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RECLAIMING LIVES

METH ON THE RISE

Xavier, UC vying for tickets to Big Dance Both need strong fi nish to make NCAAs again Adam Baum and Fletcher Page Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

“It’s just as easy as getting cigarettes at the gas station.”

Brittany Christian

Brittany Christian, 32, struggled with addiction for years, moving from heroin to meth. She has been in recovery for 18 months. LIZ DUFOUR/THE ENQUIRER

It’s cheap. It’s potent. But it’s not the meth you thought you knew.

The new meth is not homemade. It’s from Mexico and it’s pulling in all kinds of people with addiction. SECTION G

A chance for peace If a weeklong truce holds in Afghanistan, talks could mean end to lengthy war An agreement expected to be formally announced Sunday could be a major step in a U.S. withdrawal from the war in Afghanistan, the longest in the nation’s history.

The deal calls for seven-day “reduction in violence” to start as early as Monday, followed by the signing of a

U.S.-Taliban peace deal. But Defense Secretary Mark Esper would not say whether the U.S. had agreed to cut its troop levels in Afghanistan to zero.

“We have to give peace a chance, that the best, if not the only, way forward in Afghanistan is through a political agreement and that means taking some risk,” Esper said at the the Munich Security Conference.

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Defense Secretary Mark Esper says a phased withdrawal of U.S. troops could accompany the negotiations in Afghanistan. JENS MEYER/AP

Every year after the Super Bowl, when the lights go out on another National Football League season, the collective sports world turns its attention to the pursuit of the NCAA Tournament.

There are 353 Division I men’s basketball teams, each vying for a spot in the 68-team March Madness dance.

We are one month away from Selection Sunday (March 15) when the NCAA Tournament teams are announced. As the regular season “Neither winds down with looks to conference tournaments right me like a around the corsecondner, where do the Xavier Muskeweekend teers and Cincinnati Bearcats team, to stand – and what be honest.” are the paths to at-large bids for Joe Lunardi ESPN bracketologist the Queen City rivals?

Keep in mind: It’s been 35 years since neither team was in the NCAA fi eld.

Xavier is 16-9 (5-7 Big East Conference), and the Bearcats are 16-8 (9-3 American Athletic Conference).

As of Friday morning, the Musketeers have a NET ranking (the NCAA’s primary postseason rating system) of 44, while UC sits at 48.

Xavier is aiming to return to the NCAA Tournament – which would be its 17th appearance in the last 20 seasons – after missing last season. The Bearcats are in search of their 10th straight trip.

Each team has six regular-season games left, followed by their conference tournaments.

Xavier next plays Monday at St. John’s. Then it faces No. 22 Villanova and DePaul at home, Georgetown and Providence on the road, and No. 12 Butler at home. The Big East tournament is March 11-14 in New York City.

The Bearcats are at East Carolina on Sunday, then home against Central See BIG DANCE, Page 12A

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Weather

Find interactive radar, storm warnings, live storm chaser video, school closings and global weather searchable by city or ZIP code at Cincinnati.com/weather.

Good Morning! Aside from the slight chance of a rain/snow mix this morning, high pressure will deliver another dry day but with a fair amount of clouds. Afternoon high temps today will reach the low to mid 40’s. Rain arrives Monday evening and sticks around into Tuesday morning. High temps both days will climb to near 50 degrees.

Sunshine returns from Wednesday into the upcoming weekend with high temps rising from the 30’s into the low 40’s by Saturday. —Jeff Creighton

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LOTTERIES OHIO

(Drawings: Feb. 15) Pick 3 (early): 9 1 7 Pick 4 (early): 0 9 7 5 Pick 5 (early): 7 4 4 2 5

THE NATION w- weather: s- sunny, pc- partly cloudy, sh- showers, t- thunderstorms, r- rain, sf- snow flurries, sn- snow, i- ice.

TODAY HI LO W

CITY

Akron Albany, N.Y. Albuquerque Amarillo Anchorage Asheville Atlanta Atlantic City Austin Baltimore Baton Rouge Birmingham Bismarck Boise Boston Buffalo Burlington, Vt. Charleston, S.C. Charleston, W.Va. Charlotte, N.C. Cheyenne Chicago Cleveland Columbia, S.C. Columbus Concord, N.H. Dallas-Ft. Worth Daytona Beach Denver Des Moines Detroit El Paso Evansville Fairbanks Fort Lauderdale Fort Myers Fort Wayne Grand Rapids Great Falls Hartford Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jackson, Miss.

Jacksonville Kansas City Key West Knoxville Las Vegas

40 24 c 42 25 c 61 34 s 66 39 s 16 11 sn 54 34 c 55 45 c 51 33 pc 76 57 pc 50 34 c 66 56 sh 59 46 c 30 17 sn 48 27 sh 46 33 c 37 21 sf 38 19 c 63 50 sh 51 32 pc 53 39 sh 44 24 c 36 26 pc 39 26 pc 54 44 sh 41 25 pc 41 22 c 70 55 s 77 61 sh 47 26 c 40 31 pc 39 24 pc 70 43 s 50 34 pc -11 -19 c 81 67 sh 83 65 pc 38 24 pc 35 17 pc 42 17 c 45 26 c 81 71 s 77 59 pc 42 28 pc 61 49 c 74 55 sh 48 36 pc 81 72 s 55 40 pc 71 49 pc

Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation.

Temperature bands are highs for the day

MON HI LO W

CITY

TODAY HI LO W

MON HI LO W

42 35 60 61 32 55 61 51 79 52 75 66 25 41 43 34 24 67 55 60 32 40 43 63 45 36 76 75 40 42 37 72 52 10 82 84 41 37 34 42 81 79 45 71 72 51 81 60 71

Lexington Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Madison Memphis Miami Milwaukee Minneapolis Mobile Naples Nashville New Orleans New York City Norfolk, Va. Oklahoma City Omaha Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland, Maine Portland, Ore. Providence Raleigh Reno Richmond Sacramento St. Louis Salt Lake City San Antonio San Diego San Francisco San Jose Santa Fe St. Ste. Marie Seattle Sioux Falls South Bend Springfield, Ill. Syracuse Tampa Toledo Traverse City Tucson Tulsa Washington, D.C. Wichita Wilmington, N.C.

46 58 70 51 30 57 83 34 24 59 83 54 66 46 55 58 48 82 49 74 40 42 50 45 55 62 54 66 49 46 75 65 60 63 54 19 47 34 35 41 40 80 39 28 72 60 53 52 58

52 65 70 54 37 66 83 38 33 73 83 62 75 47 52 60 43 82 50 75 43 37 49 45 60 53 55 68 52 39 78 66 64 68 54 23 47 34 39 45 29 81 40 33 75 64 53 52 63

37 c 20 pc 34 pc 30 pc 28 sn 45 c 54 c 36 pc 62 c 37 pc 66 t 59 c 1c 21 pc 29 s 28 pc 11 pc 56 pc 48 pc 49 c 11 sn 30 r 37 c 53 c 40 c 13 s 49 pc 64 c 16 sn 19 r 32 c 43 pc 46 c 8 pc 73 pc 67 pc 36 r 32 sf 10 pc 24 s 70 pc 66 sh 39 r 62 t 61 c 27 r 75 s 49 pc 45 s

30 pc 50 c 49 s 33 pc 22 pc 48 c 68 pc 26 pc 19 pc 55 sh 66 pc 40 pc 60 r 35 pc 43 pc 44 pc 34 pc 63 pc 34 pc 49 s 25 c 25 c 36 c 29 c 41 pc 31 c 36 pc 43 pc 37 pc 32 sh 58 c 53 s 47 pc 47 pc 31 s 3 sf 37 r 26 pc 22 pc 32 pc 22 c 65 pc 24 pc 11 c 44 s 49 pc 38 c 37 pc 47 c

46 c 54 c 53 s 50 c 23 sn 58 c 72 pc 27 sn 9 sn 62 t 68 pc 54 pc 68 t 35 s 45 pc 37 s 21 c 66 pc 36 pc 50 pc 38 pc 17 s 31 r 26 s 46 s 21 s 39 pc 38 s 35 r 22 pc 63 c 53 pc 46 s 40 s 29 pc 20 c 32 pc 10 sf 33 r 32 r 20 pc 67 pc 34 c 30 sf 46 s 37 pc 41 pc 30 pc 51 pc

IN THE SKY Today

NEW Feb. 23

FIRST Mar. 2

FULL Mar. 9

(Drawings: Feb. 14) Pick 3 (late): 2 5 1 Pick 4 (late): 3 1 3 1 Pick 5 (late): 2 8 4 7 3 Rolling Cash 5: 21 24 29 37 38 Classic Lotto: Saturday’s jackpot was an estimated $9.6 million.

U.S. FORECAST

LAST Mar. 16

Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset

Tomorrow

7:29 a.m. 7:28 a.m.

6:15 p.m. 6:16 p.m.

1:56 a.m. 3:02 a.m.

12:12 p.m. 12:54 p.m.

110s 100s 90s 80s 70s 60s 50s 40s 30s 20s 10s 0s -0s -10s

KENTUCKY

(Drawings: Feb. 15) Pick 3 (early): 6 5 2 Pick 4 (early): 5 6 3 3 (Drawings: Feb. 14) Pick 3 (late): 4 7 0 Pick 4 (late): 0 3 3 5 Cash Ball: 11 13 20 24, 12

INDIANA

(Drawings: Feb. 15) Daily 3 (early): 7 8 1 (SB: 8) Daily 4 (early): 0 1 2 0 (SB: 8) Cold

Warm

Stationary Showers T-storms

RIVER LEVELS RIVER

Flurries

Snow

Pool Level

Previous level

25.4 12.0 33.5 12.0 12.0

54.30 49.60 52.10 52.00 52.80

Pool Level

Previous level

Flood Stage

15.10 7.10 7.30 5.10

28 17 18 20

Cincinnati Markland Dam Maysville Meldahl Dam Portsmouth

OTHER RIVERS

Rain

Licking (Falmouth) Little Miami (Milford) Great Miami (Hamilton) Whitewater (Brookville)

Ice

Levels as of 7 a.m. Saturday. Sunday’s forecast is for 7 a.m. Pool levels reflect the normal river level.

12.0 12.0 12.0 12.0

ALMANAC

Rising

From Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport through 5 p.m. yest.

TEMPERATURE High/low ........................... 45/14 Normal high/low ............... 43/26 Record high ................. 73 (1945) Record low .................. -1 (2007) HUMIDITY High .................................... 77% Low ..................................... 23% PRECIPITATION Last 24 hours ...................... 0.00” Month to date .................... 2.36” Normal month to date ........ 1.54” Year to date ........................ 6.50” Normal year to date ........... 4.54”

Flood Stage

52.0 51.0 50.0 51.0 55.0

Falling

Forecast

52.80 46.30 48.50 48.90 46.10 Forecast

7.80 6.20 6.80 4.50 Unchanged

AIR QUALITY Pollution..........................38/Good Main pollutant .....................Ozone Pollen data will return in the spring.

Source: Hamilton County Department of Environmental Services

EXTREMES Saturday for the 48 contiguous states.

Highest ...................... Naples, FL 86 Lowest ................. Masardis, ME -36 Forecasts and graphics provided

by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2020

THE LOCAL BUZZ Paczki? Thing-a-lings? All about this season’s odd pastries

Cherry Thing-a-lings from Schmidt's Bakery in Batesville.

As Greater Cincinnati starts to awake from hibernation, spring brings a whole new round of pastries with funny names.

Paczki? Thing-a-lings? King cake?

It’s a lot of seasonal pastries to remember and we’re here to help you keep track of them.

Here’s your guide to the specialty baked goods you could see at your local grocery stores and bakeries:

Paczki These are the fi lled doughnuts of your pre-Lenten dreams. Filled with cream or jelly or fruit, they don’t seem that much diff erent than a regular fi lled doughnut, but they are – richer and better, Polly Campbell wrote in 2014.

Most bakeries around town make these, including Servatti, Busken, Bonamini, to name just a few.

The Polish pastry, depending on the size, can have as many as 400 calories and more than 20 grams of fat.

Don’t want to look clueless when you order one? It’s pronounced poonch-key.

King cake It’s a Fat Tuesday New Orleans tradi-

THE ENQUIRER/ POLLY CAMPBELL

(Drawings: Feb. 14) Daily 3 (late): 6 8 2 (SB: 7) Daily 4 (late): 6 2 5 9 (SB: 7) Cash 5: 2 8 22 33 37 Hoosier Lotto: Saturday’s jackpot was an estimated $9.3 million.

MEGA MILLIONS

(Drawings: Feb. 14) 10 32 48 54 55 Megaball: 18 Megaplier: 5x Tuesday’s jackpot is an estimated $45 million.

POWERBALL

Saturday’s jackpot was an an estimated $40 million.

TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Feb. 16. On this date in: 1862: The Civil War Battle of Fort Donelson in Tennessee ended as some 12,000 Confederate soldiers surrendered; Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s victory earned him the moniker “Unconditional Surrender Grant.”

1868: The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks was organized in New York City.

1945: American troops landed on the island of Corregidor in the Philippines during World War II. 1959: Fidel Castro became premier of Cuba a month and a half after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista.

1968: The nation’s first 911 emergency telephone system was inaugurated in Haleyville, Alabama.

1988: Seven people were shot to death during an office rampage in Sunnyvale, California, by a man obsessed with a co-worker who was wounded in the attack. (The gunman is on death row.)

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You won’t fi nd thing-a-lings at your local grocery store. They’re special to Schmidt’s Bakery in Batesville, which makes these delicious cherry fritters only for President’s Day weekend.

“They are beautifully misshapen hunks of deep-fried dough studded with cherries and covered with cherry glaze, making them a cross between two delicious desserts: doughnuts and cherry pie,” Polly Campbell wrote in 2017.

This year, Schmidt’s has hit its shipping limit for cherry thing-a-lings, so the only way to get them now is to pick them up in the store from Feb. 13 to 19. In 2019, the bakery says they made over 145,440 cherry thing-a-lings.

tion, but bakeries across the country have been fi lling orders for the sweet, yeasty bread for a couple of weeks already.

Traditionally, each green, purple and gold sprinkled cake has a tiny baby fi gurine (usually plastic) inside. The person that gets the slice with the baby gets to be queen or king for the day (and lick the serving plate?).

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2001: The United States and Britain staged air strikes against radar stations and air defense command centers in Iraq.

2002: Authorities in Noble, Ga., arrested Ray Brent Marsh, who’d been operating a crematory where hundreds of decomposing corpses were found stacked in storage sheds and scattered in the woods behind it. (Marsh was sentenced to 12 years in prison.)

2006: The U.S. Army said goodbye to its last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, handing over equipment from the MASH unit to doctors and nurses in Pakistan.

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Trump’s story of Cincinnati vet not quite true Tony Rankins doesn’t work in ‘Opportunity Zone’ site Bernard Condon ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tony Rankins, center middle, receives a standing ovation during the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 4. SUSAN WALSH, AP

and veteran who served in Afghanistan and suff ers from post-traumatic stress disorder, now works at another R Investments building in Cincinnati that is in an Opportunity Zone but has not used the tax breaks.

He will start working at the warehouse next month, his fi rst job at a site using the breaks.

That hasn’t stopped the Trump administration and its allies from taking credit for Rankins’ turnaround.

