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HUDSON — Three Columbia County residents have tested positive for COVID-19, health officials said Friday.

The individuals are a woman in her 30s in the northern part of the county, a woman in her 40s in the northern part of the county and a woman in her 60s in the southern part of the county, said Victoria McGahan, a public health educator for the Columbia County Health Department.

All three are under mandatory isolation at home, county officials confirmed.

“I can’t speak directly to the

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The Columbia County Office Building in Hudson. Three positive cases of the coronavirus were confirmed in Columbia County on Friday. The three people are under mandatory quarantine at home, health officials said.

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positive cases, but it is CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] and NYSDOH [New York State Department of Health] guidance that household contacts are placed under quarantine, as well,” McGahan said.

A team of nurses working for the Columbia County Department of Health has begun to trace people who may have come into contact with the infected individuals.

“They interview the patients and follow up on whatever information is shared with them,” McGahan said.

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CUOMO: ‘WE ARE ALL IN QUARANTINE’

Striper regs not yet finalized Hudson River anglers are waiting with baited breath for finalized striped bass regulations.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo holds a press briefing on coronavirus Friday morning and mandates a 100% workforce reduction, excluding essential services.

Women turn to home births As pregnant women wrestle with anxiety over COVID-19, midwives are in greater demand PAGE A5

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By Nora Mishanec Columbia-Greene Media

Gov. Andrew Cuomo told New Yorkers, “We are all in quarantine now,” as he announced that 100% of the non-essential workforce must

stay home to halt the spread of COVID-19.

All employees in non-essential roles must work from home and businesses that do not comply with the new restrictions will face fines and

penalties, the governor said at press conference Thursday morning at the state Capitol.

“This is the most drastic action we can take,” he said.

Drastic measures are necessary to prevent the health care

system from becoming overloaded with COVID-19 cases, he said.

New York State had 7,012 COVID-19 cases as of Friday, with New York City accounting for more than half of the

positive results. Thirty-five people have died of COVID-19 in the state so far, he said.

Columbia County has three confirmed cases and Greene See QUARANTINE A2

Nature stays open despite coronavirus crisis

By Abby Hoover Columbia-Greene Media

State parks remain open amid states of emergency and closures throughout New York.

The state is also waiving all fees in state, local and county parks.

All year-round state parks, trails and grounds of historic sites are open for outdoor recreation, according to the state’s website.

But public programs and events have been suspended indefinitely and indoor facilities, such as nature centers, visitor centers and historic houses, will be closed to encourage social distancing.

This includes Hudson River Islands State Park in Coxsackie, Lake Taghkanic State Park in Ancram, and Taconic State

Park’s Copake Falls in Copake Falls, Clermont State Historic Site in Germantown, Olana State Historic Site in Greenport and Thomas Cole State Historic Site in Catskill.

“Visitors should remember they are in a public park,” according to a Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation statement. “While we are making increased efforts toward sanitation, each surface is only as clean as the last person who touched it.”

Officials at the Cole site issued the following statement on their website: “The staff and board of the Thomas Cole Historic Site have been watching the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic with deep concern, and we are writing to let you know about steps we are taking in response.

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In order to help ensure the safety of our visitors, supporters, board, staff, volunteers and partners, we will postpone our upcoming events: the Fellows’ Presentations on March 27, our Scholars’ Dinner on April 6, the Sunday Salon on April 19, and tours of the Historic Site during the month of April. In addition, we have enabled our staff to work from home and upcoming meetings will be conducted via phone or video conference.

“We would like to note that we have arrived at this decision not due to any specific incidence of infection within our known community; rather, we are acting out of consideration of the health of the community and the ripple effect our actions See NATURE A2

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The individuals were tested for COVID-19 at a facility in the Columbia Memorial Health Network, but officials declined to identify which of the three facilities performed the tests. Columbia Memorial Health is conducting tests at Columbia Memorial Hospital and at two rapid care facilities — one at 283 Mountain View Road, Copake, and the other 2827 Route 9, Valatie.

Columbia County Public Health Director Jack Mabb contacted Columbia County Board of Supervisors Chairman Matt Murell to inform him of the positive cases.

Murell then informed all of the town supervisors of the three positive cases, the county health department confirmed.

The town supervisors were not told the locations of the individuals living under quarantine. “I don’t even know their locations,” Murell said Friday.

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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo at a press briefing Friday morning to provide the latest round of restrictions in the effort to stem the spread of COVID-19.

pharmacies and health care providers will remain open during the statewide shutdown.

The state will enforce fines on businesses that do not follow the new density restrictions.

“This is not voluntary. This is not helpful hints,” Cuomo said. “There will be a civil fine and mandatory closure for any business that is not in compliance.”

While individuals will not face fines, Cuomo called on all New Yorkers to practice social distancing. The economic cost of social distancing and density reduction measures is worth it, he said.

“I believe these policies will save lives,” he said. “And I am not willing to put a price on human life.

Several measures to protect those facing financial uncertainty during the mandatory closures were announced by the governor’s office on Thursday.

New Yorkers who are unable to work fulltime are eligible for a three-month delay on their mortgage payments and will not face any penalties. The state Legislature passed a provision to provide paid sick leave to anyone quarantined as a result of exposure to COVID-19.

The state Assembly Minority Conference proposed the Small Business Emergency Recovery Act of 2020 to protect small businesses that have been negatively impacted by social distancing restrictions on Thursday.

“Local businesses are fighting for survival and facing an uncertain future,” State Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay said in a statement. The legislation proposes giving $890 million in relief to small businesses, offering zero interest loans and postponing business tax collection for 180 days.

The governor denied that the state is running out of testing kits, and did not comment on the announcement that Capital Region hospitals have suspended testing due to a shortage of kits.

“We are doing more testing than anywhere else,” he said.

“We are working with BioReference [Laboratories] to process tests for Albany now,” said Melissa DeRosa, secretary to the governor.

“If you need a test and it is clinically relevant, we will get that done for you,” Cuomo said.

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the risk to our community remains low,” Mabb said in a statement posted to the county health department website.

The county has been preparing for weeks for a positive COVID-19 case, Murell said.

One hundred and eighteen Columbia County residents were tested for COVID-19 as of Friday. The three most recent cases are the first tests to come back positive.

Thirteen people are under mandatory quarantine and 46 people are under precautionary quarantine in Columbia County.

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County has two. Albany County has 61 cases. Rensselaer County has eight cases.

Ulster County has 12 cases. Dutchess County has 36 cases.

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operations center in the event of a large-scale outbreak, Columbia County Emergency Management Director David Harrison Jr. said last week. The emergency operations center was not activated as of Friday, Murell said.

Citing privacy laws, the health department said it cannot disclose the names or locations of the individuals who tested positive.

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The grounds of the Cole site will remain open, officials said.

“Visitors are welcome to visit our grounds. We encourage all visitors to observe a safe distance from others when visiting and to adhere to other practices that prevent the spread of the contagion.”

The Centers for Disease Control and the state Department of Health recommend the following steps for protecting one’s own health and that of others: Try to keep a distance of at least six feet from others; avoid close contact, such as shaking hands, hugging and kissing; wash hands often or use a hand sanitizer when soap and water are not available; and avoid surfaces that are touched often, such as doorknobs, handrails and playground equipment.

Visitors to parks.ny.gov can find a Hudson River Birding Trail Bird Checklist, which is recommended at Olana and Clermont state historic sites.

The 250-acre Olana State Historic Site, designed by artist Frederic Edwin Church, includes walking trails overlooking the Hudson River.

Lake Taghkanic State Park

has eight miles of trails suitable for hiking or mountain biking.

Visitors are reminded to carry out what they carry in, including trash.

In or around Taconic State Park, hikers can discover Bash Bish Falls, the Harlem Valley Rail Trail and a portion of the Appalachian Trail.

The Columbia Land Conservancy has 10 Public Conservation areas, including High Falls in Philmont and the Greenport Conservation Area, which remain open to public use.

Starting next week, the CLC will have virtual activities and recommendations for getting outdoors on their website clctrust.org.

At a press conference Friday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said people should stay home except for necessary functions, but can go outside for solitary exercise.

The town of Greenport has closed facilities at Greenport Town Park, such as restrooms, along with its town offices, departments and community center, to the public. Town Supervisor Kathleen Eldridge, who declared a state of emergency March 17, reminded residents they can still conduct business with town departments over the phone.

“The town of Greenport government and all employees are striving to maintain normalcy,

as allowed,” Eldridge said Friday. “Our concerns are directed at the health and safety of our community and others.”

Eldridge urged residents to take all directives seriously. She said department heads met earlier this week to proactively establish weekly teams to maintain infrastructure and community integrity.

“The town of Greenport wants to assist the residents in need and attempt to direct them to the proper agency,” Eldridge said. “We are grateful to live in a community that looks out for and cares for each other.”

While Hudson city parks remain open to the public, all Hudson City School District outdoor facilities are closed, including the track, playground and athletic facilities.

“Taking care of yourself, your friends, and your family can help you cope with stress,” according to the CDC’s Coronavirus Manage Anxiety and Stress website. “Helping others cope with their stress can also make your community stronger.”

The CDC recommends taking breaks from exposure to information related to COVID-19, doing enjoyable activities, connecting with others, as well as taking care of one’s body. This includes regular exercise, eating healthy and getting plenty

of sleep.

People feeling overwhelmed with emotions like sadness, depression or anxiety, or are thinking about personal harm due to COVID-19, can call the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Disaster Distress Helpline at 1-800-985-5990 or text TalkWithUs to 66746.

Abby Hoover is a reporter for Columbia-Greene Media. Contact her at ahoover@registerstar.com.

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CALENDAR Monday, March 23 n Catskill Village Planning Board

Stewart’s Hearing rescheduled to 7 p.m. April 20 Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Greenville CSD BOE/Budget 4 Meeting postponed until April 6 at 6:30 p.m. MS/HS Library, 4976 SR 81, Greenville

Tuesday, March 24 n Catskill Town Planning Board

7 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill

Wednesday, March 25 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m. Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518-945-1551 n Catskill Village Board meeting cancelled

Thursday, March 26 n Coxsackie Village Budget Work Session Cancelled

Thursday, April 2 n Cairo Town Planning Board

meeting cancelled n Coxsackie Village Budget Work Session 6:30 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Monday, April 6 n Athens Town Board 6:45 p.m.

Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518945-1052 n Cairo Town Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo n Greene County Board of Electrical Examiners 1 p.m. at the Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., 4th Floor, Room 469, Catskill n Greenville CSD BOE/Budget 4 Meeting 6:30 p.m. MS/HS Library, 4976 SR 81, Greenville

Wednesday, April 8 n Athens Village Board 6:30

p.m. Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518-945-1551 n Catskill Village Board 7 p.m.

Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill 518-943-3830

Thursday, April 9 n Coxsackie 2020-2021 Proposed Tentative Budget Public Hearing 6:30 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie n Coxsackie Village Workshop Meeting 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

C&D project withdrawn from DEC

By Sarah Trafton Columbia-Greene Media

ATHENS — State officials confirmed Thursday the application for a proposed construction and demolition debris processing facility has been withdrawn.

The project, proposed by Athens Stevedoring & Environmental Development LLC, involved importing 8,400 tons of C&D materials each week to a 6.1-acre site off N. Washington Street, according to the developer’s application to the state Department of Environmental Conservation on Jan. 3. The materials would come from DEC Region 2, which is Long Island City, according to the application.

After processing in Athens, the materials would then be exported by truck to locations around the state.The project required a Part 360 registration from DEC, but did not require a DEC permit and was not subject to state environmental quality review, according to DEC. Local officials and activists rejoiced with Thursday’s news.

“I’m elated,” Village Trustee Joshua Lipsman said. “It’s one less thing to worry about.”

The village board had several concerns about the project.

“We were concerned about the end of quality of life here in the village as we know it and all of [the] plans and hopes for future development of village were looking like they were going to be sabotaged by the project,” he said. “Now that can all come back on the table.”

The village is updating its 13-year-old comprehensive plan, resubmitting an application for a Brownfield Opportunity Area, and has aspirations to update its Local Waterfront Revitalization Plan and become

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Wednesday, April 15

Monday, April 20 n Athens Town Board 6:45 p.m.

Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518945-1052 n Catskill Village Planning Board Stewart’s Public Hearing 7 p.m. Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill

Tuesday, April 21 n Athens Village Planning Board

6:30 p.m. Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518-945-1551

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the community and encourage them to organize,” according to the release. “After an outpouring of support from the public — an online petition garnered over 2,000 signatures in only two weeks — and support from State Assemblymember Chris Tague (R) and Congressman Antonio Delgado (D), Athens Stevedoring withdrew its application and abandoned the project.”

The project came in the wake of Wheelabrator Technologies proposing to construct an ash monofill in Catskill, which was withdrawn last June after public outrage. Another proposal from Peckham Industries in Catskill

for a berm made of C&D materials is still underway.

Catskill geologist David Walker is not surprised these types of projects are coming up.

“There are idle quarries along the Hudson River awaiting some new purpose, and New York City is the source of an enormous C&D waste stream, which is twice the tonnage of its municipal waste,” Walker said.

“With barging cheaper than trucking to transport tons of materials and the Hudson Valley located closer to New York City than alternative sites... The area has been — and will continue to be — targeted for many more of these projects.”

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our entire community came together to make their voices heard,” Bradicich said. “I have no doubt that the large and unified opposition to this project played a large part in stopping the effort.”

Riverkeeper President Paul Gallay also credited community engagement.

“The system worked here because these communities got the facts and got active,” Gallay said. “This should give everyone in the Hudson River watershed the confidence to fight misbegotten projects like these in their own communities.”

Keep it Greene collaborated with several groups and lawmakers in its efforts, according to the release.

“Keep It Greene worked with Friends of Athens, KingstonCitizens.org, Hudson Riverkeeper, and the Village of Athens Mayor and Board of Trustees to inform

incredible challenges and we are turning to you, our community for your support.

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n Cairo Town Board workshop meeting 7 p.m. Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo

a Climate Smart Community, Lipsman said.

“All of those things severely would be hampered or impaired if the C&D project went through,” he said. “We are beside ourselves with happiness.

I find this tiny bit of good news amidst [COVID-19] extraordinarily uplifting.”

The village announced the withdrawal on its website.

“Thanks to all who got involved and made their opposition to this project known,” according to the website. “But we’d especially like to thank the good people at Keep it Greene and Friends of Athens who worked so hard to bring this matter to the attention of local government on every level.”

Mayor Stephan Bradicich echoed similar remarks in a release from local environmental activity group Keep it Greene.

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Without trust, there is no confidence As the first two positive cases of COVID-19 in Columbia County were announced Friday, and we share the sacrifices necessary to halt or at least check the relentless advance of the coronavirus, we are increasingly dependent on our elected officials for news of the crisis, government action, and what we must do to keep ourselves and our neighbors safe.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been holding daily briefings on the outbreak’s impact on New York state for weeks. Hospital officials are doing their best to keep us informed about the status of the health care system.

On the local front, municipalities are sending several updates each day informing us of closures, availability of essential services and a host of tips on how to stay healthy during this unprecedented emergency.

Yet despite all the briefings, updates and press releases, we are not learning everything we need to know about government.

Ironically, this is happen-

ing during Sunshine Week, which began March 15.

Simple facts, such as the number of available ventilators and the number of coronavirus tests being administered, are becoming more difficult to gather. In some cases statewide, determining whether testing is actually being done has been difficult to confirm.

The recent suspension of the state’s Open Meetings Law is a grave mistake.

Despite availability of live-streaming, the law’s suspension raises the specter of governments hiding behind remote meetings and closed doors to push through resolutions. Livestreaming is great for people who can receive it, but those who can’t are rendered blind to what their governments are doing.

If they are not careful, governments and hospitals will squander their most important weapon in the fight against the coronavirus: public trust.

Accurate information and quick response are key to maintaining trust dur-

ing a crisis. If we have no confidence in what we’re hearing, we can’t trust what our governments and hospitals are telling us. When governments and hospitals offer comments on ventilators or virus testing, we need to know the facts that support their statements.

When difficult actions are taken on health care or civil liberties, as the governor did Friday, we need to know the facts behind these actions. Transparency sustains our trust that government is responding openly and with facts.

As the crisis develops, official statements and briefings will continue to dominate the news. We expect governments and hospitals to remain connected to the public for open, vital and accurate information.

Statements and briefings cannot be obfuscated by double-speak and withholding facts. We need confidence in our health care and elected leaders now more than ever. If there is no trust, there can be no confidence.

ANOTHER VIEW

A failure of leadership in Latin America Editorial Board The Washington Post

If Latin America is hard hit by the coronavirus epidemic, as it now appears it will be, two of its political leaders will bear outsize responsibility. Presidents Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil and Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico govern the region’s two most populous countries by far, with more than 325 million people between them. Yet both have minimized the risk of the novel coronavirus and resisted - or even flouted - measures to prevent its spread.

Bolsonaro mingled with supporters at a rally as recently as Sunday, even though his own health ministry recommended that he isolate himself because he has had close contact with infected officials. At a news conference Wednesday, he warned against “hysteria” and said no one should be surprised to see him ride a crowded subway in Sao Paulo or a ferry in Rio de Janeiro.

This weekend he is planning

a two-day celebration of his 65th birthday.

Never mind that Brazil’s covid-19 case count had risen to 534 confirmed cases on Thursday, including the president of the Senate, national security adviser and other senior officials. Thanks to Bolsonaro, the federal government has taken few preventive measures, leaving borders, schools and businesses open. Though some state governors have stepped up and imposed closures, Brazil remains wide-open to the pandemic.

No wonder hundreds of thousands of people in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo banged pots and pans from their homes on Tuesday and Wednesday in protest.

López Obrador, a populist like his Brazilian counterpart, has been almost as heedless of the mounting threat. Mexico, as of Thursday, had 118 reported covid-19 cases, but the president was still resisting restrictions on travel and

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No.” He said his priority was to protect “all the people who work, who live by economic activity, by what they can get day to day.”

The concern for ordinary workers is understandable, especially in a country with a large informal economy. But López Obrador, like Bolsonaro, has been cavalier in his personal response to the virus, rejecting his health minister’s recommendation that he abstain from hugs and kisses. “You have to hug,” he said at a news conference this month. “Nothing is going to happen.” Last weekend, he acted on his words, plunging into a crowd and repeatedly kissing a baby.

His government is following his lead, last weekend limiting some sports events and public gatherings but still allowing a large music festival to go forward in Mexico City.

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You are not a teetering contraption WASHINGTONN — “Worrying,” wrote Lewis Thomas, “is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions.” Thomas — physician, philosopher, essayist, administrator (dean of the Yale and New York University medical schools, head of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) — thought we worry too much about our health, as though a human being is “a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces.”

So at this worrisome moment, fill your idle hands with Bill Bryson’s 2019 book, “The Body: A Guide for Occupants.”

It will fill your mind with reasons for believing that you are not flimsy, even though “we are just a collection of inert components.” Including seven billion billion billion (7,000,000,000,00 0,000,000,000,000,000) atoms, not one of which cares a fig about you. In the time it took to read this far into this sentence, your busy body manufactured a million red blood cells that will surge through you every 50 seconds — 150,000 times (a hundred or so miles) before, in about four months, they die and are replaced for the greater good, meaning: for you.

Bryson says it is estimated that every day between one and five of your cells turns cancerous and your immune system kills them: “A couple of dozen times a week, well over a thousand times a year, you get the most dreaded disease of our age, and each time your body saves you.” What he calls “three billion years of evolutionary tweaks” have taught your body some neat tricks.

Viruses, Bryson says, “bide their time.” A previously unknown one, found in Siberia in 2014 after having been confined in permafrost for 30,000 years, was injected into an amoeba and “sprang

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WILL into action with the lustiness of youth.” To stave off death from the coronavirus, we diligently scrub our largest organ, our skin, the surface of which, the epidermis, is ... dead. Bryson says “all that makes you lovely is deceased. Where body meets air, we are all cadavers,” shedding a million dead flakes an hour.

Just as well, considering that every square centimeter of your skin contains about 100,000 microbes, and about 200 species of microbes inhabit your skin. Some of the many trillions of living things that call your body home were studied in North Carolina State University’s Belly Button Biodiversity Project, which swabbed the belly buttons of 60 randomly selected Americans and found 2,368 species of bacteria, 1,458 of which were previously unknown to science.

The three spongy pounds of mostly water, plus fat and protein, called the brain exists in darkness, yet it tells us everything we know about the world that it has never seen. “Just sitting quietly, doing nothing at all, your brain churns through more information in 30 seconds than the Hubble Space Telescope has processed in thirty years.” A grain-of-sandsized bit of cortex “could hold two thousand terabytes of information,” enough to store every movie, or 1.2 billion copies of Bryson’s book. Small wonder this 2% of body weight uses

20% of our energy.

The energy expended by the 200 million steps you will take in your lifetime comes from improved modern nutrition that explains why puberty, which began at 16 or 17 five centuries ago, now generally begins at 11. Food, of which Americans consume unhealthy amounts (25% more calories than in 1970, when they already were not svelte), makes this nation simultaneously overfed and nutritionally deficient. Millennials scarf down avocado toast, oblivious of the fact that one avocado has, Bryson says, “five times as much saturated fat as a small bag of potato chips.”

He adds: “The amount of vegetables eaten by the average American between 2000 and 2010 dropped by 30 pounds,” which is not alarming because America’s most popular vegetable “by a very wide margin is the French fry.”

The aforementioned brain does not always generate prudent choices but it did rid the world of the most devastating disease, smallpox, which, Bryson reminds us, “infected nearly everyone who was exposed to it and killed about 30% of victims” — about half a billion in the 20th century.

This is one of many reasons why “if you are a seventy-year old man in America today, you have only a 2% chance of dying in the next year. In 1940, that probability was reached at age fifty-six.”

Globally, the approximately 160,000 people who will die today picked a good time to live.

And it is highly probable that the ratio of human worrying about health, to actually worrisome conditions, will continue to enlarge.

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ANOTHER VIEW

Coronavirus has thrown us all into mud, but an end is in sight William H. McRaven The Washington Post

For a would-be Navy SEAL, Hell Week is the worst week of the toughest military training in the world. It is six days of no sleep, constant physical and mental harassment, and one “special day” at the Mud Flats.

The Mud Flats are an area between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, where the water comes together and creates a swampy patch of terrain, a muddy bog that tests your determination to be a SEAL. My training class had been out of the mud for a short period of time when the instructors, looking to weed out the weak of mind and body, ordered the entire group of 55 men back into the bog. The mud consumed each man until there was nothing visible but our heads. We were all exhausted, numb from the cold and desperate to hold on. The instructors told us that we could all leave the mud - if just five men quit. It was the instructors’ way of turning us against one another.

It was apparent that some of the trainees were about to give up. There were still eight hours to go before the sun rose - eight

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more hours of bone-chilling cold. Several of the students started moving to dry ground; they were ready to quit. And then, one voice began to echo through the night - one voice raised in song. The song was terribly out of tune but sung with great enthusiasm. One voice became two, and two became three, and before long the entire class was singing.

The instructors threatened us with more time in the mud if we kept singing, but the singing persisted. Those of us stuck in the mud believed that if one of us could start singing when he was up to his neck in mud, then maybe the rest of us could make it through the night. And we did.

Today, the coronavirus has thrown us all into the mud. We are cold, wet and miserable, and the dawn seems a long way off. But while we should not be cavalier about the dangers of this pandemic, neither should we feel hopeless and paralyzed with fear. Hope abounds.

We have the greatest scientists in the world working to create a vaccine. Health-care workers are pulling double shifts to care for the sick. Republicans and Democrats

have come together to find solutions. State and local officials are taking decisive steps to flatten the curve of infection. Our economy is strong enough to survive even in these challenging times. The United States has an unmatched ability to mobilize when called to action. More importantly, as we always have in times of crisis, Americans are rallying together, caring for one another, showing the compassion and concern that have always characterized this nation of good people.

Nothing in our immediate future will be easy. The number of cases will rise. The losses will increase. The market will stumble. But make no mistake about it, we will prevail, because the only thing more contagious than a virus is hope. We are all up to our necks in mud. It’s time to start singing.

McRaven, a retired Navy admiral, was commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command from 2011 to 2014. He oversaw the 2011 Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden. This article draws on a commencement address he gave at the University of Texas at Austin in 2014.

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A Covid-19 supply chain shock born in China is going global

By Shawn Donnan, Christoph Rauwald, Joe Deaux and Ian King Bloomberg News (TNS)

The world’s supply chains are facing a root-to-branch shutdown unlike any seen in modern peacetime as efforts to contain the coronavirus outbreak hit everything from copper mines in Peru to ball bearing makers in Germany’s industrial heartland.In the last few days, a supply chain crisis that began earlier this year with Chinese factories has spread into key industries elsewhere that had weathered the impact until now. The shutdowns are contributing to the growing conviction that the world has slipped into its first recession since the financial crisis more than a decade ago.

