bookshop.org A comedian best known for Adult Swim’s “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!”may not be the person you have in mind to publish online.

1 ½ pounds bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs and/or legs patted dry, or 14 ounces extrafirm tofu, drained, pressed (see NOTES), cut into 4 or 5 thick slices and patted dry 1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt or table salt (optional; see NOTES) 2 tablespoons coconut oil or vegetable oil 1 small yellow onion (4 ounces) sliced 5 cloves garlic, lightly smashed 1/2 cup cane vinegar (see NOTES) 1/2 cup light or low-sodium soy sauce (see NOTES) Water, as needed 1 teaspoon black peppercorns 3 bay leaves Steamed white rice, for serving If using chicken, season it with the salt. In a large, lidded pot or Dutch oven over high heat, heat the oil until you see a few wisps of smoke. Using tongs, transfer the protein — if using chicken, skin side down — into the pot. Cook, undisturbed, until the protein has browned and the chicken skin has rendered some of its fat, 3 to 4 minutes. Turn the pieces over, and reduce the heat to low.

Add the onion and garlic, and allow the garlic to slightly brown, about 2 minutes (the onions may not be browned at this point, and that is fine).

Add the vinegar, soy sauce, ½ cup water, peppercorns and bay leaves, taking care as the liquid may sputter. Increase the heat to high and bring to a boil before lowering the heat to maintain a steady but gentle simmer.

Cover and cook, stirring and turning proteins over once or twice, until the chicken is cooked through or the tofu has taken on the dark color of the sauce, 30 to 40 minutes. If the liquid appears to be evaporating during cooking, add water, ½ cup at a time, to compensate. The finished sauce should be thin but pungent.

Taste, and adjust the seasonings, if desired; discard the bay leaves. Spoon some rice into plates or shallow bowls and divide the stew, sauce, any rendered chicken fat and peppercorns among each dish before serving.

Nutrition information per serving (with tofu; 2 pieces of tofu and about 3/4 cups of sauce) | Calories: 298; Total Fat: 17 g; Saturated Fat: 9 g; Cholesterol: 0 mg; Sodium: 2356 mg; Carbohydrates: 24 g; Dietary Fiber: 1 g; Sugars: 15 g; Protein: 17 g.

one of the season’s best cookbooks, but you’d be surprised.

Eric Wareheim’s brand of funloving food guy is splashed all over the pages of this irreverent, exuberant debut cookbook.

The man has range, of course — his globe-trotting food adventures are welldocumented on social media (where he has made no bones about being a fixture at Pizzeria Beddia), and he’s a co-founder of the popular Las Jaras wine brand. “Foodheim,” then, is a culmination of his sensibilities. Chapters with names like Circle Foods, Grandma Foods, and Juicy

“Black Food” Bryant Terry, 4 Color Books, $40,bookshop.org When does a cookbook transcend a collection of recipes? Well, if you’re Bryant Terry, it’s through a curated, spiritual feast. The veteran chef, author of five cookbooks, and James Beard Award winner, Terry is also the founding editor-in-chief of publishing imprint 4 Color Books, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House dedicated to publishing “forward-thinking and groundbreaking BIPOC chefs, writers, artists, activists, and innovators.” Black Foodis the imprint’s first outing.

Though Terry’s name is on the cover, many voices sing from its pages, with recipes like jerk chicken ramen and Dirty South hot tamales nourish readers alongside essays like “Foodsteps in Motion” by Michael W. Twitty and “Jollofing with Toni Morrison” by

Sarah Ladipo Manyika.

The book is an ambitious tour de force of Black food through the ages, and around the world, bolstered by a chorus of 100 Black artists, writers and luminaries who have contributed essays, poetry, art, and 65 recipes to its 300-plus pages.

“Treasures of the Mexican Table” Pati Jinich, Mariner Books, $35,bookshop.org As host of the PBS series “Pati’s Mexican Table,” Pati Jinich has spent much of her career showcasing the diversity and vibrancy of Mexican cooking to American kitchens. In a similar vein, her new cookbook, “Treasures of the Mexican Table,” continues her work, spanning Mexico’s 31 states to uncover and educate readers and home cooks about Mexico’s hyper-local specialities. Jinich avoids claiming her own expertise on these cuisines and dishes, and instead gives credit to the local cooks, chefs and individuals behind the recipes. Jinich takes readers on her travels to Sinaloa, Yucatan, Oaxaca and Puebla, living up to the subtitle’s promise of “classic dishes, local secrets.”

Dishes like pollo ajocomino (roasted chicken lacquered with garlic, cumin and chile), Lebanese-inflected tacos arabes and rice with lentils and caramelized onions pop off the pages. You’ll walk away with a better understanding of the breadth and depth of Mexican food under the charming, winning tutelage of an expert like Jinich.