Rankins “made an incredible comeback thanks to Opportunity Zone investments!” the White House tweeted. The offi cial GOP twitter account said the story shows “how an opportunity zone in Cincinnati has given him a second chance.” Ivanka Trump told her Twitter followers: “Through grit and perseverance, he secured a job (created in an opportunity zone) and is now thriving.”

The Opportunity Zone program passed as part of Trump’s 2017 tax overhaul off ers investors big savings in capital gains taxes if they put money into nearly 8,000 poor neighborhoods designated by the Treasury Department as neglected and needing the help. Trump has touted the program in several speeches as an example of how he is helping struggling African-Americans.

Critics say that too many neighborhoods getting the break were already gentrifying and that investors are likely to pour even more money into them, bypassing the poor, black communities that the program is partly intended to help. But backers note that the fi nal rules governing the program were only released in December and say it is too early to judge.

R Investments CEO Steff ens was contacted by the Trump administration after telling a fellow passenger on a plane trip about his work helping the homeless, ex-felons and unemployed veterans, according to a company spokeswoman. And he has helped a lot over the past 14 years, as many as 300 in a single year, he said, inspired by his parents’ example when he was growing up.

“My dad would give his last dollar to make sure that a mom and her kids had a meal,” Steff ens said.

He “taught me at young age, there’s no such thing as a self-made man.”

After the Cincinnati training academy, Steffens said he plans to open ones in the New Orleans and Miami areas, too. He said he is also close to closing a deal to buy a hotel in Charlotte in an Opportunity Zone. He said he also hopes to fi nd land in Opportunity Zones to place hundreds of “tiny homes” that students will build as part of their training.

Steff ens said he is not used to being in the national spotlight – he was invited to the State of the Union and the Charlotte speech, too – and is worried that it now can turn against him and the homeless he is trying to help.

“The publicity that this has given us is going to help us do more in the areas that we are in. And so I want to be sure that something is not painting the wrong picture, because if it that hurts us, it’s going to hurt these individuals in these areas,” he said. “We need the country to get behind what we’re doing.”

As it turns out, there is a tax break that Steff ens tapped repeatedly to employ homeless and others like Rankins. The Work Opportunity Tax Credit gives as much as $10,000 in tax credits to employers who hire homeless and others with diffi culty fi nding jobs.

That benefi t was passed in 1996 when Bill Clinton was president.

The Rankins story was one of several State of the Union introductions that appeared to be overtures to black voters, and the second to be shown to be less than truthful.

Trump dramatically announced that a Philadelphia fourth-grader, Janiyah Davis, would be getting a scholarship that would allow her to transfer from a “failing government” school to a charter school of her choice. But The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that she had already been attending a charter school for months and that students there don’t have to pay tuition.

As for Rankins, his feelings for the president haven’t changed just because he may not be the ideal Opportunity Zone hero.

“I’m not really a politi-

cal person,” he said, “but yes, he would have my vote.”

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But that’s not completely true.

Rankins, who indeed moved out of his car and into an apartment since landing a job refurbishing a Nashville hotel two years ago, doesn’t work at a site taking advantage of the breaks and never has done so. In fact, he started that job four months before the Treasury Department published its fi nal list of neighborhoods eligible for the breaks. And the hotel where he worked couldn’t benefi t even now because it’s an area that didn’t make the cut.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Rankins said he always considered the job that launched him on his new life two years ago to be in an Opportunity Zone and was honored to be invited by the White House to the State of the Union, with a prime seat in the balcony next to Ivanka Trump.

“After struggling with drug addiction, Tony lost his job, his house and his family. He was homeless.

But then Tony found a construction company that invests in Opportunity Zones,” the president said in his Feb. 4 speech.

“He is now a top tradesman, drug-free, reunited with his family.”

Days later, Trump doubled down on the Rankins story in a speech on his economic initiatives in Charlotte, North Carolina, and invited him up to say a few words.

“First of all, I would like to thank the president for signing this bill, because without it I wouldn’t be standing here before you right now,” Rankins said.

Trump also praised Rankins’ employer, R Investments, for “working to help 200 people rise out of homelessness every year by investing in opportunity zones.”

That is also not quite true. CEO Travis Steff ens said he has hired hundreds of homeless to work at the 400 buildings the company has owned over the years, taking advantage of various tax breaks.

But when it comes to Trump’s Opportunity Zone breaks, he said, the company has only one building tapping the program now, a warehouse in Cincinnati where no one seems to be working, homeless or otherwise.

“We’ve not really worked there,” Rankins said, “but we’ve stored things over there.”

Steff ens suggested that when Trump said R Investments was helping 200 people rise out of homelessness he was referring to the number the company hopes to teach construction skills to at the warehouse once it has been converted to a training academy.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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‘McMillion$’: Cincinnatian directed new HBO series Briana Rice

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A new HBO series tells the 20-yearold story of a rigged McDonald’s Monopoly game, where tickets were stolen and sold.

But what you might fi nd interesting is that the documentary series has a Cincinnati link.

“McMillion$” was created by James Lee Hernandez, and Cincinnati native Brian Lazarte produced and co-directed the project. It premiered Feb. 3 on HBO. The six-part series tells the story of how $24 million was stolen from Lazarte the McDonald’s Monopoly game of the 1990s. The fast food promotion was rigged, winning tickets were stolen from the company and then sold, unknown to the chain. Prizes included a $1 million cash prize, boats and a Dodge Viper.

Lazarte graduated from University of Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music with a degree in electronic media.

“Every project that you do builds on your skill set,” Lazarte said. “CCM was certainly a critical foundation for mine.”

Lazarte said it’s been important to involve a former or current CCM student in his projects. So he worked with Kevin Burke, division head of electronic media

Still from new HBO docuseries “McMillion$.” COURTESY OF HBO

at CCM, to bring in an intern. For “McMillion$,” that was Jared Bailey.

“Brian really pushed to have someone from our program come out there,” Burke said.

“This was a unique opportunity for James and myself to make this project and something that we’re very passionate about and that we remain very passionate about and we wanted to fi nd the right person,” Lazarte said. “So we put together a little contest and we got a great intern, Jared.”

Getting involved in ‘McMillion$’ Hernandez fi rst heard about the McDonald’s Monopoly scam in 2012.

“I was laying in bed, cruising through Reddit, before I fell asleep that night. I saw a TIL, Today I Learned that nobody really won the McDonald’s Monopoly game,” Hernandez said. “I loved that game as a kid. My fi rst job at 16 was at McDonald’s so I was very intrigued.”

Hernandez spent the next year looking into the scam before fi nally putting in a Freedom of Information Act request with the government.

“I hit a wall and couldn’t fi nd much more about the case.”

It took three years for it go through.

Hernandez then found the law enforcement agents involved with the case.

“They all said this was one of their favorite cases and no one had talked to

them about this,” Hernandez said. “After that, my next call was to Brian.”

“We didn’t actually meet at McDonald’s. Though we probably should have,” Lazarte said.

Lazarte and Hernandez conducted all of the interviews with help from their production team.

“We had a fantastic team of people helping us,” Hernandez said.

The pair independently started fi lming the docuseries in 2017.

“It taps into our own personal dilemmas. Would we participate in something like this if given the chance? Most people actually would, if given the chance to claim a McDonald’s million dollar prize,” Lazarte said. “We saw McDonald’s and this whole game as an opportunity for many people to get ahead.

To realize it was all a lie, it’s a shocking, pull-back-the-curtain reveal.”

The pair is also producing a “McMillion$” podcast, which will be released after each episode, where the directors will discuss parts of the story that didn’t make it into the documentary.

“Brian always did good work,” CCM’s Burke said. “He’s got a lot of classmates who are very happy to see him reach this level of success.”

Briana Rice is a trending news reporter for The Enquirer. You can contact her at brice@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter @BriRiceWrites for the latest Cincinnati entertainment and breaking news.

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Feds: Cincinnati police offi cers may have ‘tipped off ’ clubs about raids Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Local nightclubs under investigation for alleged money laundering and drug traffi cking may have been “tipped off ” about raids and possibly protected by “members of the Cincinnati Police Department,” court documents say.

On Friday, Offi cer Quianna Campbell was arrested and charged with lying to federal agents about whether she exposed an undercover offi cer. Campbell, 39, also was charged with fi ling false tax returns.

Campbell appeared in federal court in Cincinnati on Friday afternoon, when the charges against her were unsealed.

Campbell had her police powers stripped in November 2018. A year before, she was assigned to the impound unit. She has been with the department 11 years, offi cials said.

As part of an investigation into drug traffi cking and street gangs by federal agencies and the Cincinnati Police Department, offi cials had identifi ed nightclubs believed to be involved in money laundering to support the drug traffi cking, court documents say.

Drug proceeds were being used to pay entertainers to perform at the nightclubs to generate revenue, which then appeared to be legitimate income.

According to court documents, the Cincinnati Police Department and IRS Criminal Investigation began investigating Campbell regarding fi nancial benefi ts she received as a result of her job.

Investigators discovered a 2015 text message conversation between Campbell and a nightclub owner, the documents say. Campbell allegedly responded to a text from the nightclub owner who asked if an individual was an undercover offi cer.

According to an affi davit, Campbell confi rmed in a text message that the person was, in fact, an undercover offi cer.

“They work random nights and go into diff erent bars. If they come back again next weekend I would say yes,”

Campbell allegedly said in the message.

On Nov. 26, 2018 – the day her police powers were suspended – a Cincinnati police detective working as part of a federal task force interviewed Campbell.

The affi davit says when the detective questioned Campbell about the text conversation, she lied. Campbell told the detective she would never confi rm if an individual was a police offi cer because if they were working in an undercover capacity it would put them in danger.

“The Cincinnati Police Department is aware of the indictment and arrest of Police Offi cer Quianna Campbell this afternoon,” Lt. Steve Saunders said Friday.

“We will be monitoring the judicial process and provide an update if more information becomes available.”

It is unclear if other offi cers will be charged related to this investigation.

Campbell last worked in the city’s impound lot. She had been referred to as a member of the vice squad, but her personnel fi le does not refl ect that, nor was her last review done by the vice squad commander.

Her 2018 performance review praised her with the highest possible score. Prior to working in the impound lot, Campbell was assigned to Bond Hill and Roselawn in the police department’s District 4.

Campbell also allegedly failed to report on her federal tax returns cash income that she earned working off -duty details, according to the federal charges fi led Friday.

According to police records, Campbell earned a total of more than $81,000 working off -duty details in 2015, 2016 and 2017. Offi cials say she did not report an accurate income when fi ling her taxes.

Making a false statement to a federal agent is punishable by up to fi ve years in prison. Willfully fi ling a false tax return carries a potential maximum penalty of up to three years in prison.

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What’s Cincinnati’s cut from opioid settlement?

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Ohio’s local governments seem generally satisfi ed with a proposal that would award them 30% of the money from a potential multi billion-plus settlement with the pharmaceutical industry over the deadly opioid epidemic.

Based on a $1 billion settlement share for local governments and per-capita opioid deaths, the state projects Hamilton County and all of its municipalities would get $84.1 million, a countywide total third to Cuyahoga and Franklin counties.

From that, Cincinnati’s share would be just under $17.5 million, or about 1.75% of the statewide total.

Also in Southwest Ohio, Butler County, including its municipalities, would receive $38.5 million, Clermont County and its municipalities $25 million and Warren County and its municipalities would get $14.9 million, estimates provided by the attorney general shows.

Offi cials caution the numbers are “hypothetical” and do not indicate the state expects an overall settlement in excess of $3 billion If approved, the plan would allow the pain pill industry to settle all government lawsuit claims from the nation’s seventh-largest state by cutting one deal instead of dozens to settle more than 100 lawsuits.

Roughly 55% of the overall settlement

Prescription opioids are often a gateway drug to other opioid addictions such as heroin and fentanyl addiction. ENQUIRER FILE PHOTO

would endow an “addiction foundation” to fi ght opioid abuse and provide treatment funds, It was not immediately clear what Hamilton County Heroin Coalition members think about the potential settlement. But county Commission President Denise Driehaus said before the amounts were released that, by banding together, local communities would receive money more quickly.

“We have fought for funding to make local governments whole for the burdensome costs of responding to this epidemic, as well as funding for programs that will abate the scourge of addiction,” said Driehaus, who also leads the heroin coalition, said in a statement provided to The Enquirer. She favored a settlement that would fairly disburse money based on how areas have suff ered.

Hamilton County has been hit hard, as has Ohio, which ranked second in the nation for overdose deaths in 2017. The

county’s accidental overdose death toll that year was staggering at 567. Since then, the county’s overdose deaths have dropped to 468 in 2018 and an estimated 427 in 2019, coroner’s records show.

County offi cials were among local government leaders who met Tuesday with Gov. Mike DeWine and Attorney General Dave Yost to discuss a joint damages settlement with painkiller manufacturers and distributors.

Kent Scarrett, executive director of the Ohio Municipal League, said a majority of local governments “defi nitely” will support the tentative plan, although some want “tweaks” in its wording.

As confi rmed by Scarrett and another source close to the talks, here’s the outline of the current deal behind the potential pursuit of an “all-Ohio” opioid settlement. The potential settlement funds would be distributed on the basis of opioid-deaths per capita and other criteria, with 30% routed to local governments and 15% to the state.

All of Ohio’s more than 1,000 counties, cities, villages and townships would be eligible for the funding, with the money not restricted to the 100-plus local governments including Cincinnati and Hamilton County that sued the drug industry in a consolidated action in federal court in Cleveland.

The addiction foundation would bank the upfront cash and distribute regional grants from earnings.

Nineteen regional councils consisting of local elected offi cials and drug intervention specialists would receive distributions from the addiction foundation to

grant more funding to local anti-addiction programs. Hamilton County by itself would comprise one of the regional councils. Butler, Clermont and Warren counties would be in a council with Clark, Clinton, Green and Madison counties.

Outside lawyers hired by local governments to handle their litigation, many entitled to signifi cant shares of any settlement under their contracts, will share an 11% cut off the top of the locals’ share.

The state’s lawyers would receive a smaller percentage from the state share subject to a $50 million cap.

The handling of legal fees, and a reduction in their amount, had been considered one of the foremost obstacles in forging agreement on a unifi ed opioid settlement, but the lawyers agreed to accept less, sources said.

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Florida and Wichita State (No. 47 NET), at Houston (No. 26 NET) and at South Florida and home against Temple. The AAC tournament is March 12-15 in Fort Worth, Texas.

Of course, winning the conference tournament – which UC did last year – gets you an automatic bid to the tournament.

The Enquirer sought the expertise of several bracketologists to get a better idea of what the postseason picture looks like for the Bearcats and Musketeers.

After Xavier’s loss at No. 19 Butler on Wednesday and UC’s thrilling comeback win over Memphis in overtime Thursday, all four fi ve pundits polled have the Musketeers in the NCAA Tournament fi eld and have the Bearcats in or with a good shot as of Feb. 14.

bracketmatrix.com Dave Ommen, who, over the last fi ve years, has the most accurate bracket predictions, according to bracketmatrix. com, has the Musketeers as a 10 seed facing Michigan and the Bearcats in a playin game against Arkansas.

Ommen said that while Xavier’s in the fi eld right now, there’s not a lot of margin for error.

“Losing to a good team on the road isn’t a resume damper in and of itself.

The concern is that Xavier could use another couple of ‘up’ wins between now and Selection Sunday. Falling to Butler was, in that sense, a missed opportunity,” said Ommen.

