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How will pivotal season go? Who knows?

We’ve expanded our Sunday paper to give you more of the coverage you’ve asked for. + About Us: Kathrine Nero on why Cincinnati is a city of fi rsts. 5A + Our History: Jeff Suess tells us about the city’s fi rst NFL team. 5A + Welcome: Doodles is now part of The Enquirer comics lineup. + Sunday Forum: Your letters to the editor. 4D

Big change coming to Cincinnati parishes

Paul Daugherty Columnist Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

The Bengals Verge Season is here. They’re somewhere between promising and predictably disappointing, hugely fun and barely functional.

They’re the team on the high wire, ready to amaze you, one way or another. Not quite good enough to be talking playoff s, not quite bad enough to be partnered with Jacksonville and Houston. On the verge.

With apologies to my bud John Feinstein, this is the real Season On The Brink. But on the brink of what?

One thing is certain: It’s the most important season on the riverfront in a very long time, maybe forever. So much is riding on this season, and the tone it sets. Saint Joe Burrow is poised to be savior, and his rebuilt knee provides a perfect foundation (and metaphor) for the Bengals’ franchise.

If you can tell me how saint, savior and knee will handle the challenge of 2021, I can tell you how the Bengals will do. It really is that simple.

They drafted a wide receiver fi rst, at his request. They let him play a meaningless series of downs, in a meaningless game, at his request. They know he is them, lock, stock and future. The

Archdiocese lists lower attendance as problem Dan Horn Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

By this time next year, religious life will change in some way for almost every Catholic priest, parishioner and student in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.

Parishes that have stood on their own for decades or longer will be grouped into “families” overseen by a single pastor. Those new parish families will then revise Mass schedules and locations, combine church programs and activities, and make tough decisions about the future of Catholic schools with declining enrollment.

No fi nal decisions have been made about what, exactly, the archdiocese will look like a year from now. But planning for the reorganization, known as “Beacons of Light,” has been underway for months and promises to bring dramatic change.

Church offi cials declined to discuss their plans until the fi rst draft of the overhaul is released this fall, which also is when rank-and-fi le Catholics will get their chance to weigh in.

There’s no secret, however, about why the change is coming. Documents on the archdiocese’s website single out reasons such as “declining religious practice,” “demographic changes” and “fewer priests.”

It’s the most important season on the Ohio River in a very long time, writes Paul Daugherty, and the health and production of franchise quarterback Joe Burrow will be paramount to that success.

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CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

YOUR FORECAST The pleasant weekend forecast continues into today, ith dry conditions across the Tristate. Other than a few fair-weather clouds this morning, mild morning lows will climb from the upper 60s into the upper 80s to near 90 degrees this afternoon. There will be plenty of sunshine all day. Tonight remains mostly clear, with a low around 68.

Southwest winds will keep the heat around for the first half of the workweek. Highs on Monday and Tuesday will reach into the lower 90s. As the next front approaches, we could see showers and storms develop as early as Tuesday night. – Olga Breese

To reach us, contact reader representative Robin Buchanan at 513-768-8308 or email her at accuracy@ enquirer.com. h The Hops & History event scheduled for Sept. 16 in Hamilton, which is included in a charity events list today on page 3AA, has been canceled.

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FIRST Sept. 13

FULL Sept. 20

(Drawings: Sept. 11) Pick 3 (early): 7 9 8 Pick 4 (early): 7 6 9 1 Pick 5 (early): 6 8 9 9 2 (Drawings: Sept. 10) Pick 3 (late): 9 7 4 Pick 4 (late): 6 1 9 1 Pick 5 (late): 8 9 4 4 4 Rolling Cash 5: 9 15 17 24 31 Classic Lotto: Saturday’s jackpot was an estimated $13.3 million.

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KENTUCKY (Drawings: Sept. 11) Pick 3 (early): 2 9 2 Pick 4 (early): 7 3 9 0 (Drawings: Sept. 10) Pick 3 (late): 0 9 9 Pick 4 (late): 2 0 5 9 Cash Ball: 13 15 22 34, 25

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TEMPERATURE High/low ............................ 80/57 Normal high/low ................ 81/59 Record high .................. 96 (1933) Record low ................... 40 (1993) HUMIDITY High ..................................... 80% Low ...................................... 48% PRECIPITATION Last 24 hours ....................... 0.00” Month to date ..................... 0.89” Normal month to date ......... 1.10” Year to date ....................... 37.25” Normal year to date .......... 32.94”

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EXTREMES

Cincinnati-area director premieres movie at the Garfi eld Theatre

A movie poster for “A Ghost Waits,” directed by Adam Stovall. PROVIDED BY

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THE LOCAL BUZZ

A director and Cincinnati native is returning home for the premiere of his newest movie, fi lmed in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky.

“A Ghost Waits,” the debut fi lm directed by Adam Stovall, will premiere at Downtown’s Garfi eld Theatre at 7 p.m.

Tuesday and Wednesday.

According to Cincinnati World Cinema, the fi lm is “a nontraditional love story with a unique plot line laced with dry humor and requisite ghostly spookiness.

The intent is to emotionally accentuate loneliness, connection and caring – without resorting to the blood and gore devices one encounters with a largely commodifi ed genre.”

It was shot in locations around Cincinnati, Covington and Lakeside Park.

Stovall directed and acted, and the movie also stars MacLeod Andrews, Natalie Walker, Sydney Vollmer and Amanda Miller.

At the screening, Stovall will introduce the fi lm and lead a question-and-

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Sept. 12. On this date: 1966: “The Monkees” debuted on NBC-TV; “Family Affair” premiered on CBS. 1987: Reports surfaced that Democratic presidential candidate Joseph Biden had borrowed, without attribution, passages of a speech by British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock for one of his own campaign speeches.

(The Kinnock report, along with other damaging revelations, prompted Biden to drop his White House bid.)

1994: A stolen, single-engine Cessna crashed into the South Lawn of the White House, coming to rest against the executive mansion; the pilot, Frank Corder, was killed.

2001: Stunned rescue workers continued to search for bodies in the World Trade Center’s smoking rubble a day after a terrorist attack that shut down the financial capital, badly damaged the Pentagon and left thousands dead. President George W. Bush, branding the attacks in New York and Washington “acts of war,” spoke of “a monumental struggle of good versus evil” and said that “good will prevail.”

2012: The U.S. dispatched an elite group of Marines to Tripoli, Libya, after the mob attack in Benghazi that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. President Barack Obama strongly condemned the violence, and vowed to bring the killers to justice; Republican challenger Mitt Romney accused the administration of showing weakness in the face of tumultuous events in the Middle East.

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How UC’s Big 12 team eff ort extended well beyond campus Politics Extra Jason Williams Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

The Bearcats did their part on the football fi eld to warrant an invite to the Big 12 Conference on Friday. But there was also a strong team eff ort off the fi eld leading up to one of the most monumental days in the University of Cincinnati’s 202-year history.

Top local and state business, political and sports leaders publicly and privately advocated for UC to get into a power conference, a collaborative effort that school President Neville Pinto acknowledged.

“UC is truly blessed to have great partners across our city and state,” Pinto said. “They fully embraced our goal of competing at the highest level. Having them believe in us and our push for Power 5 status made all the diff erence.

On behalf of all Bearcats, I want to thank them for their unwavering dedication and support. This invitation would not have happened without them.”

Pinto, who’s led the university since early 2017, also thanked past UC presidents, trustees and other campus leaders. He specifi cally mentioned late President Joseph Steger, “who set this campus-wide transformation into motion,” Pinto said.

Steger, who died in 2013, was UC’s top leader from 1984 to 2003. He led the eff ort to help UC shed its long-held reputation as a “commuter school,” and understood how athletics could play a role in recruiting students nationwide.

Steger’s is the only name that Pinto specifi cally mentioned.

“This is their day,” Pinto said of UC leaders past and present.

It speaks to Pinto’s humble leadership style that he’s giving others the credit for what will end up being the crowing achievement of his presidency.

As for the off -campus leaders who helped, much of their work was done in 2016 when the Big 12 considered inviting UC. The conference decided not to expand then, but those eff orts helped make a lasting impression on Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer, ex-Gov. John Kasich and other prominent state and local leaders helped lay the groundwork for Friday’s announcement.

Meyer, a UC alum, spoke out publicly on the Bearcats’ behalf when he was Ohio State’s coach in August 2016.

“I’m a graduate and a fan,” Meyer, now coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, said then. “I think they should be in the Big 12.”

A few weeks before Meyer said that, then-Gov. Kasich sent a letter to Bowlsby asking him to invite UC into the conference. It was a rare time during Kasich’s two terms that he put aside his bias toward helping central and northeast Ohio and went to bat for UC and Cincinnati.

Prominent local UC alums such as

Western & Southern CEO John Barrett and FC Cincinnati owner Carl Lindner III are among several top business leaders who off ered to help make calls in recent years.

Business leaders see how the move goes beyond sports. It raises Cincinnati’s profi le nationally. The impact of increased national brand awareness is diffi cult to measure. But it should help UC attract more applicants, create a more competitive selection process and in turn lead to a stronger pool of qualifi ed graduates for hometown companies to hire.

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Another Driehaus is giving politics a go.

Dan Driehaus, of Cincinnati’s famed Democratic family, is running for one of seven seats on Wyoming City Council.

The 49-year-old insurance executive is the youngest of Clare and the late Don Driehaus’ eight children.

Dan never intended to follow in the footsteps of his father (former Hamilton County Democratic Party chairman), sister (Denise, current county commissioner) or brother (Steve, former congressman), but a couple of friends from Wyoming talked him into running.

I’ve gotten to know Dan since he and his family moved to Wyoming two years ago. Besides being a genuinely nice guy, he has a similar approach to government and politics as his siblings – thoughtful, pragmatic, civil and a good-government advocate.

“Dan has a heart for public service,” Denise told me. “He’s found a way to give back to his community no matter where he’s lived.”

Before moving to Wyoming, Dan lived in Hyde Park and served on the city of Cincinnati’s planning commission. He wants to make sure Wyoming continues to have responsible zoning laws. When Dan broke the news to his mom and siblings in July, he assured them that he’d keep with a long-standing family tradition of using purple and fl orescent yellow yard signs.

Dan could end up being Wyoming’s next mayor, given his family’s wellknown and respected name. Several incumbents also aren’t seeking reelection, and the top vote-getter becomes the mayor. By the way, Denise has swept the fi ve Wyoming precincts in both of her commissioner races.

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Cincinnati a city of fi rsts for many things About Us Kathrine Nero Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Sometimes we hear things so frequently that we forget their importance, or take them at face value and leave it there. Cincinnatians have hung their caps for years on the fact that the Reds are the oldest professional baseball team, established in 1869.

It’s given us a bit of a chip on our collective shoulder, not to mention a universal sneer toward those teams that now start “before” Opening Day. Because those of us who call this area home can agree: baseball starts – when it starts in Cincinnati.

But the beginnings of baseball got me thinking: how many other things started here? What other history has been made? The Reds may be the most famous fi rst, but there are plenty more.

The team actually had a couple more fi rsts: including the fi rst night game (1935) and the fi rst televised game (1939, against the Brooklyn Dodgers). It also featured one of Cincinnati’s iconic products, P&G’s Ivory soap, as one of the fi rst ever televised commercials.

And as they said in many a commercial from my youth, “But wait! There’s more!”

Just a year after the Cincinnati Red Stockings took the fi eld for the fi rst time, the University of Cincinnati was established – the second oldest municipal university in the U.S. In 1906, UC had a fi rst of its own: It established the fi rst co-operative education program in the world, allowing students to do a school-work rotation during their undergraduate years.

Gibson Greeting Cards put Cincinnati on the map as the fi rst city to pub-

Photo from “Cincinnati: An Illustrated Timeline.” The 1869 Red Stockings went 57–0. PROVIDED

lish greeting cards in 1850. I’m assuming there’s a card for that.

Cincinnati’s Rookwood Pottery was the fi rst manufacturing operation operated by a woman, Maria Longworth Nichols Storer.

The city also boasts the fi rst professional fi re department in 1853. Those fi refi ghters were also the fi rst to use steam fi re engines.

Cincinnati owns two train-related fi rsts: It’s the fi rst city to build and own its own major railroad, in 1880. Just 15 years prior, it was also the site of the fi rst American train robbery.

We can lay claim to the Boy Scouts of America, founded here in 1905, the Filet-O-Fish in 1963, and the fi rst concrete skyscraper, the Ingalls Building, in 1903. Sixteen stories may not seem like a lot now, but it broke records in the early 20th century.

Medically, Cincinnati has rewritten history. The fi rst Jewish hospital in the country was established here in 1850, in a combination eff ort to both treat Cincinnatians suff ering from the cholera epidemic and to provide jobs to Jewish doctors who had trouble fi nding employment elsewhere. The fi rst heart-lung machine was invented by doctors at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in 1952, making it possible for the fi rst time to do openheart surgery. Long before both of those innovations, in 1865, the fi rst ambulance service also happened right here in Cincinnati.

What can we say? Cincinnati’s been home to trendsetters for years. We’ll be on the lookout for a Gibson Greetings thank you card from the rest of the country. Maybe even by airmail, which was – you guessed it – invented here in 1835.

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Meet the Celts, Cincinnati’s fi rst NFL team Our History Jeff Suess Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Last year was the 100th anniversary of the National Football League, founded in 1920. This year marks the centennial of Cincinnati’s fi rst NFL team – the Cincinnati Celts.

If you haven’t heard of the Celts, that’s probably because the team played only four games in 1921, fi nishing with a 1-3 record in their lone season in the league.

The Celts, pronounced with a hard “C,” had been around for a while. The Celts Athletic Club in Cincinnati had fi elded amateur and semi-professional teams for baseball, football and track since 1907.

The Cincinnati eleven (which was a term used at the time to mean “football team,” a reference to the 11 players fi elded by each team) was well respected throughout Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, which was the cradle of football at the time.

Knowing the rules The Celts played in an unoffi cial Ohio league along with the Canton Bulldogs, Dayton Triangles and Massillon Tigers.

Players were mostly former college stars from the region. George Roudebush called them “a bunch of wild Irishmen.”

Roudebush joined the Celts as the quarterback in 1915. Football was a different game then, with some players, but not all, wearing leather helmets, and passing the ball was almost never done.

Until Roudebush helped change the game.

In 1912, the year before Knute Rockne at Notre Dame popularized the forward pass, Roudebush made a splash throwing the ball for the Big Red at Denison University in Granville, Ohio.

Prior to that season, forward passes had to be thrown fi ve yards behind the line of scrimmage and could travel no more than 20 yards. A new rule allowed the ball to be passed any distance. The team persuaded the coach to let Roudebush throw the ball.

He had a good arm, developed from “throwing stones and corncobs at the hogs and chickens” on his family’s farm in Newtonsville, according to Denison Magazine. The week before they imple-

An ad for a football game between the Cincinnati Celts and the Rock Island Independents in 1919. PROVIDED

mented the pass, the Big Red were held to a 3-3 tie. The next week with Roudebush passing, they won 60-3.

Roudebush served in France during World War I, then returned to Ohio and played for the Dayton Flyers in the fi rst two seasons of the NFL. He worked for a law fi rm in Cleveland during the week, then hopped a train to play the Sunday game, changing into his uniform on board.

“We did it for the money,” he said in a 1988 interview.

Roudebush’s fondest football memory was the biggest game in Cincinnati Celts history.

On Oct. 29, 1916, the Celts faced the mighty Pine Village, Indiana, team that had gone undefeated for an unbelievable 13 seasons.

Late in the game, the Celts punted and Roudebush used an obscure rule no longer on the books that any player that lined up behind the kicker was eligible to recover the kick as a free ball.

As the ball bounced on the turf, the Pine Village players backed away from it while Roudebush raced down fi eld and pounced on the ball in the end zone for a touchdown. The Celts won, 9-6.

Coach Greasy Neale Cincinnati Reds outfi elder Earle “Greasy” Neale also played and coached football after the baseball season was over.

In 1919, two weeks after Neale and the Reds won the World Series, Neale stepped in to coach the semi-pro Celts and play halfback.

The previous season, Neale had led the Dayton Triangles to the Ohio league championship. He also played with the legendary Jim Thorpe on the Canton Bulldogs and Massillon Tigers.

As a halfback, Neale had a penchant for evading tacklers, so folks started likening him to a greased pig, which was the origin of his nickname.

Neale went on to coach the Philadelphia Eagles from 1941 to 1950, leading them to back-to-back NFL championships in 1948 and ’49. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1969.

(Neale joins Thorpe and Deion Sanders as one-time Cincinnati Reds in the football hall of fame.)

Joining the APFA In 1920, several Midwest teams banded together to form the American Professional Football Association (which was renamed the National Football League in 1922), but the Celts were not invited for the inaugural season.

The teams arranged their own schedules and were allowed to play opponents outside the league. In an unoffi cial game, the Celts held the Akron Pros — the team that would win the fi rst APFA champion title – to two touchdowns, yet

failed to make a fi rst down.

The Celts were one of 21 teams in the APFA’s 1921 season. They were a traveling team with no home fi eld. Cincinnati was led by coach Mel Doherty, who also played center.

The Celts’ fi rst game, on Oct. 2, was a 41-0 loss to the Akron Pros. The business manager of the Canton Bulldogs canceled his team’s game against the Celts the next week, opting for a more competitive opponent.

The team’s only victory came against the Muncie Flyers, 14-0. Quarterback George Munns, who was a standout at Miami University, was the star of the game, tossing touchdown passes to Tom Melvin and Earl Hauser and kicking one of the extra points. Those were the only points the Celts scored in the APFA. They did win two non-league games, beating the Fort Wayne Pros, 13-0, and the Middletown Miamis, 21-14. They dropped the fi nal game of the season on Nov. 27, a 48-0 drubbing by the Evansville Crimson Giants.

The Celts were outscored 117-14 in the games that counted and fi nished in 13th place.

The team withdrew from the league at the end of the season, though they continued as a semi-pro team until 1923.

This one belongs to the Reds The Celts’ one season is not the worst in NFL history. Eight teams fi nished behind them in the standings. But the league wasn’t really regulated and teams played diff erent numbers of games, so not all of the early statistics are offi cially recognized.

The record for the lowest scoring team in NFL history belongs to the Cincinnati Reds.

The Cincinnati Reds football team joined the NFL in 1933 and set new lows for futility. The Reds scored 38 points in 10 games, a tie with the 1942 Detroit Lions. In 1934, the team scored 10 points in eight games before being suspended for not paying league fees. The Reds and their replacements, the St. Louis Gunners, combined for 37 points for the whole season.

Of the 18 games in franchise history, the Reds football team was shut out 12 times.

Sources: Enquirer and other newspaper archives, The Coffi n Corner magazine, “Before the Bengals: Early Professional Football in Cincinnati,” Wikipedia, NFL statistics

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A Hamilton County judge wants families who have loved ones with addiction to know there is a new avenue available to them in his court to get them treatment.

Ohio’s version of Casey’s Law, a civil involuntary treatment option, has been updated. It requires a Probate Court order, and Judge Ralph Winkler said Thursday he’s ready to get started considering cases – and helping people get the treatment they need.

“I don’t like that it’s called involuntary treatment,” Winkler said at a news conference in his courtroom. “My hope is that once people start using the law, it will become cooperative with the people who need the help.”

Ohio’s Casey’s Law is similar to the Matthew Casey Wethington Act for Substance Abuse Intervention, enacted in 2004 in Kentucky.

Grieving mother Charlotte Wethington of Kenton County advocated for the law, asking the Kentucky General Assembly to let families petition the court for a civil order for their loved ones to get addiction treatment. Her son, Casey, died from an overdose in 2002 at the age of 23. His mother had tried to get him treatment but was refused because Casey was not willing to go into treatment himself.

Wethington told Winkler, “Those who suff er from this disease are worthy.”

She noted that many who refused treatment and were ordered to get it through Casey’s Law in Kentucky have said it’s saved their lives.

Some have gone on to use again, and others have remained in recovery.

But the involuntary treatment law is currently under constitutional review in the Kentucky Supreme Court.

The original Ohio version of Casey’s Law went into eff ect in 2012, but it was rarely used. Treatment advocates who looked into why learned that it was diffi cult to access and expensive for families. Newtown Police Chief Tom Synan, a vocal advocate for treatment for those with addiction rather than jail and prosecution, stepped forward to lead a committee in the Hamilton County Addiction Response Coalition to fi x the law fi ve years ago.

“I’m hoping that this becomes a tool that transitions addiction out of the criminal justice system and into the medical-mental health treatment system,” said Synan.

Winkler said his court got few petitions from families in its original form and he wants people to know that the new rules make it more user-friendly.

“There were too many hoops to jump through,” Winkler said. Changes to the law, which went into eff ect in April 2021, include these: h Families aren’t required to put up half the cost of treatment upfront. h There is no fi ling fee. h No proof of insurance or coverage for half the cost of treatment is required upfront. h Those seeking the intervention do not have to have their loved one get a physical examination fi rst.

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Judge Ralph Winkler wants families who have loved ones with addiction to know there is a new avenue for help.

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Getting a COVID-19 test is as simple as checking out a library book.

The Ohio Department of Health announced in February a program to provide Ohio’s 251 public libraries the rapid tests at no cost to customers.

What began then as a few dozen participating libraries has grown to 246. So far, more than 160,000 tests have been provided to libraries. During August, more than 53,000 self-administered tests were given out statewide.

“As the delta variant spreads across the state and our students and teachers head back to school, there has been renewed interest in testing for COVID-19,” Gov. Mike DeWine said in a news release. “These tests – and Ohio’s amazing network of public libraries – make it

easier than ever for Ohioans to get tested and to ensure that we are limiting the spread of the delta variant.”

The Abbott BinaxNOW Home Test is is packaged with a telehealth session to oversee test administration and result reporting. The at-home tests are painless and quick.

Those who test themselves will fi rst need to create an account using the NAVICA smartphone app or at www.mynavica.abbott. Once created, they administer the test by going to ohio.emed.com.

Libraries are the perfect distribution source, said Michelle Francis, executive director of the Ohio Library Council.

“Our mission is to be a community resource and providing these tests is a great fi t,” she said. “Just about everyone knows where their local library is and it’s a trusted and welcoming place.

Tyler Kreutzkamp helps hold a banner with Charlotte Wethington, who lost her son, Casey, to a heroin overdose.

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come to the probate court offi ce and ask Winkler’s staff to give them and help them get through the paperwork for a petition.

Then, with the help of an addiction expert, Winkler will consider evidence of the need for treatment. That evidence may be that the person’s in danger of harming himself or others or that they’ve had an overdose that required medical treatment to reverse.

Hamilton County Commissioner Denise Driehaus said the county addiction response coalition has been working to build ways for people with substance use disorder to get help and said Casey’s Law “is just one more step to break down one of those barriers for the public.”

Synan said he gets calls frequently – even as recently as last week – from parents of those who are suff ering from addiction who want to know what more they can do to help their adult children. “People are at the end of their rope,” Synan said. “They’re convinced their loved one is going to die and, unfortunately, we know that happens.”

Winkler said he wants to take part in saving lives with Casey’s Law. He said that if someone’s family petitions the court while the individual is hospitalized, even that won’t prevent him from quickly holding a hearing (as long as his court is not overwhelmed with cases). “I’d be willing to go to the hospital to hold a hearing ... and talk to them,” Winkler said.

And Winkler noted that he hopes to lean toward ordering intensive outpatient care for people who come before him so that they are not committed to a residential treatment center.

Asked about whether incarceration of someone who violated his order – leaving treatment – will be an option, Winkler said, “It would be such a last ditch eff ort to save someone’s life” before he would have them jailed for contempt of a civil order.

“This is a no-judgment zone,” Winkler said. “You won’t get a conviction from me, you’ll get help.”

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Boston Beer Company co-founder and chairman Jim Koch grew up in Cincinnati, the descendant of fi ve generations of beer brewers.

When he set off to Harvard, where we would earn three degrees, it was not his goal to follow in their footsteps.

But in the 1980s when, in his view, big beer companies with poor quality beers had taken over the market, Koch saw the need for a small brewer to make a highquality craft beer.

As Koch’s company once again sponsors Oktoberfest Zinzinnati and he prepares to tap a ceremonial keg during the four-day event that kicks off Sept. 16, he told The Enquirer’s “That’s So Cincinnati” podcast how Samuel Adams was born in his father’s Mount Lookout attic.

It was the early 1980s, perhaps 1983, when he was visiting his parents in Cincinnati and told his dad he planned to leave a lucrative consulting job to start a craft brewery, he recalled. His father had left the beer business long ago as Cincinnati breweries closed up shop, costing him job after job.

“He didn’t think making beer was a great career decision for me,” Koch said.

“I think he told me it was the dumbest thing he’d ever heard come out of my mouth.”

Koch made his case, arguing he wasn’t going to try and compete with the big beer guys.

Koch wanted to start a small-scale brewery to make small batches of highquality, handcrafted beer that he would sell for a signifi cant price premium over the mass-produced beers that were popular at the time.

“He kind of came around and he said, ‘Well, you know, you’re going to need a great beer. You’re not going to be able to do this without something really special,”” Koch said.

The senior Koch guided his son to the attic, where there was a trunk covered in stacks of old car magazines.

It was fi lled with brew notes from his father’s time as a brewmaster and from

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when he went to brewery school. Underneath was a recipe scrawled in pencil on yellow paper for Louis Koch Lager, which was the fl agship beer of Koch’s great-great grandfather’s St. Louis brewery.

It was a rich, fl avorful, traditional, German beer that he made from 1860 until 1900.

“That recipe was the magic of Sam Adams,” Koch said.

In his kitchen in Boston, where he still lives, Koch made Sam Adams just as the recipe spelled out. No tweaking necessary.

The Boston Beer Company was born in April of 1985. Six weeks later Samuel Adams Boston Lager was selected as “The Best Beer in America” in the Great American Beer Festival’s Consumer Preference Poll. The Boston Lager would go on to win “The Best Beer in America” title the following three years, After that the title was retired for more specifi c categories.

Koch said he knew: “I’ve got magic in these bottles.”

Today Boston Beer Company has 2,400 employees and sells various beers, hard ciders, and hard seltzers under the Samuel Adams, Twisted Tea, Truly Hard Seltzer, Angry Orchard, Dogfi sh Head, Angel City, Coney Island and Concrete Beach brand names, doing $2 billion in sales in year.

Open Koch’s fridge and it’s still Sam Adams you would fi nd there. It’s still his favorite.

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Winton Hills is getting temporary speed cushions to see if it slows down traffi c in the area.

These rubber speed cushions will be added between Strand Lane and Craft Street on Winneste Ave. The project is part of a study to test whether the devices will be able to slow down traffi c.

Speed cushions are like speed humps with cutouts so that emergency vehicles, which have a wider wheelbase, can continue driving without slowing down.

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Daugherty Continued from Page 1A

rest of Zac Taylor’s coaching life will be judged by how he does with Joe Burrow.

With Burrow, the Bengals have joined the 21st century. They love you now, fans! Behold our Ring of Honor!

You, too, could be the Ruler of the Jungle for a day, feted pre-game the way Original Bengal Bob Johnson will be this Sunday shortly before kickoff .

“We've got massive, 12-foot-tall cryo-breathing tigers!” notes Elizabeth Blackburn, the team’s director of strategy and engagement. I have no idea what a cryo-breathing tiger is, but it’s bound to strategically engage ladies and gentlemen and kids of all ages!

The Bengals, bless ‘em, are trying.

Feel free to wonder about the timing, i.e. what took them so long. It really doesn’t matter. In the years since Marvin Lewis’ departure, the Bengals have a new roster, a new coach and, evidently, a new attitude.

“A lot of new faces,” noted fi fth-year running back Joe Mixon, who’s a respected veteran all of 25 years old.

“They all bring something positive to the table. I don’t feel like we have anybody that’s here to hurt the team. Everybody that’s here now is buying into what (Taylor) is preaching. We want to win for Zac. We are becoming one. Nobody feels left out around here. We never did that in the past.”

In the preseason, optimism roars like Who-Dey chants. You don’t need to be a natural-born skeptic to nod snarkily at the feelgood. You just need to be a Bengals fan. Cynicism doesn’t happen overnight.

Howevuh ...

The club has some glide in its stride now. That, too, owes to Burrow. And to the likes of Ja’Marr Chase, should he re-learn that the football is not, in fact, radioactive. Off ense does sell tickets.

The opener wasn’t sold out, as of noon Friday. Sellouts have never been more important at PBS. There is the matter of the lease. It’s a boring, killjoy matter, like paying taxes on your Powerball winnings. But there it looms, like afternoon sun on an ice cream cake. The lease expires after the ’26 season. Negotiations on a new one will begin well before that.

Cincinnati quarterback Joe Burrow (9) leads a huddle before the Bengals’ fi rst drive in the fi rst quarter of a preseason game against the Miami Dolphins at Paul Brown Stadium on Aug. 29. The club has some glide in its stride now, writes Paul Daugherty. That, too, owes to Burrow. SAM GREENE/THE ENQUIRER

Bengals running back Joe Mixon cuts around Miami’s Jamal Perry during a preseason game Aug. 29. “We have a right mindset on what we’re going to be,” Mixon said. BRYAN WOOLSTON, AP

Hearts and minds need to be put in order by the end of the ’24 season, a mere three years from now. If the Ben-

gals follow the track they believe they’re on currently, the wins and the playoff shows will follow and, possibly, the taxpayers of the Republic of Cincinnati will be in a charitable mood.

Money will be lavished on the stadium and on The Family. Paul Brown’s baby will stay on the river. Life will be good. If not?

If not? Well, the football team will still have a presumably attractive QB in his prime and likely a choice of cities dying to spend money they don’t have, on an NFL team.

That sure is a major load to put on a guy with a reconstructed knee. But here we are.

Mike Brown has made it plain Taylor’s progress will be judged carefully.

No more “rebuilding the culture” talk.

The culture is now. The off ensive line has (or should have) a boulder on its

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Catholics have been told for months in church bulletins and online updates that the goal of Beacons of Light is to address those problems and make their parishes more stable and vibrant for years to come, but some are wary.

For Catholics, parishes often are the center of social and cultural life, not just religious life. Schools, sports teams, festivals, bingo nights, fi sh fries, Bible study groups and a host of other activities have bound generations of Catholics to their parishes.

Tinkering with that bond is a delicate matter, as church offi cials have learned many times over the years when merging parishes or closing schools. Doing it across all 19 counties of the archdiocese, as Beacons of Light proposes, will be a heavy lift.

“I see it as being a struggle,” said Janie Allen-Blue, a member of Bond Hill’s Church of the Resurrection, which was part of a four-parish merger more than a decade ago. “I’m not trying to be negative, but parishioners didn’t come up with Beacons of Light.”

Mass attendance and enrollment decline Like many Catholics, though, she knows the challenges are real.

Nationally, the number of priests has plummeted from 59,200 to 35,500 over the past 50 years, and the number of parishes has fallen from 18,200 to 16,700, according to Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate.

But the decline isn’t happening uniformly. While new parishes spring up in booming areas such as Atlanta and Dallas, places such as Detroit, Pittsburgh and Chicago have seen Catholics either leave town or abandon neighborhood parishes for the suburbs. As that happened, church offi cials have tried to adapt, often with structural reorganizations like Beacons of Light.

“It’s very common,” said the Rev. Thomas Gaunt, the Georgetown center’s director. “There’s not one way to do this.”

A 177-page report produced this year for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati spelled out what the church here is up against: Mass attendance declined

The exterior of the Church of the Resurrection in Bond Hill in 2011. The Church of the Resurrection was part of a four-parish merger more than a decade ago.

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22.5% between 2010 and 2019, Catholic school enrollment fell 14% over the same period, and the number of priests, which has been tumbling for decades, was projected to drop another 18% by 2031.

Those trends began before the COVID-19 pandemic delivered another body blow to church attendance and forced the cancellation of popular fundraising events, such as festivals.

They also came as the region’s demographics continued to shift unfavorably for the archdiocese. The Catholic population here is getting older – baptisms declined 19% in the past decade – and the Catholic share of the population fell from 14.2% to 11.9%.

The report, which church offi cials will use to guide their work on Beacons of Light, does not make specifi c recommendations about how to group the archdiocese’s 211 parishes or whether to close any of its 110 schools. But it does provide a glimpse into the future.

It suggests the archdiocese may not be able to support more than 60 to 65 pastor assignments a decade from now, which, based on the number of parishes today, could leave one priest for every 3.5 parishes.

By 2031, the report predicts, a pastor who serves only one parish “will be an anomaly.”

The archdiocese still has 153 priests, but the report estimates the total will

drop to 125 over the next decade. And because half the priests today are over 60, many may be retired or unable to run a parish on their own by 2031.

The report also warns that some Catholic schools, like some parishes, were built decades ago and are no longer located where large numbers of Catholics live, which makes it diffi cult to maintain and grow enrollment.

The coming changes to parishes, therefore, will also mean changes at schools, some of which are increasingly dependent on millions of dollars from Ohio’s Ed Choice vouchers and administrative cost reimbursements from state taxpayers.

“School structure will be impacted by parish structural changes,” the report states.

Will parishes and schools close?

According to Beacons of Light planning documents, this restructuring will be more sweeping than anything the archdiocese has done in decades, if not longer.

Does that mean parishes will close?

Details the archdiocese has provided so far don’t come out and say that, but closings are implied.

Those documents, which are available on the archdiocese website, describe the fi rst step as fi guring out new Mass schedules and bringing together

collective shoulder, given all the doubts tossed its way. Too bad boulders can’t pass-block. They’re just too slow.

The defense promises a better pass rush and is improved by a few newcomers, most notably slot corner Mike Hilton. Hilton came over from Pittsburgh, where winning is familiar and losing is traitorous. On Thursday, Hilton noted that last year playing against the Bengals, “It seemed like they was (just) trying to get through.” Hilton also noted that this season “the energy is high.”

Well, good.

Back to Mixon. “We had a lot of older guys when I fi rst got here. It’s a lot different now. Diff erent coaches, diff erent players. We have a right mindset on what we’re going to be and what we’re going to do. We’re on the right track.”

Fantastic. Almost as exciting as cryo-breathing tigers.

parish councils and staff . Later, though, the plan is to turn the new families of parishes into something other than a loose association overseen by the same pastor.

The goal is to eventually unite those parishes into a single parish.

“The pace at which parishes join together within the families will be variable and determined by the readiness of the parishes to move forward,” church offi cials explain on the website.

Gaunt said it’s a critical time for the archdiocese and for Archbishop Dennis Schnurr. It’s never easy, he said, to adapt to a changing world while respecting the attachment so many Catholics have to their parishes and schools.

“There’s familial, strong ties to this given church building at this location,” Gaunt said. “One has to address that with great sensitivity because it holds such meaning in families’ lives.”

Allen-Blue knows from experience how diffi cult that task can be. She had attended St Mark’s in Evanston before it merged with three other parishes to create Resurrection.

At the time, she argued against the change.

“When there’s a merger, it’s a loss,” she said. “It took some time.”

Eventually, though, she adapted. She joined the new parish’s fi nance council, became a catechism teacher and, more than 10 years later, still attends Mass at Resurrection.

She said she’s not sure what to expect from Beacons of Light, since everyone still is waiting for details about what it means for their parishes and schools.

But she said people will be more likely to embrace the changes if they feel they’re part of the decision-making process, so she’s anxious to see what the archdiocese announces next month and how open church offi cials will be to the views of parishioners.

“No one likes for anyone to say this is how it’s going to be and that’s it,” AllenBlue said. “It’s important to have input before the fact.”

If the archdiocese sticks to its timeline for Beacons of Light, Allen-Blue and the region’s other half-million Catholics should know by next spring how much say they had in the future of their parishes and schools.

That’s when church offi cials intend to approve the families of parishes structure and assign pastors to lead them.

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Analyst: 30-year sentence appears fair

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WAVERLY, Ohio – Angela Wagner walked calmly into the Pike County Courthouse. Flanked by her attorneys, she sat at a table, crossed her legs and sat nearly motionless for more than an hour as a judge read aloud an array of charges and details of a cold, calculated murder fi ve years ago.

The 50-year-old – who now has admitted helping mastermind the deaths of eight people in one of the highestprofi le investigations in Ohio history – pleaded guilty Friday to a variety of 14 lesser charges and agreed to a 30-year mandatory prison sentence related to the murders of eight members of the Rhoden family.

By doing so, prosecutors in the case agreed to drop the most serious charges of aggravated murder. Instead, she will be 80 years old when she might be released.

A gallery of about 30 people, several of them friends and relatives of the Rhoden family, stared at Wagner, some wiping their eyes and bowing their heads.

Wagner repeatedly answered, “Yes, your honor,” “No, your honor” and “I plead guilty, your honor” to questions related to each charge.

She showed no emotion and avoided even a glance at the gallery.

Special prosecutor Angela Canepa said that a statement proff ered by Wagner will help in the remaining cases. The statement is consistent with that her son, Edward “Jake” Wagner, already provided, she said.

“The defendant had the methods, admitted to committing the off enses with her family members,” and either directly carried them out or was complicit in doing so.”

Rhoden relatives gathered outside after the hearing, consoling one another. One woman glared at Wagner from her car as Wagner exited the courthouse.

“I see a woman with no sympathy, no remorse,” she said, commenting on the sentence. “She’s getting 30 years more than what our family gets.”

By not entering the plea, Wagner could have faced more than 110 years in prison and a fi ne of $165,000, Pike County Common Pleas Judge Randy Deering told her.

Among the more-serious charges she pleaded to: complicity to commit aggravated murder, aggravated burglary and engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, each fi rst-degree felonies punishable by up to 11 years in prison and a $20,000 fi ne.

Deering read details, including how Wagner obtained ammunition and gun silencers, forged child-custody documents, broke into computer accounts of the victims, broke into their homes and moved bodies once they had been shot.

Her son Edward “Jake” Wagner previously changed his plea to guilty on April 22, fi ve years to the day after the

With Angela Wagner’s guilty pleas to multiple counts, two of four family members charged in the executionstyle killings of seven members of another family and an eighth person now have been convicted.

Both Wagner, 50, and her son, Edward “Jake” Wagner, agreed to specifi c sentences as part of their plea deals.

They also agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.

Angela Wagner, who pleaded guilty to charges including conspiracy to commit aggravated murder in a case that dates back to 2016, has agreed to serve 30 years in prison without the possibility of parole or early release.

Mike Allen, Hamilton County’s former prosecutor, told The Enquirer that a 30-year sentence appears to be fair.

“It doesn’t appear that her involvement was as severe as the rest of them,” Allen said, adding that he doesn’t know what evidence prosecutors have.

Jake Wagner has agreed to serve eight consecutive life prison terms without the possibility of parole. He had faced the death penalty. He pleaded guilty in April to 23 counts including eight counts of aggravated murder.

He admitted shooting fi ve of the eight victims. It remains unclear who killed the other three.

Allen said Jake Wagner’s guilty plea was unusual because as part of the agreement prosecutors took the “death penalty off the table” for him and his three family members.

Pike County Common Pleas Judge Randy Deering is expected to impose the agreed-upon sentences. Sentencing hearings have yet to be scheduled.

Hearings for the two remaining defendants, Angela Wagner’s husband, George “Billy” Wagner II, and another of their sons, George Wagner IV are set for next week. George Wagner IV is scheduled to appear Monday in Pike County Common Pleas Court. A hearing for Billy Wagner is set for Sept. 16.

Angela Wagner in the courtroom with her attorneys during a hearing Friday at the Pike County Courthouse in Waverly, Ohio. JOSHUA A. BICKEL/COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Killed in the Rhoden family homicides in April 2016 were, top row from left: Christopher Rhoden Jr., Christopher Rhoden Sr., Dana Manley Rhoden and Clarence “Frankie” Rhoden; bottom row, from left, Hanna Rhoden, Hannah Gilley, Kenneth Rhoden and Gary Rhoden. PROVIDED PHOTOS

execution-style slayings. He admitted to killing fi ve members of the Rhoden family in Pike County and pleaded guilty to eight counts of aggravated murder.

In exchange, prosecutors have dropped the possibility of a death penalty against the 28-year-old who implicated others in his family but also saved them a potential death penalty.

By agreeing to cooperate with prosecutors in the cases, two other Wagner family members, also charged in the murders, face similar court appearances as early as next week.

In 2016, eight members of the Rhoden family were shot to death in four homes in three locations in rural Pike County. A frantic family member called with a report of the fi rst slaying at 7:49 a.m. on April 22, 2016, and alerted authorities.

Killed were Dana Manley Rhoden, 37; her ex-husband, Christopher Rhoden Sr., 40; their sons, Christopher Rhoden Jr., 16, and Clarence “Frankie” Rhoden, 20; their daughter, Hanna Rhoden, 19, the mother of Jake Wagner’s daughter; Frankie’s fi ancée, Hannah Gilley, 20; Kenneth Rhoden, 44, a brother to Chris Sr; and Gary Rhoden,

38, a cousin to Kenneth and Chris Sr. Jake Wagner, along with George “Billy” Wagner III; his wife, Angela Wagner; and their other grown son, George Wagner IV, were arrested in 2018. The family, described as clannish, had moved to Alaska after the killings, but had returned to this part of the country and all were from the nearby Scioto County village of South Webster.

All four Wagners were charged with eight counts of aggravated murder.

Other charges included aggravated burglary, tampering with evidence, engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, unauthorized use of property, interception of communications, conspiracy and unlawful possession of a dangerous ordnance.

All were taken into custody in coordinated arrests on Nov. 13, 2018.

Investigators have said the killings were an elaborate and long-planned execution plot to get rid of anyone who might stand in the way of custody and control of Jake Wagner’s child.

All originally pleaded not guilty.

Jake Wagner’s plea agreement took the death penalty off the table for the rest of his family if they are convicted.

Top row from left, George “Billy” Wagner III and Angela Wagner; bottom row from left, George Wagner IV and Edward “Jake” Wagner. PROVIDED BY OHIO ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE

DeWine: Biden ‘made a mistake’ with vaccine order Haley BeMiller State Bureau

COLUMBUS – Gov. Mike DeWine is criticizing President Joe Biden’s sweeping vaccine and testing requirement for large businesses, arguing the order further divides people and politicizes the eff ort to get Americans inoculated.

“I think the president made a mistake,” DeWine said in a radio interview Friday on Cincinnati station WLW-AM (700).

“I don’t think he should’ve done this.

It clouds the issue, and we’re going to now be talking about a federal mandate, which no one likes, instead of talking about, ‘Look, here’s the science.’ “ Biden said a day earlier that his administration will direct employers with 100 or more employees to require their workforce to get vaccinated or face weekly testing for COVID-19. The move comes as the more contagious delta variant drives a new surge of cases and sends unvaccinated Americans into hospitals.

DeWine continues to encourage Ohioans to get vaccinated and opposes

House Bill 248, a controversial bill that would prevent schools, businesses and other institutions from requiring vaccines. But the governor has also said he doesn’t plan to mandate vaccines for state employees or the general public.

Nearly 62% of Ohioans ages 12 and older are vaccinated, according to the Ohio Department of Health. That ranks Ohio No. 38 among states, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.

DeWine’s comments were more measured than that of other Republican governors, including South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who have pledged to fi ght the federal mandate. DeWine said he and Attorney General Dave Yost would talk about “the best way” to deal with Biden’s order.

“Just weeks ago, the Supreme Court reminded President Biden that he cannot ‘act unlawfully even in pursuit of desirable ends,’” Yost spokeswoman Bethany McCorkle said in a statement. “He needs another reminder. President Biden, by ordering employees at private companies to either vaccinate, test

themselves weekly, or quit, is acting unlawfully again and the President knows it.”

Meanwhile, business leaders and Republicans in Congress have painted Biden’s order as unconstitutional and argue the decision to be vaccinated should be left to individuals.

“While our members fi rmly believe the COVID-19 vaccines are both safe and eff ective, we also believe employers should have the autonomy to decide what is best for the health and safety of both their customers and employees,” said Pat Tiberi, president and CEO of the Ohio Business Roundtable. The organization, which represents CEOs of Ohio’s largest companies, also opposes House Bill 248.

Candidates for U.S. Senate went further in their opposition, accusing Biden of tyranny and calling on citizens not to comply with the order.

“Don’t allow yourself to be bullied and controlled,” author and venture capitalist J.D. Vance said in a statement.

“Only mass civil disobedience will save us from Joe Biden’s naked authoritarianism.”

Former state Treasurer Josh Mandel posted a video from a cornfi eld on Twitter and claimed Biden is “creating a constitutional crisis.”

“When the Gestapo show up at your front door, you know what to do,” he said.

James Pasch, a regional director for the Anti-Defamation League that serves Ohio, Kentucky and other neighboring states, said comparing public health orders to Nazi Germany is “beyond the pale” and called on Mandel to apologize.

“Being asked to wear a mask or to take a FDA-approved vaccine in order to stop the spread of a deadly respiratory disease is not equivalent to the actions of the Gestapo in Nazi-era Germany or the systemic annihilation of an entire group of people based on their ethnicity,” Pasch said.

USA TODAY contributed.

Haley BeMiller is a reporter for the USA TODAY Network Ohio Bureau, which serves the Columbus Dispatch, Cincinnati Enquirer, Akron Beacon Journal and 18 other affi liated news organizations across Ohio.

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Loveland leaders work on entertainment district Briana Rice Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Loveland has begun the process of adding to the city's entertainment district.

The update would not be a drinking district with open containers or an extension of the downtown area's Designated Outdoor Refreshment (DORA) District.

It will just increase the number of liquor permits available in a new area that is being called the Community Entertainment District.

City Manager David Kennedy says it will save a new business considerable upfront costs, in a press release.

Trailside Ice Shack is a popular summertime establishment sits across from Nesbit Park on the Little Miami Scenic Trail. LIZ DUFOUR/THE ENQUIRER

“This is a tool that many communities in the State of Ohio are utilizing to help attract new restaurants to the area as

part of larger scale redevelopment of the business corridor,” Kennedy said.

The proposal includes 10 new DFJ permits, or licenses, that will allow 10 new retail food establishments to sell liquor.

The Community Entertainment District will be in the 54-acre area between the intersection of West Loveland Avenue to the Kroger at 800 Loveland-Madeira Road.

Permits will only be available within the boundaries of the Community Entertainment District but all 10 permits will not have to be used.

“This could expand the corridor’s opportunities for dining and entertainment-type businesses,” added Kennedy.

“Think of your average sit-down, family style, chain restaurant nowadays. They

all feature alcohol on their menus. Currently, the cost to get a liquor license may prohibit restaurants like this from coming to Loveland.”

Right now, any new restaurant establishment looking to open its doors with the Loveland-Madeira Road Corridor would face costs of up to $30,000 for a liquor permit. In the Community Entertainment District, the liquor permit will cost the standard state fee of $2,440.

Loveland City council will conduct a hearing on Sept. 28 to allow public comments during the regular council meeting, which starts at 7 p.m. in City Council Chambers, 120 W. Loveland Ave. Contact Briana Rice at 513-568-3496 or brice@enquirer.com. Follow her on Twitter at @BriRiceWrites.

Meet The Enquirer’s team covering local elections Carl Weiser Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

No matter where you live in Ohio, you have an election this November.

You’ll be voting for city, village and township trustees, the governments that control your local public safety forces, roads, and taxes. You’ll be voting for school board members, who are wrestling with decisions about masks and vaccinations, on top of the usual education issues. You’ll be voting on the usual assortments of tax levies, bond issues and charter amendments.

The Enquirer is here to help you make sense of it all. Here’s the team:

Sharon Coolidge If you live in the city of Cincinnati, Coolidge has you covered. She’ll be covering the mayoral race between Aftab Pureval and David Mann, the race for the nine seats on Cincinnati City Council, and a controversial charter amendment that would change Cincinnati’s government in a variety of ways.

Follow her at @SharonCoolidge and reach her at scoolidge@enquirer.com.

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her at mmitchell@enquirer.com.

Wartman, the regional politics reporter, will be helping cover Cincinnati’s elections as well as other races in suburban Hamilton County.

Follow him at @ScottWartman and reach him at swartman@enquirer.com.

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Erin Glynn A Report for America corps member, Glynn covers Butler, Warren and Clermont counties.

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Madeline Mitchell Mitchell covers schools, including local school board elections which this year are attracting more interest - and candidates - than usual.

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You can reach her at klewis@enquirer.com.

Our local political columnist, Williams off ers his opinions on what your elected offi cials are doing from Cincinnati City Hall to Washington, D.C. Follow him at @jwilliamscincy or reach him at jwilliams@enquirer.com.

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A breaking news reporter, Rice will be covering suburban Hamilton County races.

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Aldridge is The Enquirer’s opinion editor. Have an op-ed you want to submit?

Send it to kaldridge@enquirer.com.

Kentucky does not have elections in November.

If you love politics year-round, you may want to join The Enquirer’s Greater Cincinnati Politics Facebook group, where you can talk politics with more than 11,000 members in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky.

Kaitlin Lewis An Enquirer intern, Lewis will be overseeing The Enquirer’s online election guide and helping with coverage of

Weiser oversees the local politics team.

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Will Ohio Republican Party pass on endorsing DeWine’s reelection bid?

Jessie Balmert State Bureau

COLUMBUS – Winning over the Ohio Republican Party shouldn’t be a tall task for Gov. Mike DeWine.

But the state party’s 66-member governing body will meet Friday without considering an endorsement for DeWine, Ohio’s incumbent GOP governor running for reelection in 2022.

Instead, the Ohio Republican Party will consider endorsements for state supreme court contenders. The Ohio GOP could endorse DeWine at a future meeting – their next one is set for December – but some state central committee members frustrated with how the governor handled COVID-19 are trying to block any endorsement.

Strongsville GOP leader Shannon Burns said local Republicans don’t want the state Republican party to endorse in “legitimate primary races,” such as Ohio governor and U.S. Senate.

DeWine faces a primary from former U.S. Rep. Jim Renacci and Canal Winchester farmer Joe Blystone. U.S. Rep. Warren Davidson, of Troy, is also considering a bid.

The U.S. Senate race is an even more crowded primary.

Endorsements have been a divisive topic among Republicans in recent years with some still bristling over the Ohio Republican Party’s endorsement of then-Gov. John Kasich for president in 2016. Kasich lost the GOP primary to then-candidate Donald Trump despite winning one state: Ohio.

Renacci, who sought and won the Ohio GOP’s endorsement for U.S. Senate in 2018, said he doesn’t think anybody should endorse until candidates fi le offi cially and even then it’s up to the voters to make that decision, not the parties.

“I believe the problem is any time the hand of the state central committee goes on top of endorsing somebody, what that does is give that individual additional resources and money and

many Republicans in Ohio think that’s wrong,” Renacci said.

Renacci, who chairs Medina County’s GOP, said the state party should instead focus on supporting candidates to run and helping county party operations across the state.

The divide over DeWine was exacerbated by the Ohio Republican Party’s $500,000 donation to the governor’s reelection campaign. The party also donated money or in-kind services to the remaining GOP state offi ceholders.

Chairman Bob Paduchik explained the sum in an Aug. 11 letter to state central committee members: “ORP has a longstanding tradition of supporting incumbent Republican elected offi cials during their term of offi ce.”

Paduchik also wrote that any decision to endorse 2022 candidates would come from a majority vote of the governing body.

When might that decision come? “I can’t get into internal deliberations about a timeline,” Ohio Republican Party spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said.

Clermont County Republican Party Chairman Greg Simpson said he wants the state party to endorse DeWine for reelection. He said endorsements can help GOP candidates, and DeWine has done a good job under impossible circumstances.

“There’s no road map for what he had to do,” Simpson said.

Mary Ann Christie, a central committee member and former Madeira mayor, said she would prefer for voters choose the primary winner and have the state party back that person.

“There shouldn’t be any endorsements going on,” she said.

USA TODAY Network Ohio bureau chief Jackie Borchardt contributed.

Jessie Balmert is a reporter for the USA TODAY Network Ohio Bureau, which serves the Akron Beacon Journal, Cincinnati Enquirer, Columbus Dispatch and 18 other affi liated news organizations across Ohio.

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US Rep. Davidson calls on president to resign Most GOP lawmakers also critical of Biden Scott Wartman Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

At least one Cincinnati-area Republican lawmaker has joined the chorus of conservatives calling for President Joe Biden’s resignation over the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.

Most Republican lawmakers who represent the region have stopped short of calling for what would be the second presidential resignation in history, opting instead to just criticize the president.

U.S. Rep. Warren Davidson, a Republican whose district covers suburban Butler County just north of Cincinnati, called for Biden’s resignation.

Davidson and his Ohio Republican colleague in the House, Rep. Jim Jordan, accused Biden of leaving Americans behind in Afghanistan. Jordan, R-Urbana, also called on Biden to resign.

When the fi nal American troops left Afghanistan Aug. 31, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said less than 200 U.S. citizens remained in the county, many with dual citizenship in Afghanistan.

Davidson, a Republican from Troy, tweeted after a briefi ng on Aug. 24 that not only should Biden resign, but the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Homeland Security should be fi red.

When asked by The Enquirer why he thinks Afghanistan rises to the level that would require a president to resign, Davidson sent a brief statement.

“He knowingly left American citizens behind in Afghanistan,” Davidson said in the statement. “He and his Secretaries of State and Defense, along with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, need to resign or be fi red.”

He elaborated more on Fox News Radio’s Fox Across America with Jimmy Failla on Aug. 30 that he thinks the withdrawal jeopardizes America’s interests elsewhere.

“There’s no place around the world that this national security team is going to go and have anybody’s confi dence they’re going to advance American na-

tional security interests,” Davidson said. “No one should trust they’re going to make good judgment calls.”

The rest of the Republican delegation in the area hasn’t called on Biden to resign.

Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Westwood Chabot, in a blog post on Aug. 25, said the withdrawal from Afghanistan “may be the worst foreign policy catastrophe in American history.”

But he doesn’t think Biden should resign because that would make Vice President Kamala Harris president.

“And her record thus far on things Biden has tasked her with is anything but impressive,” Chabot wrote.

Chabot ended by suggesting Republicans take back the House and Senate next year and beat Biden and Harris in 2024, then adds “some would say, again.”

Chabot didn’t respond to The Enquirer’s request to clarify what he meant by that and whether he ascribes to debunked conspiracy theories regarding the 2020 presidential election.

Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Columbia Tusculum Wenstrup hasn’t publicly called for Biden to step down. He didn’t respond to messages seeking comment.

Wenstrup, an offi cer in the U.S. Army Reserves, has made public statements condemning the withdrawal and how easily the Taliban regained control of the country.

“I am furious and sickened that the situation on the ground has deteriorated so swiftly that an attack of this magnitude was able to occur,” Wenstrup said in a statement Aug. 26.

Sen. Rob Portman, R-Terrace Park Portman hasn’t called for the president to resign. Instead, Portman, in a statement on Aug. 30, Portman called on the Biden administration to come up with a counter-terrorism plan and a way to vet Afghan refugees “so we can come together as a nation to welcome people who have been screened and who have stood with us in war-torn Afghanistan.”

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“I did not agree with how President Biden chose to withdraw forces from Afghanistan because I believe that any withdrawal should have been based on the conditions on the ground, not on an artifi cial timeline,” Portman said.

Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Cleveland The Enquirer reached out to Brown’s offi ce, who sent a statement saying Brown “is focused on getting resources to vulnerable Afghans and Ohio veterans aff ected by their service in Afghanistan, Iraq, and previous confl icts, not political stunts.

He was just at the Chillicothe VA today meeting with workers and veterans.”

Brown, in August, talked about his concern for Americans on the ground.

“I am extremely concerned about the safety and security of Americans on the ground, as well as Afghans who helped our country over the past two decades.

We must do everything in our power to evacuate them to safety and provide refuge from the unfolding humanitarian crisis.”

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Garrison Two Republican lawmakers who rep-

resent Northern Kentucky for years have called for the U.S. to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, Rep. Thomas Massie and Sen. Rand Paul.

While both have been critical of how Biden handled the withdrawal, neither Massie nor Paul have publicly called for the president to resign over it. Neither responded to The Enquirer’s request for comment.

“Leaving Afghanistan was the right thing to do,” Massie tweeted on August 18. “But one of the ways in which the withdrawal was bungled (due to arrogance of Neocons who thought they had taught Afghan security forces to care), is the breadth and depth of US weaponry that immediately fell into Taliban hands.”

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Bowling Green, Kentucky As recently as Feb. 3, Paul took to Twitter to urge Biden to bring the troops home. He was responding to a report the administration had plans to break the agreement Trump brokered with the Taliban to withdraw troops by May. “This would be a horrible start to @POTUS’s administration. Bring them home!,” Paul tweeted Feb. 3.

In recent stop at the end of August to the Northern Kentucky suburb of Cold Spring, Paul criticized the president for allowing airbases to fall to the Taliban and reports that the administration shared information to the Taliban about evacuees.

“It is an utter disgrace what’s going on over there, it is incompetence on steroids,” Paul said in Cold Spring. “I’ve never seen such incompetence.”

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Louisville In a press conference a week ago in Kentucky, the Senate minority leader said he won’t call for Biden to resign.

“He’s not going to do that,” McConnell said in the press conference. “It’s a Democratic House, Democratic Senate, Democratic President. In a practical matter, he’s not going anywhere. There will be a midterm report card in the fall of ’22 and then in ’24 if he chooses to run again, the American people can decide whether they want more of the same.”

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Ivermectin use for COVID-19 on rise despite warnings Bryce Buyakie Wooster Daily Record USA TODAY NETWORK

The anti-parasitical drug ivermectin is in the news again.

This time, a Butler County judge ruled that West Chester Hospital is not compelled to treat a COVID-19 patient with ivermectin, according to an Enquirer report.

As the courts weighed this recent decision, more people have bought and used the commonly used animal antiparasite drug to treat cases of COVID-19 and taken it as a preventative.

While ivermectin is used to treat parasites, head lice and skin conditions like rosacea in humans, the US Food and Drug Administration cautions against its use for viruses as prescriptions for the drug have increased since the start of the pandemic.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported an average of 88,000 new weekly prescriptions of ivermectin at retail pharmacies from pre-pandemic levels that averaged 3,600 weekly prescriptions – a 24-fold increase.

This spike in prescriptions has led to a three-fold increase in the number of poison control center calls for ivermectin use in humans since the start of January, according to the report.

Because the FDA and CDC have not approved the drug for COVID-19 and have not received an emergency use authorization, the FDA, doctors and veterinarians recommend not using it to treat or prevent COVID-19 infections.

Is ivermectin effective against viruses like COVID-19?

Fred Gingrich, a cattle veterinarian in Ashland, Ohio, and executive director of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners, commonly uses the antiparasitic drug on cattle he treats.

“It’s primarily used to treat parasites in cattle, sheep, swine and horses,” Gingrich said. “There are other formulations that are approved like for heartworm preventatives in dogs and things like that.”

Because he doesn’t treat humans, Gingrich cannot give medical advice, but he said there is no evidence that ivermectin can treat viruses like COVID-19 in cattle.