“This is kind of a rolling natural disaster,” said Ethan Harris, head of global economic research at Bank of America. “In terms of the impact on global production, the shutdown outside of China will likely become bigger than the impact from China.”

The shock to supply chains, Harris said, is deeper and more sprawling than the trade wars of the past two years and likely to be more prolonged than the storms, earthquakes or floods that have been a source of stress for major industries in the past. He expects factory shutdowns will last into May and possibly longer.

Compounding the blow for companies, the initial supply shock has become interwoven with a demand crisis in Europe, the U.S. and other major economies as workers and consumers are ordered to stay home.

Apple Suppliers Apple Inc., for example, is confronting the impact on component makers in Italy, Germany, Malaysia and South Korea after having weathered the February slowdown in Chinese factories that do the final assembly of products like iPhones and AirPods.

In Malaysia, key suppliers like Murata Manufacturing Co., Renesas Electronics Corp. and Ibiden Co. have halted production as a result of restrictions on movements imposed by the government. Micron Technology Inc. is affected too, but said an exemption allows “limited semiconductor operations to continue.”

Texas Instruments Inc. and On Semiconductor Corp. also have facilities there.

Peru’s state of emergency and nationwide lockdown have led major mining companies like Freeport-McMoRan Inc. and Newmont Corp. to curb copper production there. The same is happening in other mining centers like Chile, Canada and Mongolia, with economists at Scotiabank saying the initial result from the hit in Chile and Peru alone leading to the loss of some 325,000 metric tons of copper production, or about 1.7% of global annual output.

In Europe, industrial giants like Volkswagen AG and Airbus SE have shut down assembly lines in an effort both to reduce the spread of the virus and to deal with parts shortages and bottlenecks due to restrictions on travel within Europe.

Bottlenecks While governments in the region have pledged to safeguard the transport of goods as borders are shut to other nonessential travel, traffic disruptions have started to escalate. Trucks lined up for 40 miles near Berlin after the German border to Poland was closed, and diverting passenger cars to alternatives routes brought little relief.

The car industry is particularly vulnerable to supply chain disruptions. Its finetuned logistics are designed to keep storage times to only between 1 and 2 months.

The push into electric cars has added to complexity, because production of battery cells requires a steady flow of materials like lithium and cobalt.

Germany’s Schaeffler Group, which employs 87,000 worldwide and is a major supplier to car makers, joined peers on Thursday in hammering out emergency plans to cut capacity in Europe and avoid layoffs.

Those include reducing working hours and cutting production on certain days.

“As we have to reduce production in our plants in the light of the crisis, it was important to us that flexible solutions be quickly established,” said Juergen Wechsler, who represents Schaeffler workers for union IG Metall.

Liqui Moly GmbH, a maker of engine oil and lubricants based in the southern German city of Ulm, is suffering dramatic order declines. “If the situation demands it, I will forgo my salary,” Chairman Ernst Prost said.

Detroit Shutdown Anton Posner, chief executive officer of supply-chain management and consulting company Mercury Resources, said the move by General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co., and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV to temporarily shut down their U.S. plants will reverberate not only through their suppliers of finished parts but in steel, aluminum and transportation.

“We have ships loading steel in Europe next week headed for the U.S., but will there be shipments beyond that with industry shutting down?” he asked. “Who’s going to hold inventory if there’s no consumption?”

U.S. steelmaker Commercial Metals says it’s still at work and facing postponements, not yet cancellations.

“So all these jobs are going to come back,” said CEO Barbara Smith.

She hasn’t had any employees infected. But as a company heavily dependent on infrastructure and other construction projects, she is also worried about job sites being shut down due to infections. All of that has left an enormous cloud of uncertainty hanging over her business, even as she continues to book contracts, like one on Thursday related to a highway expansion in Dallas.

“How can I give guidance when I don’t know how long it’s going to last or what all the ripple effects will be?” she asked. “I think it’s irresponsible for anyone to make assumptions right now.”

Linda Vogel Nolan Linda Vogel Nolan of Catskill, NY passed away on February 26, 2020. She was born in Astoria, Queens, NY on July 19th,1955, a daughter of the late George and Jenny Costanza Vogel.

Linda would say her biggest accomplishment was being a loving mother to Vanessa O’Brien (died February 19, 2016) of Chicago, IL, Matthew (Krista) Nolan of Palmyra, NY and Richard (Joanna) Nolan of Charlotte, NC. She was also a proud Grandmother (aka Nanny) to Zayvier Nolan (son of Richard), Johnny O’Brien (son of Vanessa) and Lana & George Nolan (children of Matthew). Linda left behind

her longtime companion of 21 retired in 2019. Linda was an acyears, Timothy Severson. She complished seamstress, most is survived by her brother Rich- notably making almost all of her ard (Charlene) Vogel, sisters own clothing, and taking on inGeorgeann (Bruce) Pynumerable projects for tel, Valerie (Paul) Cathose around her. The puto, and step-father stuffed bunnies she Robert Schrock. She made for her grandchilwas an aunt to Gregory dren will be cherished (Caitlin) Pytel, Kevin memories. She enjoyed (Chelsea) Pytel, Deanmusic, playing the pina (Hunter) Caputo, ano since childhood, Franchesca Caputo, and baking pastries, and Nicole Caputo. especially butter cookShe was a great Aunt to ies for family parties.

Nolan Mikaela Pytel.

She held a firm belief in Linda was a rural letter carrier God, as well as a strong love for for the United States Postal Ser- her country, family and friends. vice in Catskill for 20 years, she She was a generous, compaswas well loved by both her cus- sionate woman who valued hard tomers and her co-workers. She work and individual responsibil-

ity. Linda was also an avid gardener, enjoyed bird watching and was a lover of all animals.

She was known to feed chocolate cake to possums that were occasionally trapped in her basement, and has nursed more than one squirrel back to health after finding them injured on her property.

A celebration of Linda’s life will be held privately by the family at a later date. Memorial contributions can be made in Linda’s name to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital. Cremation arrangements by Millspaugh Camerato Funeral Home, Catskill. Messages of condolence may be made to MillspaughCamerato.com.

Pregnant women, worried about hospitals, are turning to home births as an alternative Samantha Schmidt The Washington Post

Jessica Breitschwerdt was already feeling anxious about giving birth to her first child. She signed up for a doula, a birthing class and a tour of the Maryland hospital where she planned to deliver in mid-May. Then she saw an article, posted in a Facebook group for new moms, suggesting that infants had tested positive for the coronavirus. Soon after, she found out her hospital tour and birthing class were canceled. Then Holy Cross Germantown Hospital announced it was limiting visitors to one person per patient, which meant Breitschwerdt would have to choose between having her husband, her mother or her doula by her side during the most important day of her life.

Images of overcrowded hospitals in Italy came to mind and Breitschwerdt’s thoughts began to spiral: Would the onslaught of sick patients put her baby at risk? Would the hospital run out of available beds?

“That’s just scary,” she said.

“There’s just so much unknown about it.”

On Tuesday, Breitschwerdt decided to change her plans.

She called a certified nurse midwifery practice and scheduled a home birth.

As pregnant women across the country wrestle with anxieties about the potential impact of the pandemic, midwifery practices are reporting a significant uptick in requests for alternatives to deliveries in hospitals.

About 1 percent of all births in the country take place at home, and about 9 percent are delivered by certified nurse midwives, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But the option of delivering at home or in a birth center has suddenly become a comforting alternative for scores of pregnant women worried about the spread of the virus in hospitals.

Midwives across the country are taking to social media to say their practices are at capacity through the summer. Some are accepting patients late in their third trimester, in rare instances planning a home birth a day in advance.

“We see six to ten births a month, and we had 12 inquiries yesterday,” Nannette Jenkins, a certified nurse-midwife at Riverside Midwifery in Buckeystown, Maryland, said Wednesday. “That’s two months’ worth of interest just yesterday. And I feel like that’s just begun.”

Other midwives are writing letters to medical providers and elected officials, asking them to lift restrictions on their practices so they can help relieve hospitals that will soon be overwhelmed. Some states require physician supervision for licensure of certified nurse-midwives, while other states do not grant licenses to midwives who are not also certified as nurses.

“We’re on the front lines,” said Nicole Cisneros Pegher, a certified professional midwife in the South Shore of Massachusetts. “I wish that the government, that the powers that be, would recognize the strength of their home-birth community, because at a moment’s notice, I’m ready to go.”

It is still not known whether a

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pregnant woman with covid-19 can pass the virus on to her fetus during pregnancy or delivery.

No infants born to mothers with coronavirus have tested positive for covid-19, according to the CDC. But a new study released this week in the journal Pediatrics suggests that young children, particularly infants, may be vulnerable to critical illness.

The CDC has also noted that, based on limited case reports, some adverse infant outcomes, such as preterm birth, have been reported among infants born to mothers who tested positive for the virus, but it’s not clear whether these outcomes were related to the mom’s infection. The CDC has encouraged hospitals to consider temporarily separating a newborn from a mother confirmed positive for covid-19 to reduce the risk of transmission.

A home birth would not reduce the risk of transmission of the virus to a newborn from a mom who is already infected.

But some mothers worry that the high volume of infected patients in a hospital could put a baby at risk of contracting the virus in the hours and days after birth.

Obstetricians have sought to reassure their patients that in most hospitals, labor and delivery units are separate from areas designated for coronavirus patients.

“I’ve heard nothing about closing labor and delivery and using it as a containment unit for anyone who would have the coronavirus,” said Connie Bohon, an obstetrician and gynecologist in the District who is a fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Bohon urged pregnant women not to rush to change their plans to home births at the last minute. In the rare case that something goes wrong, she said, she wouldn’t want mothers in labor to rely on emergency services that may be strained from the pandemic.

But midwives are hoping to use this moment to send a message to pregnant moms and physicians alike: We can help.

“We are highly underutilized,” said Suzanne Wertman, a state government affairs consultant for the American College of Nurse-Midwives. “The pandemic is just exposing all of these weaknesses in the system.”

Midwives practice in hospitals, birth centers and patient homes, depending on state restrictions and a midwife’s level of certification. In many other countries, such as Sweden, Norway and France, midwives provide care for most expectant

and new mothers. But in the United States, 22 states have placed restrictions on the licensure of nurse-midwives, Wertman said. While Washington D.C. and Maryland have fairly loose restrictions, Virginia is one of several states that requires a certified nurse midwife to provide proof of a collaborative practice agreement with a licensed physician, “which I call a permission slip,” Wertman said.

The cost of home births can also present a barrier to some midwifery practices that may not be credentialed for coverage by certain insurance providers.

A 2018 study in the journal PLOS ONE found that states that have done the most to integrate midwives into their health-care systems have some of the best birth outcomes. Others have suggested that expanding access to midwives could help address rising maternal mortality rates in the United States. Although midwives do not handle high-risk pregnancies, they cite the close relationships they develop with patients, and their emphasis on creating a comfortable, undisturbed space for childbirth as advantages over hospital births.

Across the country, midwifery practices are working to meet the increased demand while also working within the constraints of social distancing. At one midwifery practice, M.A.M.A.S. in Takoma Park, Maryland, prenatal group visits and belly checks have gone virtual. Mairi Breen Rothman, a certified nurse-midwife, has started meeting patients oneon-one at her home, in a room with a separate entrance, and disinfects the space carefully before and after each visit.

The practice has started hosting its information sessions via Zoom conference calls. While the usual sessions bring in about six to eight new potential clients, an online session Wednesday night drew 20 people, all interested in home births.

As couples watched from their kitchen tables, some with toddlers on their laps, one family asked the question on many of their minds: Does the practice take late transfers?

“Generally, we try not to take people after 32 weeks, but with this current situation, we are taking people on a caseby-case basis,” said Kathy Peacock, a certified nurse-midwife at M.A.M.A.S. The practice was booked full for July but still had some openings in May and June. “Just know that we are filling up very, very quickly with all of this,” Peacock said.

In Massachusetts, Ashley Henske was only a day away from her due date when she decided to make the switch to a home birth. Late Friday, she learned that her hospital was limiting visitors to only one person, meaning she wouldn’t be able to have her doula team by her side. She worried that the hospital may even prevent her husband from coming into the delivery room.

So the following day, she called a midwifery practice and asked whether it would be possible to arrange a home birth.

She scrambled to shop for essential items in stores where cleaning supplies were selling out fast. She searched for plastic shower curtains and new sheets. Washcloths for compression during pushing.

A crockpot to keep the washcloths warm throughout the labor. Her husband rushed to his mother’s house to borrow an exercise ball, which can be used to help induce labor.

And 28 hours later, Henske gave birth to her daughter, Mikaela - 9 pounds, 11 ounces - in her own bed.

The home birth went smoothly and eased her fears.

But it also came at a cost: $4,000 out of pocket, with no coverage from her insurance.

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A6 - Saturday - Sunday, March 21-22, 2020

Nothing sadder than a broken electrical appliance Coronavirus! There, I said it, but I won’t be writing about it. I usually write things that might make you smile or remember a fond memory.

There’s nothing funny about the virus. Stay well, my friends.

So here’s more of the old stuff.

Hope you enjoy it!

There are few things in life that I find sadder than a broken down or worn out electrical appliance. They usually begin life as a shiny new techno thing that is costly and fascinating. You don’t notice it is getting older until it stops working.

The problem I have is what to do with them then. An old piece of jewelry or furniture might have some antique value. A 40- or 50-year-old car or truck still has some value, even if it isn’t running. A 15or 20-year-old television set that doesn’t work will cost you money to dispose of.

My electric drill stopped working last week. I’ve had it about 20 years. I got it at Sears and it has served me well. If it was a socket wrench, Sears would give me a new one if it broke; they really stood behind their hand tools, if only I could find a Sears store.

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BROOKS The electric tools were another matter. I’m sure the salesman would have laughed if I tried to turn the drill in and ask for a new one. It was expensive, as tools go, and the idea of getting it repaired flashed through my mind, but search as I might, the Yellow Pages had nothing listed under “Drill Repairs.” I thought of taking it apart to see if I could fix it. I like taking things apart. I do it on a fairly regular schedule. I’m afraid my track record for failure is impressive. I do have a rather large collection of coffee cans full of various screws, bolts and other fasteners as a result of years of appliance demolition.

The disemboweled appliance loses the ability to hold

my attention shortly after I admit to myself that I have no idea what’s wrong with it or how to fix it. My usual tactic is to walk away and have a little ponder about how to solve the problem. A day or two later I go back to the shop and need to do something that requires using the work bench, which is still covered in appliance guts. I usually scoop up the bits and pieces, find an empty coffee can, plop them inside, label the lid as to what bits and pieces reside in there, and add the can to the stack occupying the back of the bench.

I then slide the main carcass to the side, where it resides for a month or so until I get tired of working around it. The fatally wounded appliance then goes to its final resting place, under the bench — remember, it’s too good to throw out and I may be able to figure out how to fix it one of these days.

My faithful friend — the drill — now resides with an electric can opener, a reel-toreel tape player, two 8-track tape players, a portable record player, a weed whacker, two and a half vacuum cleaners, an electric tooth brush, a Beta Max video player, half a dozen

lamps and a remote control car or two. None of them work but all of them have potential.

They’re too good to throw out and even if I can’t repair them, I may some day need them to provide parts for something I can repair if I just have the parts I need.

Yep! Nothing sadder than a broken down, worn out electrical appliance.

Thought for the week — Get rid of anything that isn’t useful. Clutter weighs you down in many ways.

Until next week, may you and yours be happy and well.

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American eels (Anguilla rostrata) are migratory fish that are hatched in the Atlantic Ocean and enter rivers as tiny “glass eels” each spring. The species is in decline over much of its range, and baseline studies are needed for conservation.

Teams of scientists and students collect glass eels using net and trap devices on several

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To volunteer at the Hannacroix Creek site in New Baltimore, email or call CCE ColumbiaGreene’s Tracey Testo at tet35@ cornell.edu, 518-622-9820 x119 or Kelsey West at kjw228@cornell.edu, 518-622-9820 x 112. For all other locations, Sarah Mount of NYSDEC at sarah.mount@ dec.ny.gov, 845-889-4745 x106.

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Spring is arriving and so are Church Briefs the ruffed grouse It appears spring has already arrived in much of the Hudson Valley region after a mild winter. I have had reports of forsythia in full bloom in Kingston as early as March 3. This is a full month earlier than I would expect and perhaps the earliest since 2012.

This spring when I return to Conesville in late April I may have already missed some of the very earliest floral displays.

It is a tough decision for me whether to return home early, or not. Most of Florida is closed down right now and many of my snowbird friends have already returned home, since there is little to do except go to the beach. I am not a beach person at all, except for when I have a fishing rod in my hand, or in a rod holder close by. I learned many years ago that being in the sun is not in my best health interest.

So far the Gulf of Mexico has not been quarantined and there are many places to fish at no charge, so I guess I will remain here until at least after Easter.

A reader, who used to be an avid game bird hunter, asked me to write about ruffed grouse. I am happy to oblige since there was a time when I also hunted grouse with great pleasure. I don’t do this anymore for reasons that I may or may not disclose by the end of this column.

Grouse are beautiful and fascinating birds that most of us rural residents have seen up close, or heard from a distance. The sound of what seems to be a reluctant gas motor starting up, (thump,.. thump…thump.. then THUMPTHUMPTHUMP! as the engine fully engages is how it sounds). Think of a tractor motor starting, slowly at first, but then accelerating and you get the gist.

Most of the following information is from Cornell’s lab of 0rnithology. The male ruffed grouse’s signature drumming display doesn’t involve

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BEYFUSS drumming on anything but air. As the bird quickly rotates its wings forward and backward, air rushes in beneath the wings, creating a miniature vacuum that generates a deep, thumping sound wave that carries up to a quarter of a mile. Most of this courtship behavior occurs in the spring but often is heard in the fall as well, just as turkeys sometimes gobble in the fall.

Grouse are not migrating snowbirds, as I am. They tough out the winter in the north, sometimes burrowing into soft snow drifts to escape the elements for periods of time.

A mostly open winter, such as this past one, is not good for them overall. The toes of ruffed grouse grow projections off their sides in winter, making them look like combs.

The projections are believed to act as snowshoes to help the grouse walk across snow.

Ruffed Grouse can digest bitter, often toxic plants that many birds can’t handle, including the buds of aspen, which are a major source of their winter diets. They also eat insects and a variety of other, more traditional “bird food” in warmer weather.

Ruffed grouse can consume and digest large volumes of fibrous vegetation thanks to extra-long, paired pouches at the junction of the small and large intestines.

Ruffed grouse’s popularity as a game bird led to some of North America’s earliest game management efforts. They are certainly a tasty dish with a

mild flavor that is not as strong as wild turkey. They taste more like Butterball turkey to me, or free-range chicken. I suspect many young readers have never tasted free-range chicken.

You need to find a farmer who raises these, such as Heather Ridge Farm, just outside Potter Hollow. I find the bland, boneless chicken breasts sold at supermarkets to be pretty tasteless compared to these.

Grouse are delicious in my book.

New York had a closed season (no hunting in part of the year) on ruffed grouse starting in 1708. In much of their range, Ruffed Grouse populations go through 8 to 11-year cycles of increasing and decreasing numbers. Their cycles can be attributed to the snowshoe hare cycle. When hare populations are high, predator populations increase, too. When the hare numbers go down, the predators must find alternate prey and turn to grouse, decreasing their numbers.

It seems like every spring I see at least a few successful broods of baby grouse walking on my dirt road, but predators usually reduce these numbers drastically by late fall. Sometimes these birds display rather cavalier attitudes towards humans. Often, they refuse to get out of your way while driving and rarely they will actually bond with a human being as a constant outdoor companion.

I have a long story along these lines that I may share with you all someday but now I am out of space.

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SPRING/EASTER CRAFT FAIR SOUTH BETHLEHEM — The South Bethlehem United Methodist Church, 67 Willowbrook Ave., South Bethlehem, has cancelled the Spring/Easter craft fair scheduled for March 28.

SPRING FAIR COXSACKIE — The Coxsackie United Methodist Church, 103 Mansion St., Coxsackie, spring fair scheduled for March 28 has been cancelled.

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CATSKILL — The Catskill United Methodist Church, 40 Woodland Ave., Catskill, will hold a Red Cross Blood Drive 7:45 a.m.-1 p.m.

April 4. To schedule an appointment, call 1-800-RED CROSS or Ernie Moss at 518-943-5477.

RUMMAGE SALE CATSKILL — First Reformed Church of Catskill, 310 Main St., Catskill annual Spring Rummage Sale will be held 9 a.m.-5 p.m. April 17 and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. April 18.

CRAFT FESTIVAL SEEKING APPLICANTS RICHFIELD SPRINGS — Applications are currently being accepted for the 41st Annual Friendship Craft Festival sponsored by the Church Of Christ Uniting in Richfield Springs. It will take place 9 a.m.-3 p.m. June 13 in Spring Park on Scenic US Route 20. For information, an application and festival details go to www.rschurchofchristuniting.com or call Carla at 315-858-1451 or Sue at 315-858-2681.

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The new sound of worship services: ‘Can you mute your mic? Amen.’

Julie Zauzmer and Sarah Pulliam Bailey The Washington Post

WASHINGTON - It was the last day of a 19-day period of daytime fasting for Baha’i believers all over the world. The Washington area’s Baha’i community would have ordinarily been looking forward to joining together at night to feast in celebration and welcome in the Baha’i new year.

Instead, alone in their kitchens and bedrooms and living rooms on Thursday afternoon, they opened up a Skype window.

The sounds of religious worship these days are intermingled with the vocabulary of conference calls: “Try to mute your microphone.”

“You’re frozen.” “I can’t seem to turn my camera around.” “I have to hop off.”

In a matter of days, religious congregations across the country have learned how to go virtual.

Churches that never had a camera in the sanctuary before are live-streaming services. Elderly members who never miss a Wednesday night Bible study are becoming adept instead at morning prayer calls by Zoom. Close-knit communities are keeping each others’ spirits up by seeing each others’ faces in pixel form and singing together, headphones in their ears.

Almost 11,000 new churches signed up for a tool called Church Online Platform in the past week, according to Oklahoma-based Life.

Church, which created the platform. Life.Church said that 4.7 million people watched services from churches on the platform this past Sunday.

In the associated Bible app YouVersion, searches for “fear” went up by 167 percent last week, and “fear not” by 299 percent.

“This moment is inviting religious leaders and religious communities to really think about what is essential about our practices,” said Letitia Campbell, a Presbyterian pastor and a professor at Emory’s Candler School of Theology. “What is the heart of confession? What is the heart of gathering for prayer? Which elements of it are things we can adapt and still hold onto something that feels meaningful?”

Campbell and Rabbi Joshua Lesser, of Atlanta’s Congregation Bet Haverim, started a Facebook group for clergy across the country to share ideas for virtual ministry. More than 5,000 people joined within days. “A whole new liturgy is being created. People are writing prayers,” Lesser said.

Lesser might implement one of the ideas gleaned from the Facebook group with his youth group teens - showing a movie on Netflix’s new platform for remotely watching together. Clergy are offering virtual classes on every subject they can come up with. They’re live-streaming art projects and challah baking lessons.

In Springfield, Ohio, Central Christian Church had never live-streamed a service before. As last

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The Rev. Scott Holmer hears confessions in the parking lot at St. Edward the Confessor Catholic church in Bowie, Maryland, on March 19, 2020. Members have been staying in their cars, a healthy distance away from their priest.

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The pews are full again at Central Christian Church in Springfield, Ohio.

week came to an end, the staff realized that they needed to rapidly change how they do things.

They decided the Rev. Carl Ruby would tape his service on Saturday and they would post it on YouTube Sunday for churchgoers - about 150 on a typical week - to watch online at their normal worship time. Congregants could come to the

church to pick up pre-packaged Communion wafers.

“Everything we do changed in an instant,” Ruby said.

After his first sermon to an empty sanctuary last week, Ruby walked into the sanctuary on Thursday to prepare for this weekend, and found

a surprise: His administrative assistant, Julie Prater, had taped photos of members in the pews so he wouldn’t struggle as much to preach to empty benches.

During Thursday afternoon’s Baha’i prayer service, which was held over Skype and hosted in living rooms and bedrooms across the District, with a few friends tuning in from farther cities and countries, worshipers took turns leading songs and prayers while others muted their mics.

“Remember at all times and at all places that God is faithful, and do not doubt this. Be patient even though great calamities may come upon thee,” one woman sang, strumming a guitar. In the tiny boxes filling the screen, her fellow faithful moved their lips along with her.

The scene resembled that taking place in congregations of every faith across the city, as community members yearned to see each other’s faces and hear each other’s voices while missing their weekly time together. Your priest is livestreaming the rosary from his bedroom? Your pastor is preaching while his kids climb up his chair? All normal, now.