“If the Musketeers beat both Villanova and Butler at home, and win at least two of their remaining road games, and beat DePaul at home, Xavier should feel pretty good heading into the Big East Tourney. In that scenario, winning at least one game in New York is probably going to be enough unless we really get some craziness during Championship Week.”

Ommen called UC’s win over Memphis important, but “even so, Cincinnati has work to do as the Bearcats are likely one of a handful of teams that would fall right along the cutline heading into the weekend.”

CBS The Bearcats victory against the Tigers on Thursday keeps them one game back of Houston for the top spot in the AAC standings. But CBS College Hoops expert Jerry Palm cautions against putting too much stock in conference regular-season fi nish.

“Your performance in your conference, your standing, your record, is just part of who you are,” Palm said. “There are several diff erent combinations, I imagine, of wins and losses that could fi nish Cincinnati in the AAC top three and it’s really not about fi nishing in the top three. For them, they’ve got three bad losses: Colgate, Bowling Green, Tulane.

They absolutely can’t aff ord any more.”

The Bearcats have just two games remaining against projected NCAA Tournament teams. That’s why Palm said he considers games at East Carolina, at South Florida and UCF and Temple at home as likely more important.

“Cincinnati has already hurt themselves too much,” Palm said. “It’s damage control. Cincinnati has been playing better. If they had beaten UConn (Sunday) I would have had them in the bracket this week. They’re that close, but it’s one bad loss and it becomes pretty hard to get in.”

ESPN ESPN’s Joe Lunardi rang the same bell as Palm.

“Cincinnati had to win that (Memphis) game,” said Lunardi, who as of Friday morning has the Bearcats and Musketeers both on the 11-seed line. “Even then, I could make a very solid argument for them to be out. But 9-3 (in the AAC) with a couple wins over the other NCAA (Tournament) teams in their league, or at least NCAA contenders, enough to hold for the fort for the moment.”

The way to a more comfortable position is for UC “to split the two up games (Wichita State and Houston) and no bad losses,” said Lunardi, who generally subscribes to the theory that good wins help more than bad losses hurt.

The way things stand now, Lunardi feels a little better about Xavier than he does about UC. “Just a hair,” said Lunardi. “And I don’t put much into head-to-head especially if it’s (not at a neutral site) but Xavier did beat them. Neither looks to me like a second-weekend team, to be honest, but

Xavier forward Naji Marshall (right) and Cincinnati forward Trevon Scott chase a loose ball in the second half of the Annual Crosstown Shootout rivalry game at the Cintas Center on Dec. 7, 2019. SAM GREENE/THE ENQUIRER

somebody that’s an 11 (seed) is gonna make it to the second weekend. That’s why they fi ght so hard to get in.”

USA TODAY USA TODAY’s Shelby Mast has Xavier as a nine seed.

“My last nine seed, just above Northern Iowa (his fi rst 10 seed),” said Mast, who has the Musketeers squared up with Rutgers in the fi rst round in St. Louis.

Palm had Xavier pegged as a nine seed entering this week, attributing that placement in part due to the overall strength of the Big East. Home contests against ranked Villanova and Butler off er opportunities to secure position, but Palm says it’s not as simple as winning one or both of those.

“Those are big games in terms of adding positive things to their resume, but they need to avoid the negatives because right now the only really negative thing is they don’t have a great record against great teams (Xavier’s 2-8 in Quad-1 games),” Palm said. “They don’t have any bad losses, though.”

With UC’s win Thursday and Arizona State beating Stanford, Mast moved the Bearcats up a spot, but still has them currently slotted in a play-in game position against NC State.

Mast called UC’s situation precarious due to the schedule down the stretch with one road game left against a ranked opponent.

Big picture Another factor that puts the Musketeers in slightly better favor at the moment is they don’t have a bad loss – their

worst coming on the road at Wake Forest (NET No. 100) – and Xavier has a major win on the road at Seton Hall (NET No. 15).

“Not having a bad loss helps, but it’s not a game-changer,” said Ommen. “All wins and losses are weighed in totality by the Selection Committee, as is schedule strength, etc.

“Ultimately, a win, especially away from home, against a strong NCAA team carries more weight than a single defeat might (referencing Kentucky’s loss to Evansville in November as an example).

Without XU’s road win at Seton Hall, their profi le would be missing an important ingredient the committee values and would leave XU without a win over a sure-fi re NCAA team, potentially. Right now, XU’s win at Seton Hall carries a lot of weight.”

Lunardi said: “What’s really good, though, is (Xavier’s) chances for Quad-1 wins are largely winnable. It’s not like they’re going to Baylor or Kansas. They can play with Villanova and Butler. And they got the best Quad-1 win you can get in the Big East this year (at Seton Hall) and that’s the gift that keeps on giving.”

The least stressful spot for Xavier would be to go 4-2 in its fi nal games and win at least a game at Madison Square Garden in the Big East Tournament.

“I think that would almost certainly do it,” said Lunardi. “They’d have enough good wins. It might not be over the top like it’s gonna put them in the top half of a bracket but it would get them off the bubble.”

The Bearcats’ best bet would be to go 5-1 and make sure that loss isn’t against East Carolina, UCF, South Florida or Temple, then do as much damage in the AAC Tournament as possible.

But for XU and UC to feel more comfortable on Selection Sunday, it would help if other teams on the bubble don’t get hot.

“Other team results matter, too,” said Mast. “If other bubble teams get big wins, this can hurt XU and UC, but more UC due to lack of upcoming opportunities.”

That means the bitter rivals can join forces in rooting against the rest of the bubble, which at the moment is pretty heavy with a lot of teams in play.

The consensus: the Musketeers and Bearcats need to avoid bad losses and take advantage of remaining opportunities for good wins. If both can do that, they should be dancing in March.

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Ohio to consider 3 new medical marijuana conditions Jackie Borchardt Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

COLUMBUS – State offi cials will consider adding three new medical marijuana conditions this year: Anxiety, autism spectrum disorder and cachexia.

Cachexia, a wasting disease marked by extreme weight loss, has not been proposed before. It can be a symptom of other conditions on Ohio’s list, such as AIDS and cancer.

An Ohio State Medical Board committee sorted through 27 petitions submitted late last year suggesting 22 conditions. Several, such as chronic pain and HIV/AIDS, were already on the list established in state law. Others lacked requirements such as research or support from physicians.

The panel rejected petitions for con-

ditions the board turned down last year because they felt the new evidence submitted didn’t meet the bar: depression, insomnia and opioid use disorder. Also rejected: “being a Bengals or Browns fan.”

“The question being asked today is not to debate the pro and con but is the new information suffi cient to cause us to initiate additional discussions on the matter,” Board President Dr. Michael Schottenstein, a committee member, said.

The board will now ask physicians and experts on cannabis and the potential conditions to review the petitions.

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Rep. Jordan accused of covering up OSU sex abuse Rick Rouan

Columbus Dispatch USA TODAY NETWORK

A former Ohio State University wrestler told an Ohio House committee this week that GOP Congressman Jim Jordan is trying to cover up his knowledge of sex abuse by the former team doctor.

Several former student athletes at Ohio State have come forward as victims of Dr. Richard Strauss, a former team doctor accused of sexually assaulting athletes in the mid-1990’s. Strauss killed himself in 2005.

Jordan, an assistant coach at the time, has said he had no knowledge of the abuse at the time, but Adam DiSabato said he told then-Coach Russ Hellickson and Jordan about Strauss.

“They did nothing. They told me they went to their superiors. They told me to ignore it,” Adam DiSabato told the House Civil Justice Committee as it considered a bill that would exempt Strauss’ victims from the statute of limitations on suing Ohio State.

Adam DiSabato’s brother Mike DiSabato has been an outspoken critic of the university’s handling of the Strauss allegations. During his testimony, Adam DiSabato said Jordan pleaded with him not to back up his brother’s claims.

“Jim Jordan called me crying – crying, groveling on the Fourth of July, begging me to go against my brother. Begging me.

Crying for a half hour, that’s the kind of cover up that’s going on there,” he said.

Jordan’s spokesman Ian Fury said Adam DiSabato’s testimony is “another lie. Congressman Jordan never saw or heard of any abuse, and if he had he would have dealt with it,” he said in a prepared statement.

Jordan, of Urbana, continually has said he did not know about the sexual abuse by Strauss at the time.

An unidentifi ed wrestling referee said in a lawsuit fi led last fall that he told the same duo, Jordan and Hellickson, after an incident with Strauss in the shower – but the duo did nothing.

Adam DiSabato said during his testimony that he told George Pardos, another former wrestler, to tell Jordan to stop calling him.

Pardos told NBC News that “is not an accurate description of what happened,” but Thursday he told The Dispatch that he was receiving calls from several wrestlers in July 2018 about the allegations.

Adam DiSabato was “upset” because others were encouraging him to speak out.

“At that point everybody was calling me. If he thinks he said it, he said it,” Pardos said.

Pardos defended Jordan, though, saying that coaches in other sports have been let off the hook while Jordan has been villainized. The real culprit is Ohio State, Pardos said.

“He’s not going to sit there and let this happen. He wouldn’t stand idly by,” he said.

Adam DiSabato has not returned Dispatch calls for comment. He told lawmakers he wrestled at Ohio State from 1988 and 1993 and was a team captain, inducted into the OSU sports hall of fame in 2006.

He represented that complaints about Strauss were taken to former athletic director Andy Geiger and Archie Griffi n, an assistant director. But neither did anything, he said, “We weren’t football. We weren’t making money. We were told to shut up and not touch anybody that bugged us, just not Strauss, but others that congregated in the open atmosphere they kept us in, open showers ...

Homosexuals gathered to prey on us and we were not moved,“ he said.

Again referring to Jordan, Adam DiSabato said, “He’s throwing us under the bus, all of us. He’s a coward. He’s a coward. He’s not a leader, he’s a coward. I’m a leader. I was captain of those guys. ... He abandoned us. ... He called other people to fl ip their story. Jim Jordan, if I ever see him, he better not come around me, I guarantee you that.”

DiSabato also spoke of his personal emails regarding Ohio State vanishing and unusual occurrences on Facebook, such as “fi ve diff erent people who vanished.”

“I’m not stupid. I know who did it. We all know who did it,“ he said. “I fought for this university. This university’s not fi ghting for me. It’s your job to fi ght for me now.”

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MUNICH – U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Saturday that a truce agreement between the United States and the Taliban that could lead to the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan is not without risk but “looks very promising.”

Ahead of a formal announcement of the seven-day “reduction in violence” deal, Esper said it was time to give peace a chance in Afghanistan through a political negotiation. He spoke a day after a senior U.S. offi cial said the deal had been concluded and would take eff ect soon.

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“It’s my view as well that we have to give peace a chance, that the best, if not the only, way forward in Afghanistan is through a political agreement and that means taking some risk,” he said. “That means enabling our diplomats and that means working together with our partners and allies on the ground to eff ect such a thing.”

Esper and Secretary of State Mike

PORTLAND, Ore. – The Bureau of Land Management announced plans to fund 11,000 miles of strategic fuel breaks in Idaho, Oregon, Washington, California, Nevada and Utah in an effort to help control wildfi res.

The fuel breaks are intended to prop up fi re mitigation eff orts and help protect fi refi ghters, communities and natural resources, The Oregonian reported Saturday.

According to the BLM, wildfi res are becoming bigger and more frequent across the Great Basin states. From 2009-2018, over 13.5 million acres of BLM land burned in the project area.

“Recovering from the devastating eff ects of wildfi res can take decades in the rugged, high-desert climate of the Great Basin. These tools will help fi refi ghters contain fi res when they break out,” said Casey Hammond, acting assistant secretary of the Interior for Land and Minerals Management.

“That’s why creating fuel breaks is incredibly important to the entire basin, the people who live in these communities, and our wildland fi refi ghters.”

Fuel breaks are intended to break up fi re fuels by creating breaks in vegetation that slow a blaze’s progress. By implementing them strategically, they help fi refi ghters control the spread of fi re and protect homes and resources.

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Defense Secretary Mark Esper says the deal could lead to a partial withdrawal of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. JENS MEYER/AP

Pompeo met on Friday in Munich with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, who has been skeptical of the scheme, which, if successful, would see an end to attacks for seven days and then the signing of a U.S.-Taliban peace deal. AllAfghan peace talks would then begin within 10 days as part of the plan, which envisions the phased withdrawal of U.S. forces over 18 months.

In remarks later to reporters, Esper declined to say whether the U.S. had agreed to cut its troop levels in Afghanistan to zero. He said that if the truce is successful and the next step begins, the U.S. would reduce its troop contingent “over time” to about 8,600 from 12,000.

The U.S. has not agreed to suspend or end its counter-terrorism operations in Afghanistan, said Pentagon spokeswoman Alyssa Farah.

“Under any agreement, General Miller retains the authorities necessary to protect U.S. national security interests, including the authorities and capabilities to strike ISIS-K and al-Qaida,” she said, referring to U.S. Gen. Scott Miller, the commander of American and coalition forces in Afghanistan.

Ghani has not yet spoken publicly about the agreement, but Esper said Ghani was supportive of the deal.

“I think he is fully on board,” Esper said of Ghani. “He wants to lead his part of the process, which if we get to that would be a a peace deal that would involve very soon afterward an inter-Afghan negotiation. He wants to be clearly a full partner in that and wants to lead on that and make sure that all Afghans come together.”

Coronavirus death is fi rst in Europe Grace Hauck USA TODAY

France’s health minister said Saturday that a Chinese patient diagnosed with coronavirus died in a Paris hospital, the fi rst death from the new virus in Europe.

Minister Agnes Buzyn said he was informed Friday night that an 80-year-old patient died from the new coronavirus, named COVID-19. The patient had been hospitalized at Bichat-Claude Bernard Hospital in Paris since Jan. 25.

The patient, a Chinese tourist from the province of Hubei, had a lung infection caused by the COVID-19 virus. He arrived in France on Jan. 16 and was hospitalized Jan. 25 under strict isolation measures. His condition deteriorated rapidly. His daughter was also hospitalized but is expected to recover.

Europe has reported 46 cases of the virus that fi rst emerged in central China in December. Nine European nations have reported cases, with Germany having the most at 16.

The World Health Organization had not yet confi rmed the death of the coronavirus patient.

The head of the U.N. health angency, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, urged governments to step up their eff orts to prepare for the virus, saying “it’s impossible to predict which direction this epidemic will take.”

Government workers wait Saturday for patients to arrive at a hospital designated to treat COVID-19 patients in Wuhan, China. CHINATOPIX VIA AP

Tedros told a gathering of international foreign and security policy leaders in Germany on Saturday that WHO is encouraged there has not yet been widespread transmission outside China and that “the steps China has taken to contain the outbreak at its source appear to have bought the world time.”

China reported a dip in new cases Saturday. Confi rmed cases of the virus in China rose to 66,492 and the number of deaths rose to 1,523, according to China’s National Health Commission.

“We’re encouraged that an international team of experts is now on the ground working closely with Chinese counterparts to understand the out-

break,” Tedros told the Munich Security Conference.

Medical workers account for a small percentage of those infections. More than 1,700 Chinese medical workers have been infected by the new coronavirus and six have died, a senior Chinese offi cial said Friday.

More than 580 cases have been confi rmed outside mainland China.

As of Saturday morning, 67,091 people worldwide had been infected with the virus, including 15 in the U.S., according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.

The U.S. was expected to evacuate nearly 400 American passengers under quarantine due to coronavirus on board Princess Cruises’ Diamond Princess, the U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Japan announced Saturday.