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honest, you’ll never eat it, donate it to a food bank or give it to a friend - don’t let it expire or spoil.

Her advice for restocking and reorganizing covers common staples of oils, vinegars and flours, but she also recommends long-lasting flavor boosters, such as miso, kimchi and sauerkraut and shelf-stable coconut milk and tinned fish. If you’re starting from scratch, her basic equipment list is spot on, too.

The cookbook is then loaded with more than 125 adaptable dishes that require few fresh ingredients. Most are ready in about 30 minutes. They include great toast ideas, soups and salads, as well as more than a few onepan dishes.

Take this Pizza Broccoli: I had to buy broccoli, the fresh mozzarella and, the optional but desired-by-me, fresh basil. The rest of the ingredients I had on hand: oil, salt, pepper, crushed red pepper flakes, onion and a can of whole peeled tomatoes. Bonus: All of the fresh ingredients were used in this recipe.

I actually enjoyed the process of making this. Searing the broccoli until it had a golden crust on both sides was a great tip, giving the dish a nice smoky flavor and texture. I loved crushing the whole tomatoes over the skillet with my hands. (No making a sauce.) It’s finished in the oven, so you get the great melty cheese on top.

Missing the crisped pizza dough? Perry recommends serving this with your favorite crusty bread. (Try toasted pita, too.) What, no sausage?

She advises carnivores to start the dish by removing a link or two of fresh sausage from its casing, frying it up and then searing your broccoli in the rendered fat.

In other words, make it your own, just as you would with pizza.

“I don’t know if this recipe came to me in a fever dream or a divine vision. All I know is one day I saw it, complete, and had to make it as soon as possible,” Perry writes of the dish.

Here’s my theory about why it sprung whole from her subconscious: Practice. Practice. Practice. Yes, Perry is a food writer, but she has also set herself up for success by

Pizza Broccoli. Scott Suchman/Washington Post

training herself to think simply and deliciously and preparing her kitchen to make it a reality.

I’m betting that with a little practice and preparation, I can tone that cooking-fromthe-pantry muscle. I’ve resolved to try to do just that in 2022.

PIZZA BROCCOLI 35 minutes 4 servings If you love pizza, but want something a little lighter, this vegetable-forward, pantryfriendly dish is worth a try.

The recipe is from “Ready, Set, Cook” by Dawn Perry, who also recommends making it with cauliflower florets.

If you want a meaty version, try adding sausage removed from its casing and fried. Use the sausage drippings, adding oil as needed, to cook the vegetables and then proceed with the recipe, adding the sausage just before the tomatoes.

Storage Notes: Refrigerate leftovers for up to 3 days.

6 tablespoons olive oil, divided 1 white or yellow onion (about 10 ounces) or 2 shallots thinly sliced 1/2 teaspoon fine salt, divided Freshly ground black pepper 1 bunch broccoli (about 3 crowns), trimmed and cut into spears 1 (28-ounce) can whole peeled tomatoes, drained 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes, optional 8 ounces fresh mozzarella, torn into bite-size pieces Torn fresh basil leaves (optional) Position a rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 450 degrees.

In a large ovenproof skillet over medium-high heat, heat 2 tablespoons of the oil until it shimmers. Add the onion, season with ¼ teaspoon of

salt and several grinds of black pepper and cook, stirring, until the onion starts to darken at the edges, about 6 minutes. Transfer to a plate.

Add 2 tablespoons of oil to the skillet and heat until shimmering. Add half the broccoli and cook, flipping once, until browned on two sides, about 4 minutes per side. Transfer to the plate with the onion, and repeat with the remaining oil and broccoli. Season the vegetables with the remaining salt.

Return the cooked vegetables to the skillet, and use your hands to crush the tomatoes over the top. Season with several grinds of black pepper and the red pepper flakes, if using. Top with the mozzarella and transfer to the oven.

Roast for 8 to 10 minutes, or until the cheese is melted and the broccoli is just tender.

Set the oven to broil. Carefully raise the rack 5 or 6 inches away from the broiling element and return the skillet to the oven. Broil for 1 to 2 minutes, or until nicely browned.

(If your broiler is on the bottom, transfer the baking dish to the broiler drawer.)

Let the dish cool for 1 to 2 minutes, then top with the basil, if using, and serve.

Nutrition information per serving (generous 1 ½ cups) | Calories: 415; Total Fat: 31 g; Saturated Fat: 10 g; Cholesterol: 50 mg; Sodium: 536 mg; Carbohydrates: 20 g; Dietary Fiber: 7 g; Sugar: 11 g; Protein: 15 g This analysis is an estimate based on available ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s or nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from “Ready, Set, Cook” by Dawn Perry (Simon Schuster, 2021).