But while many clergy scrambled to put their worship experience all online, others contemplated ways to keep in-person traditions alive in the weeks to come.

For the Rev. Scott Holmer at St. Edward the Confessor Catholic church in suburban Bowie, Maryland, along with a handful of other Catholic priests across the country, the answer was drive-through confession. He set up cones in the church parking lot and sat down in a chair. Each person wanting to confess stayed in their car, with Holmer a CDC-recommended six feet outside their window.

“I can’t absolve people over the phone or through Zoom or over Skype,” Holmer said. He insisted that Jesus would never have used such technology, even if it had been around in the first century.

“Jesus could have stayed up in heaven and just made some phone calls,” Holmer said. “To be with us, to dwell with us, is the reason he ordained bishops and they ordained priests. It’s the reason he gave us his body and blood in the Eucharist, so he could be with us . . . If we can’t do that, it’s a big ache. It’s a big ache in the heart.”

That lack of physical contact with the sacraments and with their priests has been hard on many Catholics who are social distancing - every diocese in the country has now suspended public Mass.

But some clergy are looking for upsides. Lesser, the Atlanta rabbi, said he might have time to tune in not just for the Reconstructionist synagogue services that he will be leading for his community, but also some Buddhist communities that he has been interested in checking out.

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Striper regs not yet finalized

Coronavirus impacts local spring sports

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With less than two weeks before the opening of striped bass season on April 1, Hudson River anglers are likely getting gear and boats ready, chomping at the bit to get out on the water.

They are also waiting with baited breath for finalized striped bass regulation changes expected for the river. While DEC has not formally announced the 2020 changes for Hudson River striper regulations, here is what we do know.

The plan DEC submitted to the Atlantic Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) in early March which allows for alternative strategies to achieve the required 18 percent reduction in striper mortality, has been approved.

The approved plan includes a key change for the 2020 Hudson River striper season. It eliminates the option to keep one “trophy” fish over 40-inches in length. The plan allows river anglers to keep one striped bass measuring between 18 and 28 inches.

The elimination of keeping a “trophy fish” of over 40 inches extends into NY’s Marine District (Hudson River and NY Bight below the George Washington Bridge), but their slot limit allows anglers to take one striper between 28 and 35 inches. That larger slot limit also applies to the Delaware River.

Rationale for only allowing the take of smaller, 18 to 28-inch stripers in the Hudson River during the spawning run is protection of egg-laden females during See STRIPER B8

Red Sox ace Chris Sale will have Tommy John surgery Bill Koch The Providence Journal

Chris Sale will undergo Tommy John surgery.

If there is a baseball season in 2020, the Red Sox left-hander will not take part. Boston announced the discouraging news in a Thursday statement.

Sale is likely to be sidelined for anywhere between 12 and 18 months, a time period that will also cost him an undetermined portion of the 2021 campaign.

The 30-year-old suffered a setback in early March during spring training and was set to make another visit to see renowned orthopedist Dr. James Andrews. Sale underwent an MRI on his sore left elbow after throwing 15 pitches of live batting practice to minor leaguers. The Boston

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Chris Sale of the Boston Red Sox sits in the dugout in the second inning as his team bats against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium on August 3, 2019.

Globe reported Sale had attempted to resume his throwing program earlier this week.

Sale is entering a five-year, $145 million extension that runs through the 2024 season.

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2020 NFL mock draft: Four-round projections. Sports, B9

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His absence leaves Boston with just three proven starting pitchers in Eduardo Rodriguez, Nathan Eovaldi and Martin Perez. Ryan Weber enjoyed a strong spring and looked to be the fourth option, with the Red Sox likely to employ the opener to round out their rotation.

Sale last worked in a game of any kind for Boston on Aug. 13 at Progressive Field. He was shut down due to left elbow inflammation following the 7-6 victory over Cleveland and received a platelet rich plasma injection from Andrews.

Sale’s 2019 season was his worst since becoming a fulltime starting pitcher with the White Sox in 2012. He made just 25 starts and posted a 4.40 See SALE B8

HUDSON — Outside of the impact on public health and the nation’s economy, the Coronavirus is also taking a toll on what a lot of Americans turn to in troubling times, sports.

Since March 12, the world of sports has been dark, with no timetable for a restart, aside from the UFC who is still holding events and actively looking for venue changes and only using essential personnel for their events.

Not only has the professional sports world been turned upside down on the global scale, but amateurs and high school athletes have been affected a great deal as well, on the local level.

Section II’s Executive Committee and League Presidents for the NYSPHSAA, as a response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, has said in a statement sent to the athletic directors and coaches that they “will continue to hold out hope that our studentathletes will have the opportunity to return to Interscholastic Athletic competition…and we support the postponement of interscholastic athletic competition, rather than the cancellation of it.”

After this consideration, the committee decided to shut down all Section II scrimmages and contests that had been originally between now through April 19, with some schools in the section being closed through May 1.

There is another conference call scheduled for April 1 to reevaluate the situation, but this means that teams cannot even get together to practice and prepare, if they do end up having a season.

Hudson’s girls’ track coach Jack Connor highlighted just how difficult these suspensions of play would affect the season, if they were to comply with the April 19

benchmark with no further delay.

“The first meet has to be held after April 19 and the sectionals are May 26,” Connor said. “So if there is a season, it is going to be cramming a lot of meets into five weeks.”

This has a direct impact on seniors in spring sports, that can only practice on their own now, and hope that is a sufficient warm up for if their final year as a high school athlete. New York State has banned gatherings of 50 people or more, so this could provide room for practices for these athletes, but coach Connor has said otherwise.

“The track team had their last practice last night (March 17) and cannot practice until April 2.”

Connor also commented on the disappointment in the potential for seniors to not get the full season they worked so hard for.

“In Hudson we always have a few kids who do the sport for three years and then after college applications are out, suddenly decide to not compete their senior year.

“So the seniors we do have, are kids who are completely committed, love the sport, and are always the last kids to leave practice.”

Hudson seniors that Connor specifically highlighted for this season included Monalissa Carius, Pierre Jeune, Osman Gofran, Chris Fenderson, Mashuda Sultana, and Jasmine Ahmed.

“Carius was 17 inches off of the school record in the triple jump last season, and 11 inches off of the shotput record, and Jeune had been throwing the discus extraordinarily well,” the coach said.

“Other seniors we have, have been on the team for three or four years, always give their all … and I just hope all of them get that last chance to compete.”

It’s official: Tom Brady is a Buccaneer Rick Stroud Tampa Bay Times

TAMPA, Fla. — Tom Brady is officially a Buccaneer. Tampa Tom. A Florida Man. Brady announced on Instagram that he is headed to Tampa Bay. Put the G.O.A.T in the boat at Raymond James Stadium. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but it is expected to be worth $60 million.

Brady, 42, will begin the next chapter in his historic career with the Bucs and seemed eager to get started.

“I’m starting a new football journey and thankful for the Buccaneers for giving me the opportunity to do what I love to do,” Brady wrote on Instagram Friday. “I have always believed that well done is better than well said. So I’m not gonna say much more ... I’m gonna get to work. Year1.”

Brady is pictured smiling broadly as he signs what appears to be his new contract with the Bucs.

After 20 seasons with the Patriots, Brady agreed to join the Bucs on Tuesday, rejecting the same offer from the Los Angeles Chargers.

Brady passed a two-day physical he received from an independent physician in New York Thursday and Friday. Due to NFL rules

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New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (12) walks off of the field after a loss to the Tennessee Titans at Gillette Stadium on Jan. 4.

during the coronavirus pandemic, players cannot travel, forcing them to be examined by

independent doctors. No contract can be executed without a player passing a physical.

“Tom is a proven champion who has achieved greatness on the field because he demands the best out of himself and his teammates,” said general manager Jason Licht, who worked in the Patriots’ scouting department when Brady was drafted. “I’ve known Tom since we drafted him in New England 20 years ago and through this process, it became very clear that his desire to be a champion burns as strong today as it ever has. He possesses the type of rare natural leadership that will immediately impact our entire organization.”

For coach Bruce Arians, Brady is the best of an elite group of quarterbacks he has worked with, a group that includes Peyton Manning, Ben Roethlisberger, Andrew Luck and Carson Palmer.

“Tom is the most successful quarterback in the history of the league,” Arians said. “But what makes him special is his ability to make those around him better. I have had the privilege to work with some of the best passers in our game, and the characteristics they all possessed were the ability to lead and get the best out of their teammates. Tom is no different.

He’s a proven winner who will provide leadership, accountability and work ethic necessary to lead us to our goal of winning another See BRADY B8

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It’s been a long week without sports Luke DeCock The News & Observer

It has been a week, and yet it has only been a week. Under normal circumstances, Thursday would have been one of the two best days of the sports year, nonstop basketball from start to finish, surfing channels and chasing upsets.

In Albany, N.Y., and Spokane, Wash., and St. Louis and Tampa, Fla., the NCAA tournament would have been in full swing.

In Raleigh, the Carolina Hurricanes would have hosted the St. Louis Blues. In Port Huron, Mich., the Wake Tech women’s basketball team would have been playing for a junior-college national title.

It all ground to a halt a week ago, starting with the scary Wednesday night when everything seemed to happen so fast.

The combination of Rudy Gobert’s positive coronavirus test and Nebraska coach Fred Hoiberg slumping on the bench before being hauled off the court

felt like the overly dramatic vignettes that open a Michael Crichton movie.

That shut down the NBA. By the next morning, the rest of the sports world followed suit. We went from no fans to no games in a matter of hours. The Big East tipped off its first tournament quarterfinal at noon, only to realize its mistake at halftime. The ACC pulled the plug while Florida State was on the Greensboro Coliseum court for warmups, once Duke made the decision for it by suspending its own athletics program. There was an impromptu trophy ceremony for the Seminoles, and then it was over.

All of it. Everything.

Next thing you know, every NBA player who needs a test gets one while the average American cannot. That includes John Forslund, the Hurricanes broadcaster now under self-quarantine after occupying Gobert’s recently vacated Detroit hotel room.

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General view of an empty Azteca Stadium during the 10th round match between America and Cruz Azul as part of the Torneo Clausura 2020 Liga MX at Azteca Stadium on March 15, 2020 in Mexico City, Mexico. The match was played behind closed doors to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

And now we’re all sequestered in our homes and the economy is grinding to an ominous halt, all in the

desperate hope it isn’t too late to slow this thing down before it overwhelms our hospitals and health system. Those cries

of “overreaction!” from a week ago seem shrill now, even if they always did to anyone paying attention to Italy or Spain or anywhere else that was ahead of us on the COVID-19 progression.

It was already too late then, we know now, our entire response delayed by politicians who minimized the threat, procrastinating when they should have been ramping up test kit and ventilator production.

The shutdown of entire sports leagues and the cancellation of the NCAA tournament rang alarm bells that the public finally heard.

The sports world did what the government would not and took decisive action that may have mitigated the spread of a deadly pandemic: It got everyone to take this seriously.

Finally.

So it’s been a week without sports. And yet only a week.

In some ways, sports’ absence hasn’t been felt as keenly as it might otherwise have. Our

lives have been so shocking, so upended, even more each day, that it’s just another disruption among many. Thursday was the day it really started to hit home, as social distancing became our new normal and the scheduled lineup of 16 games, cruelly, remained on oblivious channel guides.

It wasn’t long ago that Dave Ayres came rambling out of the stands and tumbled into an NHL game for the Carolina Hurricanes, the 42-year-old Zamboni driver turned emergency goalie who held off his own team to give the Hurricanes an unlikely win over the Toronto Maple Leafs. That was a moment that reminded us why sports matter, why they inspire, why they are not mere frivolity but actually contribute to our lives.

And here we are without them.

That was all of 26 days ago. It feels like months.

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Joy over finding love can’t diminish pain of twin’s loss Dear Abby, I have had a serious boyfriend for six months.

He’s wonderful, a dream come true. But I find myself more depressed and suicidal than ever.

Mom tells me I don’t have any reason to be depressed since I have a boyfriend. It’s like she thinks I have no right to still be despondent DEAR ABBY over my twin’s death because I now have a significant other.

My eating disorder and self-harm have gotten worse, too. I feel like I’m not allowed to show that I’m turning it all inward in self-destructive ways. Although I love my boyfriend, I almost feel like breaking up just so everyone won’t expect me to be Pollyanna anymore. The third anniversary of my twin’s suicide is coming, which is making everything more unbearable. I just don’t know what to do.

Things Aren’t Ok

JEANNE PHILLIPS

If your mother truly believes a death in the family (particularly a twin!) is something that can be “fixed” by having a boyfriend, she is deluding herself. You need professional help and right away. There are support groups for survivors of a family member’s suicide, and you are three years overdue for finding one. I urge you to contact the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

Someone there can help you to locate a support group for the survivors of a loved one’s suicide. To find them, go online to afsp.org.

If you are feeling suicidal, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and tell a counselor about what’s going on. If you do, you can be directed to a licensed therapist in your community who can help. The toll-free number to call is 800273-8255. PLEASE do not put it off.

Dear Abby, My daughter and I have been estranged on and off for many years, most recently for the last 22 months. At that time, she angrily took her 8-year-old daughter and left our home, where she had been living since another eviction. She said she was going to tell everyone I kicked her out. Then she blocked me on Facebook, removed my access to my granddaughter’s classroom progress reports and my name from the school emergency card. My poor granddaughter was in tears.

After no contact, I have been told my daughter is being married. “Save the date” cards have gone out. I have no desire or intention of going to a wedding of someone who has spent half her life being cruel to me, lying, ignoring me, being jealous at her sister’s wedding and so on, with never an apology for her horrible behavior.

She’s a Jekyll and Hyde.

We live in the same community, and I do all I can to avoid seeing her. I’m happy for her and delighted my granddaughter will finally have a bedroom of her own, but I have no intention of playing happy family to someone who regularly sharpens knives in my back. How do I answer any inquiries that may come up about the wedding?

Can’t Take Any More

GOOD HEALTH All of us get extra heartbeats from time to time. They occur when part of the heart generates an electrical impulse faster than the normal pacemaker cells of the heart (in the right atrium), and they can come from the upper or lower chambers of the heart. After a premature beat, there is usually a pause, leading to the sensation of a “skipped” beat.

Unless there are a great many of them (more than 30 an hour in one recent study), or they are causing symptoms, they are of no concern and do not cause problems.

People with very long, protracted bouts of excessively fast heartbeats can get damage to the heart, but a few extra heartbeats are not a concern.

DR. KEITH ROACH

In your recent column on mumps, I wondered if a person had mumps only on one side, is that person still susceptible? I’m 80 and had them on one side 48 years ago. I have two 6-year-old grandchildren who I see a few times a year. Luckily the kids get their shots regularly.

Mumps usually causes swelling in both parotid glands, the large salivary glands in the cheeks, but 25% will have involvement only on one side. A history of disease, one-sided or both, virtually guarantees immunity for life, but there are rare cases of people developing mumps after natural infection. This is extremely rare and may reflect a noninfectious immune response or misdiagnosis rather than failure of the immune system. You and your grandchildren are almost certainly safe from infection.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — If you think it’s time to move on from a certain endeavor or way of being, you have another think coming. It’s actually time to recommit!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You cannot assign portions of your emotional being to this, that or the other. You will feel what you will feel fully, at all times, today.

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I have seen advertising for magnetic bracelets. Does wearing magnets really do anything for your health?

Numerous studies have been done, but there is no convincing evidence that magnets are any better than placebo for wrist pain, back pain or hip and knee arthritis. However, the placebo response is powerful. If you really believe that a placebo — which might be a medication, a wearable magnet or surgery — is going to help with symptoms, it often does help. This happens as much as a third of the time. There are no side effects from wearing a magnet, but you should keep powerful magnets away from your credit cards.

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By Stella Wilder Born today, you are something of a chameleon, and you may confuse a great many people as to your origins, for you can be one person in one moment, another in the next and someone else again quite different the next — and it’s anyone’s guess which version of you will be presented to them at any given time. Of course, you know better than anyone that they’re all you, all a part of the whole that you have cultivated — for indeed, you are perhaps more a result of your own intentions and desires than anyone else born under your sign.

You are not always loud, robust and sociable; sometimes you are quiet, meek and quite retiring. You don’t always get what you want by going after it; sometimes you get it by sitting still and letting it come to you.

Also born on this date are: Gary Oldman, actor; Matthew Broderick, actor; Timothy Dalton, actor; Eddie Money, singer; Rosie O’Donnell, actress and talk show host; Modest Mussorgsky, composer; Florenz Ziegfeld, stage producer.

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.

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Do not engage in a litany of complaints and accusations. You can get the message across to anyone who asks about the wedding by saying that you are not involved in the planning of the wedding and questions should be directed to your daughter. You do not have to discuss it further.

It’s short and sweet and gets the message across.

A few extra heartbeats are nothing to worry about I’m an 83-year-old woman in very good health, and I take no medications. My doctor informed me I have an extra heartbeat, but I have no noticeable symptoms. Will my heart wear out sooner?

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Baby Blues GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Your eagerness may be challenged today by someone who is not at all willing to go where you are leading. There may be a parting of ways.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You may want to have a third party nearby today when resolving a long-standing issue between you and a former friend.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Those who were close to you in your “former” life may surprise you today by supporting you wholeheartedly in a new endeavor.

These are true friends!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You can expect things to get a little tricky today, especially if you have to navigate someone’s unrealistic approach to a problem.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Many will be drawn into your orbit today, not because of anything you say or do, but simply because of who you are. This is beneficial.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You will have to trust someone today, so why not start with yourself? You’ll find it’s easier to trust others if you begin at home, as it were.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You may not be eager to show off a certain facet of your rather complex nature, but today there is likely to be no way around it at all.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You must take every opportunity to observe and assess what is going on around you today. You can’t let another’s actions go unnoticed.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Even accidents will be of great import today. The moment someone tells you that something “doesn’t matter,” you know it does!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Experimentation will not only provide you with a great deal of information today, but it can also be quite fun. A partner tells a secret.

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THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

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Unscramble these Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words.

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Score 1 point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the Graduate Level and 3 points on the Ph.D. Level.

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Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon.

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Solution to Friday’s puzzle

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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Name the literary connection to the given name. (e.g., Natasha Rostova. Answer: “War and Peace.”)

Freshman level 1. Scarlett O’Hara 2. Dorothy Gale 3. Laura Ingalls 4. Jo March 5. Scout Finch Graduate level 6. Hester Prynne 7. Anne Shirley 8. Ophelia 9. Eliza Doolittle 10. Elizabeth Bennet PH.D. level 11. Eponine Thenardier 12. Lucy Pevensie 13. Becky Sharp 14. Hermione Granger 15. Eowyn

SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. “Gone With the Wind.” 2. “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” 3. “The Little House in the Big Woods” (“Little House on the Prairie”). 4. “Little Women.” 5. “To Kill a Mockingbird.” 6. “The Scarlet Letter.” 7. “Anne of Green Gables.” 8. “Hamlet.” 9.

“Pygmalion.” 10. “Pride and Prejudice.” 11. “Les Miserables.” 12. “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” (“The Chronicles of Narnia”). 13. “Vanity Fair.” 14. “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” (Harry Potter series). 15. “The Lord of the Rings” (“The Two Towers”).

24 to 30 points — congratulations, doctor; 18 to 23 points — honors graduate; 13 to 17 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 5 to 12 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 4 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you?

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50 Short-necked duck 51 __ tree; cornered 54 Middle-of-theroad 57 Clippety-__ 58 Fairy tale opener 59 Sicker than before 60 Physically fit 61 First, reverse or neutral 62 __ up; admitted guilt 63 Aggravates DOWN 1 Actor Garrett 2 Berra or Bear 3 Generous 4 Cot or crib 5 Wooden shoes 6 LAX arrival 7 Misplace

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8 Squid’s secretion 9 Peg for Nicklaus 10 Convent superior 11 __ up; bring to an end 12 Irritate 13 Shout 19 Freshwater fish 21 One-on-one combat 24 “Rome wasn’t built in __” 25 Tow along behind 26 “Away with you!”

27 Asian capital city 28 Coin worth very little 29 Shaped like a slice of pizza 30 __ Monica, CA 32 Paid athletes 33 Spanish article 35 Disarray 37 Put in a good __ for; recommend 38 Part of speech 40 Clothing accessories 41 Defense attorney’s request

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Fans are coping when they should’ve been watching March Madness Kent Babb The Washington Post

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The coronavirus pandemic has put an indefinite halt to the NBA and Major League Baseball, which would normally make up the core of ESPN’s live programming over the next few months.

ESPN is bringing back ‘The Ocho’ on Sunday to fill the void in sports fans’ lives Pete Grathoff The Kansas City Star

Sports fans probably wouldn’t mind having a real ESPN8: The Ocho in their lives right now.

That was a great gag from the movie, “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story” in which the “The Ocho” says: “Bringing you the finest in seldom-seen sports from around the globe since 1999. If it’s almost a sport, we’ve got it here.”

With no live sports being broadcast in the United States because of the coronavirus pandemic, fans are watching old sporting events when they can.

To help fill the void, ESPN announced Thursday it was bumping up the day it usually gives a nod to “Dodgeball” by turning ESPN2 into “The Ocho” this Sunday. That had happened on Aug. 8 (8/8) in the past.

Here is what ESPN wrote in a news release: “No, it’s not the eighth of August, or the eighth of anything or even August at all.

That is the magic ESPN8: The Ocho. There is always a place for a full 24 hours of seldom seen sports so Sunday, March 22 on ESPN2 will be just that, a full day of exciting content from Ocho stunts past.”

Some of the “events” to be televised include (with descriptions were needed): — 2019 Spikeball College Championship — World Axe Throwing League — The Stone Skipping Championship — 2019 Jelle’s Marble Runs: Participants and spectators are marbles in these races.

— 2007 World Sport Stacking Championships: Competitors are timed as they stack specially designed cups in predetermined sequences.

Here is the full schedule:

11 p.m. (Sat): ACL Cornhole Championships: 2020 kickoff battle 1 a.m.: World Axe Throwing League: 2019 World Championship 3 a.m.: U.S. Open Ultimate Championships 5 a.m.: 2019 Spikeball College Championship 6 a.m.: 2019 Las Vegas Highland Games 6:30 a.m.: Putt Putt Championships 7 a.m.: 2019 IDEAL Electricians National Championship 8 a.m.: E:60 as part of The Ocho 8:30 a.m.: 51st National Stone Skipping Competition 9:30 a.m.: 2007 World Sport Stacking Championships 10:30 a.m.: 2019 World Sign Spinning Championship 11 a.m.: 2006 Hamburger Eating Contest Noon: 2006 Brat Eating Contest 1 p.m.: European TramDriver Championship 2 p.m.: 2019 Stupid Robot Fighting League 2:30 p.m.: 46th Annual Cherry Pit Spitting Championship 3 p.m.: Professional Arm Wrestling Championships 3:30 p.m.: 2019 Golden Tee World Championship 4 p.m.: 2018 Classic Tetris World Championship 4:30 p.m.: E:60 on ESPN8 5:30 p.m.: America’s Dodgeball Continental Cup: USA vs.

Canada 6:30 p.m.: 2019 Jelle’s Marble Runs 7 p.m.: Slippery Stairs: College Tour 7:30 p.m.: 2019 Death Diving World Championship 8:30 p.m.: Dodge Juggle 3 9:30 p.m.: Moxie Games 3 It’s also a good reason to show the “Dodgeball” clip of ESPN8:

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The coronavirus outbreak and widespread social distancing have pushed us inside for the foreseeable future, as the world faces down health and economic crises. Fear, anxiety and loneliness are pervasive at a time when many are accustomed to dodging work and tying their senses of community to packed arenas and buzzer-beaters, sports bars and busted brackets, a magical three-week bridge to the unmistakable hum of Opening Day and, shortly thereafter, Augusta National on Sunday.

But after a brief, and bizarre, possibility last week that major events would be held without fans, the NBA suspended its season; the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments and all spring college sports were canceled; the Masters and the start of Major League Baseball and the Kentucky Derby were pushed back indefinitely.

“It really feels like a loss,” an Ohio woman said. “It feels stupid and callous to say that at a time like this, but it hurts.”

A Virginia man said he needed “grief counseling,” and another man from Maryland declared he was “crying on the inside a lot.”

“This month sucks,” said Abigail Hadfield, a 21-yearold college student from Philadelphia. “There’s no March Madness; there’s no baseball; there’s nothing.

We don’t have anything. I’m not the only one who’s missing this right now.”

Sports fans felt lost and isolated, attempting to relax their minds with creative endeavors or the outdoors.

Some relived their teams’ past glory or dug into sports history or formed their own virtual sports leagues. At least one decided that the stages of sports grief include denial, anger and . . . poetry.

Regardless, with sports on hold, many felt frightened and alone. If there was any comfort, it was in learning that during a most unusual month, they were dealing with all of this together.