The Diamond Princess is thought to be the largest group of coronavirus patients outside China. So far, 285 people from the ship have tested positive for the virus, after 67 new cases were found Saturday. They include at least 20 Americans.

Those who return to the U.S. will fl y to Travis Air Force Base in California and some will then go to Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, said an embassy statement. It said no one with symptoms would be allowed aboard the fl ight.

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Body found at sea as storm nears Britain Pan Pylas

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LONDON – Rescuers found a body in rough seas following an extensive search Saturday off the coast of southeast England, as Britain faced a second straight weekend of wild winter weather and fl ooding.

The body was discovered by a lifeboat from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, which received a distress call of a man falling off a ship.

Hurricane-force winds of up to 85 knots and monster waves that could reach over 100 feet high were roaring across the North Atlantic on Saturday, the U.S. National Weather Service’s Ocean Prediction Center said.

The fourth named storm of the season, dubbed Dennis by Britain’s Met Offi ce weather service, was expected to deepen through the weekend. Hundreds of fl ights were reported canceled.

The Met Offi ce had 22 fl ood warnings in place around England. The Irish Meteorologist Service said wind gusts of up to 75 mph might be seen.

Parts of northern England are still recovering from Storm Ciara from last weekend, which killed eight people across Europe.

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Household chores show gender gap not gone yet

Federal agents to pursue migrants in ‘sanctuaries’

Adrianna Rodriguez

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Women now hold more jobs than men. But they also still hold onto the majority of household duties.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are 109,000 more women in the workforce than men.

However, a Gallup poll reports that women are still more likely to do laundry, clean the house, shop for groceries, prepare meals, wash dishes and make decisions about furniture and decorations – even among younger generations who are reportedly more egalitarian as ever.

This may shock progressive-thinking millennials, but it doesn’t surprise experts. According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report, current trends indicate that it’ll take at least 208 years for the nation to achieve true gender equality.

So why is it taking so long?

Harry Reis, professor of psychology at the University of Rochester, said that gender roles change “very, very” slowly and are most likely a product of an individual’s upbringing as a child.

“It’s more convenient and comfortable for people to follow the gender roles that they’ve grown up with,” he said, and studies show girls are asked to help out with activities more than boys are.

According to a 2017 analysis, females 15 to 19 years old spend about 45 minutes a day doing household chores, while males in that age group spend about 30 minutes.

Reis said individuals are raised and socialized to do roles in a gender-specifi c way. Even though parents nowadays are trying to teach their children more gender-neutral roles, he said, it’s still a struggle for people.

Data shows that even better-educated parents aren’t more likely to ensure that their sons have the skills to care for their home, according to an analysis of the American Time Use Survey by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Christin Munsch, assistant professor of sociology at the University of

WASHINGTON – Federal agents who patrol the U.S. border will deploy to “sanctuary” cities across the country where local jurisdictions are hindering stepped up immigration enforcement, offi cials said Friday.

The deployment of Customs and Border Protection agents, some with tactical training, to the interior of the country is unusual and represents another escalation in the confrontation between the Trump administration and the loAlbence cal jurisdictions that have set up roadblocks to immigration enforcement.

Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Matthew Albence said additional forces are needed because people without legal authorization to be in the country are being released from local jails in sanctuary cities and counties before his agents can take them into custody.

ICE then has to make “at large arrests” of these immigrants who have been released, Albence said in a statement announcing the move.

“This eff ort requires a signifi cant amount of additional time and resources,” he said. “When sanctuary cities release these criminals back to the street, it increases the occurrence of preventable crimes, and more importantly, preventable victims.”

The acting director did not disclose when or where the agents would be deployed but an offi cial, speaking on condition of anonymity to disclose details not provided in the statement, said they would include major sanctuary cities such as San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Boston and Detroit.

Albence also did not provide details on the specifi c types of agents being deployed, but the offi cial said they would come from varied U.S. locations and would include offi cers with tactical training that is typically intended to prepare them for potential confrontations with traffi ckers and other crim-

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Millennial men are more accepting than ever, but it’s still harder to get them to do things like laundry.

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Connecticut, says most millennial men say they’re for gender equality, but it takes more than that to close the gender gap.

“On some level they believe that they want to be these good feminist men that share housework and responsibilities,” she said. “But I think when all that is said and done and it comes to practice on the day-to-day basis, there’s a reason why it’s not implemented.”

More and more men are in favor of women occupying male-dominated spaces but are reluctant to enter spaces traditionally dominated by women.

One reason is because society still values masculinity, Munsch speculates. She said research has shown that male-designated jobs, such as business and engineering, pay more than most female-designated jobs.

Even men and women in the same profession get paid diff erently. According to Salary.com, a janitor can make up to $41,000 per year while a maid can make up to $35,000 per year.

Munsch speculates that men also contribute less to household duties because they’re not as motivated as women. A University of California study published in the peer-reviewed Sage Journals suggested that women are judged more harshly by society for a cluttered home than men.

inals.

Immigrant advocates dismissed the deployment as a political move by President Donald Trump to excite antiimmigration elements among his supporters and intimidate communities that have adopted sanctuary policies to ensure people cooperate with local law enforcement regardless of whether they are in the country illegally or not.

“Deploying elite SWAT-like units to American cities is dangerous,” said Naureen Shah of the American Civil Liberties Union. “This is about further militarizing streets.”

Shah, senior advocacy and policy counsel for the ACLU, said she was concerned about use of the militarylike Border Patrol Tactical Unit in a civilian setting.

“We could see CBP offi cers who aren’t trained for interior immigration enforcement using excessive force, emboldening ICE agents to do the same and escalating situations,” she said.

The deployment comes as the president and others in his administration look to increase pressure on a sanctuary city movement that has expanded since he took offi ce. More than 700 counties have now declined to continue holding people sought by ICE and more than 160 have prohibited offi cers from even asking people about their immigration status, according to the Immigrant Legal Resource Center.

Supporters of sanctuary policies say people will be less likely to report crime or to be a witness if they believe they could be deported for doing so.

Albence and others in the administration say sanctuary policies interfere with legitimate law enforcement eff orts. Trump has been trying since he took offi ce to punish sanctuary cities.

In 2017, Jeff Sessions, then attorney general, said such cities would not receive grant money unless they gave federal immigration authorities access to jails and provide advance notice when someone in the country illegally is about to be released from prison. A federal judge blocked the punishment from being enforced.

Ind. audit shows virtual schools got $68M extra State seeks money overpaid based on infl ated enrollment Arika Herron

Indianapolis Star USA TODAY NETWORK

INDIANAPOLIS – Early estimates of just how much two online schools were overpaid by the state of Indiana were too low, according to a report fi led Wednesday by the Indiana State Board of Accounts.

A special investigation into malfeasance by Indiana Virtual School and Indiana Virtual Pathways Academy found that the schools inappropriately received more than $68.7 million collectively. Last summer, state investigators revealed that the charter schools had infl ated their enrollment to defraud the state – by enrolling students who’d simply requested information on the schools’ website, re-enrolling students after they’d left the schools or, in one case, by keeping a deceased student on their books more than a year after their death.

The state funds public schools – which include virtual charter schools – based on the number of students enrolled each year. At the time, investigators estimated overpayments to be around $40 million.

The new report details widespread fraud, misuse of state funds and a severe lack of oversight by school offi cials

Two virtual schools in Indiana closed last year. Now the state is seeking millions of dollars it says the schools were overpaid. INDIANAPOLIS STAR FILE

and the schools’ charter authorizer, Daleville Community Schools.

Offi cials with Daleville have said they did not have access to the charter schools’ data until August 2018, at which point they took concerns over irregularities in the schools’ reporting to SBOA. Daleville closed both last year.

Now, the state is looking to get back the cash it paid for students who weren’t actually attending the online schools – plus millions more that investigators say was funneled through the schools and into companies owned by their administrators and their family members. The $68 million overpaid to the schools came from thousands of

students improperly included in enrollment counts. From 2011 until last year, more than 14,000 students were counted as enrolled when they should not have been.

While SBOA found instances of enrollment infl ation each year, the number of falsifi ed student records ballooned in the fall of 2017.

In the 2017-18 school year, SBOA found more than 3,200 ineligible students were counted in enrollment fi gures. In 2018-19, that number was 5,694, according to the report.

Only a fraction of registered students were actually listed as “active” in the student lists provided to teachers, according to the report. SBOA also raised questions about course completion reporting fi gures, self-reported by the school.

From the 2016-17 school year to the 2018-19 school year, the two schools received more than $103 million in state funds and funneled more than $85 million to related parties, including several companies run by the schools’ founder, Thomas Stoughton, and his son.

The state is requesting reimbursement of the $85 million, improperly paid to 14 diff erent vendors that were related to the schools through a common employee or family member.

SBOA said it has sent its fi ndings to local and federal prosecutor’s offi ces, the Indiana Inspector General’s Offi ce and to the Indiana Attorney General’s offi ce.

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He picks golf outing over wife on anniversary Dear Carolyn: “Jake” and I have a 4year-old and a 1-year-old. About a month out from our fi fth wedding anniversary, I said to Jake we should get a sitter and go out. Logistically, having a sitter is diffi cult due to our remote location, but I felt this was a worthy occasion. Jake said he had fi gured we wouldn’t do anything since we had never done anything on our anniversary before, and had made plans for a golf outing with his work friends. Our anniversary date was the “only date” available for all of them.

This is something they do twice a year, an all-day aff air. I’ve never begrudged him this, but I was seriously hurt by his not making an eff ort to ask

prior to committing. In my opinion, he knew I might have an issue with it and agreed without telling me, hoping I wouldn’t bring it up.

Anyway, the day came and he got up early and went. He apparently called a fl orist on the way out of town.

I was very upset all day, and considered taking the kids to a hotel for the night, but decided against it. Then to top it all off , he had the nerve to come home at 10 p.m. and complain that a couple of guys ruined it for various reasons.

I want to move on, but I’m having a hard time overcoming this.

– Hurt Jake screwed up. That’s easy. You don’t book any all-day friend parties

without fi rst running them by your spouse and little-kid co-parent, much less on your anniversary.

And complaining when he got home?

If only tone-deafness could be bronzed and mounted. However.

Assuming I’ve read all the details correctly, Jake’s screwup beyond the notchecking thing isn’t that he “seriously hurt” you either with negligence or intent, but instead that he operated on a set of assumptions that you changed without telling him.

So he was, basically, too much of a doofus to piece together the various clues this was really important to you.

But that means you just gave him clues instead of telling him outright this

was really important to you.

So there’s your answer to what you should have done, or need to do next time you want to be his top priority: Speak. Up. “It’s not OK with me that you made these plans without running it by me fi rst. Yes, we’ve never celebrated our anniversary before, but this one matters to me. And even if it didn’t, it’s a courtesy for each of us to check with each other before making all-day plans.”

As for what you do: Find a reason to sympathize with what he did, admit to yourself what you did, grant that both of you were trying to act in good faith and simply fell short, and then let go.

Email Carolyn at tellme@ washpost.com.

Magazine’s Charlotte Long, who asked whether anything remained on the 58year-old star’s bucket list.

“Just you,” Carrey replied. “That’s it.

It’s all done now.”

Long laughed it off and said, “I don’t know what to say to that.”

“Just own it,” Carrey said.

“This is a ridiculous non-story,” Carrey’s rep, Marleah Leslie, tells USA TODAY. “Jim’s full quote was ‘Just you!

That’s it, I’m all done now!’ clearly and good-naturedly referring to the interview as being on the top of his bucket list. It was in no way a reference to the journalist herself.”

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International Tennis Hall of Famer John McEnroe is 61. Guitarist Andy Burton Taylor (Duran Duran) is 59. Drummer Dave Lombardo of Slayer is 55. Actress Sarah Clarke is 49. Actor Mahershala Ali (“House of Cards”) is 46. Singer Sam Salter is 45. Electronic dance music artist Bassnectar is 42. Rapper Lupe Fiasco is 38. Singer Ryan Follese of Hot Chelle Rae is 33. Guitarist and drummer Danielle Haim of the rock group Haim is 31. Actress Elizabeth Olsen (“Martha Marcy May Marlene”) is 31. Actor Mike Weinberg (“Home Alone 4”) is 27.

R. Kelly faces charges of abusing a minor from new accuser

Kelly, 53, is being held at the federal detention facility in Chicago.

R. Kelly is facing an updated indictment in federal court in Chicago on charges of abusing a minor, adding to the jailed singer’s mounting legal challenges across three states.

The superseding indictment made public Kelly Friday alleges the singer sexually abused a girl for four years starting in 1997, when she was under 18. The 26-page indictment does not add more charges against Kelly. It includes multiple counts of child pornography, much like the original July 2019 indictment.

The fi ling refers to the new accuser as “Minor 6” but no longer includes any reference to a “Minor 2. That means there are still a total of fi ve accusers in the federal case for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago.

Orlando Bloom’s Morse code tattoo misspells son’s name Orlando Bloom wanted to make a warm gesture by tattooing his 9-yearold son’s name on his arm and posting an adorable picture of fatherly devotion on Instagram.

But “The Pirates of the Caribbean” star, 43, appears to have spelled Flynn’s name wrong, making it “Frynn” with the series of dots and dashes that make up the telecommunications code. A-list tattoo artist Balazs Bercsenyi was proud of the work, though, posting his own picture on Instagram: “And yes, a dot is missing, we know, it will be fi xed :)”

Jim Carrey’s representative says comment to journalist was a joke Jim Carrey has come under fi re for a comment during an interview with Heat

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Afghans mark 1989 Soviet withdrawal Kathy Gannon and Rahim Faiez ASSOCIATED PRESS

KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghanistan on Saturday marked the 31st anniversary of the last Soviet soldier leaving the country. This year’s anniversary came as the United States negotiates its own exit after 18 years of war, America’s longest.

Some of the same Afghan insurgent leaders who drove out the former Soviet Union have been fi ghting the U.S., and have had prominent seats at the negotiating table during yearlong talks with Washington’s peace envoy.

Moscow pulled out of Afghanistan in 1989, a decade after invading the country to support an allied communist government. Afghan mujaheddin, or holy war-

riors, received weapons and training from the U.S. throughout the 1980s to fi ght the Red Army. Some of those mujaheddin went on to form the Taliban.

The U.S. and the Taliban agreed Friday to a temporary truce. If successful, it could open the way for another historic withdrawal that would see all American troops leave the country.

The chief negotiator for the Taliban, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, was once an American ally against the Soviets. So was another Taliban negotiator, Khairullah Khairkhwa. He spent 12 years detained at Guantanamo Bay until his release in 2014 in exchange for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.

The Taliban are now at their strongest since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion of Af-

Soviet soldiers cross a bridge between Afghanistan and what was then Soviet Uzbekistan on Feb. 15, 1989. LEONID YAKUTIN/DEFENSE MINISTRY PRESS SERVICE VIA AP

ghanistan ousted them from power.

Kabul’s streets were quiet Saturday, normally the busy start of the workweek.

There were no offi cial public celebrations marking the anniversary, and most people took the holiday off .

Shakeb Rohin was only 7 years old when the Soviets pulled out. Now a graduate of Kabul University’s economics department, he said he can’t remember the Soviet occupation. Since then, he said, he’s witnessed only war.

“We are so tired of war, we want a peaceful solution for Afghanistan’s problems,” he said.