There have been studies conducted to determine its use in a laboratory setting, but he said these studies need to be replicated to determine the drug’s eff ectiveness.

He also cautioned against taking these studies at face value because they were conducted in labs in controlled situations.

“There’s no evidence that I’m aware of that it has any usefulness for viral infections in cattle,” he said. “It’s pretty much used as a dewormer.”

The FDA is conducting ongoing clinical trials to determine whether ivermectin is eff ective against COVID-19 in humans, but so far, the results show that the drug is ineff ective against the virus.

What makes ivermectin dangerous?

Ivermectin is not a dangerous drug when taken as prescribed and received from a trusted pharmacy.

It only becomes dangerous when too

Equimax containing ivermectin is seen on the self at Tractor Supply in Ashland on Aug. 30. TOM E. PUSKAR/ ASHLAND TIMES-GAZETTE

much is taken at one time or a period of time that is contrary to the dosing instructions given by a physician, according to the CDC. It is also dangerous to take medicine intended for animal use.

“The problem is that because ivermectin is an over-the-counter product and the cattle formulation is an overthe-counter product, there are people that are going to, TSC and farm stores, and purchasing ivermectin and taking it themselves,” Gingrich said.

The product was manufactured for animals that weigh 700 or more pounds, he said, so the concentration diff ers greatly compared to the human variation.

If taken, it could and has made individuals sick while others have been hospitalized, according to the FDA. When the human version is taken more times than prescribed, illness and hospitalization could also occur.

The FDA screens human medicine for potentially toxic inactive ingredients at a higher rate than animal medicine, which means medicine intended for animals includes a greater quantity of such ingredients.

“In some cases, we don’t know how those inactive ingredients will aff ect how ivermectin is absorbed in the human body,” the FDA’s website reads.

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Group challenges Ohio’s stand your ground law Anna Staver State Bureau

COLUMBUS – A national gun control group has joined forces with two Democratic lawmakers on and fi led a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Ohio’s new “stand your ground” law – but not in the way you might think.

The lawsuit, which was fi led in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, doesn’t question whether people should have to retreat before fi ring a gun.

Instead, Everytown For Gun Safety is asking the judge to decide whether Republican lawmakers broke the rules when they added stand your ground onto another bill and passed it without taking public testimony.

“The Ohio Constitution has very strong provisions to make sure our legislators can’t throw in bills close to midnight that haven’t been properly debated,” attorney Rachel Bloomekatz said.

“That’s what was violated here.”

How the bill became law Around 10:30 p.m. on Dec. 17, Republican Rep. Kyle Koehler stood on the fl oor of the Ohio House and asked to add “one simple thing” onto a bill protecting churches and other nonprofi ts from civil suits that might be brought after a shooting on their properties.

Senate Bill 175 had near unanimous support and was expected to sail through the statehouse in the fi nal days of Ohio’s two-year legislative session.

Koehler’s amendment changed all that.

Democrats in both the House and Senate were outraged. Sen. Cecil Thomas, D-Cincinnati, even removed his name as a co-sponsor. But the bill passed on a party-line vote and Gov. Mike DeWine signed it into law in January. The law went into eff ect in April.

Was it legal?

Thomas, Rep. Stephanie Howse, DCleveland, and the Ohio NACCP all say no.

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Koehler’s amendment violated two provisions of the state constitution: h The single-subject rule (Article 2, Section 15D) says “no bill shall contain more than one subject.” h The three-considerations rule (Article 2, Section 15C) requires lawmakers to consider a bill on three diff erent days.

Koehler, who said he’s not an attorney, disagreed.

“I’m not trying to tell anyone they are right or wrong, but I believe it was a single subject,” he said.

SB 175 was about what happens after the “use of force” at churches and other nonprofi ts, and his amendment was about how Ohioans could use deadly force outside of their homes and cars.

“The bill dealt with handgun use, and we amended it with something we handgun use,” Koehler said.

But the lawsuit pointed to testimony from the bill’s original sponsor that seemed to contradict that argument.

“I want to be very clear that Senate Bill 175 does not expand concealed-carry rights or locations. This is not a ‘gun bill,’” Sen. Tim Schaff er, R-Lancaster, said when he testifi ed about his bill in May 2019.

The lawsuit also argues that Republican lawmakers had two separate bills removing the legal duty to retreat that they could have passed during the two-year legislative session.

“Given the well-founded concerns Ohioans have about this policy, it’s no surprise that its backers could only pass it when they shut the public out of the process,” Howse said.

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COLUMBUS – Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and 19 other Republican attorneys general are suing the federal government in an eff ort to overturn anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ and transgender people established under President Joe Biden.

The lawsuit, spearheaded by Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery III, targets an executive order issued by Biden that instructed agencies to ensure their rules prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation. The move reversed action by former President Donald Trump, whose administration said LGBTQ students weren’t protected by federal law.

As a result, the federal Department of Education announced in June that gay and transgender students are protected under Title IX, which bars sex discrimination in schools. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission also outlined guidance that guards LGBTQ employees against discrimination, citing a 2020 Supreme Court decision that found employers can’t fi re people for being gay or transgender.

In a statement, Yost said the suit isn’t driven by the “wisdom of the administration’s policy” and argued that the agencies didn’t have the authority to change the law. He also disputed the EEOC’s interpretation of the Supreme Court ruling, saying it doesn’t require employers to adopt practices related to dress codes or bathroom access.

“Rule by administrative overreach may seem convenient, but tossing the process our Constitution requires will inevitably trample the liberties of our most vulnerable,” he said. “I will always defend the rights of our citizens to be a part of the legislative process and work to stop the abuses of a recalcitrant administrative state determined to bypass them.”

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modations. They’re also working to beat back a proposal that would prevent transgender girls from joining female sports teams in high school and college.

Meanwhile, over 1,000 businesses across the state have thrown their support behind adding nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people to Ohio law.

“It’s a shame that, as Ohio pushes for economic recovery and to keep residents safe in an historic pandemic, Attorney General Yost is deciding to spend our precious government resources fi ghting for the right to discriminate,” said Maria Bruno, the public policy director for Equality Ohio. “AG Yost’s decision to participate in this misguided lawsuit against LGBTQ+ people pushes Ohio down the wrong path.”

Haley BeMiller is a reporter for the USA TODAY Network Ohio Bureau, which serves the Columbus Dispatch, Cincinnati Enquirer, Akron Beacon Journal and 18 other affi liated news organizations across Ohio.

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COLUMBUS – The FBI suspected a Dayton-area demolition contractor bribed several Dayton offi cials, including Democratic gubernatorial candidate Nan Whaley, between 2013 and 2014, according to unsealed court records.

Whaley was never charged with any crime, and she said in a statement that she did nothing wrong.

“These seven-year-old claims are baseless and categorically untrue,” Whaley said in a stateWhaley ment. “In the course of federal investigations into illegal activity in Dayton, unfounded claims were made against me. Investigators did exactly what they should do: thoroughly looked into it and found nothing.”

In 2013 and 2014, a federal judge approved warrants for the cell phone and orange Chevrolet Cobalt of Willis Blackshear Sr., the then-Montgomery County recorder, the Ohio Capital Journal fi rst reported. Blackshear was suspected of acting as a go-between for SRI Inc. owner Steve Rauch and Dayton politicians, including Whaley and former Mayor Rhine McLin. Rauch was accused of bribing city offi cials in exchange for contracts for his demolition company. In April 2013, a project manager for Rauch’s company told the FBI that McLin and Rauch had a “tight” relationship. Rauch often threatened to “call the mayor” when faced with issues on Dayton projects.

McLin, former vice-chair of the Ohio Democratic Party, declined to comment.

In an October 2013 call, SRI’s controller Dan Feucht said Blackshear delivered money to Whaley, too, according to the search warrant to place a GPS tracking device on Blackshear’s vehicle. Whaley, who served on the fi ve-member Dayton City Commission from 2005 to 2013, was elected mayor in November 2013.

“What (Blackshear) does is he acts as the intermediary, so Nan doesn’t have to come out here,” Feucht said in the re-

corded conversation. “You know, the City of Dayton Commission doesn’t have to come out here. So (Blackshear) does all the running. (Blackshear) comes out here and collects all the money.”

“Even Nan Whaley is in on the deal?” a former SRI project manager asked.

“Oh yeah. Very much so,” Feucht replied.

Rauch also told an informant that he gave Whaley $50,000 in cash and “has ways to get the cash to Whaley that is not detectable,” according to the search warrant for Blackshear’s cell phone. That included using Blackshear as a go-between.

“On two occasions, Rauch was having an issue on a project and reported to (an informant) that he gave Whaley money and she needs to take care of it.” according to the court fi ling. Blackshear was never charged and died in February 2018.

“I can only assume investigators saw through these claims because I only learned about them this week, but I’m glad they were taken seriously and I’m grateful for the FBI’s work to root out corruption,” Whaley said in a statement.

The Whaley campaign said in a memo that unsealing the records indicated the FBI was no longer investigating the matter. A spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Offi ce for the Southern District of Ohio confi rmed the case is “not ongoing.”

Federal records are unsealed periodically unless an order keeps them sealed.

How the case played out Federal investigators began looking at Dayton City Hall – its elected offi cials, employees and contractors – in January 2013, according to court documents.

The results erupted into the public eye in spring 2019 when FBI agents made arrests and four separate indictments were unsealed, alleging bribery, fraud and contract steering dating back to 2014.

Four men were arrested: former state lawmaker Clayton Luckie, former city commissioner and banker Joey D. Williams, city employee RoShawn Winburn and local business owner Brian Higgins.

Luckie, Williams and Winburn each accepted plea deals.

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Ohio redistricting map: 5 takeaways from Republicans’ proposed changes The Ohio Redistricting Commission listens to an Ohioan voice his concern over the Ohio House and Senate district draft maps during a meeting at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus on Thursday.

Jessie Balmert State Bureau

COLUMBUS – To reach a 10-year map for state House and Senate districts that avoids a bitter legal battle, the GOP map introduced Thursday needs a lot of work, Democrats and voting advocates say.

“This map is almost the defi nition of gerrymandering,” said David Niven, an associate professor of political science at the University of Cincinnati.

Senate and House Republican staff members off ered maps for Ohio’s 99 House districts and 33 Senate districts this week. The seven-member Ohio Redistricting Commission has until Wednesday to approve 10-year maps that pass constitutional muster and appease – if not please – the two Democratic members.

Without Democratic support, the maps would last only four years. Members of the commission say they want a longer-lasting map and will work diligently to get one.

Here’s a look at some of the early criticism levied against the GOP-made map and some snags negotiators might hit.

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Competitive vs. representative Should Ohio’s maps be more competitive or more closely match the results of statewide elections? One can be sacrifi ced for the other.

Take the Senate Democrats’ plan for the Senate. That map has just four competitive seats, according to analysis by Dave’s Redistricting App, which uses a partisan index based on years of recent election result data. But their likely end result – 19 Republican seats and 14 Democratic seats – more closely matches the statewide election results in recent years. That split has averaged about 54% of votes for Republican candidates and 46% for Democratic ones.

In contrast, Republicans proposed eight competitive seats, double the Democrats’ map. But most of them leaned Republican, giving the party a 25-8 advantage. That doesn’t closely match the statewide results of recent elections.

Voter-approved changes in the Ohio Constitution require the seven-member Ohio Redistricting Commission to “attempt to draw” a map that meets several standards, including closely corresponding to the statewide preferences of Ohio voters.

Republican legislative leaders called that portion of the Ohio Constitution “aspirational,” especially when compared to other mandates, such as not splitting certain cities or counties. Democrats say their colleagues are ignoring parts of the Constitution.

Winners of a map competition from the voting advocates’ group Fair Districts Ohio – Geoff Wise of Cincinnati and Pranav Padmanabhan of Columbus – drew districts that were more competitive and more closely aligned with statewide voting preferences than lawmakers of either party.

“Drawing a fair map in Ohio is not some kind of magical, mythical creature.

This is not the search for a unicorn,” Niven said. “This is simply the search for the will to do it and mapmakers have not demonstrated that will.”

Pitting lawmakers against each other Proposed GOP changes to the House districts would pit several current lawmakers against one another in 2022.

In Greater Cincinnati, the proposed map draws Rep. Jessica Miranda, D-Forest Park, out of her current 28th House District and into a faceoff with Rep. Cindy Abrams, R-Harrison. The new 29th House District would stretch to western Hamilton County and lean Republican.

“In blatant disregard for the will of the voters who passed redistricting reform, Republicans want to shove a hyper-partisan map down our throats,” Miranda said in a statement. “The 28th District is one of just a handful in Ohio that is truly competitive, and Republicans can’t stand that, so they want to slice and dice it to make sure one of their own takes the seat from the Democrat. They want to rig it.”

Democratic Rep. Sedrick Denson would live in the new 28th District, which would slightly favor Democrats.

Denson’s current 33rd House District is a

h Sen. Matt Dolan, R-Chagrin Falls, assigned to the 24th district, which includes western Cuyahoga County. h Sen. Bill Reineke, R-Tiffi n, assigned to the 26th district, which stretches from Marion, Richland and Crawford counties in central Ohio to the state’s northwest corner. h Sen. Sandra O’Brien, R-Ashtabula, assigned to the 32nd district, which includes Portage and Trumbull counties.

The changes set up a potential primary between Romanchuk and Reineke as well as Cirino and O’Brien. Dolan, who is term-limited in 2024, won’t have to face off against a colleague.

Packing Democrats?

Ohio Senate Republicans released draft maps for state House and Senate districts on Thursday as part of the redistricting process. OHIO SENATE GOP

secure Democratic seat.

The proposed changes could give Republicans a better shot at three House districts in Hamilton County, leaving Democrats with three seats and one tossup. Under the current maps, Republicans can count on two seats.

In northeast Ohio, the proposed map draws Rep. Casey Weinstein, D-Hudson, into the same 23rd District as Rep. Diane Grendell, R-Chesterland. That new district would lean Republican.

“It’s a map so gerrymandered that I’d be representing THREE counties!” Weinstein tweeted about the proposed district.

In another matchup, Rep. Dick Stein, R-Norwalk, and Rep. Joe Miller, D-Amherst, would both reside in the 53rd District, which would stretch from Huron County to parts of Lorain County. That new district would favor Republicans.

Securing seats Some seats would become safer bets under the GOP’s proposal.

In 2020, Sen. Stephanie Kunze, R-Hilliard, eked out a win over her Democratic challenger Crystal Lett by 116 votes. The race was hard-fought and expensive.

Kunze is term-limited in 2024 but her GOP successor would have an advantage in the proposed 16th Senate District, which would include western Franklin County and all of Union County. The current district favors Democrats, 52.2% to 45.6%, while the new district would favor Republicans, 51.7% to 46.0%.

“It’s a prime example of gerrymandering,” Lett said. “They nearly lost in 2020, so they are rigging the map to make sure

they win in 2024.”

A proposal from Senate Democrats would keep the 16th Senate District in Franklin County, ensuring it leans Democratic. Under both the GOP and Senate Democrats’ plans, Sen. Andrew Brenner’s 19th Senate District would become a safer seat for Republicans without dipping into Franklin County.

The GOP’s newly proposed district would include all of Delaware, Knox, Morrow and part of Holmes County. That would shift the district from 50.8% Republican to 61.8%. Senate Democrats would lump together Delaware County, Richland County and part of Morrow County for a district that is 60.8% Republican.

New assignments Not all of the proposed changes were good news for Republicans. Sen. Kristina Roegner’s 27th Senate district, which currently includes Wayne County and parts of Summit and Stark counties, became less secure.

By moving the district into Cuyahoga, Geauga and Summit counties, the seat becomes a virtual tossup.

Under the GOP proposal, fi ve Republican senators would be assigned to new districts where they don’t currently live.

They include: h Sen. Jerry Cirino, R-Kirtland, assigned to the 18th district, which includes Geauga, Lake and Ashtabula counties. h Sen. Mark Romanchuk, R-Ontario, assigned to the 22nd district, which includes Wayne, Ashland and Medina counties.

For a map to pass constitutional muster, House districts must remain between 95% and 105% of 119,186 residents, which is the state’s population divided by 99 districts. In the GOP plan, several Democratic-leaning districts are pushing the upper limits.

For example, several House districts in Cuyahoga County are within 0.1% of their population limit, according to GOP data submitted with the plan.

Voter advocates will be watching cities like Cleveland to ensure the votes of Black and other minority voters aren’t diluted. Senate President Matt Huff man, R-Lima, said Thursday that it was illegal to use race in drawing districts.

But race can be used to invalidate a map. In Thornberg v. Gingles, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that North Carolina lawmakers had violated the Voting Rights Act by creating seven new districts where Black voters would not be able to elect their preferred lawmakers.

Brandi Slaughter, executive director of the Ohio Council of Churches, said the GOP’s proposed map violates those principles.

“These maps crack and pack Ohio’s community of color, diluting the power of the vote and denying adequate representation.”

Public hearings For more information about how to testify, visit online at redistricting.ohio.gov/public-input. Scheduled meetings: h 4 p.m. today, Washington Township RecPlex West, 965 Miamisburg Centerville Road, Dayton. h 4 p.m. Monday, Tri-C Corporate College East, Super Conference Room (Room 126), 4400 Richmond Road, Warrensville Heights. h 10 a.m. Tuesday, Ohio House Finance Hearing Room (Room 313), Ohio Statehouse, Columbus. h 10 a.m. Tuesday, remote testimony from Washington State Community College, Arts & Science Building Auditorium, 710 Colegate Drive, Marietta USA TODAY Network Ohio bureau reporters Anna Staver and Jackie Borchardt contributed.

Jessie Balmert is a reporter for the USA TODAY Network Ohio Bureau, which serves the Akron Beacon Journal, Cincinnati Enquirer, Columbus Dispatch and 18 other affi liated news organizations across Ohio.

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incinnati Bell announced last week it has been acquired by an Australian company that will take the company private. h Cincinnati Bell CEO Leigh Fox discussed the motivation behind the sale to Macquarie Infrastructure Partners and Cincinnati Bell’s future in a question-and-answer session with Enquirer reporter Randy Tucker.

Q. What was the main reason you agreed to the sale?

A. We were not investing in fi ber fast enough. We understood the fact that fi ber is the future, and we were doing a pretty good job of getting it out there. But we still had about 50% of the homes, if we’re talking about (our customers) in Cincinnati, that we needed to get fi ber to. We were just going too slow, and we wanted to build a lot faster. That was the main reason.

Q. What attracted Macquarie to Cincinnati Bell?

A. They’re hardcore infrastructure investors, and they view fi ber as the infrastructure of the future.

That’s why they were interested.

Q. Do you anticipate consolidation of the local workforce (about 2,000 in Greater Cincinnati) as a result of the sale?

A. You hear these stories about companies being merged together and private equity or somebody coming in and just cutting costs. They (Macquarie) are not that type of group. They’re an infrastructure fund, and they’re buying us as a standalone company, but they’re investors. We’re growing, hiring and investing a lot of money into our network.

Q. Does new ownership mean a new name for Cincinnati Bell?

A. Not as it relates to the deal itself. It’s not like Macquarie comes in, and we change our name to Macquarie Fiber or Macquarie Bell. That’s not what they do. Again, they’re an investor. They’re not an operating company. Name changes might come down

the road just given that our company is changing.

We’re less of a telephone company today than we ever were. We’re more of a data network, technology company. I won’t say that the name will never change, but it defi nitely won’t change specifi cally because a deal gets done.

Q. Will you be forced to pass on any of the cost of building out and operating your fi ber network to your customers?

A. Rates don’t usually change because we’re building out. Typically, what happens on the rate side is that we get increases from content providers, and we have to pass those along. Candidly, when we renegotiate content contracts, sometimes the rate increases the content providers are requesting are egregious. A lot of what consumers don’t understand is that we sit in as the middleman between you and the content provider. Eff ectively, they (the content providers) come in and say your contract is up. We’re going to re-up your contract, but we demand an X% per subscriber increase. Sometimes as middlemen, we just have to say, ‘look, that’s just too much. We’re not going to agree to it.’ That’s why you hear nationally sometimes about stations going dark. That’s part of the negotiation process. But none of that has anything to do with us building. Building is a part of our business model. That’s where the majority of our cash goes.

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Fifty-four women recently were named to the 16th class of We Lead, the leadership development program of the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber’s Women Excel initiative. The class includes leaders from a diverse group of industries and backgrounds, comprised of women representing 47 organizations. In its 15-year history, more than 700 women have graduated from We Lead.

“This is an impressive group of remarkable women business leaders who are eager to elevate their leadership even further, said DevoStripling na Stripling, Women Excel program manager, in a news release. “We Lead will provide them with experiences and connections to help harness their momentum to positively enact change impacting their organizations, communities, and the region.”

We Lead is a 10-month executive leadership development experience for high-potential, goal-oriented women who are actively preparing for the next level of their careers. Participants are high-achieving women who are being assigned increasing levels of responsibility within their organization and are on track for future advancement.

Members of the class include: h Andrea Baker, vice president, internal audit, Ohio National Financial Services; Anne Balfour, secretary, manager claims operations, Cincinnati Insurance Co.; Amy Benetti, associate principal, MSA Design; Kelcie Best, site director, RDI Corp.; Ashley Blevins, director of sales, GMI Cos. h Breanne Bovara, vice president, wealth management advisor, Fifth Third Private Bank; Connie Brown, senior director, human resources, E.W. Scripps Co.; Angenita Brown, manager of Success by 6, United Way of Greater Cincinnati; Rachael Cruse, assurance senior manager, Barnes Dennig & Co. Ltd.; Lisa Daley, director, enterprise development, Tier1 Performance. h Catie Doebler, Director, Customer Strategy & Activation - Ecommerce Fulfi llment & Store Formats, 84.51°; Jessica Dole, director of HR, learning and development, GBBN; Katie Eagan, Vice President, Government Aff airs, Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber; Lann Field, vice president, development, Cincinnati Center City Development Corp.; Maria Friday, Director of Emergency Management, UC Health See WE LEAD, Page 23A

Alabama Fish Bar in OTR to get a facelift this fall Randy Tucker Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Alabama Fish Bar, an Over-theRhine landmark and neighborhood institution, will get a facelift this fall as part of the massive Willkommen project from Cincinnati Center City Development Corp., or 3CDC. The takeout-only fried fi sh hot spot at 1601 Race St. will get a fresh coat of paint, new fl ooring, an updated storefront and more modern equipment, including a new hood, walk-in cooler and grill, according to 3CDC, which owns the building.

The upgrades are part of the plan for Willkommen, a $50 million mixed-in-

come, mixed-use project that consists of 16 rehabbed buildings and four new buildings scattered throughout four diff erent sites in OTR. The project, which has been in the works for several years, will create 163 residential units, including 69 aff ordable units, and 19,500 square feet of commercial space, including Alabama.

“Things take time, and if you want something done right, you can’t rush into it,” said Anna Fillis, who owns the restaurant. “It’s been about three years in the making, but I’m happy for the change, and excited for the future.”

Alabama has signed a long-term lease with 3CDC to stay put at the See ALABAMA, Page 21A

Inside Alabama Fish Bar in Over-the-Rhine. RANDY TUCKER/THE ENQUIRER

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Inherited stock taxed at more friendly capital gains rate

Allworth Advice Amy Wagner & Steve Sprovach Guest columnists

Question: Stephen in Dearborn County: I just inherited some P&G stock from my aunt who passed away.

Am I going to owe taxes on this?

A: No, not for the act of inheriting the stock. But if and when you decide to sell, you may owe taxes. Here’s what to keep in mind.

Because you’re inheriting the stock, you’re able to take advantage of what’s called a ‘stepped-up’ tax basis. This means – for tax purposes – you’ll base any profi ts off the price of the stock on the day your aunt passed away, not on its price when she bought it. So, let’s say your aunt bought her P&G stock for $10 a share back in the early 1990s, but when she passed it had grown to $135 a share. That’s a lot of profi t. But, in your case, you don’t have to worry about it – your ‘cost basis’ is $135 a share, not $10.

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Q. What will be the biggest impact of the sale for your customers?

A. The biggest impact is that right now we have customers that are on fi ber that love the product, and then we have customers that are still either on low-speed DSL networks (networks that use existing copper phone lines) or a hybrid. We’re basically investing to get rid of all of the legacy network. Everyone should be able to experience fi ber. A lot of the complaints I get from

Also, it’s important to note that, no matter how long you’ve held it, inherited stock is always taxed at the more tax-friendly long-term capital gains rate of either 0%, 15%, or 20% This is based on your adjusted gross income (AGI).

The Allworth Advice is that it could be worthwhile to meet with a fi duciary fi nancial advisor to help you determine how best to put this stock to work for you. He or she can also develop a taxeffi cient strategy if you decide to sell.

Q: Logan from Alexandria: My mom is new to Medicare and has a very limited income. She just was put on new medications and they’re going to be expensive. Is there anything she can do to lower these costs?

A: If she’s enrolled in Medicare’s prescription plan (Part D), has she looked into Medicare’s ‘Extra Help’ program?

Depending on her yearly income and other assets, she may qualify. If she does, drug costs are no more than $3.70 for generics and $9.20 for brand name (for 2021). The program also assists with paying monthly premiums and annual deductibles related to Part D. She’ll need to fi ll out an application which can be found at ssa.gov, and her eligibility

our customers are that, ‘hey, my speeds are too slow.’ When we do the research, we realize that’s because they’re on an older part of the network. Well, that’s going to improve. I also get a lot of questions from customers who say ‘I see that there’s fi ber in the neighborhood next to us, but there’s not fi ber in our neighborhood, when are you guys going to get here?’ Well, we can answer now, we’re gonna get there pretty quickly. We are planning to have Cincinnati done (completely converted to fi ber) within the next three years or so.

When we’re complete, we’ll be one of the most densely built-out fi ber cities in the country.

status will be reviewed periodically.

Q: Stephanie and Ed from Butler County: We’re both about to retire.

Should we renew our term life insurance?

A: Remember, insurance (of any kind) is designed to fi nancially protect you from a certain kind of risk – that your house burns down, or that you get in a car accident, or that your family wouldn’t be able to fi nancially support themselves in the event of your death.

So, to know if you truly need life insurance as you embark on retirement, you need to answer a few questions, including: Do you still have dependents?

What’s your net worth? Do you receive a pension or other payments that would stop if you were to die? How much do you have saved?

Here’s The Allworth Advice: In our experience, most people entering retirement are no longer earning a paycheck, meaning they no longer need an insurance policy to protect their dependents against the potential loss of that income. But everyone’s circumstance is diff erent, so please have a fi nancial plan created before making a fi nal decision.

Every week, Allworth Financial’s

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told my employees: you treat people the same; how you want to be treated,” Fillis said. “I’ve always lived by that.”

3CDC and its partner on the Willkommen project, OTR-based The Model Group, have made plans to ensure the neighborhood mainstay is closed for as short a period as possible.

And they promise the renovations will be worth the wait.

“These improvements will not only benefi t Alabama’s, but the whole community, and we hope the renovation contributes to keeping the restaurant here for many years to come,” said Katie Westbrook, 3CDC’s development manager.

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location where it has served celebrities, politicians and sports stars for nearly three decades.

But the 1,460-square-foot restaurant will have to close for several weeks this fall for construction.

During that time, Fillis has pledged to continue to pay her nine employees a weekly salary. Most of them have been with her for at least 20 years, she said.

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5 strategies to navigate your impulse spending Melissa Lambarena NERDWALLET

Since the COVID-19 vaccine started becoming available in the U.S., there have been more opportunities for impulse spending on items and experiences that you didn’t get to enjoy early in the pandemic.

With the freedom to do more, consumers are spending more. For the fi rst seven months of 2021, retail sales were up 15.5% compared to that same period in 2020, according to calculations by the National Retail Federation.

As some restrictions have eased, it’s likely that you’ve had new spending needs: returning to work, visiting with friends and family, and partaking in other back-to-normal activities. But when the nonessentials threaten to put your fi nances in jeopardy, it’s important to keep your fi nancial goals on track.

Here are strategies to help you navigate impulse spending.

Wait a day or two When you feel that overwhelming urge to spend, wait 24 to 48 hours to see if you still want an item, suggests Brad Klontz, a fi nancial psychologist based in Colorado.

“Ask yourself: Can I aff ord this?

Where am I going to put it? How am I going to feel about this purchase tomorrow? How am I going to pay for this?” he says. He adds that this pause can help calm the “emotional brain” and activate the “rational brain,” the one that holds you accountable tomorrow.

If you can’t bring yourself to wait, a store’s return policy may prove useful should regret set in. The return protection benefi t on a credit card, if available, can also off er a backup option. When you make a purchase with the card that offers the benefi t, it can provide a window

of the

of time to fi le a claim and receive a refund when a retailer’s return policy fails.

Practice safe credit card habits Credit cards may help or hurt, depending on how you spend. Klontz says that people spend signifi cantly more money when using their credit cards instead of cash. He suggests keeping a cash envelope to use in areas where you tend to overspend, like dining out, for example.

Also, minimize impulses by not storing credit card information on websites or apps, says Kathy Longo, a certifi ed fi nancial planner and president of Flourish Wealth Management, a fi nancial planning fi rm in Minneapolis.

“It’s much easier to be like, ‘I’ll look at it later because I’m not going to go fi nd my purse and get my credit card,’ ” she says. That time can indirectly make you rethink a purchase.

Once you do charge a purchase to a credit card, pay it off in full to avoid interest and save money. For large purchases, consider using a card with a 0% introductory APR.

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Use curbside pickup Many retailers have off ered curbside pickup since the start of the pandemic.

It’s one option that Lauren Miller, a Massachusetts resident, uses to stay on track in her debt-free journey.

Avoiding the inside of the store means “you’re not seeing those seasonal items and those fl ashy marketing strategies,” she says. These can often lead to impulse buying.

Some retailers may charge for curbside pickup or require you to spend a certain amount to waive the cost. You’ll have to weigh whether it’s worth paying

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a few dollars to avoid the potential cost of impulse spending.

If you have to go into a store and the urge wins, do an online price comparison of the item, suggests Longo. “See if you can fi nd something similar at a better price or maybe on sale,” she says.

Give yourself splurging allowance Build a personal allowance into your budget for potential must-have purchases. When Miller fi rst started to curb impulse spending, she gave herself $20 to use at each store. Over time, that amount lowered to $5 per store as she embraced the habit. Since she frequents only about four stores per month, the total doesn’t dent her budget.

“The desire to make impulse purchases lessens, I think, because I know I have the permission to make an impulse purchase if I choose to,” she says.

If you exceed your allowance, take that amount out of next month’s budget,

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or supplement it by redeeming credit card rewards for cash back or statement credit if it makes sense. (Some credit cards lessen the value of rewards when you redeem for certain options.)

But if impulse spending is constantly causing you to stray from your budget and get into debt, it may be time to reevaluate spending habits or speak to a credit counselor or fi nancial therapist.

Get an accountability partner An accountability partner can help you dissect your reasoning for a purchase. They don’t have to off er an opinion, just an ear. The goal is to hear yourself talk about it out loud and make a decision that aligns with your goals and values, Klontz says.

He suggests choosing a spending limit that merits discussion. For instance, if a purchase exceeds $100, then it may be worth running by an accountability partner. Another option is to use social media followers to stay accountable. Miller, as a content creator on YouTube, documents her progress on social media platforms by sharing her plans to stick to a shopping list.

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A view of the Cincinnati Ballet on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021, in Walnut Hills. Nineteen months after breaking ground, Cincinnati Ballet's $30.8 million Margaret and Michael Valentine Center for Dance is hosting a grand opening on Sept. 17-19. At 57,000 square feet, it is nearly 60% larger than the company's former home on Central Parkway. ALBERT CESARE / THE ENQUIRER

‘It really is inspiring.’

THE FUTURE OF CINCINNATI BALLET IS HERE David Lyman Special to Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

The light.

It’s the fi rst thing that strikes you as you walk into Cincinnati Ballet’s new $30.8 million home. Not lighting fi xtures. Or lighting eff ects.

This is the real thing – natural light that cascades through nearly every space in the building. Towering windows dominate the dance studios. Most of the offi ces, too, and even the wardrobe department, which had been buried away in subterranean spaces – former beer tunnels – in the company’s former home on Central Parkway.

“I really had no idea what to expect,” said Margaret Valentine, who, along with her husband Michael, contributed a whopping $10 million to make this building – the Margaret and Michael Valentine Center for Dance – a reality. “GBBN – the architects – really created a facility that matches the vision of the ballet; the energy and elation of what the buildSee BALLET, Page 4AA

Julia Gundzik, a dancer with Cincinnati Ballet’s Second Company, takes a few minutes to stretch before beginning a rehearsal in the Two Sisters studio in Walnut Hills on Thursday, Sept. 2. The studio is named for sisters and longtime ballet supporters Anne Romanoff Ilyinsky and Paula Ilyinsky Comisar. ALBERT CESARE/THE ENQUIRER

The force is strong with the Cincinnati Comic Expo Charles Infosino Special to Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Even if you did not see him in the movie “Vampires Suck” or the Netfl ix show “Jupiter’s Legacy,” you may still recognize his voice. Matt Lanter – who voiced Anakin Skywalker from 2008 to 2020 in “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” TV show and movie, and other video productions and video games is coming to town. You can meet him at the Cincinnati Comic Expo.

Lanter is originally from Massillon, Ohio, 3.5 hours away from Cincinnati, and still has an apartment in that area.

Since he now lives in Nashville, Tennessee, he drives through Downtown Cincinnati quite often and has stayed at a boutique hotel in Covington with his wife, Angela. However, he has yet to vis-

Ohio native Matt Lanter portrays George Hutchence in the superhero drama “Jupiter’s Legacy.” He’ll be at the 2021 Cincinnati Comic Expo, happening Sept. 17-19 at Duke Energy Convention Center. COURTESY OF NETFLIX

it Cincinnati, and never tasted Cincinnati chili. Lanter hopes to try Skyline Chili and Goldstar Chili during the expo.

“I’ll see if can’t have at least one of

them,” he said.

He says that women recall him for his role as Liam Court in “90210” and for portraying Wyatt Logan in “Timeless.”

However, he is most famous for being the voice of Anakin Skywalker.

How did he get the role? “It was a standard audition for me. They didn’t even specify what character it was.

Dave Filoni at the time told me to just give my best combination of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo,” Lanter said. “A couple of days later, they called and said ‘you got the job. It’s Star Wars. It’s called the Clone Wars. It’s going to be an animated series. And by the way, you’re Anakin Skywalker, the lead of the series.’”

Lanter has become good friends with his former castmates from “The Clone Wars.” He lives within walking distance of Arnold Taylor, who plays Obi-Wan

Kenobi, and communicates often with Ashley Eckstein, who plays Ahsoka Tano. The duo has a friendly “ketchup war” going on, in which they send bottles of ketchup to each other as a gag. It began at Walt Disney World.

He is not just a Star Wars actor; he is a fan, too. “I’m such a geek now for Star Wars. I just love the Star Wars fandom and the Star Wars fandom feels like family to me now,” Lanter stated. “It feels so familiar and comfortable to me.

I love talking to other Star Wars fans and geeking out over it.”

“Revenge of the Sith” is Lanter’s favorite Star Wars movie, and not surprisingly, Anakin Skywalker is his favorite Star Wars character. However, he likes Cad Bane, a bounty hunter from the Clone Wars animated series, too.

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Here’s the unoffi cial guide to Cincinnati’s pumpkin spice food, drink and more Emily DeLetter Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Fall is fast approaching, and you know what that means: Pumpkin spice everything is back.

There’s always the fallback to Starbucks’ pumpkin spice lattes found pretty much anywhere, but in Cincinnati, there’s plenty of pumpkin-fl avored delicacies to go around.

From food and drinks to gear showcasing your local autumnal squash love, the Queen City off ers plenty of chances to totally pumpkin out.

Beer Cincinnati is a proud beer town, and breweries are back with their fallthemed brews.

Madtree Brewing is off ering its seasonal Pumpcan Spiced Ale on draft and in six packs. Madtree describes the ale as “all the fl avors of your favorite pumpkin pie without any actual pumpkin.”

Wooden Cask Brewing Co. in Newport has a Pumpkin Ale on its tap list, brewed with pumpkin, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg and cloves.

Taft’s Brewing Co. has brought back its seasonal collaboration with Frisch’s, the Frisch’s Pumpkin Pie Ale. As its described on the website, “the two biggest boys of Cincinnati have come together for one special beer.” It contains hints of cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg with lactose and vanilla.

Samuel Adams‘ Jack-O Pumpkin Ale is back, featuring cinnamon and nutmeg aromas and the “ideal balance of seasonal spices with a crisp, refreshing fi nish.” The brewery with a Cincinnati Taproom is also off ering a Sweater Weather variety pack, featuring the Jack-O Pumpkin, Octoberfest, Fest Bier

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and Boston Lager.

Food They’re not quite in season yet, but the Macaron Bar‘s spiced pumpkin macaroons will satisfy any sweet tooth.

The Over-the-Rhine location also offered seasonal caramel apple and apple pie fl avors last year.

Starting later this month, Graeter’s Ice Cream will bring back its pumpkinfl avored ice cream, “a traditional taste for the fi nishing touch of any autumn dinner.”

Frisch’s is all about fall-fl avored treats, off ering multiple pumpkin menu items, including a slice or whole pumpkin pie, pumpkin spice caramel cake

and pumpkin cheesecake, all available for carryout and delivery.

Busken Bakery is back with its award-winning family recipe for pumpkin pie.

Coffee Biggby Coff ee, with multiple locations around Greater Cincinnati, is offering sweet foam pumpkin cold brew, pumpkin spice lattes and pumpkin muffi ns.

The Kidd Coff ee Co. is off ering a 12ounce bag of Nostalgic Pumpkin Spice, slow roasted and infused with pumpkin and cinnamon.

Other If you’re full from pumpkin food and drinks, there’s still a way to showcase your passion thorough local goods.

The Candle Lab OTR has a fall collection featuring 16 classic scents, including pumpkin spice. The 11-ounce candles are $20.

Cincy Shirts lets you express your love for the Queen City and pumpkin spice all at once, with a T-shirt, sweatshirt and tea towel reading “Cincinnati now available in pumpkin spice,” and a pumpkin in the shape of Ohio.

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Charity events coming up soon Benefi ts the Work Readiness Initiative. clermonthchamber.com.

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Thursday, Sept. 23

If you are looking for ways to spread the wealth and have some fun at the same time, there are a lot of good causes having fundraising events over the next fortnight. There’s something for every budget, so you don’t even need to be Rich Uncle Pennybags to participate.

Comedy for Concussions with Kevin Nealon, 8 p.m., LaSalle High School, 3091 North Bend Road, Green Township.

Benefi ts Brain Injury Research Foundation. $75. thebirf.org.

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Denim and Diamonds Gala, 6:3010:30 p.m., Southgate Community Center, 301 W. Walnut St. Evening of music, dancing, food, drinks, silent auction and games. Benefi ts Safe Aging Coalition of Northern Kentucky. $40. eventbrite.com.

Zoofari, 7 p.m.-midnight, Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, 3400 Vine St., Avondale. Benefi ts zoo’s conservation eff orts. $350. cincinnatizoo.org.

Beers for Freedom, 5:30-9:30 p.m., Big Ash Brewing, 5230 Beechmont Ave., Anderson Township. Fundraiser for International Justice Mission Cincinnati. $10. eventbrite.com.

Wednesday, Sept. 15 Oktubberfest Stein Hoisting Competition, 5-8 P.M., Taft’s Brewpourium, 4831 Spring Grove Ave., Spring Grove Village. Ticket includes welcome beer and slot in competition. $1 for every pint purchased benefi ts Meals on Wheels. $5. eventbrite.com.

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Thursday, Sept. 16 Cincy Brews for Brains, 6:30-9 p.m., Braxton Brewing, 27 W. Seventh St., Covington. Red carpet photos, heavy appetizers, dessert, 2 drinks. Benefi ts Giving Voice Foundation. $75. eventbrite.com.

Hops & History, 5:30-8 p.m., Heritage Hall, 20 High St., Hamilton. Includes tours of Pioneer Log House, Heritage Hall, Robert McCloskey Museum and the Soldiers, Sailors and Pioneers Monument. Ticket includes drink tokens for Municipal Brew Works. Benefi ts Historic Hamilton Inc. $20. Advance purchase, no walk-ups. eventbrite.com.

Saturday, Sept. 18 Twilight in the Gardens, 6:30-9:30 p.m., Baker Hunt Art and Cultural Center, 620 Greenup St., Covington. Live music, art demonstrations, raffl e, art show and 5-course meal with wine.

Benefi ts Baker Hunt programming and

Kevin Nealon, star of “Weeds,” “Man with a Plan” and “Saturday Night Live,” will be at LaSalle High School Sept. 23 performing “Comedy for Concussions” to benefi t The Brain Injury Research Foundation. MARK SELIGER

outreach. $250 VIP, $100 regular. bakerhunt.org.

Fall Plant Sale, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Ammon Nursery, 6089 Camp Ernst Road, Burlington. Unbeatable deals on perennials, annuals, trees, shrubs and more.

Benefi ts Friends of Boone County Arboretum.

I’m Every Woman, noon-4 p.m., Wyoming Civic Center, 1 Worthington Ave. Luncheon, live music, vendors and prizes. Benefi ts Rising Stars of America’s literacy program. $35. risingstarsofamerica.com.

Sunday, Sept. 19 Lunafest, 4 p.m., Garfi eld Theater, 719 Race St., Downtown. Film festival.

Benefi ts Women in Film Cincinnati. cincinnatiworldcinema.org.

Monday, Sept. 20 Golf for Kids, 10 a.m., Oasis Golf Club, 902 Loveland-Miamiville Road, Loveland. Hosted by Clermont Chamber of Commerce. Contest holes, raffl es, bottle pull, lunch, dinner and awards.

Hyde Park Blast, 4 p.m.-midnight, Hyde Park Square, 2700 Erie Ave. Run or walk 4-mile course. Kids fun run, block party with live music from Cowboy Mouth. Benefi ts The Cure Starts Now. csnevents.thecurestartsnow.org/ hyde-park-blast.

Boots and Brews for The Point/Arc, DCCH, 75 Orphanage Road, Fort Mitchell. Country-Western themed event benefi tting The Point/Arc. $30, $25 advance. thepointarc.org.

Applefest Charity Run, 8:30 a.m., Countryside YMCA, 1699 Deerfi eld Road, Lebanon. 15K, 10K and 5K. Awards for top 3 males overall and top3 females overall in each race. Benefi ts Countryside YMCA. $35. countrysideymca.org.

Oktoberfest 5k, 10 a.m., Sonder Brewing, 8584 Duke Blvd., Mason.

Benefi ts Greater Project. $35, $10 kids root beer run. sonderbrewing.com.

Cannabis Health Fair & Hippie Arts Yard Sale, 2-10 p.m., Woodburn Brewing Co., 2800 Woodburn Ave., East Walnut Hills. Vendors, live music, cannabis-themed food menu, hippie art yard sale and more. Proceeds benefi t MedicateOH. eventbrite.com.

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Tutus in the Karen F. Maier and Delane Starliper display case are some of the fi rst things you see as you enter the Cincinnati Ballet’s new Margaret and Michael Valentine Center for Dance in Walnut Hills on Thursday, Sept. 2. They also provide a backdrop for the reception area being used as a lunchroom by members of Cincinnati Ballet’s Second Company. ALBERT CESARE PHOTOS/THE ENQUIRER

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ing represents. And the light ...” As many times as she has visited the building, she still fi nds it diffi cult to fi nd the words to adequately describe the impact of the light. “It really is inspiring.”

The center offi cially opens its doors to the public during a grand opening weekend Sept. 17-19. In reality, though, the fi rst studios were put into service in late June, in time for intensive summer sessions for dozens of students from around the nation.

“To be able to pull that off was pretty miraculous,” said company president and CEO Scott Altman. “We were fortunate in a lot of ways.”

But this was no miracle. This is precisely the way Altman, along with GBBN and Messer Construction, planned it. It was, to be sure, an ambitious project. I remember being skeptical when, on a sodden February morning just 19 months ago, Altman told the crowd that had gathered that the building would be ready to welcome students in June 2021. It seemed so unrealistic.

Altman But then, Altman has spearheaded huge construction projects during previous tenures at Ballet West and Arizona Opera.

Clearly, he knew what was ahead of him with this project.

“This new Ballet Center is a dream,” said Altman. “But it really was a necessity. We were bursting at the seams in our old building. We had simply outgrown the facility. We were a victim of our own success.”

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A dancer with Cincinnati Ballet’s Second company fi nds a moment of solitude in one of the many open areas in the Margaret and Michael Valentine Center for Dance in Walnut Hills.

A meeting room in the Cincinnati Ballet’s new Margaret and Michael Valentine Center for Dance in Walnut Hills. At the company’s former home on Central Parkway, space for meetings was at a premium. But at 57,000 square feet, the new home has given the company an additional 21,000 square feet of space.

“This location serves the community and allows people from the surrounding areas to participate in the arts – they didn’t build in Blue Ash.” Margaret Valentine,

At fi rst glance, the Otto M. Budig Community Studio looks like a run-of-the-mill dance studio. But the space is equipped with many devices to make movement easier and safer for people – children or adults – with a variety of limitations. The long white conduits extending from left to right across the studio, for instance, have extending lines that fasten to harnesses to offer a new level of mobility to people whose legs cannot adequately support them.

Even though its grand opening isn’t until Sept. 17-19, Cincinnati Ballet’s Margaret and Michael Valentine Center for Dance is already abuzz with activity. Directly ahead is a rehearsal in progress in the Two Sisters Studio. In the foreground, Cincinnati Ballet Second Company dancer Isabelle Morgan observes another rehearsal taking place in the Frances Kathryn Carlisle Studio.

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Noelle Wedig-Johnston, Cincinnati Ballet wardrobe supervisor, unpacks costumes and equipment at the new Cincinnati Ballet Center for Dance in Walnut Hills. The company’s wardrobe library has costumes that date back as much as 60 years. Moving them from the company’s old home on Central Parkway was one of the fi nal steps in settling into this new home.

Cherl Beyersdoerfer, foreground, and Laura Hoffmann, back, right, work on costumes from the famed Bluebird pas de deux from “The Sleeping Beauty.”

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Members of the Cincinnati Ballet’s Second Company are silhouetted against the towering windows in the company’s new Margaret and Michael Valentine Center for Dance in Walnut Hills. ALBERT CESARE PHOTOS/THE ENQUIRER

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Cincinnati Ballet Second Company dancers Julia Gundzik and Sam Epstein rehearse in the Lorrence T. and Barbara W. Kellar studio. The studio is named for patrons whose involvement with the company goes back 46 years.

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Cincinnati Ballet trainee Trevor Pinter Parsons takes a class in the company’s new home in Walnut Hills.

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Cincinnati Ballet Second Company members Scott Reed, center, and Anna Kinghorn, right, take a company class led by Sarah Hairston Berkley. Reed is a member of Cincinnati Ballet’s Second Company, while Kinghorn is part of the company’s professional training division. Berkley, a former principal dancer with the company, is now director of Cincinnati Ballet’s Otto M. Budig Academy.

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The new complex weighs in at 57,000 square feet – 60% larger than on Central Parkway. And at fi rst walkthrough, it seems that they have put that space to remarkably good use.

There are nine dance studios, enough to accommodate the main company, Second Company and all levels of the Otto M. Budig Academy. One of the studios is even equipped with a “mobility lift system,” which enables a new level of mobility to students with a variety of physical disabilities.

Aside from all the things you might expect – generously sized dressing rooms, public lounges, break rooms for company members, a 140-seat performance space – the facility has its own recording studio. And a dedicated board room, something they’ve never had before.

“And we have state-of-the-art security,” said Altman, though he declined to talk about any of the specifi cs of the system.

Even the sinewy white air ducts that snake their way through the studios look as if they’d been shaped by choreographers rather than engineers. Unlike many arts groups, who have had to repurpose existing spaces to meet their needs, this is a purpose-built facility.

Everything in it is somehow defi ned by dance.

Initially, there was some doubt about whether the company might remain near the heart of the city. Space is pricey down there, particularly in the area near the ballet’s former home. Remember, it was the construction of FC Cincinnati’s TQL Stadium and nearby development that forced the ballet to relocate.

But after looking at dozens of locations – mostly within the I-275 ring – the company found what seemed to be a forgotten sliver of land at 1801 Gilbert Ave., next to the Baldwin Building and

Grand opening schedule: At Cincinnati Ballet’s Margaret and Michael Valentine Center for Dance, 1801 Gilbert Ave., Walnut Hills.

Ribbon Cutting h 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m., Sept. 15 Community Block Party h 4-8 p.m., Sept. 17 Performance Plaza Dedication h 11 a.m.-noon, Sept. 19 Academy Open House h noon-5 p.m., Sept. 19

just down the hill from the Cincinnati Art Museum.

This location was another thing that particularly appealed to the Valentines.

“It creates an arts corridor on Gilbert Avenue,” said Valentine, noting that not only are the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Playhouse in the Park close neighbors, but so, too, are the Planet Dance studio (home of Exhale Dance Tribe) and ArtsWave. “This location serves the community and allows people from the surrounding areas to participate in the arts – they didn’t build in Blue Ash.” The result really is quite glorious.

From some studios, you look out onto a wall-to-wall expanse of trees in Eden Park. In other studios, there is a postcard-perfect cityscape. In others, you look out to Mount Auburn and the WKRC-TV tower above the bustle of I-71.

“We’re dancers – we love to complain,” said company dancer and choreographer Taylor Carrasco, preparing for a rehearsal in the Two Sisters studio. “But this place,” he said, his arms sweeping to describe the expanse of the studio. “I’m thankful for this place. I think we all are. It’s super-inspiring.

I’m looking forward to many years of making great dance here.”

Members of Cincinnati Ballet’s Second Company rehearse in the Lorrence T. and Barbara W. Kellar studio, one of nine studio spaces in the company’s new Margaret and Michael Valentine Center for Dance in Walnut Hills.

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People watch the Western & Southern/WEBN fi reworks show at Riverfest on Sunday, Sept. 5 at Sawyer Point and Yeatman's Cove in Cincinnati.

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Waiting for fi reworks were Pam Heil, Cheviot; Lacey Kaonohi, Walnut, Calif.; Dorthey Sawyers, Hamilton; Michale Moon, Hamilton. JOE SIMON/FOR THE ENQUIRER

Amanda Levenson and Madedline Ottilie are among those showing up early for Riverfest. JOE SIMON/FOR THE ENQUIRER

Riverfest lights up the Ohio River, St. Vincent plays Icon Music Center

Having trouble with their tape are George Mittermann, Greenville, Ohio; Jim Augustine, Colerain; Chris McIlwee, New York and Mickey Hanselam, Moscow, Ohio. JOE SIMON/FOR THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER

Kenneth Hibbard, 5, plays with a bubble machine while waiting for the start of the Western & Southern/WEBN fi reworks show at Riverfest on Sunday, Sept. 5.

Riverfest brought out thousands of people to Sawyer Point and Yeatman’s Cove.

David Hawk of Mayville proudly displays his tattoo. JOE SIMON/FOR THE ENQUIRER

St. Vincent and the Down and Out Downtown Band perform at the Andrew J. Brady Icon Music Center in downtown Cincinnati on Tuesday, Sept. 7. SAM

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Making memories with the kids Daniel Yoder Special to Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

I decided that I would like to give Gloria a break, and anyway I had a couple things I wanted to share.

Two weeks ago as I was ready to do the chores, 1-year-old Joshua was wide awake and Gloria asked if he could go choring with me while she got school started with the Julia and Austin. I said yes he could, so off we went to fi nd Daisy, our family milk goat, in the pasture which is several hundred feet from the barn. Joshua was all eyes as we entered the barn. We put some non-GMO grain in the bucket for Daisy while I milked her. Joshua is starting to walk by now, so he was toddling around me as I started to milk, and he came right up to the where I was milking and started to do some exclaiming which I could not understand. That moment was one that I wanted to freeze and save. There is just something with animals that help children develop, and you could see his little brain spinning as we fi nished up the chores. Then we headed back to the house, where mama greeted us with her big smiles. She asked Joshua how the baby goats sound. He said, “Baa,” and how we cheered for him, now he was impressed for sure.

Another little moment was yesterday morning when Hosanna woke up early.

The two of us went to do chores together. One thing we wanted to do was feed the fi sh and bring a couple catfi sh home for breakfast. She was super excited as we stepped outside. Dawn was just breaking. We headed to the barn to do the chores there, then grabbed some fl oating catfi sh food and the fi shing net and we were set. I think I was about as excited as she was. As we entered the pond I called the fi sh. Now get this, when we call them you can literally see the ripples in the pond when they make their way to the feeding spot. We had about two gallons of food, so we started to throw some in. “I’d like to catch a big one,” I explained to her. The fi sh come right to the edge, so when I spied a big one we made our fi rst dip. Sure enough,

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Armyworms become moths when they are adults. When there are heavy outbreaks of armyworms in southern states, the adults are capable of getting into the jet stream. This enables them to move great distances, as much as 500 miles in 24 hours. The Ohio State University Extension service believes the armyworms we are seeing here came in a storm front that passed through about fi ve weeks ago.

When the adults arrive, the females lay eggs, usually on the fl at surface of leaves. They will produce 100-500 eggs at a time, and the eggs hatch in 5-7 days.

It usually takes about four weeks before they complete their larval stage, then they pupate into adult moths and the cycle starts all over again.

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In the lawn, they eat blades of grass all the way down to the crown. The crown is the part of the grass plant that connects the roots and blades. The blades of grass are necessary to shade and protect the crowns. When they are left exposed, the area where the crowns are can reach temperatures more than 100 degrees. This will dehydrate the crown, ultimately killing the grass.

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The infected yards are usually victims of bad luck. In the case of these armyworms, the fi rst lawns to be infected are where the adults from the south landed. Once here they can spread from yard to yard.

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FESTIVALS: Oktoberfest Zinzinnati, 5 p.m.-midnight Thursday, 11 a.m.midnight Friday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday, Second and Third streets, Downtown Zinzinnati. oktoberfestzinzinnati.com.

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ART OPENING: Jee Eun Lee: Drift Series: A Dream Within a Dream, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Weston Art Gallery, 650 Walnut St., Downtown. Artist inspired by water as a powerful motif in her hand-built ceramic fi gurative sculptures. westonartgallery.com.

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COMEDY: Comedy in the Grotto, 810 p.m., The Comet, 4579 Hamilton Ave., Northside. $10. eventbrite.com.

COMEDY: Stand Up & Drag, 9 p.m., Below Zero Lounge, 1120 Walnut St., Over-the-Rhine. Drag show plus standup comedy show. $9. eventbrite.com.

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MUSIC: Fall Concert Series: The Nude Party, 7-10 p.m., Fountain Square, 520 Vine St. Downtown. Free. myfountainsquare.com.

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The number 13 is evocative. To some, it’s unlucky; if you take a ride on an older elevator, 13 will be conspicuous by its absence. In other cultures, such as ancient Norse and Celtic peoples, 13 is considered lucky.

But the signifi cance of 13 goes even further back than that. The ancient Egyptians believed there were 13 steps on the ladder that leads to the afterlife, while ancient secret societies and alchemists associated 13 with the cycle of life, death and rebirth.

I bring all of that up because Listermann Brewing Company will celebrate its 13th anniversary Saturday, Sept. 18, with two sessions of tastings and this year’s crop of anniversary bottle releases.

And make no mistake, Listermann is a company undergoing a transformation. The brewery lost several tremendously talented brewers to competitors in the second quarter of this year. Rebirth is a top to-do list item for Listermann as it enters its 14th year.

“It’s no secret that Listermann has undergone a handful of changes recently,” said Jessica Gorman, Listermann’s head of marketing and taproom comanager. “We feel blessed to be led by a team that has learned from and worked alongside our predecessors.”

Listermann’s 13th-anniversary party will tie together its past and its future.

There will be several beers that have been in barrels for more than a year, a new version of a fan-favorite IPA and a sneak peek at an exciting future release.

Read on for details on all of the beers.

The anniversary party, for which a handful of tickets are still available, will feature two tasting sessions. Session one will take place between noon and 4 p.m, while the second session will be held between 6 and 10 p.m. Tickets are $40 apiece, which gets you 10 beer tickets to taste this year’s anniversary beers, a commemorative Listermann 13th anniversary taster glass and the fi rst shot at purchasing this year’s anni-

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I think a four-hour beer session for $40 is a great deal. No, I’m not getting a cut of ticket sales (although I wish I’d thought of that before now). That said, if you want to drink with me, I’ll be at the evening session.

Here’s what to look forward to on Saturday, at Listermann: XIII – Just as it has for the past several anniversaries, Listermann is busting out the Roman numerals for this year’s cuvee of barrel-aged beers. The blend includes Scoring Discrepancies, a raspberry and peanut butter stout aged 20 months in Buff alo Trace bourbon barrels; Life, a barleywine aged in River Drive rye barrels for 30 months; and

Cranium, Listermann’s classic vanilla and coff ee stout aged in Sagamore rye barrels for 16 months. Speaking of which ...

Cranium – Those in the know about Listermann beers have been calling for the return of Cranium for two-plus years. The coff ee-vanilla stout is back, this time aged in Sagamore rye barrels for 17 months. Oh, and it brought some of its friends along for this year’s celebration.

Cranium variants – In addition to the return of base Cranium, Listermann is releasing several new Cranium variants. They include Espresso Orange, Maple Bacon and Chipotle Pepper. The maple bacon variant was aged in bour-

bon barrels, while the other two were aged in Sagamore rye barrels.

If any of those variants sound excessively weird to you, I advise you to keep an open mind. Florida-based Funky Buddha’s Maple Bacon Coff ee Porter has already proved this adjunct combination works. Cranium has been made with orange before, so we have a pretty good idea of how this surprising combination will work out. And chipotles? Seriously, is there a better way to use jalapenos?

That was a rhetorical question. There isn’t. Chipotles are better than their non-smoked counterparts all day long.

Universal Elixir – Named for the alchemical concoction that aspired to grant eternal life to those who imbibed it, Universal Elixir is an imperial stout brewed with English toff ee, caramel, almond, vanilla and lactose.

Elusive IPA – Listermann’s West Coast-style IPA is reborn with a few recipe tweaks. This version was made with Falconer’s Flight 7C’s, Zythos, Zamba and Azacca hops.

Bottles of each beer will be available for purchase by tasting session attendees Saturday, with the rest going on sale to the general public the following day.

The tasting session will also feature a Flanders-style red ale made with Michigan tart cherries, which new Listermann General Manager Jon Vollman says will be bottled and sold at a later date. It was a Flanders red that fi rst got me into sour beers, and the style will always hold a special place in my heart.

I’m glad to see the style made in Cincinnati.

In addition to all of that, Listermann will be debuting its new seltzer, which will be available for on-site consumption for tasting session attendees and taproom customers alike. Customers will be able to choose from a number of fl avors, which will be hand-pumped into the seltzer by a Listermann beertender.