Jessica Cahoon, 39, Cleveland Heights, Ohio Jessica and her husband, Scott, work from home anyway and normally use the NCAA tournament as a form of background noise. They peek at the screen periodically, and in the evenings they and their two children - Shabree is 12, and Parker is 9 - gather and watch some of the games. Last year, Shabree won the family’s women’s basketball tournament pool.

“We’re a big sports family,” Jessica said. “It sounds stupid and kind of shallow, but it really feels like kind of a loss around here.”

Like many families suddenly pushed together as schools and day cares close, she has tried to institute a daily structure. Reading and homework, sure, but also the family’s “sports clinics.”

They all go outside, a momentary escape from cable news and social media, and work on the kids’ basketball footwork and their ultimate-Frisbee flicks. Jessica, a former coach, sometimes has them do a few situps or hold a plank. If the weather is nice, they spend evenings in their driveway shooting hoops. If it’s not, they plunge into the family’s board game collection.

On Thursday, Jessica suspected the family would head outside late in the morning. That’s when the NCAA tournament normally would have tipped off. In the absence of that, maybe

they’d play a little two on two or H-O-R-S-E, each family member putting a playful little bet on themselves.

David Dealy, 53, Arlington, Texas A few years ago, David found his solution to the post-holiday blues: He’d hit “play” on one of his baseball recordings, close his eyes, and pretend winter already had given way to spring or summer.

This year, he has 10 games on his iPhone’s recorder app. He has no idea who won or lost, whether something historic or meaningful happened, even who was playing. Just a fan of radio baseball, David usually slips into a room and leaves his phone next to his computer, and disappears for three or four hours. Over time, the collection grows.

David hasn’t listened to any of his games yet, and he keeps telling himself he’ll wait until what was supposed to be Opening Day. But he knows this week will be hard. So will the next, and the one after that. He hopes podcasts will occupy his mind, though deep down he knows the truth.

“Yeah,” he said, “the baseball is what’s going to get me through.”

Edward Brown, 43, New Orleans Every March the teachers and administrators at Pierre A. Capdau Charter School slip into the gymnasium, fire up a live stream and watch a few minutes of the NCAA tournament’s opening round. And every year, the middle school’s principal discovers them all huddled in there.

“You hear Cincinnati is up 10?” Brown, the fun-loving principal, might say as he joins them. “Then [we] run back inside and get back into character.”

But schools in New Orleans, a city particularly hard hit by the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, covid-19, are closed.

The nation’s college basketball games are canceled.

There are neither brackets to fill out nor upsets to lament. So Brown and 31 colleagues and friends have decided to begin their annual “Madden” football league early. Instead of waiting for the summer to take on one of all 32 teams and build a roster from scratch - a draft, free agency, even preseason games - they’ll probably start their season this weekend.

The trash-talking already has begun, after all, and Brown says on occasion the friends will make the games a bit more interesting: $20 or $100 here or there. What else is there to do?

“It’s kind of like it came early,” says Brown, who dissolves into laughter when it’s pointed out that he actually sounds excited about social distancing. “This is the perfect time.”

Laura Peebles, 63, Arlington, Virginia A few years ago, Laura began funneling her love of and frustrations with the Washington Nationals into poetry. Each nine-inning game could be distilled into a four- or six-line verse, though that certainly wasn’t true of all of them.

When Max Scherzer threw two no-hitters in 2015, those rhymes swelled into 12 or so lines long. She recently condensed the one about the Nats’ thrilling wild-card victory over the Milwaukee Brewers, the first step in Washington’s march to the World Series championship.

The Wild Card game was surely wild As promised by its name.

The final score turned out all right: The Nationals won the game!

Laura, a writer and editor

for the Society for American Baseball Research and a Nats season ticket holder, keeps a spreadsheet for games she has classified as historically significant. With spring training suspended and no first pitch in sight, Laura has considered expanding her compendium to include all teams, all eras, all seasons. Soon she might pen a few lines about Don Larsen’s perfect game in the 1956 World Series or George Brett’s infamous “Pine Tar Game” in 1983.

She’s prepared to get through this sports dark period no matter how long it lasts.

“We’re going to run out of civilization,” she said, “before I run out of classic baseball games.”

Seth Greenberg, 63, Avon, Connecticut The ESPN college basketball analyst and former Virginia Tech men’s basketball coach is, like the rest of us, a fan now. A bored one. The other day Rebecca Lobo, the legendary former University of Connecticut player, texted Greenberg and playfully told him his bookshelf - the backdrop for Greenberg’s remote television appearances - looked sloppy.

So, during what is normally a noisy and frenetic time, Greenberg spent part of the day reorganizing the shelf. A day later, he took on the cabinet beneath it.

“This is supposed to be the best time of the year,” he said. “We work all season long for three weeks in March.”

Instead, Greenberg hacks away at household chores and checks in on people he cares about: his daughter, whose law school graduation has been canceled; former players and assistant coaches whose senses of community and purpose have been temporarily stripped; his 97-year-old mother.

When you’re isolated and bored, Greenberg said, sometimes it just helps to hear someone else’s voice.

Regan Fitzgerald, 40, Bowie, Maryland Twenty years ago, during an international study, Regan felt a similar distance to her favorite sports.

Irish television didn’t air American sports, so instead she watched soccer. Time passed, she adopted Liverpool F.C., and waited for a Premier League championship.

The years turned to decades, and two weeks ago it was finally happening. Liverpool had a 25-point lead over Manchester City, and nothing could separate destiny and Liverpool but time.

And, as it turned out, a global pandemic. English soccer suspended its season until at least April 30, at best putting Liverpool’s first Premier League championship on indefinite hold.

“Fate is conspiring against the team,” Regan, who works in government relations, would recall thinking. But at least she could distract herself with college basketball. Or golf.

Or the NBA. Then those went away, too, and she found solace in an unexpected place: social media. Liverpool players and other athletes were making fun of their own downtime in strange ways, in particular “Boring” James Milner, who made videos of himself trimming his lawn one blade at a time and carefully sorting his tea bags.

It drew a smile, and maybe even a little relief.

“Liverpool has been talking about past glories,” Regan said, “and other teams have been doing the same.

What can we do to get through this together and try to make each other laugh and think of good times of the past and the future?”

Ben Rasa, 30, Bedford Hills, New York A few years ago, Ben won $200,000 playing daily fantasy sports and quit his job.

Then, late in the 2019 NFL season, he scored big again: $225,000 in a single week.

Ben is a professional gambler, and last week his livelihood went away. Well, almost.

In the absence of betting on college basketball games or golf, of which he is a particular specialist, Ben found himself placing bets on video game simulations and the mighty Tijuana Zonkeys basketball team from Mexico.

“I found myself, like a lot of people, digging deep into the barrel,” he said, forcing a laugh. “It’s dire times right now.”

Ben said he would try to use his newfound free time the way an NFL coach would during a bye week: examining his strengths and weaknesses. How would a particular horse track be different in September instead of May? If Augusta National’s greens are unforgiving during a temperate April, how might they be in a grueling and humid July?

It’s a potential advantage, anyway, and speaking of: Last week, the gambling site Bovada offered betting lines on the weather. Ben said he wasn’t that desperate. Not yet, anyway.

“I would say I would never do that,” he said. “But I probably will if nothing else comes up.”

Abigail Hadfield, 21, Boston A Philadelphia native who attends college in New England, Abigail is used to the bickering between Eagles and Patriots fans. This week, surrounded mostly by silence, was the exception. Her social media feeds, usually overrun with sports news and analysis, was instead consumed by stories and discussion about the virus.

So to maintain some feeling of equilibrium, Abigail fired up the replay from Super Bowl LII and just let it run again and again: The Eagles running the “Philly Special” and beating the Patriots, 41-33, again and again. She played hour-long specials on Coach Doug Pederson’s play-calling and just let the joy of that 2018 evening fill the air.

Then, on Tuesday, NFL free agency began. Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins, a team leader and fan favorite, was released. But then Tom Brady, the legendary Patriots quarterback and six-time Super Bowl champion, was leaving New England! Abigail went on a Facebook group for displaced Eagles fans, and they chattered about pro football’s comings and goings, and the tears of heartbroken Patriots fans.

Free agency, which in reality is just a listing of faceless transactions, was enough to feel temporarily normal again. There was something else to discuss, debate, think about. It reminded Abigail that, whether in self-quarantine or in a jammed arena, we’re all just strangers hoping for the best.

“Especially when you’re sitting at home all day,” Abigail said, “it’s easy to forget that we’re all sitting home missing all these sports. It was nice to remember that everyone else is as desperate for anything to do with sports as I am.”

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Unfortunately, there will be no national news conference as the AventHealth Training Center is closed. In fact, it’s possible the Bucs don’t see any of their players before training camp in July.

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With the contract behind him, Brady can focus on relocating to Tampa Bay and begin learning the Bucs’ playbook, if he hasn’t already.

But you can’t blame Bucs fans for being a little anxious, considering their history with runaway brides — like Bo Jackson, Bill Parcells (twice), Steve Spurrier, Jimmy Johnson, Brett Favre, Jake Plummer and Chip Kelly) — but this is a done deal. is just the latest setback in what has been a tumultuous seven months for Boston.

President of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski was fired in September and manager Alex Cora left the club by mutual consent in January.

The root of Cora’s departure was a Major League Baseball investigation into electronic sign stealing by the Astros in 2017, and the Red Sox are still awaiting their punishment in conjunction with a separate investigation into their 2018 World Series winners.

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NY’s commercial striped bass fishermen can land a total of 640,718 pounds and can keep stripers between 26 and 38 inches.

As for circle hooks, they will not be required to be used when bait fishing for stripers in 2020. That rule is tentatively scheduled to go into effect on January 1, 2021, so “J” hooks are ok to use during the impending 2020 Hudson River seasons.

While finalized regulations containing these requirements are expected to be enacted before the season opens on April 1st, we will have to just wait and see. It depends on a number of factors, not the least of which are ongoing staffing issues related to the corona virus crisis.

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2020 NFL mock draft: Four-round projections Eddie Brown The San Diego Union-Tribune

Strange things are afoot at the Circle K. The “legal tampering” period is over. Free agents are on the move and team needs are updating as fast as I can process it all.

I’m thankful for all of it, because the world has taken on a fun-house mirror quality of late. I’m currently typing this at 3 A.M. while my wife watches 72 Cutest Animals on Netflix.

We’re settling in for the long haul with my stepdaughter until the world gets a stranglehold on COVID-19. Wherever you are reading this, I hope you and yours remain safe.

My hope is that focusing on the upcoming NFL draft, however stripped down it will be, will allow us to focus on a future where we can return to some sort of normalcy, stronger and wiser for the wear.

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

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 fifth most accurate (out of 101) — most accurate in print — NFL draft prognosticator according to The Huddle Report. I’m 18th over the past five years.

Follow me on Twitter UTEddieBrown so we can continue the conversation.

Here’s an updated version of my 2020 NFL mock draft, now through four rounds: FIRST ROUND 1. Cincinnati (2-14) — Joe Burrow, QB, LSU, Sr. The Bengals are showing Burrow they mean business by securing another season of AllPro wide receiver A.J. Green’s services with the franchise tag and adding talent to a bad defense (Defensive tackle D.J. Reader and cornerback Trae Waynes). Top needs: QB, OL, LB 2. Washington (3-13) — Chase Young, Edge, Ohio St., Jr. The latest reports have Redskins owner Daniel Snyder being “infatuated with” Young.

The former Buckeye remains the top prospect in this draft class. Top needs: OL, WR, LB 3. Detroit (3-12-1) — Derrick Brown, DT, Auburn, Sr. Ideally, I believe GM Bob Quinn would prefer to create a Tua Sweepstakes, forcing the Dolphins and Chargers to outbid each other. He could stockpile more draft capital and still land an elite prospect in Brown, Jeffrey Okudah or Isaiah Simmons. It would be an executive-of-the-year type move. Top needs: DL, DB, WR 4. N.Y. Giants (4-12) — Tristan Wirfs, OT, Iowa, Jr. There’s been a lot of smoke about GM Dave Gettleman preferring to trade down (although he never has before in the first round). Wirfs is the best pass protector in this class, and talented enough to play multiple positions on the line. The Giants were fans before his historical performance in Indy. Top needs: OT, S, DL 5. Miami (5-11) — Tua Tagovailoa, QB, Alabama, Jr. It seems the Dolphins have signed every position other than quarterback in free agency already. The former Crimson Tide quarterback aced his four-month medical check and has resumed light football-related drills in preparation for his pro day on April 9. A healthy Tagovailoa compares favorably to Russell Wilson. Top needs: QB, OL, DT 6. L.A. Chargers (5-11) — Jeffrey Okudah, CB, Ohio St., Jr. The consensus All-American would pair nicely with two-time All-Pro Casey Hayward. Top needs: QB, CB, OL 7. Carolina (5-11) — Isaiah Simmons, LB, Clemson, Jr. Luke Kuechly’s retirement

makes this scenario almost too-good-to-be-true. The only defensive position Simmons is ill-equipped to play is nose tackle. He’s an athletic unicorn who can rush the passer, patrol sideline to sideline and make an impact in coverage.

Top needs: OL, DB, DL 8. Arizona (5-10-1) — Jedrick Wills, OL, Alabama, Jr. The Cardinals fleeced the Texans for All-World wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins so they can continue to focus on upgrading Kyler Murray’s protection. Wills is a powerful player who is versatile enough to play guard and showed some serious growth at tackle his junior season. He only allowed one quarterback pressure in his last five games, according to Pro Football Focus.

Top needs: OL, Edge, DB 9. Jacksonville (6-10) — Javon Kinlaw, DT, South Carolina, Sr. The Jaguars defensive line is currently being rebuilt with Calais Campbell, Marcell Dareus and Yannick Ngakoue all headed elsewhere. Kinlaw has the potential to be a force against the pass and run at the next level. Top needs: DT, DB, TE 10. Cleveland (6-10) — Andrew Thomas, OT, Georgia, Jr. The Browns added right tackle Jack Conklin, but they need more. Thomas is a big, powerful, athletic lineman with springy footwork and quick hands who’s a dynamic closer in both the run and pass game. Top needs: OT, S, LB 11. N.Y. Jets (7-9) — Mekhi Becton, OT, Louisville, Jr. The Jets have added tackle George Fant and interior lineman Connor McGovern already to a very poor offensive line, but you can’t teach Becton’s size (6-7, 369) and he’s surprisingly nimble, especially as a run blocker. Top needs: OL, WR, Edge 12. Las Vegas (7-9) — CeeDee Lamb, WR, Oklahoma, Jr. Antonio Brown’s breakdown left a sizable hole in the Raiders’ depth chart at receiver. Lamb has elite hands and ball skills (he’s special with the ball in the air). Top needs: WR, LB, CB 13. San Francisco from Indianapolis (7-9) — Jerry Jeudy, WR, Alabama, Jr. The NFC champs have been busy right out of the gate. GM John Lynch sent All-Pro defensive tackle DeForest Buckner to Indy in a surprising blockbuster for this pick. Jeudy is the crown jewel of what is shaping up to be a special 2020 class of receivers. Top needs: WR, CB, OL 14. Tampa Bay (7-9) — A.J. Epenesa, Edge, Iowa, Jr. The Buccaneers did the impossible by luring Tom Brady away from New England. Now they can focus on upgrading an up-and-coming defense.

Epenesa racked up 11.5 sacks and forced four fumbles despite facing persistent double-teams last season. The AP All-American is a perfect fit for Bucs defensive coordinator Todd Bowles’ scheme. Top needs: OL, DL, DB 15. Denver (7-9) — Henry Ruggs, WR, Alabama, Jr. The speedster would pair perfectly with Courtland Sutton. Ruggs is pure electricity with the football in his hands.

He scored 25 total touchdowns on 100 touches in his Crimson Tide career. Top needs: OL, DB, DL 16. Atlanta (7-9) — K’Lavon Chaisson, Edge, LSU, Soph.

The Falcons recently announced they wouldn’t pursue negotiations with their own free-agent pass rusher, Vic Beasley. Chaisson features one of the highest upsides at any position in this draft class.

He’s a natural speed rusher who is capable of dropping into coverage and can be an asset in defending the run. The one knock is his durability.

Top needs: Edge, OG, RB 17. Dallas (8-8) — C.J. Henderson, CB, Florida, Jr. All-Pro cornerback Byron Jones was the odd man out after the Cowboys resigned Dak Prescott and Amari Cooper.

Don’t cry for Jones, Argentina.

He earned himself a significant pay raise from Miami ($82.5 million over five years). Henderson would be a fine replacement. It’s nitpicking to say he is a shy tackler in the run game. Shutdown corners aren’t charged with shutting down running backs. They’re supposed to shut down wide receivers and Henderson has no problem doing that. Top needs: S, DL, TE 18. Miami from Pittsburgh (8-8) — Xavier McKinney, S, Alabama, Jr. McKinney is very similar to Minkah Fitzpatrick, the defensive back the Dolphins dealt to earn this selection. Top needs: QB, OL, DT 19. Las Vegas from Chicago (8-8) — Kristian Fulton, CB, LSU, Sr. Fulton is an elite athlete who was the top cornerback prospect coming out of high school in 2016, and has lived up to the hype (for the most part). Pairing him with Trayvon Mullen would create a talented, physical duo and go a long way in solving the Raiders issues in their secondary. Top needs: WR, LB, CB 20. Jacksonville from L.A. Rams (9-7) — Patrick Queen, LB, LSU, Jr. There’s a potential out in Myles Jack’s contract after 2020 if he continues to struggle. Queen is a three-down, sideline-to-sideline terror with an elite football mind and would work well with new addition Joe Schobert. Top needs: DT, DB, TE 21. Philadelphia (9-7) — Justin Jefferson, WR, LSU, Jr. The Eagles’ wide receiver corps is in shambles. The inconsistent Nelson Agholor faces free agency while DeSean Jackson isn’t getting any younger (or healthier). A surprising 4.43 40-yard dash in Indy likely helped Jefferson’s draft stock. Top needs: WR, DB, LB 22. Minnesota from Buffalo (10-6) — Jeff Gladney, CB, TCU, Sr. Trae Waynes signed with Cincy and the Vikings released Xavier Rhodes. Gladney is a press master who plays a physical game. Top needs: CB, OG, WR 23. New England (12-4) — Justin Herbert, QB, Oregon, Sr. Life after Tom Brady begins now. I’m a fan of Jarrett Stidham, but I’d be shocked if the Patriots didn’t add some competition. Herbert has all the physical attributes (prototypical size and elite arm talent) the position requires, but consistency has been his bane. This is where he should go, but he’ll likely be drafted much higher because demand ALWAYS beats quality when it comes to quarterbacks in the draft. Top needs: TE, OG, LB 24. New Orleans (13-3) — Jalen Reagor, WR, TCU, Jr. Michael Thomas is in desperate need of a sidekick and Drew Brees is returning for his 20th season. Reagor would give Brees a dynamic deep threat to replace Ted Ginn Jr. Top needs: WR, LB, OG 25. Minnesota (10-6) — Cesar Ruiz, OL, Michigan, Jr. Pat Elflein struggled at left guard in a major way after transitioning from center.

Ruiz is an upgrade at guard and would provide depth at center. Top needs: CB, OG, WR 26. Miami from Houston (10-6) — Josh Jones, OT, Houston, Sr. The Dolphins offensive line was one of the worst in the NFL last season. Jones’ athletic skill-set needs some polish, but he’s capable of dominance at the next level. Top needs: QB, OL, DT 27. Seattle (11-5) — Yetur Gross-Matos, Edge, Penn St., Jr. The Seahawks need an edge rusher who can take advantage of Jadeveon Clowney’s presence, assuming he returns. Gross-Matos needs to add some strength to his frame, but he’s a gifted pass rusher with elite athleticism and a nose for the ball. Top needs: Edge, OL, TE 28. Baltimore (14-2) — Kenneth Murray, LB, Oklahoma, Jr.

The Ravens finally find a replacement for C.J. Mosley in the middle of their defense.

Murray is an explosive athlete who developed elite instincts during his three seasons in Norman. Top needs: Edge, LB, WR 29. Tennessee (9-7) — Zach Baun, OLB, Wisconsin, Sr. Pass rusher supreme Harold Landry needs a running-mate (Vic Beasley only signed a oneyear deal). Baun is a natural chasing down the quarterback and is versatile enough to be utilized all over the front seven to create match-up problems.

Top needs: Edge, OT, RB 30. Green Bay (13-3) — K.J. Hamler, WR, Penn St., So. Davante Adams was the Packers only effective wideout in 2019. Hamler is a playmaker capable of scoring from anywhere on the football field.

Top needs: WR, LB, OT 31. San Francisco (13-3) — Trevon Diggs, CB, Alabama, Sr. The 49ers likely will trade this pick to the highest bidder, considering they won’t be on the clock again until the fifth round. If they stand pat, Diggs (Stefon’s little brother) is still raw, but he features elite size (6-foot-1, 205 pounds) and a physicality that burdens receivers. Top needs: WR, CB, OL 32. Kansas City (12-4) — A.J. Terrell, CB, Clemson, Jr. Both Beshaud Breeland and Kendall Fuller are free agents.

Terrell’s performance in Indy made up for his poor performance against LSU in the title game. Top needs: CB, RB, OG SECOND ROUND 33. Cincinnati — Julian Okwara, Edge, Notre Dame, Sr. 34. Indianapolis from Washington — Jordan Love, QB, Utah St., Jr. 35. Detroit — Jaylon Johnson, CB, Utah, Jr. 36. N.Y. Giants — Grant Delpit, S, LSU, Jr. 37. L.A. Chargers — Jonathan Taylor, RB Wisconsin, Jr. The Chargers paid Austin Ekeler, but they still need a primary runner. Taylor’s 4.39 40-yard dash in Indy reminded everyone he was an elite athlete on top of the elite production he’s known for. Top needs: QB, CB, OL 38. Carolina — Ross Blacklock, DT, TCU, Jr. 39. Miami — Lloyd Cushenberry III, OL, LSU, Jr. 40. Houston from Arizona — Justin Madubuike, DT, Texas A&M, Jr. The Texans was already in need of upgrading the interior on their defensive line before they lost D.J. Reader in free agency. Madubuike’s versatility and explosiveness make him a borderline first-rounder. Top needs: DT, OT, RB 41. Cleveland — Antoine Winfield Jr., S, Minnesota, So. 42. Jacksonville — Jeremy Chinn, S, Southern Illinois, Sr. 43. Chicago from Las Vegas — Terrell Lewis, Edge, Alabama, Jr. The Bears pass rush regressed last season (outside of Khalil Mack). Lewis is a raw athlete with durability concerns. Top needs: OG, TE, Edge 44. Indianapolis — Tee Higgins, WR, Clemson, Jr. 45. Tampa Bay — D’Andre Swift, RB, Georgia, Jr. 46. Denver — Neville Gallimore, DL, Oklahoma, Sr. 47. Atlanta — J.K. Dobbins, RB, Ohio St., Jr. 48. N.Y. Jets — Laviska Shenault Jr., WR, Colorado, Jr. 49. Pittsburgh — Lucas Niang, OT, TCU, Sr. The Steelers are in need of upgrades on the offensive line outside of Maurkice Pouncey and David DeCastro. Niang possesses the size, strength and athleticism needed to excel at the next level. He’ll just need to refine his footwork a bit. Top needs: OL, Edge, TE 50. Chicago — Ashtyn Davis, S, California, Sr. 51. Dallas — Raekwon Davis, DL, Alabama, Sr. 52. L.A. Rams — Austin Jackson, OT, USC, Jr. The Rams offensive line needs an overhaul if the offense hopes to return to its lofty status of 2018. Jackson is

a smooth athlete who needs to work on his technique to reach his high ceiling. Top needs: OL, DL, LB 53. Philadelphia — Bryce Hall, CB, Virginia, Sr. 54. Buffalo — Noah Igbinoghene, CB, Auburn, Jr. The Bills dropped out of the first round, but landed a true No. 1 wide receiver (Stefon Diggs) in a trade with Minnesota. Igbinoghene is a former receiver who is only scratching the surface of his potential at cornerback, but features elite athleticism and physicality.