Amin Mohammadi, a shopkeeper in Kabul, remained pessimistic. “Most people are jobless, no one has enough money to come and buy things. I don’t want to celebrate anything.”

“The Soviets withdrew, but what was the benefi t?”

No teacher, no students, but government aid Case of SD-based college highlights problems with lax regulation

ACICS has accredited 63 institutions, mostly for-profi t universities that off er less-than-four-year degree programs or certifi cates in such areas veterinary care, massage therapy and fl ight training. The agency had 290 members in 2016.

ACICS’ review process for a university can take nine to 18 months. The process includes multiple site visits, dozens of documents to review and a daylong initial accreditation workshop to learn more about ACICS’ rules, which costs $1,000. Accreditors review faculty lists and curriculum. Typically, when a university receives accreditation, classes are already underway.

It’s unclear how long Reagan National has operated without students or faculty. ACICS said Reagan had met its standards during the accreditation process, but declined to say specifi cally how it had verifi ed the college had students and faculty.

Michelle Edwards, CEO and president of ACICS, defended the council’s accreditation process in emails this month to USA TODAY. ACICS fi rst accredited Reagan in 2017, though Edwards said the university had to address some areas where it was initially out of compliance.

She did not say what those areas were.

In January 2019, the agency informed Reagan of a new problem. None of the university’s graduates appeared to have gotten jobs.

“The campus-level placement rate of 0% is materially below the Council Standard of 60%,” ACICS wrote in a letter posted on a federal database.

The agency directed Reagan to “show cause” why its accreditation should not be withdrawn. ACICS’ policy allowed some schools more time to show their graduates had found jobs, Edwards said.

That was what happened with Reagan in this case, she said, and the show-cause order was lifted in May. On Dec. 23, the accrediting body sent another warning letter, in response to a site visit, Edwards said. This time accreditors raised concerns about the language in a course catalog and the university’s grading system. It also hinted at more existential issues, such as a lack of evidence of a qualifi ed person to run the business programs. And the computer science program didn’t have the materials necessary to teach. “For example, there was no network server, router, managed switch, or a mini-computer server, equipment necessary to build a mini-computer.” That was a requirement for one of the university’s courses.

The agency ordered the university to prove why it should keep its accreditation and laid out a 15-point plan to remedy the problems. Offi cials were also instructed to create a plan to help students fi nish their studies or receive refunds if the college were to close.

“ACICS takes this matter very seriously,” Edwards told USA TODAY in an email

recently. “The Council is obligated to not only follow the procedures outlined in the (accreditation) Criteria, but also to take adverse action against any institution that fails to come into compliance.”

Reagan had until Friday to respond to the accreditor. Its accreditation was scheduled to be reviewed at an ACICS meeting in April.

On Saturday, after USA TODAY’s calls and emails, and after the newspaper requested comment from ACICS and the Department of Education, Reagan National University withdrew from accreditation. When asked if the withdrawal had to do with the questions raised in USA TODAY’s investigation, Edwards declined to answer.

At fi rst glance, the ACICS correspondence with Reagan appears to be a purposeful response to a struggling school, said Antoinette Flores, an accreditation expert at the left-leaning Center for American Progress.

But the correspondence doesn’t address the apparent absence of faculty and students that USA TODAY uncovered this winter.

“You accredited this institution. How did you miss this?” Flores said.

When the accrediting body faced closure in 2016, some of its colleges found new accreditors.

The ones that were left with ACICS, said Michael Itzkowitz, a senior fellow who studies higher education at Third Way, a left-leaning think tank, likely couldn’t fi nd accreditation elsewhere.

“They’re the bottom of the barrel,” he said.

Reagan National has ties to the University of Northern Virginia, which was raided in 2011 by federal immigration offi cials who threatened to suspend the college’s ability to accept foreign students. The suspicion: that Northern Virginia was a “visa mill,” a college accused of peddling a chance to live in the U.S. rather than off ering a meaningful education.

The Virginia government closed Northern Virginia in 2013 because it wasn’t accredited. It resurfaced the same year with a South Dakota address – the same one Reagan National used on business fi lings, plus the same agent, Xianhua Fan, spelled slightly diff erently from the name listed for Reagan National’s president.

In some ways, South Dakota was the ideal place for Reagan. The state has among the laxest rules for colleges in the country. State offi cials merely ask colleges whether an accrediting group has approved them – they don’t independently hold universities accountable.

“We accept people’s answers on good faith,” said Emily Kerr, who runs the division of business services in the secretary of state’s offi ce.

Education coverage at USA Today is made possible in part by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Two charged in multimillion-dollar prostitution operation in Colorado

Trump still wants US-Russia-China to agree on nuclear arms pact

Iran: Trump wrong if he thinks Tehran regime will collapse

Indonesia rebels say they took weapons from crashed chopper

DENVER – A Colorado woman and an Israeli man were charged with laundering millions of dollars that U.S. prosecutors say came from a high-end prostitution operation. Tracy Reynolds of Alamosa, Colorado, and Izhak Cohen, 53, of Israel, ran VIP Escorts in 2012, according to prosecutors. Their prostitutes charged between $700 and $1,000 in New York and other locations, with more than $10 million passing through bank accounts controlled by Reynolds.

Reynolds then sent more than $1 million to Cohen in Israel in small transactions.

WASHINGTON – The White House has not made a decision about extending the only treaty that constrains U.S. and Russian nuclear forces because administration offi cials want more time to coax China to join a three-way arms pact. China, which is poised to at least double its nuclear stockpile in the next decade, has not expressed any interest in such talks. American allies, however, also are concerned that the Trump administration will not take Moscow up on its off er to extend the New START treaty which expires in February 2021.

MUNICH – Iran’s foreign minister said Saturday that President Donald Trump is receiving bad advice if he believes the “maximum pressure” campaign will collapse the government in Tehran. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said at the Munich Security Conference that information provided to the president has dissuaded Trump from accepting off ers from other leaders to mediate between Washington and Tehran. Zarif also said the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani only galvanized support for Iran.

JAKARTA, Indonesia – Rebels in Indonesia’s Papua province said Saturday they seized weapons and ammunition from a military helicopter that crashed eight months ago in jungle-covered mountains. The cause of the crash that killed a dozen soldiers on board the Russian-made Mi-17 remains under investigation. Papua’s military chief, Maj. Gen. Herman Asaribab, acknowledged that 11 weapons – assault rifl es, pistols and a grenade launcher – were stolen from the crash site, but disputed that the rebels looted the scene.

Chris Quintana and Shelly Conlon USA TODAY

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Reagan National University was supposed to be a place of higher learning in Sioux Falls. But it was unclear how it awarded degrees. By all appearances, at present it has no students, no faculty and no classrooms.

An agency meant to serve as a gatekeeper for federal money gave the university approval to operate anyway.

That accrediting agency, fi nancially troubled and losing members fast, exists mainly because it was saved by the Education Department in 2018.

Accreditation groups are vital: If they approve a college, the government agrees to give federal grants and loans to the students there.

The agency in question, the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges & Schools, has a history of approving questionable colleges, with devastating consequences. It accredited ITT Tech, Corinthian Colleges and Brightwood College, huge for-profi t universities whose sudden closures last decade left thousands of students without degrees and undermined the value of the education of those who did graduate. Those closures led President Barack Obama’s Education Department to strip ACICS’ powers in 2016.

But following a federal court decision, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and President Donald Trump’s administration reinstated the accrediting agency.

By that point, it had lost dozens of colleges and their membership fees. It needed new members, and fast.

The decision in 2017 to approve Reagan National University as a viable college calls into question ACICS’ ability to hold colleges accountable for the education they’re supposed to provide.

When USA TODAY started investigating Reagan last month, myriad issues appeared. Links on the college’s website to register for classes led to 404 error pages. No students or graduates could be found on LinkedIn or Facebook.

The college’s only appearance on Twitter: Two people posted a picture of a Ghanaian politician receiving an honorary degree from the college. The offi cial had been accused of having a fake doctoral degree by an electoral commission in Ghana, although he denied it.

The faculty were also diffi cult to locate. USA TODAY contacted several people with the same names and education credentials as those listed as faculty on the university’s website. Four of them taught at diff erent universities and said they had never worked at Reagan. Many of those listed were entirely absent from the internet.

Reagan National University’s office on Main Avenue in Sioux Falls, S.D., is empty.

ERIN BORMETT/SIOUX FALLS ARGUS LEADER

And the university’s president – Harold Harris, per the school’s website – was similarly invisible. Additionally, the president of the university on its South Dakota business license was listed as “Xuanhua Fan.” When a reporter called the number listed on the school’s website, someone answered by saying, “Reagan National University,” but said they were not interested in an interview.

On Jan. 29 and again Wednesday, a reporter visited the listed addresses for Reagan National University. In one location, the doors were locked and the offi ce suite was dark. At another, the suite was mostly empty, save for some insulation scattered on the fl oor and a shop vacuum.

Emails sent to the school were not returned. And days before USA TODAY published this investigation, the university took down its website.

How did Reagan get accredited?

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FAA allows US fl ights to Persian Gulf ASSOCIATED PRESS

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said Saturday that American civilian fl ights can resume operations over much of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman region, loosening restrictions announced fi ve weeks ago amid heightened tensions between the U.S. and Iran.

The FAA said it made the decision because Iran has de-escalated its military posture, reducing the danger to U.S. civil aviation operations.

The FAA had barred American pilots and carriers from fl ying in areas of Iraqi, Iranian and some Persian Gulf airspace since early January. The move was precautionary to prevent civilian aircraft from being confused for ones engaged in armed confl ict.

The FAA announcement said “there is suffi ciently reduced risk of Iranian military miscalculation or misidentifi cation that could aff ect U.S. civil aviation operations in the overwater airspace above the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.” Those areas cover much of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Oman.

However, the agency said it still advises operators to exercise caution and avoid operating on air routes nearest to the Tehran Flight Information Region, an area understood to cover the airspace over Iran. The FAA said “the situation in the region remains fl uid and could quickly escalate if circumstances change.”

At the height of recent U.S.-Iran tensions, Iranian forces accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet over Tehran, killing all 176 people on board, on Jan. 8.

Shift to digital census raises fear of breakdown Bureau’s technology still mostly untested Mike Schneider ASSOCIATED PRESS

ORLANDO, Fla. – The stakes are high when a major civic exercise involves a large population, new technology that has not been thoroughly tested and an entire country waiting on the results.

Just ask the organizers of the Iowa caucuses, which off ered a cautionary tale on the technological woes that could befall a big political event. Some observers worry that this year’s census carries the same potential for mayhem – except on an infi nitely larger scale.

The U.S. Census Bureau plans to try a lot of new technology. It’s the fi rst once-a-decade census in which most people are being encouraged to answer questions via the internet. Later in the process, census workers who knock on the doors of homes that have not responded will use smartphones and a new mobile app to relay answers.

A government watchdog agency, the Census Bureau’s inspector general and some lawmakers have grown concerned about whether the systems are ready for prime time. Most U.S. residents can start answering the questionnaire in March.

“I must tell you, the Iowa (caucus) debacle comes to mind when I think of the census going digital,” Eleanor Holmes Norton, the congressional delegate for the District of Columbia, said last week at a hearing about the census.

Cybersecurity is another worry. Experts consider the census an attractive

Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham testifi es before a House panel Wednesday. He says all systems are ready. ALEX BRANDON/AP

target for anyone seeking to sow chaos and undermine confi dence in the U.S. government, as Russia did in the 2016 presidential election.

In the worst case, vital records could be deleted or polluted with junk data.

Even a lesser assault that interfered with online data collection could erode public confi dence. In 2016, a denial-ofservice attack knocked Australia’s online census offl ine, fl ooding it with junk data.

The Census Bureau says it’s ready.

The agency promises that responses to the questionnaire will be kept confi dential through encryption, and that it’s working with the Department of Homeland Security and private-sector security experts to thwart cyberattacks.

To hinder illegitimate responses, the bureau is blocking foreign IP addresses and stopping bots from fi lling out fake

responses, among many other measures.

The bureau says it has developed two secure data-collection systems, so that if one goes down, the other can substitute. Other mechanisms are in place to prevent failure and to back up essential functions.

“All systems are go,” bureau Director Steven Dillingham said.

For the past three years, the Government Accountability Offi ce has put the census on its list of high-risk programs, mainly because it is relying on technology that has not been used before.

The Census Bureau has not fi nalized its backup plans for the online questionnaire system. As of the end of last year, the bureau still had to do 191 corrective actions for cybersecurity that were considered “high risk” or “very high risk,” the GAO said.

City marks year of sorrow, strength Aurora, Illinois, honors factory shooting victims Grace Hauck USA TODAY

AURORA, Ill. – This city is not a war zone. It’s a quiet suburb about 40 miles southwest of Chicago. But on Saturday, the dead were remembered here just as surely as any battleground.

“We’re going to have a hard time today,” longtime resident Greg Zanis, wiping away tears, said before the events.

“It’s the America I live in today. It’s a battlefi eld.”

On Saturday, Aurora recalled the workplace shooting that left fi ve dead a year ago with a special remembrance, speeches and fl ags at half-staff . But for Zanis, it’s a journey of remorse that began back in 1996, the year his father-inlaw and a 6-year-old boy were both fatally shot in Aurora.

Since then, Zanis has constructed and delivered nearly 27,000 wooden crosses and other symbols of worship to the sites of mass killings nationwide.

Zanis, a Greek Orthodox man, has borne witness to the grief of thousands of families. A fl ag bearing the names of each of the hundreds of sites hangs in his offi ce: Columbine. Newtown. San Bernardino. Pittsburgh. Parkland. Las Vegas. Thousand Oaks. Dayton. El Paso.

Even Aurora, Colorado.

And last year, Zanis added his hometown to the list. “I didn’t expect the battlefi eld to be in my own city,” he said.

On Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, an employee opened fi re in the Henry Pratt manufacturing plant in Aurora, killing fi ve coworkers and injuring six other people, including one worker and fi ve police offi cers. After a 90-minute shootout, offi cers killed the gunman.

The gunman, 45, had worked at the plant for 15 years and had been let go moments before the shooting began.

The victims started their shifts that day with no idea that they were about to be added to a seemingly never-ending roster of Americans killed in mass shootings. They were Trevor Wehner, 21, a student at Northern Illinois University and a human resources intern on his

Greg Zanis built and delivered nearly 27,000 crosses and religious symbols after mass killings. When violence hit home, he decided to stop. GRACE HAUCK/USA TODAY

fi rst day of work; Clayton Parks, 32, a human resources manager; Russell Beyer, 47, a mold operator and union chairman; Vicente Juarez, 54, a stockroom attendant and forklift operator; and Josh Pinkard, 37, the plant manager.

A year on, Aurora is still healing.

“The pain that these families are feeling, it doesn’t feel like a year. It still feels like they are stuck in that moment in time,” Police Chief Kristen Ziman said last week. “We are always going to remember these fi ve beautiful souls that are no longer with us and the families that have to endure life without them.”

Abby Parks, Clayton’s widow, is raising their toddler son, Axel, in Elgin, Illinois. One family has moved to Mississippi. Others asked for privacy.

Of the fi ve police offi cers who responded to the scene, two are back at work. One has retired. Another, shot in the knee, is on desk duty. One, who was shot in the hip, is still in recovery.