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FESTIVALS: Russian Fest, noon-9 p.m., St. George Russian Orthodox Church, 118 N. Lebanon Road, Loveland. facebook.com/cincyrussianfest.

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FESTIVALS: Silver Grove Saturday in the Park, 9 a.m.-10 p.m., Chief Sayers Park, State Route 8, Silver Grove. 5K run/walk at 9 a.m., touch-a-truck 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., vintage baseball game 1-3 p.m., cruise-in 4-7 p.m., live music 610 p.m. Bounce houses, food for purchase and more.

FESTIVALS: Ohio Renaissance Festival: Pirates Weekend, 10:30 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Renaissance Park, 10542 E. Ohio 73, Waynesville.

Runs Sept. 4-Oct. 31. renfestival.com.

FESTIVALS: XIII Anniversary Party, noon-4 p.m. and 6-10 p.m., Listermann Brewing, 1621 Dana Ave., Evanston. Includes drink tickets, commemorative taster glass and option to purchase anniversary bottles. $40.

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Beyoncé is changing the face of 40 Cydney Henderson USA TODAY

Beyoncé turned 40 on Sept. 4, an age women have culturally been taught to dread. Forty signals the end of youth, something women are expected to retain at all costs. But the pop culture icon sees it diff erently.

“I feel many aspects of that younger, less evolved Beyoncé could never (expletive) with the woman I am today,” she told Harper’s Bazaar in its September Issue.

When she was a child, Beyoncé said she dreamed. As a teenager, she hustled. In her 20s, she built a formidable career. In her 30s, she started a family.

On the eve of 40, Beyoncé said all those years of digging, healing and growth have brought her to this moment. In some ways, she feels she has just begun.

“Turning 40 is a steppingstone into our authenticity. At 40, we begin to pull back the layers of societal and familial expectations, and lean closer to who we really are,” says Dr. Tricia Wolanin, a clinical psychologist, creativity coach and author of “The Fragrance of Wanderlust.”

Experts say we need a new cultural narrative around turning 40, especially for women, who face age-based discrimination years earlier than men, research shows. Beyoncé, Duchess Meghan and Britney Spears are spearheading the change, welcoming 40 with grace and power and showing it’s something that should be embraced rather than feared.

“These women are role models changing the expectations in society,” says Dr. Sharon Grossman, a clinical psychologist, success coach and author of “The 7E Solution to Burnout.” She said their fearlessness has “given women (in their 40s) permission to be proud.’ ”

Why is turning 40 stigmatized?

Women learn early that their worth is attached to their appearance. Trying to look as young as they can for as long as they can with Botox, anti-wrinkle cream or anything else that may halt Father Time often is the norm.

Beyoncé hit the milestone on Sept. 4.

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People often equate youth with attractiveness. But why does a person’s allure supposedly fl y out the window after 40 trips around the sun?

“There’s a dread of getting older because you don’t feel like you have control of how other people will accept you,” Grossman says.

Unlike tribal cultures where elders are looked up to for their wisdom, American society is plagued by ageism, which is prejudice or stereotypes based on a person’s age.

It isn’t just skin deep. Older people face real world consequences and discrimination, particularly in the workplace where youth usually trumps experience. Sixty-four percent of women say they’ve experienced age discrimination in the workplace, according to a 2018 AARP study. Aging employees are often seen as less competent, less likely to be considered for promotions and more susceptible to layoff s.

Jackson, Helen Mirren, Salma Hayek and Rita Moreno are all showing that not only have their careers not ended when the clock struck 40, they’ve thrived more than before.

Even celebrities as high-profi le as Duchess Meghan are “fi ghting back” against the stigma of aging, Grossman says, and “setting the stage for people that come after them.”

Meghan, who turned 40 on Aug. 4, launched the Archewell initiative “40x40” on her birthday to “help women regain confi dence and rebuild their economic strength” after fi nding her own strength to publicly speak out against scrutiny from the British tabloids and allegations of racism in the royal family.

She told Oprah Winfrey that it was “liberating” to “be able to speak for yourself ” in a bombshell interview in March.

“It shows how much they believe in themselves,” Grossman says. “Even when the world stops believing in you because you’ve turned a certain age, you don’t have to fall into the trap.”

Britney Spears, who turns 40 on Dec. 2, also spoke out for the fi rst time against her “abusive” 13-year long conservatorship managed by her father, Jamie Spears. “I just want my life back,” she said in June. “I deserve to have a life … and just, you know, do what I want to do.”

Wolanin says “we begin asking our-

selves, what (are) our own desires, dreams and joys” after 40, because “we have lived our lives for others, and now we are gaining the confi dence to engage in deeper self-inquiry.”

With age comes wisdom. While 20year-olds may invest energy into meeting others’ expectations, once you hit 40, it’s easier to determine what you value and what’s important to you.

Katherine Heigl said 40 feels “like a certain kind of freedom.”

“Freedom from all the self doubt, insecurities, self-loathing, uncertainties and anxieties of my 20s and 30s,” Heigl, now 42, shared in 2018. “Not to say I don’t still have those moments, but I just feel like 40 makes me older and wiser.”

40 is an opportunity to take stock Turning 40 is no longer written off as the beginning of the end – it’s a chance to reinvent and grow.

“If you are not happy about turning 40, it should be a wakeup call that you can fi nd your way back to your values,” Grossman says. “The people who are the most freaked out about hitting certain milestones are the people who are not living their life to the fullest.”

It’s time to start doing more of what makes you happy, experts say. That may mean evaluating relationships, careers, friendships and fi nances.

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Hollywood shunned older women, but they are pushing back The fear of aging is especially potent in Hollywood.

For female stars, aging used to signal the end of coveted roles. “It used to be when you were 40 your career was done … and I mean really done,” Halle Berry, 54, tweeted in August.

But “women today, like Beyoncé, are changing the face of 40,” Wolanin says.

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The Force will be with this convention. Sam Witwer (Darth Maul in “The Clone Wars,” Starkiller in “Star Wars: The Force Unleashed” video games, and other roles in Star Wars animated productions and video games), Keone Young (Commander Sato in “Star Wars Rebels”), Matthew Wood (supervising sound editor from “Revenge of the Sith” and other productions), David Acord (sound designer from “The Clone Wars” and other productions), and Stephen Costantino (a Gamorrean Guard in “Star Wars: Return of the Jedi”) will also appear.

Arrowverse fans will be happy to know Tom Cavanagh, Katie Cassidy, and John Barrowman will be there.

Power Rangers fans will be able to meet Tracy Lynn Cruz and Austin St. John.

Other celebrities scheduled to appear include Jodi Benson (”Toy Story”), Francois Chau (”G.I. Joe”), Felicia Day (”Buff y the Vampire Slayer”), Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld (”Pokemon”), Christopher Sabat (”Dragon Ball”), Ross Marquand (”The Walking Dead”), and Alan Oppenheimer (”Transformers”).

Comic fans will be able to meet famous comic creators. Timothy Zahn (”Thrawn Trilogy”), Dave Aikins (”SpongeBob SquarePants”), John Beatty (”Batman”), David Michael Beck (”G.I. Joe”), Renee Witterstaetter (”Avengers”), and many other comic artists are scheduled to appear.

As with all things pandemic-related, it is possible that some of the scheduled guests will not be able to make it. Each celebrity has separate charges for autographs, professional pictures, and selfi es. Check out the website for prices.

One of the convention highlights is a cosplay costume contest, but there are also programs, panels, and vendors selling comics, toys, posters, clothes, and more, making it a great opportunity for science fi ction and comic book fans.

“I am looking forward to being up in Cincinnati and getting to talk to [fans] face to face,” Matt Lanter stated. “So, I think that doing some of these conventions is a nice way to get out, and just let loose, have some fun, talk to people face to face, and just nerd out over sci-fi .”

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Whether you’re united by a passion for the outdoors, a shared appreciation for the beach or a love of culture, it’s easy to imagine yourself on a romantic trip in one of these great vacation spots for couples.

Uvita, Costa Rica Celebrate anniversaries, a recently emptied nest or just dash away for a romantic vacation without the kids in this Costa Rican destination where the mountains meet the sea.

Stay at the adults-only Rancho Pacifi co luxury resort, dramatically situated high up in the rainforest among the toucans and howler monkeys. There are two treehouses and three villas, each with private decks, outdoor soaking pools or tubs and sweeping views of the rainforest or beach. As a bonus, you’ll never encounter more than 20 other people during your stay.

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For a romantic trip to New York City, ditch midtown in favor of the Village, where the pace is slower, the grass greener and the vibe infi nitely cooler and more authentically New York.

Stay at the Moxy in the East Village for easy strolls to the legendary Strand Bookstore and Forbidden Planet. You’ll also be a stone’s throw from Union Square and Washington Square parks and the most remarkable vegan meats at Red Bamboo. Settle into plush seats for an art house fi lm at the East Village Angelika Theater, catch a band at Webster Hall or Irving Plaza and fall in love with each other all over again in the best part of the best city on Earth.

Culture, food, history and a lot of Smithsonian freebies join forces to make the District one of the best vacation spots for couples. Stay at Riggs Washington D.C., a spectacular hotel housed in what once was a national bank building on the corner of 9th and F Street. The elegant rooms pay homage to the building’s legacy, with each reminiscent of a private safety deposit box.

Enjoy the National Zoo and as many of the Smithsonian Museums as you can see, then indulge in some outstanding falafel and hummus at Falafel Inc. Nothing on the menu is over $4 and every time you dine, you help feed refugees.

Sante Fe, New Mexico Sante Fe has great food and fun things to do, plus a very specifi c something that few places in America can match: The sunlight in Santa Fe is nothing short of spectacular.

Santa Fe is the perfect destination for couples who enjoy painting, sculpture and culture. Dive into the world of Georgia O’Keefe and the otherworldly modern art mecca that is Meow Wolf, then hop on a bike and take golden hour rides around this intimate city.

Stay at the Inn & Spa at Loretto for rooms that blend into the environment and an iconic exterior lined with candles that’s sure to take your breath away.

The Pacifi c Northwest This lush corner of the continental U.S. includes everything from the Olympic Peninsula just west of Seattle to the Redwoods trees in Northern California.

In between, you have Fern Canyon and Gold Bluff s Beach, Crater Lake National Park, Oregon’s rugged coastline and marvelous sand dunes, the cascades along the Columbia River Gorge and Maryhill Museum’s curious collection of art.

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ing small New England town of Bar Harbor combine into one of the best vacation spots for couples.

Staying in a Primrose suite with a massive king bed and fi replace will fan the fl ames of romance. Plus, you’ll be just a short hand-in-hand walk to everything in town, including charming restaurants, ice cream shops and a great local improv comedy venue.

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Throttlestop, a local car museum and showroom with a rotating collection of historic motorcycles, showroom cars and robust engines spanning the decades.

Fredericksburg, Texas There’s wildfl owers, wineries and great local shopping in Fredericksburg, but what you’ll notice fi rst is the little Bavarian vibe in this charming city just over an hour northwest of San Antonio. History buff s will love Fredericksburg’s Pioneer Museum and National Museum of the Pacifi c War. Outdoor lovers will go mad for the wildfl owers and Enchanted Rock State Natural Area.

Go back in time with a stay at the adults-onlyHangar Hotel featuring airplane memorabilia, USO history and 1940s-inspired romance.

Fun and mimosas in the sun and sand? How about an excursion to drive dune buggies through giant mud puddles? What about tasting some local libations? Do it all and so much more at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Punta Cana.

Every single room at the all-inclusive Hard Rock has a private in-room hot tub and you can have a turntable and curat- The Catskills, New York ed collection of vinyl records delivered to your door, so pack your battery operated The Catskills provide easy access to candles and leave your worries behind. Woodstock and other charming towns, but what really makes this area a great Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin spot for couples is a cluster of miniature accommodations called A Tiny House Romance is alive and well on the gen- Resort. These luxe cabins and custom tle shores of Elkhart Lake. With fi ne din- trailers set along a creek are a romantic ing, cute shops and elegant accommoda- escape from hectic modern life. tions at the Osthoff and Siebkens reEach morning, you can pick up fresh sorts, you and your favorite person can eggs and veggies to make omelets, hang kindle the fl ames on a pontoon boat tour out with the goats and Flemish Giant of the lake or rev up your relationship on bunnies and take the chickens for a walk. a race weekend or track day at Road Relax with a book or your favorite podAmerica. cast in your ears and let the world drift by If you both fancy cool cars, visit the for a few days.

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Sunday, Sept. 12 “American Rust” debut – 10 p.m, Showtime. Battered by trauma as a soldier and as a Pittsburgh cop, Del (Jeff Daniels) took the quieter duties of a small-town police chief.

But now the cases are more personal and painful; one involves the son of his sometimes-lover (Maura Tierney). “Rust” leads a crowded night – the “60 Minutes” season-opener (7:30 p.m., CBS), the “Guilt” fi nale (9-11 p.m., PBS) and the MTV Music Video Awards (8 p.m., MTV, CW, VH1 and more).

Monday, Sept. 13 “American Experience: Sandra Day O’Connor: The First” – 9-11 p.m., PBS. Growing up on a 160,000acre Arizona ranch, O’Connor savored independence.

She would rise through Barry Goldwater’s Republicans, get Ronald Reagan’s appointment as the fi rst female Supreme Court justice, and slowly surprise people with her centrist views.

Tuesday, Sept. 14 “Fantasy Island” – 9 p.m., Fox. It’s time for time-travel – the kind where you meet your favorite lauthor or your long-ago self. It will be the fi nal Tuesday show for this experiment, which also has two Sunday slots: 8:30 p.m. Sept.

12 and 8 p.m. Sept. 19.

Wednesday, Sept. 15 “America’s Got Talent” fi nale – 9-11 p.m., NBC. With the new season starting Sept. 20, this is championship week for NBC’s summer shows.

On Monday (8-10 p.m.), we get the “American Ninja Warrior” champ. On Tuesday (8-10), the 10 “America’s Got Talent” fi nalists perform and viewers vote. On Wednesday, the show has its 16th winner.

Thursday, Sept. 16 “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” fi nale – 8-9 p.m., NBC. One of TV’s best comedies gets an end-ofsummer farewell. “NineNine” started hot in 2014. Fox canceled it after fi ve seasons, but NBC aired more – plus this 10-episode farewell,

as NBC prepares for its no-laughs fall season.

Friday, Sept. 17 “Great Performances: The Red Shoes” and more – 9 p.m., PBS. Hans Christian Andersen’s tale of obses-

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Around the world, shot inequality a real issue Some struggle to get doses, others have excess

Virus spreads to zoo’s gorillas

Cara Anna and Sudhin Thanawala

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NAIROBI, Kenya – Several hundred people line up every morning, starting before dawn, on a grassy area outside Nairobi’s largest hospital hoping to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Sometimes the line moves smoothly, while on other days, the staff tells them there’s nothing available, and they should come back tomorrow.

Halfway around the world, at a church in Atlanta, two workers with plenty of vaccine doses waited hours Wednesday for anyone to show up, whiling away the time by listening to music from a laptop. Over a six-hour period, only one person came through the door.

The dramatic contrast highlights the vast disparity around the world. In richer countries, people can often pick and choose from multiple available vaccines, walk into a site near their homes and get a shot in minutes. Pop-up clinics, such as the one in Atlanta, bring vaccines into rural areas and urban neighborhoods, but it is common for them to get very few takers.

In the developing world, supply is limited and uncertain. Just over 3% of people across Africa have been fully vaccinated, and health offi cials and citizens often have little idea what will be available from one day to the next. More vaccines have been fl owing in recent weeks, but the World Health Organization’s director in Africa said Thursday that the continent will get 25% fewer doses than anticipated by the end of the year, in part because of the rollout of

ATLANTA – Atlanta’s zoo says at least 13 western lowland gorillas have tested positive for COVID-19, including 60-year-old Ozzie, the oldest male gorilla in captivity.

Zoo Atlanta said Friday that employees noticed the gorillas had been coughing, had runny noses and showed changes in appetite. A veterinary lab at the University of Georgia returned positive tests for the respiratory illness. Zoo Atlanta says it’s waiting on confi rmation from the National Veterinary Services Lab in Ames, Iowa.

The zoo says it is treating the gorillas at risk of developing complications from SARS-CoV-2 with monoclonal antibodies. The zoo is also testing all 20 of its gorillas, who live in four troops.

Zoo offi cials say they believe an asymptomatic employee who cares for the gorillas passed on the virus. The employee had been fully vaccinated and was wearing protective equipment such as a mask and gloves.

The zoo says there’s no evidence that the gorillas can pass the virus back to humans and says visitors are too far away to be infected by gorillas.

“We are very concerned that these infections occurred, especially given that our safety protocols when working with great apes and other susceptible animal species are, and throughout the pandemic have been, extremely rigorous,” Dr. Sam Rivera, the zoo’s senior director of animal health, said in a statement.

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booster shots in wealthier counties such as the United States.

Bidian Okoth recalled spending more than three hours in line at a Nairobi hospital, only to be told to go home because there weren’t enough doses. But a friend who traveled to the U.S. got a shot almost immediately after his arrival there with a vaccine of his choice, “like candy,” he said.

“We’re struggling with what time in the morning we need to wake up to get the fi rst shot. Then you hear people choosing their vaccines. That’s super, super excessive,” he said.

Okoth said his uncle died from COVID-19 in June and had given up twice on getting vaccinated due to the length of the lines, even though he was eligible due to his age. The death jolted Okoth, a health advocate, into seeking a dose for himself.

He stopped at one hospital so often on his way to work that a doctor “got

tired of seeing me” and told Okoth he would call him when doses were available. Late last month, after a new donation of vaccines arrived from Britain, he got his shot.

The disparity comes as the U.S. is moving closer to off ering booster shots to large segments of the population even as it struggles to persuade Americans to get vaccinated in the fi rst place. President Joe Biden on Thursday ordered sweeping new federal vaccine requirements for as many as 100 million Americans, including private-sector employees, as the country faces the surging COVID-19 delta variant.

About 53% of the U.S. population is vaccinated, and the country is averaging more than 150,000 new cases of COVID-19 a day, along with 1,500 deaths. Africa has had more than 7.9 million confi rmed cases, including more than 200,000 deaths.

Israel arrests 4 Palestinian fugitives Josef Federman and Fares Akram ASSOCIATED PRESS

JERUSALEM – Israeli police on Saturday said they have arrested four of the six Palestinians who broke out of a maximum-security prison last week – including a famed militant leader whose exploits over the years have made him a well-known fi gure in Israel.

The arrests moved Israel closer to closing an embarrassing episode that exposed deep fl aws in its prison system and turned the fugitive prisoners into Palestinian heroes. Late on Friday, Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fi red a rocket into Israel in an apparent sign of solidarity, drawing Israeli airstrikes in reprisal.

The four wanted men were caught in a pair of arrests in northern Israel.

Early on Saturday, police said they had caught two men, including Zakaria Zubeidi, hiding in a truck parking lot in the Arab town of Umm al-Ghanam.

The Israeli Haaretz news site, quoting an unidentifi ed defense offi cial, said Zubeidi and fellow fugitive Mohammed Aradeh had been hiding outdoors for some time. The source said the two escapees appeared to have received no help following their escape and had no planned route on where to go.

Zubeidi was a militant leader during the second Palestinian uprising in the early 2000s.

Fugitives Zakaria Zubeidi, left, and Mohammed Aradeh were recaptured Saturday in Umm al-Ghanam, northern Israel. ISRAELI POLICE VIA AP

While he has been linked to attacks on Israelis, he also was well known for giving frequent media interviews and for a friendship he once had with an Israeli woman. Zubeidi over the years had received amnesty and taken college courses and was active in a West Bank theater movement before his 2019 arrest on suspicions of involvement in attacks.

Photos released by police showed Zubeidi, handcuff ed and wearing a white head band, being led away by two police offi cers.

In a statement, police said Israeli security forces have been working “around the clock” to catch the fugitives.

“All of the forces were deployed at full strength, searched in open areas, collected every piece of information until they succeeded in solving the puzzle to locate these two fugitives,” including Zubeidi, police said. The search for the fi nal two prisoners was continuing.

Earlier, two other prisoners were arrested in Nazareth, an Arab city in northern Israel just west of Umm alGhanam.

A video circulating on social media showed Israeli police shackling one of the prisoners, Yakub Kadari, into the backseat of a police vehicle and asking him for his name. The man, wearing jeans and a green T-shirt, calmly identifi es himself as Kadari and answers “yes” when asked whether he is one of the escapees. Kadari was serving two life sentences for attempted murder and bomb planting.

According to Israeli media reports, local residents in both towns had turned in the prisoners.

The six Palestinians tunneled out of the Gilboa prison on Monday, setting off a furious manhunt across Israel and in the West Bank.

While Zubeidi was a member of the secular Fatah group, the others belonged to the Islamic Jihad militant group. All of the prisoners are from the nearby city of Jenin in the Israel-occupied West Bank.

Nations call for action in Afghanistan Ashok Sharma

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NEW DELHI – Top ministers from India and Australia on Saturday called for international anti-terror eff orts in Afghanistan, bolstering mutual security ties and blunting China’s growing regional assertiveness.

Australia’s foreign and defense ministers met their Indian counterparts in New Delhi, the second stop on a four-nation tour.

Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne said the future of Afghanistan was a central concern for both India and Pakistan. She said the gains of the past 20 years – such as women’s empowerment and steps toward an inclusive society – should not be allowed to be reversed.

Australia also wants to strike a free trade deal with India to reduce its economic reliance on an increasingly hostile China.

India’s External Aff airs Minister Subhramanyam Jaishankar praised the “renewed vigor with which both sides are now engaging on trade issues,” without providing further details. Bilateral trade between India and Australia is around $20 billion annually, his ministry says.

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10 missing, 1 dead in landslide María Verza

ASSOCIATED PRESS

TLALNEPANTLA, Mexico – Rescuers planned to resume the search Saturday for victims of a landslide that brought tons of massive boulders down on a steep hillside neighborhood outside Mexico City, killing at least one person and leaving 10 missing.

The operation is complicated by the sheer size of the rocks that cleaved from the peak known as Chiquihuite on Friday afternoon, leaving the narrow paths of the neighborhood largely inaccessible to heavy machinery and the worrisome instability of the exposed mountain face.

The landslide in Tlalnepantla in Mexico state followed days of heavy rain in central Mexico and a 7.0-magnitude earthquake Tuesday in Acapulco that swayed buildings 200 miles away in the capital. Mexico state Gov. Alfredo del Mazo said Friday night that both factors likely contributed to the slide.

Neighborhood residents immediately started to dig for their neighbors Friday. They formed lines across the towering debris pile, passing down 5-gallon buckets of debris and individual rocks.

Authorities pulled rescuers off the pile after dark due to the risk of more falling rock.

“We don’t want anyone to take additional risk,” said Ricardo De La Cruz, Mexico state’s deputy interior secretary. “The geologists have told us that the landslide is complicated. We have made fl ights with drones and we don’t want to put anyone in danger.”

The priority Saturday was to stabilize the slope and continue the search, he said.

Pope’s foreign trip tests his health, diplomacy Francis to travel to Hungary, Slovakia Nicole Winfield and Justin Spike ASSOCIATED PRESS

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis is making his fi rst foreign trip since undergoing intestinal surgery in July, a four-day visit to Central Europe that will not only test his health but also provide one of the most awkward moments of his papacy – a meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the sort of populist, right-wing leader Francis typically scorns.

Francis is only spending seven hours in Budapest on Sunday before moving on to a three-day, hop-scotch tour of neighboring Slovakia. The lopsided itinerary suggests that Francis wanted to avoid giving Orban the bragging rights, political boost and photo opportunities that come with hosting a pope for a proper state visit.

Trip organizers have insisted Francis isn’t snubbing Hungary, noting that the Hungarian church and state only invited him to close out an international conference on the Eucharist on Sunday.

“If I am only invited to dinner, I cannot spend the night,” said the Rev. Kornel Fabry, secretary general of the Eucharist conference.

But the message being sent is clear, and Francis even hammered home the point in a recent interview with the COPE broadcaster of the Spanish bishops’ conference. In the interview, Francis said he didn’t even know if he’d meet with Orban while in Budapest. Vatican offi cials have said he will, of course, meet with the prime minister along with the Hungarian president

Pope Francis is opening his fi rst foreign trip on Sunday since undergoing major surgery in July, admitting that he might be overdoing it. GREGORIO BORGIA/AP FILE

in a scheduled meeting.

Botond Feledy, policy expert for the Institute of Social Refl ection, a Hungarian Jesuit organization, said it was clear Francis and Orban disagree on some fundamental issues – migration topping the list – but said the aim is not to escalate diff erences or confl icts.

“It is quite clear that the 30 minutes that Pope Francis has in his program to meet with the head of state, the head of government and the bishop is a very, very short time,” Feledy said in an interview.

The visit is being closely watched given it marks Francis’ fi rst big and prolonged public outing since he underwent scheduled surgery in July for what the Vatican said was a severe narrowing of his large intestine.

Francis, 84, had 13 inches of his colon removed and spent 10 days in the hospi-

tal recovering. He has recently resumed holding public and private audiences and says he is now living a “totally normal life.” But he is still on medication and cannot stand for long periods of time.

“Maybe in this fi rst trip I should be more careful, because one has to recover completely,” Francis said in the COPE interview. “But in the end it will be the same as the others, you will see.”

After the brief stop in Budapest, Francis heads to Slovakia where the highlight of the trip will be his visit Tuesday with members of the country’s Roma minority.

Francis will also meet with Slovakia’s Jewish community before he fi nishes up the visit with a Mass on Wednesday in Sastin, the site of an annual pilgrimage each Sept. 15 to venerate the patron of Slovakia, Our Lady of Sorrows.

Luminarias honor those lost on Flight 93

called the Wall of Names. It’s a yearly ceremony at the memorial, but one that carried extra weight ahead of Satur-

day’s anniversary.

“We need this. Our country and the world needs places like the Flight 93 National Memorial because it reminds us of who we are, who we became and perhaps who we could once again become – a healing,” Felt said.

As visitors streamed through the education center to hear the story of Flight 93 onto the observation deck to see the fi nal resting place of the passengers and crew, it served as a symbol of Somerset County’s new identity, as a local called it. Henry Cook, who has been involved with the memorial for years, said the area once considered coal-mining its backbone. Now, it’s the 40 heroes, he said, embraced by a community that tried to carry some of the burden for their families.

Friday gave offi cials a chance to celebrate what the sprawling memorial has become, too. It was built with the help of the families who were trying to process immeasurable loss.

“This memorial really shines a light that America has heroes who step forward – that people unbeknownst even as they were entering a fl ight to travel to the other part of the United States end up as heroes that we still recognize today,” U.S. Rep. John Joyce said as he walked the memorial plaza before the luminaria ceremony.

Julian Roth

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

STONYCREEK, Pa. – Just about 20 years have passed since Gordon Felt fi rst saw the site where his brother and 39 other people were killed on Flight 93.

It was the ride there that stuck with him most.

The families of the passengers and crew were bused through the “back country roads” of Somerset County, Pennsylvania, Felt recalled, but the roads weren’t empty. They were lined with people; children waved American fl ags, their parents held signs and fi rst responders stood at intersections to salute them – one of the fi rst signs of the community’s warm embrace of the families and of the 40 who died, including his brother, Edward.

Felt told that story Friday at the Flight 93 Memorial, and in a few hours, the story would spring to life again.

Hundreds of people would line the quarter-mile route at the memorial site, watching as 40 people – one-by-one – carried lanterns to honor the passengers and crew who banded together against hijackers to force down Flight 93 two decades ago, thwarting another terror attack on 9/11.

Walking down the route near the

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People pay tribute to the passengers and crew members of Flight 93 on Friday at the Flight 93 National Memorial outside Shanksville, Pa. JACK GRUBER/USA TODAY

crash site, they placed the lights below the names of the 40 who were killed, written on large marble stone panels

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Suit fi led over Confederate statue in mostly Black Tuskegee

Queen offers ‘thoughts and prayers’ on 9/11 anniversary

Hurricane Larry wipes out power, trees in Newfoundland

China pledges 3 million COVID vaccine shots to Vietnam

TUSKEGEE, Ala. – A lawsuit has been fi led that could decide the fate of a Confederate monument that has stood in a square in nearly all-Black Tuskegee for 115 years. The Macon County Commission has fi led suit against chapters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy arguing that the county owns the property where the statue is located and wants title to the plot. The statue has been the subject of demonstrations for decades in Tuskegee. The nation’s fi rst Black military pilots trained in the city during World War II.

LONDON – Queen Elizabeth II marked the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by off ering her sympathies to the victims, survivors and families aff ected by the atrocity. In a message to U.S. President Joe Biden, the British monarch remembered the “terrible attacks” on New York and Washington, D.C. “My thoughts and prayers – and those of my family and the entire nation – remain with the victims, survivors and families aff ected, as well as the fi rst responders and rescue workers called to duty,” she said.

ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland – People in the Canadian Atlantic coast province of Newfoundland woke Saturday to streets littered with debris tossed by the ferocious winds of Hurricane Larry, which made landfall as a Category 1 storm just after midnight Friday, bringing sheets of rain and sustained winds of 80 mph across the Avalon Peninsula, which includes the provincial capital of St. John’s. A small crowd gathered at Mary Queen of Peace elementary school, its shredded roof whipped by the remaining winds.

HANOI, Vietnam – China plans to donate 3 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine to Vietnam, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Saturday in Hanoi. Yi’s pledge comes amid a virus lockdown in Vietnam to contain a COVID-19 surge. About 23 million Vietnamese students started a new school year earlier this week, most of them in virtual classrooms. Vietnam Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said Saturday that the two countries should use dialogue to work out any diff erences, state broadcaster VTV reported.

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Woman’s absence from funeral conspicuous Dear Carolyn: Our family has always been very tight-knit. This has been tested in recent years, following my brother’s marriage to a woman we believe has intentionally created rifts between us.

Our last living grandparent passed away after a lengthy illness. Even though we knew it was coming, it was a huge blow to our entire extended family, as she was truly our rock. She was always kind and welcoming to my sisterin-law, of course.

For the funeral, my sister and I packed up our families and spent the weekend planning the service and reminiscing with family members. My brother was the only grandchild not present.

He came the day of the funeral. His

wife and three young children were not with him, and we overheard him giving various excuses for their absence (“We have so much going on”). Their absence was very conspicuous.

After the service, our brother apparently got a call from his wife – I wasn’t there – berating him for losing track of time and not leaving earlier, to pick up their child from sports practice. He high-tailed it out of there.

We’re all hurt and confused. Several cousins and friends asked us why they weren’t there, and we had no satisfactory explanation. It felt like a slap in the face. I’m still fuming.

Is there any way I can express to her how disappointed, hurt and angry we

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Kimmel: Prioritize patients who haven’t taken ivermectin Television host Jimmy Kimmel suggested that crowded hospitals should prioritize patients who have been vaccinated and who have not taken the deworming medicine ivermectin.

Kimmel, who has been on vacation from Kimmel hosting “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” since June, told his audience on Tuesday, “I leave you people alone for two months. You start taking horse worm medicine?”

He referenced that daily coronavirus infections were up more than 300% on Labor Day this year over what the U.S. was seeing on the holiday last year. Kimmel also noted that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, told CNN that some U.S. hospitals are getting so crowded with COVID-19 cases that they may

were (or at least, I was) by her seeming callousness toward my grandmother, who welcomed her with open arms?

Does constructive criticism get through to people like that?

– Grieving and [Ticked] Off Grieving and [Ticked] Off : What would be constructive about the criticism you plan? Your pain is understandable and I am sorry for your loss. I can’t know what you’re feeling, but I have my own experience with losing the emotional center of my extended family.

Grief is disorienting.

But it doesn’t give you say in things that aren’t your business – and how your brother conducts his marriage, even a terrible one, is none of your busi-

ness. Full stop.

You don’t know what goes on between them. You don’t know what role your brother had in decisions about this weekend. A family with three littles (+ pandemic!) could have a dozen reasons to opt out. You don’t know how your grandmother’s relationship with your brother or sister-in-law worked, either.

If you’re still pained as the grief recedes, then ask your brother someday – not his wife – what was up. But never lose sight of what matters: missing your grandmother, not who was missing from what.

Email Carolyn at tellme@ washpost.com, follow her on Facebook at facebook.com/carolyn.hax.

“have to make some very tough choices.”

“Dr. Fauci said that if hospitals get any more overcrowded, they’re going to have to make some very tough choices about who gets an ICU bed. That choice doesn’t seem so tough to me,” Kimmel said. “Vaccinated person having a heart attack? Yes, come right on in. We’ll take care of you. Unvaccinated guy who gobbled horse goo? Rest in peace, wheezy.”

was dapper in a black tuxedo. There were plenty of kisses and hugs for the cameras after a summer of love for the two, who rekindled their romance in May, 17 years after they broke up in 2004.

Affleck, Lopez make romance official in Venice After weeks of smooching on yachts and holding hands on intimate walks, Jennifer Lopez and old fl ame turned new again Ben Affl eck made it offi cial Friday night on the red carpet for the premiere of Affl eck’s “The Last Duel” at the Venice International Film Festival.

She was dripping in Cartier diamonds in a white mermaid body hugging gown with plunging neckline and high side slit by Georges Hobeika. He

Telemundo’s Diaz-Balart to host daily show on MSNBC Veteran journalist Jose Diaz-Balart, the longtime anchor of “Noticias Telemundo” is hosting a daily new show on MSNBC, the network announced Tuesday.

On Sept. 27, Diaz-Balart will take over the 10 a.m. weekday slot in the cable news network. He’s replacing NBC News’ senior Washington correspondent Hallie Jackson, who is moving to a 3 p.m. slot.

The Cuban American anchor will step down from his role as anchor at Telemundo’s nightly weekday newscast, “Noticias Telemundo,” a show he has anchored since 2009.

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Somber crowds refl ect on 9/11 3 US presidents mark day with display of unity Ryan W. Miller, Christine Fernando and Sarah Elbeshbishi USA TODAY

NEW YORK – Solemn crowds around the country gathered in silence Saturday for the 20th time to remember the nearly 3,000 people killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that forever changed the nation.

Bells tolled to signify the moments each tower of the World Trade Center was hit 20 years ago. Family members clutched photos of loved ones and wiped tears from one another’s eyes. In New York City, twin beams of light reached 4 miles into the sky in a haunting reminder of where the towers once stood.

Ceremonies were held Saturday in New York City, at the Pentagon and outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania, to honor the dead.

As survivors, politicians, fi rst responders and loved ones of those who died refl ected on the anniversary, many praised the unity Americans showed and highlighted the importance of passing on the memory to those too young to remember it.

At a private ceremony for family of those killed after United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a fi eld outside Shanksville, former President George W. Bush recalled the unity and strength Americans showed and urged the country to put aside political views to come together again today.

“So much of our politics has become a naked appeal to anger, fear and resentment,” Bush said. “On America’s day of trial and grief, I saw millions of people instinctively grab their neighbor’s hand and rally to the cause of one another.”

Bush, who was in offi ce at the time, acknowledged that many alive today were not old enough to remember those moments, even though they now “owe a vast, unconscious debt” to the fi rst responders and others who died in the attacks.

“For those too young to recall that

Outside the fi rehouse that housed Engine Co. 10, fi refi ghters stand at attention during a moment of silence as part of the September 11 Commemoration Ceremony making the 20th anniversary of the attacks by terrorists. CHRIS PEDOTA/NORTHJERSEY.COM/USA TODAY NETWORK

clear September day, it is hard to describe the mix of feelings we experienced,” he said. “There was horror at the scale of destruction and awe at the bravery and kindness that rose to meet it.”

Former President Donald Trump skipped the offi cial 9/11 memorial ceremonies and instead visited a fi re station and police precinct in New York.

Saturday’s ceremony at the Flight 93 National Memorial included a reading of the names of each person who died, followed by the tolls of the Bells of Remembrance.

Vice President Kamala Harris spoke of the hard times the families of those on Flight 93 have faced, and how they must remember their faces on every birthday and every time they tuck in their kids.

“You have felt it every day, every week and every year that has passed,

these 20 years,” she said. “Please know your nation sees with you, and we stand with you.”

Outside the Pentagon early Saturday, family members honored their fallen loved ones. Near the front of the rows of white chairs, Richard Keller and his wife remembered their son, Chandler Keller.

Keller, 29, died on the hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 departing Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles.

“We lost him on that day, and we’ve been back almost every year to remember him,” Richard Keller said.

“We just can’t believe it’s been 20 years. We’re tried hard to keep his memory alive.”

Also at the ceremony was Barbara Lee, who was working at the Pentagon that day.

“I think it’s appropriate that we re-

member, we remember the people that we lost, we remember the families,” Lee said.

“It’s just kind of sad day.”

At the 9/11 Memorial in New York City, a solemn crowd of hundreds gathered as a bell tolled. A moment of silence was held at 8:46 a.m., the moment the north tower of the World Trade Center was hit. People cried as Bruce Springsteen sang: “When all the summers have come to an end / I’ll see you in my dreams / We’ll meet and live and love again / I’ll see you in my dreams.”

President Joe Biden and fi rst lady Jill Biden visited all three sites. In New York, they were joined by former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, along with former fi rst ladies Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama. The three presidents stood side by side, each wearing blue ribbons and holding their hands over their hearts as a procession marched a fl ag through the memorial.

Lindsay Miller has been coming to the ceremonies in New York as long as she can remember to support her mother, Michele, who lost her brother in the attack.

Miller was 3 years old when her uncle, Mitchel Scott Wallace, a court offi cer, was killed in the World Trade Center as he tried to rescue trapped victims. As a schoolteacher, she said she now grapples with how students learn about the trauma of the day.

“I don’t know how you fi rst learn about it,” she said. “It’s something you always knew.”

Christine Munson, whose mother, Theresa, died in the south tower on Sept. 11, said she wishes the country could go back to the unity she felt after 9/11.

“We were there for each other, and now we’re so divided,” she said.

Munson has volunteered at the 9/11 Museum in New York, sharing her mother’s story with countless strangers. That’s part of what’s unique about mourning someone who died on 9/11, she said.

“Most people die and you have a private ceremony,” she said. “Here, it’s with the whole world.”

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Joel alters Pete Rose lyrics at ballpark show ‘Piano Man’ plays many of hits for sellout crowd Chris Varias

Special to Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

It’s September, and the Reds remain in the playoff hunt, but that doesn’t mean that they can draw a bigger crowd in Cincinnati than Billy Joel.

It was a sellout of 36,395 at Great American Ball Park for Joel, in town on Friday making up a COVID-cancelled date from last year.

Performing on a stage built in centerfi eld and facing home plate, Joel and his eight-person band’s two-hour, 24-song set was thoroughly enjoyable.

“It’s a year later,” said Joel, 72, decked out in a dark shirt, dark tie, dark pants and dark sport coat. “Thank you for waiting.”

Of those 24 songs, most were hits. He understood why people purchased tickets. Joel is not the sort of classic rocker who tests material created in the current millennium on a live audience wanting to hear songs from the previous one. In fact, he hasn’t released an album of new pop songs in nearly 30 years.

“So I got nothing new for you,” he said, seated at a black baby grand with a fl yswatter in hand, keeping away the bugs drawn to his spotlight. “Same old (stuff ). But we know how to play it by now.”

“The Piano Man.” “My Life.” “You May Be Right.” “Always a Woman.” “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” “Uptown Girl.” “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant.” “Big Shot.”

“It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me.” “Only the Good Die Young.” “Movin’ Out.” “New York State of Mind.” That’s half of them.

And even the casual Billy Joel fans assembled probably knew most of the other half.

In three instances, he let the crowd pick the tune between two choices. The winners, as determined by applause, were “Vienna” over “Just the Way You Are,” “The Downeaster ‘Alexa’ ” over “The Ballad of Billy the Kid,” and “Say Goodbye to Hollywood” over “I Go to Extremes.”

Billy Joel performs from his piano in centerfi eld and facing home plate at Great American Ball Park on Friday.

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The show had two Cincinnati-specific moments. He performed “Zanzibar,” changing the line about Charlie Hustle in the 1978 song from “Rose, he knows he’s such a credit to the game” to “Rose, he knows he’ll never make the Hall of Fame.”

Joel recalled a 1970s show at the Cincinnati Gardens (the internet suggests it might have been at another venue in town) opening for Procol Harum. “Nobody cheered, nobody cared,” he said.

He took a brief pause to look out upon the sold-out room before adding: “Life’s funny.” He and the band broke into Procol’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale.” They only did the fi rst four lines, but it sounded great, and it would have been nice had they done the whole thing.

There were more English classic-rock snippets to follow: a bit of Led Zeppelin’s “Rock and Roll” during the show-closing “You May Be Right” and some of the Rolling Stones’ “Honky Tonk Woman” interspersed with “The River of Dreams,” a strange pairing to be sure. Later, during the encore, came more Stones: a cover of “Brown Sugar,” which Joel dedicated to the late drummer Charlie Watts.

One of the best moments of the show was a performance of Puccini’s “Nessun dorma,” sung by Joel’s guitar player Mike DelGuidice with Joel accompanying on piano. It’s certainly neither a rock-radio staple nor a Billy Joel classic, but the crowd loved it anyway. Maybe the crowd and Joel are, in fact, ready for a new tune or two in the setlist.

Fans of Billy Joel watch as he performs at Great American Ball Park. The crowd of 36,395 from a rescheduled show was a sellout.

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Name *Ash, Kenneth *Ax, Eberhard Back, Jessica *Battersby, Patricia S. *Battle Jr, Lynwood L *Beiting, Jean *Bissinger, Diane F Bland, Delores Bowron, Sally *Britton, Larry *Champness Jr., Robert J. *Clem, Helen Josephine Curtis (nee Donohoe), Sandra G. Dawalt, William Joseph “Bill” Dietz, William C. Dietz, Gary *DiFilippo, Kimberly Dowler, Pam Dunlap, Paul *Elias Sr., David *Elizabeth, Shelby *Family, The Snow Fischer, Georgia L. *Geraci, James *Getreu, Lula P. *Giles (aka Tina), Rovelma Ann *Gillman, Ernie Glick, Patricia Ann “Patty” Gosney (nee Cheesman), Betty A. Haas, Nicholas *Haas Sr. , Robert “Bob” *Hack, Paul *Hart, Shirley Harmeyer, Joseph C. *Hatfield, Constance “Connie” Kathryn *Hemmer, Mary M. Hensley, Rhoda E. *Holt, Betty Hope, Jeffrey J. Hornsby Jr., Herschel *Jackson, Beatrice *Jones, Sandi King, Janice F. *Kispert, Mary V. *Kraemer , Lester “Les” “Buddy” *Kuethe, Judy A. *Kulle, Robert H. *Lassandro III, Victor R. *Ludeke, Mick *Manning, Lillie *Marinakis, Bill D. Mason, Mary Louise *Mersch, Diana M. *Moser, Richard Stephen “Dick” Payne, Corena *Pearson Jr., George B. Phillips, Belton O. Poole, John T *Poynter, Donald Byron *Price, Danny L. Redd, Emma Mae Reese, Darrell Wayne *Reynolds, The Rev. Dr. Robert Eugene *Robinette, Esq., Joseph A. *Ruehl, Diane Young Rust, Ida Maxine Schildmeyer, Marilyn Tufts *Schneider, Elwood Schultz, Robert *Seibert, Vivian Merten Singleton (nee Wainscott), Billie Sizemore, Ruth “Ruthie” Pearl Smith, Tyrone Spicer, Donna *Thomas, Rene’ Belinda *Thompson (nee Sutliff), Barbara S. Tibbetts, Shirley *Toombs, Robert Allen Tracey, W. Thomas Trice, Joseph Walden, Jeremy Wanninger, Elaine *Wolf, Edward Allen *Wolfram, Stephanie *Woltermann , Shirley A.

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Town, State Death Date Arrangements 07-Sep Hodapp Funeral Home Milford 09-Sep Evans Funeral Home Miami Heights 30-Jul Dennis George Funeral Home 05-Sep Rebold Rosenacker and Sexton Cincinnati 29-Aug J.C Battles & Son Deer Park 02-Sep Strawser & Staley - Strawser Funeral Homes Blue Ash and Deer Park, OH. Cincinnati 09-Sep Weil Kahn Funeral Home Cincinnati 01-Sep J.C. Battle & Sons Funeral Home Harrison 09-Sep Brater Winter Funeral Home - Harrison 06-Sep Hodapp Funeral Home 08-Sep T. P. White & Sons Funeral Home Mount Pleasant 07-Sep J. Henry Stuhr Inc. Lebanon 06-Sep Stine Funeral Home, Lebanon Villa Hills 08-Sep Chambers & Grubbs, Independence Cincinnati, OH 05-Sep Chambers & Grubbs Funeral Home Hidden Valley Lake 09-Sep Dennis George Funeral Home Union 04-Sep Middendorf Funeral Home Monfort Heights 04-Sep Brater Winter Funeral Home - Harrison Cincinnati 31-Aug Walker Funeral Home Sharonville 09-Sep Evans Funeral Home Marshall 24-Dec Avance Funeral Home Newport 12-Jul Fares J. Radel Funeral Home Anderson Township 05-Sep Moore Family Funeral Homes Sharonville 09-Sep Mihovk Rosenacker Funeral Home 04-Sep T. P. White & Sons Funeral Home Cincinnati 04-Sep Walker Funeral Home, White Oak / Harrison 03-Sep Brater Winter Funeral Home - Harrison West Chester 07-Sep Frederick Funeral Home Cincinnati 06-Sep Ralph Meyer & Deters Funeral Home Spring Hill 07-Sep Dennis George Funeral Home 28-Aug Dennis George Funeral Home Kenwood 08-Sep Strawser Funeral Homes Blue Ash OH. 31-Aug T. P. White & Sons Funeral Home Deer Park 08-Sep Mihovk Rosenacker Funeral Home Cincinnati 30-Aug Ft. Mitchell 09-Sep Middendorf Funeral Home Norwood 08-Sep Naegele Kleb & Ihlendorf Funeral Home Sayler Park 02-Sep Brater Winter Funeral Home (Sayler Park) Cincinnati 04-Sep Mihovk Rosenacker Funeral Home Middletown 08-Sep Evans Funeral Home - Goshen Cincinnati 02-Sep Spring Grove Funeral Homes Burlington 09-Sep Linnemann Funeral Homes Batavia 09-Sep Evans Funeral Home - Milford 08-Sep Vitt, Stermer & Anderson Cincinnati 06-Sep Hodapp Funeral Home Blue Ash 05-Sep Mihovk Rosenacker Funeral Home Cincinnati 10-Sep Neidhard Minges Funeral Home 09-Sep Fares J. Radel Funeral Home Loveland 18-Sep Tufts Schildmeyer Family Funeral Homes Covington 07-Sep Don Catchen & Son Funeral Home, Elsmere West Chester 09-Sep Mueller Funeral Home Demossville 10-Sep Peoples Funeral Homes Cincinnati 01-Sep Gilligan Funeral Home Springfield Twp. 12-Aug Frederick Funeral Home Falmouth 10-Sep Peoples Funeral Homes Colerain Twp. 08-Sep Frederick Funeral Home Cincinnati, Ohio 04-Aug W. E. Lusain Funeral Home Cincinnati 04-Sep J.C. Battle & Sons Funeral Home Cincinnati 13-Aug Spring Grove Funeral Homes-Elden Good Springdale 07-Sep Vorhis and Ryan, Springdale Cincinnati 03-Oct J.C. BATTLE & SONS FH 08-Sep Dalbert Woodruff & Isenogle Funeral Home --Megie Funeral Home/Craver Chapel Cincinnati 31-Aug Westbrock Funeral Home Cincinnati 27-Aug Spring Grove Funeral Homes Union Township 07-Sep Evans Funeral Home - Milford Loveland 05-Sep Tufts Schildmeyer Family Funeral Homes 05-Sep Fares J. Radel Funeral Home Miami Township 24-Aug Dennis George Funeral Home 04-Sep Ocala, FL 08-Sep Stine Funeral Home, Lebanon Latonia, KY 09-Sep Connley Brothers Funeral Home Cincinnati 12-Aug J.C. Battle & Sons Funeral Home Miami Township 28-Aug Dennis George Funeral Home Cincinnati 27-Aug Webster Funeral Home, Fairfield 05-Sep T. P. White & Sons Funeral Home Harrison 08-Sep Dennis George Funeral Home Mount Vernon, WA 26-Aug Evans Funeral Home - Milford Green Township 09-Sep Meyer Funeral Home & Crematory Cincinnati 17-Aug J.C. Battle & Sons Funeral Home Loveland 03-Sep Tufts Schildmeyer - Loveland Cincinnati, OH 09-Sep Arlington Memorial Gardens Funeral Home 05-Sep Rebold Rosenacker and Sexton Funeral Home Loveland 06-Sep Tufts Schildmeyer Family Funeral Homes New Richmond 03-Sep T. P. White & Sons Funeral Home

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Paul Hack KENWOOD - Age 94, former longtime resident of Montgomery and Mason, passed away peacefully Wednesday, September 8, 2021. Beloved husband of 68 years to Pat and dedicated father to Pam (Rudy), Steve (Diane), Jane (Mike), Jenny (Tom), David (Susan), Tom (Lynne) and Chris (Lisa). Brother of Joe Hack. Preceding him in death were siblings Rita, Claire, Fr. Tom and Mary Jane. Family meant everything to Paul and he was a beloved Papa who was very proud of his 20 grandchildren and 11 great-grand children. He never missed a graduation or a family birthday or the opportunity to tell everyone that his granddaughter was in The Best Band In The Land. He loved hosting his family of 50+ and close friends for a Christmas dinner each year at Carlo and Johnny’s and telling them all,“remember, this isn’t the last supper.” He enjoyed a wide circle of friends, was an avid, life-long golfer and a fan of the Reds, Bengals (well, sometimes anyway), and Xavier University. Paul was a founding member of Good Shepherd parish and particularly loved when Fr. Graham was saying Mass, enjoying the depth and (importantly!) the brevity of his sermons.

Paul graduated from Purcell in 1945 and XU in 1950. After a short stint in the Navy, he worked in oil sales before closing out his career with GE. We will miss him dearly but fully expect that he is enjoying a glass of Pinot Grigio - with two ice cubes! - up in Heaven. Rest In Peace Paul, Dad, Papa - we love you. Visitation at 9:00 am followed

by Mass of the Christian Burial is at 10:00 am Thursday September 16th both at Good Shepherd Catholic Church 8815 E Kemper Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45249 with burial immediately following at Gate of Heaven. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to Hospice of Southwest Ohio. Online guest book at www.strawserfuneralhome.com

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Patricia S. Battersby passed away September 5, 2021. She was born November 21, 1935, in Cincinnati, Ohio to John A. and Elizabeth Battersby.

She was preceded in death by her brother John M. Battersby and her sister Betty A. Battersby. Patricia is survived by her brother Michael Battersby, cousin Barbara A. Rosenberger, niece Kathy Maggard, nephews Aaron and Sean Battersby and several great-nieces and nephews. She will also be deeply missed by her pet, Lady. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held 10:30am, Thursday September 16, 2021, at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, 3450 Lumbardo Ave. Cincinnati, Ohio 45238. A visitation will be held at 9:30, prior to mass at the church. Burial will be in St. Mary Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Diabetes Association as well as the SPCA. www. rebold.com

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James Geraci SHARONVILLE - Rev.

Jean Beiting DEER PARK - The beloved daughter of the late John & Elizabeth Beiting, dear sister of the late Richard (Rebekah) Beiting, loving Aunt of Jeffrey (Kim) Beiting, Paula (Paul) Kobelt, Donna (Paul) Slagle. Great Aunt of Megan Beiting, Emily (Dan) Herchline, Brian Beiting, Peter, Maddie, Alex Kobelt and Garrett & Grant Slagle. She was employed with AT&T for 35 years. Mass of Christian Burial will be at 11:30 am Tuesday, September 14th at St. Saviour Catholic Church Friends may gather prior at 11:00 am at the church. Memorials to Hospice of Cincinnati or SPCA Cincinnati. Online guest book at www.staleyfuneralhome.com

Mr. James L. Geraci, age 84, passed away Thursday, September 9, 2021 in Sharonville. He was born May 3, 1937 to the late Gus and Isabelle Geraci.

James is survived by his loving daughters, Kathleen (Mark) Stall and Karen (Michelle Davenport) Geraci; treasured grandchildren, Emily (Jake) LaForge, Elyse (Eric) Smith, Claire Stall, and James Stall; and cherished great grandchildren, Simon, Gus, and Ruby.

In addition to his parents, James was preceded in death by his beloved wife of 63 years D. Janet Geraci (nee Renner).

James was a veteran of the U.S. Navy as well as a proud graduate of both Roger Bacon High School and Xavier University. James and his wife ran James L. Geraci & Associates until he became disabled at the age of 46. Never content to rest on his laurels, James answered the call to his strong faith and attended the Athenaeum of Ohio and was ordained a permanent Deacon in 1990; he served his community by ministering to local hospitals and prison facilities. Eventually James retired to Cottingham Retirement Community, where he was so deeply admired by the staff. The family of James is grateful to Cottingham Retirement Community for their devotion and care.

James was the kindest, most generous man who was completely devoted to his family. He always had a kind word or a story to make someone smile.

Visitation will take place Tuesday Sept. 14th from 10:00 am until time of Mass of Christian Burial at 11:00 am at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Reading with Fr. Matt Robben as celebrant. Interment will follow at Gate of Heaven Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in James’s honor to Roger Bacon Highschool, 4320 Vine Street, Cincinnati OH 45217. Online condolences may be expressed at www.mrfh.com.

Eberhard Ax MILFORD - Eberhard “Eb” William Ax born 7/14/1932 died peacefully at home September 9 2021…..welcomed into heaven by His Lord, his mother Ida, wife Patsy “Pat”, daughter Kathy and son in law Jim. The family and friends he leaves behind that loved and adored him are his daughter Karen( Pedro Luna), Grandson Phillip Hodge (Anne), Great Grandsons Owen & Isaac Hodge, The Wulker, Johnson, Kreimer, Silva & Burke families, The Tribe and many other family and friends. Eb was born and raised in Madisonville Ohio, attending St Paul’s LCMS and School, taking great pride in his humble beginnings, loving to tell stories of those years. After marrying the love of his life Pat, they moved to Milford Ohio and was the last surviving charter member (63 years) of St. Mark’s LCMS. At St Paul’s and St Mark’s he gave and served in many roles. His most beloved role was Trustee and later surrogate Grandpa to many of the students at St. Marks School. Eb started his automotive legacy at a very young age as a lot boy for Cronin Motors. Cars were his passion, not just a job. His career at Woody Sander Ford, 1950-1997, was one he took great pride in. Parts Manager was a role that fit his personality of supply, demand and storage. Rising to the challenge of how many parts can be stored in the smallest of space to make sure a part was available for customers & City of Cincinnati. Service was his number one priority during his 47 years. After retirement Eb joined the Miami Township Library as a Friend of the Library using his skills for his other passion in life, reading & books. He enjoyed traveling around the city gathering books for the book sales, raising funds to meet, enhance current needs and to develop opportunities for future generations of the Library.

Eb was a simple man that believed in loving his family and friends, working hard, serving in whatever way was needed, giving no matter the sacrifice to himself and making sure everyone knew he was a man of faith. He made his 89 years on this earth count, leaving behind a legacy in the areas of life he valued the most. Visitation is on Sunday September 12th 2:00PM to 4:00PM at Evans Funeral Home Milford, OH, Graveside Service Monday September 13th 11:00AM at Evergreen Cemetery in Miamiville, OH. Memorials, if so desired, can be made in Eb’s memory to the Parkinson’s Foundation, St. Mark’s Milford, OH or the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. www.evansfuneralhome.com

Diane F Bissinger Bissinger, Diane F. nee Freeman, age 66, passed away Thursday, September 9, 2021, beloved wife of Charles C. Bissinger, Jr., loving mother of Kelly B. (Matthew J. Porter) Bissinger of Falls Church, VA and Charles C. (Martha P. Aranda) Bissinger III of Austin, TX, dear grandmother of Jackson and Andrew Porter. Private graveside services will be held at the convenience of the family.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions to Planned Parenthood Action Fund would be appreciated.

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Larry Britton Larry Britton passed away on September 6, 2021 at the age of 76.

Please see full obituary at hodappfuneralhome.com

Kenneth Ash Kenneth Ash passed away on September 7, 2021 at the age of 79.

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Helen Josephine Clem MOUNT PLEASANT

- Helen Josephine “Jo” Clem, 82, of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, wife of Edward O. Clem, entered into eternal rest Tuesday, September 7, 2021. Services will be held at a later date. Arrangements by J. Henry Stuhr, Inc. Mount Pleasant Chapel.

Jo was born February 14th, 1939 in East Bernstadt, Kentucky, daughter of John Frederick and Bertha Moore Krall. She received her Associate Degree in Interior Design from Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT. After working with Gail Green Interiors in New York City she established her own business, Interiors by Design. After retiring to Charleston, SC, Jo applied her talents to her own family, designing and building a family homestead that would eventually grace the pages of Charleston Style & Design.

A talented artist, Jo distinguished her business by actively incorporating paintings and sculpture into her interior designs.

As a lifelong supporter of artists of all types and ages, she gave back to the community in a multitude of ways, from volunteering her time teaching art to children, to serving as President of the Connecticut Classic Art Association. A strong proponent of education, she was a co-founder of the first Montessori school in northern Alabama, as well as FunShop, an after-school enrichment program for talented and gifted children.

She is survived by her husband of 57 years, Edward “Ed” O. Clem of Mount Pleasant, SC; son, Steven E. Clem of James Island, SC; daughter, Elizabeth “Beth” Volcko of Mount Pleasant, SC; two grandchildren, Daniel Volcko and Delaney Volcko; and sister-in-law, Helen Krall of Colton, CA; She was preceded in death by her brother, Jack Krall.

Memorials may be made to the Charleston Animal Society, 2455 Remount Road, North Charleston, SC 29406, www.charlestonanimalsociety.org or the Alzheimer’s Association, P. O. Box 96011, Washington, DC 20090, www.alz.org.

A memorial message may be sent to the family by visiting our website at www.jhenrystuhr.com.

Lula P. Getreu Lula P Getreu (née Herron), beloved wife of the late John C. Getreu, passed away on Sept 4 at the age of 103. Lula was born a coal miner’s daughter in Harlan County KY during the great influenza epidemic of 1918, and survived despite being born with the flu. As a young adult she moved to Cincinnati and met John at the old Mills Restaurant. They married in 1949. John’s union experience landed him a job with the NLRB and he eventually became Regional Director; his work led them to move to Memphis then Atlanta then back to Mariemont (Cincinnati) where they raised their three children. Lula was active in church, an avid Reds fan, and was a masterful cook of chicken & dumplings and southern pies. She walked several miles per day until she was 95 y/o. In 2014 the Mayor of Mariemont declared it “Lula Getreu Day”. Over the last few years, she suffered from several falls and memory problems but still had good days. Unfortunately, COVID restrictions at her facility kept her family away during her last month, then she caught breakthrough COVID herself, which caused her death. She was feisty, opinionated, but vibrant and wonderful. She will be sorely missed. She is survived by her loving children Linda (Doug) Hawley, John (Betsy) Getreu and Lou Ann Downey; grandchildren Brian Hawley, Tracy (Adam) Zimmer, Kevin (Meredith) Hawley, Thomas (Ashley) Getreu, Emily (Sam) Stachura, Bill (Elizabeth) Downey, Johnny Downey (Mark Lutterbeck) and Tom (Deena) Downey; and her great grandchildren Paige, Emmy, and Cameron Zimmer; Natalie Hawley; Carson and Cameran Getreu; Isla Stachura; Jack and Harper Downey; and Graham and Grayson Downey, all of whom she loved dearly. Donations may be made in her memory to Building Block for Kids, www.BB4K. org/donate. A small private service with only immediate family will be held. T.P.WHITE & SONS serving the family.