Top needs: CB, OL, Edge 55. Baltimore from Atlanta — Denzel Mims, WR, Baylor, Sr. 56. Miami from New Orleans — Josh Uche, Edge, Michigan, Sr. 57. Houston — Brandon Aiyuk, WR, Arizona St., Sr. 58. Minnesota — Donovan Peoples-Jones, WR, Michigan, Jr. 59. Seattle — Prince Tega Wanogho, OT, Auburn, Sr. 60. Baltimore — Cam Akers, RB, Florida St., Sr. 61. Tennessee — Cole Kmet, TE, Notre Dame, Jr. 62. Green Bay — Malik Harrison, LB, Ohio St., Sr. 63. Kansas City from San Francisco — Clyde EdwardsHelaire, RB, LSU, Jr. 64. Seattle from Kansas City — Robert Hunt, OL, Louisiana-Lafayette, Sr. THIRD ROUND 65. Cincinnati — Curtis Weaver, Edge, Boise St., Jr. 66. Washington — Brycen Hopkins, TE, Purdue, Sr. 67. Detroit — Khalid Kareem, Edge, Notre Dame, Sr. 68. N.Y. Jets from N.Y. Giants — Damon Arnette, CB, Ohio St., Sr. 69. Carolina — Troy Pride Jr., CB, Notre Dame, Sr. 70. Miami — Michael Pittman Jr., WR, USC, Sr. 71. L.A. Chargers — Matt Hennessy, OL, Temple, Jr. The Chargers need reinforcements for a beleaguered interior offensive line. Hennessy wins with technique and IQ. Top needs: QB, CB, OL 72. Arizona — Jordyn Brooks, LB, Texas Tech, Sr. 73. Jacksonville — Cameron Dantzler, CB, Mississippi St., Jr. 74. Cleveland — Davon Hamilton, DT, Ohio St., Sr. 75. Indianapolis — Ben Bredeson, OL, Michigan, Sr. 76. Tampa Bay — Ben Bartch, OT, St. John, Sr. 77. Denver — Troy Dye, LB, Oregon, Sr. 78. Atlanta — Marlon Davidson, DL, Auburn, Sr. 79. N.Y. Jets — Bradlee Anae, Edge, Utah, Sr. 80. Las Vegas — Kyle Dugger, S, Lenoir-Rhyne, Sr. 81. Las Vegas from Chicago — Rashard Lawrence, DL, LSU, Sr. 82. Dallas — Saahdiq Charles, OL, LSU, Jr. 83. Denver from Pittsburgh — Darnay Holmes, CB, UCLA, Jr. 84. L.A. Rams — Darrell Taylor, Edge, Tennessee, Sr. Dante Fowler Jr. is gone.

Taylor features prototypical size (6-4, 255) for an edge rusher and showcased a power/ speed combo that had scouts talking during Senior Bowl week. Top needs: OL, DL, LB 85. Philadelphia — Netane Muti, OL, Fresno St., Jr. 86. Buffalo — Jabari Zuniga, Edge, Florida, Sr. 87. New England — Adam Trautman, TE, Dayton, Sr. 88. New Orleans — Akeem Davis-Gaither, LB, Appalachian St., Sr. 89. Minnesota — Leki Fotu, DT, Utah, Sr. 90. Houston — Alohi Gilman, S, Notre Dame, Sr. 91. Las Vegas from Seattle — Tyler Biadasz, OL, Wisconsin, Jr. 92. Baltimore — Kenny Willekes, Edge, Michigan St., Sr. 93. Tennessee — Isaiah Wilson, OT, Georgia, So. 94. Green Bay — Thaddeus Moss, TE, LSU, So. 95. Denver from San Francisco — Ezra Cleveland, OT, Boise St., Jr. 96. Kansas City — Willie Gay Jr., LB, Mississippi St., Jr.

97. Cleveland from Houston — Evan Weaver, LB, California, Sr. 98. New England — Terrell Burgess, S, Utah, Sr. 99. N.Y. Giants — Jonathan Greenard, Edge, Florida, Sr. 100. New England — Matthew Peart, OT, UConn, Sr. 101. Seattle — Chase Claypool, WR, Notre Dame, Sr. 102. Pittsburgh — Jordan Elliott, DL, Missouri, Jr. 103. Philadelphia — K’Von Wallace, S, Clemson, Sr. 104. L.A. Rams — Shane Lemieux, OL, Oregon, Sr. The Rams continue their offensive line overhaul. Lemieux is a powerful guard with functional athleticism. Top needs: OL, DL, LB 105. Minnesota — Brandon Jones, S, Texas, Sr. 106. Baltimore — Logan Stenberg, OL, Kentucky, Sr. FOURTH ROUND 107. Cincinnati — Logan Wilson, LB, Wyoming, Sr. 108. Washington — Jonah Jackson, OL, Ohio St., Sr. 109. Detroit — Zack Moss, RB, Utah, Sr. 110. N.Y. Giants — Nick Harris, OL, Washington, Sr. 111. Houston from Miami — Anfernee Jennings, Edge, Alabama, Sr. 112. L.A. Chargers — Jalen Hurts, QB, Oklahoma, Sr. Hurts fits the mold coach Anthony Lynn prefers at quarterback — strong arm and mobility. Top needs: QB, CB, OL 113. Carolina — Hunter Bryant, TE, Washington, Jr. 114. Arizona — Solomon Kindley, OL, Georgia, Jr. 115. Cleveland — Jake Driscoll, OL, Auburn, Sr. 116. Jacksonville — Bryan Edwards, WR, South Carolina, Sr. 117. Tampa Bay — Jacob Eason, QB, Washington, Jr. 118. Denver — Alex Highsmith, Edge, Charlotte, Sr. 119. Atlanta — Michael Ojemudia, CB, Iowa, Sr. 120. N.Y. Jets — John Simpson, OL, Clemson, Sr. 121. Las Vegas — Eno Benjamin, RB, Arizona St., Jr. 122. Indianapolis — Jason Strowbridge, DL, North Carolina, Sr. 123. Dallas — Shyheim Carter, S, Alabama, Sr. 124. Pittsburgh — Albert Okwuegbunam, TE, Missouri, Jr. 125. New England from Chicago — Van Jefferson, WR, Florida, Sr. 126. L.A. Rams — J.R. Reed, S, Georgia, Sr. The Rams need to fill voids left by Eric Weddle and Marqui Christian. Reed is a solid tackler with enough athleticism to contribute in coverage. Top needs: OL, DL, LB 127. Philadelphia — Nick Coe, Edge, Auburn, Jr. 128. Buffalo — Quintez Cephus, WR, Wisconsin, Jr. 129. Baltimore from New England — Lamar Jackson, CB, Nebraska, Sr. 130. New Orleans — Michael Onwenu, OL, Michigan, Sr. 131. Houston — Larrell Murchison, DL, NC State, Sr. 132. Minnesota — Hakeem Adeniji, OT, Kansas, Sr. 133. Seattle — Lamical Perine, RB, Florida, Sr. 134. Baltimore — Tyler Johnson, WR, Minnesota, Sr. 135. Pittsburgh from Miami — Alton Robinson, Edge, Syracuse, Sr. 136. Green Bay — Damien Lewis, OL, LSU, Sr. 137. Jacksonville from Denver — Harrison Bryant, TE, Florida Atlantic, Sr. 138. Kansas City — Devin Duvernay, WR, Texas, Sr. 139. Tampa Bay — K.J. Hill, WR, Ohio St., Sr. 140. Chicago — Jake Fromm, QB, Georgia, Jr. 141. Miami — Essang Bassey, CB, Wake Forest, Sr. 142. Washington — Collin Johnson, WR, Texas, Sr. 143. Atlanta from Baltimore — Amik Robertson, CB, Louisiana Tech, Jr. 144. Seattle — Javelin Guidry, S, Utah, Jr. 145. Philadelphia — A.J. Dillon, RB, Boston College, Jr. 146. Philadelphia — Justin Strnad, LB, Wake Forest, Sr.

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Rams needed to sign Todd Gurley to a big deal in 2018; they needed to cut him in 2020 Bill Plaschke Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — He arrived as Tinseltown’s big star, the leading man in the most ballyhooed local sports premiere of this generation.

He wound up, like so many failed dreams, on the cutting-room floor.

Four years after triumphantly leading the Rams back to Los Angeles, two years after signing one of the richest contracts for a running back in NFL history, superstar Todd Gurley has been officially treated like the last guy on the junior varsity bench.

He was cut.

Think about that.

The great Gurley, the hurdling hellion, just two seasons after being named NFL offensive player of the year.

Whacked, canned, axed.

He wasn’t traded, because the Rams couldn’t trade him. He wasn’t sent to the minor leagues, because there are no NFL minor leagues. He wasn’t going to retire because he’s only 25.

“Damn I got fired on my day off,” Gurley tweeted with a laughing-so-hardit’s-crying emoji.

Yeah, that’s exactly how it went down Thursday.

Dude got fired, fans tearfully laughing in amazement and perhaps wondering what they’re missing. Why did an organization invest so much money in something that can become so expendable so quickly? Why eat millions of dollars in real money and cap space to get rid of him?

How exactly does that happen?

It turns out, two things happened, neither of which can be blamed on either the Rams or Gurley.

The dazzle of football happened. The danger of football happened. The two things collided and created an unholy mess.

The Rams will be criticized for giving Gurley that record $60-million contract despite already having him under team control for two more years, but they needed him to sell pro football in their new city and tickets to the Coliseum. By signing him, they showed a largesse that we had not seen in the Dodgers, and an all-in commitment to winning that had been lacking in the Lakers.

Don’t blame the Rams for going for it. The Gurley contract was a dazzle contract at a time when dazzle was desperately needed, and it almost worked, as Gurley put them in position to play in the Super Bowl, where their title hopes were alive until the final minutes.

Of course, Gurley was virtually absent in that Super Bowl as well as the NFC championship game against New Orleans, and this is where the relationship was wrecked by football’s danger.

His surgically repaired left knee, while never publicly diagnosed with new damage, had suddenly robbed him of the speed and agility that made him Todd Gurley. By the end of that 2018 season, he wasn’t the same player, no matter how much coach Sean McVay tried to cover for his ineffectiveness and lack of usage.

Last season, the public distraction over Gurley’s declining skills and playing time became an internal disruption. The Rams needed him, but couldn’t count on him. Yet he was viewed as such a team cornerstone, the Rams couldn’t tell the public they couldn’t trust him.

The resulting disconnect led to incidents like the infamous time McVay called himself an “idiot” for not running Gurley more often

... and Gurley wouldn’t disagree with him.

In the end, the Rams could no longer base their offense on Gurley, as he ranked 37th in the league at 3.8 yards per carry. They could no longer count on winning with Gurley, as he was the league’s 20th-ranked running back without a single 100-yard game.

Several months ago it was written in this space that the Rams needed to trade him.

But considering his contract and injuries, that was always going to be a long shot. When the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions prevented other teams’ doctors from flying him anywhere for a physical, any potential deal surely became an impossible task.

But the Rams still couldn’t keep him around. He had become the elephant in the room, his lack of usage and unknown physical condition leading to questions in every news conference. He wasn’t getting any stronger, and the situation wasn’t getting any calmer, and it just wasn’t working.

Gurley had also become a reluctant public figure, far from the Hollywood star that the Rams once imagined. Releasing him was not like the Angels suddenly firing Mike Trout, or the Dodgers instantly canning Clayton Kershaw. The private Gurley was not particularly ingrained in the community, and the Rams risked little public outcry by making this move, other than from folks who are saying they were dumb to sign him to such a rich deal in the first place.

Les Snead, the Rams’ general manager, offered a hint of the club’s position in his December postseason news gathering when asked if Gurley was the same running back as in the past.

“This year he wasn’t,” Snead said.

When he was asked if any player beyond Aaron Donald and Jared Goff was untouchable, he also offered a hint.

“I don’t want to get into that ... because it can be misconstrued in so many ways,” Snead said.

The Rams cut Gurley specifically on Thursday to save $10.5 million in bonus and injury guarantees, but the cost of chasing the dazzle will run deep.

They will be restricted in their acquisitions for at least another season because of the cap space still eaten up

by Gurley’s contract. They don’t have a first-round draft pick for the next two seasons because of the trade for cornerback Jalen Ramsey. With no lead running backs on the roster, their offense will rely completely on the inconsistent Goff, who struggled under that same burden last year.

For reasons including the salary cap, their defense has lost veterans Michael Brockers, Dante Fowler, Cory Littleton, Nickell RobeyColeman and just-released Clay Matthews. They’ll need to reach deep into the wallet if they want to keep Ramsey beyond this season.

It will be a refurbished Rams team that marches into their new SoFi Stadium, a bit unsettled, somewhat unfamiliar, sort of strange.

The guy who was supposed to lead them will be gone, Gurley’s Rams career having quickly run the gamut, this benefactor of football’s dazzle also ultimately a victim of its danger.

The Rams had to pay him.

And the Rams had to cut him.

Gurley wasn’t out of work for long as he agreed to a contract with the Atlanta Falcons on Friday.

Saints coach Payton tests positive for coronavirus Field Level Media

New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton announced Thursday that he tested positive for coronavirus.

The 56-year-old coach confirmed his diagnosis with ESPN, becoming the first known case within the NFL’s ranks.

Payton said he wasn’t feeling well Sunday, got tested Monday and received his results Thursday. He said he feels fatigued but has no fever or cough. He is resting at home under quarantine and is optimistic about making a full recovery.

“Appreciate the well wishes. I’m feeling better and fortunate to not have any of the respiratory symptoms.

4 more days at home. #BEATCovid,” Payton wrote Thursday afternoon on Twitter.

Commissioner Roger Goodell released a statement on Thursday evening.

“Our primary concern is for Sean’s health and well-being,” Goodell said.

“He did the right thing by seeking medical attention and we wish him a speedy recovery.

“It shouldn’t come as a surprise as this pandemic continues that members of our NFL family will be directly impacted. This news underscores the importance of everyone following the advice from medical and public health experts to protect themselves and others.”

Payton told ESPN’s Adam Schefter that he came forward with his diagnosis because he wants everyone to heed the warnings of government and health officials, stay inside and behave responsibly.

“This is not just about social distancing,” Payton told ESPN. “It’s shutting down here for a week to two weeks. If people understand the

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New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton talks with cornerback Marshon Lattimore (23) during an NFC Wild Card playoff game against the Minnesota Vikings at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.

curve and understand the bump, we can easily work together as a country to reduce it. Take a minute to understand what the experts are saying. It’s not complicated to do what they’re asking of us. Just that type of small investment by every one of us will have a dramatic impact.

“I was fortunate to be in the minority, without the serious side effects that some have. I’m lucky. Younger people feel like they can handle this, but they can be a carrier to someone who can’t handle it. So we all need to do our part. It’s important for every one of us to do our part.”

Payton has compiled a 131-77 record in 13 seasons with the Saints.

He led New Orleans to the franchise’s only Super Bowl championship during the 2009 season.

The Saints went 13-3 and won the NFC South division title for the third

straight season in 2019 before losing to the Minnesota Vikings in the playoffs.

Louisiana has been one of the states hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, with 347 known cases and eight deaths as of Thursday, according to CNN. “The concern with Louisiana is the amount of people that come in and out of this area after Mardi Gras season. This is an area that doctors are concerned about. So our parents, and those that are more susceptible to this virus, deserve everyone doing their best to combat it,” Payton told ESPN. “There are hundreds of people right now in tough predicaments, fighting for their lives. Let’s be part of the solution, not the problem. We can easily help reduce the numbers of those impacted. We have to do our best to beat this, and I know we can.”

NFL is doing the quarterback shuffle Sam Farmer Los Angeles Times

Real games aren’t slated to start for another six months, and already the 2020 NFL season is all about the turnovers.

Tom Brady is in Tampa Bay. Philip Rivers is in Indianapolis. Teddy Bridgewater is in Carolina. Nick Foles is in Chicago.

On and on, quarterbacks are changing teams the way Patrick Mahomes changes directions.

And these aren’t belowthe-radar players either. Free agency is two days old, and already teams have bid farewell to three Super Bowl most valuable players — Brady, Foles, and Joe Flacco, who was released by Denver on Thursday — and have pointed former No. 1 picks Cam Newton and Jameis Winston toward the exit.

With all signs pointing to Cincinnati drafting Louisiana State’s Joe Burrow with the first pick, the Bengals might as well pack Andy Dalton’s bags for him.

Tough business. And even harder to decide the right moves.

The opportunity for redemption stories is ripe.

“No doubt about it, that’s what it’s all about,” said retired quarterback Brad Johnson, who did his share of bouncing around before helping the Buccaneers win their only Super Bowl. “Don’t count Jameis out. Don’t count Andy Dalton out. Don’t do it.

They’re hungry too, now.”

Those players might be hungry, but lots of teams are quarterback famished — Cincinnati, Miami, Washington, and the Chargers among them — looking for that most important piece to their offensive puzzle.

“I look at it in thirds,” said Rich Gannon, a former league MVP quarterback and now a CBS analyst. “You’ve got 10 teams that are really healthy at that position. You’ve got 10 teams that are keeping their fingers crossed. Then you’ve got 10 that are just hoping they can draft a quarterback.

“With quarterbacks, either you have one or you don’t. If

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Former New Orleans Saints quarterback Teddy Bridgewater (5) throws during warm ups prior to a Nov. 2019 kickoff against the Carolina Panthers at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.

you don’t, you’re better off selling life insurance.”

For years, it looked as if the Patriots had a whole-life policy in Brady, who in 20 years got them to nine Super Bowls, winning six. But even that ended, with the two sides officially parting ways this week.

Like the first domino to fall, Brady set off a chain reaction of moves, some as a response, some already in the pipeline.

Marcus Mariota, benched in Tennessee last season, signed with Las Vegas and gives Jon Gruden a quarterback who can make off-schedule plays better than Derek Carr. They will compete for the starting job.

Foles heads to the Bears, where he’ll have a chance to nudge aside the beleaguered Mitch Trubisky, just three years removed from being the No. 2 overall pick.

All this jockeying, and there’s still a cluster of talented young prospects who will be taken at or near the top of next month’s draft —Burrow, Alabama’s Tua Tagovailova, Utah State’s Jordan Love, and Oregon’s Justin Herbert among them.

But rare are the rookies who can both make an initial splash and follow it up with a

consistently solid first season.

College football and the NFL are still too different.

“History tells us that none of these kids that come out in the draft are really ready to play,” Gannon said. “None of them can stand in the huddle and call a play. They’re not calling the plays in the huddle in college. They don’t even call a snap count.

“So you have to bring them in from day one and teach them how to stand in the huddle, how to call the plays, how to do the cadence, how to audible. It’s a lot of work, and none of them are ready.”

The season doesn’t wait, however, so ready or not, here they come.

And now the Patriots, Plymouth Rock solid at the position for so long, are among the have-nots.

New England coach Bill Belichick has proven he can win games without Brady.

The Patriots won 11 games in 2008 with Matt Cassel, who didn’t even start at USC, when the team lost Brady to a devastating knee injury in the opener. Then, when Brady served a four-game suspension for Deflategate, the team went 3-1 with Jimmy Garoppolo and Jacoby Brissett at the

helm.

But is Belichick really ready to move forward with secondyear quarterback Jarrett Stidham, who threw four passes last season — one of them a pick-six?

“I think they keep the Stidham kid and sign somebody like Dalton,” Gannon said.

“Someone who can come in and function and be a system guy, take care of the football, understand how they’re going to win ... see if that’s good enough to win them 11 or 12 games and get to the playoffs.”

By Gannon’s thinking, the NFL is a league of impatience, both with young players and with the coaches calling the plays.

“We fire a coordinator every couple of years,” he said. “So when a young guy is learning a system and finally making some progress, now he has to learn a completely new system. So it’s like learning Spanish one year. Next year, you come back and learn German.

Next year you learn French.”

And, in some cases, that’s helpful.

Helps those young players translate bon voyage.

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A March Madness tradition is put on hold Arash Markazi Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — I first met Alan Lankford last year while working on a March Madness story in Las Vegas.

Going to Vegas for the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament had long been one of my favorite traditions with my childhood friends. No matter what we were doing, we blocked out those first four days of the NCAA Tournament from Thursday to Sunday and committed to being together in Las Vegas.

I figured it would make for a nice story, allow me to mix work and pleasure, and it would capture just how special Las Vegas was during this time.

The annual trip to Las Vegas represented so much more than basketball to the thousands of others who made that journey each March. Walk around the casinos and sports books, and seemingly everyone had a story about making the trip there each year to see their brother, father, childhood friend, college roommate or fraternity brother no matter where they were in the world.

It’s a trip they always scheduled and circled on their calendar.

It’s still hard to write that in the past tense as the ongoing coronavirus pandemic led to the cancellation of March Madness, the complete shutdown of Las Vegas hotels and casinos, and has turned our lives upside down.

One of the first people I thought of when March Madness was canceled was Lankford. Of all the people I have befriended at sportsbooks and watch parties during my annual trips, Lankford was my favorite.

Lankford is a 59-yard-old engineer from Kansas City with white hair, eyeglasses and an infectious smile whenever he’s watching basketball.

He used to come to Las Vegas with his friends every year for the opening weekend of the NCAA

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(From left) Paige Lankford, 23, lan Lankford, 57, Stephanie Lankford-Scovill, 28, and Megan Lankford, 25, of Kansas City, Mo., watch NCAA March Madness basketball games at The Cosmopolitan’s Hoops & Hops event on Friday, March 22, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nev.

Tournament but nine years ago, when his oldest daughter, Stephanie, turned 21, he decided to turn his annual guys’ weekend into a daddydaughter trip.

“I’m a father of three daughters and they all played basketball and we bonded through basketball,” he said last year. “So when my oldest daughter turned 21 I decided to bring her out here for opening weekend and we had such a great time, we decided to make it a tradition. As each one of my daughters turned 21, they were able to come out. My wife’s not invited. My sonin-law isn’t invited. It’s just a weekend for me and my daughters.”

When I first met Lankford, he was sitting at a table surrounded by his daughters, Stephanie, 29,

Megan, 26, and Paige, 24, wearing matching purple shirts that read “Daddy-Daughter Vegas Trip 2019,” as they watched the first round from inside the Cosmopolitan. It became Megan’s responsibility to design the shirts for the trip since she was old enough to go and had made them purple for her dad, who went to Kansas State.

At the time, Stephanie was seven months’ pregnant and had to get approval from her doctor to go on the trip but “once my doctor gave me the thumbs up, there was no reason not to come,” she said. “When I turned 21, this trip was a Christmas present and he said we could make this our trip and our thing to do and every year now it’s on the books.”

I kept in touch with Lankford after the

tournament. We had hoped to meet again in Las Vegas this year and he emailed me last summer to let me know Stephanie had given birth on June 3 to a boy, Logan, his first grandchild.

“He’s already into basketball,” Lankford said.

“She coached a grade school team and he was in the gym with her at every practice in his stroller.

He sat on the floor, rolling the ball, so we got him hooked right out of the chute.”

As much as Logan may love basketball, however, he won’t be coming to Las Vegas with his mom any time soon.

“He and his dad will have to find their own March Madness tradition,” Lankford said. “This is a daddy-daughter trip. Granddaughters will be invited though.”

I called Lankford at his home in Kansas City on Wednesday night, on the eve of what would have been the first round of the NCAA Tournament, to see how he was holding up.

“This past year all four us were coaching different basketball teams at different levels, anywhere from grade school to high school,” he said. “We spend the entire year talking basketball so we always look forward to going out to Vegas for the tournament. We have a fun competition and bet on everything from the games to the horses. It was really about the bonding more than anything else. Everything was so special from the shirts, to the plane ride, to hanging out and watching basketball with my daughters. I miss that.”

While they were not in Las Vegas, Lankford did get together with his three daughters Wednesday and the family will be together on Thursday for a March Madness party without basketball.

“We’re having a staycation party with less than 10 people,” Lankford said. “We’re still going to be together, toast and celebrate in our own little way the trip that never was and look forward to our trip next year.”

In the NFL, you’re crazy to spend big money on a running back Joe Starkey Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The Los Angeles Rams flushed a bunch of running back money down the toilet Thursday. They cut Todd Gurley — 2017 NFL Offensive Player of the Year, still just 25, perhaps suffering from a chronic knee injury — and thereby incurred a “dead money” charge of anywhere from $11.75 million to $20 million.

Maybe the Rams learned their lesson. Maybe we all should: Don’t spend big money on a back.

It took a while for me. Not long ago, I was in the “pay Le’Veon Bell” camp. Much as the Steelers tried, that would have been a mistake. Bell’s tires are balding faster than, well, me.

The evidence overwhelmingly suggests you don’t need a star running back to win the Super Bowl. You don’t need a workhorse back. In some cases, you barely need a back at all.

Running-back-by-committee works, and the harsh truth is that passable backs — guys you can win with — are a dime a dozen. They can be found anywhere.

The Rams are a prime example. Gurley was injured late in 2018, but that did not block their run to the Super Bowl.

They pulled a very large C.J. Anderson off a couch somewhere and watched him run for more than 400 yards in three games, including 123 in a playoff win over Dallas (Gurley added 115).

Of the past 12 Super Bowl champions, just three featured a 1,000-yard rusher — and one

of them was LeGarrette Blount.

Another was Ray Rice, and he wound up sharing time with Bernard Pierce that year. The only team of recent vintage to win it all with a star workhorse back was Seattle with Marshawn Lynch in 2013.