“It was one of those surreal moments when I wasn’t quite sure what I was hearing over the radio,” Ziman said, recounting that day. “As we were on our way to the scene, what seemed like a moment that would last forever in time was listening, one by one, to my offi cers

getting shot. I don’t quite know how to describe that experience ... I’m grateful that they’re still here with us every day, walking the earth.”

Aurora, home to nearly 200,000 residents, is the second-largest city in Illinois. In the wake of the shooting, the city, which some residents liken to a small town, rallied around the “Aurora Strong” movement, bringing the community closer together and sparking increases in public service participation.

“How do you measure a year? We measure it in strength,” Mayor Richard Irvin said. “By the end of the day on Feb. 15, we’d already become Aurora Strong. And that strength has continued to multiply over the year. The Aurora Strong banner brought our community together as never before.”

Homes throughout the city display “Aurora Strong” signs on yards and fences. Bradley Keven Green, a musician from Aurora, wrote a song with that title. At Luigi’s Pizza and Fun Center, a restaurant and bar down the street from Henry Pratt that served as a command center during and after the shooting, a banner thanking fi rst responders hangs on the wall next to a circular metal plaque bearing the words “Aurora Strong.”

Over the past year, the local Aurora Strong fund has raised more than $500,000 for the aff ected families, along with more than $500,000 nationally, totaling about $1.1 million, Irvin said.

At the beginning of the month, the Aurora Historical Society opened an exhibit commemorating the people killed or wounded in the shooting. The exhibit features news clippings, posters drawn by students and mementos left behind by mourners – stuff ed animals, pictures, cards, candles and more. On Friday, about a dozen Pratt employees slowly walked through the gallery, many wearing “Pratt Strong” T-shirts.

“It was something that we felt really had to be done so that the community would have a place to come and mourn,” said John Jaros, executive director of the Aurora Historical Society. “This is a story about loss. These are memorial items, but they represent real people who lived real lives and were taken away. And we need to honor them.”

The exhibit centers on fi ve of Zanis’ white, 3-foot wooden crosses, originally placed outside the Henry Pratt plant.

Zanis was working in his carpentry shop that afternoon when he heard dozens of squad cars race by. “It’s hard to talk about it here coming on the anniversary, but I knew all too well what that meant,” Zanis said. “It really more than broke my heart.”

That day, Zanis decided he would stop building crosses. “I can’t do it anymore,” Zanis said, wiping away tears. “I never realized, for 20 years, what I was doing was I was running away from these. And now I’m not running away.

I’m living it. I’m living it every day.”

On Saturday, fl ags fl ew at half-staff in the snow-covered city.

Mueller Water Products, Inc., which owns Henry Pratt Company, held a private day of remembrance.

“As we mark the one-year anniversary of this tragedy, we thank the Aurora community and supporters around the world for their continued encouragement, thoughtfulness, and support. We are forever grateful to the Aurora Police Department and fi rst responders for their heroic actions,” spokesperson Yolanda Kokayi said in a statement.

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Virginia to add bird protections State responds to Trump administration rollback Sarah Rankin and Matthew Brown ASSOCIATED PRESS

RICHMOND, Va. – Virginia offi cials announced plans Friday to create new habitat for about 25,000 seabirds after their nesting grounds were paved for a state tunnel expansion project – a case that highlighted weakened protections for birds across the U.S. under President Donald Trump.

Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam’s offi ce said the state was acting because of the Trump administration’s new interpretation of the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act that says accidental bird deaths are not enforceable under the century-old law.

“Had this federal policy remained unchanged, it would have protected the birds on South Island from harm,” Northam’s offi ce said in a statement.

The announcement comes after the Virginia Department of Transportation earlier this month confi rmed to The Virginian-Pilot the extent of the damage to the decades-old nesting site.

It also follows a New York Times story in December that said state offi cials had ended work on conservation measures for the birds after federal offi cials advised such measures were “purely voluntary” under the new interpretation of the law.

The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries will create a new habitat for the birds by preparing an artifi cial island adjacent to the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel, offi cials said. The department will also seek authorization to put barges in place to provide additional habitat in advance of the upcoming nesting season.

Since the Hampton Roads BridgeTunnel, which connects Norfolk and Hampton and is frequently clogged with traffi c, was constructed in the 1950s, the artifi cial South Island had become a nesting site for as many as 25,000 migratory birds, including royal terns, gulls and other nesting species, the state said.

Researchers at William & Mary and

A common tern flies over roosting laughing gulls on the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel island in Suffolk, Va. JOHN H. SHEALLY II/THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT VIA AP, FILE

Virginia Commonwealth University said in a report published last year that the island supported “the most signifi cant seabird colony in the state.”

The aff ected bird species used to have other nesting sites in the Hampton Roads region but they have been lost to sea level rise, erosion and development, said Sarah Karpanty, a professor in Virginia Tech’s department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation.

“This was like their last stand in Virginia,” said Karpanty, who along with other researchers contracted with the state in 2017 to assess conservation measures for the birds in light of the expansion project.

Karpanty, who called Friday’s announcement a big step forward, said the researchers submitted a report to the state with various recommendations that were not implemented after the Trump administration released its new opinion about the law.

“That did change things I think,” Karpanty said.

Upon completion of the multibilliondollar expansion project, the Virginia Department of Transportation will restore a portion of nesting habitat on South Island to the maximum extent possible, according to the news release.

Northam’s offi ce also said the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries has started developing a regulation dealing with the “incidental take” of migratory birds – which refers to animals being accidentally killed – from major commercial, industrial and construction projects.

California is the only other state to take such steps since the Trump administration’s rollbacks, the National Audubon Society said in a statement.

“We’ve lost 3 billion birds since 1970 and two-thirds are at risk of extinction due to climate change. Governor Northam’s leadership comes at a critical time

and is a huge victory for birds,” said David O’Neill, chief conservation offi cer of the nonprofi t conservation organization. Other environmental organizations also praised the administration’s plans.

The Virginia nesting site case is a leading example of the eff ects of the Trump administration’s decision to no longer protect more than a thousand bird species from being accidentally killed during construction projects or other industrial activities, said Bob Dreher, a former associate director at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service now with Defenders of Wildlife.

Without those protections, there was no federal money available to protect or improve habitat elsewhere as an alternative nesting grounds for birds aff ected by the bridge and tunnel project, according to Dreher.

But he added that state offi cials shared responsibility for waiting until months after the nesting site was largely destroyed to come up with a restoration plan.

The birds are expected to return this spring to nest again.

“We commend them for moving forward,” Dreher said. “It would have been really nice if they did this six months ago.”

Northam spokeswoman Alena Yarmosky said in a statement that although Virginia was no longer legally required to mitigate habitat loss, this work “has been ongoing for the past several months.”

A Department of Interior legal opinion in December 2017 reversed the agency’s longstanding policy of enforcing a provision of the migratory bird act that protects birds from incidental take.

Criminal charges had been brought only rarely under the law. Yet those cases highlighted what critics, including Republican lawmakers, said was an unfair application of an act originally aimed against activities such as poaching.

The Trump administration last month proposed a new rule that would eff ectively cement the 2017 legal opinion into federal regulation, making it harder but not impossible for a future administration to reverse.

North Korea evading sanctions, UN fi nds Edith M. Lederer ASSOCIATED PRESS

Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab is asking that a lawsuit over his slow implementation of the state’s “vote anywhere” law be dropped. JOHN HANNA/AP

Suit: Offi cial stalling ‘vote anywhere’ law John Hanna

ASSOCIATED PRESS

TOPEKA, Kan. – Kansas and national Democratic Party groups have sued the Republican offi cial who oversees the state’s elections, accusing him of violating voters’ rights by delaying the implementation of a law designed to make voting on Election Day more convenient.

The lawsuit was fi led Friday in state district court in Topeka after Secretary of State Scott Schwab said his offi ce would need another year to draft regulations needed for counties to take advantage of a 2019 state “vote anywhere” law. The law permits counties to allow voters to cast their ballots at any polling place within their borders on Election Day, rather than only at a single site.

Some offi cials in Sedgwick County, home to the state’s largest city, Wichita, believe it is ready to allow voters to choose their polling sites.

The Kansas Democratic Party, the Democratic National Committee and the two national party committees for U.S. Senate and U.S. House campaigns fi led the lawsuit.

The Democratic groups seek a court

order to force Schwab either to issue the necessary regulations or to allow counties to move ahead with “vote anywhere” plans for this year’s elections.

Schwab said last week that he’s writing “a book” of regulations needed to make sure that counties’ electronic registration lists remain secure and that their computer systems don’t crash on Election Day. He also said problems with the recent Democratic presidential caucuses in Iowa showed the need for caution.

Friday night, he called on Democrats to drop the lawsuit.

“After the disaster in Iowa, it is surprising they are willing to compromise the security and credibility of Kansas elections,” Schwab said. “Democrats should know that implementing new procedures and technology without proper testing, training and oversight will only cause chaos and disenfranchise voters.”

But the lawsuit contends that delayed implementation of the “vote anywhere” law makes it harder for people to vote. The law was aimed at helping people who live on one side of Wichita and have jobs on the other side and may not have time to vote after work.

UNITED NATIONS – U.N. experts say North Korea has increased imports and exports of banned and restricted goods such as coal and petroleum products as it continues to enhance its illicit nuclear and ballistic missile programs in violation of sanctions.

The experts identifi ed new methods the country uses to evade U.N. sanctions, including transferring 2.8 million metric tons of coal from North Korean vessels to Chinese barges that then headed to Chinese ports. This would be a violation of an August 2017 Security Council resolution that bans coal exports, North Korea’s largest source of foreign exchange.

The Chinese U.N. Mission rejected any claim that China violated sanctions, saying that the country “has always faithfully and seriously fulfi lled its international obligations and sustained huge losses and tremendous pressure in the process.”

The summary and parts of the 67page report, seen Friday by The Associated Press, said the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea continued the

construction and maintenance of nuclear facilities, though it didn’t carry out any nuclear tests or tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles last year.

It did conduct 13 other launches of at least 25 missiles, including new types, the experts said.

The panel stressed the link between North Korea’s nuclear program and its illegal exports, especially of coal.

“The DPRK’s continued violation of commodity export bans not only fl outs Security Council resolutions but serves to fund a revenue stream that has historically contributed to the country’s prohibited nuclear and ballistic missile programs,” the experts said.

The panel said North Korea also continues to violate U.N. resolutions through its illicit import of refi ned petroleum products through ship-to-ship transfers and direct deliveries by foreign-fl agged vessels. These vessels sail directly into Nampo, the main North Korean port for petroleum deliveries, it said.

“In some months between June and October 2019, the estimated deliveries by foreign-fl agged tankers exceeded deliveries made by the DPRK tankers,” the experts said.

The U.S. seized the North Korean ship Wise Honest last May, saying it violated sanctions by exporting coal. U.S. ATTORNEY’S OFFICE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

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Union gives reeling Biden more bad news From Wire Reports

The Culinary Union, Nevada’s most powerful labor organization, says it will not endorse a contender in the Democratic race to challenge President Donald Trump. The announcement deals a blow to longtime Nevada poll leader Joe Biden, once considered the front-runner for a Culinary endorsement.

“We’ve worked really hard to make sure members know what’s going on with the candidates, and we’re not stopping that,” union Secretary-Treasurer Geoconda Argüello-Kline said at a news conference. “We’re going to endorse our goals, what we’re doing. We’re not going to endorse a political candidate.”

Nevada holds its caucuses Saturday. ❚ Back in the news: Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh drew bipartisan criticism for saying the country won’t elect Pete Buttigieg president because he’s been “kissing his husband” on stage after debates. Limbaugh’s comments came eight days after President Donald Trump awarded him the nation’s top civilian honor during the State of the

Union address.

“They’re saying, ‘OK, how’s this going to look?’ ” Limbaugh said Wednesday, imagining Democrats’ thinking. “Thirtyseven-year-old gay guy kissing his husband on stage, next to Mr. Man, Donald Trump.”

Buttigieg, 38, didn’t address Limbaugh’s remarks. At a town hall Thursday in Las Vegas, he said, “I’m proud of my marriage, I’m proud of my husband.”

But Biden assailed Limbaugh on ABC’s “The View.”

“I mean, my God,” said Biden, who called it “part of the depravity of this administration.” He added, “Pete and I are competitors, but this guy has honor, he has courage, he is smart as hell.”

Trump, asked if Americans would vote for a gay man to be president, responded, “I think so.” ❚ Two out of three ain’t right: Democratic hopefuls Tom Steyer and Sen. Amy Klobuchar were stumped when asked during a televised interview in Nevada to name the Mexican president.

It is Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who took offi ce in December 2018.

Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, was the only one of the three candidates interviewed by the Spanish-language station Telemundo who knew the answer. “Lopez Obrador, I hope,” he said with a smile. ❚ Crossing the red line: At the height of the 2008 economic collapse, thenNew York Mayor Mike Bloomberg said the elimination of a discriminatory housing practice known as “redlining” was responsible for instigating the meltdown.

“It all started back when there was a lot of pressure on banks to make loans to everyone,” Bloomberg said at a forum that was hosted by Georgetown University in September 2008. “Redlining, if you remember, was the term where banks took whole neighborhoods and said, ‘People in these neighborhoods are poor, they’re not going to be able to pay off their mortgages, tell your salesmen don’t go into those areas.’ ” Under pressure from Congress and local offi cials, he said, “banks started making more and more loans where the credit of the person buying the house wasn’t

as good as you would like.”

Not everyone agreed.

“It’s been well documented that the 2008 crash was caused by unethical, predatory lending that deliberately targeted communities of color,” said Debra Gore-Mann, president and CEO of the Greenlining Institute, a nonprofi t.

Said Sen. Elizabeth Warren: “I’m surprised that someone running for the Democratic nomination thinks the economy would be better off if we just let banks be more overtly racist. We need to confront the shameful legacy of discrimination, not lie about it like Mike Bloomberg.”

Bloomberg campaign spokesman Stu Loeser said he “attacked predatory lending” as mayor and, if elected president, has a plan to “help a million more black families buy a house, and counteract the eff ects of redlining and the subprime mortgage crisis.” ❚ Looking ahead: Can’t get enough of the debates? Democrats have two more this month, on Wednesday in Las Vegas and Feb. 25 in Charleston, South Carolina.

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Donald Aufderbeck CINCINNATI - Aufderbeck, Donald “Don”, devoted husband of the late Rita (nee Ahlrichs) Aufderbeck, loving father of Paul (Beth) Aufderbeck, Nancy (Mark) Roth, Jill (Russ) Willoughby, Mark (Ann) Aufderbeck, Mike (Leslie) Aufderbeck, cherished grandfather of 15 and 3 great grandchildren. Dear brother of Sr. Grace Catherine S.C., and Kay Schaller. Also survived by many caring relatives and friends.

Don was a Korean War Army Veteran. Passed away February 14, 2020 at the age of 91. Visitation Friday, February 21, 2020 at St. Ignatius Loyola Church, 5222 N. Bend Road, Cincinnati, OH 45247, from 11 AM until time of the celebration of The Mass of Christian Burial at Noon. In lieu of flowers, remembrances may be made to Elder High School (Elder Baseball) 3900 Vincent Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45205. www.meyergeiser.com.