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Bill D. Marinakis WEST CHESTER - Bill D. Marinakis DDS, 53, of West Chester, Ohio passed away September 9, 2021 surrounded by his devoted wife and family.

Born in Melbourne, Australia, the son of Panagiota Kanatas Marinakis and the late Dimitrios Marinakis, Bill emigrated as a young child with his family to the United States and settled in Cincinnati. A graduate from Norwood High School, Bill went on to receive a B.S. Degree in Biology from the University of Cincinnati and received his D.D.S. from The Ohio State University Dental School. He established his long term practice in Harrison, Ohio. He was also a member of the Ohio Dental Association. Dr. Marinakis was a life-long member of the Holy Trinity-Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Cincinnati. He is survived by his loving wife, Evonne Skoutelas Marinakis; his beloved children, James, Nicole and Constantine Marinakis, mother Panagiota Marinakis, brothers George (Eleni), Ted (Katie), and sister, Angela. Also survived by adoring nieces and nephew, Pamela, Sofia, Paula, Chrissa, Dimitri, Dimitra and Victoria. Family and friends may call at the Mueller Funeral Home, 6791 Tylersville Rd., Mason, Tuesday, September 14, from 4-7 P.M. Funeral Service at the Holy Trinity-St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, 7000 Winton Road on Wednesday, September 15th at 11 A.M. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Holy Trinity-St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church.

Rovelma Ann Giles (aka Tina)

David Elias Sr. SHARONVILLE - David Phillip Elias, age 70, passed away September 9, 2021. He was preceded in death by his parents, Lee & June Elias.

He is survived by his children; David Elias, Jr. and Melisa Weekly, his grandchildren; David Elias, III., Margaret Elias, Isabelle Weekly and Jackson Weekly, his siblings; Marty Elias and Yvonne Hodge. Preceded in death by sisters Beverly Banes, Marilyn Miller and Judy Haynes. Visitation will be Tuesday September 14th 6:00PM – 8:00PM, Funeral Service Wednesday September 15th, 10:00AM. All at Evans Funeral Home 741 Center Street Milford, OH 45150. Burial with military honors to follow at Greenlawn Cemetery Milford, OH.

CINCINNATI - Rovelma Ann Giles (aka Tina), 66 of Cincinnati, OH, passed away Saturday, September 4, 2021.

She was born June 19, 1955, in Monroe, GA, to the late Alvin and Sybil (nee Bradley) Giles. She was preceded in death by her son, Donte Rogers and her brother, Gary (Ricky) Giles. Those left to cherish her memory include her life partner, Herbert Smiley; granddaughter, Taymisha Rogers; nephew, Gary Wilson; nieces Anetra Wilson, Anica Payne, Sonia Slaten DeLoatch, and Natalie Giles; and a host of family and friends. Visitation is Saturday, September 18, 2021, from 10 am – 11 am, at Greater Canaan Missionary Baptist Church, 7181 Reading Road, Cincinnati (45237), followed by an 11 am funeral service. Interment will immediately follow at Walnut Hills Cemetery, 3117 Victory Parkway, Cincinnati (45206). To leave a tribute, memory, or condolences, please visit the Walker Funeral Home website: www.herbwalker.com.

In keeping with CDC Covid19 Guidelines, we request those attending the services wear a face mask.

Shelby Elizabeth MARSHALL - age 37 of Fairfield Township, passed away after a long illness on Tuesday, August 24, 2021. For full obituary, please visit www.avancefuneralhome.com

Robert “Bob” Haas Sr. - - Robert Harold “Bob” Haas Sr., 75, Aug. 28, 2021, Spring Hill, FL, formerly from Cleves.

Beloved husband of the late Linda M. Haas (nee Long), devoted father of the late Nicholas G. Haas (Lisa) & Robert H. Haas Jr., loving grandfather of Kayla Haas, Isaih Archer, Brodee Haas & Timothy Haas, beloved son of the late Vera Haas (nee Bingle) & Clarence Haas. Bob was a US Marine Corps veteran. Celebration of Life Wed., Sept. 15, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at Whitewater Crossing, 5771 OH-128, Cleves, OH 45002. Masks will be mandatory. www. dennisgeorgefunerals. com

Betty Holt SAYLER PARK - lov-

Ernie Gillman WHITE OAK / HARRISON - son of the late:

William & Pauline (nee Giesting) Gillman; devoted father of Abigail & Alexander Gillman; cherished brother of: Paul (Ann), Mike (Cindy), Dan, Dave (Lisa) Gillman, Marilyn (the late Mike) McDermott, the late Teresa (Ed) Young, Dan Gillman, Diann (Kirk) Fischesser. He is also survived by his Aunt Margie Scudder, many cousins & friends. Gathering of friends will be at Brater Winter Funeral Home, Harrison, on September 19, 2021, from 2 pm until the time of the Memorial Service at 3 pm. Memorials are requested for St. Vincent De Paul or St. Rita’s School for the deaf. www.braterfh.com

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Robert J. Champness Jr. Robert J. Champness Jr. husband of the late Janet W. Champness (nee Wright), beloved father of David Lee (Cherie) Champness & the late Robert Curtis Champness, brother of the late Daniel & Kenneth Champness, dear grandfather of Robert (Connie), Stephanie (Justin), Ryan, Miranda, & Connor (Molly), great grandfather of 4.

Died Sept. 8, 2021, at the age of 87. Resident of Cherry Grove. Mass of Christian Burial at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, Anderson Twp. on Wed. Sept.

15 at 10AM. Friends may visit at the Church on Wed. from 9AM10AM. T. P. WHITE & SONS Funeral Home serving the family.

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ing daughter of the late: Justus R. & Carolina (nee Rademacher) Chandler; wife of the late Ronald Holt; sister of Bill Chandler & the late Thelma Jennings; devoted aunt of: Judy (Bud) Fleming, Bob (Cindy) Jennings, Carol Blakeney, the late Chris Jennings, Tricia (George) Weber, Debbie (Larry) Weis, Diane (Charlie) Wells, Cathy Chandler (John Rodgers), & Chris (Barry) Whitton. Wonderful great aunt to many.Visitation will be at Brater Winter Funeral Home, 138 Monitor Ave, Sayler Park, on Mon., Sept. 13, 2021 from 10 am until the time of the blessing service at 11 am. Burial to follow at Crown Hill Cemetery. Memorials to Whitewater Township Senior Center. www.braterfh.com

Shirley Hart Shirley Hart, devoted wife of Bill Hart for 31 years, passed away peacefully August 31, at the age of 85. Loving mother of Greg Chako (Jay), step-mother of Karen Juel (Anders), Kimberly Pennekamp (Russ), David Hart, and Daniel Hart (Kim). “Grandma Shirley” to Tristan, Evan and Shane Hart, Ali Rowland (Charles) and Russ Pennekamp, Jr. Shirley was preceded in death by her father, Luther Janney, mother, Ruth (nee Joseph) and her step-son David Hart. Shirley graduated from Miami University with a Bachelor’s in Education and Xavier University with a Master’s of Education. For the ensuing 42 years, her students were fortunate to have had her in their classroom.

“My dear Bill, sometimes in one’s life you find that special person, that someone who changes your life. I love you more than words could ever say.

There will come a time when we will be together once again. I will be waiting for you forever, love.” Memorial Service at St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church, 8101 Beechmont Ave. Anderson Twp. on Thur. Sept. 16, at 11 AM. A gathering will follow the memorial service at the Church. In lieu of flowers, Shirley would appreciate that memorials be made in her name to St Timothy’s Episcopal Church, 8101 Beechmont Ave, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45255 or Hospice of Cincinnati. Masks and social distancing will be required.

CINCINNATI - Constance “Connie” Kathryn (Briggs) Hatfield passed away August 30, 2021 after a long heroic battle with cancer. Connie was born in Dubuque, Iowa on June 1, 1951, the daughter of Vincent Theodore and Kathleen Dorothy (Klein) Briggs.

She married Jack Hatfield in 1973. Survivors include two sons, Dustin Lee Hatfield (Star) of Milford, Ohio and Logan Jay Hatfield of Cincinnati, Ohio, two grandsons, Cameron and Tanner and one granddaughter, Oaklee Rain. She is also survived by brothers, Douglas & Pam (Murphy) Briggs of Chatham, Illinois; Roger & Jeannie (Stolmeier) Briggs of Chino Valley, Arizona; Mark & Jayne (Robnett) Briggs of Davenport, Iowa; Ricky & Dorothy (Ricklick) Briggs of Cooper City, Florida, Thomas Briggs of Anthon, Iowa; Steven Briggs of West Chester, Ohio; Michael & Patty (McMahon) Briggs of Manchester, Iowa and sister Jill (Briggs) & Brian Mosley of Crossville, Tennessee. She was preceded in death by her parents and brother, Barry Briggs of Dillon, Montana.

Constance graduated from Assumption High School in Davenport, Iowa in 1969. She earned a B.A. in Speech and Theatre in 1973 from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. Connie was crowned Miss Teen Quad Cities in 1969 and represented the Quad Cities in the Miss Teen America pageant. She was active in community theater, acting and directing for area groups, particularly Loveland Stage Company. In later years, she wrote and directed productions from “The Traveling Song and Dance Troupe”, performing in extended care facilities and community centers throughout the area.

Celebrations of life will be held at the home of dear friends, Toly and Mary Suttschenko on October 16 at 2:00 p.m. Guests planning to attend are kindly requested to RSVP to conniecelebration10.16@gmail.com Memorials may be made to Queen City Hospice, 4605 Duke Dr., Suite 220, Mason OH 45040.

Mary M. Hemmer FT. MITCHELL - Ft. Mitchell. Mary M. Hemmer. Passed away Thursday, September 9, 2021 at the age of 97 years.

Mary was preceded in death by her husband, Paul W. Hemmer, Sr. and a brother, the late John Nienaber. She is survived by her children, Sharon A. (the late David E.) Gay, Susan M. (Marc) Neltner, M. Lisa (Chris) Pieper, Paul W. (Mary) Hemmer, Jr., Dr. David S. (Oana) Hemmer, Donald M. (Julie) Hemmer, Michael J. (Fran) Hemmer and Jon J. (Laura) Hemmer. Also survived by 31 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren. Mary had many interests but would most want to be remembered as a devout Catholic who shared her faith with her friends and family.

Visitation will be Tuesday, September 14th from 3:00 pm until time of Mass of Christian Burial at 5:00 pm at Blessed Sacrament Church, 2409 Dixie Hwy. Ft. Mitchell, KY 41017. In lieu of flowers, sympathy may be expressed by a memorial contribution to the catholic school of your choice or to Blessed Sacrament parish. Online condolences may be made at www.middendorf-funeralhome. com.

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Beatrice Jackson

Mary V. Kispert

Victor R. Lassandro III

Diana M. Mersch

CINCINNATI - Beatrice Jackson (nee Williams), 84, passed away Thursday, Sept 2.

Survived by her children, Joni (Mark) Martin and Mark Anthony Jackson. Preceded in death by her beloved sisters, Betty, Bernice, and Barbara.

Family will receive friends on Saturday, Sept 18 from 1-2PM at Spring Grove Funeral Homes with memorial service to follow at 2PM.

Beloved sister of Robert “Bob” Kispert and the late Frank Jr. and Richard L. Kispert, daughter of the late Frank and Rose Kispert.

Passed away Wednesday, September 8, 2021 at age 83. Visitation Wednesday 9 AM until time of Mass at 10 AM at Cathedral Basilica of St. Peter in Chains, 8th & Plum Street. Memorials may be made to the Cathedral Basilica. www.vittstermeranderson.com

Lassandro, Victor R., III, 62 – passed away Thursday, Sept. 9th after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. He was loved dearly and will be deeply missed by his wife, Vickie (Stalf) Lassandro, his son Tony, his mother Shirley (Schnur) Lassandro, brother Michael (Christy) Lassandro, in-laws Connie Stalf, Mike (Sue) Stalf, Teri Stalf and many nieces and nephews and other family members . He was preceded in death by his father Victor Lassandro, sisters Vicki Lassandro and Lori Nelson, in-laws George and Janet Stalf, Georgie Stalf. Victor was a great friend to so many and was more than willing to help out those in need.

His passion for his job at Mariner Wealth and his love for all types of music rounded out his life. In a final act of generosity, Vic donated his cornea to give one or two people the gift of sight. In that spirit, if you would like to make a donation in Victor’s name, please consider Cincinnati Assoc. for the Blind or New Life Furniture Bank. Visitation will take place on Monday Sept. 13th from 5:00pm until 8:00pm held at the Radel Funeral Home 451-8800 or radelfuneral.com

CINCINNATI - “Diane” – (nee Stanton), beloved wife of William Mersch for 35 years. Cherished daughter of the late James and Ethel (Gardner) Stanton. Loving sister to Jim, the late Tom, Dennis, and Richard Stanton. Loving aunt of Sean, Tom, Jeff, Jason, Jenna, Jacki, Jon, J.P., Kelly, and Kathy.

Cherished by Jean, Jenni, Lou, Louie, Maria, Seth, Tonia, Marissa, Teressa, Daniel, Rachel, Ella, Nicole, Carolyn, Koby, Jon Koby Jr., Clare, Maeve, and Shelby. In-laws Lawrence, (Mary Beth), Alyssa, Israel, Erik, Kylie, Chris, Mark, Christine, Cory, Douglas, Heather, Michael, Rosanne, John, Carol, Dan, Matthew, Mellissa, Holland, Roger and nine great nieces & nephews. Diane passed Sept. 1st at the age of 63 from cancer. Our family invite friends and family to a visitation Sept. 8th from 6-8 PM at the Gilligan Funeral Home 8225 Montgomery Rd. (45236) Kenwood. Condolences may be expressed at GilliganFuneralHomes.com. Mass of Christian burial will be held on Thursday Sept. 9th at 10AM at St. Michaels Church 11144 Spinner Rd. (45241) Sharonville. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the American Cancer Society.

Lillie Manning

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loved husband of the late Patricia Jean (nee Caulfield). Dear father of Karen Kraemer Johnson (Tim Martini), Lester “Rocky” (Toni) Kraemer, Tim (Gayle) Kraemer and the late Baby Dougie.

Loving grandfather of 9 and great-grandfather of 21. Also survived by many nieces and nephews. Les passed away on Monday September 6, 2021 at age 82. Visitation will be held at Hodapp Funeral Home, College Hill, 6041 Hamilton Avenue, 45224 on Tuesday September 14 from 9:00 AM until Funeral Service at 11:00 AM. Condolences at hodappfunerlahome.com.

Gabriel Ludeke, age 19.

Beloved son of Laurie and Tom Ludeke, and younger brother to John, Kyle, and Grady Ludeke, passed away in Loveland on Sunday, September 5 with his parents and brothers at his side. Mick was a proud 2021 graduate of Little Miami High School. He loved playing soccer in the TOPSoccer league, he loved attending motorsports events of all kinds, and most of all Mick loved each person he met unconditionally. A celebration of his life will be held at River Hills Christian Church in Loveland on Saturday, September 18 from 11 am to 1 pm. (masks required)

Robert H. Kulle CINCINNATI - Beloved husband of the late Ann M.(Wenke) Kulle and Jayne (Marnell) Helmer-Kulle.

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Kuethe (nee Brigger), beloved wife of Jim Kuethe for 58 years, loving mother of Kelly (Michael) Hugenberg, Ken (Tracy) Kuethe, and Dan (Vivian) Kuethe. Devoted grandma/mama to Drew (Gabby), Matt, and Annie Hugenberg, Cooper Kuethe, Bryce and Sarah Kuethe. Sister to Janet Sylvester, sister-in-law to Tom (Jan) Kuethe, Barb (Jim) Woeste, Debbie (Chris) Detwiler, Mary (Fred) Caito and Vicki (Pat) Williams along with many adoring nieces and nephews. Passed from this earth at home on Sept. 5, 2021. Judy was born Nov. 22, 1942 to Marvin and Audrey Brigger in Cincinnati. She felt happiest surrounded by family, friends and all things nature. She loved life to the fullest with the glass always full and was an avid gardener, walker and a blue ribbon apple pie baker. Judy was a bright moon beam to all who were blessed to touch her path. She radiated inner and outer beauty. A gathering of friends will be held Monday, Sept.

20th from 5:00 – 7:00PM at Mihovk-Rosenacker Funeral Home 10211 Plainfield Road (45241).

Mass of Christian Burial Tuesday, Sept. 21st at 11:00AM at St. Saviour Catholic Church 4136 Myrtle Ave. (45236). Condolences may be made at www.mrfh.com

COVINGTON - Manning, Lillie Beatrice,68 of Covington, Ky. passed away on September 7, 2021 at St. Elizabeth Hospital, Florence. Lillie worked for the United States Postal Service as a letter carrier in the Blue Ash area, she began her career in 1984 and later retired in 2014 with 30 years of service. She is preceded in death by her Parents; Reese and Lillie Beckett, Brother; Phillip Beckett, Sister; Angela Beckett. Lillie is survived by her Husband; Gregory Manning, Son; Kevin(Dana)Beckett, Daughters; Angela Iacobucci, Eunice Nicole(Randall) Wittich, Megan Beckett, Sisters; Dorothy Holland, Glenda Tucker, Linda Stanton, Crystal Harris, 6 Grandchildren and 5 Great Grandchildren. Services will be held at the convenience of the family. Interment will be in the Veteran’s North Cemetery Williamstown, at a later date. Don Catchen & Son Funeral Home, Elsmere assisting the family. Memorials can be made to the American Lung Association.

Richard Stephen “Dick” Moser SPRINGFIELD TWP.

- Richard Stephen “Dick” Moser, beloved husband for 61 years to Barbara Jean (nee Umbarger) Moser. Devoted father of Richard Stephen Moser II and S. Joan Moser. Loving grandfather of Elizabeth (Kevin) Widomski and Stephen (Jessica) Moser III. Great grandfather of Brooke, Logan, Barrett, Stevie, Landen and Max. Dear brother of Geri Homan, Thomas M. (Sandy) Moser, Kathy A. (Denny) Hirsch, Lee F. (JoAnne) Schoenling, Ted (Sue) Schoenling, Patrick (Yulia) Schoenling, Sally (Bill) Bradford, Andy (Sue) Schoenling, Mary J. Tanner and Jeff (Marybeth Keating) Schoenling.

Also survived by many loving nieces and nephews. Dick passed away peacefully on Thursday, August 12, 2021 at the age of 84. A memorial gathering will take place at Northminster Presbyterian Church, 703 Compton Rd., on Saturday (October 23) from 10am until time of memorial service at 12pm. Memorials may be made to Hospice of Cincinnati, PO Box 633597, Cincinnati, Ohio 45263. Special condolences may be expressed at frederickfh.com

George B. Pearson Jr. COLERAIN TWP. George B. Pearson Jr., beloved husband for 60 years to Mary K. “Sue” Pearson (nee McCormack). Devoted father of George Pearson III, Greg (Maria) Pearson, Katie (Tom) Mills, Tim (Sarah) Pearson and Andrew (Allison) Pearson. Loving grandfather of Robert, Charlie, Sophia, Emily, Ethan, Grant, Will, Joshua, Jordan, Reagan, Delaney, Drew and Mary Grace. George peacefully passed away on Wednesday, September 8, 2021 at the age of 80. Visitation at Frederick Funeral Home, 2553 Banning Rd., on Monday (September 13) from 5:00 p.m.- 8:00 p.m. Mass of Christian Burial at St. John Church, 5361 Dry Ridge Rd., on Tuesday (September 14), at 11:30 a.m. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Little Sisters Of The Poor 476 Riddle Rd., Cincinnati, Ohio 45220 or YWCA (https://www. ywcacincinnati.org/ how-to-help/annual-fund-campaign/).

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Donald Byron Poynter CINCINNATI - Preceded in death by his wife of 55 years, Mona Castellini Poynter. Devoted father of Amy Brewer (Lebanon, OH), Donald Poynter (New York, NY), Timothy Poynter (Fernandina Beach, FL), and Molly Maundrell (Cincinnati, OH). Beloved grandfather of 10 and great-grandfather of 11. Graduate of Western Hills High School ‘43 and University of Cincinnati ‘49 (Business, member of Beta Theta Pi), the latter following World War II service in the Army. His renown as a baton twirler drew the attention of Abe Saperstein, who engaged him to tour internationally for 3 years as a performer and assistant tour director with the Harlem Globetrotters. As founder of Poynter Products, he created and designed bestselling toys and novelty items, while also producing for film, television, and stage.

Needing a venue to demonstrate an invention led to a new direction of developing golf courses, which continued until his passing. Graveside service will be held on Tuesday, September 14, 2021, at 10:00 a.m. at the Gate of Heaven Cemetery.

Please meet at the front gate of Gate of Heaven at 9:45 a.m. to line up in procession. A celebration of his life will follow at the Cincinnati Country Club, 2348 Grandin Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45208, from 12:00-3:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Hospice of Cincinnati Blue Ash, P.O. Box 633597, Cincinnati, OH 45248. Sympathy may be expressed, and additional information may be found at www.springgrove.org.

The Rev. Dr. Robert Eugene Reynolds The Rev. Dr. Robert Eugene Reynolds completed his earthly ministry on July 12, 2020. Following his ordination in 1966, Fr. Bob’s leadership skills were employed in Episcopal congregations in Oregon, Washington, California, and, after his retirement in 2006, at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Terrace Park, Ohio. At St. Thomas he served as Interim Rector from 2008 to 2010, then remaining active on the clergy staff until his death.

His ministry touched the lives of many people in the greater Cincinnati area, in his former parishes, in many Christian organizations, and in the councils of the Church. In recognition of his outstanding service to faith communities, he was honored with the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in 2012.

Fr. Reynolds is survived by his wife Elizabeth; his children, Sarah Kingrey, Patrick Reynolds (Christina), and Amy Di Barbora (Marino); his brother Les Reynolds (Bebee); three stepchildren, Anne Bruce, Jeremy Bruce (Carol), and Jonathan Bruce (Sameeksha); 11 grandchildren from both families and seven great-grandchildren.

A Celebration of Life service will be held Saturday, September 18, 2021, 11:00 AM at St. Thomas Church, 100 Miami Ave., Terrace Park, 45174. In lieu of flowers memorials may be given in thanksgiving for Fr. Bob’s life and ministry to the Organ Fund of St. Thomas Episcopal Church.

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79. Passed away on September 7, 2021. Visitation will be held at Vorhis & Ryan Funeral Home, 11365 Springfield Pk., Springdale, OH 45246 on Friday, September 17, 2021 from 6-8pm. Funeral service will be held at the funeral home on Saturday, September 18, 2021 at 11am with visitation at 10:30am.

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Joseph A. Robinette, Esq. CINCINNATI - Robinette, Joseph A., Esq., age 59 of Cincinnati passed away Tuesday, August 31, 2021. Joseph was a graduate of Chaminade Julienne, University of Dayton Law School and employed with Wood and Lamping LLP. He was preceded in death by his parents Ralph and Bernadine. He is survived by two sisters and a brother-in-law, Gina Robinette, Amy (Tony) Molina; a niece, Caitlin Molina and a nephew, Tomas Molina. Mass of Christian Burial, 10:00 AM Wednesday September 15 at Emmanuel Church. The family will receive friends Wednesday from 9:00-10:00 AM at the church. Burial, Calvary Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Woodborne Library, 6060 Far Hills Ave., Centerville, OH 45459.

Vivian Merten Seibert

Edward Allen Wolf

Vivian Merten Seibert passed away peacefully at Hospice of Cincinnati on Saturday, September 4, 2021, at the age of 88. She leaves behind her children Karalee (Jim) Brookie, Todd ( Tracey) Seibert, Julia (George) Wadih, Hank (Emma) Huggins, and Jana (Scott) Strader; twenty grandchildren and eight great grandchildren; sibling Alice June Merten; sister in law Marjorie Evans Merten, dear friends, Hayfaa Wadih, Eddie & Barb Ellis and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband of 42 years Arthur Edgar Seibert; daughter, Kathryn Ann Huggins; parents Alice Dial Merten and Henry Joseph Merten; four brothers, Henry Russell Merten, Arthur Edwin Merten, Kenneth Dial Merten, and Lawrence Dial Merten.

Vivian was loved and will be missed by her family and all who knew her including her beloved cat, Muffin “Muffy” Seibert. Vivian was a dedicated employee, not retiring until the age of 82. She touched countless lives during these years in ways only the recipients of her generosity and kindness know. Vivian was best known as an incredibly strong, courageous, thoughtful, giving person. She was a collector of all things (literally all things) and admired for her kind, optimistic, welcoming spirit.

A Celebration of Life will be held, Saturday, September 25, 2021 at Anderson Towne Center 7850 Five Mile Rd. Cincinnati, OH 45230. Visitation from 11:00 AM -1:00 PM with a Celebration beginning at 1:00 PM. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations in Vivian’s name to the Kyle Plush Answer the Call Foundation, P.O. Box 30424, Cincinnati, OH 45230 or to Hospice of Cincinnati East Inpatient Care Center 7691 Five Mile Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45230

passed away on Sunday, September 5, 2021, at the age of 82.

He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to the late Edward and Tessie Mae Wolf.

Edward is survived by his loving spouse Mary Jo (Schuerman) Wolf; loving children, Wendy Wolf Monroe, Michael (Jill) Wolf and Leslie (Jeff) Wolf Devlin. He will also be deeply missed by his 5 grandchildren Michael Christopher and Macy Wolf, Ilaina, Ian and Isabel Monroe as well as his brother Jonathan W. Wolf of Deer Park, Ohio. Edward was, most importantly, a man whose life focus was to love and support his wife and children and grandchildren. He will be forever cherished. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to The University of Cincinnati Athletic Scholarship Fund or Hospice of Cincinnati. Private services are being conducted and a Celebration of Life will be announced. www.rebold.com

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Rene’ Belinda Thomas CINCINNATI Thomas, Rene’ Belinda age 66 of Cincinnati passed away Friday August 27, 2021. For full obituary please visit www.websterfuneralhomes.com

Barbara S. Thompson (nee Sutliff) beloved wife of Norman A. Thompson, devoted mother of Timothy (Tracy Marino) Thompson & Laura (Edward) Burger, dear grandmother of Rebecca Thompson & Hannah Burger, great-grandmother of Nathan. Died Sept. 5, 2021 at the age of 84.

Formerly of Anderson Twp. Private Service.

Memorials to Animal Welfare League or Hospice of Cincinnati. T.P. WHITE & SONS serving the family. www.tpwhite.com

Stephanie Wolfram LOVELAND - Stephanie R. (nee Richey).

Beloved wife of 51 year to James M. Wolfram.

Loving mother of Staci (Jason) Powers and Amy (Robert) Miller.

Cherished GiGi of Logan Powers and Chloe Miller. Dear sister of Pamela (Dave) Wright, Zetta (Gary) Stegmoyer and Lowell (Lana) Richey. Passed away September 6, 2021 at the age of 71. Family and friends will be received Wednesday, September 15 from 6-8 PM in the Tufts Schildmeyer Funeral Home, 129 N. Riverside Ave., Loveland. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The Stroke Network. tuftsschildmeyer.com

Shirley A. Woltermann NEW RICHMOND Shirley A. Woltermann (nee Burdick), age 88, formerly of New Richmond, died September 3, 2021. Mass of Christian Burial will be held at Immaculate Heart of Mary church on Saturday, September 18th at 10 am. Friends may visit at T.P. White & Sons Funeral Home on Friday, Sept. 17th from 5 to 8 pm. The complete obituary is available at www.tpwhite.com

Robert Allen Toombs Diane Young Ruehl CINCINNATI - Diane Young Ruehl, 84, of Charlotte, NC, passed away peacefully in her home at Southminster on August 27, 2021. She was born May 8, 1937 to her parents, Robert and Sarah Young, in Cincinnati, OH. She was a life-long caregiver - first to her siblings when her father died suddenly, then as a mother of 2 daughters, and to many other children in her neighborhood and beyond. Diane became a nurse in 1969, an RN in 1976, and received her BSN in 1989. She worked for more than 15 years as an Emergency Department Team Leader and then found her calling as a hospice nurse and manager for the next 20+ years, furthering her passion for caring for others. Diane was married to the love of her life, the late Harry August Ruehl, for 61 years.

They lived in Cincinnati for the first 32 years of their marriage and then, hating the cold, moved to South Florida. They enjoyed the tropical weather for nearly 20 years before moving to Charlotte and becoming residents at The Southminster Retirement Community in 2007. Diane was very active at Southminster - volunteering in the continuing care community, serving on many committees, starting and singing in the neighborhood chorus, sewing blankets for hospitalized children, and running the movies in the theater were a few of her many pursuits. When Covid hit and she was too weak to help out with nursing skills, she said, “I have to do something to help!” So she sewed hundreds of facemasks. Over the years, Diane was the mother and grandmother to many AFS foreign exchange students - relationships she continued beyond their year in the US by visiting many in their home countries. On her last trip in 2020, she was able to travel to her favorite country abroad, New Zealand, to spend time with her AFS daughter, Karen Thomas, and Karen’s family. Diane loved music, Graeter’s Ice Cream, Skyline Chili, spending time with family and friends, and helping others-her nursing career is a true reflection of this passion. She lived life to the fullest and thought of people that no one else remembered. She is survived by her daughters - Carrie Ruehl Nelson (David) and Jennifer Ruehl Aukerman (Kevin), grandsons - Brian Nelson (Casey), Benjamin Nelson (Sophia), Kile Aukerman, Christopher Nelson, Korey Aukerman, a great-granddaughter, Evelyn, three siblings - David Young, Saralee Silverglade, and Roberta Young, two nephews - Michael Stafford and Eric Stafford (Sharla), and niece, Rachel Blackburn (Scott).Visitation, Friday, September 17 from 8:45-10 am with service and inurnment immediately following in the Rose Garden of Spring Grove Cemetery, 4521 Spring Grove Ave, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45232.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Southminster Foundation, Southpark Church Charlotte, Hospice of Charlotte, or charities of choice.

MOUNT VERNON, WASHINGTON - Robert Allen Toombs, 84, a longtime resident of the Skagit Valley, went peacefully into the arms of his Savior on Thursday, August 26, 2021. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on November 16, 1936, to Everett and Hazel Toombs. He spent many hours as a youth in the forests and fields surrounding his home in Mount Carmel, Ohio, hunting and trapping small animals and learning the lore of wildlife and farm animals.

In 1954 he left high school to enlist in the United States Air Force, serving 8 years in active duty and reserves as a flight mechanic. To his last day, he loved and honored his country. Upon returning home he began working at Cincinnati Heat Treat that led to an interest in metallurgy, continuing his education in that field through night classes while working at various companies. During his career he made many unique and valuable contributions to the field of induction heat treating.

In 1960 he married Donna Voellmecke and together they had two children. The family moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1962 where he worked for Paccar, Fick Foundry, and Jorgenson Steel, and co-founded two heat treating businesses in Washington and Oregon. He became a product sales manager for Park Chemical in Detroit and taught metallurgy at Bates Community College in Tacoma. He was an independent technical sales rep to the heat-treating industry until retirement.

In 1988 he married Dorcas Haines; they lived in LaConner and later in Mount Vernon. Over the years Bob and Dorcas managed R.A. Toombs Co in his sales rep business, and in 2004 they opened My Own Vintage in Mount Vernon, retailing wine and beer making supplies. Bob loved making wine and raising (and eating) chiles, his favorite food. He also became an avid participant in Barbershop music, singing many years with the Anochords and the Bellingham Blend.

Bob is survived by his wife of 33 years, Dorcas, at home in Mount Vernon; daughter, Robyn, and her husband Eric Caynak of Port Angeles; son, Timothy of Sonoma, CA; sisters, Judith Gatch and Violet (Don) Gelhott both of Ohio; granddaughter, Virginia Caynak of Seattle, and numerous nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents; sisters, Betty (Herbert) Allen, and Cornelia (Bill) Lauber, and brother Everett Toombs.

Memorial service was held in Mount Vernon, WA. The service was streamed on YouTube and available for viewing at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPEs63Qk1wn5wCkY-381Y5Q There will be a Graveside service at Greenlawn Cemetery 687 US 50 Milford, OH 45150 Friday September 17, 2021, at 1:00 PM. Arrangements are under the care of Evans Funeral Home - Milford www.evansfuneralhome.com.

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Huber’s seen the highs, and lows Senior Bengal likes direction of franchise Charlie Goldsmith Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Safety Bryan Cook takes down Murray State wide receiver Deshun Britten during the Bearcats game against the Racers at Nippert Stadium on Saturday. UC entered the game ranked in the top 10 in the country and coming off a blowout victory over Miami University in the season opener. For game coverage, go to Cincinnati.com. ALBERT CESARE/THE ENQUIRER

How UC became a Big 12 member A desire that began years ago culminated in a span of 50 days Keith Jenkins

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It felt like it took a lifetime, and in many respects it did, but in actuality, it took about 50 days for the University of Cincinnati to become the newest member of the Big 12 Conference and join the Power Five.

After the University of Cincinnati on Friday accepted the Big 12’s invitation to join the conference, UC President Neville G. Pinto and Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby both wanted to make sure UC Director of Athletics John Cunningham received all of the credit for building the bridge between UC and the school’s new home conference.

“I advised you earlier today to take full credit for having done every last ounce of this,” Bowlsby told Cunningham during the video conference welcoming Cincinnati to the Big 12. “You’re going to get blamed for things you didn’t do, so take credit even if you don’t deserve it.”

“I know that’s part of the deal,” Cunningham quipped back.

“Thank you for that advice.”

Cunningham, who was hired as UC’s director of athletics in December 2019, has had perhaps the most eventful, pressure-packed fi rst two years on the job of any athletic director on record.

From eliminating the UC men’s soccer program to leading the athSee UC XTRA, Page 5C

“When the chum of conference realignment started with Oklahoma and Texas not extending their grant of rights, then all of a sudden that door opened. I immediately had a conversation with President Pinto and we agreed we were going to be aggressive.”

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UC Director of Athletics, on joining the Big 12

When Cincinnati native Kevin Huber began his NFL career as the Cincinnati Bengals punter in 2009, current head coach Zac Taylor was a graduate assistant at Texas A&M. Over the last 13 years, Huber has seen it all fi rst-hand. He played in Carson Palmer’s fi nal games as the Bengals quarterback. He watched Andy Dalton and A.J. Green lead the Bengals to fi ve consecutive postseasons, and then he witnessed as the starters in the early 2010s got replaced by an entirely new core of Bengals players.

If Huber plays in all 17 games this season, he’ll tie former Bengals cornerback Ken Riley’s franchise record of 207 career games with the team.

Huber, who was named a team captain this week, answered a few of our questions about the direction of the Bengals, how close they are to contention and how Taylor has made a diff erence.

Compared to other Bengals teams you’ve been on, what’s unique about the 2021 Bengals?

The biggest thing I really notice is the lack of egos. You’ve got a lot of guys here that just want to win. I’ve really noticed that guys are really putting that extra eff ort in to do whatever it takes. Meeting together, extra stuff after practice, before practice, in the weight room, how they’re working together. Any issues they have, they’re putting aside and working toward that one goal of trying to get wins.

Has that been a progression?

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Last year’s playoff run ‘makes a diff erence’ for Reds Bobby Nightengale Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

ST. LOUIS – Most Cincinnati Reds players learned what it was like to play a stretch of must-win games during their chase for a playoff spot last year.

The Reds had a 20-26 record with 14 games remaining in the 60-game season, three games back in the wild-card race despite an expanded postseason fi eld. They had the fourth-worst record in the National League on Sept. 12.

It’s no secret the Reds haven’t played well over the last couple of weeks.

They’ve lost 10 of their last 16 games, entering Saturday, and they were fortunate they lost only one game in the wildcard standings. But players have maintained there hasn’t been any panic in-

Despite losing 10 of their past 16 games entering Saturday, the Reds players are convinced last year’s late-season run to the postseason will help. USA TODAY SPORTS

side of the clubhouse, possibly aided by their experience last year.

“I think it makes a diff erence, for sure,” Joey Votto said. “We know what we’re gunning for. Now we have fans.

Now protocols are much more modest, so we get to be closer to one another, we get to celebrate together. That’s what is on our mind.”

The Reds entered Saturday tied with the San Diego Padres for the second wild card. The Reds have 20 games left and the Padres have 22.

It’s a preferable spot compared to last year, but the Reds know they need to play better than they did in the last few weeks. They dropped their last fi ve series, including three series against clubs with sub-.500 records.

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ST. LOUIS – Joey Votto had some comments circulate through St. Louis after the Reds swept the Cardinals at Busch Stadium in June.

Votto didn’t play in that four-game series, completing his rehab assignment at Triple-A Louisville, but he spoke the following day when he was activated from the injured list. Votto, smiling, said “we had some (trash)-talking (expletives) in St. Louis after the fi rst series sweep and it’s nice to go on the road, at their ballpark, and let them have it.”

In Votto’s fi rst trip back to Busch Stadium, he said he regretted saying that because it wasn’t directed toward Cardinals fans.

“I was quoted speaking very vaguely about someone here in St. Louis,” Votto said Friday. “I didn’t elaborate. There was someone behind the scenes and I certainly won’t mention who or what, but I just want to make it clear that what I said was absolutely not a commentary on the Cardinals fans or anybody at all here in St. Louis.”

The Reds were swept in their fi rst three-game series in St. Louis in April.

After the Reds swept the four-game series in June, Votto said, “We had some people sweeping brooms and (stuff ) like that when we were leaving, so how’d you like that? How’d you like that?”

With Friday’s 4-2 victory, the Reds have won fi ve straight games at Busch Stadium and captured their fi rst season series victory against the Cardinals since 2011.

“I’m very fond of coming to St. Louis,” Votto said. “I think you would all know, I’d be completely honest if I was not happy with something. I just hope that the people here don’t think that I was speaking about them. It was something very much behind the scenes in terms of preparation for our games. But stuff like that happens.

“I am regretful of saying those words and putting that out there because that’s not really what I wanted to share. Forgive the vagueness, but I think you guys can fi ll in the gaps. The people in St. Louis

Game 3 of a 3-game series When: 2:15 p.m. Sunday Where: Busch Stadium TV/Radio: Bally Sports Ohio/WLW-AM (700) The Skinny: The Reds won their fi rst season series against the Cardinals since 2011. Sonny Gray has a 3-0 record and a 1.57 ERA in his last four starts, striking out 22 and walking four in 23 innings. J.A. Happ allowed eight hits and seven runs in one inning against the Reds on Sept. 1.

Joey Votto celebrates after hitting a solo home run in the fourth inning of the Reds’ 4-2 victory over the Cardinals in St. Louis Friday. ASSOCIATED PRESS

Pitching matchups Reds: Sonny Gray Throws: Right Record: 7-6 ERA: 3.88

have been great to me. Fans have been great. What I said had absolutely nothing to do with them. I know it got a lot of run, a lot of people spoke on it or wrote about it or commented on it. I should’ve elaborated more because it had nothing to do with anything in the St. Louis stands.”

BRINGING UP BARRERO: The Reds’ coaching staff was confi dent Jose Barrero wouldn’t be hindered by struggling in the Major Leagues last year.

With Freddy Galvis struggling at shortstop, the Reds made Barrero their starting shortstop in Aug. 2020 without an at-bat at Double-A or Triple-A in the pandemic-shortened season. Barrero proved he was big-league ready defensively, but he struggled mightily at the plate.

“This season, being in a position where we didn’t have to force him to be here and to start in Double-A and then go to Triple-A, and really have a full year was defi nitely the right decision,” Bell said. “I think it shows in his at-bats, it shows in the way he carries himself on the fi eld already. I do. I think he’s more prepared now. Last year’s experience was still a good one. He’s right on track.”

Barrero impressed minor league coaches by the way he handled the decision to start him in Double-A. He views himself as a big leaguer, but he set out to

prove himself.

“He knew his time was going to come,” Bell said. “He handled it like a true professional. He’s still very young.

Impressive guy. We’re lucky to have him.”

WINKER UPDATE: Jesse Winker hit on the fi eld in Louisville, which Bell called “a big step,” in his recovery from an intercostal strain.

Winker could be nearing the start of a rehab assignment. He’s been out since Aug. 15. The Reds have scored exactly one run in nine of their 13 losses without Winker in the lineup. “(Saturday) will be an important day,” Bell said. “If he responds and recovers well, he should be getting really close.”

NO ‘CLOSER’: Mychal Givens has seven saves since Aug. 5, the latest Friday’s victory. He he’s pitched in the ninth inning in nearly all of his relief appearances afterward, but Bell says he doesn’t consider him the quote-unquote closer.

“I could see that it appears that way,” Bell said. “I’m very confi dent with him pitching in the ninth inning. Going into most games with either him or Michael Lorenzen pitching in that role, depending on the other team’s lineup, it could be one has the eighth, the other has the ninth.”

Bell hasn’t named a closer all season,

Cardinals: J.A. Happ Throws: Left Record: 8-8 ERA: 6.24

so it’s not surprising Givens doesn’t hold the offi cial title. Ten Reds relievers have recorded a save this season, which is a franchise record. The MLB single-season record is 12 (1973 Texas Rangers and 2019 Tampa Bay Rays).

Givens has yielded fi ve runs and 12 hits across 16 innings (2.76 ERA) since he was traded to the Reds ahead of the July 30 trade deadline, striking out 13 and walking eight.

JOTTINGS: Givens struck out Yadier Molina on three pitches in the ninth inning Friday, their fi rst at-bat against each other. “I always look up to him being Puerto Rican,” Givens said. “A great leader and a great person for baseball.” ... Tyler Mahle completed six innings in 96 pitches Friday. Bell confi rmed Mahle would’ve returned for the seventh inning if his spot didn’t come up in the batting order. Lucas Sims, the fi rst reliever out of the bullpen, struck out all three batters he faced. ... Eugenio Suárez’s 452-foot homer in the second inning Friday was the longest by any visiting player at Busch Stadium this year.

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Padres fall into tie with Reds after loss ASSOCIATED PRESS

Shortstop Jose Barrero was a vital part of the Reds beating the Cardinals on Friday night. He said he didn’t feel any nervousness because he knew what to expect from being on the roster down the stretch last year. USA TODAY SPORTS

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“What do I see?” Votto said. “I see this as part of the season. I see this as a good way to get ready for the playoff s. We’ve got a three-plus week stretch of games here that I think we’re going to play well and fi nish off strong.”

The off ense has been sluggish without All-Star Jesse Winker, who could return in about a week in an optimistic scenario, but Reds pitchers have held opposing lineups to four-or-fewer runs in 16 of their last 19 games.

“It’s a long year,” reliever Mychal Givens said. “We had a little struggle last week. We don’t need to worry about that. We’ll leave it in the past. We’re going to continue to play good baseball.

We have a great opportunity right now.”

An important part of last year’s run in the fi nal weeks of the season is it gave a lot of players their fi rst experience in meaningful September games. The

Reds fi nished the 2020 regular season with an 11-3 record, earning the club’s fi rst playoff berth since 2013.

The Reds were swept in the best-ofthree wild-card series against the Atlanta Braves without scoring a run in 22 innings.

“I’ve always said I wanted to win a World Series with the Reds right when I got drafted,” reliever Michael Lorenzen said. “That’s the goal and we haven’t really come close to that. Last year was the fi rst time being in the playoff s my entire career. Obviously, I want to do that again and go beyond where we went last year.

“It is exciting playing for something in September, for sure. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do and something I haven’t been able to do often, so it’s exciting.”

Shortstop Jose Barrero was at the center of Friday’s 4-2 victory against the St. Louis Cardinals, driving in the goahead run in the top of the ninth inning.

He had just returned to the active roster from the taxi squad and had only started

three big-league games this year.

Barrero said he didn’t feel any nervousness. He knew what to expect from being on the roster last year.

“It was defi nitely big,” Barrero said, according to team interpreter Jorge Merlos. “It was important for me to really get some experience last year, and I’m glad the team is winning. It’s giving us an opportunity to go back to the playoff s. And I know we’ll go back.

Hopefully, I’ll be on the roster.”

Reds manager David Bell thought last year’s playoff experience, despite the two losses in the postseason, would be something they could carry into this season.

“For most of us, we’ve all been through it together as a team,” Bell said. “For the most part, it’s the same group, so I do think it feels diff erent this year. It feels more experienced. It feels a little bit more focused – we know what we’re trying to do because we went through it last year.”

LOS ANGELES – Pitching and just enough hitting got the Dodgers back to winning.

Julio Urías threw seven shutout innings for his major league-leading 17th victory, Max Muncy slugged a two-run homer and Los Angeles beat the San Diego Padres 3-0 on Friday night to snap a two-game skid.

“It was really important for us to get ahead of this series,” Urías said through a translator. “On a personal note, very great to get those victories.”

Urías (17-3) scattered three hits, struck out seven and walked one to remain unbeaten in his last 13 starts, going 8-0 in that stretch.

Padres All-Star shortstop Jake Cronenworth got hit on his left hand by a pitch in the third and later left the game. Manager Jayce Tingler said Cronenworth has a small fracture on his left ring fi nger and will be re-evaluated over the next few days.

The Dodgers remained 21⁄ 2 games behind NL West-leading San Francisco and improved to a major leaguebest 47-23 at home with their 15th shutout. The Padres fell into a tie with the Reds for the second wild card.

“Everyone is in that lull right now of feeling we can’t get things right,” starter Joe Musgrove said. “Underperforming the last month and a half has really set us back.”

PHILLIES FALL: Elias Díaz hit a grand slam, Germán Márquez pitched six shutout innings and the Colorado Rockies continued to hurt Philadelphia’s playoff chances with an 11-2 win over the Phillies on Friday night.

Didi Gregorius homered and Bryce Harper had a pair of hits and an RBI for the Phillies, who have lost four straight and six of eight. Philadelphia fell 41⁄ 2 ½ games behind fi rst-place Atlanta in the NL East. The Phillies are 31⁄ 2 games back of the second wild card.

Harper said he was embarrassed by Philadelphia’s performance.

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Barrero made the most of his opportunity Bobby Nightengale Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

ST. LOUIS – Jose Barrero is viewed as the Cincinnati Reds’ shortstop of the future, but excuse him for fi nding a way to contribute immediately.

Barrero, a 23-year-old from Cuba, spent all season biding his time for an opportunity. After playing in 24 bigleague games last year, he started the year in Double-A. He hit his way to Triple-A. He spent the last four days on the taxi squad.

On Friday, he welcomed himself back to the big leagues with a go-ahead RBI double in the top of the ninth inning and he scored a key insurance run afterward to lift the Reds to a 4-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals.

The Reds have won fi ve consecutive games at Busch Stadium and won their fi rst season series against the Cardinals since 2011. They moved into a tie with the San Diego Padres for the second wild-card spot after the Padres lost Friday.

“Really, for me, I worked so hard,” Barrero said, according to team interpreter Jorge Merlos. “I worked really hard to get back here. Not just the batting, but also fi elding. Every aspect of the game. I tried to work as hard as I can to get back here.”

Barrero jumped from High-A to the Majors last year and it showed at the plate, striking out in 26 of his 67 at-bats.

The Reds sent him to Double-A to begin the season, so he could develop off ensively. He responded by hitting .303 with 19 homers, 66 RBI and 62 runs in 85 minor-league games.

His performance earned him a chance to play at the MLB Futures Game where he homered in his fi rst at-bat.

He did it all while enduring tragedy off the fi eld. His mother, Tania Barrero, died in May, a relationship people close to Barrero describe as almost brother and sister. Barrero changed his last name from Garcia to honor his late mother.

“Everyone around here has just been so impressed by Jose Barrero,” Reds manager David Bell. “We know he’s a

Shortstop Jose Barrero is congratulated after driving in the third run and scoring the fourth in the ninth inning Friday night. USA TODAY SPORTS

good player, very talented and has a bright future. But for a young man, young player, only a little time in the major leagues, the way he just interacts with people, the way he stays ready, he’s very humble. He doesn’t take anything for granted.

“And he knew his time was going to come.”

Barrero, who was on the taxi squad in preparation for Kyle Farmer taking paternity leave for the birth of his son, had his biggest opportunity arrive in the top of the ninth inning with a runner on fi rst base.

After falling behind in a 0-2 count to Cardinals reliever T.J. McFarland, Barrero watched three sinkers off the edge of the plate. The sixth pitch of his at-bat was a sinker over the middle and Barrero drilled it to the center-fi eld wall, scoring Aristides Aquino from fi rst base.

The Reds’ dugout erupted as Barrero advanced to third base when the throw to the plate was well off -target. Barrero scored when the next batter, Delino DeShields, hit a chopper up the middle, sliding ahead of a throw from shortstop Paul DeJong.

“I knew that the team had to win tonight,” Barrero said, “so I really wanted to get my best at-bat that I could.”

If there were any questions about the signifi cance of this weekend’s threegame series, no one needed to look fur-

ther than Yadier Molina’s game-tying homer in the fourth inning. Molina didn’t hold back his emotions. He shouted as he looked at his teammates in the dugout. He pumped his fi st and pounded his chest trying to fi re up his teammates. The Busch Stadium crowd of 29,597 rewarded him with a curtain call.

The Cardinals are trying to stay alive in the wild-card race; the Reds are trying to bury them.

“That’s the time of the year for guys to rise,” Cardinals manager Mike Shildt said.

Indeed it is. Before Barrero, it was Eugenio Suárez. He opened the scoring when he clobbered a cutter into leftcenter for a 452-foot homer off Jon Lester in the second inning.

The Reds have struggled against lefthanded pitching this season and Suárez could be the key to changing that. He hit a leadoff single off the left-handed McFarland in the ninth inning. After a fi elder’s choice replaced Suárez with Aquino on the basepaths, Barrero provided his heroics.

“I’m just out there trying to have fun as much as I can while I’m playing,” Barrero said. “I don’t think there’s any pressure at all, just out there trying to have fun. The results will be there.”

When Barrero was on the taxi squad, he did his best to remain ready. He took batting practice and worked with coaches on his fi elding before games but was reduced to a spectator once the game began.

“I was defi nitely getting my work in,” Barrero said. “I was just waiting for the opportunity to get the call. Fortunately enough, I got that today.”

Reds starting pitcher Tyler Mahle wasn’t effi cient with his pitches in the fi rst four innings, but he was eff ective outside of Molina’s homer. He completed six innings, allowing four hits and two runs while striking out six.

Lester permitted three hits across seven innings, stifl ing the Reds’ lineup for the second time in two weeks. Votto, celebrating his 38th birthday, hit a solo homer in the fourth inning against the 37-year-old lefty.

Votto virtually predicted his home run during his pregame press confer-

ence. He was asked how he felt at the plate given his recent 16-game homerless streak, which he snapped with a home run Wednesday.

“Yeah, it’s not good,” Votto said, “but I’m going to homer a lot from now until the end of the season, so it’ll be all right.”

Votto’s homer was his 30th of the season, the third time in his career he’s crossed the 30-homer plateau (MVP season in 2010, runner-up for MVP in 2017). It was his 325th career homer, which pushed him past Frank Robinson for second place on the Reds’ all-time list. Johnny Bench is the franchise’s alltime leader at 389 homers.

REDS STATISTICS (Not including Saturday’s game) BATTERS

AVG OBA AB R

PITCHERS

W L ERA G GSSV

H 2B3B HR RBI BB SOSBCS E

Schrock .318 .375 66 10 21 5 1 2 8 6 14 0 0 0 Castellanos .317 .370 461 82 146 35 1 27 79 33 107 2 1 2 Winker .307 .395 420 77 129 32 1 24 71 53 75 1 0 2 Stephenson .282 .368 305 52 86 17 0 9 40 38 63 0 0 1 Naquin .272 .335 408 52 111 24 2 19 70 35 106 5 3 4 India .271 .379 458 84 124 27 2 19 62 63 129 9 312 Votto .269 .369 394 62 106 20 1 30 87 61 115 1 0 6 Barnhart .267 .338 300 38 80 21 0 7 43 27 91 0 0 2 Lopez .261 .261 23 3 6 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 Farmer .254.308 426 51 108 18 2 13 53 20 81 2 3 5 Senzel .252 .323 111 18 28 4 0 1 8 12 16 2 5 3 Barrero .250 .333 16 2 4 2 0 0 1 1 4 0 0 2 Moustakas .208 .291 159 21 33 11 0 6 21 18 41 0 0 3 Blandino .200 .317 70 9 14 4 0 0 5 8 28 1 0 0 Akiyama .199.280 156 16 31 7 0 0 12 14 38 2 3 2 Aquino .191 .306 152 23 29 6 1 9 20 25 62 1 2 2 Freeman .186 .262 59 6 11 0 0 0 3 5 20 1 1 1 Payton .182 .250 22 2 4 0 0 0 0 2 7 0 0 1 Suárez .177 .266 447 62 79 17 0 26 70 49 154 0 116 DeShields .143.200 14 0 2 1 0 0 3 1 4 0 0 0 Heineman .100 .206 30 5 3 0 0 2 3 3 15 0 0 0 Cabrera .000 .143 12 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 0 0 1 Team Totals .249 .32947586971187257 111946694871266272277 Schrock Freeman Cessa Warren Antone Givens Miley Lorenzen Santillan Alaniz Mahle Gray Goudeau Gutierrez Castillo Wilson Hoffman Doolittle Sims Osich Romano Hendrix Garrett Brach Hembree Fulmer Pérez De León Blandino Bedrosian Feliz García Team Totals

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Mariners 5, D-backs 4 Arizona ...................021 000 010 — 4 Seattle.....................120 011 00x — 5

HOME team in caps six shutout innings and Colorado continued to hurt Philadelphia’s playoff chances. Trevor Story and C.J. Cron also homered for the Rockies.

Giants 6, CUBS 1: Kris Bryant drew a pair of standing ovations in his return to Wrigley Field, then Evan Longoria and Brandon Belt homered in the seventh inning to send the Giants to their fifth straight win.

Reds 4, CARDINALS 2: Jose Barrero made the most of an unexpected start by doubling in the tiebreaking run in the ninth inning to lead Cincinnati.

Barrero had two hits after he was recalled from Triple-A Louisville that day.

PIRATES 4, Nationals 3: Ke’Bryan Hayes capped off a ninth-inning rally with an RBI single as Pittsburgh slipped past Washington. Hayes completed a two-run comeback by sending a pitch from to right field.

Giants 6, Cubs 1 SF...................000 001 410 — 6 CHC ...............000 100 000 — 1 San Francisco

AB R H BI BB SO Avg.

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5 3 4 4 3 4 3 4 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 33 AB

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0 2 0 2 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 H

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.231 .255 .300 .261 .265 .295 .287 .222 --.274 .000 .500 .000 --.275 ----.240 .000

Ortega cf Schwindel 1b Happ lf Contreras c Wisdom 3b Heyward rf Bote 2b Alcantara ss Hendricks p b-Duffy ph Megill p Rucker p d-Chirinos ph Nance p Totals

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a-popped out for Leone in the 3rd. b-struck out for Hendricks in the 6th. c-walked for Doval in the 7th. d-struck out for Rucker in the 8th. e-grounded out for Watson in the 9th.

LOB: San Francisco 5, Chicago 3. 2B: Belt (11).

HR: Longoria (11), off Megill; Belt (22), off Rucker; Schwindel (11), off Garcia. RBI: Wade Jr. (46), Longoria 3 (37), Belt 2 (45), Schwindel (31). SF: Longoria. S_Hendricks.

Runners left in scoring position: San Francisco 1 (Bryant); Chicago 1 (Ortega). RISP: San Francisco 3 for 6; Chicago 0 for 1.

Runners moved up: Posey 2, La Stella. GIDP: La Stella, Alcantara, Wisdom, Contreras.

DP: San Francisco 3 (Crawford, La Stella, Belt; Crawford, La Stella, Belt; Crawford, La Stella, Belt); Chicago 1 (Rucker, Alcantara, Schwindel).

Pitching ip h r er bb so era

San Francisco Leone Garcia Littell Alvarez Doval, W, 2-1 Rogers Watson Jackson

20 0 1z 1 1 Z0 0 1 Z0 0 z 10 10 0 10 0 10 0

Chicago

Hendricks Megill, L, 1-1 Rucker Nance

0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1

2 1 2 2 0 0 2 0

1.48 2.40 2.75 2.43 5.65 1.70 2.20 4.34

64 1 1 033 3 222 2 10 0 0

2 1 1 0

4 0 2 1

4.54 9.68 8.44 4.84

Inherited runners-scored: Rucker 2-1. HBP: Rogers (Heyward). WP: Megill.

Umpires: HP: Erich Bacchus; 1B: Charlie Ramos; 2B: Lance Barrett; 3B: Alfonso Marquez.

T: 3:04. A: 29,439 (41,649).

Pirates 4, Nationals 3 WSH ..............020 001 000 — 3 PIT .................001 000 102 — 4 Washington

AB R H BI BB SO Avg.

Thomas cf Escobar ss Soto rf Bell 1b Hernandez lf Kieboom 3b Garcia 2b Adams c Rogers p Machado p Murphy p Baldonado p Totals Pittsburgh

3 4 3 2 4 3 4 4 3 0 0 0 30 AB

0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 R

1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 H

Hayes 3b Newman 2b Reynolds cf Tsutsugo 1b Stallings c Alford lf Gamel rf Tucker ss Brault p Ponce p a-Park ph Howard p b-Difo ph Mears p Kuhl p c-Moran ph Totals

4 4 4 3 3 4 3 4 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 32

0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4

2 1 1 1 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 10

1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 6 BI BB SO

.239 .272 .303 .252 .269 .242 .232 .317 .000 --.000 ---

2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4

.258 .222 .298 .204 .241 .207 .256 .169 .167 .000 .167 --.276 .000 .048 .280

0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3

0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

Avg.

Two outs when winning run scored. a-flied out for Ponce in the 5th. b-singled for Howard in the 7th. c-grounded out for Kuhl in the 9th.

E: Tucker (2). LOB: Washington 5, Pittsburgh 7.

2B: Tucker (3). 3B: Adams (1). HR: Bell (26), off Howard; Alford (5), off Rogers. RBI: Adams (9),

Thomas (14), Bell (81), Hayes 2 (32), Alford (9), Moran (40). SF: Hayes. S_Ponce.

Runners left in scoring position: Washington 3 (Hernandez 3); Pittsburgh 1 (Alford, Stallings).