Other than that, you see a James White here, a Corey Clement there, a Damien Williams here, a Ronnie Hillman there, a Mike Bell here, a Sony Michel there, a Brandon Jacobs here, a Brandon Jackson there.

Blount was the leading rusher on consecutive Super Bowl winners, for goodness sake (2016 Patriots, ‘17 Eagles). The San Francisco 49ers were practically pulling guys out of the stands this year, and it didn’t hurt their running game.

It’s just a fact: You don’t need a star running back. So why pay

one?

Look at the five highest-paid running backs in the NFL, by annual salary, at least before Gurley was unceremoniously dumped: — Ezekiel Elliot ($15 million): Still very good, but what has Dallas won with him, other than a single playoff game?

— Gurley ($14.375 million): One day you’re the Offensive Player of the Year, the next you’re quoting the legendary movie “Friday” and tweeting, “Damn, I got fired on my day off.”

— Bell ($13.125 million): An epic disaster so far in New York.

— David Johnson ($13 million): Injured shortly after he signed his big deal, now traded.

— Derrick Henry ($10.2 million): The Titans were wise to slap a franchise tag on him.

They wouldn’t be wise to turn that into a long-term deal.

Look what happened to Devonta Freeman. In August of 2017, he signed a five-year, $41.25 million extension with the Falcons. Soon enough, he was injured, now released.

The Rams made Gurley the highest-paid back in NFL history before the 2018 season — awarding him a four-year, $60 million extension that included $45 million in guarantees. He still had two years left on his rookie deal. He was never the same after 2017, struggling through what appears to be a chronic knee injury.

It’s sad, actually, to consider the plight of running backs.

Their careers are shorter than the average player, they have been devalued in the draft and are paid less on average than

nearly every other position.

It’s clear that NFL teams, for the most part, have learned their lesson. Which is to say, don’t pay.

The smart play is to use a good running back’s mileage on his rookie deal, then look elsewhere. Or just look elsewhere.

There was talk last summer of running backs forming their own union, separate from the NFLPA. If that happens, the group should focus on getting players to the NFL before three years post-high school. That rule beats up backs more than any other position — and yet, a bunch of excellent NFL running back prospects surprisingly will forego the draft and head back to school next year.

Maybe they figure the NFL doesn’t want them that badly.

And maybe they’re right.

Darius Slay: I don’t respect Lions coach Matt Patricia because of 2018 incident Dave Birkett Detroit Free Press

DETROIT — Darius Slay’s relationship with Matt Patricia was fractured and unsalvageable, and the former Detroit Lions cornerback said that ultimately is what set the stage for his trade Thursday to the Philadelphia Eagles.

Slay, a three-time Pro Bowler, told the Free Press on Thursday that his lack of respect for Patricia stems from an incident that happened in training camp during Patricia’s first season as Lions coach in 2018.

“He told me in front of the whole team, in the team meeting room, showed clips of me in practice getting a ball caught on me or so in practice,” Slay said.

“I posted a picture (of a wide receiver on social media), and he told me, stop sucking this man’s private. So I’m like, ‘Whoa.’ I’m like, ‘Hold up.’ Where I’m from, that don’t fly. Cause I wouldn’t say that to him. I wouldn’t say to him to stop you know what to Bill Belichick. I wouldn’t do that. That’s just not me as a man. That’s disrespectful to me and so from there on it was done with.”

Patricia, whose comment was meant figuratively, responded in a statement emailed to the Free Press by a team spokesperson.

“Over the last two seasons, Darius and I have had multiple conversations in private that I believed were constructive and satisfactory,” the statement read. “My discussions with athletes are confidential and I won’t comment on anything discussed with our players in a team meeting. I appreciate his hard work and wish he and his

family all the success in Philadelphia.”

Slay said he was so angry about the incident that former Lions safety Glover Quin, who sat next to him in the meeting room, had to calm him down.

“I ain’t going to say (I was ready to) fight because of the fact that I just really kind of blacked out a little bit and really asked myself, ‘Did this man just say this to me?’ “ Slay said. “And like I said, with GQ not sitting beside me in a team meeting room, there’s no telling what RAJ MEHTA/USA TODAY could have happened, honestly, cause the fact that I couldn’t Detroit Lions cornerback Darius Slay (23) celebrates after making believe it. And from where I’m an interception during the third quarter against the Chicago from, stuff gets said like that, a Bears at Ford Field. lot of stuff happens. ... And GQ sat there and was just like, ‘Nah, as a man. But I felt there was no this team, I don’t want to hear calm down, Slay. Calm down, mutual respect as a man but he it. I don’t need you really asking me about how my family’s Slay. You know where it’s go- respect me as a player.”

Slay said he and Patricia had doing. I don’t really need you ing.’ “ a more “solid” relationship last to ask me (about) my kids and After the meeting, Slay season, but that things were stuff. I don’t want that because said former Lions running past the point of repair because you done disrespected me and I backs coach David Walker apain’t really trying to hear it.” proached him and said Patricia of the 2018 incident.

One Lions source, who spoke The Lions went 6-10 in Patriwas trying to make a broader to the Free Press on condition of cia’s first season and dealt with point about staying off social anonymity because he was not plenty of internal strife as they media and as one of the Lions’ best and most respected play- authorized to speak publicly adjusted to a new head coach on the matter, said he consid- with a vastly different personers, used Slay as an example.

“I was real teary-eyed be- ered Slay “a major cancer” last ality than his predecessor, Jim cause I got real, real mad and season and that “he would sit Caldwell.

Last year, the Lions went he was like, ‘Slay, man, he’s just in meetings and not pay attentrying to ... set the tone for the tion” then “go into the locker 3-12-1 but enjoyed a more stateam that some stuff don’t go. room and tell other players how ble locker room as they turned over a large portion of their rosHe don’t like social media so he the coaches are full of shit.”

“They probably got a dif- ter. trying to post it, make it calm so“I mean, the guys that didn’t cial media down,’ cause a lot of ferent side of me if he ain’t say us like social media,” Slay said. what he said,” Slay said. “How respond to it right are the ones “I said, man, I wasn’t trying to he approach me, I approach that’s already kind of gone,” hear that because of the fact that him, so I approach him dif- Slay said. “So if you don’t like I’m a grown man, he’s a grown ferent. If he wasn’t coaching how he talk, he kind of get you man. Like I said, I wasn’t saying me, I don’t want to hear too out of there.”

Slay said he had “a great renothing like that to him to dis- much on what you got to say. respect him like that. I wasn’t So if you’re not trying to help lationship” with Lions general trying to disrespect that man in me build my game up to help manager Bob Quinn, and he no way because I respect him me become a better player for would have considered signing

a long-term deal had the money been right. The Lions and Slay’s agent, Drew Rosenhaus, had on-again, off-again contract talks that Slay said he asked to table around midseason.

“Bringing Matty P in with me with how he approached me and said that to me in front of the whole team, it was real embarrassing and I just ain’t appreciate that and that’s where we fell off and that’s where we’re going to always be,” Slay said.

The Lions tried to trade Slay at last October’s trade deadline, after they dealt Slay’s good friend, Quandre Diggs, to the Seattle Seahawks.

Unable to find a taker for their asking price, the Lions held onto Slay and went looking for a match again this offseason.

The Eagles, who missed out on signing top cornerback Byron Jones in free agency, sent third- and fifth-round picks to the Lions for Slay and gave Slay a three-year contract extension that Rosenhaus said is worth $50 million.

Depending on the structure, that deal would make Slay the highest-paid cornerback in the NFL. “We talked, but the number wasn’t right so we’re just like, ‘Hey we going to get it. Y’all already know what I’m worth.

Y’all don’t want to pay it, cool,’” Slay said, adding that going to Philadelphia is a “real good” situation.

“I appreciate the Eagles and their organization for reaching out, believing in me that I can be the piece that can help their team win more,” he said. “I’m ready to get to work now. I’m ready to bring whatever they

need me to bring. I’m going to give them my hardest to go out there and win, do my best with my job at a high level and try and do my best to compete and help get Ws.” Slay said he had one other encounter with Patricia that got their relationship off to a bad start, early in the 2018 offseason, after he joined Richard Sherman, Aqib Talib and Xavier Rhodes for a cornerback workout.

Slay told reporters upon returning to Michigan that he wasn’t worried about working out with players the Lions were going to face that season.

He said Patricia called him into the office after his comments and told him Sherman was using him to get information on the Lions, and that he didn’t belong in that workout because he wasn’t on the same level as a player.

“He told me, out of his mouth, he said, ‘Those are elite guys. You’re not elite. You’re a good player, but they are elite.

And Sherman’s smart. He used you,’ “ Slay said. “He tried to say Sherm used me to know what Marvin Jones do. I said, ‘He can find out what Marvin Jones do watching film. That ain’t got nothing to do with me.’ What am I going to tell him? I don’t know the offense. I know route combinations, (but) I ain’t going to know the offense.”

Slay said he’ll remember his time in Detroit fondly, he’ll always appreciate the relationship he had with fans and he’ll be rooting for the Lions and Matthew Stafford — except when they play the Eagles.

“I had to get out,” Slay said. “I needed a fresh start.”

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WrestleMania’s departure leaves indie wrestling in a stranglehold

By Eduardo A. Encina Tampa Bay Times (TNS)

TAMPA, Fla. — While WrestleMania 36 will go on without fans April 5 at a closed-set location in Orlando, the independent wrestling community slated to hold shows throughout Tampa — the original host site — has been dealt a devastating financial blow.

“It’s going to be a start all-over-again scenario,” said Brett Lauderdale, owner of Game Changer Wrestling. “This is going to have the effect of five years of work being wiped away.”

Lauderdale was slated to hold an event called The Collective in the three days leading up to WrestleMania. It included hosting 12 live wrestling shows, stage shows, podcasts tapings and parties — to be held at The Cuban Club in Ybor City. He had been organizing it for more than a year and had already put more than $100,000 into renting out the venue, contracts with staff and wrestlers, flights and equipment.

Last week, as the spread of the coronavirus prompted professional sports leagues to postpone their seasons, Lauderdale and other independent organizers waited anxiously for the state or city to ban gatherings so they would be able to recoup their money. While the state issued guidelines, they fell short of forcing the shutdown of events.

So when the WWE announced Monday it was closing all public events in Tampa and moving its pay-per-view event across the state, it left independents on the bad side of a lot of contracts.

The non-WWE schedule is year-long, and promoters count on revenue from one event to finance the next. Running their events within the backdrop of WrestleMania is the most lucrative opportunity for indie organizers.

“The revenues and profits are counted on for everything we do; it’s a springboard for the rest of our year,” Lauderdale said. “In addition to hoping I can get a refund, I have six figures in refunds that have to go out to fans. I know it will change my business dramatically and change my life dramatically. And it would change the lives of a lot of the people who work with me and for me.”

The Cuban Club in Ybor was set to host the

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Collective independent wrestling event next month.

Michael Bochicchio, owner of HighSpots. com, has run what is now called WrestleCon for the past seven years. Just a few weeks ago, he was anticipating thousands of fans flocking to Steinbrenner Field for a roster of 200 guests throughout wrestling, highlighted by Mike Tyson (though known as a boxing champ, Tyson leveled Shawn Michaels in WrestleMania 14 to give Stone Cold Steve Austin the WWE title), Chris Jericho, Kevin Nash and more. His event also included several live shows at The Ritz in Ybor.

Bochicchio had already spent $250,000 in down payments to hold the event, not including $141,202 that Marriott said he owed for a room block that will go unfulfilled because of cancellations. Bochicchio tried to enact a force majeure clause, which allows someone to get out of a contract due to forces outside of his control, to get his money back from Marriott. It didn’t work initially.

UConn’s Megan Walker named AP First-Team All-American Alexa Philippou The Hartford Courant

HARTFORD, Conn. — As she embarks on her professional basketball career, Megan Walker tied a bow on her time in Storrs by picking up one of the most prestigious honors that can be given to a college basketball player: First-Team All-American.

Walker was named to the Associated Press’ All-American First Team Thursday afternoon, alongside Oregon’s Sabrina Ionescu and Ruthy Hebard, Baylor’s Lauren Cox and Kentucky’s Rhyne Howard. Walker, a junior, and Howard, a sophomore, are the only non-seniors in the group.

Walker received 14 FirstTeam votes out of a possible 30. Ionescu, a unanimous choice this year, earned her third First-Team All-American nod, joining the ranks of UConn greats Breanna Stewart and Maya Moore, Brittney Griner (Baylor), Chamique Holdsclaw (Tennessee), Alana Beard (Duke) and Courtney Paris (Oklahoma) as players to receive that honor at least three times.

Walker’s selection marks the 26th time a Husky has earned AP First Team honors. UConn has had at least one first teamer each of the last seven years.

Fellow Huskies Crystal Dangerfield and Olivia Nelson-Ododa were among the AP’s 22 honorable mentions.

Florida State’s Kiah Gillespie, who was a two-time Gatorade player of the year for Connecticut at Hartford’s Capital Prep, was also an honorable mention.

Walker, this season’s AAC player of the year and the most outstanding player of the conference tournament, led the Huskies with 19.7 points per game this season while also averaging 8.4 rebounds. She compiled 1,251 points and 615 rebounds in her three years in Storrs before declaring for the WNBA Draft on Saturday.

A recent mock draft from ESPN’s Mechelle Voepel projected Walker would be drafted to the Dallas Wings with the fifth overall pick and that the Washington Mystics would take Dangerfield with the 12th and final pick of the

Then Jericho tweeted early Tuesday: “Hey wrestlecon, no court in the world would force u to pay this bill AND if we go into city wide lockdowns, they won’t have a leg to stand on anyway. In the meantime shame on u Marriott for taking this stance in such an uncertain time! I have tons of fans who feel the same way.”

That fueled a social media storm in the wrestling community, and later in the day, Bochicchio said Marriott honored his claim. Steinbrenner Field will also refund his deposit, but needs time to do so.

Lauderdale’s biggest event of the entire year, Joey Janela’s Spring Break, was to be held at the Cuban Club. He was expecting 3,000 people.

“Just losing that event along is devastating, brutal,” he said.

Janela, a member of the popular All Elite Wrestling circuit, tweeted Monday night that this is “nearly an independent wrestling death blow. ... The money gone is astronomical.

“We will not allow the casket to shut and come back stronger than ever!”

‘It’s just such mayhem’: How coronavirus concerns may affect college football’s recruiting calendar Mike Vorel The Seattle Times

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Tournament MVP UConn Huskies forward Megan Walker, right, celebrates with UConn Huskies guard Crystal Dangerfield after the AAC tournament championship at Mohegan Sun Arena Monday, March 9, 2020 in Uncasville, Conn.

first round.

2020 Women’s AP All America Team List First Team Sabrina Ionescu, Oregon, 5-11, senior, Walnut Creek, Calif., 17.5 ppg, 9.1 apg, 8.6 rpg (30 of 30 first-team votes, 150 points) Rhyne Howard, Kentucky, 6-2, sophomore, Cleveland, Tenn., 23.4 ppg, 6.5 rpg, 38.2 3-point % (23, 134) Ruthy Hebard, Oregon, 6-4, senior, Fairbanks, Alaska, 17.3 ppg, 9.6 rpg, 68.5 fg%, (21, 126) Lauren Cox, Baylor, 6-4, senior, Flower Mound, Texas, 12.5 ppg, 8.4 rpg, 2.7 blocks (20, 116) Megan Walker,, UConn, 6-1, junior, Chesterfield, Va., 19.7 ppg, 8.4 rpg, 47.7 fg% (14, 97) Second Team Aliyah Boston, South Carolina, 6-5, freshman, St. Thomas, U.S.V.I., 12.5 ppg, 9.4 rpg, 60.9 fg% (6, 74) Chennedy Carter, Texas A&M, 5-7, junior, Mansfield, Texas, 21.3 ppg, 3.5 apg, 4.3 rpg (7, 72) Satou Sabally, Oregon, 6-4, junior, Berlin, Germany, 16.2 ppg, 6.9 rpg, 79.2 ft% (6, 71) Aari McDonald Arizona, 5-6, junior, Fresno, Calif. 20.5 ppg, 5.8 rpg, 79.1 ft% (6, 69) Dana Evans, Louisville, 5-6, junior, Gary, Ind., 18.1 ppg, 4.2 apg, 89.0 ft% (3, 69) Third Team

Tyasha Harris, South Carolina, 5-10, senior, Noblesville, Ind., 12.1 ppg, 5.7 apg, 86.7 ft% (7, 57) Michaela Onyenwere, UCLA, 6-0, junior, Aurora, Colo., 19.1 ppg, 8.6 rpg, 46.9 fg% (0, 39) Kathleen Doyle, Iowa, 5-9, senior, LaGrange Park, Ill., 18.1 ppg, 6.3 apg, 4.6 rpg (1, 36) Elissa Cunane, North Carolina State, 6-5, sophomore, Summerfield, N.C., 16.4 ppg, 9.6 rpg, 54.7 fg% (0, 32) Kaila Charles, Maryland, 6-1 senior, Glenn Dale, Md., 14.3 ppg, 7.3 rpg, 50 fg% (0, 31) Honorable Mention (alphabetical order) Jaylyn Agnew, Creighton; Bella Alarie, Princeton; Brittany Brewer, Texas Tech; Te’a Cooper, Baylor; Crystal Dangerfield, UConn; Rennia Davis, Tennessee; Ciara Duffy, South Dakota; Kiah Gillespie, Florida State; Haley Gorecki, Duke; Vivian Gray, Oklahoma State; Arella Guirantes, Rutgers; Ashley Joens, Iowa State; Stella Johnson, Rider; Ila Lane, UC Santa Barbara; Beatrice Mompremier, Miami; Olivia Nelson-Ododa, UConn; Mikayla Pivec, Oregon State; Lindsey Pulliam, Northwestern; NaLyssa Smith, Baylor; Chante Stonewall, DePaul; Unique Thompson, Auburn; Kiana Williams, Stanford.

To be clear, none of these promoters wanted to run his event during a pandemic. They only had hoped that the state or city did more to force cancellations so it would be easier to get their money back. The best-case scenario for Lauderdale was if WWE rescheduled WrestleMania in Tampa and hopefully the Cuban Club would be available for all three days, though he realized that was unlikely.

“Going back several weeks now, I never once believed this event was going to happen as scheduled,” Bochicchio said. “I can’t imagine that anybody would want to put 75,000 people at risk in a stadium. So just everybody (had been) waiting for what’s next and who is going to flinch first.”

Bochicchio said he will will refund all ticket purchases. He is already working toward next year’s event for WrestleMania in Los Angeles and understands how important that is to keeping his base loyal.

Lauderdale tweeted out that The Collective event is postponed until a later date. Without WrestleMania as an anchor, holding it in Tampa may not be viable. He is trying to get some of his deposits back, but his equipment rental company is among those holding firm to the original contracts.

He is offering refunds to ticket holders who want them, but also promising that those who keep their tickets will get added special benefits.

“We are not asking to keep your money for nothing,” the tweet said. “We are asking you to invest in the future of independent wrestling.”

Still, the pandemic will have the final say.

The big-ticket WWE events bring fans into host cities, and connecting to those events is the lifeblood of the indie circuit.

And with WWE seemingly committed to holding its pay-per-view events on closed sets absent of fans — and they could continue to do so for months — what happened in Tampa for WrestleMania could happen in Baltimore, where the WWE’s Money in the Bank event is slated for May 10. After that, pay-per-view events are scheduled for San Jose and Boston over the summer.

SEATTLE — Jimmy Lake refuses to speak in hypotheticals.

For example, the Washington Huskies’ first-year head coach acknowledges that the NCAA instituted a mandatory recruiting dead period — meaning that his staff cannot travel to communicate with or evaluate a prospect, or host recruits on campus visits — until April 15, to hopefully slow the spread of COVID-19.

He knows that, had the coronavirus not effectively suspended all sports nationwide, that time would instead be classified as a “quiet period” — when coaches cannot travel for recruiting purposes, but are permitted to host prospective student-athletes on campus.

But beyond April 15, when it comes to the recruiting calendar, he doesn’t know much more.

“It’s (usually) a valuable time for the young men, the prospects, to come and look at the school and see which school fits them and meet the coaching staff and meet all the players,” Lake said of the mandatory dead period in a phone interview on Monday. “But I also think it’s not the end of the world.

Those guys are going to have some other opportunities down the road to visit their schools.

“We’re so early on in the 2021 recruiting cycle. What I don’t want to do is speak in hypotheticals, but after April 15 as we keep moving on, I could really snowball this thing and then (recruiting) really would start to change if everything remains in a not-so-positive state.”

OK, so he won’t do it, but we will: let’s snowball this thing. What would happen if the recruiting dead period is indefinitely extended?

First, a recruiting refresher: the spring evaluation period — when coaching staffs can “be involved in offcampus activities designed to assess the academic

qualifications and playing ability of prospective student-athletes,” according to the NCAA — lasts from April 15 through the end of May. This is a critical period for both programs and underrecruited prospects who may require a spring showcase to earn scholarship offers.

And, more than likely, it’ll be altered — canceled or postponed — by coronavirus concerns.

“Right now, if you’re an under-the-radar guy who was really banking on the spring to be your comingout party, there’s probably reason to be nervous about how things are going to go,” 247Sports national recruiting editor Brandon Huffman told The Seattle Times this week. “The spring evaluation period, for so many guys that are under the radar that coaches just want to see in person, is where they really start to see their recruitment take off.

“Now we don’t know when that’s going to happen. We don’t know if it’s going to happen at all.”

The good news, for the Huskies, is that they got a somewhat unintended head start. Because the transition from Chris Petersen to Lake happened so swiftly, and because UW signed the entirety of its 2020 class on the early signing day in December, the staff could use the NCAA’s contact period in January to evaluate and solidify relationships with 2021 recruits.

And, even in-state, that wasn’t the case for everybody else.

“For a school like Washington, they were able to get on the road in January and they could start looking ahead to 2021,” Huffman said. “They could go to all the schools that their 2021 targets were at and be seen. Whereas at Washington State, (new head coach Nick) Rolovich was just trying to put the final touches on that class and going out and doing in-homes with guys who were on the fence.

“Washington had an

advantage, and it was a selfimposed advantage that they had, because they were able to sign their entire class (early). There are so many schools that, for whatever reason, spring was going to have to be their primary time to get out and see kids.

Now they’ve (likely) lost that time.”

Though, it shouldn’t be assumed that the spring evaluation period will be entirely eliminated. It will more likely bleed into the otherwise unoccupied summer months.

“There may not be a dead period in the summer now like there has been in July the last couple years,” Huffman said. “You may just see the evaluation period go straight from let’s say, realistically, late April or early May all the way through fall camp. Now, maybe they close it for a couple weeks in August and leave it open the whole month of July so that coaches aren’t having to do recruiting during fall practice. But I bet you’re going to see a lot more schools that had to give up when they wanted to have kids on campus in the spring now try to do some kind of recruiting event in August, if they have a fall scrimmage or anything else going on.

“So it’s really forcing schools to adjust their calendars, whether they were prepared for this or not.”

Take Washington, for example. The Huskies’ spring game is currently set for April 25, and it’s likely the intention was to use it as the centerpiece for a significant recruiting visit weekend. If said spring game is canceled — and it almost certainly will be — Lake and Co. could potentially replace it with a separate recruiting event this summer.

This all comes, by the way, during an unprecedented recruiting cycle in the state of Washington, which touts three five-star prospects as well as seven more four-star recruits, according to the 247Sports Composite.

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Kelly Reichart creates new cinematic gem

By ANN HORNADAY Washington Post

To watch a Kelly Reichardt movie is to enter a kind of trance. Over a quietly extraordinary 25-year career, which includes bona fide masterpieces like “Old Joy” and “Meek’s Cutoff,” Reichardt has formed a visual and aural language all her own, a symbolic system rooted in nature, silence, steadily propulsive movement and discreet character study that upends viewers’ expectations, and ultimately, their entire cinematic experience. We might go into a Kelly Reichardt movie thinking we’ll be told a story, but we emerge with our consciousness subtly and radically altered.

‘FIRST COW’ 4 stars out of 4 CAST: John Magaro, Orion Lee, Toby jones DIRECTOR: Kelly Reichart RUNNING TIME: 122 minutes INDUSTRY RATING: PG-13, for brief strong language

Reichardt’s new film “First Cow,” indeed tells a story — a ripping good yarn, actually — while it retunes the sensibilities of spectatorship. On its face, this simple tale, set in the Oregon territory in the early 19th century, couldn’t be more fable-like, up to and including the majestic, slightly magical bovine creature at its center. But, like most of Reichardt’s films, this one literally contains multitudes.

We meet Cookie (John Magaro in a soulful, wary performance) when he is in the wilderness with a bunch of unruly beaver trappers, his gentle temperament at odds with their coarse, alpha-male aggression. Then Cookie meets King Lu (Orion Lee), a Chinese immigrant eager to find his fortune in a land of mythically endless possibility but already being organized into a rigid class and caste system. (“History hasn’t gotten here yet,” King Lu says prophetically.)