CINCINNATI - Margaret Ann Birch, 67, passed away on February 11, 2020, Beloved wife of Albert Birch, loving mother of Eddie DeMerle, Bridgette Hernandez, Kathy DeMerle, Kimberly Combs, Jennifer Carter and Albert Birch Jr.; Grandmother of many; sister of Alice McBride, Bobby Hunter, Earlene Meadows, Phyllis Wingert, Retha Zeinner, Ronald Hunter, Patty Kemfort and Charlotte Lively; daughter of the late James Paul Hunter and the late Lena Mae Fristoe and many other family members. Family will receive friends on Friday, February 21, 2020 at Spring Grove Funeral Homes, 4389 Spring Grove Ave. Cincinnati, OH 45223 ,beginning at 10:00am until time of service at 11:00am, Condolences at www.springgrove. org

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ald Joseph Benson, 73, of Bradenton, Florida died February 4.

He was born in Kenton County, Kentucky, the eldest child of Elizabeth and Forest Benson. After graduating high school, Don served in the United States Navy as a corpsman during the Vietnam War. Following his naval service, he settled in Cincinnati, Ohio and began a fulfilling career in nursing home administration.

He was the loving father of Melissa (John) Lewis, Eric Benson, and Lisa (Brian) Keegan. After moving from Cincinnati to Bradenton, Don worked as a flooring sales consultant, a job he enjoyed until his lung cancer diagnosis, three years ago. One of the titles he was most proud of is that of “PaPa” to his grandchildren, Ally Keegan, Henry Lewis, and Liam and James Keegan.

Don was known for his wisdom, good sense of humor, and compassionate nature. He enjoyed spending time with his family, dining out with friends and family, attending his weekly poker games, and taking occasional trips to the casino.

Don also enjoyed watching television and movies, reading, and listening to music. His favorite bits of advice were to “go with the flow” and to “take things one day at a time.”

In addition to his children and grandchildren, Don is survived by a brother, Thomas Benson, a sister, Mary Wright, and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends. He was preceded in death by his parents, a sister, Karen Wilton Lynch, and a brother, Steven Benson.

A private memorial service has been held. Memorial contributions may be made to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute or to Disabled American Veterans (DAV).

Nancy R. Cooke ANDERSON TWP. -

Nancy R. Cooke, age 81 of Anderson Twp., passed away on February 6, 2020. She was the beloved daughter of the late David and Rosemary (Deimling) Cooke, loving sister of Barbara Cooke, Sally (William) Trey, Stephen (Debbie) Cooke, and twin sister of the late Janet (Richard) Stewart, and caring aunt of 10 nieces and nephews and 31 great-nieces and nephews. Nancy was a dedicated elementary school teacher. Her longest tenure was in the Kettering Schools in Dayton, Ohio. She also taught in Cincinnati Public and Catholic Schools. Mass of Christian Burial will be held at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church on Wednesday, February 19th at 10 am. Friends may visit at the church on Wednesday from 9 to 10 am. A private family interment will follow at Gate of Heaven Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to Matthew 25 Ministries, 11060 Kenwood Rd., Cincinnati, OH. 45242 or Heartland Hospice Care, 3960 Red Bank Rd., Cincinnati, OH. 45227. T.P. White & Sons Funeral Home serving the family. www.tpwhite.com

Francis L. Evans III Francis L. Evans III, husband of the late Ethel S. Evans (nee Sesline) beloved father of Erica E. (Cathy Rogers) Dufresne, devoted brother of Judy Sullivan & Maria Sanders, dear grandfather of Christopher & Nathan Dufresne, also survived by many nieces & nephews. Died Feb. 4, 2020 at the age of 82. Memorial Service will be held on February 29, 2020, at 2pm, in the Cedars of Lebanon Chapel located in the Memorial Mausoleum at Spring Grove Cemetery. Friends may visit at the Chapel from 1pm-2pm. Memorial to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

T.P. WHITE & SONS Funeral Home serving the family. www.tpwhite.com

W. Geesner Jr. (Feb. 1, 1929 – Feb. 13, 2020), beloved husband of the late Shirley (nee Reidinger) Geesner.

Devoted father of Ron (Debbie) Geesner and Terry (Jacque) Geesner.

Loving Grandfather of Matthew (Logan), Andrew (Jamie), Bryan (Jillian) and Tony (McKenna) and seven Great Grandchildren (Aubrey, Callie, Brooklyn, Ellie, Jenson, Otto, and Maverick). Henry passed away at the age of 91. He was born in Owensville, OH, and was a U.S. Army veteran who served in the Korean War. Henry was a dedicated worker of 44 years for American Laundry. Visitation at Gilligan Funeral Home, 8225 Montgomery Rd. on Monday (Feb. 17) from 5:00 pm until 7:00 pm. Mass of Christian Burial at St. Saviour, 4136 Myrtle Ave., Tuesday (Feb. 18), 10:00 am.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to the American Heart Association would be appreciated. Condolences may be expressed at GilliganFuneralHome. com

Donald “Don” Flick GREEN TOWNSHIP - Beloved husband of Marjorie (nee Hais) Flick. Loving father of Mary Ann (Charles) Baverman and Robert (Heather) Flick, MD. Devoted grandfather of Charles (Jessica) Baverman, Nancy (Bryan) Wilson, Maria (Jon) Vehr, Elizabeth (Elliot) Lucas, Donald , Mary Ellen and Julie Baverman, Tommy and Robbie Flick. Also survived by 7 great-grandchildren. Dear brother of the late James (Lee) Flick, Stanley (Edna) Flick, Anna Mae Gilmartin and Thomas Flick. Brother-in-law of Mildred (late Richard) Berning & Crystel Flick.

Also survived by numerous nieces and nephews.

Dear son of the late James Flick and Elizabeth (Spielman) Flick. Also preceded in death by numerous brother and sister-in-laws. Passed away peacefully on Thursday, February 13, 2020. Age 90 years. Don was the owner of the Pink Pages for 45 years, a member of the Cheviot-Westwood Kiwanis Club and an avid golfer. Visitation Tuesday, February 18 beginning at 9 am until Rosary at 10 am and then Funeral Mass at 10:30am at St. Antoninus Church 1500 Linneman Rd. (Covedale).

Memorials may be made to Catholic Inner City Schools Education Fund (CISE), Tender Mercies or The FreeStore Foodbank. Special thanks to the caring staff at Bayley Place and Don’s long-time caregiver, Tonya McKenzie. neidhardminges.com

William “Bill” Gerhardt, MD CINCINNATI - William

John “Bill” Gerhardt MD, 91, passed peacefully from this life into eternal life on Feb. 5, 2020.

Dr. Bill was a beloved Westside Pediatrician who cared for over 7500 newborns, children & adolescents during his career. Dr. Gerhardt was born in Cinti. on June 30, 1928, the first child of William Jacob Gerhardt and Eleonora Gerhardt (nee Yalen). He was preceded in death by his parents, his only brother John Y. Gerhardt, and his devoted and supportive wife of 56 years, Ruth Mae Gerhardt (nee Moak). He was the devoted father of David W. (Jody) of Flat Rock, NC, Richard P. (Dawn) of Madras, OR & Timothy D. (Annamarie Borich) of Cinti., loving grandfather of Braden (Kasi), Andrew (Kim), Nathan (Nuka), Jasper (Tayler), Aurora and Willow, loving great grandfather of Hadley, Hollis, Celestine and Didier & uncle of Jill Orobello (the late Dr. Peter), John Gerhardt (Monica) and Dan Moak (Jennifer).

Friends may greet the family Sat., Feb. 22, 9:30 AM until time of service at 10:30 AM at the Evangelical Community Church, 2191 Struble Rd., Cinti.

45231. In lieu of flowers, memorials to Evangelical Community Church, 2192 Springdale Rd., Cinti.

45231, City Gospel Mission, 1805 Dalton, Cinti.

45214 or Life Forward Pregnancy Care of Cinti., 2415 Auburn, Cinti. 45219. For complete obituary see www.dennisgeorgefunerals.com

Thomas R Deschu MONFORT HEIGHTS

- Thomas R Deschu, beloved brother of Alan Deschu and the late Antoinette Deschu, Retired Archdiocesan School Teacher. Died, Friday, February 14, 2020 age 78. Visitation in St Catharine of Siena Church, Thursday, 9:30 AM until the funeral mass at 10:30 AM. Burial to follow at St Mary Cemetery, St Bernard. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to Hospice of Cincinnati, 4310 Cooper Rd, Cincinnati (45242). Arrangements entrusted to Rebold, Rosenacker & Sexton Funeral Home. Condolences may be shared online at www.rebold. com

Ruth Emma Hofer MORROW - Ruth Emma (nee: Whitaker) Hofer, 93, of Morrow, died on Thursday, February 13, 2020. Born on February 16, 1926 to Otis and Susan (nee: Jack) Whitaker, Ruth worked as a teacher’s aide at Morrow Elementary. She was active with the Morrow Methodist Church, the Eastern Star and a member of the Farm Bureau and Lebanon Grange. Ruth Emma was very active at Mason Christian Village, where she led the exercise class. Preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Robert “Bud” Hofer, two sons, Fred and Chuck Hofer, one brother, Jack Whitaker and her sister, Carleen McTamney. She is survived by her son, John (JoAnn) Hofer of Monroe and step-son James Lee (Kay) Hofer of Clarksville, one daughter-in-law, Belita Hofer of Blanchester and numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren. Visitation, Wednesday, February 19, 2020 from 5:00 pm-8:00 pm with a service on Thursday, February 20, 2020 at 10:00 AM all at the Vale-Hoskins Funeral Home, Morrow OH. Interment will follow in Morrow Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to the Morrow Methodist Church and/or Hospice of Cincinnati. Online condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www.hoskinsfh.com.

Kathleen Gilliland CINCINNATI - Gilliland, Kathleen (nee Hutchison), loving mother of Michael, and Scott (Kristin), and the late William Gilliland. Cherished grandmother of Seth, Hannah, Kyle and Luke Gilliland. Dear sister of David (Carol) Hutchison, Judy (Ernest) Hinkle, the late Billy and Tony Hutchison.

Passed away February 13, 2020 at the age of 72. Visitation Tuesday February 18, 2020 at Meyer & Geiser Funeral Home, 4989 Glenway Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45238, from 10:30 AM until service at Noon. www.meyergeiser.com.

Thomas Howell Jr CINCINNATI - passed Feb. 6 at the tender age of 81. Friends and family may celebrate his life on Mon. Feb 17 at Dayton National Cemetery 4400 W. 3rd St Dayton, OH 45417 with USMC military honors beginning at 12 noon .

Corey Junius CINCINNATI - Corey Joseph Junius, passedaway on February 12, 2020 at age 33. Loving son of Joe (Jeni) Junius and Toni (Rob) Thoroughman. Brother of Michaela (Dan) Sweatt, Jason and Kyle Thoroughman, and the late Heather Gentry. Survived by grandparents Joe and Sara Junius, step-g randparents Dan and Lynne Kinney, and pre-deceased by grandparents Victor and Margaret Griffin. Also surviving are aunts, uncles and cousins: Mitzi (Steve) Willoughby; Brittany and Zach, Danielle (Scott) Abner; Brandon and Logan, Chris Kinney; Zach, Drew, Jacob and Carson, Nicole (Tim) Bass; Caden and Maddie. There will be a Memorial Visitation, Wednesday, February 19, 2020 from 12–2 PM at Gilligan Funeral Home, 8225 Montgomery Road, Kenwood. Interment at Mt. Moriah Cemetery Columbarium at 3 PM. Online condolences: GilliganFuneralHomes.com.

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James E. Kern Jr. (Jim) EL DORADO HILL, CA

- James E. Kern Jr. (Jim) passed away peacefully at age 70 at his home in El Dorado Hills, California on January 30, 2020 after a short battle with cancer. Jim was the son of the late James and Shirley Kern of Cincinnati and Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. He is survived by his wife of nearly 50 years Susan (Wood) Kern and his daughter Jennifer Kern Weiss (Jason). In addition he is survived by his beloved grandchildren Jacob and Juliette Weiss, and Jackson and Ellie Kern, and their mother Jessica. Tragically his son Todd Kern, at age 38, predeceased him by just weeks. He is also survived by this sister Bonnie Kern White, and brother’s Bruce Kern (Holly) and Jeffrey Kern (Doreen) and many nieces and nephews.

Jim graduated from Moeller High School, Xavier University- Bachelors Degree, and the University of Cincinnati- Master’s Degree. Professionally, Jim was a custom home builder who loved creating unique and beautiful homes for his clients and family. Jim and Susan built six custom homes together for their own family in Cincinnati, Ohio and Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida before relocating to California in 2003 to be closer to their daughter and her family. He was always involved in his community through various Homeowner Associations and volunteering on the Grand Jury.

Jim had various hobbies from golf to gardening but in the last few years spent most of his time palling about with his grandson Jackson. He is best remembered for his intellect and wicked sense of humor. He had little interest in “political correctness” and was always finding humor in every situation.

A memorial service will be held in the spring for Jim Kern and his son Todd. The date and place have not yet been determined. His family extends their sincerest appreciation to friends and family that provided so much support. In memory of Jim Kern please plan a special meal with loved ones or make a gift to an organization of your choice.

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Doris and Thomas Lillie LEBANON - Doris Fay Lillie (92) and Thomas Earl Lillie (95) of Lebanon, OH, were together on his 95th birthday in October 2019-as they were for so much of their 72year marriage. They died just days apart in January 2020 with family members at their sides. They are survived by their three children Thomas S. Lillie, Barbara J. Brown and Gayle L. Carrier. Doris and Tom were cherished by their 7 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. They will be missed greatly by friends and family and held with love in all our memories. www.tuftsschildmeyer.com

FOREST PARK - Wilson McDonald passed away on February 9, 2020 at the age of 84.

Funeral services will be held on Saturday, February 22, 2020 at the Israel Baptist Missionary Church 1050 Kemper Meadow Dr. Forest Park, OH. The family will receive friends from 10am until time of service 11am.

Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery. Professional services by Donald Jordan Memorial Chapel. www.donaldjordanmc. com

Charles Mohr CHEVIOT - Charles D. Mohr, beloved father of Melissa Mohr, loving grandfather of Ashley and Dayna Duckworth, devoted great grandfather of Amarianna, Carmelo and Armani “Bo”, dear brother of Nancy Mohr and the late Dorothy Mohr. Died, Tuesday, February 11, 2020 age 79. Visitation at Rebold Rosenacker & Sexton Funeral Home, Cheviot, Monday 5 PM to 8 PM. Funeral Mass, Tuesday, 10:30 AM, St Martin of Tours Church. Burial, with Military Honors in New St Joseph Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to St. Martin of Tours Church. 3720 St. Martins Pl, Cheviot, (45211). Condolences may be shared online at www.rebold.com.

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FAIRFIELD - Peter John Murphy passed away peacefully on Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at the age of 74. He was born on November 27, 1945 in Brooklyn, New York to the late Kieran and Anna (Monbo) Murphy.

He was the loving husband of Karen (Shroyer) Murphy with whom he shared 52 years of marriage.

Along with his wife Karen, Pete was also survived by his children, Kim (Jamie) McBee and Kelly (Bryan) Price; his grandchildren :Taylor (Sean) Johnson, Bryce McBee, Chris, Courtney, Carson and Catherine Price. He is also survived by his brother Kieran (Lee) Murphy.

Private services were held on January 30. A celebration of Pete’s life will take place on March 20, 2020.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donation to Neediest Kids of All or Joe Nuxhall Miracle League.

Condolences may be left at www.springgrove.org.

SHARONVILLE Jim Pez. Passed away on February 7, 2020 at the age of 70 years.