RISP: Washington 1 for 5; Pittsburgh 1 for 7.

Runners moved up: Escobar, Bell, Tsutsugo, Moran. GIDP: Hernandez, Alford.

DP: Washington 2 (Garcia, Bell; Kieboom, Bell); Pittsburgh 1 (Hayes, Tucker, Tsutsugo).

Pitching ip h r er bb so era

Washington

Rogers Machado, H, 8 Murphy, L,0-1, H,2 Baldonado, BS,0-1

Pittsburgh

6 Z8 2 1 z0 0 z 12 z 10

2 0 2 0

1 1 1 0

1 0 0 0

3.65 3.54 4.09 0.00

222 30 0 211 10 0 10 0

2 0 1 0 0

2 1 0 2 0

1 2 2 0 1

5.86 7.16 6.19 4.76 4.72

Brault Ponce Howard Mears Kuhl, W, 5-6

Inherited runners-scored: Machado 1-0, Baldonado 2-2. WP: Murphy(2).

Umpires: HP: Tony Randazzo; 1B: Nestor Ceja; 2B: Todd Tichenor; 3B: Chad Whitson.

T: 2:52. A: 11,808 (38,747).

Mets 10, Yankees 3 NYY................110 000 001 — 3 NYM.............105 200 20x — 10 New York (A)

AB R H BI BB SO Avg.

LeMahieu 2b Gardner cf Judge rf Wade rf Rizzo 1b Torres ss Gallo lf Sanchez c Urshela 3b Montgomery p Rodriguez p a-Odor ph King p c-Voit ph Abreu p Totals New York (N)

3 4 4 0 4 4 4 4 3 1 0 1 0 1 0 33 AB

0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 R

1 2 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 7 H

0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 10 BI BB SO

.268 .219 .292 .274 .264 .249 .197 .210 .257 .000 --.206 --.257 ---

Villar 3b Lindor ss Conforto rf Almora Jr. cf Alonso 1b Baez 2b McNeil lf Pillar cf-rf McCann c Megill p b-Smith ph Hembree p Y.Diaz p Totals

5 3 4 0 4 4 3 2 4 3 1 0 0 33

2 2 2 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 10

2 1 2 0 0 3 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 11

0 1 0 0 1 2 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 8

.264 .224 .223 .118 .267 .258 .247 .221 .237 .208 .243 .000 .000

0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4

2 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 10

Avg.

a-struck out for Rodriguez in the 5th. b-popped out for Megill in the 7th. c-singled for King in the 8th.

E: Urshela (10), Torres (17). LOB: New York (A) 4, New York (N) 6. 2B: Torres (18), McCann (10), Baez (16). 3B: Gardner (4). HR: Gallo (32), off Megill; Rizzo (6), off Y.Diaz; Lindor (14), off Montgomery. RBI: Judge (76), Gallo (69), Rizzo (17), Baez 2 (80), Alonso (85), McNeil (33), Pillar (40), McCann 2 (37), Lindor (47). CS: Baez (4).

SF_Pillar.

Runners left in scoring position: New York (A) 2 (Sanchez, Judge); New York (N) 3 (McNeil, Megill 2). RISP: New York (A) 0 for 5; New York (N) 3 for 10.

Runners moved up: Judge, Pillar. GIDP: Judge.

DP: New York (N) 1 (Villar, Baez, Alonso).

Pitching ip h r er bb so era

New York (A)

Montgomery, L, 5-6 3 z 7 7 Rodriguez Z 2 1 King 3 2 2 Abreu 100

New York (N) Megill, W, 3-4 Hembree Y.Diaz

5 3 6 3.71 1 0 0 4.79 1 0 2 3.68 0 1 2 4.36

7 4 2 2 1 10 4.06 1 2 0 0 0 0 5.96 1 1 1 1 0 0 4.18

HBP: King 2 (McNeil,Pillar). WP: Montgomery, King.

Umpires: HP: Ted Barrett; 1B: Angel Hernandez; 2B: Lance Barksdale; 3B: Alex Tosi.

T: 3:23. A: 37,288 (41,922).

Brewers 10, Cleveland 3 MIL...............100 261 000 — 10 CLE................200 000 010 — 3 Milwaukee

AB R H BI BB SO Avg.

Wong 2b Escobar 3b-1b Yelich lf Garcia rf Narvaez c Pina c Vogelbach dh Urias ss Tellez 1b a-P.Reyes ph-3b Cain cf Totals Cleveland

4 5 5 5 4 0 3 4 4 0 5 39 AB

1 2 0 1 2 0 1 2 0 0 1 10 R

0 2 1 2 2 0 0 2 2 0 1 12 H

3 4 1 2 4 4 4

1 0 0 1 1 0 0

0 0 0 0 1 2 0

Straw cf Rosario ss Miller 2b Ramirez dh F.Reyes rf Bradley 1b Chang 3b

0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 4 0 1 8 4 5 BI BB SO

.280 .259 .259 .267 .282 .181 .212 .251 .265 .250 .248

0 0 0 0 0 2 1

.269 .283 .193 .259 .256 .223 .220

2 0 0 2 0 0 0

1 0 0 0 2 1 0

Avg.

Zimmer lf Lavarnway c Gimenez 2b-ss Totals

2 3 4 31

0 0 0 3

0 0 0 3

0 0 0 3

2 0 0 6

0 .237 1 .240 1 .196 6

a-walked for Tellez in the 9th.

E: Urias 2 (23), Lavarnway 2 (3), Rosario (8).

LOB: Milwaukee 8, Cleveland 8. 2B: Tellez (7), Narvaez (19), Urias (25). HR: Urias (20), off Morgan; Escobar (26), off Morgan; Cain (8), off Hentges; Escobar (27), off Hentges. RBI: Urias 2 (64), Escobar 2 (79), Cain 4 (33), Bradley 2 (33), Chang (27). SB: Straw 3 (27), Ramirez 2 (23), Zimmer (13). S_Lavarnway.

Runners left in scoring position: Milwaukee 3 (Wong 2, Cain); Cleveland 6 (Lavarnway 3, Chang, Rosario 2). RISP: Milwaukee 2 for 8; Cleveland 1 for 11.

Runners moved up: Escobar, Yelich, Bradley, Chang, Zimmer. GIDP: Vogelbach.

DP: Cleveland 1 (Chang, Gimenez, Bradley).

Pitching ip h r er bb so era

Milwaukee

Houser, W, 9-6 Cousins Gustave Strickland

6 1 1 1

1 0 2 0

2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0

5 5 3.25 1 0 1.40 0 0 0.96 0 1 1.17

Morgan, L, 2-7 Hentges Stephan Young

4z 1Z 1Z 1z

8 3 0 1

8 2 0 0

2 2 6.03 0 2 7.04 0 1 4.53 2 0 7.71

Cleveland

7 2 0 0

Inherited runners-scored: Hentges 3-3. HBP: Morgan (Wong).

Umpires: HP: Dan Iassogna; 1B: Jeremie Rehak; 2B: John Bacon; 3B: Scott Barry.

T: 3:24. A: 17,667 (34,788).

Orioles 6, Blue Jays 3 TOR ...............000 012 000 — 3 BAL ...............300 000 30x — 6 Toronto

AB R H BI BB SO Avg.

Springer dh Semien 2b Guerrero Jr. 1b Bichette ss Hernandez rf Kirk c Gurriel Jr. lf Lamb 3b Dyson cf b-Grichuk ph-cf Totals Baltimore

5 4 5 5 4 3 4 4 2 2 38 AB

0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 R

1 2 1 2 0 1 2 0 0 1 10 H

0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 5 8 BI BB SO

Mullins cf 4 2 1 1 Mountcastle 1b 4 0 1 0 Hays rf-lf 5 1 2 0 Mancini dh 3 1 1 0 McKenna lf 2 1 1 2 a-Santander ph-rf 3 1 1 3 Jones 2b 3 0 1 0 Mateo 2b 0 0 0 0 Gutierrez 3b 3 0 1 0 Wynns c 3 0 0 0 Martin ss 4 0 1 0 Totals 34 6 10 6

1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 6

1 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 10

.258 .273 .318 .290 .293 .274 .277 .194 .217 .243

Avg. .302 .263 .253 .261 .200 .242 .176 .284 .210 .178 .229

a-flied out for McKenna in the 5th. b-pinch hit for Dyson in the 6th.

E: Bichette (23), Merryweather (1), Kirk (2), Gutierrez (12), Jones (3). LOB: Toronto 13, Baltimore 11. 2B: Gurriel Jr. (25), Semien (36), Mancini (30). 3B: Hays (4), Gutierrez (3). HR: Mullins (28), off Ray; McKenna (2), off Ray; Santander (15), off Merryweather. RBI: Bichette (85), Semien (91), Mullins (55), McKenna 2 (8), Santander 3 (44). SB: Wynns (1), Mullins 2 (28). CS_Martin (2).

Runners left in scoring position: Toronto 6 (Lamb 2, Kirk 2, Guerrero Jr. 2); Baltimore 7 (Mountcastle 2, Gutierrez, Jones, Wynns, Santander 2). RISP: Toronto 2 for 10; Baltimore 2 for 15.

Runners moved up: Mountcastle.

Pitching ip h r er bb so era

Toronto

Ray 4z 8 3 Cimber 1Z 0 0 Merryweather, L, 0-1 Z 2 3 Saucedo 1z 0 0

3 2 8 2.69 0 0 2 1.59 0 1 0 0.00 0 3 0 4.24

Ellis Abad, H, 1 Greene, W, 1-0 Sulser, S, 7-10

1 4 4 2.08 1 0 0 7.36 0 0 3 5.79 0 1 1 3.15

Baltimore

5 z 1Z 2

5 1 2 2

1 2 0 0

Inherited runners-scored: Cimber 2-0, Saucedo 1-0, Greene 1-1. HBP: Saucedo (Mancini). WP: Merryweather.

Umpires: HP: Jim Wolf; 1B: Ed Hickox; 2B: Dave Rackley; 3B: Shane Livensparger.

T: 3:34. A: 11,751 (45,971).

Tigers 10, Rays 4 TB..................000 010 300 — 4 DET ..............000 012 43x — 10 Tampa Bay

AB R H BI BB SO Avg.

Margot rf Franco ss 1-Wendle pr-ss Cruz dh Diaz 3b B.Lowe 2b Luplow 1b a-Choi ph-1b Meadows lf J.Lowe lf Mejia c Kiermaier cf Totals Detroit

5 1 3 4 3 4 3 2 4 0 4 4 37 AB

Baddoo lf-cf

0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 R

1 1 1 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 10 H

0 0 1 .255 0 0 0 .285 1 1 2 .276 0 1 0 .277 0 2 0 .256 0 1 2 .236 0 0 1 .200 3 0 1 .248 0 0 2 .232 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 1 .257 0 0 0 .246 4 5 10 BI BB SO Avg.

4 2 2 0

1 1 .261

4 4 3 4 4 3 3 3 2 30

1 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 5

1 0 1 0 1 2 2 0 1 8

Bumgarner, L, 7-10 N.Ramirez Aguilar

6 1 1

Gonzales, W, 8-5 Misiewicz, H, 17 Sadler, H, 12 Castillo, H, 7 Steckenrider, S, 8-11

6 Z z 1 1

Tampa Bay

Wacha Feyereisen Conley Fairbanks, L,3-6, H,13 Kittredge, BS, 6-7 Armstrong

Detroit

Alexander Funkhouser Lange Cisnero, W, 4-4 Fulmer, H, 8 Holland

1 6 0 1 1 0

4.66 3.74 6.75

4 0 0 1 0

1 1 0 0 0

4.03 3.81 0.90 2.90 1.70

3 0 0 1 0

0 0 0 1 0

3 1 1 1 3

H BI BB SO

Avg.

4 3 1 2 4 4 4 4 3 2 1 0 0 1 33 AB

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 R

0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 1 H BI BB

.248 .274 .270 .203 .280 .258 .238 .262 .306 .089 .234 ----.269

Betts rf Muncy 1b T.Turner 2b Seager ss J.Turner 3b Smith c Lux lf Bellinger cf Taylor cf-lf Urias p Treinen p Jansen p Totals

3 4 4 3 3 3 2 0 1 3 0 0 26

1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3

1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4

1 1 0 0 2 2 1 1 0 0 10

2 0 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 11

4 0 0 2 1 0 0 3 0 0 10

0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 4

2 2 1 1 1 0 1 0 2 2 13

.281 .242 .263 .276 .235 .220 .212 .247 .258 .284

5 Z z z Z 1

3 2 0 2 1 3

1 2 0 3 1 3

1 2 0 3 1 3

0 1 0 1 0 2

6 2 1 1 1 2

5.37 2.93 1.98 4.21 1.51 6.69

4z Z 1 1 1 1

5 0 1 2 2 0

1 0 0 3 0 0

1 0 0 3 0 0

2 1 0 2 0 0

4 1 2 1 1 1

4.09 3.51 5.00 3.06 3.45 5.79

MIA...............200 000 000 — 2 ATL ................000 050 01x — 6 Miami

AB R H BI BB SO Avg.

Rojas ss Chisholm Jr. 2b De La Cruz cf Sanchez rf Alfaro lf Thompson p Williams p c-Alvarez ph Okert p L.Diaz 1b A.Jackson c I.Diaz 3b Rogers p Brinson lf Totals Atlanta

5 4 4 3 2 0 0 1 0 4 4 4 2 2 35 AB

0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 R

0 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 7 H

0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 2 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 1 2 2 17 BI BB SO

.270 .253 .336 .230 .241 .143 --.200 .000 .136 .131 .189 .053 .240

Albies 2b Soler rf Pederson rf Freeman 1b Riley 3b Duvall lf d'Arnaud c Arcia ss Heredia cf Anderson p a-Adrianza ph Newcomb p b-Rosario ph L.Jackson p Matzek p d-Contreras ph Smith p Totals

5 4 0 4 4 4 2 3 3 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 32

0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6

0 1 0 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 8

0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4

.256 .285 .234 .294 .300 .228 .226 .176 .223 .067 .245 .000 .250 ----.196 ---

0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 4

3 1 0 0 1 3 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10

Avg.

a-singled for Anderson in the 5th. b-popped out for Newcomb in the 6th. c-grounded out for Williams in the 8th. d-walked for Matzek in the 8th.

E: De La Cruz (3), I.Diaz (6), Anderson (1). LOB: Miami 8, Atlanta 7. 2B: Freeman (22), d'Arnaud (9). HR: Sanchez (8), off Anderson. RBI: Sanchez 2 (23), Adrianza (25), Soler 2 (21), Arcia (11). SB: Chisholm Jr. (20).

Runners left in scoring position: Miami 3 (L.Diaz 2, Alfaro); Atlanta 5 (Riley 2, Rosario, Albies 2).

RISP: Miami 0 for 3; Atlanta 4 for 12.

Pitching ip h r er bb so era 4z 1Z 1 1

3 3 0 2

4 1 0 1

4 1 6 2.73 0 1 2 2.96 0 0 1 2.45 1 2 1 2.13

5 1 1 1 1

5 1 0 1 0

2 0 0 0 0

2 0 0 0 0

2 9 3.61 0 3 5.60 0 3 2.17 0 1 2.95 0 1 3.72

Inherited runners-scored: Thompson 3-3. HBP: Rogers (Heredia).

Umpires: HP: Joe West; 1B: Bruce Dreckman; 2B: Nic Lentz; 3B: Nick Mahrley.

T: 3:24. A: 33,850 (41,084).

Rockies 11, Phillies 2 COL...............030 100 205 — 11 PHI ...............000 000 002 — 2 Colorado

8 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0

AB R

Braves 6, Marlins 2

Anderson, W, 7-5 Newcomb, H, 2 L.Jackson, H, 25 Matzek, H, 23 Smith

.267 .250 .291 .211 .271 .232 .210 .163 .173

Grisham cf Machado 3b Cronenworth ss Kim ss Tatis Jr. rf Myers lf Profar 1b Nola c Frazier 2b Musgrove p a-Pham ph Johnson p Adams p b-Hosmer ph Totals Los Angeles

Inherited runners-scored: Conley 1-0, Kittredge 3-3, Funkhouser 1-0.

Umpires: HP: Jordan Baker; 1B: James Hoye; 2B: Sean Barber; 3B: Mark Carlson.

T: 3:26. A: 18,321 (41,083).

Atlanta

2 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 7

San Diego

a-doubled for Luplow in the 7th. b-struck out for Hill in the 7th.

1-ran for Franco in the 1st.

E: Armstrong (1). LOB: Tampa Bay 11, Detroit 5.

2B: Cruz (21), Choi (11), Candelario (40), Goodrum (8). 3B: Kiermaier (4), Baddoo (7).

HR: Haase (21), off Wacha; Schoop (20), off Kittredge; Reyes (5), off Armstrong. RBI: Wendle (50), Choi 3 (41), Haase (55), Candelario 2 (58), Schoop 4 (77), Reyes 3 (17). SB: Wendle (7), Luplow (1), Grossman (17), W.Castro (7).

Runners left in scoring position: Tampa Bay 8 (Luplow 2, B.Lowe 3, Kiermaier, Meadows, Cruz); Detroit 2 (Haase, Grossman). RISP: Tampa Bay 2 for 12; Detroit 4 for 9.

Runners moved up: Diaz.

Pitching ip h r er bb so era

Rogers, L, 7-7 Thompson Williams Okert

0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2

Dodgers relief pitcher Kenley Jansen (74) delivers against the San Diego Padres during the ninth inning at Dodger Stadium. KIRBY LEE/USA TODAY SPORTS

0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3

2 0 0 0 2 2 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 9 SO

1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 5

Pitching

AB R H BI BB SO Avg.

1 2 2 1 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 11 R

1 1 2 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 10 H

Herrera cf Segura 2b Harper rf Realmuto c Miller 1b McCutchen lf Gregorius ss Galvis 3b Coonrod p Falter p Bedrosian p a-Jankowski ph Moore p b-Torreyes ph Rosso p c-Vierling ph De Los Santos p Hammer p e-Marchan ph Totals

5 4 4 3 4 4 4 4 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 35

1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2

1 2 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8

Musgrove, L, 10-9 Johnson Adams

6 1 1

4 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0

5 7 0 0 0 1

2.93 2.77 3.21

Urias, W, 17-3 Treinen, H, 28 Jansen, S, 3z6

7 1 1

3 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0

1 7 0 2 0 0

2.98 1.83 2.47

Marquez, W, 12-10 Sheffield Bard Bowden

Philadelphia Coonrod Falter, L, 2-1 Bedrosian Moore Rosso De Los Santos Hammer

AB R

H BI BB SO

Avg.

Taveras cf Kiner-Falefa ss Garcia rf Lowe 1b Peters lf Solak 2b Trevino c Pozo dh Hernandez 3b Totals Oakland

5 5 4 2 4 4 4 3 4 35 AB

1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 5 R

2 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 1 2 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 8 5 3 H BI BB

.155 .261 .245 .262 .203 .241 .232 .259 .264

Harrison 2b Marte cf Olson 1b Chapman 3b Lowrie dh a-Davis ph-dh

5 5 5 4 1 3

0 2 0 0 1 0

1 3 4 0 0 1

.269 .249 .274 .256 .233 .222 .193 .287 .245 ----.240 ---

0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2

.259 .295 .306 .259 .229 .219 .220 .191 .000 .000 --.250 .000 .248 --.385 --.000 .231

0 1 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 6

1 0 1 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8

Avg.

6 1 1 1

6 0 0 2

0 0 0 2

0 0 0 1

1 1 2 2

6 0 2 0

3.93 2.82 5.50 6.56

1 z 1Z 2 2 1z Z

0 2 1 1 4 1 1

0 3 0 1 2 4 1

0 3 0 0 2 4 1

0 2 1 0 0 3 0

1 1 2 1 2 3 1

3.75 5.86 5.03 6.12 7.94 6.75 2.89

Reds 4, Cardinals 2 CIN.................010 100 002 — 4 STL ...............000 200 000 — 2 AB R H BI BB SO Avg. 3 4 4 3 3 0 0 3 4 3 2 1 0 0 1

0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0

India 2b Stephenson c Castellanos rf Votto 1b Suarez 3b 1-Akiyama pr Givens p Aquino lf Barrero ss DeShields cf Mahle p a-A.Cabrera ph Sims p Lorenzen p c-Moustakas ph-3b Totals St. Louis

31 4 6 4 4 2 AB R H BI BB SO Avg.

Edman 2b Goldschmidt 1b O'Neill lf Arenado 3b Molina c Carlson rf DeJong ss Bader cf Lester p b-Nootbaar ph Garcia p McFarland p Totals

4 4 4 3 4 4 4 3 2 1 0 0 33

0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2

0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0

1 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 5

Texas

Texas

1 2 1 1 1 0 2 0 2 0 1 2 4 1 0 0 1 2 1 0 2 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 6 11 BI BB SO

0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2

1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2

0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0

0 2 1 0 1 1 2 2 2 1 0 0 12

.271 .282 .317 .269 .177 .199 --.191 .250 .143 .042 .234 .000 .000 .208

.264 .284 .276 .252 .255 .258 .195 .243 .175 .222 -----

a-flied out for Mahle in the 7th. b-struck out for Lester in the 7th. c-lined out for Lorenzen in the 9th.

1-ran for Suarez in the 9th.

E: Barrero (2). LOB: Cincinnati 5, St. Louis 6. 2B: Barrero (2). HR: Suarez (26), off Lester; Votto (30), off Lester; Molina (11), off Mahle. RBI: Suarez (70), Votto (87), Barrero (1), DeShields (3), Molina 2 (59). S: DeShields.

Runners left in scoring position: Cincinnati 1 (Barrero, A.Cabrera); St. Louis 2 (Lester, Bader).

RISP: Cincinnati 0 for 3; St. Louis 0 for 3.

LI DP: Moustakas. GIDP: Barrero.

4 1 0 0 5 2 3 0 5 2 2 1 3 2 2 1 40 10 16 10

2 2 4 0 0 0

0 2 1 1 3 0 1 0 1 9 SO

Avg.

0 2 0 0 0 0 1 3 1 1 0 2

.287 .344 .276 .220 .251 .176

0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 12

.237 .266 .217 .232

a-struck out for Lowrie in the 4th.

E: Kiner-Falefa (15). LOB: Texas 6, Oakland 10. 2B: Lowe (22), Taveras (4), Andrus (22). 3B: Marte (1). RBI: Garcia (79), Lowe 2 (64), Solak (44), Taveras (6), Murphy (58), Andrus (32), Marte 2 (19), Olson 4 (95), Harrison 2 (10).

SB: Garcia (10).

Runners left in scoring position: Texas 2 (Peters, Kiner-Falefa); Oakland 4 (Olson, Murphy, Davis 2). RISP: Texas 3 for 6; Oakland 7 for 14.

Runners moved up: Kiner-Falefa, Andrus.

Pitching ip h r er bb so era

Texas.......................103 000 001 — 5 Oakland................060 220 00x — 10

Inherited runners-scored: Bedrosian 2-1, Hammer 3-3.

Umpires: HP: Laz Diaz; 1B: Mike Estabrook; 2B: John Libka; 3B: Jansen Visconti.

T: 3:39. A: 22,138 (42,792).

Cincinnati

Canha rf Kemp lf Murphy c Andrus ss Totals

era

A’s 10, Rangers 5

a-flied out for Bedrosian in the 3rd. b-flied out for Moore in the 5th. c-walked for Rosso in the 7th. d-flied out for Bard in the 9th. e-grounded out for Hammer in the 9th.

E: Bowden (1), Moore (1). LOB: Colorado 5, Philadelphia 12. 2B: Daza (12), Hilliard (5), Segura (24). HR: Story (20), off Rosso; Cron (27), off Rosso; Diaz (17), off Hammer; Gregorius (11), off Bowden. RBI: Hilliard (22), Daza (30), Marquez (7), Blackmon (74), Story (67), Cron 2 (82), Diaz 4 (39), Gregorius (43), Harper (70). S: Marquez.

Runners left in scoring position: Colorado 3 (Cron 2, Marquez); Philadelphia 5 (Harper 2, McCutchen, Miller 2). RISP: Colorado 6 for 10; Philadelphia 1 for 6.

GIDP: Diaz, Herrera.

DP: Colorado 1 (Story, Cron); Philadelphia 1 (Segura, Gregorius, Miller).

Pitching ip h r er bb so era

Colorado

r er bb so

IBB: off Musgrove (Taylor). HBP: Urias 2 (Frazier,Cronenworth), Musgrove (Smith). WP: Musgrove.

Umpires: HP: Pat Hoberg; 1B: Chris Conroy; 2B: Chris Segal; 3B: Vic Carapazza.

T: 2:53. A: 48,403 (56,000).

Avg.

3 4 5 4 4 4 5 4 2 0 0 1 0 36 AB

h

Los Angeles

0 .268 0 .257 2 .318 0 .284 1 .276 0 .271 1 .220 0 .158 1 .258 3 .192 0 --0 .000 8

Blackmon rf Story ss Cron 1b McMahon 2b Diaz c Welker 3b Hilliard lf Daza cf Marquez p Sheffield p Bard p d-Ruiz ph Bowden p Totals Philadelphia

ip

San Diego

a-flied out for Musgrove in the 7th. b-grounded out for Adams in the 9th.

E: Profar (5). LOB: San Diego 9, Los Angeles 6. 2B: Myers (20), Smith (16). HR: Muncy (32), off Musgrove. RBI: Muncy 2 (81), Taylor (72). SB: Tatis Jr. (25). SF_Taylor.

Runners left in scoring position: San Diego 5 (Myers 3, Profar, Hosmer); Los Angeles 3 (Taylor, Urias 2). RISP: San Diego 0 for 4; Los Angeles 0 for 4.

Runners moved up: Smith, J.Turner, Lux. GIDP: Muncy.

DP: San Diego 1 (Frazier, Kim, Profar).

Schoop 1b 5 Grossman rf-lf 4 Cabrera dh 4 Candelario 3b 4 Haase c 3 Goodrum ss 3 W.Castro 2b 3 Reyes rf 1 Hill cf 2 b-H.Castro ph-2b 2 Totals 35

Miami

1 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 5

San Diego .............000 000 000 — 0 Los Angeles ...........002 100 00x — 3

MARINERS 5, Diamondbacks 4: Tom Murphy hit a two-run home run in the second inning and added a solo shot in the sixth, and Seattlegot its eighth win in 11 games.

Rockies 11, PHILLIES 2: Elias Díaz hit a grand slam, Germán Márquez pitched

Crawford ss Haniger rf France 1b Seager 3b Toro 2b Torrens dh Murphy c Kelenic cf Moore lf Totals

Avg.

2 .221 0 .326 1 .247 0 .231 0 1.000 1 .268 1 .218 1 .260 1 .270 1 .300 1 .190 9 SO Avg.

Dodgers 3, Padres 0

DODGERS 3, Padres 0: Julio Urías pitched seven shutout innings for his major league-leading 17th victory, Max Muncy slugged a two-run homer and Los Angeles won to snap a two-game skid.

BRAVES 6, Marlins 2: Jorge Soler had a two-run single during a five-run fifth inning, and Ian Anderson tied a career high with nine strikeouts to lift Atlanta.

The comeback victory was the Braves’ 35th this season.

0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 0 5 4 2 H BI BB

Inherited runners-scored: Sadler 1-0.

Umpires: HP: Adrian Johnson; 1B: Jeremy Riggs; 2B: Ron Kulpa; 3B: Mike Muchlinski.

T: 2:38. A: 14,379 (47,929).

ATHLETICS 10, Rangers 5: Matt Olson had four hits and drove in four runs, Starling Marte added an RBI triple and Oakland beat Texas for their third straight win.

TIGERS 10, Rays 4: Miguel Cabrera got his ninth straight hit before the string ended, and Jonathan Schoop launched a grand slam for Detroit. Rays rookie shortstop Wander Franco extended his on-base streak to 39 games.

0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 4 R

Seattle

WHITE SOX 4, Red Sox 3: José Abreu hit a three-run homer and Carlos Rodón pitched five effective innings on extended rest, helping the White Sox beat the Red Sox. Luis Robert added an RBI single.

ORIOLES 6, Blue Jays 3: Cedric Mullins and Ryan McKenna homered off Robbie Ray and the Orioles ended the Blue Jays’ season-high winning streak at eight. Anthony Santander also had a three-run shot in the seventh.

H BI BB SO

4 3 3 3 1 4 3 1 3 4 3 32 AB

Arizona

Royals 6, TWINS 4 (11): Andrew Benintendi had four hits and two home runs, the last a two-run shot in the 11th to lift Kansas City. Benintendi had five RBIs in his second multi-homer game of the season in Minnesota.

Brewers 10, CLEVELAND 3: Lorenzo Cain hit a grand slam to cap a six-run fifth inning, Eduardo Escobar homered from both sides of the plate and the Brewers moved closer to the NL Central title.

AB R

Ahmed ss Marte cf Kelly c Walker dh a-Beer ph-dh P.Smith 1b Young 2b b-Peralta ph Rojas 3b Ramos lf McCarthy rf Totals Seattle

a-homered for Walker in the 8th. b-pinch hit for Young in the 9th.

E: France (4), Gonzales (2). LOB: Arizona 4, Seattle 3. 2B: Kelly (9), Torrens (14). HR: Ramos (1), off Gonzales; Beer (1), off Castillo; Crawford (8), off Bumgarner; Murphy 2 (11), off Bumgarner. RBI: Ramos 2 (2), Kelly (38), Beer (1), Crawford (45), Murphy 3 (31), France (61). SB: Moore 2 (20). SF_Kelly.

Runners left in scoring position: Arizona 1 (Walker); Seattle 2 (Crawford, Kelenic). RISP: Arizona 0 for 1; Seattle 2 for 6.

Runners moved up: Murphy. GIDP: Seager, Murphy.

DP: Arizona 2 (Rojas, P.Smith; Young, Ahmed, P.Smith).

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ASTROS 10, Angels 5: Shohei Ohtani hit his major league-leading 44th home run, but got tagged early by José Altuve, Alex Bregman and the Astros.

Ohtani had been 8-0 in his last 13 starts since May 28.

METS 10, Yankees 3: Rookie Tylor Megill struck out a career-high 10 in a career-long seven innings and the New York Mets took advantage of a string of mental and physical mistakes by the reeling Yankees.

Arizona

Otto, L, 0-1 Yang Dunning Santana Sborz

3z 1Z 1 1 1

8 5 1 2 0

8 2 0 0 0

8 2 0 0 0

1 0 0 1 0

5 2 1 2 2

6.92 5.45 4.27 4.91 4.06

Blackburn Guerra, W, 4-1 Trivino Petit Diekman Smith

2Z 2z 1 1 1 1

6 0 0 0 0 2

4 0 0 0 0 1

4 0 0 0 0 1

1 1 0 0 1 0

3 2 1 1 1 1

5.24 3.56 3.47 3.21 3.23 5.40

Oakland

Inherited runners-scored: Yang 1-1, Guerra 1-0. HBP: Otto 2 (Canha,Andrus).

Umpires: HP: Adam Beck; 1B: Brian Knight; 2B: Bill Miller; 3B: Gabe Morales.

T: 3:25. A: 7,157 (46,847).

DP: St. Louis 2 (DeJong, Edman, Goldschmidt; DeJong, Goldschmidt, DeJong).

Pitching ip h r er bb so era

Simmons ss d-Arraez ph-2b Totals

Cincinnati

a-grounded out for Jeffers in the 9th. b-pinch hit for Dozier in the 10th. c-walked for Rivero in the 10th. d-walked for Simmons in the 10th. e-grounded out for E.Santana in the 11th.

E: Sano (15). LOB: Kansas City 7, Minnesota 7.

2B: Lopez (17), Taylor (13), Rivero (2), Polanco (33). HR: Benintendi (14), off Jax; Benintendi (15), off Minaya; Buxton (12), off Lynch; Donaldson (22), off Lynch. RBI: Benintendi 5 (57), Taylor (50), Buxton (22), Donaldson 3 (62).

Runners left in scoring position: Kansas City 4 (Dozier, Perez 2, Alberto); Minnesota 3 (Buxton, Refsnyder, Rooker). RISP: Kansas City 3 for 11; Minnesota 2 for 9.

Runners moved up: Merrifield.

Pitching ip h r er bb so era

Mahle Sims Lorenzen, W, 1-2 Givens, S, 7-9

6 1 1 1

2 0 0 0

2 6 3.73 0 3 4.81 0 1 3.20 0 2 2.76

Lester Garcia McFarland, L, 3-1

7 3 2 2 1 1 0 0 1 2 2 2

4 2 4.75 0 0 2.25 0 0 2.08

St. Louis

4 0 0 1

2 0 0 0

WP: Mahle.

Umpires: HP: Tripp Gibson; 1B: Ryan Blakney; 2B: Edwin Moscoso; 3B: Doug Eddings.

T: 2:43. A: 29,597 (45,494).

Astros 10, Angels 5 LAA ................110 210 000 — 5 HOU .............003 600 10x — 10 Los Angeles

AB R H BI BB SO Avg.

Fletcher 2b Ohtani p Wantz p Ortega p a-Rengifo ph-ss Gosselin 3b-lf Adell lf-rf Mayfield ss-3b Walsh 1b Suzuki c Marsh cf Lagares rf Herget p Petricka p b-Wong ph Tyler p Totals Houston

5 1 0 0 2 4 5 5 3 4 4 2 0 0 1 0 36 AB

0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 R

0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 8 H

0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 0 2 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 5 10 BI BB SO

Altuve 2b Brantley dh Bregman 3b Alvarez lf Correa ss Tucker rf Diaz 1b McCormick cf Maldonado c Totals

4 5 4 2 5 4 4 5 4 37

3 0 2 2 1 0 1 1 0 10

3 2 3 1 3 1 1 1 1 16

1 0 4 1 1 1 2 0 0 10

0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 3

0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 4

.279 .259 ----.180 .274 .248 .203 .272 .218 .253 .233 ----.178 ---

Avg. .276 .316 .297 .279 .283 .290 .279 .252 .171

a-singled for Ortega in the 6th. b-grounded out for Petricka in the 8th.

E: Suzuki (10), Bregman (8), Alvarez (1), Correa (9), McCormick (1). LOB: Los Angeles 9, Houston 10. 2B: Walsh (28), Altuve (25), Alvarez (28), Bregman (17). 3B: Adell (2). HR: Ohtani (44), off Valdez; Walsh (26), off Valdez. RBI: Ohtani (94), Walsh (81), Suzuki (14), Marsh (14), Bregman 4 (45), Alvarez (91), Correa (75), Altuve (72), Tucker (80), Diaz 2 (41). SF: Bregman.

Runners left in scoring position: Los Angeles 5 (Adell, Gosselin 2, Lagares 2); Houston 4 (Correa 2, McCormick 2, Bregman). RISP: Los Angeles 1 for 7; Houston 6 for 17.

Runners moved up: Marsh, Fletcher. LI DP: Suzuki. GIDP: Diaz, Bregman.

DP: Los Angeles 2 (Fletcher, Mayfield, Walsh; Mayfield, Fletcher, Walsh); Houston 1 (Correa, Altuve, Correa).

Pitching ip h r er bb so era

Los Angeles Ohtani, L, 9-2 Wantz Ortega Herget Petricka Tyler

Houston

3z Z 1 1 1 1

9 3 2 1 1 0

6 3 0 0 1 0

6 3 0 0 1 0

0 1 0 1 1 0

1 3.36 0 4.96 0 0.00 2 4.82 1 15.00 0 0.00

5 1 2 1

6 1 0 1

5 0 0 0

4 0 0 0

5 0 0 0

6 0 2 2

Valdez, W, 10-5 Maton Raley Stanek

3.26 4.45 5.18 3.73

Inherited runners-scored: Wantz 2-2. IBB: off Valdez (Ohtani). HBP: Ohtani (Diaz), Petricka (Altuve). WP: Ohtani.

Umpires: HP: Brian O'Nora; 1B: Fieldin Cubreth; 2B: Dan Merzel; 3B: D.J. Reyburn.

T: 3:37. A: 28,740 (41,168).

Royals 6, Twins 4 (11) KC ...........300 100 000 02 — 6 MIN........400 000 000 00 — 4 Kansas City

AB R H BI BB SO Avg.

Merrifield 2b Lopez ss Perez dh-c Benintendi lf C.Santana 1b Mondesi 3b Taylor cf Dozier rf b-O'Hearn ph E.Santana p e-Alberto ph Holland p Rivero c c-Olivares ph-rf Totals Minnesota

5 5 4 5 5 4 5 3 1 0 1 0 3 0 41 AB

0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 R

0 2 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 8 H

0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 5 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 6 3 10 BI BB SO

Avg.

5 5 5 4 5 5 4 3 1 0

1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0

1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0

1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0

.287 .277 .258 .251 .218 .200 .205 .197 .236 .138

Buxton cf Polanco 2b-ss Refsnyder lf Donaldson 3b Sano 1b Rooker dh Kepler rf Jeffers c a-Gordon ph Rortvedt c

0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0

1 0 2 0 1 3 0 1 0 0

.275 .298 .274 .263 .221 .262 .245 .203 .221 --.255 --.130 .227

3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 40 4 7 4

Kansas City

0 1 .224 1 0 .297 2 9

Lynch Brentz Staumont Barlow E.Santana, W, 2-2 Holland, S, 8-12

6 1 1 1 1 1

7 0 0 0 0 0

4 0 0 0 0 0

4 0 0 0 0 0

0 4 5.37 0 1 3.22 1 2 3.38 0 1 2.41 1 0 4.70 0 1 5.66

Jax Duffey Alcala Colome Minaya, L, 2-1

6 1 1 1 2

5 0 0 1 2

4 0 0 0 2

4 0 0 0 1

1 4 6.72 0 1 3.27 0 1 4.44 0 2 3.88 2 2 2.84

Minnesota

Umpires: HP: Will Little; 1B: Greg Gibson; 2B: Ben May; 3B: Rob Drake.

T: 3:37. A: 20,803 (38,544).

White Sox 4, Red Sox 3 BOS ...............000 010 200 — 3 CHW ..............003 100 00x — 4 Boston

AB R H BI BB SO Avg.

Hernandez cf-2b 4 b-Shaw ph 1 Schwarber dh 4 Renfroe rf 3 Bogaerts ss 3 Devers 3b 4 Dalbec 1b 4 Vazquez c 4 Santana lf 4 Iglesias 2b 2 a-Verdugo ph-cf 2 Totals 35 Chicago AB

0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 3 R

0 0 0 0 2 0 2 2 1 0 1 8 H

0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 11 BI BB SO

.252 .240 .306 .266 .301 .274 .245 .259 .181 .000 .290

Robert cf Moncada 3b Abreu 1b Jimenez dh Grandal c Sheets lf Hamilton lf Garcia ss Goodwin rf C.Hernandez 2b Totals

0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 4

1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 6

1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4

.333 .267 .265 .268 .227 .225 .223 .259 .239 .229

5 2 4 4 3 2 1 4 2 3 30

0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 6

1 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 7

Avg.

a-singled for Iglesias in the 7th. b-flied out for Hernandez in the 9th.

E: Iglesias (), Grandal (8). LOB: Boston 7, Chicago 11. 3B: Dalbec (5). HR: Dalbec (21), off Rodon; Abreu (29), off Houck. RBI: Dalbec (70), Vazquez (43), Verdugo (52), Abreu 3 (107), Robert (23).

Runners left in scoring position: Boston 3 (Hernandez, Devers, Shaw); Chicago 4 (Abreu 4). RISP: Boston 1 for 7; Chicago 2 for 6.

Runners moved up: Vazquez, Santana.

Pitching ip h r er bb so era

Boston

Houck, L, 0-4 D.Hernandez Feliz Ottavino Brasier Taylor

Chicago

Rodon, W, 12-5 Kopech, H, 14 Bummer, H, 19 Tepera, H, 6 Crochet, H, 12 Kimbrel, H, 5 Hendriks, S, 34-40

3Z 1z 1 1 Z z

4 0 1 0 1 0

4 0 0 0 0 0

3 3 1 3.54 0 1 2 3.31 0 0 1 5.40 0 1 2 3.83 0 1 0 3.86 0 0 1 3.65

5 Z z Z z 1 1

3 1 0 3 0 0 1

1 0 0 2 0 0 0

1 0 0 2 0 0 0

0 1 0 0 0 1 0

7 2 0 0 0 2 0

2.38 3.95 4.15 2.81 2.91 5.40 2.90

Inherited runners-scored: D.Hernandez 2-0, Taylor 2-0, Bummer 2-0, Crochet 1-0. HBP: Houck (Grandal), D.Hernandez (Moncada), Taylor (Moncada). WP: Rodon, Tepera.

Umpires: HP: Adam Hamari; 1B: Dan Bellino; 2B: Roberto Ortiz; 3B: Chad Fairchild.

T: 3:48. A: 34,365 (40,615).

THIS DATE IN BASEBALL

Sept. 11 1912 – Eddie Collins set a major league record with six stolen bases for the Philadelphia Athletics in a 9-7 win over the Detroit Tigers. Collins stole six more in a game on Sept. 22.

1985 – Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds became the all-time hit leader with his 4,192nd hit to break Ty Cobb’s record.

Rose lined a 2-1 pitch off San Diego pitcher Eric Show to left-center field for a single in the first inning. It was the 57th anniversary of Ty Cobb’s last game in the majors.

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Oregon ruins Ohio State home opener Oregon running back CJ Verdell runs past Ohio State safety Bryson Shaw (17) and cornerback Cameron Brown (26) for a 77-yard touchdown on Saturday.

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COLUMBUS - A long 657 days had elapsed since fans could watch Ohio State play a game in Ohio Stadium.

A grand return, this was not.

No. 12 Oregon exposed No. 3 Ohio State’s defense in a 35-28 victory over the Buckeyes in front of 100,482.

It was the fi rst regular-season loss for Ryan Day as Buckeyes coach.

Ohio State had two chances to tie the game in the fourth quarter. But neither time could the Buckeyes get close to scoring range. The second drive ended when Verone McKinley intercepted a pass by C.J. Stroud on third-and-18 with 2:50 left. Stroud was fl ushed from the pocket and tried to lob a pass to Chris Olave, but overthrew it.

Until then, Stroud had done his best to keep the Buckeyes in the game. The redshirt freshman threw for 484 yards and three touchdowns on 35-of-54 passing.

Oregon (2-0) had lost to Ohio State (1-1) in all nine of their previous nine meetings, including the 2014 College Football Playoff championship. Ohio State was a two-touchdown favorite after Oregon needed three scores from turnovers last week to prevail over Fresno State 31-24.

The Ducks’ chances seemed to take a major hit when star defensive end Kayvon Thibodeaux, injured last week, was ruled out before the game. The surprise absence of budding star linebacker Justin Flowe compounded Oregon’s injury issues.

But the Ducks were undeterred and were a step ahead of Ohio State from the start.

Seven years ago, the Buckeyes handled Oregon’s tempo and overpowered the Ducks in the trenches.

This Oregon team doesn’t try to play at the same pace, but it is no longer a fi nesse team overpowered by Buckeye linemen.

Ducks off ensive coordinator Joe Moorhead had an answer for whatever Buckeyes defensive coordinator Kerry Coombs attempted. Oregon gained 505 yards, including 7.1 yards per run.

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Three of Oregon’s fi rst four touchdowns came on almost identical plays – the Ducks ballcarrier went left and Ohio State’s defense was nowhere to be found. CJ Verdell scored twice on 14yarders in the fi rst half, though the second was credited as a catch on a shovel pass. Travis Dye scored on a 6-yard carry in the third quarter against little resistance.

For good measure, Verdell broke a 77yard touchdown run to start the third quarter and make it obvious that the Buckeyes were in for a long day.

Ohio State’s off ense gained 612 yards, but Oregon stopped the Buckeyes three times on fourth down. With the Buckeyes’ defense struggling the way it did, scores on those drives were sorely needed.

Ohio State was out of sorts on both sides of the ball for most of the fi rst half.

Twice, drives ended when the Buckeyes couldn’t convert on fourth downs in Oregon territory. Ohio State’s opening possession ended when Stroud wasn’t close on a throw to Olave on fourthand-7 from the 31.

The Buckeyes trailed 14-7 when Miyan Williams was stuff ed on fourthand-2 from the 39 in the second quarter.

Ohio State’s only score came on a fi ve-play, 70-yard drive capped by a 27yard pass to Garrett Wilson.

Oregon’s off ense repeatedly found soft spots in the Buckeyes defense. The Ducks went 99 yards in 10 plays for their fi rst score. Verdell scored on a 14-yard run to the left side on which Ohio State’s defense seemingly vanished.

After Wilson’s score, the Ducks answered with a 65-yard touchdown drive with Verdell scoring again from 14 yards.

Oregon took that 14-7 lead into halftime. The Buckeyes also trailed last week at Minnesota, but this had a diff erent feel.

It got worse to start the third quarter.

On third-and-3 from the 23, Verdell found an opening, raced past safety Bryson Shaw and fended off a late tackle attempt by cornerback Cam Brown for a 77-yard score to make it a two-touchdown game.

Ohio State then responded. The Buckeyes drove 75 yards for a touch-

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letic department through a global pandemic, and fi ring one men’s basketball coach and hiring another, then sifting through a lawsuit brought by the fi red coach, it’s been a nonstop thrill ride for Cunningham, “It’s been wild, but a lot of fun, and from Day 1, this is where we wanted to be,” Cunningham said Friday. “This is just awesome.”

On July 26, Texas and Oklahoma notifi ed the Big 12 that they will not be renewing their grants of media rights following expiration in 2025. It was the fi rst signal that the two schools were leaving the Big 12 and joining the Southeastern Conference.

That announcement caused Cunningham to hop off of the roller coaster and point his attention toward another pressing matter: Getting Cincinnati into a Power Five conference.

“One of the things I’ve always talked about was if and when there was an opportunity, we were going to be ready,” he said.

In the midst of the craziness of the past two years, Cunningham created what he called a “if and when” committee. The No. 1 task of the group was to discuss conference realignment and UC’s options within it.

“When the chum of conference realignment started with Oklahoma and Texas not extending their grant of rights, then all of a sudden that door opened,” Cunningham said. “I immediately had a conversation with President Pinto and we agreed we were going to be aggressive. We were going to be respectful of our American (Athletic) Conference partnership, but we were going to be very aggressive.”

Pinto, Cunningham and the “if and when” committee began making phone calls. One of those calls was to Bowlsby.

“I called him, and I remember being a little surprised he picked up,” Cunningham said. “We had a really good conversation.”

After a couple of weeks went by, Bowlsby reached back out to Cunningham.

“We had more conversations,” Cunningham said. “We eventually made our way down to see him in Dallas (in late

down, the fi nal 26 coming on a pass from Stroud to Jaxon Smith-Njigba.

Ohio State needed its defense to stiff en, but it did not. Oregon needed only seven plays to answer the touchdown to make it 35-21, and the Buckeyes lost safety Josh Proctor to an apparently serious injury late in the drive. He was carted off the fi eld with a leg injury.

Ohio State then was thwarted on its ensuing drive when a fourth-down pass to Olave fell incomplete despite contact with the receiver.

The Buckeyes scored the game’s next touchdown when freshman TreVeyon Henderson followed a fourth-down pass to Garrett Wilson with a 2-yard touchdown. Ohio State made it 35-28 with 7:55 left when Smith-Njigba scored on a 15-yard pass on fourth-and-5.

After the Buckeyes’ defense got a stop, Ohio State had a chance to tie with 7 minutes left. But two incompletions and a short pass to Chris Olave – the Oregon defender lowered his helmet on the completion but no targeting was held – forced a punt.

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August) and had a really good sit-down with him. Coming out of that meeting in Dallas, I felt very strongly that this was a real possibility, and this was probably going to happen.”

It did happen. On Friday morning, two days after University of Cincinnati offi cials confi rmed the school had offi cially submitted its application to join the Big 12, the conference’s board of directors voted to extend a membership invitation to Cincinnati.

Also on Friday morning, UC’s board of trustees, during a special meeting, unanimously granted Pinto the authority to remove the university from the AAC and join the Big 12.

“We updated the board, and then kind of went from there. It happened very quickly,” Cunningham said.

The AAC has an exit fee of $10 million and requires its members to give a 27month notice of departure. If a school leaves before 27 months, the exit fee increases to a negotiated amount.

So UC, along with fellow new Big 12 member institutions Central Florida, Houston and Brigham Young, won’t be offi cial members until July 2024.

“We’re contractually obligated to the American (Athletic) Conference. We would not start (in the Big 12) no earlier than July 1, 2024,” Cunningham said.

“Now, I say that – if conversations and arrangements are made that would be diff erent than that, then those are going

to take place between the American (Athletic) Conference schools that are leaving and the conference offi ce. We’ll follow our contractual obligations with the conference.”

It remains unclear how much Cincinnati will receive for an initial annual payout from the Big 12. Bowlsby said the Big 12 will enter television rights negotiations with FOX and ESPN in March 2024.

The conference’s members each received about $40 million in TV revenue last year.

The Big 12 has perennially competed for national championships in softball, with Oklahoma winning fi ve national titles, including one this year.

Cincinnati currently doesn’t have a softball program, and Cunningham said there’s no plan in place to create one.

Bowlsby said “in all likelihood” the Big 12 will compete in football under two divisions.

“We’ll need to try and fi nd ways to divide them as competitively as we can,” he said. “We also are going to try and respect traditional rivals and some of those types of things. We will be diving into those things Monday morning.”

As of now, Texas and Oklahoma aren’t scheduled to join the SEC until July 2025.

MINNEAPOLIS – Treyson Potts picked up for Minnesota where injured star Mo Ibrahim left off , rushing for 178 yards and two touchdowns in his fi rst career start to help fend off Miami University 31-26 on Saturday.

Tanner Morgan, a Ryle High School grad, connected with Dylan Wright and Daniel Jackson on scoring passes in the second quarter as the Gophers (1-1) took a 21-3 lead into halftime, before the RedHawks (0-2) outgained them 128-15 in total yards in the third quarter to make a game of it down the stretch.

After Miami quarterback Brett Gabbert threw to Jack Sorenson for a 23yard touchdown that cut Minnesota’s lead to one point with 12:32 to go, freshman Bucky Irving bobbled the kickoff before returning it 43 yards.

Potts took fi ve straight handoff s to gain the remaining 53 yards and give the Gophers a cushion.

Tyler Nubin intercepted Gabbert’s third-down pass on the next drive to set up a 50-yard fi eld goal by Matthew Trickett to make it 31-20.

Nubin broke up Gabbert’s fourthdown throw from the Minnesota 48, but the RedHawks kept the ball on a roughing-the-passer penalty on Rashad Cheney Jr. and scored on the next play when Mac Hippenhammer snagged Gabbert’s 33-yard toss in tight coverage in the end zone. The 2point conversion play failed with 3:43 to go.

The RedHawks had two timeouts, but the Gophers had Potts and their experienced, imposing off ensive line.

Potts had fi ve consecutive carries to drain the clock, fi nishing off the Redhawks with an 11-yard run on thirdand-4 near midfi eld with 1:28 left.

Gabbert, the Freshman of the Year in the Mid-American Conference in 2019, missed the season-opening loss to seventh-ranked Cincinnati with an injury.

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Containing Vikings’ Cook is a top priority Kelsey Conway Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

The Cincinnati Bengals begin their season with a home matchup against the Minnesota Vikings and it’s one with no shortage of interesting storylines.

Quarterback Joe Burrow is healthy and ready to go. Head coach Zac Taylor is ready to win now. And the Bengals dedicated their free agency to signing four players who will be starters on defense.

Oh, and the team drafted wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase, Burrow’s former teammate at LSU, with the No. 5 overall pick in the draft.

Taylor enters his third season with the most talented roster he’s ever had and is ready to show his team is ready to take the next step. The matchup with the Vikings will be a good litmus test to see how much the Bengals have improved.

Here are three keys to the game: Keep Dalvin Cook under 100 rushing yards Minnesota’s off ense is centered around running back Dalvin Cook and there’s good reason for it. Cook is one of the league’s top players at his position and has earned the respect of the Bengals’ defensive players and coaching staff .

“You can argue the guy, I think he fi nished second or third in the league last year in yards, with 1,500 plus,” defensive coordinator Lou Anarumo said.

“And all those touchdowns. We have great running backs in our league, but he is in that top one, two, three without any doubt. We have great respect of him. The fi rst guy generally doesn’t’ tackle this guy. He bounces off tackles like crazy. This game starts and ends with stopping that guy. If you don’t, you have no chance. It’s a tremendous challenge.”

After fi nishing No. 29 in the NFL in run defense in 2020, the Bengals made a concerted eff ort to improve in this specifi c area. Cook will be their fi rst test to see if the new acquisitions and dedication to being a better defense against the run paid off .

It’s no secret that the importance of keeping quarterback Joe Burrow upright is a key not only for the opener but for the success of the entire season. USA TODAY SPORTS

Cook has rushed for 3,661 yards on 769 carries and 33 touchdowns in four seasons with the Vikings. He’s also utilized often in the pass game and caught 44 passes for 361 yards and one touchdown in 2020. Minnesota wants to run the ball fi rst to open up their passing offense and slowing Cook down will be critical for the Bengals.

Win the turnover battle Week 1 is really the fi rst time the starters on both sides of the ball will play signifi cant game snaps. Many teams have gone away from playing their starters in the preseason and if they do, it’s for limited time. That was the case in Cincinnati. Taylor played most of his starters for very few snaps during the preseason.

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– 32 times -- in the 10 games he played in last season. The Bengals committed to bolstering their off ensive line through free agency and the draft. Veteran tackle Riley Reiff was signed to anchor the right side. Jonah Williams is healthy and appears to be primed to have a big season protecting Burrow’s blindside.

The biggest question surrounding Cincinnati’s off ensive line comes at the guard position. Will the interior guys hold up? They’ll need to against Minnesota’s defensive front to give Burrow time to create more explosive plays with the star-studded wide receiver cast the team has.

“We’ve got a new team,” Taylor said.

“Our guys are fi red up. We’re going to be ready to play. We’re going to give the fans something to cheer about.”

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locker room has grown over the last few years. I think we’ve really reached that point where it’s time to go. We’ve got a good group of guys in there, the locker room is meshing well. It’s great to see how much guys have grown together.

Is it surprising how much turnover there has been?

That’s the nature of the beast, but it has happened a lot more over the last few years. With a regime change, that usually happens. It’s been a pretty big change.

You mentioned the change in the locker room. Was that about bringing in new guys or a diff erence in some of the key guys you already had?

It’s a combination of the two. You’re going from a defensive head coach to an off ensive head coach. You’re going to have to bring in some diff erent guys as far as the philosophy goes. It’s a lot of new faces, but also some younger guys have grown and taken on leadership roles and fed off some of the new guys that have come in.

Is there a specifi c year of a Bengals team that the 2021 Bengals remind you of?

It’s so hard to tell without playing in games yet. Each team is unique, and you can’t compare one to the next because each year is so diff erent. I’ve been more excited about this year than I have for many years in the past. Guys are excited to go. It’s going to be a fun season.

You saw the rise the team made in the early 2010s. What does it take to make a rise like that?

It takes buying in. Just going into every day knowing you’re working to an end goal. Zac did a great job getting guys to buy in and keeping them motivated. It showed the last couple years. Our winloss record wasn’t that great, but guys were fi ghting through the end of the season. You’ve seen a lot of games throughout the league where, when teams are out of the playoff s or guys start getting hurt, they’re not trying as hard. That didn’t happen here, and that shows that guys are really here to win.

That’s been a big tribute to Zac and how he runs it.

When we’re looking back in January, how will you know whether this ended up being a successful season?

At the end, you’ve got to look at wins

pen from either team but the team which makes fewer mistakes is likely to win the game. If Cincinnati can not turn the ball over and keep its off ense on the fi eld longer, the better.

Anarumo’s biggest emphasis this off season has been fi nding ways to create more turnovers to give more opportunities back to the off ense. They go hand in hand.

“Turnovers … Week 1, turnovers,” Taylor said of what he thinks the game will be decided by. “That’s every game of the season, but turnovers, you have to win the turnover battle Week 1. You have to.”

Keep Joe Burrow clean Joe Burrow hasn’t taken a hit since the one that ended his spectacular rookie season. He was sacked far too often

Kevin Huber said massive changes are understandable when going from a defensive-minded coach like Marvin Lewis to Zac Taylor. FILE

and losses. That’s how everyone is judged. The equalizer is injuries, there are going to be injuries no matter what.

But it’s how you bounce back from that and keep playing and what your record is at the end of the year.

Is there a specifi c number of wins that you feel will mark a successful season? Does that number exist?

You don’t put a mark on that, but you play this game to win the Super Bowl. You don’t know what your winloss record needs to be to get into the playoff s. You just try to win every game you can.

What does Zac Taylor do best as a head coach?

Getting the most out of guys. Really listening to guys. I’m pretty much the same age as him, so he’s closer in age to the players and he’s able to listen and understand what they’re going through and feeling. He molds everything around the guys, whether it’s practice or meetings or whatever. He’s able to get the most that he can at any diff erent point.

What’s diff erent about a Zac Taylor off ense?

From what I’m used to, it’s very aggressive. I think last year we had 10 or 12 times we went for it on fourth down.

In my previous 10 years, it might have been two or three times. If I could say one thing, it’s the aggressiveness he brings to the off ense and the mindset he has to score points. At the end of the day, you need to score points.

What’s unique about Joe Burrow?

The aura he has around him. He exudes confi dence, and guys really just look at him for what to do. He’s ready to take that on, and he showed that with how he played last year and how he came back from his injury. We’re ready to rally around him and get this thing going.

Kelsey Conway Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

When the Cincinnati Bengals take on the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday at 1 p.m., Mike Zimmer, a familiar face in the city, will be coming out of the visitors’ tunnel wearing some sort of purple, black or white.

Prior to taking the job as head coach in Minnesota, Zimmer was the defensive coordinator in Cincinnati from 2008-13. With Zimmer running the defense, the Bengals consistently had a top unit. His defensive scheme is widely respected around the NFL and he’s enjoyed a lot of success because of it.

Although Zimmer’s main goal this weekend is to come to Paul Brown Stadium and lead his team to a win over the Bengals, he took time to refl ect on his time in Cincinnati and give his thoughts on the Bengals prior to the game with the local media.

Question: What did your time in Cincinnati mean to you?

Zimmer: “I was with Dallas for 13 years and then went to Atlanta for the one year and it was kind of a really bad time with what happened there in Atlanta. So being able to come to Cincinnati and try to develop a good defensive team.

That kind of I guess gave me more confi dence in the things I could do with guys. I met some great people.

Obviously, I knew Marvin before, but I met some great people there, and the Browns, always treated me really, really well. It was great. I still have a lot of fond memories about being there, about the years that we had when I was there those six years. It was really good time.”

Q: What are your thoughts on Joe Burrow?

Z: “I have been extremely impressed with watching Burrow. This kid is competitive. He’s a heck of a scrambler. He’s got a big-time arm, he’s not afraid to throw the ball into tight windows. He seems to see things and get the ball off really quick.