Setting up housekeeping just outside the Royal West Pacific Trading Post, Cookie and King Lu embark on the kind of scheme that either builds

In “The Plot Against America,” the political rise of Charles Lindbergh, left, played by Ben Cole, inaugurates a more hateful era in America. With John Turturro as Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf. Michele K. Short/HBO

HBO’s gripping historical drama rebukes the notion that it can’t happen here

‘The Plot Against America’

By MICHAEL PHILLIPS Chicago Tribune

‘THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA’

Working quiet emotional miracles, Zoe Kazan is the simmering kettle in the middle of an inferno in “The Plot Against America,” and she deserves every available award for her work in this fine, eerily evocative HBO adaptation.

She’s not top-billed: Winona Ryder is, and Ryder’s good, in a flamboyant, outsized way.

Kazan works differently, befitting her domestic anchor of a character. There is nothing extraneous in her performance.

There is, however, a world of heartache behind her eyes and

3 ½ stars out of 4 Six-part series premieres Monday on HBO

a supernatural ability to judge the proper tone and rhythm of a scene.

HBO’s six-part miniseries, which premiered Monday, has been overseen by writers and executive producers David Simon and Ed Burns of the great, hallowed Baltimore lament “The Wire.” Six hours, even with some uncertain or abbreviated storytelling elements, feels right for Philip Roth’s 2004

novel. With “The Plot Against America,” Roth, who died in 2018, remapped early 1940s American history from a chilling what-if perspective: What if the Great Depression were the least of the nation’s problems?

Imagine it. Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the 1940 presidential election to the Republican candidate, aviation hero and staunch “America First” isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh.

Gradually, then suddenly, America becomes a different America. Anti-Semitic hate crimes skyrocket. Soon the federal government implements the “Just Folks” relocation program, placing Jewish teenagers with Midwestern and Western U.S. families, to “further and better assimilate” the Jews into mainstream, Christian culture.

The economy rebounds.

Lindbergh’s aura of rugged individualism and high-flying heroism gives us an invisible shield of protection. America normalizes relations with Adolf Hitler and the Axis powers.

At what point, if any, can the country save itself?

This is the backdrop for Roth’s foreground story of the fictional Levin family (named Roth in the novel). Insurance man Herman (a terrific, steely Morgan Spector) and homemaker Bess (Kazan) have two sons, the Lindbergh-worshipping Sandy (Caleb Malis) and his younger sibling, the authorial stand-in Philip (Azhy Robertson). Top-billed Ryder plays Bess’s sister, Evelyn, the object of the recently arrived rabbi’s See ‘PLOT’ C2

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Pandemic, the game, has become all too real, says its creator COOPERATIVE PLAY:

Game that gives players a chance to save world hits home

By CHRISTOPHER BORRELLI Chicago Tribune

Pandemic is not Chutes and Ladders.

Pandemic is not Candy Land. Or even Risk. The goal, the finish line, is easy to grasp — stop an infectious disease from spreading across continents and killing millions

— but hard to reach. And the stakes couldn’t be starker: Everybody wins or everybody loses.

Still, it is just a game.

Albeit, a very popular one.

Pandemic, the best-selling board game — currently just behind Monopoly and Clue on Amazon’s board-game sales chart — has sold more than 2 million copies since first published in 2008, becoming a major franchise with a half-dozen Pandemic spinoffs. Players begin in Atlanta

at the headquarters for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, then travel across the globe, taking actions to slow disease transmission and save lives. You don’t move plastic pawns or metal thimbles across a board; you deploy field tents and maps on a board, performing various roles — medic, researcher, quarantine specialist.

Any win, though, is strictly zero-sum.

Instead of traditional competition and a single

champion, players work together, looking for a cure to halt the spread of a virus.

Which has made Pandemic something of a staple in classrooms (and medical schools) eager to foster cooperation among students.

“The way that earlier generations grew up with board games like Monopoly in their closets, Pandemic is becoming that for younger generations,” said J.P. Nery, owner of Chicagoland Games Dice Dojo in Edgewater. “It’s a

modern classic. Really, it’s the grandfather of cooperative gaming. Pandemic was not the first game to introduce the idea — you don’t roll the dice then come to a winner — but it did bring the concept of cooperative board games into the mainstream. Now you see these games in Walmart.”

Indeed, the history of board games is not necessarily based in competition.

Battleship is likely a variation of a pencil and pad exercise from World War I;

Monopoly started as a way for an Illinois activist named Elizabeth Magie to explain the value of a single-tax system that would be focused on land ownership; Life has its roots in 19th century New England morality lessons; and the buzzy Operation, created in the 1960s, began as a student project in the industrial design department at University of Illinois.

Pandemic is no exception.

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empires or ends in tears, their idealism tempered by cruel realities already coalescing around ideas of race, capitalism, manifest destiny and manhood itself.

And yes, there is a cow in “First Cow,” a gorgeous, brown-eyed creature imported to the settlement by the overweening Chief Factor, played

by Toby Jones with just the right mix of imperiousness and insecurity. Reichardt’s most ardent fans won’t be surprised that her affinity for animals (especially dogs) extends to the latest installment of her oeuvre, which continues to explore her cardinal themes and deepen her most fruitful collaborations. This is the fifth Reichardt

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Leacock, a former Chicago graphic designer who grew up partly in Wheaton, Ill., and studied visual communication at Northern Illinois University.

He’s unsure of the exact inspiration for Pandemic but notes he developed it between the SARS epidemic of 2003 and the H1N1 swine flu outbreak of 2009, with warnings about the spread of infectious diseases in the 21st century on his mind.

Now 48, he lives with his family in Silicon Valley, and like everyone else, he’s intently following coronavirus news and contemplating the endgame. We spoke the other day about the legacy of his scarily prescient creation. The following has been edited and condensed for space and clarity.

Q:Have you ever heard from the CDC about Pandemic?

A: I was told the game was sold in their gift shop.

Q: The CDC has a gift shop?

A: News to me, too. (The shop closed in 2012.) They are also using it in an exhibition on cultural reactions to the spread of infectious diseases (opening in late May). And there’s been some contact from epidemiologists who worked in West Africa and loved the game. But mostly I hear this stuff just anecdotally.

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courtly Southern affections.

John Turturro, his natural ebullience tightly reined in here, makes Rabbi Bengelsdorf an ambiguous and rather touching patsy, exploited (too obviously in the adaptation) by the Lindbergh administration for its ultimate ideological purposes. In the words of Herman’s bull-headed nephew, Alvin (Anthony Boyle, straight

film written by Jon Raymond, who wrote the novel “The HalfLife” on which it is based; and it continues their mutual fascination with excavating Oregon and its history.

In some ways, “First Cow” could be considered a prequel to 2010’s “Meek’s Cutoff,” which chronicled the journey of Eastern settlers through the state’s forbidding high desert. “First Cow” explores the creation of the ideals they were chasing before they were formed into an ideology: The trading post is a cosmopolitan, polyglot place, filled with immigrants from around the globe and tended to by members of native tribes who are already being dispersed, marginalized and forcibly assimilated.

And, like “Meek’s Cutoff,” “First Cow” has been exquisitely shot by cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt, who once again uses a 4:3 aspect

ratio to give the action an archaic, squared-off frame. In the previous film, Reichardt noted that the tighter field of vision subverted the expanses of classic Westerns to reflect the point of view of the settlers themselves, who couldn’t see past their own personal horizons; here, it gives Cookie and King Lu’s life together both intimacy and painterly beauty.

In contrast to the verticality of the similarly mud-soaked “McCabe & Mrs. Miller,” with its scaffolding and soaring ambitions, “First Cow” is adamantly horizontal. Reichardt sets her sights low, the better to capture her hard-scrabbling protagonists and their humble struggles against the spiny backdrop of the pine trees that threaten to engulf them (not to mention the equally imposing men trying to make their own more violent way). For Cookie and King Lu, dreams are tender

it for a couple of years to teach communication cooperation and found some good results with it. I was contacted just today by a high school in San Francisco looking to buy copies of Pandemic in bulk, to teach concepts about the spread of infectious disease. It’s not a simulation but it’s great for introducing concepts, which is really what games have always been good at.

Q: Was that your goal?

A: No, I didn’t set out to teach anything. I wanted something that made your heart beat and got people working together. It was a design problem to me — could you create an artificial opponent out of cardboard and paper that engaged kids and adults sitting for an hour around a table? It’s a daunting challenge but I found how to do it by experimenting.

it. You can kind of see the advantages and disadvantages of real-world quarantines, but we can’t necessarily capture everything in a game. We have three different expansions and it’s hard to add more to the base game without making it too complicated. Early on I was just comforted to realize my modeling of the issue wasn’t far from the real world — I didn’t want to teach something dramatically inaccurate.

Q: Did you interview medical professionals?

A: No, just casual research.

I was sort of an indie game designer, doing this game as a hobby on the side. There was no pressure to have a well-researched product. The pressure was, will I ever get a game published? I didn’t even name the diseases in the game because I didn’t want it too clinical — which, actually now, makes it kind of topical.

Q: Did developing it give you a window into how we handle actual pandemics?

A: I don’t know. I’m certainly more attuned now to the spread of disease. I’ve had to read a lot of books about it just to work on the products based around Pandemic. I guess I’m not surprised now when something like coronavirus happens? I certainly see how the real world works and think of how those actions might work their way into future versions of the game. The earliest versions didn’t have quarantines. It was one thing too many. We later introduced

Q: Cooperative games — and I guess Dungeons & Dragons is an example — have been around a long time in different forms, but the reputation was that, compared to something like Clue, they were hard to learn, byzantine. And yet Pandemic has the reputation for making exactly that kind of game mainstream. Why this game?

A: I chalk it up to timing.

But also, the rules aren’t as complicated (as similar cooperative games), and a player’s emotions are manipulated.

You’re also playing a reasonable time. You do need a clock.

out of a Clifford Odets drama in the best possible way), Bengelsdorf is in charge of “koshering Lindbergh.”

The story spans 1940-1942.

Everywhere in this version of Newark, N.J., beer gardens spring up like weeds and only Walter Winchell on the radio seems to be pushing back against the rising tide of intolerance. (The Winchell of Roth’s imagining is pure hero, with none of the blemishes of the real Winchell.) “The hate is there,” Herman says, after World War II has returned one

member of the family in pieces, and the country heads into uncharted waters. “It’s like dry leaves waiting on a spark.”

Like Sinclair Lewis’ rollicking bummer “It Can’t Happen Here” (1935), which imagined Roosevelt losing a second term to a Huey Long-style tyrant in populist’s clothing, “The Plot Against America” takes the fascist impulse as an ever-present possibility. Persuasively detailed period recreations relocate the viewer to an America we recognize, at least from photos, but the

things to be nurtured; for their cohorts, they can only be realized by seizing them by force.

Accompanied by a gentle guitar and mandolin score by William Tyler, “First Cow” isn’t a happy movie — in fact, it’s often brutal, and the presentday image that bookends the story suggests it won’t have an optimistic ending. Still, nestled within Reichardt’s jaundiced portrait of greed, racism and nativism at its most dishonest and chauvinistic, Cookie and King Lu’s friendship stands as a reminder that America’s most pitiless trajectory didn’t necessarily have to be that way.

As a parable of Bressonian purity, “First Cow” offers a clear-eyed assessment of how we got here; as a magnificent, moving example of Reichardt’s uncompromising vision, it doesn’t just deliver a critique, but transcendence.

DALLAS — Vodka is a sought-after remedy for many things, but the coronavirus panic-driven lack of hand sanitizer is forcing one Texas vodka brand to clarify its limitations.

Austin, Texasbased Tito’s Vodka appears to have spent time recently notifying a number of fans on Twitter that its spirits don’t contain high enough concentrations of alcohol to properly fend off germs.

“As soon as we saw the incorrect articles and social posts, we wanted to set the record straight,” a spokesperson for Tito’s said in a statement provided to The Dallas Morning News. Tito’s “While it would be good for business for our fans to use massive quantities of Tito’s for hand sanitizer, it would be a shame to waste the good stuff, especially if it doesn’t sanitize (which it doesn’t, per the CDC).”

The company’s social media team, commendably, has identified tweets suggesting the use of Tito’s in homemade hand sanitizer recipes and replied with recommendations Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“Per the CDC, hand sanitizer needs to contain at least

60% alcohol. Tito’s Handmade Vodka is 40% alcohol, and therefore does not meet the current recommendation of the CDC,” Tito’s Vodka tweeted.

The number of articles offering advice on how to make homemade hand sanitizer have spiked (naturally) in the last week as stores across the country have seen their shelves cleared of Purell and other brands. The shortage has also led to complaints about price gouging.

Popular recipes for homemade hand sanitizer recommend combing either isopropyl alcohol (rubbing alcohol) or spirits that are at least 180 proof with aloe vera.

And while the CDC does acknowledge you can use alcohol-based sanitizers with at least 60% alcohol, health experts say washing your hands with soap and water is a more effective way to prevent the spread of germs.

In 2019, Tito’s Vodka unseated Smirnoff for the first time in over a decade as the best selling vodka in the U.S., according to beverage market analysis firm IWSR. The company was founded in 1997 by owner Bert Butler “Tito” Beveridge II.

The Pandemic board game was created by Matt Leacock, published by Z-Man Games. Players work together to stop the spread of an infectious disease around the globe. Abel Uribe/Chicago Tribune

People don’t have patience beyond 60 minutes.

Q: What’s Pandemic’s origin?

A: Well, I had learned I enjoyed playing cooperative games with my family more than playing games based around negotiation. I had played a negotiation game with my wife one night and I won but it became a horrible experience where it crossed over into the real world. It was this game called Chinatown.

You’re basically manipulating people, all within the circle of the game. But that can kind of bleed out and you feel like you’ve lost.

A: They focus on short-term objectives. They run around the world and try to put out local fires without thinking about a long-term goal, which is the only way they can win.

Q: Do players generally win?

A: Depends who comes to the table. If they have experience making critical decisions and communicating, they have a higher chance. There are difficulty levels but someone new might get beat up. If it’s a close loss, I tend to be happy. Especially if players blame themselves and know what they’d do differently. But real life is infinitely more complex.

pandemic?

A: My suspicion is that it does better because people are trying to understand.

There is some aversion — nobody wants to feel that they trivializing human suffering.

And I get quarterly statements so I have no idea how it’s doing right now. But I would guess, just from the references I have seen to it on social media lately, it is being played right now.

Q: What’s the biggest mistake people make when they play Pandemic?

Q: Does Pandemic sell better when there is actual

Q: We play board games when we don’t want to leave the house.

A: You know, I follow some retailers in Hong Kong, and they have been encouraging folks to grab a game and play at home — I suppose if you’re going to be staying home anyway. ...

photos have been retouched by sinister forces, leaving New Jersey gravestones pockmarked with swastikas. It takes a while for the HBO series to spark in human terms.

By the midpoint, however, Roth’s narrative mechanics prove irresistible and the sons’ storylines, in particular, so obviously dear to Roth, pierce the heart.

Through it all Kazan’s brilliantly shaded performance of a woman watching a domestic and national train wreck in slow motion becomes the glue

holding everything together.

The later segments directed by Thomas Schlamme build upon the earlier episodes, adding a welcome sweep and rhythmic drive (though there’s a beat or two missing from the final minutes).

A year before his death in 2018, Roth told The New Yorker magazine: “My novel wasn’t written as a warning. I was just trying to imagine what it would have been like for a Jewish family like mine, in a Jewish community like Newark, had something even faintly

like Nazi anti-Semitism befallen us in 1940.” He also said, in effect, that it could happen here — the “it” imagined by Sinclair Lewis.

Each episode opens to the strains of the National Recovery Administration anthem “The Road is Open Again,” played while images of Hitler and Lucky Lindy set the twisted-newsreel agenda. The song was first heard in 1933, in actuality, at the bottom of the Depression. “The Plot Against America” shows us the bottom underneath that one.

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Fried Catfish. Hillary Levin/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS

Fish Fry Day 4 great recipes for the Lenten season

By DANIEL NEMAN St. Louis Post-Dispatch (TNS)

Shrimp with Soy, Garlic, Ginger and Lemon Hillary Levin/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS

Lent. It’s a time for reflection. A time for humility. And definitely a time for fish.

A large number of people during Lent turn instead to fish (though the Orthodox churches avoid fish with backbones, as well).

For this Lenten season, I made four appropriate dishes, two with fish and two with shellfish. Each one was so delicious that I’m afraid they may not be entirely in the spirit of somber reflection and selfsacrifice.

But that’s OK. They’re great to eat when it is not Lent, too.

I started with the most typical of all Lenten meals, at least in this town: fried fish. I humbly suggest it was better than anything you could get at a church, but that is probably because I made a relatively small batch, instead of the churches’

assembly-line cooking, and I used a slightly more expensive ingredient than they use.

The ingredient I used was panko bread crumbs for the breading. I had planned to use the traditional cornmeal, but I discovered as I started to cook that I had run out of the traditional cornmeal. So, panko — which I did have — it was.

And I’m glad it worked out just as I totally intentionally meant it to, because panko makes everything fried taste better. It gives it an extra crispy snap that is simply delightful.

Next up was a dish I hadn’t made in some time but has long been a favorite: Shrimp with Soy, Garlic, Ginger and Lemon. When I first met the friends of the woman who was to become my wife, this is the dish I made. One plateful, and they See FISH C6

Avocado green goddess dressing is star of this salad QUICK DISH: Pairs well

with soups, stews, roasts or chilis

By ELLIE KRIEGER Washington Post

Here, four contrasting elements come together, and they result in a stunning salad that brims with fresh, exciting flavor.

At its base is Little Gem lettuce (or romaine, if Little Gem is unavailable), which is so crisp and cool, it practically quenches your thirst as you bite into it. The leaves are slathered in a gorgeous palegreen and luxuriously creamy (but healthful) dressing made by blending cilantro or basil with scallion, avocado, yogurt and a splash of vinegar.

Once plated, the dressed leaves are topped with juicy, tart-sweet red grapefruit

segments (blood orange or Cara Cara segments would work here as well) and zingy quick-pickled red onions, which can be prepared in the time it takes to pull the salad together, or made ahead.

Crisp, juicy, creamy, tangy and tart with beautiful hues of pink and green, it’s a salad that brings a bright ray of light to any meal in need of a little sunshine. While it pairs well with just about any soup, stew or sheet-pan dinner, this salad is my absolute go-to with a hearty bowl of chili.

GEM SALAD WITH GRAPEFRUIT, PICKED ONIONS AND AVOCADO DRESSING In this salad, cool, crisp lettuce leaves are tossed with a luxuriously rich (but healthful) avocado, yogurt and herb dressing, then topped with

juicy grapefruit segments (you could substitute orange segments, if you prefer), and a crunch of zingy quick-pickled onions. It’s a stunning salad that is not only bursting with fresh flavor but also pairs well with soups, stews, roasts or chilis.

Storage Notes: The pickled onions can be refrigerated for up to 1 week. The dressing can be refrigerated for up to 3 days.

FOR THE PICKLED ONION 3 tablespoons hot water 1 teaspoon honey 1/4 cup red wine vinegar 1/3 cup thinly sliced red onion (half-moons) FOR THE DRESSING 1/4 cup fresh cilantro or basil leaves 1 scallion, coarsely chopped 1 ripe avocado, halved, pitted and peeled 3 tablespoons white wine vinegar 2 tablespoons plain Greek yogurt (low-fat or full fat)

Gem Salad With Grapefruit, Picked Onions and Avocado Dressing. Tom McCorkle/Washington Post

2 tablespoons water 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, plus more to taste FOR THE SALAD 2 red grapefruits 8 cups (4 ounces) lightly packed torn gem or romaine lettuce leaves

Make the pickled onions: In a small bowl, whisk together the hot water with the honey until fully combined; then whisk in the vinegar.

Add the onions and let sit at room temperature, stirring occasionally, for at least 20

minutes or up to 2 hours.

Make the dressing: In a small bowl of a food processor, pulse the cilantro or basil with the scallion until finely chopped. Add the avocado, vinegar, yogurt, water, salt and pepper and process until See SALAD C6

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Books & authors ‘The Illness Lesson’ alludes to ‘Little Women’

but will remind you of darker works

By MARION WINIK Washington Post

“The Illness Lesson”

By Clare Beams Doubleday. 288 pp. $26.95 Clare Beams opens her unusual and transporting first novel, “The Illness Lesson” with epigraphs from Louisa May Alcott and her father, Amos Bronson Alcott. These set the stage for a tale that unfolds on a farm in Massachusetts in 1871, with a premise and characters that recall the life and work of both Alcotts.

But before we go any further: This is Alcott meets Shirley Jackson, with a splash of Margaret Atwood. It’s dark, quirky and even titillating, in a somewhat appalling way.

Like the senior Alcott, the fictional Samuel Hood is an essayist and educator. He is undaunted by the failure of a transcendental community he founded. Samuel dusts himself off and opens a school, an institution for girls called the School of the Trilling Heart. The name comes from a blood-red bird first identified on the premises that wings through the novel ominously.

Samuel’s only child, Caroline, is a version of Jo March- bright, strongwilled, self-reliant, devoted to her father — she even has the famous hair, “a deep dark forest” of it. Caroline’s intellect and innately feminist understanding of the world suffuse the tone of the narration: None of the myriad ways men are privileged over women escape Caroline’s notice, including the work of her own father.

Announcing his plan, Samuel proclaims, “No one, no one, has done this before. Formed girls into women who can become their own best selves, who can be true partners to their husbands and true mothers to their children .... We’ll teach thinking, not sewing or physical graces,

not shallow parlor trick erudition.”

“Samuel Hood, essayist,” Caroline thinks, shaking her head at her father’s pomposity and self importance. Good thing he has come along

to pave women’s way from cultivated ignorance to enlightened servitude.

Assisting Samuel with the school is a young acolyte from Ohio named David, with whom Caroline is utterly

smitten. Every interaction between them is seismic. When his name is used in a sentence, it sounds louder than all the other words. When he puts his hand on Caroline’s upper arm, the “skin beneath her sleeve greeted that weight joyously, and he met her eyes, and his were wide, and his fingers tightened as if to pin this joy between them, at this meeting point of their bodies.”

David will teach natural history and mathematics; Samuel, classical languages; and the two men will share moral philosophy and history.

Caroline will teach only English literature. As usual, Caroline mordantly assesses the import of this division of labor: “Though [she] was meant to be a walking embodiment of the school’s aims, that didn’t mean her feminine fingers belonged in its meatier pies.”

The first class at Trilling Heart is seven 14-year-old girls — Rebecca, Tabitha, Livia, Felicity, Julia, Abigail and Margaret — until a last-minute eighth appears, begs admission, and goes on to give Caroline good cause to wish she had never seen her. Eliza Pearson Bell is the daughter of one of the residents of Samuel’s erstwhile utopian community, who wrote a “supernatural” novel called “The Darkening Glass,” based closely on the community, with a cruel villain representing Samuel, a beautiful, victimized wife representing Caroline’s mother, and Pearson himself as the lovelorn hero.

The first chance she gets, the cool little Pearson girl tries to embarrass Samuel by bringing up her father’s notorious book. Within days, the thick, black novel is being passed around the student body — “the black mark of a spreading plague” — and the girls are thrilling to the possibilities of comparison. They are also thrilling to the possibilities of their

young male teacher, David, with a flirty, innocent passion that recalls the relationship between the March girls and their neighbor Laurie.

And then, during a nature hike, Eliza disappears. “Caroline saw her before anyone else. From a distance, Eliza on the grass looked like a piece of discarded clothing, a summerwhite wrap thrown off in the warmth or blown from a clothesline.” But nothing identifiable seems to have caused Eliza’s fainting spell, and the mystery persists as she and the other girls all develop strange, debilitating symptoms — rashes, vision problems, fits, headaches. Caroline is shocked when she too feels her hand going numb.

And then, and then- a lot of things happen. Two new characters arrive on the scene, both with serious ramifications for the lovelorn and sickened female populace of Trilling Heart. The roof literally caves in under the weight of one of the trilling hearts’ strange, heavy nests, dense with twigs, grasses, feathers and purloined ribbons and strands of hair.

Beams, whose previous book “We Show What We Have Learned” won the Bard Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for debut fiction, here devises a series of creepy events and phenomena that balance on the edge between realism and ghost story. And there are scenes that will make you think of the Ceremony in “The Handmaid’s Tale” — which, as you know, is very far from “Little Women.”

Winik, a professor at the University of Baltimore, is the author of numerous books, including “First Comes Love,” “The Lunch-Box Chronicles” and, most recently, “The Big Book of the Dead.”