Mike Zimmer was the defensive coordinator in Cincinnati from 2008-13 before taking the Minnesota head coaching job. USA TODAY SPORTS

It looks like, I remember, Carson the way he could spin the ball. This guy probably will be better than him. He’s a better scrambler, but I’ve been so impressed with the toughness. He will take a shot, scramble and dive for the fi rst down. Run a quarterback draw. All the things he does. I think y’all hit big on that one.

Q: Thoughts on the off ense as a whole?

Z: I think they’ve got a great mix with Mixon. The off ensive line has got some physicality to them with the running game and the screens, they do a great job with screens. Obviously, they are going to get into some no-back formations and try to spread us out and try to let him pick when they want to go.

They are basically a three-wide team that will get into two tights every once in a while. Let me say this, too. I didn’t really know much about the coach there.

But I have been really impressed with the concepts and things they are doing off ensively. The way they are attacking people with the diff erent concepts in the running game and passing game. I got a lot of respect for Zac Taylor and the things he’s doing there.

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Here are ‘7 levels of Bengals Fan Energy’ Mike Bass

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If you are a Bengals fan, you can handle what I am about to throw at you. If you are a Bengals fan, you can handle almost anything. Except maybe hearing that you were transferred to the Cleveland offi ce.

Here is my question: How do you want to show up for the start of the season Sunday?

Here is my other question: Are you ready to look at yourself in a new way?

Behold a variation of what I unveiled before the Reds began play this season.

Allow me to debut … “The 7 Levels of Bengals Fan Energy for the 2021season.”

Again, I derived this from Bruce Schneider’s groundbreaking “7 Levels of Energy Leadership,” which I learned at the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching. This version can help you see the fan you are and think about the Bengals fan you want to be this season.

We each have a combination of energy levels. There is no right or wrong one.

Which is your primary one as a Bengals fan? Right now? Your secondary one?

Which would you prefer to access? What will help you get there?

Enjoy: 1. I feel hopeless. We’ll never win with Mike Brown as owner. He doesn’t care about us. We are an NFL afterthought, which is why the Hall of Fame ignores Ken Anderson and Ken Riley. It feels hopeless. No Super Bowl rings. No Super Bowls since the ’80s. No playoff wins in 30 years. We drafted a receiver who can’t catch, a year after drafting a quarterback we can’t protect. Typical. If I feel opti-

mistic about 2021, I set myself up for more misery. Nobody else would keep Zac Taylor as coach. As a Bengals fan, I have no choice but to suff er.

Pro: You and other fans can bond by commiserating and blame all your misery on the team.

Con: Your wallowing can become habitual, and you might miss some opportunities to enjoy your team.

2. I am ticked off . Sell! The! Team! Every year, I get more outraged as we lose while Mike Brown sits on his fat cache and won’t pay for a winner. Worse, now the Browns are winning. I hate Browns fans. And Steelers fans. I’m angry we didn’t get more blocking for Joe Burrow or help on defense. I care. I get emotional during games. When we lose, I take it personally and am furious for days. I can’t wait to be back at Paul Brown Stadium, because if we stink, I will boo so loud the Brown family can hear me (and not just my own.)

Pro: Feeling angry can pull you out of feeling helpless. It sometimes can feel cathartic.

Con: Uncontrolled anger might adversely aff ect you and others around you.

3. It’s fi ne. The season is starting, the stadium is open again, I’ve got my tickets, so I’m fi ne. I’m a Bengals fan, but I don’t let myself get too excited about them; this way, I can’t get disappointed again. I’m a realist. Burrow isn’t pre-injury Burrow, we aren’t a .500 team yet, and I’d settle for competitive. The offense might be OK with Burrow, Joe Mixon, Ja’Marr Chase, Tyler Boyd and Tee Higgins, but why raise hope? If I expect little, and get little, it’s OK. I deal with it. I always do. At least, as Sam Wyche said, I don’t live in Cleveland.

Pro: You have decades of practice dealing with losing so it doesn’t hurt as much anymore.

Con: You start to tolerate “fi ne.” You might miss out on some opportunities for joy and fun, to protect yourself.

4. I am here for my Bengals. And for our fan community. Always. When @JoeyB injured his knee, I immediately donated money to the Joe Burrow Hunger Relief Fund. I miss A.J. Green, but check out my new Riley Reiff jersey. I try to be sensitive to my friends’ and family’s needs, too, while making sure I feed my inner Bengals fan. It is part of my identity. I suff er so much when we lose and feel so helpless. I moped for weeks after Burrow went down. I will not leave my team when we’re losing. It won’t last!

Pro: You can feel a part of something bigger than yourself.

Con: You can lose perspective if you are not careful. You can feel misunderstood by non-Bengals fans. You can feel resentful trying to keep everyone happy.

5. I see opportunities. I have studied our roster, our schedule, our division, our history. I see so many ways for this to be a special season, or not, depending on so many variables yet to play out. I want to see how Burrow recovers, how Chase rebounds, how the defense defends, everything. I want us to win, but, like a coach, I don’t get too high or low. This helps me see who we are and all the possibilities.

No matter what happens, this will add to our lore. Will it be the start of our rise?

Taylor’s demise. I can’t wait.

Pro: Nothing gets to you. You always can fi nd something to intrigue you.

Con: If you are a fan, do you want to stay in your head and shut off your heart?

6. I always win. The Bengals are part of me. So is the Jungle. And Cincinnati.

Our fans are my village, a connection I can tap at the drop of a tweet. Sure, losing can get to me because it matters to me, but it does not lower my self-esteem, my faith or my fandom. They are my passion. I don’t wallow over our losing, I imagine how much sweeter winning will feel because of it. Every year could be THE year. Every game is an event, fi lled with angst, joy, misery, drama, competition --- hope.

Pro: You always fi nd value, purpose and joy in your Bengaldom. You never have to feel alone.

Con: You can come across more like a cult member than a fan. Can you REALLY take much more losing?

7. I choose my Bengals experience. I am the Bengals fan I want to be and prepared to get everything imaginable out of our season, win or lose. My plans are set but fl exible. I coordinated with everyone who matters. I know what can sidetrack me -- another COVID-19 shutdown, a drunk fan or another Bengals meltdown – and how to handle or learn from each. I can be present in every moment, fi nding the wonder in an incompletion or in our inaugural Ring of Honor ceremony. I can access any of those fi rst six levels of Bengals Fan Energy by choice instead of blind refl ex. This will be my best season.

Pro: You can control and create your Bengals fandom, no matter the score.

Con: Nobody can do this all the time, but it is cool when you can.

Remember to email Bass at mbass@mikebasscoaching.com or reach out to him @SportsFanCoach1 on Twitter if you want to be included next week. His website is MikeBassCoaching.com.

NFL SPOTLIGHT

Meet 21 players from Greater Cincinnati high schools Dave Clark Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

National Football League rosters include 21 Greater Cincinnati high school alumni. Please let us know of anyone we missed. We'll be happy to add them.

Tommy Kraemer, Elder High School OL, Detroit Lions (practice squad) College: University of Notre Dame Undrafted in 2021 Jake McQuaide, Elder High School LS, Dallas Cowboys College: Ohio State University Undrafted in 2011 Kyle Rudolph, Elder High School TE, New York Giants College: University of Notre Dame Drafted (Year, Round, Team): 2011, 2nd, MIN Greg Mancz, Anderson High School OL, Miami Dolphins College: University of Toledo Undrafted in 2015 Andrew Norwell, Anderson High School G, Jacksonville Jaguars College: Ohio State University Undrafted in 2014 Josiah Scott, Fairfi eld High School CB, Philadelphia Eagles College: Michigan State University Drafted (Year, Round, Team): 2020, 4th, JAX Jackson Carman, Fairfi eld High

Lakota West’s Jordan Hicks was drafted out of Texas in the third round

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School OL, Cincinnati Bengals College: Clemson University Drafted (Year, Round, Team): 2021, 2nd, CIN Jordan Hicks, Lakota West High School LB, Arizona Cardinals College: University of Texas Drafted (Year, Round, Team): 2015, 3rd, PHI Ryan Kelly, Lakota West High School C, Indianapolis Colts College: University of Alabama Drafted (Year, Round, Team): 2016,

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Djokovic bids for history at US Open Howard Fendrich ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK – Novak Djokovic remembers just how close Serena Williams came to a calendar-year Grand Slam in 2015 before coming up short at the U.S. Open.

He recalls chatting with Williams during that tournament about all that went along with a bid for the rare achievement, which has only been accomplished by two men and three women in the history of a sport that dates to the late 1800s.

After winning the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon, Williams was upset in the semifi nals at Flushing Meadows by Roberta Vinci. Now Djokovic is a step closer, heading into the U.S. Open fi nal on Sunday against Daniil Medvedev needing one more victory to go 28-0 at Grand Slam tournaments and claim all four trophies in a single season.

No man has done that since Rod Laver did it for a second time in 1969, no woman since Steffi Graf in 1988.

As the end line neared six years ago, Williams was not fond of discussing what was at stake, describing herself as “fed up” by constant questions about the true Grand Slam.

“She was very emotional about everything that was going on. I can relate to what she’s been going through right now. I understand it now,” said Djokovic, a 34-year-old from Serbia. “I understand why she wanted to avoid all the questions about it, because in the end of the day, you have to go out on the court and deliver. You’re expected to always win.”

In addition to the quest to go 4 for 4 at Slams, the No. 1-ranked Djokovic has another milestone in his sights.

If he beats No. 2 Medvedev for a 21st career major championship, Djokovic would eclipse the men’s record he currently shares with rivals Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. A fourth title on the hard courts of Flushing Meadows would be added to a ninth on the hard courts of

Novak Djokovic heads into the U.S. Open fi nal on Sunday against Daniil Medvedev needing one more victory to go 28-0 at Grand Slams this year.

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Melbourne Park in February, second on the clay of Roland Garros in June and sixth on the grass of Wimbledon in July.

This will be Djokovic’s record-tying 31st Grand Slam fi nal and record-setting ninth at the U.S. Open.

“If you look at the stats, if you look at the pure game of tennis action, he’s the greatest of all time,” Zverev said. “Nobody is there with him, because (he has the) most weeks world No. 1, most Masters 1000s titles, most likely going to be the most Grand Slams, at the end of the day. And he has the chance of winning all four in the same year. How do you compete with that?”

With all in the offi ng against Medvedev, how does Djokovic prepare to be at his best?

“I know we want to talk about history.

I know it’s on the line. I’m aware of it. ...

But I’m just trying to lock into what I know works for me,” Djokovic said. “I have my routines. I have my people. I isolate myself. I gather all the necessary energy for the next battle, only the next match, the next match.”

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HIGH SCHOOL SCOREBOARD LOCAL HIGH SCHOOLS RESULTS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 FOOTBALL OHIO (Game placement is determined by the home team's conference, unless playing a school from outside of The Enquirer's coverage area).

WEEK 4 Greater Miami Conference Fairfield 34, Oak Hills 14 Oak Hills - 7 0 7 0 - 14 Fairfield - 7 20 0 7 - 34 F- Bivins 1 run (McGuire kick) OH- Parker Jr. 2 run (Hebert kick) F- Fisher 24 run (run failed) F- Love 6 run (McGuire kick) F- Fisher 1 run (McGuire kick) OH- Schreiber 4 run (Hebert kick) F- Rogers 90 INT return (McGuire kick) Records: F 1-2 (1-2 GMC), OH 0-4 (0-2 GMC) Lakota East 54, Hamilton 21 Hamilton - 6 7 8 0 - 21 Lakota East - 7 20 13 14 - 54 H- Ishmail 17 pass from Ware (kick failed) LE- Poppe 45 pass from Kathman (Hoffmann kick) LE- Kenrich 3 run (Hoffmann kick) LE- Rabin 33 pass from Kathman (kick failed) H- Johnson 39 run (Ramey kick) LE- Poppe 15 pass from Kathman (Hoffmann kick) LE- Rabin 8 run (kick failed) LE- Davis 3 run (Hoffmann kick) H- Givens 8 run (Johnson run) LE- Kenrich 13 run (Hoffmann kick) LE- Troutman 3 run (Hoffman kick) Records: LE 3-1 (2-0 GMC), H 1-1 (0-1 GMC) Lakota West 24, Princeton 0 Lakota West - 10 14 0 0 - 24 Princeton - 0 0 0 0 - 0 LW - FG Bohn 37 LW - Bolden 41 run (Duncan kick) LW - Goode 16 pass from Bolden (Duncan kick) LW - Brown 11 pass from Bolden (Duncan kick) Mason 40, Middletown 7 Mason - 6 20 14 0 - 40 Middletown - 7 0 0 0 - 7 Ma- Molnar 9 run (kick failed) Mi- Chambers 55 run (Johnson kick) Ma- Molnar 7 run (kick failed) Ma- Molnar 1 run (Hernandez kick) Ma- Garnett 64 run (Hernandez kick) Ma- Violand 12 pass from Molnar (Hernandez kick) Records: Ma 2-2 (1-1 GMC), Mi 0-4 (0-2 GMC) OTHER SCORES: Colerain 33, Sycamore 13 Eastern Cincinnati Conference Kings 35, Anderson 28 Anderson - 21 0 0 7 – 28 Kings - 21 0 7 7 – 35 A- Karwisch 43 interception return (Brooke kick) A- Upchurch 2 run (Brooke kick) K- Bauman 31 pass from Kocher (Stylski kick) A- Alvarez 69 pass from Scalf (Brooke kick) K- Mussari 25 pass from Kocher (Stylski kick) K- Cameron 29 pass from Kocher (Stylski kick) K- Mussari 11 pass from Kocher (Stylski kick) A- Berg 3 run (Brooke kick) K- Cameron 63 pass from Kocher (Stylski kick) Milford 20, Turpin 13 Turpin - 0 6 0 7 – 13 Milford - 7 7 0 6 – 20 M- Luani 3 run (Crawford kick) M- Luani 3 run (Crawford kick) T- Alcade 1 run (kick failed) M- Luani 5 run (kick failed) T- Birk 5 pass from Schulok (Jones kick) Records: M 3-1 (2-0 ECC); T 3-1 (1-1 ECC).

Winton Woods 17, Lebnon 13 Winton Woods - 0 10 0 7 – 17 Lebanon - 0 7 6 0 – 13 WW- FG 30 Umba Domobele WW- Minor III 1 run (Umba Domobele kick) L- Meyers 11 pass from Sherick (Miller kick) L- Meyers 11 pass from Sherick (kick failed) WW- Spears 41 pass from Ellery (Umba Domobele kick) OTHER SCORES: Loveland 49, West Clermont 20 Walnut Hills 27, Little Miami 21 Greater Catholic League-South Moeller 25, Ironton 7 Moeller - 14 0 3 8 – 25 Ironton - 0 0 0 7 – 7 M- Bryant 9 pass from George (kick failed) M- Bryant 57 pass from George (Merk pass from George) M- FG Steele 26 M- White 17 pass from George (Thompson rush) I- Masters 52 pass from Wylie (Sheridan kick).

Records: M 4-0; I 3-1.

St. Xavier 41, Penn (Ind.) 10 St. Xavier - 21 20 0 0 – 41 Penn - 0 3 0 7 – 10 SX- Kellom 1 run (Rohmiller kick) SX- McCaughey 10 run (Rohmiller kick) SX- Kellom 2 run (Rohmiller kick) SX- Farrar 6 pass from McCaughey (kick failed) SX- McFarlin 41 pass from McCaughey (Rohmiller kick) P- FG 31 Primrose SX- Klare 25 pass from McCaughey (Rohmiller kick) P- Lane 6 run (Primrose kick) Records: SX 4-0; P 0-4.

OTHER SCORES: La Salle 48, Louisville Trinity 27 SATURDAY Lakewood St. Edward at Elder, late Greater Catholic League Coed McNicholas 27, Highlands 21 SATURDAY Roger Bacon vs. Badin, late Southwest Ohio Conference Harrison 29, Trotwood-Madison 28 Trotwood-Madison - 0 14 6 8 - 28 Harrison - 0 14 7 8 - 29 H- Young 18 run (Swope kick) TM- Carpenter 2 run (Carpenter pass) TM- Geigh-Gay 4 pass from Carpenter (kick failed) H- Blank 62 pass from Young (Swope kick) TM- Yates 52 pass from Carpenter (run failed) H- Young 3 run (Swope kick) TM- Leigh-Gay 1 pass from Carpenter (Gholzen pass from Carpenter) H- Blank 3 pass from Young (Nieman pass from Young) Records: H 1-2, TM 0-3 Northwest 48, Carroll 14 Carroll - 7 0 0 7 - 14 Northwest - 28 13 0 7 - 48 N- Montgomery 97 run (Kick failed) N- Thrasher 10 run (Kick failed) N- Montgomery 35 run (Jones run) N- Vernon 40 INT return (Montgomery run) C- Whitfield 83 kickoff return (Ryan kick) N- Montgomery 14 run (Blackwell kick) C- Chapman 1 run (Ryan kick) N- Williams 12 run (Blackwell kick) Records: N 3-1, C 1-3 OTHER SCORES: Edgewood 34, Fenwick 14 Mt. Healthy 34, Thurgood Marshall 0 Southern Buckeye Conference Clinton-Massie 17, Columbus DeSales 7 Hillsboro 21, Williamsburg 14 Notre Dame 27, Fayetteville-Perry 21 Taft 24, Bethel-Tate 22 Western Brown 33, Jackson 28 Cincinnati Hills League Mariemont 31, Madeira 7 Mariemont - 0 10 0 21 - 31 Madeira - 7 0 0 0 - 7

Mad- Heisser 1 run (Matsudo kick) Mar- FG Souders 27 Mar- Stewart 35 INT return (Souders kick) Mar- Dorsten 1 run (Souders kick) Mar- Tepe 15 pass from Dorsten (Souders kick) Mar- Tepe 15 run (Souders kick) Records: Mar 4-0 (3-1 CHL), Mad 3-1 (0-1 CHL) Wyoming 30, Indian Hill 0 Indian Hill - 0 0 0 0 – 0 Wyoming - 8 0 22 0 – 30 W- Hester 7 run (Hester run) W- Hester 7 run (Hester pass from Hauer) W- Hester 5 run (conversion failed) W- Hester 25 fumble recovery (Hester run) Records: W 4-0 (1-0 CHL); IH 0-4 (0-1 CHL).

OTHER SCORES: Taylor 46, Finneytown 27 SATURDAY Reading at Deer Park, late Miami Valley Conference CCPA 22, Summit Country Day 21 Cincinnati Country Day 47, Hillcrest 8 Miami Valley Christian 16, Gallatin Co. 7 New Miami 14, Hilltop 8, OT North College Hill 29, Ponitz 29 Norwood 49, Batavia 20 Wilmington 21, CHCA 6 SATURDAY New Richmond at Purcell Marian, late Cincinnati Metro Athletic Conference Hughes 56, Dayton Christian 19 Southwestern Buckeye League Monroe 33, Brookville 13 Brookville – 0 7 0 6- 13 Monroe – 7 16 7 3- 33 M- Miles 26 run (Martinez kick) M- Daniels 10 run (Martinez kick) M- Safety B- Mehr 1 run (Wissinger kick) M- Jackson 5 run (Martinez kick) M- Miles 4 run (Martinez kick) M- FG Martinez 32 B- Adams 5 run (kick failed) Waynesville 45, Middletown Madison 26 Middletown Madison - 0 0 6 20- 26 Waynesville - 17 14 14 0- 45 Way- FG Berrey 19 Way- Taylor 16 punt return (Berrey kick) Way- Tamme 1 run (Berrey kick) Way- Davis 6 pass from Sizer (Berrey kick) Way- Wilkerson 2 run (Berrey kick) M- Pendleton 62 pass from Grooms (run failed) W- Tamme 1 run (Berrey kick) W- Taylor 35 run (Berrey kick) M- Pendleton 9 run (run failed) M- Adams 49 pass from Grooms (Gibson reception) M- Gibson 55 pass from Grooms (run failed) Greater Western Ohio Conference Springboro 40, Beavercreek 9 NORTHERN KENTUCKY Bishop Brossart 21, Holy Cross 0 Holy Cross - 0 0 0 0 - 0 Bishop Brossart - 7 7 7 0 - 21 BB- Govan 16 pass from Leicht (Schwartz kick) BB- Martin 3 run (Schwartz kick) BB- Leicht 1 run (Schwartz kick) Conner 28, Scott 3 Conner - 7 7 0 14 - 28 Scott - 3 0 0 0 – 3 S- FG Iden 22 C- Thompson 4 run (Keller kick) C- Thompson 4 run (Keller kick) C- Thompson 37 run (Keller kick) C- Thompson 1 run (Keller kick) Covington Catholic 24, Dixie Heights 8 Dixie Heights - 0 0 0 8 - 8 Covington Catholic - 10 0 0 14 - 24 C – FG Nally 28 C – J. Lenihan 53 pass from Holtz (Nally kick) C – Darpel 2 run (Nally kick) C – Collins 4 run (Nally kick) D – Edwards kickoff return (Hawkins pass from Landers) Records: DH 2-2, CC 2-2

Holmes 38, Newport 8 Newport - 0 0 0 8 – 8 Holmes - 16 8 8 6 – 38 H- Hill 3 run (Q. Calloway run) H- T. Calloway 13 run (Q. Calloway run) H- safety H- Q. Calloway 4 run (conversion failed) H- Hill 14 run (Hill run) H- Perkins 8 run (run failed) N- King 56 run (Lee pass from Mayes).

Records: H 3-1; N 0-3.

Newport Central Catholic 23, Walton-Verona 14 Newport Central Catholic - 10 0 6 7 - 23 Walton-Verona - 14 0 0 0 - 14 Records: NCC 2-2, WV 2-2 OTHER SCORES: Beechwood 49, Simon Kenton 21 Boone County 26, Lloyd 6 Estill County 50, Dayton 8 Magoffin County 40, Bellevue 14 Paris 32, Ludlow 28 Ryle 49, DeSales 7 SATURDAY Campbell County at Cooper, late SOUTHEAST INDIANA Lawrenceburg 45, Southport 20 East Central 37, Franklin County 8 South Dearborn 55, Connersville 8 GIRLS’ TENNIS Mariemont 5. Mercy-McAuley 0 Malafa d. Junk 6-0 6-0; Glassmeyer d.

Jenkins 6-0 6-0; Rippatella d. Magemann 6-1 6-0. Black-Byers d. Villamenga-Dollies 6-2 6-1; D. Dronsfield-Von Scoy d.

Strong-Feese 6-3 6-0.

St. Ursula 5, Seton 0 Jennewein d. Vatter 6-3, 6-0; Davin d.

Witterstaetter 6-0, 6-0; Schwermann d.

Gibbs 6-1, 6-1. Poon-Sprong d.

Roeder-Pastura 6-2, 6-1; Biobucci-Berry d. Tarvin- Goettke 6-1, forfeit Sycamore 5, Lakota East 0 Frischer d. Gilbert 6-3, 6-1; Baker d.

Kejriwal 6-7, 6-1, 10-7; Reardon d. Retzsch 4-6, 6-2, 7-6. Mahesh-Millerchip d.

Kusel-Price 4-6, 7-5, 6-1; Teredesai-Tyan d. Sacha-Kejriwal 6-3, 6-4.

GIRLS’ GOLF Seven Hills 200, Anderson 201 Medalist: Julia Zhu (SH) with a 7-over par 43 on the front nine at Legendary Run. THURSDAY, SEPT. 9 GIRLS’ TENNIS Alter 5, Badin 0 Lampman d. Boyle 6-2, 6-3; Shape d.

Demmel 6-0, 6-3; Gayonski d. Lees 6-0, 6-1. Baker-Schaefer d. Gibbons-Bucheit 6-0, 6-0; Collins-Hoskins d.

Grammel-Wagner 6-0, 6-0. Records: A 13-1 (7-0 GCL Coed); B 9-3 (4-2 GCL Coed).

Blanchester 5, East Clinton 0 Coyle d. Chambliss 6-0, 6-0; Trovillo d.

Stanley 6-0, 6-0; Mueller d. Woodward 6-0, 6-0; Caldwell-Irwin d. Carey-Anteck 6-3, 6-0; Boegeman-Bockhorst d.

Lambert-Seabaugh 6-2, 6-0. Records: B 11-2 (7-0 SBC); EC 1-10 (1-6 SBC).

Oak Hills 5, Middletown 0 M. Lint d. Tran 6-0, 6-0; Kadakia d.

Isenburg 6-0, 6-0; King d. Adams 6-0, 6-0; Malone-Marsala d. Murphy-Lewis 6-0, 6-0; Osborne-Linnenberg d.

Millron-Smith 6-0, 6-0. Records: OH 9-5 (5-2 GMC); M 1-10 (0-4 GMC).

Sycamore 5, Fairfield 0 Frischer d. Nichols 6-0, 6-2; Baker d.

Mazuk 6-0, 6-3; Teredesai d. Whittle 6-1, 6-1; Reardon-Millerchip d. Bealey-Osae 6-0, 6-0; Mahesh-Tyan d. Farrel-Mefford 6-0, 6-1. Records: S 7-4 (4-0 GMC); F 2-6 (2-3 GMC).

Turpin 4, Kings 1 Malone d. Victor 6-0, 6-1; Fermann d.

Astacio 6-2, 6-3; Moore (K) d. Lupariello 6-4, 4-6, 10-5; Clark-Benintendi d.

Gause-Hardman 6-1, 6-0; Kaas-Williams d. Lenney-Howes 6-0, 6-0. Records: T 13-1 (7-0 ECC); K 3-7 (2-3 ECC).

OTHER SCORES: Cincinnati Country Day 5, Roger Bacon 0

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VOLLEYBALL Anderson d. Walnut Hills 25-13, 25-15, 25-20.

Badin (5-2, 3-2 GCL Coed) d. Alter (2-4, 1-3 GCL Coed) 25-23, 20-25, 25-18, 25-12.

CHCA d. Purcell Marian 25-4, 25-3, 25-2.

East Clinton (5-1, 4-0 SBC) d.

Felicity-Franklin (1-3, 1-3 SBC) 25-10, 25-13, 25-15.

Lebanon (6-1, 6-0 ECC) d. Loveland (6-3, 4-2 ECC) 25-20, 25-17, 25-13.

McNicholas d. Carroll 25-16, 25-9, 25-13.

Monroe d. Brookville 12-25, 30-28, 25-19, 25-12.

Oak Hills (5-3, 2-0 GMC) d. Hamilton (5-3, 0-2 GMC) 25-8, 25-13, 25-11.

Summit Country Day (6-2, 4-1 MVC) d.

Cincinnati Country Day (2-3, 1-2 MVC) 25-18, 25-20, 25-21.

GIRLS’ GOLF Centerville 160, Ursuline Academy 178 Medalists: Morgan Rodgers, Jenna Hayes and Leeann Harker (C) with a 2-over par 39 at O'Bannon Creek Golf Club.

Lakota West 168, Lakota East 182 Medalist: Clare Yeazell (LE) with a 2-over par 38 at Hamilton Elks White Course.

St. Ursula 143, Seton 163 Medalist: Anna Frey (SUA) with 2-under par 33 at Neumann Red. BOYS’ GOLF Indian Hill 168, Cincinnati Christian 224 Medalist: Peter Sheakley (IH) with a 38 at Beckett Ridge.

Madeira 159, Fenwick 166 Medalist: Colin Schadek (F) with a two-under par 34 on the front of Brown's Run. BOYS’ SOCCER CHCA 4, New Richmond 0 Goals: CHCA- Eppert, Max, Sesay, Rakestraw.

Mariemont 2, Indian Hill 2 Goals: M- Ewart, Eisenhauer.

Oak Hills 2, Hamilton 0 Goals: OH- Turner 2. Shutout: Meyer (three saves). Records: OH 2-3-1 (1-1 GMC); H 1-5 (0-2 GMC).

OTHER SCORES: Roger Bacon 2, McNicholas 2 GIRLS’ SOCCER Batavia 2, Western Brown 0 Goals: B- Steiner, Rose. Shutout: Coyle (three saves).

Oak Hills 6, Hamilton 0 Goals: OH- Pennekamp 3, Kuerze 2, Cole.

Shutout: Shiplett (three saves). Records: OH 4-1-1 (1-1 GMC); H 0-6 (0-2 GMC).

Wyoming 1, Kings 1 Goals: W- Taylor; K- Barrett.

OTHER SCORES: Mason 2, Fairfield 0 Seven Hills 5, Clark Montessori 0 WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 8 GIRLS’ SOCCER Badin 1, St. Ursula 0 Goals: B- Burger. Shutout: Wolterman (10 saves) Records: B 3-0-3, SU 3-3.

Beechwood 12, Holmes 0 Goals: B- Williams 2, Kocan 2, Hehman, Conarroe, Berger, Cottengim, Young, R. Noll, Hehman, Birkemeier. Shutout: L. Noll.

Bishop Brossart 4, Newport Central Catholic 1 Goals: BB- Smith 2, Sandfoss, Planeaux.

Fenwick 7, Northwest 0 Goals: F- Gellner 2, Wells 2, Gillen, Horvath, Wilkins. Shutout: Lucas (three saves).

Madeira 10, Finneytown 0 Goals: M- Cornejo 4, Cochran 2, DeMarco, Gaffney, Momper, Westbrook. Shutout: Vaughn (one save). Records: M 4-0 (2-0 CHL), F 2-3 (0-2 CHL).

Mariemont 3, Indian Hill 1 Goals: M- Murphy 2, Shoemaker. IH- Fiore.

Records: M 3-1-2 (1-1 CHL), IH 0-4-1 (0-2 CHL).

McNicholas 4, Roger Bacon 1 Goals: M- Wheatley, Browning, Bellisimo, Kuhn. RB- Accurso.

Mount Notre Dame 7, Ursuline 0 Records: M 6-0 (4-0 GGCL), U 2-3-1 (0-3 GGCL).

Seton 7, Mercy McAuley 3 Goals: S- Ott 3, Tressler 2, Bryne, Roebel.

MM- Sexton 2, Doxey. Records: S 4-4-1 (2-1 GGCL), MM 0-5 (0-3 GGCL).

Taylor 8, Deer Park 0 Goals: T- Bittermann 3, Stokes 2, Dailey, King, Savage. Shutout: Durdy. Records: T 4-1 (2-0 CHL), DP 0-4 (0-2 CHL) Wyoming 3, Reading 0 Goals: W- Taylor 2, Mouch. Shutout: Crocket/Gordon (one save). Records: W 5-0-1 (2-0 CHL), R 2-2 (1-1 CHL) OTHER SCORES: Carroll 6, Clinton-Massie 1 Western Brown 1, Fairfield 0 GIRLS’ TENNIS Blanchester 5, Clermont Northeastern 0 Coyle d. Mac. Turner 6-3, 6-0; Trovillo d.

Mad. Turner 6-2, 6-2; Mueller d. Stringer 6-0, 6-0. Caldwell-Irwin d. Moore-Ruehl 6-4, 6-4; Boegeman-Bockhorst d.

Reynolds-Arnold 6-0, 6-0.

Mason 4, Centerville 1 S. Aggarwal d. Hinshaw 6-1, 6-2; Uppuganti d. MacPherson 6-1, 6-0; Loni d.

Aliaga 6-4, 6-1. Owen-E. Alappatt (C) d. D. Reid-Ri. Chada 6-3, 6-3; Datla-Zutshi d.

Caldwell-Siler 5-7, 6-3, 6-3.

Turpin 4, Seton 1 Clark d. Vatter 6-1; Malone d.

Witterstacker 6-1, 6-1; Gibbs (S) d.

Benintendi 6-4, 6-4; Kaas-Williams d.

Roeder-Pastura 6-1, 6-3; Dunkle-Lupariello d. Young-Singer 6-3, 6-4.

VOLLEYBALL Blanchester d. Fayetteville-Perry 25-16, 25-16, 25-18 Harrison (6-1, 2-0 SWOC) d. Mt. Healthy (0-2, 0-2 SWOC) 25-8, 25-8, 25-7 Little Miami d. Fairfield 25-22, 25-23, 25-15 Notre Dame Academy d. Henry Clay 25-11, 25-15, 25-11 Wilmington (4-1) d. Georgetown (0-5) 25-10, 25-15, 25-12 TUESDAY, SEPT. 7 GIRLS’ SOCCER Anderson 2, Turpin 0 Records: A- 2-3-1 (1-0-1 ECC), T 0-5 (0-2 ECC).

Bethel-Tate 6, Blanchester 1 Goals: BT- Sandker 2, Ausman, Courts, Miller, Van Hook. B- R. Coyle. Records: BT 2-1 (2-1 SBAAC-N), B 1-3 (1-2 SBAAC-N).

Edgewood 2, Talawanda 1 Goals: E- Haskell 2. Records: E 1-1 (1-0 SWOC), T 0-3-1 (0-1-1 SWOC).

Kings 9, Winton Woods 1 Goals: K- Barrett 2, Land 2, Fauls, Johnson, Hicks, Jesse, Huber, Hornbeck.

Loveland 0, Milford 0 Records: L 4-1-2 (1-0-1 ECC), M 3-0-1 (1-0-1 ECC).

Oak Hills 6, Harrison 0 Goals: OH- Cornett 2, Cole, Blessing, Kuerze, Miller. Shutout: Shiplett. Records: OH 3-1-1, H 0-3-1.

Summit Country Day 7, Marietta 1 Goals: SCD- Bridge 2, McDowell 2, Barnes, Sievering, Smythe.

Walnut Hills 2, Lebanon 1 Goals: WH- Quellhorst 2. Records: WH 6-1 (2-0 ECC), L 2-3-1 (0-1-1 ECC).

Walton-Verona 3, Louisville Collegiate 2 (PKs) Goals: WV- Christy, Carrico.

West Clermont 0, Little Miami 0 Records: WC 2-2-1 (0-1-1 ECC), LM 2-2-2 (0-1-1 ECC).

Williamsburg 5, Clermont Northeastern 2 Goals: W- Gregory 4, Caudill. CNE- Rack, Best. Records: W 3-2-1 (2-0 SBAAC-N), CNE 2-3 (2-1 SBAAC-N) Wilmington 6, New Richmond 3 Goals: W- Noszka 4, Billingsley 2. Records: W 2-2 (1-1 SBAAC-A), NR 0-5 (0-3 SBAAC-A).

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As the saying goes: off ense gets the glory but defense wins the game. As the scoreboard hit triple zeroes Friday night against Princeton, Lakota West coach Tom Bolden proudly yelled to the sidelines, “We are who we are!”

At Firebird Stadium Bolden’s boys had the off ense, the defense, and the winning edge to defeat previously unbeaten Princeton 24-0.

The Firebirds outgained the Vikings 329-215. Junior quarterback Mitch Bolden was 10-for-14 passing for 156 yards and two touchdowns while rushing for 53 yards and another score.

“We didn’t talk about it, we were just going to be about it!” Bolden said. “We let our game speak for itself tonight, bottom line.”

All the scoring came in the fi rst half.

Defensively, Aden Miller had 11 tackles to lead the Firebirds while Alex Afari had two tackles for loss. It was the fi rst time Princeton had been shut out since Oct. 13, 2017, in a 14-0 loss to Mason.

“We practiced hard, they blocked out all the chatter they were hearing, everybody picking Princeton to beat us and all that kind of stuff ,” Bolden said. “I’m proud of the kids. We are who we are and we showed a little something tonight.”

Princeton came in with the top offense averaging 55 points per game and nearly 500 yards. Lakota West had the best defense surrendering just 178.3 yards per game. The Firebirds were a thorn in the side of Princeton sophomore quarterback TJ Engleman who had been running wild on teams.

“We made a lot of mistakes early and put ourselves in a hole,” Princeton coach Andre Parker said. “The thing I take pride is after halftime it was a 0-0 game. I think the part we’re going to be angry about is when we go back and watch the fi lm. A lot of them (penalties) were selfinfl icted where we were too energetic or too hyped up.”

Scott Springer CovCath 24, Dixie Heights 8: On a Friday night that was one day shy of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, CovCath gave one of its lost alumni something to be proud of with the victory.

The school honored Brian Williams, a 1990 CovCath graduate who died in one of the World Trade Center towers after it collapsed on 9/11. He was an all-state tight end for CovCath football and helped the Colonels win two state championships.

Students and staff wore a shirt with Williams’ jersey number 81 on it. CovCath held an 81-second moment of silence for him before the national anthem. Family members and friends of Williams were honored on the fi eld at halftime, and they are having a golf outing on Saturday.

The CovCath community has something to celebrate after defeating Dixie Heights 24-8 in a battle of Colonels. Both teams left CovCath’s Dennis Griffi n Stadium with 2-2 records.

“I feel pretty good,” said CovCath senior Preston Agee. “It’s nice to get a win like that, especially after playing with them growing up. It’s just something we’ve worked for all week.”

Said CovCath head coach Eddie Eviston: “We’ve already had two losses on the

Lakota West running back Cameron Goode celebrates a touchdown in Friday’s 24-0 win over Princeton.

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year so it’s good to get another win under our belt. We’re still growing as a team. I like our kids. We battled.”

James Weber Kings 35, Anderson 28: Friday’s contest between Eastern Cincinnati Conference foes Anderson and Kings wasn’t the prettiest at times, but it was an intriguing, high-octane aff air nonetheless.

In a duel between two junior quarterbacks who combined for nearly 800 yards – it was Kings who managed to surge ahead at the end, escaping with a 35-28 victory over the visiting Raptors at Kings Stadium on Friday night.

For Kings, in particular, they endured a less than ideal start to the contest.

A couple of early scores – the fi rst on a 2-yard rushing score by Anderson senior Evan Upchurch, the other a 70-plus yard pick-six by senior defensive back Jack Ledford – put the Raptors in the driver’s seat with an early 14-0 fi rst-quarter lead.

Despite the early defi cit, Kings High School Football Coach Alex Garvin stayed confi dent in his team’s ability and preparation, citing they knew they’d be in for a fi ght against this gritty group of Raptors.

“Anderson’s such a tough team,” Garvin said. “Coach [Evan] Dreyer does such a great job with them, we knew all week it was going to be a battle.”

Evan Merrill McNicholas 27, Highlands 21: How does one of the smallest co-ed schools in Cincinnati’s Greater Catholic League fi nd itself in fi rst place, undefeated and dead-even with powerhouses like Moeller and St. Xavier through the season’s fi rst month?

For 4-0 Archbishop McNicholas, the answer is trust, and plenty of it.

The Rockets beat the visiting Highlands Bluebirds on Friday by a score of 27-21, propelling the program to its best start in seven years.

They were led by a stymying defense, which held Highlands to just seven points in the second half after trailing early. McNicholas withstood blow after blow from the previously undefeated Bluebirds, holding them to their lowest point total yet despite multiple opportunities late in the game.

“We always say, ‘bend, don’t break,’ and they broke us a couple times,” McNicholas coach Mike Orlando said. “But we hung in there, and when we needed to make plays, we made plays.”

Lakota East 54, Hamilton 21: Lakota East continues to light up the scoreboard, having now put up 103 points in its last two games. The Thunderhawks

have won three straight after pulling away from Hamilton with 20 consecutive points. Lakota East quarterback TJ Kathman threw three touchdowns for the second-straight week, tossing two scores to Kyle Poppe and one to Nick Rabin. Kathman was also the leading rusher for Lakota East.

Mason 40, Middletown 7: Mason snapped a two-game losing streak in dominating fashionand used its ground game to do it. The Comets racked up 316 yards on the ground on 38 attempts to move to 2-2 on the year. Running back Nick Sailers led the way with 117 yards on 17 attempts and found the end zone for a second straight week. It was quarterback Michael Molnar who set the tone, running for three touchdowns in the fi rst half. He fi nished with 101 yards on nine attempts.

Fairfi eld 34, Oak Hills 14: Fairfi eld found the win column for the fi rst time, thanks to a 20-point second quarter. The Indians were led by quarterback Talon Fisher, who shook off three interceptions to run for a pair of touchdowns in the second stanza to give his club a 27-7 advantage at the half. Kavi Bivins’s 1-yard plunge in the fi rst quarter opened the scoring and Aamir Rogers’ 90-yard picksix late in the fourth quarter capped it.

Oak Hills got rushing touchdowns from both Demar Parker Jr. and Jaxon Schreiber.

Harrison 29, Trotwood-Madison 28: Harrison quarterback Mason Young hit Nathan Blank for a touchdown, then Paul Nieman for the game-winning two point conversion with three seconds left in regulation to lift Harrison to its fi rst win of the year. Young was responsible for all four Harrison touchdowns, fi nding Blank (six catches, 161 yards) twice for scores and running in two of his own. He fi nished with 101 yards on 22 attempts.

Luke James and Dawson Haynie helped out the defense with interceptions.

Stryker Reverman notched a sack and a game-high nine tackles.

Mariemont 31, Madeira 7: Mariemont scored 21 points in the fourth quarter to race past Madeira for a 4-0 start.

The Warriors defense started its run on Tim Stewart’s 35-yard pick-six and the off ense fi nished it. Quarterback David Dorsten ran for a touchdown and found running back Max Tepe for a 15-yard score in the fourth quarter to make it 24-7. Tepe, who fi nished with 193 yards on 26 attempts, polished off the win with a 15-yard touchdown run. Tepe has run for 481 yards in three games after missing the season-opener. Mariemont’s defense fi nished with fi ve interceptions, with Connor Souders, Stewart, Tepe, Charlie Tully and Mark Morgan each recording takeaways.

St. Xavier 41, Penn (Ind.) 10: Taking a trip to Mishawaka in Indiana, St. Xavier scored 41 points in the fi rst half to beat Penn 41-3. The Bombers scored 21 points in the fi rst quarter and another 20 in the second quarter, calling off the attack for the second half. Charles Kellom rushed six times for 33 yards and two scores while quarterback Brogan McCaughey added another. McCaughey was 13-for-19 passing with three more touchdowns.

The Bombers improved to 4-0, setting up an unbeaten matchup with Moeller at Nippert Stadium in week fi ve.

Moeller 25, Ironton 7: Moeller went deep into Southeast Ohio, playing last season’s Division V runner-up Ironton at

Tanks Memorial Stadium. The Crusaders aired the ball with nearly no issue with Van George going 17-for-22 for 268 yards and three touchdowns. George found receiver Tennel Bryant for two scores in the fi rst quarter, including a 57yard strike to go up 14-0. Ironton was just 6-for-15 passing with a score and three interceptions. Moeller improved to 4-0 for the fi rst time since 2014 with the victory.

Milford 20, Turpin 13: The Eagles jumped ahead on a pair of Tofa Luani three-yard runs to lead 14-0. Turpin responded with a Keenan Alcade run, but trailed 14-6 until the fourth quarter when Luani scored again with 4:51 left in the game to seal the win. Luani had 145 rushing yards on 16 carries. Turpin couldn’t take advantage of quarterback Will Schulok’s 22-for-23 night for 306 yards.

Conner 28, Scott 3: Alijah Thompson was all Conner needed to roll into Scott and roll out with the victory. On 21 rushes, Thompson had 150 and scored all four Conner touchdowns, including a 37-yard score in the fourth quarter. Both teams went to 2-2 on the year. Conner quarterback Alex Castrucci was 4-for-5 for 47 yards passing, adding 68 yards on 11 rushes. Jack Murray and Terry Phillips Jr. had a pair of interceptions for Conner.

Holmes 38, Newport 8: Hosting Newport, Holmes dominated the Wildcats, allowing a long touchdown run late in the fourth quarter. Holmes scored 38straight points in the game on fi ve rushing touchdowns and a safety on a botched snap through the end zone. Tayquan Calloway led the rushers, accumulating 140 yards on 16 carries with a score.

Quantez Calloway had a touchdown and two successful two-point conversion attempts.

Wyoming 30, Indian Hill 0: Wyoming junior CJ Hester was a true oneman wrecking crew in the conference openerl. Hester scored all 30 points for the Cowboys on three rushing scores, a fumble recovery and three conversions.

In total, Hester had 215 rushing yards to tack onto his three rushing scores.

Newport Central Catholic 23, Walton-Verona 14: Newport Central Catholic held Walton-Verona scoreless for the fi nal three quarters, winning behind a 13-0 second half. Demetrick Welch led the way for the Thoroughbreds with 97 yards rushing and two touchdowns on 20 carries. Luke Runyon paced Newport Central Catholic’s receivers with 46 yards and a touchdown on fi ve receptions.

Bishop Brossart 21, Holy Cross 0: Bishop Brossart has now begun its season with three shutouts in four game.

Quarterback Jacob Leicht did a little bit of everything for the Mustangs, completing three of his four passes for 27 yards and a touchdown Bishop Brossart leaned on its ground game, tallying 174 rushing yards on 41 total carries. The Mustangs’ defense forced three turnovers in the shutout.

Northwest 48, Carroll 14: Darrion Montgomery went off , running for 272 yards and three touchdowns on 16 carries, including a 97 yarder in the fi rst quarter. Northwest had 429 total yards, all coming on the ground. The Knights ran away with the game almost immediately, scoring 28 straight points in the fi rst quarter, as Carroll was never within three touchdowns for the rest of the game. Northwest’s defense was suff ocating, allowing just 24 total yards.

County.

Boys golfer: Alex Rollman, Turpin – The freshman was the medalist at the Moeller Crusader Classic with a 73 Sept.

4 and led the team in a win over Milford with a 34 Sept. 1.

Girls golfer: Isabella Beauregard, Ryle – She scored a team-low 44 in the win over South Dearborn Sept. 3, 195225.

Ohio boys soccer player: Sam Hughes, Anderson – The junior, who is second in the Eastern Cincinnati Conference in points (11) and goals (4), got 2 goals and 2 assists in three games.

Northern Kentucky/Indiana boys soccer player: Ethan Sands, Conner – He scored two goals in the 4-0 win over Boone County Sept. 2.

Ohio girls soccer player: Lexi O’Shea, Seton – The freshman scored

two goals in the 4-0 win over Ursuline Aug. 30.

Northern Kentucky/Indiana girls soccer player: Payton Kenny, WaltonVerona – She led the Bearcats to the 8th Region All “A” championship with three shutouts and 17 saves and was named tournament MVP. Girls tennis player, singles: Elle Frischer, Sycamore – She beat her Middletown opponent at fi rst singles in a 5-0 team win Sept. 3, and she also bested her Hamilton opponent in a 4-0 team win. What’s more, she topped her Mariemont opponent Aug. 30.

Girls tennis player, doubles team: Mya Reardon and Kiera Millerchip, Sycamore – They beat their fi rst doubles opponents from Middletown Sept.

3 in a 5-0 team win. They’re 3-1 on the season.

Ohio volleyball player: Sophia Hudepohl, St. Ursula – The senior, who leads the Girls Greater Catholic League in assists with 177, had 20 digs, 1 block, 3 serving aces, 47 assists and 4 kills in the 3-2 win over Mount Notre Dame Sept. 2.

Northern Kentucky/Indiana volleyball player: Katie Rolf, Beechwood – She had 15 kills and 20 digs in a win over Bishop Brossart.

ATHLETES OF THE WEEK In a vote that ended Sept. 10, Cincinnati.com readers selected the Cincinnati Enquirer Athletes of the Week, presented by Mercy Health, from high school sports action through Sept. 5.

Winners will receive a certifi cate sent through the school's athletic department. The fi rst round will come out near the end of September, early October.

Once they reach the schools, please remember to send a picture of winning athletes with their certifi cates for the photo gallery to mlaughman@enquirer.com.

Ohio football team: Reading – Reading improved to 3-0, topping Summit Country Day 35-7. Reading outscored its fi rst three opponents 122-13.

Northern Kentucky football team: Walton-Verona – The Bearcats hosted Grant County, outscoring them 21-6 in the second half to win 35-20.

Boys fall team: Moeller soccer – Brock Kiper’s hat trick led Moeller to a 3-1 victory at Lakota West on Aug. 31.

Girls fall team: Reading girls soccer – Reading came back from being down 3-0 against Deer Park and scored one with a minute left in the fi rst half, then scored three unanswered goals to win 4-3. Olivia Simpson led the Blue Devils

with four goals.

Boys cross country runner: Jameson Maynes, Moeller – He fi nished fourth in the Lebanon Invitational with a time of 16:46. This was Moeller's fi rst race of the year since the Moeller Primetime was rained out the week prior.

Girls cross country runner: Allison Kopser, Ryle – She won the Ryle Invitational out of more than 120 runners, running 19:01 to win by 45 seconds.

Field hockey: Evelyn Krebs, Ursuline Academy – The senior led her team to a 6-0 win against Talawanda with a hat-trick of goals.

Ohio football player, big school: Nick Rabin, Lakota East – He scored two touchdowns – a 39-yard reception in the second quarter and a 47-yard run in the third quarter – to help Lakota East to a 49-7 win over Middletown Sept. 3.

Ohio football player, small school: Kellen Lynch, Batavia – The senior quarterback/running back went 29for-59 passing for 337 yards and 3 touchdowns, adding 12 yards on 6 attempts rushing.

Northern Kentucky/Indiana football player: Tyson Beach, Walton-Verona – He rushed for 103 yards and two touchdowns in a 35-20 win over Grant

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THE ENQUIRER

LOCAL SCOREBOARD MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL FRIDAY REDS 4, St. Louis 2

Cincinnati

India 2b Stephenson c Castellanos rf Votto 1b Suárez 3b 1-Akiyama pr Givens p Aquino lf Barrero ss DeShields cf Mahle p a-A.Cabrera ph Sims p Lorenzen p c-Moustakas ph-3b Totals St. Louis

Edman 2b Goldschmidt 1b O'Neill lf Arenado 3b Molina c Carlson rf DeJong ss Bader cf Lester p b-Nootbaar ph García p McFarland p Totals

AB R H BI BB SO Avg.

3 4 4 3 3 0 0 3 4 3 2 1 0 0 1

0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0

1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 .271 0 .282 0 .317 0 .269 1 .177 0 .199 0 --0 .191 0 .250 0 .143 1 .042 0 .234 0 .000 0 .000 0 .208

31 4 6 4 4 2 AB R H BI BB SO Avg.

4 4 4 3 4 4 4 3 2 1 0 0

0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

1 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0

0 .264 2 .284 1 .276 0 .252 1 .255 1 .258 2 .195 2 .243 2 .175 1 .222 0 --0 ---

33 2 5 2 2 12

Cincinnati 010 100 002—4 6 1 St. Louis 000 200 000—2 5 0 a-flied out for Mahle in the 7th. b-struck out for Lester in the 7th. c-lined out for Lorenzen in the 9th.

1-ran for Suárez in the 9th.

E—Barrero (2). LOB—Cincinnati 5, St. Louis 6. 2B—Barrero (2). HR—Suárez (26), off Lester; Votto (30), off Lester; Molina (11), off Mahle. RBIs—Suárez (70), Votto (87), Barrero (1), DeShields (3), Molina 2 (59).

S—DeShields.

Runners left in scoring position—Cincinnati 1 (Barrero, A.Cabrera); St. Louis 2 (Lester, Bader).

RISP—Cincinnati 0 for 3; St. Louis 0 for 3.

LIDP—Moustakas. GIDP—Barrero.

DP—St. Louis 2 (DeJong, Edman, Goldschmidt; DeJong, Goldschmidt, DeJong).

Cincinnati

Mahle Sims Lorenzen, W, 1-2 Givens, S, 7-9 St. Louis

IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA

6 4 2 2 2 6 96 3.73 1 0 0 0 0 3 14 4.81 1 0 0 0 0 1 17 3.20

1 1 0 0 0 2 13 2.76 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA

Lester 7 3 2 2 4 2 92 4.75 García 1 1 0 0 0 0 20 2.25 McFarland, L, 1 2 2 2 0 0 17 2.08 3-1 WP—Mahle.

Umpires—Home, Tripp Gibson; First, Ryan Blakney; Second, Edwin Moscoso; Third, Doug Eddings.

Time—2:43. Attendance—29,597 (45,494).

CincinnatiSt. Louis Runs Reds second. Joey Votto grounds out to shallow infield, Tommy Edman to Paul Goldschmidt. Eugenio Suarez homers to center field. Aristides Aquino lines out to shallow left field to Nolan Arenado. Jose Barrero grounds out to shortstop, Paul DeJong to Paul Goldschmidt.

1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on.

Reds 1, Cardinals 0.

Reds fourth. Nick Castellanos flies out to deep right field to Dylan Carlson. Joey Votto homers to center field. Eugenio Suarez walks. Aristides Aquino walks.

Eugenio Suarez to second. Jose Barrero grounds out to shortstop. Aristides Aquino out at second.

1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on.

Reds 2, Cardinals 0.

Cardinals fourth. Nolan Arenado walks.

Yadier Molina homers to left field. Nolan Arenado scores. Dylan Carlson grounds out to shallow infield, Joey Votto to Tyler Mahle. Paul DeJong flies out to left center field to Aristides Aquino. Harrison Bader singles to shallow infield. Jon Lester strikes out on a foul tip.

2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on.

Reds 2, Cardinals 2.

Reds ninth. Eugenio Suarez singles to center field. Aristides Aquino reaches on a fielder’s choice to shallow infield. Shogo Akiyama out at second. Jose Barrero doubles to deep left center field, advances to 3rd. Aristides Aquino scores.

Delino DeShields reaches on a fielder’s choice to shallow infield. Jose Barrero scores. Mike Moustakas pinch-hitting for Michael Lorenzen. Mike Moustakas lines out to shallow infield to Paul DeJong.

Delino DeShields doubled off first.

2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on.

Reds 4, Cardinals 2.

REDS SCHEDULE Sept. 12 at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m.

Sept. 14 at Pittsburgh, 6:35 p.m.

Sept. 15 at Pittsburgh, 6:35 p.m.

Sept. 16 at Pittsburgh, 12:35 p.m.

Sept. 17 vs. L.A. Dodgers, 7:10 p.m.

Sept. 18 vs. L.A. Dodgers, 2:10 p.m.

Sept. 19 vs. L.A. Dodgers, 1:10 p.m.

Sept. 20 vs. Pittsburgh, 6:40 p.m.

Sept. 21 vs. Pittsburgh, 6:40 p.m.

Sept. 22 vs. Pittsburgh, 12:35 p.m.

Sept. 23 vs. Washington, 6:40 p.m.

Sept. 24 vs. Washington, 7:10 p.m.

Sept. 25 vs. Washington, 7:10 p.m.

Sept. 26 vs. Washington, 1:10 p.m.

Sept. 28 at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.

Sept. 29 at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.

Oct. 1 at Pittsburgh, 6:35 p.m.

Oct. 2 at Pittsburgh, 6:35 p.m.

Oct. 3 at Pittsburgh, 3:05 p.m.

LEADERS PRIOR TO SATURDAY’S GAMES AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING—Guerrero Jr., Toronto, .318; Brantley, Houston, .316; Gurriel, Houston, .312; Ti.Anderson, Chicago, .302; Mullins, Baltimore, .302; Bogaerts, Boston, .301; N.Lopez, Kansas City, .298; T.Hernández, Toronto, .293; Judge, New York, .292.

RUNS—Guerrero Jr., Toronto, 107; Bichette, Toronto, 104; Semien, Toronto, 100; Altuve, Houston, 97; Haniger, Seattle, 96; J.Ramírez, Cleveland, 93; Correa, Houston, 92; Ohtani, Los Angeles, 90; Olson, Oakland, 89; Arozarena, Tampa Bay, 86; Devers, Boston, 86; B.Lowe, Tampa Bay, 86.

RBI—J.Abreu, Chicago, 107; S.Perez, Kansas City, 104; Devers, Boston, 101; Guerrero Jr., Toronto, 100; Meadows, Tampa Bay, 97; Olson, Oakland, 95; T.Hernández, Toronto, 94; Ohtani, Los Angeles, 94; Seager, Seattle, 94; Alvarez, Houston, 91; Semien, Toronto, 91.

HITS—Guerrero Jr., Toronto, 166; Bichette, Toronto, 161; Mullins, Baltimore, 160; Merrifield, Kansas City, 158; D.Fletcher, Los Angeles, 154; Schoop, Detroit, 154; Semien, Toronto, 153; S.Perez, Kansas City, 148; Martinez, Boston, 146; Kiner-Falefa, Texas, 145.

DOUBLES—Candelario, Detroit, 40; Martinez, Boston, 37; Semien, Toronto, 36; Devers, Boston, 34; Bogaerts, Boston, 33; Merrifield, Kansas City, 33; Mullins, Baltimore, 33; Polanco, Minnesota, 33; Olson, Oakland, 32.

TRIPLES—Baddoo, Detroit, 7; A.Rosario, Cleveland, 6; Arraez, Minnesota, 5; W.Castro, Detroit, 5; Dalbec, Boston, 5; N.Lopez, Kansas City, 5; Ohtani, Los Angeles, 5; 11 tied at 4.

HOME RUNS—Ohtani, Los Angeles, 44; Guerrero Jr., Toronto, 42; S.Perez, Kansas City, 42; Semien, Toronto, 38; Seager, Seattle, 34; B.Lowe, Tampa Bay, 33; J.Ramírez, Cleveland, 33; Devers, Boston, 33; Gallo, New York, 32; Olson, Oakland, 32.

STOLEN BASES—Merrifield, Kansas City, 40; Mullins, Baltimore, 28; Straw, Cleveland, 27; Ohtani, Los Angeles, 23; J.Ramírez, Cleveland, 23; Bichette, Toronto, 22; S.Marte, Oakland, 22; Moore, Seattle, 20; N.Lopez, Kansas City, 19; Ti.Anderson, Chicago, 17; Grossman, Detroit, 17.

PITCHING—G.Cole, New York, 14-7; Ryu, Toronto, 13-8; Bassitt, Oakland, 12-4; Rodón, Chicago, 12-5; Montas, Oakland, 12-9; McCullers Jr., Houston, 11-4; Ray, Toronto, 11-5; Greinke, Houston, 11-5; Flexen, Seattle, 11-5.

ERA—Ray, Toronto, 2.70; G.Cole, New York, 2.78; Bassitt, Oakland, 3.22; Berríos, Toronto, 3.52; Flexen, Seattle, 3.56; Eovaldi, Boston, 3.57; Montas, Oakland, 3.57; Greinke, Houston, 3.66; Giolito, Chicago, 3.70; Ryu, Toronto, 3.77.

STRIKEOUTS—Ray, Toronto, 220; G.Cole, New York, 217; Cease, Chicago, 197; Montas, Oakland, 181; Giolito, Chicago, 180; Berríos, Toronto, 177; Rodón, Chicago, 175; Manaea, Oakland, 174; Eovaldi, Boston, 171; McCullers Jr., Houston, 161.

NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING—T.Turner, Los Angeles, .318; N.Castellanos, Cincinnati, .317; Winker, Cincinnati, .307; A.Frazier, San Diego, .306; B.Harper, Philadelphia, .306; Soto, Washington, .303; Riley, Atlanta, .300; Reynolds, Pittsburgh, .298; Crawford, San Francisco, .295; Segura, Philadelphia, .295.

RUNS—F.Freeman, Atlanta, 105; Soto, Washington, 94; Tatis Jr., San Diego, 90; Albies, Atlanta, 89; Cronenworth, San Diego, 89; T.Turner, Los Angeles, 88; C.Taylor, Los Angeles, 87; B.Harper, Philadelphia, 84; India, Cincinnati, 84; Muncy, Los Angeles, 84.

RBI—Duvall, Atlanta, 99; J.Aguilar, Miami, 93; Albies, Atlanta, 93; Arenado, St. Louis, 91; M.Machado, San Diego, 89; Riley, Atlanta, 88; Votto, Cincinnati, 87; Tatis Jr., San Diego, 86; Alonso, New York, 85.

HITS—T.Turner, Los Angeles, 164; A.Frazier, San Diego, 154; F.Freeman, Atlanta, 154; Riley, Atlanta, 151; Goldschmidt, St. Louis, 150; Reynolds, Pittsburgh, 148; N.Castellanos, Cincinnati, 146; Edman, St. Louis, 146; Albies, Atlanta, 139; Cronenworth, San Diego, 138.

DOUBLES—Edman, St. Louis, 37; N.Castellanos, Cincinnati, 35; Albies, Atlanta, 34; Arenado, St. Louis, 32; B.Harper, Philadelphia, 32; Story, Colorado, 32; Winker, Cincinnati, 32; A.Frazier, San Diego, 31; Reynolds, Pittsburgh, 31; J.Rojas, Arizona, 30; Swanson, Atlanta, 30.

TRIPLES—D.Peralta, Arizona, 8; Albies, Atlanta, 6; Cronenworth, San Diego, 6; Duggar, San Francisco, 5; E.Escobar, Milwaukee, 5; A.Frazier, San Diego, 5; Hampson, Colorado, 5; Story, Colorado, 5.

HOME RUNS—Tatis Jr., San Diego, 37; Duvall, Atlanta, 34; Muncy, Los Angeles, 32; Alonso, New York, 32; Votto, Cincinnati, 30; B.Harper, Philadelphia, 30.

STOLEN BASES—T.Turner, Los Angeles, 26; Tatis Jr., San Diego, 25; Edman, St. Louis, 24; S.Marte, Oakland, 22; Chisholm Jr., Miami, 20; Tapia, Colorado, 20; Story, Colorado, 18; Acuña Jr., Atlanta, 17; Albies, Atlanta, 17; Báez, New York, 16; Hampson, Colorado, 16.

PITCHING—J.Urías, Los Angeles, 17-3; Wainwright, St. Louis, 15-7; Hendricks, Chicago, 14-6; Buehler, Los Angeles, 13-3; Scherzer, Los Angeles, 13-4; Gausman, San Francisco, 13-5; Morton, Atlanta, 13-5; Miley, Cincinnati, 12-5; Suter, Milwaukee, 12-5; Wheeler, Philadelphia, 12-9.

ERA—Scherzer, Los Angeles, 2.28; Buehler, Los Angeles, 2.31; Burnes, Milwaukee, 2.38; Woodruff, Milwaukee, 2.48; Gausman, San Francisco, 2.58; Stroman, New York, 2.87; Miley, Cincinnati, 2.89; Wheeler, Philadelphia, 2.91; Musgrove, San Diego, 2.93; J.Urías, Los Angeles, 2.98; Wainwright, St. Louis, 2.98.

STRIKEOUTS—Wheeler, Philadelphia, 217; Scherzer, Los Angeles, 210; Burnes, Milwaukee, 196; Gausman, San Francisco, 192; Aa.Nola, Philadelphia, 192; Woodruff, Milwaukee, 191; Mahle, Cincinnati, 188; Morton, Atlanta, 185; Buehler, Los Angeles, 184; Musgrove, San Diego, 180.

HORSE RACING Belterra Park Entries Post time: Tuesday, 12:35 p.m.

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Wnta Bllerna 115 Half Legend Chipshire 120 Shelly's Baby MzntheCove 125 WkndGtawy Kndofbluektn 120 Laura's Angle 5th—$10,200, 3YO up F&M, 1mi.

Especially You 122 Super Stmy Guilder 122 Class Riot Kitten Rocks 120 Here and Vow 6th—$17,400, 2YO, 6f.

Peerless Crt 118 Old Twn Rd Come Alone 118 Overbore Ain't Straight 118 7th—$13,400, 3YO up F&M, 1mi.

C V Thunder 120 Lucky Shore Tiz Penney 125 Awildas Trsre Frontier Dynsty 125 Smarty Artie PrncsMrykte 125 Get Clear Amari S. 115 8th—$9,000, 3YO up, 6f.

Animal Krckrs 121 Rushed Winging Wys 121 Lovely Heir Dahik 121 HghlndPrkHro

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PRO FOOTBALL REGULAR SEASON SCHEDULE AFC NORTH Cincinnati Bengals Sept. 12 Minnesota, 1 p.m. (FOX) Sept. 19 at Chicago, 1 p.m. (FOX) Sept. 26 at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. (CBS) Sept. 30 Jacksonville (Thu), 8:20 p.m.

(NFLN) Oct. 10 Green Bay, 1 p.m. (FOX) Oct. 17 at Detroit, 1 p.m. (FOX) Oct. 24 at Baltimore, 1 p.m. (CBS) Oct. 31 at New York Jets, 1 p.m. (CBS) Nov. 7 Cleveland, 1 p.m. (CBS) Nov. 14 BYE Nov. 21 at Las Vegas, 4:05 p.m. (CBS) Nov. 28 Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. (CBS) Dec. 5 Los Angeles Chargers, 1 p.m. (FOX) Dec. 12 San Francisco, 1 p.m. (CBS) Dec. 19 at Denver, 4:05 p.m. (CBS) Dec. 26 Baltimore, 1 p.m. (CBS) Jan. 2 Kansas City, 1 p.m. (CBS) Jan. 9 at Cleveland, 1 p.m. (CBS) Baltimore Ravens Sept. 13 at Las Vegas (Mon), 8:15 p.m.

(ESPN/ABC) Sept. 19 Kansas City, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Sept. 26 at Detroit, 1 p.m. (CBS) Oct. 3 at Denver, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) Oct. 11 Indianapolis (Mon), 8:15 p.m.

(ESPN) Oct. 17 Los Angeles Chargers, 1 p.m. (CBS) Oct. 24 Cincinnati, 1 p.m. (CBS) Oct. 31 BYE Nov. 7 Minnesota, 1 p.m. (FOX) Nov. 11 at Miami (Thu), 8:20 p.m.

(FOX/NFLN/Amazon**) Nov. 21 at Chicago, 1 p.m. (CBS) Nov. 28 Cleveland, 8:20 p.m. (NBC*) Dec. 5 at Pittsburgh, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) Dec. 12 at Cleveland, 1 p.m. (CBS) Dec. 19 Green Bay, 1 p.m. (FOX) Dec. 26 at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. (CBS) Jan. 2 Los Angeles Rams, 4:25 p.m. (FOX) Jan. 9 Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. (CBS)

Cleveland Browns Sept. 12 at Kansas City, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) Sept. 19 Houston, 1 p.m. (CBS) Sept. 26 Chicago, 1 p.m. (FOX) Oct. 3 at Minnesota, 1 p.m. (CBS) Oct. 10 at L.A. Chargers, 4:05 p.m. (CBS) Oct. 17 Arizona, 4:05 p.m. (FOX) Oct. 21 Denver (Thu), 8:20 p.m.

(FOX/NFLN/Amazon**) Oct. 31 Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. (CBS) Nov. 7 at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. (CBS) Nov. 14 at New England, 1 p.m. (CBS) Nov. 21 Detroit, 1 p.m. (FOX) Nov. 28 at Baltimore, 8:20 p.m. (NBC*) Dec. 5 BYE Dec. 12 Baltimore, 1 p.m. (CBS) TBD Las Vegas, TBD (TBD) Dec. 25 at Green Bay, 4:30 p.m.

(FOX/NFLN/Amazon**) Jan. 3 at Pittsburgh (Mon), 8:15 p.m.

(ESPN) Jan. 9 Cincinnati, 1 p.m. (CBS) Pittsburgh Steelers Sept. 12 at Buffalo, 1 p.m. (CBS) Sept. 19 Las Vegas, 1 p.m. (CBS) Sept. 26 Cincinnati, 1 p.m. (CBS) Oct. 3 at Green Bay, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) Oct. 10 Denver, 1 p.m. (FOX) Oct. 17 Seattle, 8:20 p.m. (NBC*) Oct. 24 BYE Oct. 31 at Cleveland, 1 p.m. (CBS) Nov. 8 Chicago (Mon), 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) Nov. 14 Detroit, 1 p.m. (FOX) Nov. 21 at Los Angeles Chargers, 8:20 p.m.

(NBC*) Nov. 28 at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. (CBS) Dec. 5 Baltimore, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) Dec. 9 at Minnesota (Thu), 8:20 p.m.

(FOX/NFLN/Amazon**) Dec. 19 Tennessee, 1 p.m. (CBS) Dec. 26 at Kansas City, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) Jan. 3 Cleveland (Mon), 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) Jan. 9 at Baltimore, 1 p.m. (CBS)

LOCAL HIGH SCHOOLS RESULTS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 BOYS’ SOCCER Badin 4, Ross 1 Goals: B- Eldredge, Even, Niesen, Warner.

Bishop Brossart 6, Campbell County 0 Goals: BB- Smith 2, Bain, Rodero, Beck, Guidugli. Shutout: Steffen (six saves).

Carlisle 8, Norwood 3 Goals: C- Sprandel 2, Rowe 2, Mitchell 2, M. Coello, A. Coello. N- Almengor 2, Umanzor-Gavarrete.

Cincinnati Christian 5, Western Hills 1 Goals: CC- Nev 2, Bembry 2, Langhammer.

Fairfield 3, Loveland 0 Goals: F- Owusu 2, Beermann. Shutout: Long (four saves). Records: F 5-0, L 1-3-1.

Fenwick 3, Waynesville 2 Goals: F- Norton 2, Ubbelohde.

Georgetown 4, CHCA 4 Goals: G- Miles 3, Underwood. CBazhenov 2, Rakestraw, Bass. Records: G 1-1-2, C 2-2-1.

Goshen 3, Clinton-Massie 1 Goals: G- Amos, Horr, Lengyul. CMFerdele. Records: G 3-0-1 (2-0-1 SBAAC-A), CM 0-4 (0-3 SBAAC-A).

Highlands 1, Covington Catholic 0 Goals: H- Gesenhues. Shutout: Mathis, Wilson.

Holy Cross 5, Calvary Christian 1 Goals: HC- McGlothin 2, Voight, Fisk.

Madeira 6, Finneytown 0 Records: M 4-0 (2-0 CHL), F 1-3-1 (0-2 CHL).

McNicholas 3, Newport Central Catholic 0 Goals: M- Griffin 2, Wasserstrom. Shutout: Zurmehly.

Northwest 3, Withrow 0 Goals: NW- Henry 2, Warren. Shutout: Rowland (seven saves).

St. Xavier 1, Walnut Hills 1 Goals: SX- Creech, WH- Larsen.

Taylor 7, Deer Park 1 Goals: T- Howard 3, Ball, Drahman, Kennedy, Larkin. DP- Galeano. Records: T 2-2-2 (2-0 CHL), DP 2-3 (0-2 CHL).

Wilmington 1, New Richmond 1

Goals: W- Wood. Records: W 4-0-2 (2-0-1 SBAAC-A), NR 1-2-2 (1-1-1 SBAAC-A).

Wyoming 9, Reading 0 Goals: W- Marques 3, Tanveer 2, Rutherford, Steiner, TrenKamp, Vickers.

Shutout: Popovitz. Records: W 4-1-1 (1-1 CHL), R 3-1-1 (1-1 CHL).

OTHER SCORES: Beechwood 4, Holmes 1 Conner 2, Scott 1 Cooper 6, Boone County 0 Grant County 2, Walton-Verona 1 (2 OT) Lebanon 0, Kettering Alter 0 Monroe 1, Edgewood 0 BOYS’ GOLF Madeira 158, Reading 207 Medalist: Brandon Conner (M) with a 1-over-par 36 at The Mill Course.

Roger Bacon 213, Princeton 218 Medalist: Ryan Zestermann (RB) with a 51.

GIRLS’ GOLF Indian Hill 200, Anderson 216 Medalist: Ayla Brugger (A) with a 10-over par 46 on the front nine at Legendary Run. GIRLS’ TENNIS Bellbrook 3, Oak Hills 2 Brink d. M.Lint 6-4, 7-6; A.Arora d. Kadakia 6-2, 6-3; King (OH) d. Chappers 7-6, 6-0.

Malone-Marsala (OH) d. Delsing-Pham 6-2, 7-5; Delsing-Pham d.

Lykins-Bollinger 6-4, 6-2.

Blanchester 5, Felicity-Franklin 0 Coyle d. Hardewig 6-0, 6-2; Trovillo d.

McClure 6-0, 6-1; Mueller d. Metzger 6-0, 6-0. Caldwell-Irwin d. Jansen-Masminster 6-0, 6-0; Boegeman-Bockhorst d.

Vittoz-Campbell 6-0, 6-1. Records: B 9-2 (5-0 SBAAC National), FF 4-3 (3-3 SBAAC National).

OTHER SCORES: Roger Bacon 3, Northwest 2 VOLLEYBALL Anderson d. West Clermont 25-19, 25-17, 25-20 Badin (4-2, 2-2 GCL Coed) d. McNicholas (2-4, 1-2 GCL Coed) 25-12, 25-22, 25-18 Bishop Brossart d. Holmes 23-25, 25-18, 25-19 CHCA d. Lakota East 24-26, 25-12, 25-11, 25-20 East Clinton d. Blanchester 25-11, 25-20, 25-15 Edgewood (1-1) d. Colerain (5-2) 25-20, 24-26, 23-25, 25-11, 19-17 Fenwick (6-0, 4-0 GCL Coed) d. Alter (2-3, 1-2 GCL Coed) 25-21, 27-25, 25-17 Harrison (5-1) d. East Central 25-20, 25-16, 25-10 Kings (5-2, 4-2 ECC) d. Winton Woods (0-4, 0-4 ECC) 25-6, 25-9, 25-8 Lebanon (5-1, 5-0 ECC) d. Walnut Hills (0-6, 0-5 ECC) 25-22, 25-18, 25-15 Lloyd d. Newport 25-18, 25-18 New Richmond (6-1) d. Georgetown (0-3) 25-8, 25-6, 25-14 Oak Hills (4-3) d. Ross (4-3) 25-13, 20-25, 25-20, 25-18 Pendleton County d. Grant County 25-19, 19-25, 25-23 Roger Bacon d. Purcell Marian 25-8, 25-7, 25-7 Seton (6-0, 2-0 GGCL) d. Mount Notre Dame (4-2, 1-2 GGCL) 11-25, 25-21, Simon Kenton d. South Oldham 25-14, 25-17, 25-10 Springboro d. Mason (1-3) 27-25, 25-20, 23-25, 25-19 St. Ursula (7-0, 2-0 GGCL) d. Ursuline (7-3, 1-2 GGCL) 25-13, 23-25, 23-25, 28-26, 15-10 Summit Country Day d. Norwood 25-11, 25-11, 25-19 Turpin d. Loveland 17-25, 23-25, 25-21, 25-14, 15-7 Williamsburg (2-4, 1-0 SBAAC-N) d.

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Chicago Cleveland Detroit Kansas City Minnesota

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82 58 77 64 77 64 69 72 51 89 Friday's Games N.Y. Mets 10, N.Y. Yankees 3 Milwaukee 10, Cleveland 3 Detroit 10, Tampa Bay 4 Baltimore 6, Toronto 3 Houston 10, L.A. Angels 5

.586 — .546 5½ .546 5½ .489 13½ .364 31

Houston Oakland Seattle Los Angeles Texas

(Scherzer 13-4), 4:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (TBD) at N.Y. Mets (Carrasco 1-2), 8:08 p.m.

Calendar Dec. 1 — Collective bargaining agreement expires, 11:59 p.m. ET

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Toronto (Matz 11-7) at Baltimore (TBD), 1:05 p.m.

Milwaukee (Woodruff 9-8) at Cleveland (Allen 1-6), 1:10 p.m.

Boston (TBD) at Chicago White Sox (Lynn 10-4), 2:10 p.m.

Kansas City (Bubic 4-6) at Minnesota (Ober 2-2), 2:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Barria 2-3) at Houston (McCullers Jr. 11-4), 2:10 p.m.

Texas (Hearn 5-4) at Oakland (Kaprielian 7-4), 4:07 p.m.

Arizona (Gilbert 1-2) at Seattle (Kikuchi 7-8), 4:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (TBD) at N.Y. Mets (Carrasco 1-2), 8:08 p.m.

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Washington (Espino 4-4) at Pittsburgh (Wilson 2-6), 1:05 p.m.

Milwaukee (Woodruff 9-8) at Cleveland (Allen 1-6), 1:10 p.m.

Miami (Cabrera 0-1) at Atlanta (Fried 11-7), 1:20 p.m.

Cincinnati (Gray 7-6) at St. Louis (Happ 8-8), 2:15 p.m.

San Francisco (Webb 9-3) at Chicago Cubs (Steele 3-2), 2:20 p.m.

Arizona (Gilbert 1-2) at Seattle (Kikuchi 7-8), 4:10 p.m.

San Diego (Snell 7-6) at L.A. Dodgers

NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE East Buffalo Miami N.Y. Jets New England Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Tennessee Baltimore Cincinnati Cleveland Pittsburgh

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Arizona 0 0 0.000 0 L.A. Rams 0 0 0.000 0 San Francisco 0 0 0.000 0 Seattle 0 0 0.000 0 Thursday's Games Tampa Bay 31, Dallas 29 Sunday's Games Arizona at Tennessee, 1 p.m.

Jacksonville at Houston, 1 p.m.

L.A. Chargers at Washington, 1 p.m.

Minnesota at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Carolina, 1 p.m.

Philadelphia at Atlanta, 1 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

San Francisco at Detroit, 1 p.m.

Seattle at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.

Cleveland at Kansas City, 4:25 p.m.

Denver at N.Y. Giants, 4:25 p.m.

Green Bay at New Orleans, 4:25 p.m.

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

Chicago at L.A. Rams, 8:20 p.m.

Monday's Games Baltimore at Las Vegas, 8:15 p.m.

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL Friday’s Scores EAST American International 40, Pace 33 Endicott 28, WPI 21 Mass. Maritime 14, SUNY Maritime 6 W. New England 48, Westfield St. 0 SOUTH Coastal Carolina 49, Kansas 22 Duke 45, NC A&T 17 FAR WEST Boise St. 54, UTEP 13

WNBA

Sun. vs. Minnesota, 1 p.m.

Sept. 19 at Chicago, 1 p.m.

Sept. 26 at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.

Sept. 18 at Indiana, 12 p.m.

Oct. 2 at Notre Dame, 2:30 p.m.

Oct. 8 vs. Temple, 7 p.m.

Sept. 18 vs. Chattanooga, 12 p.m.

Sept. 25 at S. Carolina, TBA Oct. 2 vs. Florida, TBA

Sept. 17 vs. UCF, 7:30 p.m.

Sept. 25 at Florida State, TBA Oct. 2 at Wake Forest, TBA

Sept. 18 vs. LIU, 3:30 p.m.

Sept. 25 at Army, 12 p.m.

Oct. 2 vs. C. Michigan, 3:30 p.m.

Sept. 18 vs. Tulsa, 3:30 p.m.

Sept. 25 vs. Akron, TBA Oct. 2 at Rutgers, TBA

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TBS BSOH; 700-AM MLBN ESPN

COLLEGE FIELD HOCKEY

COLLEGE SOCCER (WOMEN)

COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL (WOMEN)

Wisconsin at Marquette FUTSAL (MEN)

FIFA World Cup Group Stage: Lithuania vs. Venezuela, Group A GOLF

EPGA Tour: The BMW PGA Championship PGA Tour Champions: The Ascension Charity Classic

GB — 8 12 12

7 22 .241 16 6 22 .214 16½ WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB x-Las Vegas 21 8 .724 — x-Seattle 20 10 .667 1½ x-Phoenix 19 10 .655 2 x-Minnesota 19 10 .655 2 Dallas 12 17 .414 9 Los Angeles 10 19 .345 11 x-clinched playoff spot Friday’s Games Washington 82, Atlanta 74 Minnesota 89, Indiana 72 Saturday's Games New York at Dallas, late Connecticut at Phoenix, late Sunday's Games Washington at Chicago, 3 p.m.

Indiana at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Seattle at Los Angeles, 9 p.m.

SOCCER MLS EASTERN CONFERENCE New England Orlando City Nashville NY City FC Philadelphia CF Montréal D.C. United Atlanta Columbus Inter Miami CF Chicago New York Cincinnati Toronto FC

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16 10 9 10 8 8 9 7 7 7 6 6 3 3

4 4 5 8 2 11 7 4 7 8 7 7 10 3 7 9 10 6 9 5 11 5 10 4 10 8 13 6

52 38 38 34 32 31 30 30 27 26 23 22 17 15

45 33 37 37 28 30 35 28 27 22 24 23 21 26

28 29 21 22 24 27 32 28 32 31 33 25 38 47

WESTERN CONFERENCE Seattle Colorado Sporting Kansas City LA Galaxy Portland Minnesota United Real Salt Lake Vancouver Los Angeles FC San Jose FC Dallas Austin FC Houston

W L T Pts GF GA

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42 35 19 41 31 20 40 37 26 36 35 35 33 32 39 31 24 24 30 34 29 29 29 33 27 32 31 26 24 30 25 32 36 19 21 31 19 24 36

Friday, Sept. 10 Atlanta 3, Orlando City 0 Portland 1, Vancouver 0 Saturday, September 11 LA Galaxy at Colorado, late Minnesota at Seattle, late D.C. United at New York, late New York City FC at New England, late Toronto FC at Cincinnati, late Columbus at Miami, late Nashville at CF Montréal, late Austin FC at Houston, late Chicago at Sporting Kansas City, late San Jose at FC Dallas, late Sunday, September 12 Real Salt Lake at Los Angeles FC, 10:30 p.m.

NWSL Glance All Times EDT W L T Pts GF GA Portland 10 4 2 32 24 11 North Carolina 8 4 5 29 22 9 Reign FC 9 7 2 29 24 19 Chicago 7 7 5 26 20 23 Orlando 6 5 7 25 21 20 Washington 6 5 5 23 19 18 Houston 6 7 5 23 20 23 Gotham FC 5 5 7 22 17 15 Louisville 4 8 5 17 14 24 Kansas City 2 11 5 11 9 28 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Friday, September 10 Chicago 1, Houston 1, tie Saturday, September 11

Dolphins activate LT Austin Jackson from COVID-19 list

Sept 15 at Atlanta, 7 p.m.

Sept. 18 vs. NYC, 7:30 p.m.

Sept. 25 at D.C., 7:30 p.m.

TCU at Ohio St. South Florida at Miami Florida St. at Auburn Loyola Marymount at Stanford Virginia Tech at South Carolina

TENNIS US Open Results Friday Men’s Singles Semifinals Daniil Medvedev (2), Russia, def. Felix Auger-Aliassime (12), Canada, 6-4, 7-5, 6-2.

Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Alexander Zverev (4), Germany, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2.

Men’s Doubles Championship Rajeev Ram, United States, and Joe Salisbury (4), Britain, def. Bruno Soares, Brazil, and Jamie Murray (7), Britain, 3-6, 6-2, 6-2.

Women’s Doubles Semifinals Sam Stosur, Australia, and Zhang Shuai (14), China, def. Alexa Guarachi Mathison, Chile, and Desirae Krawczyk (7), United States, 6-2, 7-5.

Caty McNally and Coco Gauff (11), United States, def. Gabriela Dabrowski, Canada, and Luisa Stefani (5), Brazil, 6-6, ret.

Atlanta Indiana

Louisville at Orlando, late Sunday, September 12 Reign FC at Washington, 5 p.m.

Portland at North Carolina, 6 p.m.

TRANSACTIONS Friday's Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball American League DETROIT TIGERS — Placed LHP Miguel Del Pozo on the reserve/COVID IL. Recalled RHP Drew Carlton from Toledo Triple-A East).

NEW YORK YANKEES — Reinstated RHP Michael King from the 60-day IL. Designated RHP Sal Romano for assignment.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Reinstated OF Seth Brown from the 10-day IL. Optioned C Austin Allen to Las Vegas (Triple-A West).

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Placed LHP Shane McClanahan and RHP Matt Wisler on the 10-day IL, retroactive to September 9.

Recalled LHP Dietrich Enns and RHP Louis Head from Durham (Triple-A East).

TEXAS RANGERS — Promoted Ross Fenstermaker to vice president/assistant general manager for player development and international operations, Ben Baroody to director, leadership and development and Mike Parnell to director, professional scouting. Named Josh Boyd vice president/assistant general manager for scouting.

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Placed C Stephen Vogt on the 10-day IL. Recalled C William Contreras from Gwinnett (Triple-A East).

CHICAGO CUBS — Placed LHP Adam Morgan on the bereavement list. Recalled RHP Tommy Nance from Iowa (Triple-A East).

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Reinstated C Manny Pina from the 10-day IL. Optioned C Luke Maile to Nashville (Triple-A East).

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Placed LHP Jose Quintana on the paternity list.

Recalled RHP Jay Jackson from Sacramento (Triple-A West).

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association BROOKLYN NETS — Signed F Paul Millsap.

Women's National Basketball Association MINNESOTA LYNX — Signed F Jillian Alleyne to a seven-day contract.

FOOTBALL National Football League ATLANTA FALCONS — Signed K Elliott Fry to the practice squad.

BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed RB Latavius Murray and RB Devonta Freeman to the practice squad. Placed CB Marcus Peters, TE Nick Boyle and RB Gus Edwards on injured reserve.

CAROLINA PANTHERS — Promoted WR Alex Erickson from the practice squad to the active roster.

DETROIT LIONS — Named Don Mulbach special assistant to the executive vice president, general manager and head coach.

LOS ANGELES RAMS — Activated G Coleman Shelton from the reserve/COVID-19 list.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Promoted QB Sean Mannion from the practice squad to the active roster.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Signed S Kai Nacua to the practice squad. Released LB Rashad Smith from the practice squad.

TENNESSEE TITANS — Signed K Michael Badgley to the practice squad. Released OL Christian DiLauro from the practice squad.

WASHINGTON FOOTBALL TEAM — Placed WR Curtis Samuel on injured reserve.

IN BRIEF

Sun. at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m.

Mon. Off Tues. at Pittsburgh, 6:35 p.m.

James Madison at Wake Forest

Dropped out: No. 13 LSU (0-1); No. 17 Indiana (0-1); No. 21 Washington (0-1); No. 23 Louisiana-Lafayette (0-1); Others receiving votes: Auburn (1-0) 123; Michigan (1-0) 99; LSU (0-1) 95; North Carolina State (1-0) 81; Liberty (1-0) 78; Brigham Young (1-0) 65; Indiana (0-1) 58; TCU (1-0) 49; Central Florida (1-0) 48; Florida State (0-1) 34; Michigan State (1-0) 33; Kentucky (1-0) 28; Pittsburgh (1-0) 20; Louisiana-Lafayette (0-1) 19; Kansas State (1-0) 19; Boston College (1-0) 19; Appalachian State (1-0) 15; SMU (1-0) 14; Rutgers (1-0) 11; Arkansas (1-0) 11; Maryland (1-0) 9; Tennessee (1-0) 7; Nevada (1-0) 7; Fresno State (1-1) 7; Army (1-0) 7; Tulane (0-1) 6; Virginia (1-0) 5; San Jose State (1-1) 5; Missouri (1-0) 5; Ball State (1-0) 5; Marshall (1-0) 3; Alabama-Birmingham (1-0) 2; Air Force (1-0) 2; Charlotte (1-0) 1.

EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct x-Connecticut 23 6 .793 x-Chicago 15 14 .517 Washington 11 18 .379 New York 11 18 .379

UPCOMING

Formula 1: The Heineken Italian Grand Prix, Autodromo Nazionale Monza MotoAmerica Superbike: Day 2 Part 1 NHRA: Qualifying, Maple Grove Raceway (Taped) NHRA: The Mopar Express Lane NHRA Nationals, Maple Grove Raceway FIM MotoGP: The Grand Prix of Aragón, Motorland Aragón (Taped) MotoAmerica Superbike: Day 2 Part 2, New Jersey Motosports Park IndyCar Series: The Grand Prix Of Portland, Portland International IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship: The Hyundai Monterey Sports Car Championship, Weathertech Raceway Laguna Seca

Utah St. 48, North Dakota 24 USA Today Sports AFCA College Football Coaches Poll The USA TODAY Sports AFCA Coaches Poll Top 25 with team’s records THROUGH SATURDAY in parentheses, total points based on 25 for first place through one point for 25th, previous week ranking and first-place votes received.

1. Alabama (11) 1-0 1624 1 2. Georgia (4) 1-0 1537 5 3. Ohio State 1-0 1491 4 4. OKlahoma 1-0 1397 3 5. Texas A&M 1-0 1334 6 6. Clemson 0-1 1239 2 7. Notre Dame 1-0 1197 7 8. Cincinnati 1-0 1113 10 9. Florida 1-0 1058 11 10. Iowa State 1-0 1057 8 11. Oregon 1-0 920 12 12. Iowa 1-0 914 18 13. Penn State 1-0 872 20 14. USC 1-0 828 14 15. Texas 1-0 653 19 16. UCLA 2-0 538 42 17. Wisconsin 0-1 359 15 18. Utah 1-0 294 26 19. Coastal Carol.

1-0 289 24 20. Mississippi 1-0 285 25 21. Virginia Tech 1-0 274 40 22. North Carolina 0-1 252 9 23. Oklahoma St. 1-0 243 22 24. Miami (Fla) 0-1 186 16 25. Arizona State 1-0 181 28

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – Left tackle Austin Jackson was activated by the Miami Dolphins from the COVID-19 reserve list Saturday, making him eligible to play in the team’s opener at New England.

The Dolphins said a fi nal determination on Jackson’s playing status will be made before Sunday’s game. He was traveling to New England separately from the rest of the team.

Jackson was listed on the depth chart entering the week as the team’s starter at left tackle. He did not practice this week after being placed on the list Monday. He needed to return two negative COVID-19 tests in a 24-hour span before being removed from the list.

Tight end Adam Shaheen was not activated, meaning he will miss the game. Shaheen is unvaccinated and is also on the COVID-19 list for the second time this season.

Florida CB Jaydon Hill avoids prosecution on theft charges GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Florida cornerback Jaydon Hill, sidelined this season because of a torn knee ligament, was charged with breaking into a car, stealing a debit card and making $1,700 in unauthorized purchases.

According to Alachua County court records, Hill agreed last month to deferred prosecution on third-degree felony charges for unarmed burglary of an unoccupied vehicle, grand theft larceny of more than $750 and less than

$5,000, and fraudulent and illegal use of credit cards.

Hill will have the felonies dropped from his record if he completes 50 hours of community service, reimburses $1,753.43 to Mid-Florida Credit Union, pays $200 in prosecution fees and does not violate any federal, state, county or municipal ordinances for a year.

WUFT-TV fi rst reported Hill’s legal troubles Saturday.

Ronaldo has 2 goals in United return MANCHESTER, England – Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice in his return to Manchester United after 12 years in a 4-1 victory over Newcastle in the English Premier League on Saturday.

There was a tap-in from Ronaldo in the fi rst half and a low strike after the break to restore the lead after Javier Manquillo equalized.

Ronaldo’s compatriot, Bruno Fernandes, scored the third and Jesse Lingard completed United’s third win in four league games in stoppage time.

The 36-year-old Portugal forward secured an unexpected return to United when he was sold by Juventus last month.

The masses of United fans arriving at Old Traff ord in their new jerseys writ with Ronaldo on the back got what they hoped for when the lineup was revealed an hour before kickoff .

Ronaldo won every major honor with United from 2003 to 2009 before leaving for Real Madrid.

— Wire Reports

MLB BASEBALL

Boston at Chicago White Sox Reds at St. Louis San Diego at LA Dodgers NY Yankees at NY Mets

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Pittsburgh at Buffalo Minnesota at Bengals Cleveland at Kansas City Green Bay vs. New Orleans, Jacksonville, Fla. Chicago at LA Rams

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PBR: The Monster Energy Invitational, Championship Round (Taped)

SOCCER (MEN)

Premier League: Liverpool at Leeds United Serie A: Lazio at AC Milan

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ABC NBATV NBATV

SOCCER (WOMEN)

NWSL: Portland FC at North Carolina TENNIS

WTA: The U.S. Open, Doubles Championship ATP: The U.S. Open, Championship WNBA BASKETBALL

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Starting a new chapter Let’s put aside sorrow and rage in the past in building America’s future

The Tribute In Light shines into the sky from Lower Manhattan during a test on Tuesday.

The Tribute in Light is a commemorative public art installation that was fi rst presented six months after 9/11 and then every year since on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks.

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he sky was clear and the brightest shade of blue on the morning 2,977 people were murdered by 19 terrorists who hijacked four jetliners.

The morning after, America woke up a changed nation. Not all of it was for the worst.

There was unity on Sept. 12, 2001, as waves of pride and empathy engulfed the nation.

Most will recall the red, white, and blue fl ags displayed as prominently as anything seen on the Fourth of July during the days following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The dead weren’t abstract fi gures. They were us.

Most of us still pause to honor them on the anniversary of the deadliest attack on the United States in the country’s history.

The deep feelings may have faded, but back then, so many of us shed tears for those who lost mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters.

We felt it when the twin towers at the World Trade Center were reduced to rubble, the Pentagon was rocked and a plane fi lled with passengers who fought back against the terrorists crashed in a fi eld near a reclaimed Pennsylvania strip mine.

“A great people has been moved to defend a great nation. Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve,” then President George W. Bush declared from the Oval Offi ce hours after the attack.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Companies should avoid taking political positions Maybe, just maybe, Americans are fi nally waking up. A recent Rasmussen poll found that 66% of adults think that companies should avoid taking political positions (including 57% of Democrats).

Hopefully, that means others have already joined me in boycotting their products and that those companies are beginning to feel it in their pocketbooks.

It's the only message that we can send them that seems to make a diff erence.

Wes Stoddard, Hamilton

Waite Hoyt belongs in Reds’ Hall of Fame as broadcaster I agree with the writer who put forward Waite Hoyt for the Reds’ Hall of Fame. He is the reason I became interested in baseball before TV. You could hear the ticker tape on the radio in the background as he called the away games. Because of his playing days he could embellish what the tape gave him.

And when the transmission failed or when there was a rain delay, he was a great storyteller from his playing days, knowing all the former greats.

Marian Lampl, Greenhills

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Serious discussion about COVID-19, treatments Your Turn Rand Paul Guest columnist

The Enquirer joins a long list of uninformed media, inaccurately reporting both what I said and the facts about therapeutics during our battle with COVID-19.

Let’s start with a few things I’ve said over and over again but bear repeating because if I don’t, the media with the memory of a goldfi sh will pretend I never said it.

First, COVID is real. It is a deadly disease that has caused too many Americans to lose their lives.

Second, I am PRO-vaccine, as I’ve always been, especially for those with high-risk factors like older age and increased weight. However, I’m also profreedom, and in a free country, people will evaluate their personal risk factors and are smart enough to ultimately make medical decisions themselves.

Having said those things, there are all sorts of problems in the way Big Pharma,

the medical establishment and public health offi cials have attacked this pandemic, and in the way things have been reported along the way.

We are told to “follow the science,” but there have been innumerable cases where the fi rst proclamation was wrong, and so the science moved as science does. As a lifelong student of science and medicine, I can tell you this – as soon as some uninformed soul tells you, “The science is settled,” you can be sure you are not talking to a real scientist. The science is NEVER settled. That’s the whole point of science.

From masks to ventilators, from droplets to aerosols, from no steroids to steroids, the science of treating and living with and through COVID has evolved.

Recently, I discussed two therapeutics and their potential use for COVID. The fi rst, monoclonal antibodies, has clearly proved itself to be useful in this battle. Studies have shown, and accumulated real-life cases back up, that this is a wonderful drug helping those in the early to mid-stages of COVID, to assist our own immune system in fi ghting back. We can and should promote this treatment, as it has likely saved many,

Protesters gather across the street from the Hamilton County Public Health building in Cincinnati’s Corryville neighborhood on Aug. 9.

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many lives.

Many doctors have been trying diff erent therapeutics throughout the pandemic, with mixed results. IV steroids were dismissed early by Dr. Fauci but then tried in real-time and proved extremely helpful.

Ivermectin is a therapeutic we do not know enough about now – but we know that the media can’t tell the truth about it. They dismiss it as a “horse dewormer” when in fact it is a therapeutic developed

for humans to fi ght parasitic infection. It was so well thought of that its developer won the Nobel prize for developing it in 2015.

It has been used for infections around the world, safely and eff ectively. It is in trials for many viruses that pre-date COVID, and it is in several studies including a Phase 3 trial for COVID right now.

We don’t yet know the full story on whether it is eff ective. But it could be, and that was my point to the media. I never recommended anyone take ivermectin.

I can assure you no one in the media reported what I said accurately, nor will anyone in the media tell you what I just told you above. They are simply fools who assist in public health propaganda and fear-mongering.

I will always tell you the truth, as I know it, from my years studying medicine, my sources in the medical and research world, and my years of watching the absolute buff oonery of governmentfed media storms.

The disease is serious. The discussion of it should be as well.

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul is a Kentucky Republican and physician.

US Senate race as much about past as it is our future Your Turn Matt Dolan Guest columnist

Last week marked the birthday of a proud son of Cincinnati, an American statesman and towering fi gure in the history of the Grand Old Party, “Mr. Republican” Robert A. Taft. From the 1930s through World War II and thereafter, Senator Taft led the conservative charge in response to liberal Democrats’ Big Government philosophy in Washington.

Seven decades later, Ohio Republicans once again fi nd themselves in need of a public leader willing to stand astride the widening chasm of Democratic socialism that threatens to swallow our personal freedom, liberties and the founding principles of the republic.

Rob Portman’s forthcoming departure from the U.S. Senate is not just a moment to commemorate his service and pass the torch to the next occupant of the offi ce, it’s also an occasion to refl ect upon our principles and the kind of leader Ohioans will have as their next senator.

There are lessons we can glean from Senator Taft along with his line of recent successors.

In July, we celebrated John Glenn’s 100th birthday, not as partisans, but as

one state and nation indebted to his service. In addition to being a dedicated family man, Marine, Buckeye and astronaut, in 1974, Glenn was elected to the Senate seat once occupied by Robert Taft. A national hero beloved by many, Glenn retired in 1999 giving way to popular former Governor George Voinovich to take his place.

As senator, Voinovich used his public sector experience to quickly rise in national stature as an ardent debt hawk, defender of taxpayers and expert in foreign aff airs, including the expansion of NATO. This strain of commonsense, results-driven conservatism that came to defi ne Voinovich’s legacy was carried on, uninterrupted, by Rob Portman.

This summer, Senator Portman played a lead role in crafting a long sought-after bill that modernizes America’s aging infrastructure without raising taxes or increasing infl ation. In accomplishing this, Portman proved his mettle in serving a cause greater than himself.

And yet, the same cannot be said of the announced candidates lining up to replace him.

On the day that Portman’s hard infrastructure bill passed, it was publicly opposed by every announced Republican candidate for U.S. Senate. They crowed about how they would have voted against a bill that would grant funding to fi x the Brent Spence Bridge, fi nish the

U.S. Senator George V. Voinovich, left, campaigned with Rob Portman, who was running to succeed Voinovich, at an event in Westerville on Oct. 25, 2010. TOM DODGE/COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Appalachian Development Highway System, expand broadband for rural telehealth, education and farmers and strengthen the quality of regional treasures such as Lake Erie and Ohio’s rivers.

The bill would also provide thousands of local jobs, drive long-term economic growth and enhance our competitive standing with China.

As if declining $12.3 billion in targeted infrastructure funding for Ohio wasn’t bad enough, the candidates also operated in bad faith, seeking to falsely tie Portman’s targeted infrastructure package to the reckless $3.5 trillion liberal wish list bill to garner media hits. What Portman did was exactly what voters sent him to

Congress to do: to make smart decisions that directly benefi t our state while opposing out-of-control government spending that would fall on taxpayers.

Earlier this summer, I launched the “Ohio Matters Tour” to weigh the prospect of a run for the U.S. Senate. I did this in part because it is clear that we live in a time when most politicians are more concerned with “fi ghting” rather than working for the Ohioans they claim to represent. Instead of lecturing Ohioans, we need someone who is willing to speak a little less and listen a little more.

Our state and nation presently face a complex and profound series of crises.

From rising infl ation and a migrant surge on our southern border, to the failed withdrawal and resulting national security and humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan, this moment calls for public leaders guided by the Constitution, their convictions and a willingness to get things done.

Instead of a desire to make history, the person who takes over for Rob Portman must grasp Ohio’s history. That must begin with understanding the legacies and hard work of your predecessors and charting a course forward that is more focused on Ohio’s future than your own.

Ohio Sen. Matt Dolan represents the state’s 24th district, which covers most of Cuyahoga County, and is an exploratory Republican candidate for U.S. Senate.

Pass act, give LGBTQ Ohioans the future they deserve Your Turn Emily Osterling Guest columnist

In the summer of 2016, I met with the mother of a student in the Lakota Local School District for coff ee. She spoke candidly with me, and shared her frustrations with the school district’s failure to institute policies that would protect transgender students – like her grade school-aged son – against harassment and discrimination. As a queer woman and a special needs teacher, her story resonated with me.

I wanted to help.

I’ll never forget that day because it sparked a chain of events that not only uprooted my life, but ultimately laid bare how vulnerable LGBTQ people are without protections against harassment and discrimination – the types of protections guaranteed in federal legislation like the Equality Act. For this woman’s son, the threat of discrimination coursed through the hallways of his school; and for me, I would soon fi nd out, that same threat was present in my workplace.

That summer we teamed up, researching how school districts in other states created policies to ensure protections for trans students in the school environment, and together we crafted a set of proposed policies that we brought be-

fore the school board for its consideration. Over the next several months, I spoke at many public meetings advocating for the rights of trans students, and we helped rally support for the policy within the school community. But despite the support we galvanized, in December 2017, the school board voted against the policy, 3-2.

While my focus had been on protecting vulnerable students like her son, in the months that followed, I soon became aware of my own vulnerability, and how I too was living in the crosshairs of discrimination. While I wasn’t a trans student facing harassment in the classroom, I was a queer woman facing discrimination from my employer.

School offi cials retaliated against me by building a “case” to terminate my teaching contract. Throughout the more than 15 years I worked for the school district, I had perfect performance reviews and had never been the subject of any disciplinary action. But despite my efforts – to not only advocate for myself, but for the students who had no one in their corner – I was forced out.

Soon after I fi led a federal lawsuit against the district based on wrongful termination and violation of First Amendment rights. Under agreed upon terms, I ultimately resigned from the school district.

But my story didn’t end there, and I soon experienced the cascading consequences of discrimination, which rip-

pled through virtually every part of my life.

I tried to fi nd a job in another school district, but it became impossible, especially as our fi ght to secure protections for trans students became a big news story that placed me front and center in media reports throughout the year. I had no choice but to leave the state I called home – I was forced to move away from family and friends, lose my tenure and investment in Ohio’s retirement system, and start all over again in a new place.

I moved to North Carolina, where my partner and I now call home. For years I thought I would never want my name to appear in media reports again. But as we await a vote in the U.S. Senate on the Equality Act, I felt it was important for me to share my story of discrimination as proof of why this legislation is so desperately needed.

The Equality Act is landmark, federal legislation that would modernize and improve our nation’s civil rights laws by including explicit, permanent protections for LGBTQ people – as well as for women, people of color and people of all faiths. The Equality Act would allow me – and the nearly two-thirds of LGBTQ people who have reported experiencing discrimination in their personal lives – the opportunity to work and live without fear of harassment and discrimination.

It would also ensure that Americans living in one of 29 states in the U.S. without anti-discrimination protections for

LGBTQ people – which includes Ohio – cannot be silenced or retaliated against as I was, either in your job or in many other areas. It means LGBTQ people can’t be evicted from their homes, kicked out of a business that’s open to the public, denied health care, or denied government services simply because of who we are.

It would also fi nally provide crucial protections to the trans students in the Lakota Local School District – where my fi ght fi rst began, and which fi ve years later still has no policies in place.

But the Equality Act needs the support of elected offi cials, which is why I’m urging Ohio’s Sen. Rob Portman to join with Sen. Sherrod Brown in support of the Equality Act, and send a powerful message to LGBTQ Ohioans – whether they be queer women needing protections in the workplace, or trans students needing protections in schools – that they deserve to live free from harassment and discrimination. Sen. Portman’s vote could play a deciding role in the fate of the legislation.

I’m still fi nding my way forward. But wherever that place is, and wherever my story goes, I know that we can’t ever give up on each other, until there is a level playing fi eld and we all have the same shot at living happy, prosperous lives.

We must act for students and ourselves because we all deserve a better future.

Emily Osterling is a former teacher in the Lakota Local School District.

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Digital diversity will drive our region’s growth Your Turn David J. Adams Guest columnist

We live in a digitally transformative time. Technologies are evolving at an increasingly rapid pace and, to be competitive, we must be adaptable and fl exible.

Experts agree that few technologies will defi ne the next level of competition like Artifi cial Intelligence (AI). Once the stuff of science fi ction, AI today is a workplace reality with signifi cant economic impact.

The federal government is seeking to invest billions of dollars in regional hubs focused on AI and related technologies as part of the Innovation and Competition Act of 2021.

What does this mean for Cincinnati and to a broader extent, Ohio?

We have a variety of industries here in Cincinnati and in the heartland, all of which are driven by increasingly complex technology and must continually “digitally transform” to remain competitive. It is this ability to adapt that will be the real game-changer. A newly released Brookings Institution study on which cities will drive the AI revolution posits that while the traditional innovation areas like Silicon Valley and Boston remain dominant, there is a real argument to be made that the kind of intentional

talent hub we have created with the Cincinnati Innovation District (CID), powered by the University of Cincinnati, can nudge the geography, and therefore, the economic implications, in more balanced ways.

Gov. Mike DeWine and Lt. Gov. Jon Husted have stated their intent to make Ohio the most innovative and entrepreneurial state in the Midwest, and here in Cincinnati, we are fast becoming the place where talent and ideas spark creative collisions. Using the collaborative space inside the CID’s nerve center, the 1819 Innovation Hub, companies from start-ups to Fortune 500s are turning ideas into groundbreaking innovations every day.

As the Brookings study authors Mark Muro and Sifan Liu state, “AI is increasingly viewed as one of the next great ‘general purpose technologies’ – one that has the power to transform sector after sector of the entire economy.” This report highlights, like Muro’s previous work on “The Case for Growth Centers: How to Spread Tech Innovation Across America,” that there continues to be a national divergence of our cities. In Cincinnati, we are focused on the primary challenge industry faces in their digital journey: the need for talent. And, in this rapidly changing landscape, this talent must constantly adapt its skills.

The strength of the cities that are leading in AI technology, places urbanist

Richard Florida calls “winner-take-all” cities, are just indicators of our bigger challenge here in the heartland. To be competitive, we as a region must continue to focus on growing, attracting and retaining talent here to support digital transformation. The Brookings research is more evidence of what we’ve been espousing, that when it comes to location, highly skilled talent is mobile and has choices. We want that choice to be here.

By focusing on creating opportunities to develop talent, even at a very early stage, we begin fi lling the pipeline to meet the needs of our robust corporate community – strengthening the businesses here today and future ones.

What Cincinnati does better than most is connect this digitally fl uent talent pipeline to the diverse industries that call our city their home. Through the research institutions that comprise the CID, including the University of Cincinnati, a Carnegie level I research institution, the city is producing thinkers, creators, and innovators with the ability to constantly adjust to the ever changing technology.

For example, the new Digital Futures Complex, opening next summer within the CID, will be an interdisciplinary research facility focused on the digital world. Researchers from many diff erent disciplines will come together to solve problems that matter.

AI will be among the many technol-

ogies involved, including a bio-inspired AI lab that will leverage the technological breakthroughs of this century to support resilient context-sensitive decision making in military applications, commercial applications and personalized treatments of complex, challenging medical conditions. A human-centered AI platform will be designed so that non-technical people can discover new trends, defi ne and develop insights and rapidly deliver solutions to both research and real-world problems.

But AI is only one part of the research that will be conducted. Solving realworld problems will include drone research to help create a more portable diagnostic tool that would help people in remote areas, far from hospitals, during some sort of infectious disease outbreak, rapidly detect the disease. The UC Systems & Robotics Lab will focus on automation and robotics to inform the factory of the future and a Human Motivation Lab will study how genetic and environmental factors combine to impact human decision-making. Because if we have learned anything, we know technologies are ever-evolving, require people to fuel it and are needed by every industry. Diversity is resiliency. And Cincinnati is proving to be resilient.

David J. Adams is executive director of the Cincinnati Innovation District and chief innovation offi cer at the University of Cincinnati.

For growth, get people without degrees into stable jobs

Your Turn Kevin Holt, Aimee Dirig and Dani Isaacsohn Guest columnists

Everyone seems to be talking about the labor force these days: not enough people to operate buses, wait tables, build houses, or ship appliances. Yes, the economy is recovering steadily from the eff ects of the COVID-19 pandemic. July’s Cincinnati regional jobs report showed the continuation of anticipated gains in certain industries as well as decreased unemployment overall, but there are clear indicators that a complete comeback in the labor market remains far off .

No matter what, the pandemic has made one thing clear: the future of our economy depends on more people without four-year college degrees going into stable, well-paying careers, and the data shows us that is not our current trajectory.

Most Americans didn’t graduate from college, but of course, they still need and want jobs that help them provide well for their families. The good news is that those jobs are available in spades, and there is a tremendous opportunity for our city if we can better connect these job seekers with career-track employment.

In Cincinnati, 74% of jobs require less than a bachelor’s degree, higher than the 66% national average. Jobs in manufacturing and the skilled trades often pro-

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“America was targeted for attack because we’re the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world.

And no one will keep that light from shining,” Bush said.

There was unity that day and a few that followed. There was also fear. There was also rage.

There were cries for justice and revenge that led to the persecution of innocent Muslims and a war in Iraq an another in Afghanistan that became the longest in U.S. history until it ended haphazardly on Aug. 31.

Nearly 2,300 United States military service members died in Afghanistan during that 20-year war, according to a recent casualty report from the Department of Defense. Another 3,528 service members were killed in action from 2003 to 2011 during U.S. operations in Iraq.

America was a changed nation when the sun rose 20 years ago today.

Like then, our foundation is shaking

vide long-term career paths, yet employers in these industries are struggling to fi ll positions. This phenomenon impacts everyday life in myriad ways, ranging from the mildly inconvenient (the cabinets you ordered months ago for your pandemic remodeling project that still haven’t arrived) to the borderline dangerous (shortages of hospital supplies in an already strained medical system).

Federal dollars and national attention are laser-focused on the labor market, making now the perfect time to reimagine workforce systems in Greater Cincinnati. That’s one of the reasons why the local agency that provides workforce development services to employers, government partners and job seekers has been exploring new ways to help people without four-year degrees land careertrack jobs. OhioMeansJobs Hamilton County-Cincinnati partnered with Cohear, a community engagement and strategy company, to glean insights from the everyday experts – employers in high-demand industries such as construction, IT and health care, as well as job seekers and training providers.

Through dozens of interviews and nine focus groups, a clear plan of action emerged. If we take advantage of the infl ux of federal dollars to build out support structures for employees (especially young working parents and people of color, who make up a large and growing proportion of our workforce), strengthen regional partnerships in the workforce space, and help students reimagine the path to career success outside of a fouryear degree, we can build a ramp to a more stable Greater Cincinnati economy

today. As we battle political strife and a deadly enemy so small it cannot be seen with the naked eye, the coronavirus, the time is long overdue for unity.

This time, it should not be out of sorrow or dread. It is time we turned the page to a new chapter.

Let’s embrace the sort of empathy we felt for those killed on 9/11 as we fi ght against the coronavirus pandemic. More than 650,000 Americans have died of coronavirus. Let us truly unify behind the conviction that each and every one of us is worthy of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

As William Tyler Page wrote in 1917 as part of The American Creed, let us be “... a perfect union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrifi ced their lives and fortunes.”

That last part is important: Freedom isn’t free. To make sure we all enjoy freedom, we at times must make sacrifi ces as individuals for the good of the many.

And relatively speaking, some sacrifi ces are pretty easy, such as wearing a mask and getting vaccinated.

for the long-term.

Some have argued that people simply don’t want to work, and have been enabled not to by extended unemployment benefi ts. But the unemployment rate, steadily decreasing in both those states which have cut off extra benefi ts early and those which have not, seems to contradict that idea. The reality seems to be far more complex. During the COVID-19 pandemic, employees (particularly employees of color, women and working parents) have been facing an amplifi cation of the same barriers which often make participating in the workforce challenging, such as limited access to child care and transportation.

A number of workers have also taken the economic shutdown as a natural opportunity to reevaluate their career trajectories, largely for reasons related to compensation, work-life balance and limited growth opportunities. As one job seeker shared, “Working dead-end job after dead-end job, you (eventually) get caught in this moment of despair, and you just sit there like, ‘Man, what am I about to do?’ ” Future success lies not just in taking these challenges seriously, but in heeding the advice that experts have provided about what works when it comes to workforce development. Hands-on mentorship and job shadowing help people advance in their careers, work preparation programs equip them with both the soft and hard skills they need, and assistance with logistical barriers through gas cards and rideshares can all make a big diff erence. A carpenter we spoke with highlighted how crucial her

President George W. Bush puts his arm around fi refi ghter Bob Beckwith while standing in front of the World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 14, 2001, during a tour of the devastation site.

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We should reject the fears that keep us divided and oppressed due to race, gender, sexual orientation, religion and a

mentor was not only to her success, but even to her choice to remain in that fi eld.

Employers emphasized many of these same points, indicating a clear path forward for innovation: introduce students to nontraditional career paths at an early age, fi nd ways to make public benefi ts and resource navigators available for new employees and craft stronger partnerships between workforce agencies and high schools. A major construction company shared that its organization’s in-depth work preparation program provided particularly good results by implementing long-term case management and assistance throughout both training and employment placement.

Many employers, training providers and funders are already making huge strides to place people without bachelor’s degrees in sustainable, living-wage jobs. We need to expand on that work through public policy, employer bestpractices and a more unifi ed coalition of workforce organizations to broaden access to these career pathways.

If we want our region to emerge stronger from this pandemic, it is time to reimagine our workforce systems in order to best meet the needs of both employers and workers – not just during this economic recovery phase, but for good. Hard work should mean a stable career, whether someone has a college degree or not.

Kevin Holt is director of OhioMeansJobs Cincinnati-Hamilton County. Aimee Dirig is policy and operations manager at Cohear, a community engagement and strategy company. Dani Isaacsohn is CEO at Cohear.

host of other “isms.”

We should abandon the notion that we cannot work together if we see the world through diff erent eyes and elect politicians who will do the same.

We must work together to address climate change to protect this home we call Earth.

President George W. Bush was right about this point in his Sept. 11 speech: America is the brightest beacon for freedom in the world.

We are that beacon and more.

Terrorists shattered steel and collapsed what were at one time the nation’s tallest buildings. But they did not dent the steel of American resolve.

It is time we shined the light for those who will not remember the pain that lingered in our hearts when we woke up on Sept. 12, 2001.

Let the wave take us away.

We can do this.

Editorials are The Dispatch Editorial Board’s fact-based assessment of issues of importance to the communities we serve. These are not the opinions of our reporting staff members, who strive for neutrality in their reporting.

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SUNDAY+ LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Never forget those left behind in Afghanistan Joe Biden and his partisans in Congress will be counting on the usual short-term memory loss of the American voter as they move forward with their $3.5 trillion progressive funding bill.

My hope is that Americans will never forget the abandonment of our fellow citizens in Afghanistan and will take out our wrath both at the polls next year and more immediately, in vehement opposition to his socialist agenda.

Jacob Michaels, Hamilton

Hard to deter those intent on spreading misinformation Interact For Health (formerly The Health Foundation) published a great suggestion in The Enquirer for addressing misinformation: “If you’re not sure, don’t share.” That’s sage advice during the COVID pandemic where both the left and the right crank up their volume to enlighten the general public.

And therein lies the rub: The Internet and social media have made it possible for anyone from well-meaning individuals to foreign troll farms to perpetuate even the most outlandish health advice. Some of the people making these claims not only want to share them, they feel they must share them.

We should applaud Interact For Health’s eff ort, but their target audience has already demonstrated a diff erent agenda and one that’s not likely to change.

Robert Sharkey, West Chester

Pass policies that ensure everyone pays their fair share While families in Cincinnati and across the nation struggle to keep a roof over their heads with the end of the federal eviction moratorium, we learn that billionaires’ wealth grew 55% over the fi rst 13 months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Congress has a chance to rectify this massive injustice in the budget reconciliation bill they’re currently working on. I ask Senators Rob Portman and Sherrod Brown and Representatives Brad Wenstrup and Steve Chabot to make sure we generate enough money to pay for much-needed programs by: Closing the loophole that allows the wealthiest Americans to pay nothing in taxes; strengthening IRS enforcement and technology so that the wealthiest people and corporations cannot cheat the tax code; reversing the rules that allow corporations to pay lower taxes on off shore profi ts than those earned in the United States and ensuring everyone pays their fair share to support the common good.

Our national budget is a moral document that reveals who and what we value as a nation. Those who are elected to serve

Families evacuated from Kabul, Afghanistan, walk through the terminal before boarding a bus after they arrived at Washington Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Virginia, on Sept. 2. JOSE LUIS MAGANA, AP

all the people must not be beholden to the infl uence of money. I challenge you to pass policies that are fair and invest in our country, to provide a future full of hope for all people.

Sister Carren Herring, Kennedy Heights

Report the facts, not assumptions about others’ intentions I’m wondering if the writers of “US political stage taking on Afghan tone,” (USA Today section, Cincinnati Enquirer, Sept. 7), actually verifi ed that the reason people such as Ted Cruz and J.D. Vance are in favor of vetting Afghan refugees is because they are “looking to keep the troubled exit from Afghanistan alive in voters’ minds once the 2022 campaigns heat up.”

I’m pretty sure the job of a reporter is to report the facts, not assume intentions of others. I get that politics is a game, and I hate that about all political parties, but assuming that is the only reason for vetting refugees from a dangerous land is insincere and does not count as “reporting” the facts.

LInda Thistleton, Mason

We must reconsider our perspective on unborn children A recent Texas law has reanimated the abortion controversy. Personally, I do not fully embrace either side of this controversy.

As a Catholic, I believe that human life begins at conception.

However, this is a religious belief, and as such, should not be government-imposed.