In a time of crisis, poetry can help focus our fears and transform ‘noise into music’

By MICHAEL DIRDA Washington Post

Last week, I was reading John Burnside’s “The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century.” It’s a good book, combining personal reminiscence and intensive reflection on works by poets as various as Siegfried Sassoon, Marina Tsvetaeva, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marianne Moore, Eugenio Montale, William Matthews and Haki R. Madhubuti, among many others.

Throughout, Burnside argues that 20th-century poetry matters because it continually interacts with contemporary social conditions and political crises, with what he calls — borrowing the phrase from Osip Mandelstam — “the noise of time.”

In effect, poetry “aims in every possible way to reaffirm the world that we actually inhabit, in all its vital, messy, beautiful, tragic reality. It is not so much the case that poetry makes nothing happen” — those last four words derive from W.H. Auden’s elegy for W.B. Yeats — “as that it attempts to reveal what is already happening, to offer a context to events and so propose a means by which the noise of time can be re-experienced as the music of what happens.”

Befitting an admirer of Randall Jarrell, that pitiless scourge of critical jargon, Burnside avoids technical terms, though his close readings demand close attention, probably more than many general readers will want to give.

Still, he quotes well and regularly and imaginatively frames his arguments around the most poetic of philosophical catchphrases, including “All that is solid melts into air” (Marx and Engels), Tribune News Service

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, March 7, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by NPD BookScan (c) 2020 NPD Group.

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. House of Earth and Blood. Sarah J. Maas.

Bloomsburg 2. The Numbers Game. Danielle Steel. Delacorte 3. Long Range. C.J. Box. Putnam 4. Blindside. Patterson/Born. Little, Brown 5. American Dirt. Jeanine Cummins. Flatiron

“What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence” (Wittgenstein) and “Nothingness haunts being” (Sartre). While Burnside mainly looks at work written in response to injustice, war and grief, his examples all tend to be comparatively sophisticated, as one would expect from a distinguished poet and a teacher at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

Still, I would guess that most of us turn to far more sentimental verse when confronting adversity or seeking comfort. Kipling is much derided, but his oft-quoted poem “If” has inspired generations with its tribute to character and endurance, to the will to “watch the things you gave your life to broken” and then to build them up again “with wornout tools.” Or consider the gut punch of Sarah Cleghorn’s “The Golf Links Lie So Near the Mill”: The golf-links lie so near the mill That nearly every day The laboring children can look out And see the men at play.

John Greenleaf Whittier famously wrote what sounds like a bit of greeting-card verse: “Of all sad words of tongue or pen,/ The saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’”

But isn’t this true? The yearning for what can never be, or can never be again, haunts the poetry we respond to most strongly. T.S. Eliot, in a tacitly confessional moment, ends an essay on Thomas Heywood by quoting two lines from this 17th-century playwright that “no man or woman past their youth can read without a twinge of personal feeling”: “O God! O God! That it were possible/ To undo things done; to call back yesterday.”

Much of the poetry we love most is of this wistful, regret-filled kind, an all-too human hankering that things might be other than they are. A fragment of Archilochus sounds an ancient cri de coeur, “Ah, could I but touch Neoboule’s hand.” Few remember Elizabeth Akers Allen, but all adults recognize the longing she captures in just two lines: “Backward, turn backward, O time in your flight,/ Make me a child again just for tonight.” Wordsworth repeatedly mourns his lost childhood: “That time is past/And all its aching joys/ Are now no more,/And all its dizzy raptures.” The Coleridge of “Kubla Khan” dreams, alas in vain, of renewal, “Could I revive within me/ That symphony and song,” and Tennyson, recalling his youth, lingers over kisses “sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned/ On lips that are for others.”

It’s no accident that Poe could construct an entire poem around a single fateful word: “Nevermore!”

Among the moderns, Yeats, even in old age, feels the tug of hopeless desire: “How can I, that girl standing there,/ My attention fix/ On Roman or on Russian/ Or on Spanish politics?” And even Auden exclaims, “O plunge your hands in water,/ Plunge them in up to the wrist;/Stare, stare in the basin/ And wonder what you’ve missed.” Though obviously expressing existential angst, Auden’s words eerily resemble a cautionary directive from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Indeed, many elegiac poems now convey an unwelcome contemporary resonance. In “Missing Dates,” a haunting villanelle about helpless love and despair, William Empson writes: “Slowly

the poison the whole blood stream fills./ The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.”

While loss, yearning, fear of death and an overwhelming sense of waste are part of the human condition, they can sometimes be faced more easily with the help of poetry. As Burnside writes, poetry “nourishes us, it contributes to our grieving and our healing processes, it gives focus to our loves and to our fears, allowing us to sing them, at the back of our minds, in a deliberate and disciplined transformation of noise into music, of grief into acceptance, of anger at pointless destruction into a determination to save at least something of what remains.”

For modern readers, the poetry I’ve been talking about finds its most quietly powerful iteration in Jane Kenyon’s “Otherwise.” In this poem, Kenyon — diagnosed with a fatal cancer — reviews the simple pleasures of a typical day: getting out of bed and standing on two strong legs, eating breakfast, taking the dog for a walk, doing the work she loves. Throughout, she adds the tocsin-like phrase, “It might have been otherwise.” The poem slowly builds to a heart-rending finish in which the personal merges into the universal: I slept in a bed In a room with paintings On the walls, and Planned another day Just like this day.

But one day, I know, It will be otherwise.

Dirda reviews books each Thursday in Style.

Publisher’s Weekly best-sellers 6. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. Charlie Mackesy. HarperOne 7. Lethal Game. Christine Feehan. Berkley 8. The Night Watchman. Louise Erdrich. Harper 9. The Jetsetters. Amanda Eyre Ward. Ballantine 10. Trace Elements. Donna Leon. Atlantic Monthly

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

4. Unknown Valor. Martha MacCallum. Harper 5. Pearls of Wisdom. Barbara Bush. Twelve 6. The Ultimate Retirement Guide for 50+. Suze Orman. Hay House 7. Food Fix. Mark Hyman. Little, Brown Spark 8. The Hope of Glory. Jon Meacham. Convergent 9. Open Book. Jessica Simpson. Dey Street 10. Upstream. Dan Heath. Avid Reader

1. Find Your Path. Carrie Underwood. Dey Street 2. The Splendid and the Vile. Erik Larson. Crown 3. The MAGA Doctrine. Charlie Kirk. Broadside

1. Window on the Bay. Debbie Macomber. Ballantine

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2. Celtic Empire. Cussler/Cussler. Putnam 3. Liar Liar. Patterson/Fox. Grand Central 4. Long Road to Mercy. David Baldacci. Grand Central 5. Rope Burn. William W. Johnstone. Pinnacle 6. The Backstabbers. William W. Johnstone.

Pinnacle 7. Chasing Cassandra. Lisa Kleypas. Avon 8. Blessing in Disguise. Danielle Steel. Dell 9. Longing for Yesterday. Debbie Macomber. Mira 10. The Cliff House. RaeAnne Thayne. HQN

TRADE PAPERBACK 1. The Hunting Party. Lucy Foley. Morrow 2. Little Fires Everywhere. Celeste Ng. Penguin Books 3. Normal People. Sally Rooney. Hogarth 4. The Inn. Patterson/Fox. Grand Central 5. Unsolved. Patterson/Ellis. Grand Central 6. Don’t Overthink It. Anne Bogel. Baker 7. Lost Roses. Martha Hall Kelly. Ballantine 8. One Good Deed. David Baldacci. Grand Central 9. Summer of ‘69. Elin Hilderbrand. Back Bay 10. Official SAT Study Guide 2020 Edition. College Board

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ATTACK THE ENTRY East-West vulnerable, South deals NORTH ♠K52 ♥9 ♦ A9532 ♣A842 WEST ♠ 10 9 6 ♥ 753 ♦ 10 8 7 6 ♣ 10 5 3

EAST ♠AQJ874 ♥8 ♦ QJ ♣KJ97 SOUTH ♠3 ♥ A K Q J 10 6 4 2 ♦ K4 ♣Q6

The bidding: SOUTH WEST NORTH 1♥ Pass 2♦ 4♥ Pass 5♥* ♥ 6 All pass

EAST 2♠ Pass

*Asking for a second-round spade control

Opening lead: 10 of ♠ South would have passed five hearts with no spade control, and he would have bid something other than six hearts with first-round control in case partner had grand slam ambitions. His six-heart bid showed precisely second

round spade control.

Today’s deal is from the Blue Ribbon Pairs a few years ago. Few players correctly solved the defensive problem that East faced. The opening spade lead was covered by dummy’s king and won by East with the ace. What next?

Nothing could be done if declarer had nine solid hearts and the king of diamonds. Failing that, declarer would need to set up an extra trick from the diamond suit.

Leading another spade would be safe, but a waste of time, as South surely started with a singleton spade.

Better would be for East to shift to the king of clubs, attacking dummy’s ace of clubs entry. That would do the trick nicely unless South had the queen of clubs. Though a nice effort, the problem is that the king of clubs shift attacks the wrong entry. The winning defense is for East to shift to his singleton heart. This knocks out the heart entry to dummy before declarer can use it properly.

On a spade continuation, declarer would ruff and cash the king of diamonds. A diamond to the ace would be followed by a diamond ruff. Declarer would then cross to dummy with the nine of hearts to ruff another diamond.

After drawing trumps, South would lead a club to dummy’s ace and discard his club loser on the established nine of diamonds.

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are something of a chameleon, and you may confuse a great many people as to your origins, for you can be one person in one moment, another in the next and someone else again quite different the next — and it’s anyone’s guess which version of you will be presented to them at any given time. Of course, you know better than anyone that they’re all you, all a part of the whole that you have cultivated — for indeed, you are perhaps more a result of your own intentions and desires than anyone else born under your sign.

You are not always loud, robust and sociable; sometimes you are quiet, meek and quite retiring. You don’t always get what you want by going after it; sometimes you get it by sitting still and letting it come to you.

Also born on this date are: Gary Oldman, actor; Matthew Broderick, actor; Timothy Dalton, actor; Eddie Money, singer; Rosie O’Donnell, actress and talk show host; Modest Mussorgsky, composer; Florenz Ziegfeld, stage producer.

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, MARCH 22 ARIES (March 21-April 19) — If you think it’s time to move on from a certain endeavor or way of being, you have another think coming. It’s actually time to recommit!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You cannot assign portions of your emotional being to this, that or the other. You will feel what you will feel fully, at all times, today.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Your eagerness may be challenged today by someone who is not at all will-

ing to go where you are leading. There may be a parting of ways.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You may want to have a third party nearby today when resolving a longstanding issue between you and a former friend.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Those who were close to you in your “former” life may surprise you today by supporting you wholeheartedly in a new endeavor.

These are true friends!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You can expect things to get a little tricky today, especially if you have to navigate someone’s unrealistic approach to a problem.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Many will be drawn into your orbit today, not because of anything you say or do, but simply because of who you are. This is beneficial.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You will have to trust someone today, so why not start with yourself? You’ll find it’s easier to trust others if you begin at home, as it were.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You may not be eager to show off a certain facet of your rather complex nature, but today there is likely to be no way around it at all.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You must take every opportunity to observe and assess what is going on around you today. You can’t let another’s actions go unnoticed.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Even accidents will be of great import today. The moment someone tells you that something “doesn’t matter,” you know it does!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Experimentation will not only provide you with a great deal of information today, but it can also be quite fun. A partner tells a secret.

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Thinking about changing that flight?

TRAVEL PLANS:

What you need to know about traveling during the coronavirus outbreak

By LAUREN ZUMBACH Chicago Tribune

CHICAGO — Major airlines are relaxing policies around flight change and cancellation fees and stepping up their cleaning efforts as coronavirus continues to spread.

The global travel industry has taken a hit from the novel respiratory virus known as COVID-19, which has killed 11 people in the U.S. and about 3,200 globally. Companies are restricting travel and pulling out of conferences to protect employees, and airlines are canceling flights to a growing number of affected areas.

Here’s what to know if you’re thinking about planning a trip:

SOME AIRLINES ARE WAIVING CHANGE FEES United Airlines is waiving flight change fees for any domestic or international flight purchased through March 31. Passengers who decide to cancel a flight have one year from when they purchased the original ticket to apply its value to a new flight with no fee. No advance notice is required.

American Airlines is waiving change fees on any tickets purchased

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decided to like me.

With the ingredients listed in the name (shrimp, soy, garlic, ginger and lemon), it is not surprising that it has a certain Chinese flair. It is even stirfried, though I have also had considerable success modifying the recipe slightly and cooking it on the grill.

Unlike simpler stir-fries, it requires a three-part procedure to cook. First, you make a marinade with all of the ingredients in the title, and more — sherry, for one. After you marinate the shrimp for an hour, you strain out the marinade and thicken it with a slurry of cornstarch and water to make an amazingly flavorful sauce.

Then comes the stir-frying of the shrimp, with more garlic and ginger, plus red bell pepper. Your house will smell as great as your dinner will taste.

My third dish was another old favorite and a traditional way to prepare fish: en papillote. The phrase means “in paper” or “in parchment,” and it refers to a way of wrapping fish or occasionally chicken in a sealed parchment packet along with vegetables and a splash of liquid, often wine.

You bake the packets in the oven, and the fish gently cooks in the steam that is created inside the packet.

This particular version begins with salmon, which is placed on top of a bed of sauteed carrots and mushrooms.

Dill is placed on top of that — a natural with salmon — and plenty of shallots to provide a mild, earthy onion flavor. The fish was cooked to perfection, and the whole dish from presentation (everyone oohs and

between now and March 16. Passengers must cancel at least 14 days before their flight to avoid the fees.

Delta Air Lines is letting travelers make a one-time change to any international flight booked between March 1 and 31 with no fee. Customers flying to Shanghai or Beijing in China; Seoul, South Korea; and all locations in Italy can make a change at no fee through April 30.

JetBlue was the first to announce broad suspensions of fees for changing or canceling flights. The policy covers flights before June 1, booked between Feb. 27 and March 11.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention currently recommends people avoid nonessential travel to China, Iran, South Korea and Italy, and advises older adults or people with chronic medical conditions to consider postponing travel to Japan.

Data from travel app Hopper suggests people aren’t avoiding travel, but they may be taking trips closer to home. Searches for flights from the U.S. to destinations in Europe and Asia were down roughly 6% and 23%, respectively, during the week ending March 2, compared with the first week of January.

But searches for U.S. destinations grew 6.5% during the same period, suggesting people are shifting their focus to travel in the U.S. and Canada, said Hopper economist Hayley Berg.

TRAVEL INSURANCE OPTIONS

ARE LIMITED If someone cancels a trip because they’re worried about being exposed to an illness, standard trip cancellation policies rarely will cover those losses.

Travelers can upgrade to policies that let them cancel a trip for any reason, but premiums can be 40% greater than those on standard packages, and they often only cover about 75% of the person’s losses.

Cancel-for-any-reason policies must be purchased at the time of booking or shortly thereafter. Some travel insurance providers have stopped offering those policies, but that doesn’t mean travelers are out of luck. One insurance company reported there weren’t many claims because travelers affected by the outbreak were being reimbursed by airlines and other travel suppliers, said Kasara Barto, spokeswoman for travel insurance website Squaremouth.

SOME PLANES ARE GETTING A DEEP CLEAN Airlines say their cleaning routines follow guidelines from health officials.

Planes get cleaned to varying degrees between flights, but Southwest Airlines, United and Delta all said their aircraft get an end-of-day cleaning that includes wiping hard surfaces with disinfectant.

Some are adding extra measures, especially on flights from areas

affected by the outbreak.

United said it is “deep cleaning” any aircraft that carried a passenger later diagnosed with the COVID-19 virus. A deep clean, which normally happens every 50 to 55 days, includes washing ceilings and overhead bins and scrubbing the plane’s interiors, said spokesman Charles Hobart.

Delta began using machines that spray aircraft arriving in the U.S. from Asia with disinfectant in February. The new procedure makes sure the disinfectant reaches more surfaces than hand-wiping the aircraft, said Delta spokeswoman Adrian Gee. Flights from Italy to New York and Atlanta also get the “fogging” treatment, and Delta said it is working to get additional machines to use on planes arriving from more cities outside Asia with reported cases of the coronavirus.

Cutlery, glassware and dishes are being sanitized before they’re washed on Delta flights from Asia to the U.S., and linen and headphones are being cleaned separately from those on flights from other destinations.

FLIGHT ATTENDANTS ARE PROVIDING HAND SANITIZER The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the risk of contracting an infection is low on an airplane but advises travelers to take precautions such as avoiding contact with passengers who appear to be sick, washing hands frequently and

using hand sanitizer.

Delta said it is stocking more hand sanitizer, gloves and surgical masks on flights in and out of Asia and giving customers on long international flights amenity kits with hand sanitizer or cleansing towelettes.

American is stocking extra hand sanitizer wipes at departure gates and in flight attendants’ service kits on flights to and from Asia. It is also allowing flight attendants to wear masks on certain flights if that makes them more comfortable, executives said in a Feb. 28 letter to employees.

Alaska Airlines said flight attendants can wear gloves during food and beverage service. The airline has temporarily stopped refilling used beverage cups, offering hot towels in first class and collecting recycling onboard, to reduce the number of times crew need to handle passenger items.

It also stopped using fingerprint biometric scanners in airport lounges.

Passengers can use antibacterial wipes to clean armrests and tray tables, but Alaska Airlines asked travelers not to use them on its leather seats, since they can damage the leather.

The Association of Flight Attendants, a union representing flight attendants at airlines including United, said it’s been working with airlines to encourage measures designed to prevent the spread of the virus, like making sure all flights are stocked with additional hand sanitizer, said spokeswoman Taylor Garland.

immediately add the watercress, if using. Serve at once over rice or Asian noodles.

ahs when you cut open the packet) to taste was stunning.

My final dish came from a cookbook by Legal Seafood, the popular East Coast chain of seafood restaurants. The book says that the recipe is one of the restaurants’ most popular pasta dishes, which makes sense when you consider the main ingredients: scallops, heavy cream and mushrooms.

Imagine seared scallops served in an exquisite cream of mushroom soup sauce. Now imagine that the sauce gets its low notes from garlic and scallions, and its high from white wine, and it’s all piled atop bowtie pasta.

Yeah. It’s that good.

Recipe from “The FrogCommissary Cookbook” by Steven Poses, Anne Clark and Becky Roller

SCALLOPS AND MUSHROOM BOWTIE PASTA Yield: 4 servings

FRIED CATFISH Yield: 2 to 4 servings Scallops and Mushroom Bowtie Pasta. Hillary Levin/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS)

1 cup milk 1 pound catfish fillets Vegetable oil for frying 1 ½ cups panko bread crumbs or cornmeal 2 tablespoons pepper ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper Salt to taste Lemon wedges 1. Pour the milk into a bowl and let the catfish soak in it while you heat about 1 ½ inches of oil in a large pan to about 375 degrees. Mix the panko or cornmeal in a plastic bag with the peppers and salt.

2. Drain the fillets; then shake them in the panko in the bag. Shake off any excess coating and fry them until golden brown on both sides, a total of about 5 minutes. Drain on paper towels and serve immediately with lemon wedges.

Adapted from “Fish” by Mark Bittman

SALMON WITH FRESH DILL EN PAPILLOTE Yield: 6 servings 5 carrots, peeled and trimmed 3/4 pound large mushrooms 4 tablespoons butter, divided Juice of 1 lemon 3/4 cup scallions cut into 2-inch lengths Salt and pepper ¼ cup chopped fresh dill leaves 2 pounds salmon fillets, cut into 6 equal-size pieces 6 tablespoons chopped shallots 6 tablespoons dry white wine 1. Preheat the oven to 500

GARLIC, GINGER AND LEMON Yield: 4 servings

Salmon with Fresh Dill en Papillote. Hillary Levin/St. Louis PostDispatch/TNS

12 ounces shrimp, shelled but with the tail left on if possible 1 ½ tablespoons soy sauce 1 tablespoon plus 3/4 teaspoon minced fresh ginger, divided 2 tablespoons lemon juice 2 teaspoons minced garlic, divided ¼ teaspoon pepper 1/3 cup water 2 tablespoons medium-dry sherry 2 teaspoons cornstarch 2 tablespoons oil (not olive) ½ cup cubed red bell peppers ½ bunch watercress with bottom 1 inch of the stems cut off, optional Hot cooked rice or Asian noodles

degrees.

2. Spread a large sheet of heavy-duty aluminum foil or parchment paper on a flat surface. Invert a 12-inch round cake pan on the foil and trace around the pan with a sharp knife to make a 12-inch circle. Repeat this until you have 6 circles.

3. Cut the carrots crosswise into 1-inch lengths. Cut each piece lengthwise into matchstick strips.

4. Cut off and discard the stem of each mushroom and cut the cap into thin slices.

5. Heat 2 tablespoons of the butter in a frying pan over medium-high heat. Add the mushrooms and lemon juice. Cook, stirring, for 1 minute. Add the carrots, scallions and salt; then cover and cook 7 to 8 minutes.

Sprinkle the dill on top and stir well. Cover and set aside.

6. Melt the remaining 2 tablespoons of butter in a

small saucepan. Place the foil rounds on a flat surface and brush them with the melted butter. Spoon equal portions of the carrot mixture on each circle slightly below the center, leaving a margin large enough to fold over.

7. Lay a slice of salmon over each mound of vegetables.

Sprinkle each serving with a tablespoon of shallots, a tablespoon of wine and salt and pepper.

8. Fold the foil to completely enclose the contents, while leaving some room for expansion. Crimp the seal as tightly as possible. Arrange the packages on a baking sheet and bake for 8 minutes.

SHRIMP WITH SOY,

1. In a medium bowl, combine the shrimp, soy sauce, 1 tablespoon of the ginger, lemon juice, 1 teaspoon of the garlic, pepper and sherry. Refrigerate for 1 hour. Drain shrimp, retaining the marinade.

2. Mix the water with the cornstarch and the reserved marinade, and stir well to dissolve the cornstarch. In a small saucepan, bring the mixture to a boil and cook, stirring constantly, for 1 minute. Set aside.

3. In a large skillet, heat the oil. Add the shrimp, the remaining 1 teaspoon of garlic and remaining ¾ teaspoon of ginger. Stir fry over high heat for 30 seconds. Add the sweet red peppers and cook, stirring, for another 30 seconds.

Add the sauce and bring to a boil, stirring frequently.

Remove pan from heat and

Salad

down from top to bottom, following the shape of the fruit with your knife. While holding the fruit over a wide bowl, use a paring knife to remove each section of grapefruit from its membranes (this is called supreming the fruit), collecting the sections in the bowl. Squeeze the juice from what’s left of the fruit into the same bowl.

In a large bowl, gently toss the lettuce with the dressing until evenly coated. To serve, place about 1 ½ cups of the dressed lettuce onto each serving plate. Pluck 3 to 4 segments of grapefruit and place them on top of each salad serving (reserve the juice for another use — or drink it) and several slices of the pickled onion. Serve,

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smooth.

Make the salad: Cut the top and bottom off each grapefruit, then, resting the fruit on one end, remove the peel and pith by cutting

Adapted from “The Seafood Cookbook; Classic to Contemporary” by Pierre Franey and Bryan Miller

4 to 6 ounces portobello mushrooms 1 cup heavy cream ¼ cup dry white wine 8 ounces bowtie pasta Vegetable oil (not olive) 1 ½ pounds sea scallops 1 cup chopped scallions, white parts only, or sweet onions 1 tablespoon minced garlic ¼ cup chopped fresh parsley Salt and pepper 1. Remove the stems from the mushrooms and coarsely chop them. Slice the caps and set aside.

2. Place the mushroom stems and the cream in a small, nonreactive saucepan.

Bring the cream to a boil and gently boil for at least 10 minutes or until the cream is reduced by half. Pour in the wine and boil for 2 to 3 minutes longer. Set the mixture aside. This sauce can be kept in the refrigerator for up to 3 days before using.

3. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil, add the pasta and cook until cooked through but still firm, 10 to 15 minutes, depending on the brand.

4. Meanwhile, put enough oil in a very hot pan to film it lightly. Add the scallops and sear lightly on both sides (they will continue to cook as the recipe continues); their surface should be a light, nutty brown. Add the mushroom caps, scallions and garlic.

Cook over medium heat for 2 minutes or until the mushrooms are barely cooked through. Stir in the reserved mushroom sauce and reheat gently.

5. Drain the pasta thoroughly and mix with the scallop mixture. Sprinkle with the parsley. Season liberally with salt and pepper to taste.

Adapted from “The New Legal Sea Foods Cookbook”

by Roger Berkowitz and Jane Doerfer grinding more black pepper, to taste.

Nutrition | Calories: 90; Total Fat: 5 g; Saturated Fat: 1 g; Cholesterol: 0 mg; Sodium: 100 mg; Carbohydrates: 11 g; Dietary Fiber: 4 g; Sugars: 7 g; Protein: 2 g.

From nutritionist and cookbook author Ellie Krieger.