However, religious beliefs aside, human life clearly begins before birth. Science has found that a late-term fetus recognizes its mother’s

voice, responds to music, has begun the process of learning language and has brain waves much like an adult.

As we have been called to reconsider our perspectives on race, women and gender identity, we must also reconsider our perspective on unborn children.

Daniel Lewis, University Heights

We’re all on Flight 93 unless we act Twenty years ago, we became aware of one of the most heroic eff orts by 33 passengers and crew of United Flight 93. We don’t know exactly what happened during the approximately 30 minutes from the time the hijackers took control until crashing. What we do know is they acted bravely, fearlessly and, based upon facts, were determined to try and save their lives and the lives of others who were going to die if they ignored the threat.

Fast forward 20 years and it seems as if 33 of us can’t come to a unanimous agreement on anything. We ignore facts and prefer to follow baseless ideologies that put innocent people at risk, ah yes, just like those of us on the ground that day who may have become victims of a terrorist crashing a plane onto a target killing thousands.

Thirty-three passengers and crew recognized the threat before them and acted so that untold numbers of us could live.

Yet today, the COVID-19 threat before us that has killed over 650,000 Americans is foolishly swept aside because of stubborn beliefs. Many think that putting their personal preferences above those of our fellow citizens will defeat the enemy. Maybe they think it’s a sign of weakness to give in to the

majority or follow those who are experts in a given fi eld. Maybe they’re fearful to act.

Maybe someone on Flight 93 didn’t want to act. Maybe they didn’t believe the threat was real. Maybe their personal faiths and values kept them seated, afraid to make a move. But then again, maybe they became a united group, armed themselves with whatever they had at hand and courageously, battled for what they knew was right, and a right decision it was.

Might we all learn a lesson from those noble and valiant common people on Flight 93 who were just like us? Might we put aside our diff erences for a while and act and arm ourselves by vaccinating and masking up and becoming united to defeat this disease like those 33 daring passengers? After all, aren’t we all onboard an unknown fl ight to somewhere with a terrorist disease at the controls unless we act?

Mark Cann, Pierce Twp.

Give District 5 police a healthy, appropriate space Regarding the guest columns, “District 5 headquarters is long overdue” and “Overhaul of terrible tax abatement program needed,” (Sept. 5): Ironically, both of these editorials appeared in the Forum section of The Enquirer on the same day.

Why does City Council and the mayor give a higher priority to tax abatements and contribute taxpayers’ money toward the access to FC Cincinnati stadium and Icon Music Center over a new District 5 police headquarters?

District 5 has waited too long. Please give the police a healthy and appropriate venue in order

to conduct business and make Cincinnati safe.

Cheryl D. Spencer, Sycamore Township

P&G doesn’t need to pacify anyone, especially Chabot In his Sept. 5 commentary, “GOP rep gets the cold shoulder,” Jason Williams speculates that if P&G does not contribute to Rep. Steve Chabot, it will be “diffi cult not to see this as P&G pacifying the anti-Trump crowd.”

P&G hardly needs to “pacify” anyone, and perhaps it will simply not want to fi nancially aid a man who violated his oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic” and to “well and faithfully discharge the duties of (his) offi ce.”

The same goes for Hal Rogers of Kentucky.

Arnold Taylor, Edgewood

P&G right to not back election deniers In a Sept. 5 column, “GOP rep gets the cold shoulder from P&G,” Jason Williams reports that P&G has so far not donated to the campaigns of local representatives who voted not to certify the 2020 election, even though P&G supported all of them in past elections.

If Williams is correct that P&G is not supporting local representatives because they objected to certifi cation of the 2020 election, I applaud their stand. It should be clear to all but the dullest that Republican election offi cials and governors would have not certifi ed their states’ elections if any credible evidence of tampering or wrongdoing could be proved.

Congressional representatives who continue to deny the results of a lawful election are either

credulous in believing discredited conspiracy theories or venal in ignoring them in order to retain power. In neither case does such an individual belong in the U.S. Congress.

Catherine Skintik, Clifton

Where has our common sense gone?

In response in to the Sept. 2 letter to the editor, “Calls for Ivermectin misuse jump in Kentucky”: As I read the article, it made me wonder if there is any common sense left in this world. Someone please explain this one to me, because I just don’t get it!

People are against getting a vaccine that has been thoroughly studied, tested and approved by science and the FDA for prevention of the COVID-19 virus. And it works! We know it works!

Yes, there have been breakthrough cases, but the majority of people getting COVID, being hospitalized and dying from it are among those who refuse to get vaccinated. This is now aff ecting a lot of children. So sad, yet, these same people who won’t get a vaccine are wanting to treat themselves with a drug that has not been recommended for human use and has in fact caused harm to humans. Why? Why would anyone choose to use something that is not specifi ed (and found to be harmful) for use against COVID, but refuse a vaccine that was created specifi cally for that purpose? It makes no sense at all! Where has our common sense gone people? Pull the curtain away from your eyes and really see what you are doing. Remember the disinfectant injections and drinking bleach? I rest my case.

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You can’t make this stuff up, people say, when a tale seems too crazy – or awful – to be true. Here in South Carolina, where storytelling is a time-honored ritual bound to front porches and swampy nights, it’s a common refrain, even if everybody knows that stories of local origin rarely need embellishment.

But few can rival the shocking events of summer 2021 and the unfolding saga of the Hampton, S.C., Murdaugh family, a powerful legal dynasty featuring generations of prosecutors who’ve tried seemingly every case in a fi ve-county area for nearly a century.

Today, the family is deeply embroiled in two mysterious homicides, allegations of massive theft and a multidimensional tragedy, no matter what happens next.

Throughout the state, and apparently elsewhere, one can hardly wait for the next turn of the screw.

Local curiosity isn’t driven by morbid fascination – or even the schadenfreude that the Murdaughs have invited upon themselves. Two people are dead, after all. It’s The Story itself that has people obsessed – and I don’t use that term lightly. The Story has assumed a life of its own.

At the center of it all is Alex Murdaugh, 53, the now-resigned lawyer whose wife, Maggie Murdaugh, 52, and 22-year-old son, Paul, were murdered on June 7 at the family’s hunting compound a few miles from town. Alex said he discovered their bodies upon returning to the compound. Both had been shot multiple times. In a recording of his 911 call, Alex said that his wife and son needed urgent attention and had been shot “badly.”

“Badly” doesn’t cover it. Death, especially by violence, tends not to be coy.

The police reports gave rise to questions in the papers, online and at about every Carolina dinner table from the coast to the foothills. “Wild” has been the only way to describe it.

We’d just about reached the point of wondering who would play the characters in the fi lm version when things got even wilder: In a 72-hour period last weekend, Alex’s law partners informed Alex that he was suspected of misusing fi rm funds (reportedly in the millions), and suggested he resign, which he did with “regret and sorrow,” according to his lawyer.

Then, on Saturday, while allegedly changing a tire on his black Mercedes SUV on Salkehatchie Road near Varnville, S.C., Alex again called 911 and claimed that someone in a passing truck had shot him. Alex was airlifted to a Savannah, Ga., hospital and released with a “superfi cial” head wound.

No charges have been fi led.

On Monday, Alex declared that he had an addiction and checked into an undisclosed rehab center.

What?! Where? I checked with an attorney close to the case, who said: “If he’s smart, he’s in South America.”

Since that call, I’ve confi rmed that he’s in a clinic somewhere “in the South.”

This all may sound fevered to outsiders, but the fact is that some rural areas in this state (and likely elsewhere, as well) are still run very much as they were 100 years ago. There’s one sheriff in town, so to speak, and in Hampton County, his name was Murdaugh, in one form or another, going all the way back to 1920.

You can’t make this stuff up, but that doesn’t mean you can make sense of it, either. As things stand now, Alex Murdaugh is a person of interest in his wife’s and son’s deaths, according to multiple sources, and remains under investigation for allegedly mishandling his law fi rm’s funds.

Contact Kathleen Parker at kathleenparker@washpost.com.

America has no problem confronting unpleasant past George Will Columnist

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. – On the side of a lightly used road, from which drivers can look across Puget Sound to Seattle’s skyline, a small sign identifi es the turnoff to the “Japanese American Exclusion Memorial.” On a recent sun-dappled midweek summer morning, 79 years after the exclusion began, a smattering of visitors were facing a dark episode in American history.

They, and the memorial, are quiet refutations of current loud accusations that the United States does not face unpleasant facts about its past.

Seventy-four days after Pearl Harbor – Feb. 19, 1942; today, among Japanese Americans, Feb. 19 is a “Day of Remembrance” - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 authorizing the evacuation to concentration camps of, eventually, about 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry.

Two-thirds were U.S. citizens, half of them children. The fi rst 227 left this island from a dock a few yards from the memorial’s sinuous wall listing all of their names.

They were destined for Idaho, via California. While they were away, many of their homes, farms and businesses sold for much less than their value.

Gen. John DeWitt, head of the Western Defense Command, had a theory: “A Jap is a Jap.” A 1943 report on the “evacuation,” prepared under his direction, made clear that the supposed “military necessity” was based on racism. The report said that an invasion by Japan of the West Coast was probable, and that it was “impossible” to distinguish loyal (if there were such) from disloyal Japanese American citizens.

This report was kept from the Supreme Court when it upheld the internments in 1944. As was a report, prepared for Chief of Naval Operations Ernest King, estimating that perhaps 3% of Japanese Americans were potentially

disloyal, and that these were “already fairly well known to naval intelligence.”

Meanwhile, Japanese American soldiers, some of whose families were interned, were distinguishing themselves in the war’s European theater – even though for a period after Pearl Harbor the Army took away their rifl es. The 442nd Regimental Combat Team, composed of Japanese Americans, fought its way up Italy and into France, where it suff ered 1,000 casualties rescuing 175 Texans of the 36th Texas Division’s “lost battalion” that had been cut off by Germans. By the war’s end, the 442nd was the most decorated unit for its size in U.S. history.

In time, the fever of war abated.

Then, the civil rights movement sensitized the nation, and occasioned much soul-searching, some of it retrospective. In 1988, Congress formally apologized for the internments, and provided reparations checks of $20,000 to 82,000 victims. In 2018, the Supreme Court repudiated its 1944 decision as “gravely wrong the day it was decided” and “overruled in the court of history.”

In 2011, here by the dock where the exclusions began, this island’s memorial was opened.

In 1994, David Guterson, a high school English teacher on the island, published a novel, “Snow Falling on Cedars,” set on a fi ctional island in Puget Sound, where Japanese residents had been blown about by the winds of World War II. The novel sold 4 million copies during a year and a half on bestseller lists. It was kept there by readers who were willing to be immersed by him in the unpleasantness of a fi ctional internment camp. It is not unlike the one the Bainbridge Islanders were sent to: Idaho’s Minidoka War Relocation Center, which is a National Historic Site administered by the National Park Service.

This island’s small memorial, a modest contribution to the national memory, is a pebble from a mountain of evidence against those who accuse Americans of being too calloused or squeamish to redeem their nation’s honor by confronting departures from it.

Contact George Will at georgewill@ washpost.com.

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The six New England states lead the country in achieving high vaccine coverage that reduce the severity of COVID-19.

Unfortunately, rapidly growing cases and hospitalizations in New England show high levels of vaccination alone will not control the spread of delta, a COVID-19 variant that is more transmissible among both vaccinated and unvaccinated people. As schools reopen and many workers return to offi ces, New England has seen a 700% rise in COVID-19 hospital admissions and a 1900% rise in cases since early July. The surge threatens economic recovery and has already started to close schools in the region.

We are a group of public health researchers and physicians living and working on COVID-19 in each of the New England states. We call on New England governors – and governors across the country – to implement data-driven indoor mask policies for everyone to manage the pandemic, so the pandemic does not continue to manage our lives, schools, labor market, and economy.

Vaccinations alone won’t save us New England governors have shown admirable leadership in vaccinating state populations, with more than 75% of people having received at least one vaccine dose in Vermont and Massachusetts. High vaccine coverage will help reduce hospitalizations and deaths for

those who have received them, but it is statistically impossible to achieve herd immunity with current vaccines and the delta variant. Chittenden County in Vermont is among the most vaccinated in the country, with 87.3% of its eligible population vaccinated, but has gone from near zero case counts to high levels of COVID-19 transmission in weeks.

Indoor mask policies are eff ective and complement vaccines to prevent infection in everyone, vaccinated or unvaccinated. A randomized trial, policy studies, and lab studies all provide evidence that masks reduce COVID-19 transmission.

The policy studies show mask policies are associated with immediate reductions in COVID-19 case growth, with greater and greater reductions in cases over time. Each person infected with delta spreads it to 8-9 other people, on average. If the person who is infected and those around them wear masks, it can prevent spread to all or some of those other people.

Mask policies can be linked to data to reduce volatility in all economic sectors and aspects of daily life in New England.

Uncontrolled surges harm small businesses, hospitals, schools, mental health, and social connections. There is widespread public support for universal indoor mask policies, in addition to expert consensus that masks are needed.

Many people are already wearing masks, but masks are most eff ective when everyone wears them together in indoor spaces.

The clear endgame for mask policies is to control severe disease by reducing the spread of COVID and giving time for

more children and adults to be protected by vaccines. The state of Nevada has a smart, data-driven policy that guides counties in turning indoor mask policies on and off based on cases. The datadriven approach is well suited to the New England region. The policy has something for everyone – it ensures indoor mask policies are time-limited to protect everyone when it’s most important to do so and allows people to take off masks indoors when it’s safer to do so.

Sudden surges like we see with the delta variant are a hallmark of COVID-19.

We know they will continue to happen, but not where or when. The head of Pfi zer suggests a variant that evades vaccines is likely and that it will take months to develop new vaccines. Data-driven mask policies that turn at the beginning of the surge prepare us to avoid waiting to act until there is an uncontrolled pandemic.

Political leaders must take action Indoor mask policies linked to data prevent policymakers or the public from having to go back to the drawing board every time cases surge. We encourage New England governors to adopt the policy as a regional approach, so state governors can apply a common decision making framework, rather than putting the onus on hundreds of local policymakers, businesses, and schools.

Mask policies are essential for protecting children in communities and the congregate setting of schools. With the more transmissible delta variant, child hospitalizations are at record highs and

rising quickly, with more than 2,500 child hospitalizations each week across the U.S. Children under 12 years old will not be eligible for vaccines until the end of the year at the earliest.

Mask policies help reduce community COVID-19 transmission, which is associated with reduced child hospitalizations and reduced hospitalizations for everyone. Keeping child COVID-19 cases down not only prevents COVID-19 from reaching children and their families but helps keep schools open and parents at work.

Smart policies can manage the pandemic future and avoid a continued state in which the pandemic threatens to fi ll our hospitals, close our schools, keep customers out of businesses, and keep us away from one another.

New England states are wellequipped to lead the rest of the country by example with a comprehensive mask policy. New England’s governors can collaborate and off er a blueprint for a regional approach to combating the spread of the delta variant and any other new variants. Data-driven mask policies can help every state in the country manage the pandemic so the pandemic does not continue to manage us.

The authors – Dr. Julia Raifman, Boston University, Massachusetts. Anne Sosin, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire and Vermont. Dr. Gregg Gonsalves, Yale University, Connecticut. Dr. Brandon D.L. Marshall, Brown University, Rhode Island. Dr. Elizabeth Samuels, Brown University, Rhode Island. Dr. Tania D. Strout, Maine Medical Center, Maine – are public health experts in New England, all working on COVID-19

Other rights may suff er because of Texas abortion law deputizing any New Yorker to fi le million dollar lawsuits against gun owners in the state?

Would that allow New York to “avoid responsibility” for ignoring the right of the people to bear arms despite clear Supreme Court precedent?

The idea isn’t far-fetched. A 2018 Virginia Law Review article by Jonathan F. Mitchell, a former clerk for Justice Antonin Scalia, explicitly pointed out that the model could be applied to gun control, campaign fi nance, “sanctuary cities” as well as abortion.

David Mastio USA TODAY

Roe v. Wade is an awful Supreme Court ruling. Roe and the string of rulings that have followed upholding the original don’t even attempt to be serious constitutional law or have a consistent justifi cation for defending abortion rights.

Nonetheless, in allowing a Texas law that stops abortions at about six weeks to go into eff ect, the Supreme Court has made a grave error that puts more than the right to abortion at risk.

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court let a legal drafting trick block them from reviewing the law before it is enforced against what the Supreme Court has ruled is a constitutional right. The Texas ploy is to deputize everyone to enforce its law through up to $10,000 private lawsuits instead of authorizing government offi cials to enforce it.

The Supreme Court essentially ruled that abortion advocates can’t stop every Texan from fi ling a lawsuit before they act, nor can it block Texas judges from hearing those suits. The problem is that there is nothing about this scheme that limits its application to abortion. As Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in his dissent to the court’s conservative 5-4 majority, it could be a “model for action

Other legislators taking note

Abortion rights supporters protest in front of Edinburg City Hall in Texas on Sept. 1. JOEL MARTINEZ/AP

in other areas.”

Gun rights could be lost next What does Roberts mean? Well, imagine the Democratic supermajority in the California Legislature wanted to throw out the First Amendment to make sure that Gov. Gavin Newsom survived his recall election. They would just have to pass a law that outlaws criticism of the

governor, authorizing any Californian to fi le a $100,000 lawsuit against anyone who speaks the forbidden words.

If California state courts were to follow the Supreme Court’s example, would that let California “avoid responsibility for its laws,” as Roberts writes, shredding free speech?

Or consider New York, where the legislature favors restrictions on the Second Amendment. Could it outlaw fi rearms by

The court opened the door to more constitutional mischief with its lack of action than any decision in generations.

Most likely, conservative state legislators around the country will be taking notes on how they can advance their anti-abortion cause. But if Texas and others succeed, expect more legislatures to use the same trick to advance pet causes that happen to be unconstitutional.

Eventually, the court will rule on the merits, and chances are good that any of these ideas would be struck down, but until then all our rights are on the line.

David Mastio is an opinion writer for USA TODAY. Follow him on Twitter: @DavidMastio

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throw say, ‘Make the throw.’ Zac understands what you go through as a quarterback. It’s nice to have a head coach who understands that aspect of it.”

Winning over a quarterback who was arguably one of the greatest players to ever do it at the college level and a guy known for his moxie is not always easy. But Taylor did with Burrow, and it could end up being the most important relationship of his career.

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When it comes to Zac Taylor and work, there’s two things he can’t be without: A large venti black coff ee from Starbucks served with a straw to start his day and a notebook.

Yes, Cincinnati’s third-year head coach drinks hot coff ee with a straw and journals. If you’re currently asking why might he drink coff ee out of a straw and what does he journal about? You’ll soon learn, there’s a reason behind everything Taylor does.

Taylor uses every experience, whether it’s a coff ee spill while driving to work 10 years ago – hence the straw – or an uncomfortable conversation at work as a learning experience.

This is where the journaling comes in.

On Taylor’s desk at Paul Brown Stadium, you’ll see multiple notebooks full of the things he wants to remember – good and bad. He writes so frequently it has become a coping mechanism for how he deals with pressure.

“I don’t know how I would learn from my past experiences if I was just going off rogue memory,” Taylor said.

Perhaps it’s why the 38-year-old doesn’t shy away from embracing the high expectations on himself and his team entering the upcoming season. His record is 6-25-1 during his tenure as head coach of the Bengals. Taylor took the job in 2019 knowing it would take time to instill the culture he wanted and to get the type of players he needed to implement it.

Fast-forward to September 2021: He has both, and he learned from every experience along the way. Taylor cited – and surely jotted them down in his notebook – many examples of the player-led accountability he hoped to instill this summer and started with quarterback Joe Burrow.

“Now, as a head coach it feels night and day from when I (fi rst) took this job to now, in just the experiences you learn from and grow from,” Taylor said. “It hasn’t been perfect record-wise. We now have all learned as a coaching staff through our experiences, and the players who have been a part of all this with us, to take the next step as a team and have success.”

The urgency to win in Cincinnati is palpable. And Taylor relishes in the opportunity in front of him to ensure it happens.

Building a new culture When it comes to coaching, Taylor is motivated by winning and building relationships.

In his eyes, they go hand-in-hand. And it’s easy to see why Burrow and others play hard for Taylor. There’s no understating how important having buy-in from players is when trying to implement a culture of winning.

Many assumed when Taylor was hired after spending two years as the quarterbacks coach for the Los Angeles Rams, that he would replicate everything Sean McVay does and bring that to Cincinnati.

While Taylor certainly respects and appreciates every person he’s learned from, including McVay, he’s made a concerted eff ort to create a culture of his own. One centered around honest dialogue and constant communication with his players. Taylor doesn’t want them to feel like it’s a one-way street. It’s why he’s considered a “players’ coach” by most.

“You can be winning and not enjoy your job,” Taylor said. “We are going to attack the work; we’re going to be critical of how we do

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Bengals Head Coach Zac Taylor doesn’t shy away from embracing the high expectations on himself and his team entering the upcoming season.

His record is 6-25-1 during his tenure as head coach of the team. SAM GREENE/ THE ENQUIRER

“We are going to attack the work. We’re going to be critical of how we do things, but we want guys to walk in the building with a smile on their face, excited to be here. Next to winning, that’s what motivates me and keeps me going.”

Zac Taylor Head Coach of the Cincinnati Bengals

things, but we want guys to walk in the building with a smile on their face, excited to be here. Next to winning, that’s what motivates me and keeps me going.”

When Taylor took over as head coach in 2019, it was clear the Bengals were in rosterreset mode. So much turnover has taken place that only 13 players on Cincinnati’s current roster were on the team prior to when he was hired.

How Zac won over Joe With all the new players acquired over the past three years, no one is more important to Taylor’s success as a head coach than Burrow.

When the Bengals drafted Burrow with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, it was a decision that would either make or break the franchise.

Although it’s still very early, Burrow looks every bit the part to be the leader of this team for years to come. And Taylor and Burrow’s relationship could play a huge part in getting the Bengals back to the playoff s. Burrow started 10 games in his rookie season before suff ering a season-ending knee injury that halted any momentum he and his play-caller were having. (Not only is Taylor the head coach, but he’s also the off ensive play-caller for the Bengals.)

“When Joe walks on the fi eld, there’s a belief that anything is possible,” Taylor said of his quarterback. “That’s critical to have that at the quarterback position.”

Burrow and Taylor have as good of a partnership as they come between a head coach and quarterback. Taylor, a former quarterback at the University of Nebraska, understands the position better than most. It’s Burrow’s favorite thing about playing for Taylor. They get each other in a way only they understand, and it works.

“He gives me a lot of freedom to check the plays that I see fi t,” Burrow said. “He trusts me in my preparation. If I ever check a play, he’s not going to ask me if I have a reason for it or tell me not to do it. Zac is a players’ coach that everyone loves playing for. He also understands what it’s like to be a quarterback. Some head coaches you play for when you miss a

It’s hard to compare Taylor’s fi rst two years as a head coach to anyone else’s based on the sheer number of unexpected things which have taken place.

In his fi rst two seasons, Taylor took over a depleted roster, underwent a quarterback change as the Bengals moved on from Andy Dalton, drafted Burrow and then lost him to a season-ending knee injury 10 games in while losing several other key starters – all while managing a team during a global pandemic that drastically changed the NFL landscape.

Taylor’s journey as a head coach hasn’t started off easy, but he seems to have the personality to manage any situation. Sarah Taylor, Zac’s wife of 13 years, knows that better than anyone. The couple has four children ages 10 and under: Brooks (10), Luke (8), Emma Claire (5) and Milly (3).

“He’s the most steady person I’ve ever met,” Sarah said of her husband. “He’s just never high or low. He never gets rattled. He’s the most adaptable, easy-going guy, and that’s probably why he is where he is now.”

Taylor’s soft-spoken, easy-going manner shouldn’t be misunderstood.

He wants to win now and demands the best from his players and coaches. The last time the Bengals made the postseason was 2015, and fan interest is at an all-time high in large part due to Burrow. Cincinnati also owns one of the top wide receiving trios in the NFL with Tee Higgins, Tyler Boyd and Ja’Marr Chase.

Following the 2020 season in which the Bengals fi nished 4-11-1, owner Mike Brown made his expectations clear while giving Taylor a vote of confi dence. Everyone who interacts with Taylor daily is buying what he’s selling.

“We remain bullish on the foundation Zac is building, and we look forward to next year giving our fans the winning results we all want,” Brown said. “In Zac’s two years, we have added many new starters and contributors through the draft, we have invested heavily in free agency and we have acquired a talented young quarterback with a bright future.”

Taylor believes his time playing quarterback prepares him for these moments. He doesn’t run from pressure; he welcomes it.

“Obviously, as the head coach, there’s pressure,” Taylor said. “That’s not what bothers me. That’s probably why I like coaching. You miss that pressure when you’re done playing. I say, ‘We’ll attack those expectations; we’ll attack that negativity and turn it into positivity.’

Those are the things that motivate you as a man and as a coach, to prove people wrong and (for) the people that have always supported you, prove them right.”

With a healthy Burrow, the pick of Chase in the fi rst round and several veterans added through free agency, Taylor has his best roster yet. As Brown said, “it’s his team now,” and there’s no one who wants to win more than him.

“Besides maybe Mike Brown, there’s nobody in the world that wants to win more than Zac,” Sarah Taylor said. “And he’s doing everything he can. Things that are really incredible take awhile to build, and I really feel it in my bones that we’re going to get there. I want people to know how much he wants it.”

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How the Bengals’ off ense can succeed These fi ve scenarios on ‘O’ will determine improvement Kelsey Conway and Charlie Goldsmith Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

The Cincinnati Bengals hired head coach Zac Taylor in 2019 because they were encouraged by what he could do in the future with a roster of dynamic off ensive playmakers. Since then, the Bengals added the face of the franchise in Joe Burrow, extended Joe Mixon and Tyler Boyd and drafted Tee Higgins, Ja’Marr Chase and Jonah Williams. In 2021, Taylor will have the most talented off ense he’s had over the past three seasons. The Enquirer’s Bengals beat writers Kelsey Conway and Charlie Goldsmith break down what to expect from Burrow and the Bengals’ off ense this season: If Burrow plays all 17 games, then the Bengals will win at least 7.

The most interesting hypothetical of the Bengals’ 2020 season was what their record would have been if Burrow had stayed healthy.

Before his knee injury, Burrow played three near-fl awless games against the Colts, the Browns and the Titans. The Bengals were winning before Burrow got hurt against Washington, and Cincinnati had one of the easiest schedules in the NFL down the stretch. The Bengals fi nished last season with four wins, but it likely would have been a diff erent season had Burrow been available to fi nish the game against Washington and also faced the Giants, the Dolphins and the Cowboys.

If Chase catches three deep touchdown passes this season, then Mixon will have the most effi cient season of his career.

For most of Mixon’s NFL career, the Bengals haven’t had a consistent deep threat on the offense. In 2020, the Bengals relied on the shortpassing game on early downs as defenses pressed at the line of scrimmage. The Bengals saw value in Chase with the fi fth pick in the NFL Draft because fi nding a deep receiving threat and being an effi cient running team go hand-in-hand. If opposing teams constantly have to track Chase on potential deep routes, Mixon will have more room to run.

If Williams, Riley Reiff and Trey Hopkins don’t play almost the entire season, then the Bengals will have to make changes to their scheme.

This off season, Burrow changed his throwing mechanics with the goal of improving his deep ball in 2021. While that’s a focus for him this year, he didn’t receive many opportunities to even attempt those passes last season.

Since the Bengals’ off ensive line struggled, Burrow thrived making quick decisions in the short and intermediate passing game. If the Bengals’ three best off ensive linemen have to miss time in 2021, that might force Taylor to rely on that approach again this season.

Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow (9) hands the football off to running back Joe Mixon (28) during practice on Aug. 26.

Mixon needs the Bengals’ passing game to improve if he’s going to have his most efficient season to date.

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If Mixon rushes for over 1,000 yards, the Bengals will win nine games.

The Bengals’ passing off ense has the potential to be one of the league’s best if the offensive line can protect better than it did last year. If Mixon has his best season yet, Cincinnati’s off ense will be a nightmare for defensive coordinators to game plan for. Do you load up the box to stop Mixon and leave the dynamic wide receivers open? Or vice versa. It’s a good problem for Taylor to have.

If Boyd, Higgins and Chase don’t combine for 20 TDs, they won’t be a top-10 off ense.

The Bengals need their trio of wide receivers to make plays – plain and simple. There’s no doubt this group can create mismatches all over the fi eld. Will they do it is the question.

How the defense can be successful in 2021 ‘D’ needs more pressure and takeaways to improve Kelsey Conway and Charlie Goldsmith Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

The arrow was trending up at the end of the 2020 season in terms of what the Cincinnati Bengals’ defense could be when healthy. Defensive coordinator Lou Anarumo will have all 11 starters at his disposal when the Bengals take on the Vikings today.

Cincinnati made a concerted eff ort to add more veteran leadership and talent to its defense this off season. Defensive end Trey Hendrickson, defensive tackle Larry Ogunjobi were signed to shore up the pass-rush and interior defensive line.

Cornerbacks Mike Hilton and Chidobe Awuzie were brought in to improve the Bengals’ pass defense.

On paper, the Bengals appear to have more talent on defense. Will it come to fruition on the fi eld? We’ll see. The Enquirer’s Kelsey Conway and Charlie Goldsmith break down what to expect from Anarumo’s defense this season: If Hendrickson stays healthy and plays at the level he did in 2020, the Bengals will have 30 sacks.

Hendrickson ranked No. 2 in the NFL in sacks last season with 13.5. The Bengals need a similar year from him to make up for the lack of depth the unit has heading into the season.

The Bengals ranked No. 32 in sacks in 2020 with 17.

If Jessie Bates leads the NFL in interceptions, the Bengals will have a top-10 defense and he’ll solidify himself as the best safety in the league.

Bates is the Bengals’ best player on defense, there’s no doubt about it. The 24-year-old is in the midst of contract negotiations with the team, and if he’s able to lead the NFL in any category, it will go a long way for him and Cincinnati’s pass defense. One of the biggest areas the Bengals can improve on defense is creating more turnovers.

If the Bengals stop the run, they’ll compete in the AFC North.

The AFC North has arguably the four best rushing attacks in the NFL. The Bengals were one of the worst in the league in stopping the run, and the team spent a signifi cant amount

of time this off season dedicated to improving its rush defense.

If the Bengals get 42 combined starts from Trae Waynes, Awuzie and Hilton, then they could have one of the best secondaries in the division.

After every early training camp practice when quarterback Joe Burrow held onto the ball too long, threw interceptions and struggled, the Bengals’ coaching staff saw progress from the secondary. In the middle of the 2020 season, the Bengals’ second outside cornerback became the weak spot on the entire defense. But as Burrow saw in the fi rst two weeks of training camp, the Bengals’ secondary can make it diffi cult for a quarterback when the unit is at full strength. Bates and safety Vonn Bell are the strength of the defense, but the potential of the entire secondary will be determined by whether Waynes, Awuzie and Hilton stay healthy. Waynes is currently dealing with a hamstring injury and missed the entire 2020

Cincinnati Bengals free safety Jessie Bates III is the team’s best player on defense, there’s no doubt about it.

The 24-year-old is in the midst of contract negotiations with the team, and if he’s able to lead the NFL in any category, it will go a long way for him and Cincinnati’s pass defense. One of the biggest areas the Bengals can improve on defense is creating more turnovers.

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season, and Awuzie has averaged just 10.5 starts per season in his NFL career.

If the Bengals allow over 27 points per game, then there will be questions about Anarumo’s defense.

After Burrow’s injury in 2020, the Bengals’ off ense had a more conservative approach and limited the number of possessions in the game. But before his injury, in up-tempo games, the Bengals’ defense allowed over 27 points per game over the fi rst 10 weeks of the 2020 season. During that stretch, the Bengals’ defense allowed 265 passing yards and 133 rushing yards per game. Opposing quarterbacks averaged a 98.6 quarterback rating, which was about the same as Baltimore Ravens QB Lamar Jackson’s average quarterback rating in 2020. This off season, the Bengals prioritized signing veteran free-agent starters who fi t Anarumo’s scheme. The unit has to take a step forward in 2021.

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‘JOE BURROW DID IT’ What it’s like for a QB to recover from an ACL surgery Charlie Goldsmith Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Quarterback Joe Burrow jogged onto the fi eld at Paul Brown Stadium for his fi rst preseason game of 2021. His bulky gray knee brace with two buckles below his ACL was the only sign of what had happened 280 days ago.

Burrow was a captain for the game against the Miami Dolphins, just like he’d been throughout the fi rst 10 games of his recordsetting rookie season in 2020. The diff erence was that this time, Burrow was making his debut after ACL surgery.

He took the fi eld to a standing ovation from the home crowd before the game. It took nine perfect months of surgery, rehab and practice to get to this point.

“A lot of work was put in for this,” Burrow said. “Not just by me, but from the people around me to help me get here. I’m excited, and I think they’re excited, too.”

Every quarterback who tears his ACL is the hero of his own comeback story. This year, Burrow is one of about 12 quarterbacks in his mid-20s whose career was held up by a painful nine-month recovery process.

One quarterback is in his third year of college football and hasn’t played a single snap at the University of Kentucky. One tore his ACL for a top-20 University of Indiana team and is returning to college as a 2021 Heisman Trophy contender. There’s a quarterback battling for a spot on the depth chart at Northwestern Oklahoma State.

One of these quarterbacks dropped back to pass against the Washington Football Team near the goal line on Nov. 22, 2020. He took two hits from opposite directions and collapsed on top of his left knee.

That was Burrow, who’s now set to start the season-opener against the Minnesota Vikings.

“He’s back,” Bengals Head Coach Zac Taylor said. “There was a lot of unknown there – last November, last January, last March, so it’s good to see (Burrow) get back in the huddle and get things back to normal.”

Month 1: ‘I got nine months of grueling rehab’ Mo Hasan tore his ACL during the University of Southern California’s spring football game on April 17. A year after transferring from Vanderbilt, Hasan was rolling right out of the pocket, cut off his inside foot and heard his knee pop.

It was Hasan’s birthday. He canceled his party and instead sat around with his friends.

He was bedridden, and his season was over.

“I got nine months of grueling rehab and a lot of pain for my birthday,” Hasan said. “You put months of work and sweat and tears into something and all of a sudden they tell you you’re out for the year. It’s obviously really hard to process, physically and emotionally.”

As Hasan prepared for surgery, he studied other quarterbacks who had been in the same situation. And when he looked at what he should do to recover as quickly as possible, he analyzed articles about Burrow going through physical therapy, improving his arm strength and returning for OTAs. Hasan was looking for anything he could apply toward his own rehab.

Over the two-week period most athletes take before surgery, the ability to walk comes and goes depending on the knee swelling. You spend most of your time in the training room doing the same drill over and over again, trying to build up strength.

With your knee at a 90-degree angle, you simulate lifting your foot as high as you can.

Inch by inch, the ligaments around the ACL get stronger, allowing for a smoother surgery.

After the surgery, you go right back to where you started.

“Surgery is scary,” Kentucky quarterback

Coming back from an ACL tear normally takes nine months.

But Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow was fully cleared after eight months and will start the season-opener against the Minnesota Vikings today.

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Nik Scalzo said. “All you can think about is getting your mobility back and playing the way you used to play.”

Scalzo has already torn his ACL twice. The fi rst time happened on a trick play in high school where he caught a pass as a wide receiver. The second happened when his center didn’t block an opposing pass-rusher, who went for Scalzo’s knees.

After his second surgery, Scalzo needed to get the swelling down and rebuild the entire range of motion in his knee.

That took weeks of repetitively practicing the same simple and painful motions.

Northwestern Oklahoma State quarterback Dakota Michaels has torn his ACL three diff erent times, and he said the fi rst few weeks after surgery are the most painful part of the process.

“It kind of feels like wherever the doctor went in, there were nails being screwed into my knee,” Michaels said. “I was trying to keep up as much as I could.”

Months 2-4: ‘It’s not just physical therapy’ In the fi rst few months after surgery, Scalzo remembers walking around Kentucky’s campus with his teammates. One of them brought a frisbee, and they started a pickup game of ultimate.

At that point, Scalzo could mostly walk without pain. He couldn’t cut at all, but he could jog if he needed to. But Scalzo couldn’t take any chances. He had to make sacrifi ces.

“There were times I had to have a lot of discipline, which ultimately helped me in the long run,” Scalzo said. “ There were times I had to sit and watch my friends do a lot of things I wish I could have done.”

In the early stages after surgery, Hasan remembers showing up to the football complex

at USC around the same time as the other players. They were about to practice. He had just as long of a day in front of him.

While Hasan went through rehab, he was alone.

“It’s not just physical therapy, it’s mental therapy too,” said Dr. Tim Kremchek, the Cincinnati Reds’ medical director. “You’ve got to have the right athlete, the right state of mind and the right set of people that are rehabbing you. It’s so easy to drift off , get lazy and get depressed and feel sorry for yourself.”

Kremchek has also consulted for NFL, college football and high school players at Beacon Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine in Cincinnati. He said it’s diffi cult to track a quarterback’s progress in the early stages of recovery.

Most of the big milestones – sprinting, throwing on the run – don’t come for a quarterback until at least the fourth month after surgery. Before then, the focus is getting your leg to extend an inch more than it did the day before.

“One of the biggest lessons is that there will be those days where you’re not going to want to get up and get that rehab,” Scalzo said.

“You’ve got to think about the future. If you don’t do it now, you won’t be better later.”

“I got that motivation sitting in my room by myself and seeing all my friends on the fi eld playing, wishing that was me.”

Months 4-6: ‘The mental side is really hard’ Hasan tore his ACL without taking a hit from a pass-rusher. The injury happened when he was running, and then he went about four months without running again.

When he got to the point of his recovery where he started agility drills, he kept telling himself, “It’s not going to tear again, it’s not going to tear again.”

“The mental side is really hard, even when I’m just lightly running on the fi eld, I think about it sometimes,” Hasan said. “Sometimes I think, ‘What if it just pops while I’m running?’ I just need to trust it.”

Since the ACL ligament is what a quarterback uses to cut and to step up in the pocket, that’s one of the biggest plateaus they need to break through before getting fully cleared to play.

“The big step for me was changing direction,” Michaels said. “That change of direction at fi rst is sketchy because your knee isn’t as stable as it used to be. That’s the biggest thing, when I fi nally feel good, when I feel comfortable changing direction.”

When Kremchek fully clears an athlete, he tests for the ability to cut and the ability to do “functional activities to the sport without wavering.”

“A quarterback is a cutting athlete, very similar to a running back with how you have to turn on a dime instinctively,” Kremchek said.

If a quarterback can go through an agility workout without favoring his knee, that’s a sign that the ACL and the muscles around it are strong enough. Before then, it’s common for quarterbacks to develop knee swelling and patellar tendinitis. The challenge of rehabbing is pushing the athlete without putting him at risk of one of those setbacks.

Burrow was fully cleared before training camp started on July 26. Kremchek said it takes most quarterbacks nine months to reach that point, and Burrow crossed that milestone eight months after his knee buckled against the Washington Football Team.

“When this fi rst happened, the thought was for him to get back in nine months, and often players can’t,” Kremchek said. “It’s very diffi cult for nine months to take an athlete out of his sport and keep him motivated to rehab every day. Joe Burrow did it.”

Months 7-9: ‘It always takes time’ When Indiana quarterback Michael Penix Jr. rolled out of the pocket for a 21-yard run in the third quarter of a Hoosiers game on Nov. 28, he was having a better statistical season than any other quarterback in the Big Ten. Like Burrow, Penix returned to the practice fi eld eight months later. When Penix participated in his fi rst practice, Indiana quarterbacks coach Nick Sheridan remembers Penix making inaccurate throws and poor decisions out of the pocket.

“It always takes time, and I’ve heard even with Joe Burrow that he has had some good moments and some not as good moments,” Sheridan said. “Certainly Joe Burrow is a phenomenal football player. You’re taking nine months away from actually playing football.

You take that much time away from anything, it just takes a little time to get back into it.”

When Michaels participated in his fi rst practice at Northwestern Oklahoma State, he kept looking down at his knee brace. It kept wiggling, and at one point he felt a twinge of pain near his knee.

“Sometimes, it’s back and I’m healthy but it’s never going to feel like I was when I was 16,” Michaels said. “I still get some knee pain now and then if I take the wrong step.”

Michaels asked his quarterbacks coach, Josh Evans, to send more pressure his way during practice. Most quarterbacks ask for the same thing – some coaches put on pads and line up as edge rushers, and the Bengals threw light bouncing medicine balls at Burrow.

According to Evans, that simulation can only do so much to build confi dence in a quarterback.

“You’ve got to trust the guys up front and hang in there regardless of how scared you are,” Evans said. “You can try to simulate it in practice whether you’re hitting them with a

“He’s back.

There was a lot of unknown there – last November, last January, last March, so it’s good to see (Burrow) get back in the huddle and get things back to normal.”

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bag as they’re throwing. But something we’ve had to stress is to hang in there. That’s just him getting back comfortable, we totally understand.”

Sheridan and Evans have paid attention to how the Bengals coaching staff navigated training camp with Burrow. When they learn about something Burrow’s doing, they consider applying a similar strategy with their quarterbacks.

Burrow still hasn’t been hit, but he has said the increased pressure he faced was the last step for him to get comfortable in the pocket.

After a few consecutive strong practices, the Bengals coaching staff allowed Burrow to play three snaps in the preseason game against the Miami Dolphins.

Michaels, Scalzo and Hasan have also followed Burrow all summer. They’ve all followed Burrow since he won the Heisman Trophy in 2019, but all three quarterbacks said they’ve become a bigger fan of his because they know what he’s going through. Every day, Hasan tracks Twitter for clips of Burrow’s new throwing motion.

Recently, at the end of the night after a long day of practice, Burrow thought he might have to temper his expectations of himself down for a little bit to keep himself from getting frustrated during the regular-season opener.

But Burrow didn’t think about it for long.

There were too many moments along the way where he was told to slow down. There were too many moments when it wasn’t certain that he’d start on Sept. 12.

“I wish I could have pushed it even harder than I did, but it was a painful injury, a painful rehab process,” Burrow said. “At this point, I’m not even really thinking about it. I’m just ready to go out and play some football.”

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Tyler Boyd will be joined in the team’s three-wide-receiver sets with second-year man Tee Higgins and rookie Ja’Marr Chase. Mike Thomas, Auden Tate and Stanley Morgan are listed as second string. KAREEM ELGAZZAR/THE ENQUIRER

Where depth chart stands for opener Jason Hoffman Cincinnati Enquirer | USA TODAY NETWORK

As the Cincinnati Bengals enter Sunday's season-opener against the Minnesota Vikings, there are only 13 players left from before head coach Zac Taylor took over the team in 2019. h The only signifi cant note to the team's fi rst depth chart is that starting cornerback Trae Waynes has been ruled out against the Vikings. Veteran corner Eli Apple is slated to start in his place in Lou Anarumo's defense.

Offense Position QB HB WR1 WR2 WR3 TE LOT LG C RG ROT

First Joe Burrow Joe Mixon Tee Higgins Tyler Boyd Ja'Marr Chase C.J. Uzomah Jonah Williams Quinton Spain Trey Hopkins Xavier Su'a-Filo Riley Reiff

Second Brandon Allen Samaje Perine Mike Thomas Stanley Morgan Auden Tate Drew Sample Isaiah Prince D'Ante Smith Trey Hill Jackson Carman Fred Johnson

Third

Chris Evans

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Defense Position LDE NT DT RDE MLB OLB NCB CB1 CB2 SS FS

First Sam Hubbard D.J. Reader Larry Ogunjobi Trey Hendrickson Logan Wilson Germaine Pratt Mike Hilton Chidobe Awuzie Trae Waynes* Vonn Bell Jessie Bates III

Second Cam Sample Josh Tupou B.J. Hill Darius Hodge Akeem Davis-Gaither Jordan Evans Jalen Davis Darius Phillips Eli Apple Ricardo Allen Brandon Wilson

Third Wyatt Ray Tyler Shelvin

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Special Teams Position K P LS H KOR PR

First Evan McPherson Kevin Huber Clark Harris Kevin Huber Brandon Wilson Darius Phillips

*denotes starter ruled out for Sunday

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The Cincinnati Bengals are just a few days from the start of the 2021 NFL season.

Expectations are high for head coach Zac Taylor as he enters his third season with the team and fan interest is at an all-time high thanks to Joe Burrow. The NFL extended the season to 17 regular-season games and the Bengals will host nine of them at Paul Brown Stadium.

Several questions surround the Bengals heading into the season: Will the compete in the AFC North? How many wins is the team capable of? What will the off ense look like with Burrow and Taylor in their second year together?

Are the free-agent defensive additions living up to the hype? Will the Bengals make the postseason for the fi rst time since 2015?

There’s no shortage of things to talk about with the Bengals heading into the season. To get you ready, The Enquirer’s Kelsey Conway and Charlie Goldsmith predict outcomes for each game.

Bengals 2021 regular-season forecast and predictions Week 1 (Sunday, Sept. 12): Minnesota Vikings at Cincinnati Bengals Conway Prediction: Bengals win, 27-21 h Joe Burrow and Co. will be too much for the Vikings’ pass defense and will jump out to an early lead. Minnesota’s off ense is built around its ability to run the ball and they won’t be able to as they play catch up.

Goldsmith Prediction: Vikings win, 28-24 h If the Bengals secondary has truly taken a step forward with their new additions for 2021, we’ll know by the end of the season opener. Vikings wide receivers Justin Jeff erson and Adam Thielen are one of the best receiving duos in the NFL, while Bengals No. 1 cornerback Trae Waynes is dealing with a hamstring injury.

Week 2 (Sun., Sept. 19): Cincinnati Bengals at Chicago Bears Conway Prediction: Bengals win, 17-10 h Will it be Andy Dalton or Justin Fields under center for the Bears? It won’t matter. Chicago’s off ense won’t be clicking yet and the Bengals will do enough against a tough defense to start 2-0 on the year.

Goldsmith prediction: Bears win, 17-14 h While the fi rst game of the year will be the big test for the Bengals secondary, the second game will be a similar barometer for the off ensive line. Pass rushers like Joey Bosa and Myles Garrett derailed the start of the Bengals 2020 season. In 2021, the Bengals get an early measuring stick with Khalil Mack.

Week 3 (Sun., Sept. 26): Cincinnati Bengals at Pittsburgh Steelers Conway Prediction: Steelers win, 34-14 h The Steelers will be on a mission to prove themselves after their surprising postseason exit in 2021. Pittsburgh’s defense will be too much for Burrow and Cincinnati’s off ensive line.

Goldsmith Prediction: Bengals win, 31-17 h In 2019, a primetime game against the Steelers signaled the end of the Andy Dalton era. In 2021, Burrow can solidify his status as one of the best young quarterbacks in the NFL at Heinz Field.

Week 4 (Thurs., Sept. 30): Jacksonville Jaguars at Cincinnati Bengals Conway Prediction: Bengals win, 29-26 h This game will be closer than people might think. The Jaguars will be ready to play in primetime but in the end Jacksonville’s defense won’t contain the Bengals’ wide receivers.

Goldsmith Prediction: Bengals win, 28-14 h The fi rst four weeks of the year are like a mini-season for the Bengals. All four games are winnable, but an 0-4 start would jeopardize the trajectory of the team.

Week 5 (Sun., Oct. 10): Green Bay Packers at Cincinnati Bengals Conway Prediction: Packers win, 23-13 h Aaron Rodgers will be playing at an MVP level once again. Green Bay’s off ense will start off slow but in the end, Aaron Jones and the Packers’ rushing off ense will have their way at Paul Brown Stadium.

Goldsmith Prediction: Packers win, 28-17 h In 2020, the Bengals faced two top notch quarterbacks in Lamar Jackson of the Baltimore Ravens and DeShaun Watson of the Houston Texans. The Bengals allowed an average of 34 points per game in those matchups. In these games, the Bengals lack of an elite pass rusher becomes more signifi cant.

Week 6 (Sun., Oct. 17): Cincinnati Bengals at Detroit Lions Conway Prediction: Bengals win, 35-10 h This will be Cincinnati’s most dominant performance on off ense and defense.

Goldsmith Prediction: Bengals win, 24-10 h There are a surprising amount of connections between the Bengals and the Lions. Ja’Marr Chase and Penei Sewell. Taylor and Dan Campbell. Center Frank Ragnow, who the Lions picked one selection before the Bengals drafted former center Billy Price.

Week 7 (Sun., Oct. 24): Cincinnati Bengals at Baltimore Ravens Conway Prediction: Ravens win, 37-17 h Taylor has yet to beat the Ravens in his tenure as Cincinnati’s head coach. The Ravens will miss J.K. Dobbins signifi cantly in the run game but Lamar Jackson makes a diff erence.

Goldsmith Prediction: Ravens win, 27-17 h The Ravens have consistently beat the Bengals with their rushing attack. The Bengals added defensive tackle D.J. Reader and cornerback Mike Hilton with these matchups in mind.

Week 8 (Sun., Oct. 31): Cincinnati Bengals at N.Y. Jets Conway Prediction: Bengals win, 27-17 h The Bengals have more talent then the Jets, plain and simple. Zach Wilson could be more comfortable by this time but it won’t be enough as New York is still a few years away on defense.

Goldsmith Prediction: Bengals win, 28-17 h The fi rst half of the Bengals schedule includes three games against teams with defi nitively worse rosters than the Bengals. While the second half of the schedule gets more diffi cult, Cincinnati has a chance to prove a point with a 4-4 fi rst half.

Week 9 (Sun., Nov. 7): Cleveland Browns vs. Cincinnati Bengals Conway Prediction: Browns win, 16-3 h While there’s reason to talk about the Browns and the star power they possess on offense, they spent the off season added to their already potent defense. The Bengals will struggle to move down the fi eld against Cleveland’s stingy defense.

Goldsmith Prediction: Browns win, 21-20 h One of the most interesting chess matchups this season will be between the Bengals trio of wide receivers and the trio of Browns cornerbacks. If there’s one team that can match up one-on-one with the Bengals receivers, it’s Cleveland.

Week 10 (Sun., Nov. 14): BYE Week Week 11 (Sun., Nov. 21): Cincinnati Bengals at Las Vegas Raiders Conway Prediction: Bengals win, 16-13 h A close game but in the end, the Raiders still don’t have enough talent on defense. Joe Mixon will have a big day against Gus Bradley’s defense.

Goldsmith Prediction: Raiders win, 37-34 h Raiders quarterback Derek Carr has posted four consecutive 4,000 yard seasons. In 2021, Burrow should get his fi rst.

Week 12 (Sun., Nov. 28): Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Cincinnati Bengals Conway Prediction: Bengals win, 22-17 h The upset of the year for the Bengals. Taylor will get his fi rst win over Mike Tomlin if Cincinnati can get pressure on Ben Roethlisberger.

Goldsmith Prediction: Bengals win, 24-10 h The Steelers have the worst off ense in the

Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson (top) teams with Adam Thielen to form one of the most dynamic wide-receiving tandems in the league. USA TODAY

The return of quarterback Joe Burrow from serious knee surgery which limited him to 10 games last season is a primary reason for optimism entering the season.

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AFC North with a quarterback on the decline, a below-average off ensive line that got worse during the off season and a running game that never materialized in 2020.

Week 13 (Sun., Dec. 5): L.A. Chargers vs.

Cincinnati Bengals Conway Prediction: Chargers win, 34-28 h The Chargers will be one of the most improved teams in the NFL and make the playoff s.

This game will be too important seeding wise for Los Angeles to not take care of business.

Goldsmith Prediction: Bengals win, 35-31 h Another shootout and the fi rst head-tohead matchup of the two best quarterbacks of the 2020 NFL Draft class. While Justin Herbert was the Rookie of the Year last season, Burrow has an opportunity to regain his lead over Herbert this season.

Week 14 (Sun., Dec. 12): San Francisco 49ers vs. Cincinnati Bengals Conway Prediction: 49ers win, 34-17 h Kyle Shanahan’s rushing off ense will again be too much for Cincinnati’s defense. If Cincinnati gets behind early, it could be a long day for Joe Burrow in the pocket against Nick Bosa.

Goldsmith Prediction: 49ers win, 24-21 h This is one of the swing games that will determine whether or not the Bengals fi nish above .500 or below .500. Cincinnati’s off ense can keep the team in any game, especially a home matchup against a 49ers off ense that doesn’t have a set quarterback for this season.

Week 15 (Sun., Dec. 19): Cincinnati Bengals at Denver Broncos Conway Prediction: Bengals win, 23-17 h One of the most impressive wins the Bengals will have all year. The team will go on the road and take down the Broncos thanks for a strong defensive performance. Until the Broncos can solve their quarterback position, it won’t matter how good their defense is.

Goldsmith Prediction: Bengals win, 28-21 h While the Bengals designed their entire roster around their quarterback, the Broncos built a great roster around a below average starting quarterback.

Week 16 (Sun., Dec. 26): Baltimore Ravens vs. Cincinnati Bengals Conway Prediction: Ravens win, 27-20 h John Harbaugh’s team seem to always peak at the right time. With the AFC North as competitive as it will be, this game will be one the Ravens will sneak away with. It’ll be close though.

Goldsmith Prediction: Ravens win, 28-21 h Lamar Jackson has become one of the most underrated players in the NFL. He’s a former MVP who’s often criticized for his losses in the playoff s. But in the regular season, there have been few quarterbacks better than Jackson.

Week 17 (Sun., Jan. 2): Kansas City Chiefs vs. Cincinnati Bengals Conway Prediction: Chiefs win, 33-13 h As long as Patrick Mahomes is the quarterback in Kansas City, I’ll have a hard time picking against him.

Goldsmith Prediction: Chiefs win, 30-20 h In another matchup against a top quarterback, Burrow will have possibly his biggest stage of the season to show where he’ll stand in quarterback rankings heading into the 2022 season.

Week 18 (Sun., Jan. 9): Cincinnati Bengals at Cleveland Browns Conway Prediction: Bengals win, 31-24 h The Bengals will go up to Cleveland and split the series with the Browns. The Browns might be resting their starters at this point, also.

Goldsmith Prediction: Browns win, 20-14 h The Browns have the best team in the division. Baker Mayfi eld took a step forward at the end of the 2020 season, Cleveland has one of the best off ensive lines in the NFL and Myles Garrett is one of the best players in the league.

Conway’s Bengals record prediction: 9-8 Goldsmith’s Bengals record prediction: 7-10

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What to know about Bengals’ 2021 season

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As the National Football League season kicks off this week, here are some futures bets that might have good value if you’re an interested Cincinnati Bengals fan: Bengals season win total over/under 6.5 – When the schedule came out, my immediate gut reaction was a healthy Joe Burrow and an improved off ensive line would mean an eightwin season. I’ve stuck with that despite the early camp performance and continuing game of musical chairs on the line. The money and tickets are on the under (-122), so I’ll take the over (+100) and bet the number I thought was safe.

Bengals to win AFC North (+2200) – Look, even the most optimistic fans have to admit this is about as likely as winning the Super Bowl this year. The odds are massive for a reason. If you want to have fun and throw $10 for a potential $220 payout, have at it. The Baltimore Ravens (+120) and Cleveland Browns (+145) are the plays here. If you’re drinking the Cleveland Kool-Aid, +145 is a good price for a team that seems destined to play well into January.

Joe Burrow bets Quarterback Joe Burrow to win Comeback Player of the Year (+600) – If you listen to national talking heads, you might as well doublecheck Dak Prescott’s (+250) mailing

Two WRs in the same offense having the same odds to lead the NFL in yards/scores means neither has a shot. KAREEM ELGAZZAR/ENQUIRER Editor’s note: All odds are via Tipico Sportsbook, official partner of the USA Today Sports Network. Picks provided here are only for fun and not meant to be gambling advice. If you, or someone you know, have a gambling problem, call 1-800-GAMBLER.

address because this award is already in the bag. I like the value with Burrow here. Prescott has battled some nagging hiccups in his rehab and while the Dallas Cowboys have plenty of weapons, I don’t buy this being a certainty.

Burrow shares the same odds as Carolina Panthers RB Christian McCaff rey.

Burrow to lead the NFL in passing TDs (+2000) or passing yards (+1400) – Burrow was on pace last year to threaten Matthew Staff ord’s record (727) for most attempts in a season. With an extra game added this season, Staff ord’s record will eventually be broken, the question is by whom. There’s good value in the total yards bet, but leading the league in passing TDs in the AFC North is a big ask.

Ja’Marr Chase/Tee Higgins to lead NFL in receiving TDs (+4000) and yards (+3300) – The odds for this have Sucker City written all over them. If you’re a Bengals fan wanting in on this action, understand the book is basically splitting the vote here. Two receivers in the same off ense having the same odds to lead the league in receiving yards/touchdowns means neither really has a shot. You can get Tyler Boyd (+10000) at an outrageous price, but this one is best left alone.

Joe Mixon to lead the NFL in rushing TDs (+5000) and yards (+2000) – Mixon has not held back his excitement for Frank Pollack’s return to the Bengals. A healthy, happy Mixon with a coach known for exploiting what the fi fth-year back does best is a recipe for success on the ground this year. However, it’s hard to see Mixon leading the league in yards in Zac Taylor’s off ense. Rushing touchdowns could be a possibility – think Marshall Faulk with the 2000 St. Louis Rams – and might be worth a small wager to have some fun with those odds.

Bengals vs. Vikings spread, predictions NFL Week 1 CIN (+3.5) vs. MIN over 48 (-112) – The early weeks of the NFL season usually see defense dominate and everything points to the fi rst game of the year being a defensive struggle, so let’s play contrarian. The Bengals also are getting 3.5 points, which is a decent amount for a home underdog. The general betting consensus is don’t try to outsmart the room, so let’s take the points and the over.

If you want some decent value, the Bengals are +155 to win outright.

The Cincinnati Bengals and San Diego Chargers faced off in sub-zero temperatures in the “Freezer Bowl,” the 1981 AFC Championship game. PHOTO PROVIDED

40 years ago: Team went to Super Bowl XVI Jeff Suess

Jan. 10, 1982: Bengals Head Coach Forrest Gregg led the team to the fi rst Super Bowl in franchise history. ENQUIRER FILE PHOTO

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It was the beginning of Who Dey. The Bengals stormed through the 1981 season 40 years ago, exciting the fanbase and sending the team to its fi rst Super Bowl. Led by quarterback Ken Anderson’s 3,754 passing yards and 29 touchdowns, which earned him MVP honors, the Bengals went 12-4, then marched over the Buff alo Bills in the playoff s. More than 46,000 stalwart fans braved frigid sub-zero temperatures at Riverfront Stadium (9 degrees below zero, with the wind making it feel like 38 below) in what is known as the “Freezer Bowl,” to watch the home team beat the San Diego Chargers in the AFC Championship and earn a trip to Super Bowl XVI. Although they lost to the San Francisco 49ers, the 1981 Bengals are fondly remembered as one of the franchise’s best teams.

Bengals quarterback Ken Anderson stands behind center before receiving the ball against the Chargers on Jan. 10, 1982. AP FILE