Services will be private. For full obituary, see www.paulyoungfuneralhome.com .

Elwanda Nelson HARRISON - Elwanda J. Nelson; Beloved wife of the late John W. Nelson for 58 years; Devoted mother of Gary Nelson and the late Beverly (William) Burks; Loving grandmother of 7; Cherished Great-Grandmother of 6; Dear sister of Ann Hughes; Decided to go peacefully after a long 5 year battle on dialysis, Wednesday, February 12, 2020 at the of age 82. Elwanda was happiest spending time with her family. She loved being a grandma and great-grandma and was called G.G. by all her grand kids. She will be missed by all who knew her. Visitation will be Monday, February 17, 2020 from 9:30 a.m. until time of services at 11:00 am at Paul R. Young Funeral Home, 7345 Hamilton Ave., Mt. Healthy. Interment at Crown Hill Memorial Park. Remembrances may be sent to Hospice of Cincinnati at Twin Towers or to DaVita Harrison Dialysis. Condolences may be sent to www.paulyoungfuneralhome.com

Harry C. Nauman Jr. Beloved husband of 65 years to Arlene Nauman (nee Greder) loving father of Debbie (Gary) Bachman and the late Dorrie Walters, dear grandfather of 6 grandchildren: Brian (Sarah) Bachman, Sherry Huber, Dan Bachman, Shayna (Trevas) Trosper, Sarah (Trent) Matthews and Greg Bachman, great grandfather of 12 great grandchildren: Kaylee Wendling, Mason Luensman, Noah and Sophie Bachman, Emma Southworth, Luke Matthews, Ben, Lily, Johnny and Francie Bachman, Danielle Bachman and Maddox Baker, brother of the late Carl (Peggy) Nauman, as well as several nieces and nephews. Friday, February 14, 2020 age 86.

Visitation Wednesday 9 AM until time of service at 10 AM at the Cedars of Lebanon Chapel @ Spring Grove Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to VITAS Hospice or Burlington House. www. vittstermeranderson. com

Diana M. Poston GREEN TWP. - Diana M. Poston (nee Striet), loving wife of Ron Poston for 54 years. Beloved mother of Laura (Thomas) Shoemake, Debbie (Bill) Wittich, and Sandy (Matt) Sanders. Devoted grandmother of Billy and Owen Wittich, Mitchell, Raelyn, and Lydia Sanders, Dani and Larissa Shoemake.

Dear sister of Carolyn Peters, Janice Breen, Ralph, Jeff, and the late Bill Striet. Died Feb. 12, 2020. Age 75. Gathering to be held, Thursday Feb. 20th from 10:30AM until time of Mass of Christian Burial at 11:30AM at St. Ignatius Loyola Church 5222 North Bend Road (45247). In lieu of flowers, memorials requested to the Great Parks of Hamilton County (www.greatparks.org).

Mihovk-Rosenacker Funeral Home. www. mrfh.com

Father John Sebastian Rausch Glenmary Father John Sebastian Rausch died Sunday, February 9, 2020. He was 75. Father John is survived by sisters, Marian J. McGinity and Melanie V. Cannon, fellow missioners and friends. A native of Philadelphia, PA., Father John was a Glenmary Missioner for 53 years. Reception of the body will take place at 4:30 pm on Tuesday, February 18, 2020 at St. Matthias Catholic Church, 1050 W. Kemper Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45240.

Visitation will follow, and wake service will begin at 7 pm. Mass of Christian Burial will be 10 am Wednesday, February 19, 2020 at St. Matthias Catholic Church. Father John will be interred at Gate of Heaven Cemetery. Memorials may be made to Glenmary Home Missioners, P.O. Box 465618, Cincinnati, OH 45246-5618. To leave a message of condolence to the family, please visit www.NewcomerCincinnati.com.

Carl Alfred Storms, Jr. CINCINNATI - Carl Alfred Storms Jr., age 88, passed, Wed., Feb. 12, 2020, in Cincinnati, OH. He was born Oct. 25, 1931, in Covington, KY to the late Carl A. Sr. and Gladys nee Arvin Storms.

He is survived by wife of 34 years, Mattie L. Storms; daughter’s, Patricia A. Burley, Regina Chenault, Valarie Storms, Angela Storms and Pauline (Jerome) Storms Herring; son’s, Roderick Storms, Jerry (Kimberly) Davis, Carl Storms, III and the late Eric Storms. Visitation 11:00 am, Sat., Feb. 22, 2020, at the Mother of Christ Catholic Church, 5301 Winneste Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45232. Service will immediately follow the visitation at 12:00 pm.

Interment in Spring Grove Cemetery. Arrangement by Walker

Ruth C. Sies (nee Stewart) MONTGOMERY Beloved wife of the late James D. Sies Sr. Devoted mother of Valerie (Keith) Wren, Vicki (Eric) Strauch and James D. Sies Jr. Cherished Gra/Grandma of Joseph (Melissa) Reusch, Jeffrey (Angela) Reusch, Kelly (Sean) Scott, Amy Strauch and Tabitha Wren.

Great-Grandma of Piper,Adam, Parker, David, Caleb, Paisley Reusch and one on-the-way.

Ruth is also survived by many wonderful family members and friends.

Preceded in death by her siblings, Roger “Bill” (Lena) Stewart and Mary (James) Baldwin. Departed on February 14, 2020 at the age of 87. Visitation will be held on Thursday, February 20 from 10 am until Funeral Service at 11 am, all at Brecon United Methodist Church, 7388 E. Kemper Rd. Cincinnati, OH 45249. Condolences may be expressed at www.mrfh.com

Timothy Wolohan CINCINNATI - Timothy Wilson Wolohan, 78, passed away on February 6, 2020, Beloved husband of the late Georgine B. Wolohan, loving father of Tara (Tom) Kilcoyne and Patrick Wolohan, grandfather of Rosie and Patrick Kilcoyne and son of the late Robert E. Wolohan and Rita A. (nee Wilson) Wolohan. A family graveside service will be held on Saturday, February 22 at Spring Grove Cemetery at 1:30pm. Memorial donations may be directed to the Georgine B. Wolohan Masters Academy at Mount St. Joseph University, 5701 Delhi Road, Cincinnati, 45233 or www. msj.edu/give. Condolences at www.springgrove.org

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“Yeah, I trained for sure, but I didn’t do any baseball stuff,” Joey Votto said of changing his offseason routine for the fi rst time in his 13-year career. “I needed to take some time away. I felt like it was really good because I’m motivated to put in that extra work, which is the most important part of spring training.” KAREEM ELGAZZAR/THE ENQUIRER

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In the photograph, future Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow sits in full uniform on a black couch, his right knee over his left leg. It’s 30 minutes or so after his team, LSU, has defeated Clemson to win the championship of college football. After fi ve months of concentrated craziness, Burrow has found a moment of unqualifi ed satisfaction and calm.

Half an hour earlier, he’d stood on the fi eld at the Superdome as confetti rained down and thousands of Tigers fans happily lost their minds. Five minutes after that, Burrow bounced from hug to hug in the winning locker room, bathed in delirium.

See DAUGHERTY, Page 9C

Votto arrived at camp early and with something to prove Bobby Nightengale Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

GOODYEAR, Arizona – After a disappointing 2019 season, Joey Votto wanted to stay away from baseball for as long as he could throughout the off season. He didn’t pick up a bat in the winter.

As spring training neared, Votto did something he hasn’t done throughout his 13-year Major League career. He showed up more than a week early to camp, arriving in Arizona on Feb. 5, after canceling a planned vacation.

“I’m excited about the challenge this year,” Votto said. “I don’t think I’ve felt that in a long time.”

The Reds had a large contingent of position players arrive at their spring training complex before Sunday’s mandatory report date. Part of it was excitement about the off season’s moves. Part of it was avoiding the cold weather at

their homes.

Votto took his fi rst swings on Feb. 6.

“Yeah, I trained for sure, but I didn’t do any baseball stuff ,” Votto said. “I needed to take some time away. I felt like it was really good because I’m motivated to put in that extra work, which is the most important part of spring training. The early part of the season, putting in as much work as possible and then letting that carry through the last, however long it takes for the rest of the season. That’s where my head’s at.”

Votto was upset with the way he played in 2019. He had a career-low .768 on-base plus slugging percentage, well below his .941 career OPS. He drew fewer walks as pitchers challenged him more often. After hitting 36 homers in 2018, he’s combined for 27 homers in the last two seasons.

“I mean, it’s the worst season I’ve had in my career pretty clearly,” Votto said. “I don’t think it’s close. Everything went the wrong way.

“I don’t really want to talk about last season in general. It was a poor eff ort.

We played poorly as a team. I’m not trying to, like, a ‘we’re looking forward’ sort of thing. It’s just I’ve discussed it so many times, I don’t really want to rehash it.”

It’s easier to look ahead when there is excitement about the new additions.

The Reds committed more than $166 million to fi ve free agents: outfi elder Nick Castellanos, infi elder Mike Moustakas, outfi elder Shogo Akiyama, lefthanded starter Wade Miley and reliever Pedro Strop.

Votto, who signed a 10-year, $225 million contract extension in 2012, is the only remaining player who remains in the organization from their 2013 playoff roster. He had some of his best seasons on rebuilding teams.

What was his reaction to the off season?

See REDS XTRA, Page 6C

Daytona favorite? Who knows Jenna Fryer

ASSOCIATED PRESS

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The fi rst four events leading into the Daytona 500 have produced four diff erent winners. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. put his new team on the pole, while Erik Jones outlasted a crash-fest to win a qualifying race. Joey Logano and William Byron won the qualifying races.

No clear favorite has emerged for “The Great American Race.” No single manufacturer has a demonstrated edge going into NASCAR’s version of the Super Bowl. It was a Toyota 1-2-3 sweep for Joe Gibbs Racing last year, in part because of mandated manufacturer alliances for drivers to work together, but there’s so far been little indication the race will play out the same way Sunday.

Instead, this is a wide-open fi eld of 40 drivers and all believe they have a shot at the life-changing victory and the record $23.6 million that will be divvied up by among the drivers. And why not? The unpredictability of Daytona allowed Justin Haley to gamble on rain strategy last July and shock the fi eld with a win in his third and fi nal start of the season.

Now Haley is back at Daytona for his

“I think survival will be more talked about this year than any year in the past,” says Kevin Harvick, center. “We have all been programmed to block and do things with the old package for so many years, and this is not the old package.” AP

debut in the Daytona 500, just one of a handful of drivers in a watered-down fi eld that includes six Cup Series rookies, a 10-year veteran who had failed to qualify for the race in his only other previous attempt and a slew of others chasing the payout that can extend the season for any fl edgling team.

Timmy Hill raced his way into Sunday’s fi eld in a qualifying race and said his Daytona 500 debut will keep tiny MBM Motorsports in business for the

foreseeable future. More important?

Hill thinks he’s got a chance to be competitive Sunday.

“My car is very capable of running competitively in this race,” Hill said. “I feel like we’re not just here to participate, we’re here to race.”

But no one knows what that racing will look like when the fl ag drops on the 62nd running after President Donald Trump, named the grand marshal for the race, gives the command for drivers to start their engines. The exhibition Busch Clash was a demolition derby as drivers shook off the off season rust and adjusted to NASCAR’s new rules package.

The superspeedway rules implemented last season put a taller spoiler on the cars and made for unpredictable closing rates – and they were not used in the Daytona 500. Teams raced the package twice at Talladega, and in the July race at Daytona that was shortened 82 miles by rain. Moments before the sky opened, former Daytona 500 winner Austin Dillon wrecked the favorites with an aggressive move as the leader.

The Busch Clash last weekend was See DAYTONA, Page 4C

Here’s a second swing at the draft Tyler Dragon

Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

With the No. 1 overall pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, the Cincinnati Bengals select?

Most around the NFL believe the Bengals will take LSU quarterback Joe Burrow. The Enquirer fi rst reported the Bengals have their eyes set on the LSU QB shortly after the regular season ended. Have things changed since last month’s mock draft?

Leading up to April’s NFL draft, The Enquirer will publish multiple mock drafts to provide insight on what teams are thinking at the top of the draft.

2020 NFL Mock Draft 2.0 1. Cincinnati Bengals: Joe Burrow, QB, LSU: Barring a colossal reversal in plans, the Bengals are focused on drafting LSU quarterback Joe Burrow.

There’s been speculation that Burrow might not want to play in Cincinnati for the Bengals. Don’t believe it. Burrow grew up right up the road in Athens, Ohio and has no qualms about playing for the Bengals.

Burrow is the safest quarterback prospect in the draft. The LSU QB is accurate throwing the football, he reads See DRAFT, Page 8C

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The Game Tipoff: Noon, Sunday, Feb. 16 | Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum (capacity: 8,000) TV/Radio: Michael Grady (play-byplay) and Bob Wentzel (analyst) will have the call on the CBS Sports Network. | Dan Hoard (play-by-play) and Terry Nelson (analyst) will have the radio call on WLW-AM (700).

Series info: 16th meeting. UC leads 13-2 all-time, including an 82-57 victory last month in Cincinnati.

CINCINNATI Record: 16-8, 9-3 AAC Kenpom.com rating: No. 38 overall; Adjusted offensive efficiency: 109.1, No. 54; Adjusted defensive efficiency: 93.7, No. 46; The coach: John Brannen – 16-8; first season at UC; 98-59 overall (Northern Kentucky)

Projected lineup Player Mika Adams-Wood Jarron Cumberland Keith Williams Trevon Scott Chris Vogt

Pos Ht Key stat G 6-3 4.9 ppg G 6-5 15.1 ppg G 6-5 12.3 ppg F 6-8 9.9 rpg C 7-1 12.3 ppg

EAST CAROLINA Record: 10-15, 4-8 AAC Kenpom.com rating: No. 215 overall; Adjusted offensive efficiency: 98.7, No. 236; Adjusted defensive efficiency: 103.0 No. 188; The coach: Joe Dooley – 20-36; second stint, sixth season at ECU; 191-146 overall (Florida Gulf Coast).

Projected lineup Player T.-Robinson-White Tristan Newton J.J. Miles Jayden Gardner Charles Coleman

Pos Ht Key stat G 6-1 7.7 ppg G 6-5 9.6 ppg G 6-7 7.4 ppg F 6-7 20.2 ppg C 7-0 2.4 ppg

Noteworthy UC enters after beating Memphis Thursday 92-86 in overtime at Fifth Third Arena. Senior Trevon Scott matched his career-high with 25 points and pulled in a career-best 19 rebounds.

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AMHERST, Mass. – Jalen Crutcher gave Dayton the edge in the second half of a tight road game on Saturday.

Crutcher scored 11 straight points over a nearly two-minute span and got 15 of his 17 points in the fi nal half as the sixth-ranked Flyers held off the UMass 71-63 for a 14th straight win.

“I knew my team needed it, so I just had to go out there, you know, try to do what was best for the team at the time,” Crutcher said.

Obi Toppin had 19 points to lead Dayton (23-2, 12-0 Atlantic 10), which hasn’t lost since a 78-76 overtime defeat against Colorado on Dec. 21.

The Flyers remain unbeaten in regulation this season after carrying the fi fth-longest winning streak in Division I into the game.

“We’re trying to win a national championship,” Crutcher said. “We feel like that there’s no team in the country, that’s just like nobody, (we can’t) beat.

We feel like we can go and win a national championship, and we talk about that a lot.”

Tre Mitchell had a game-high 26 points and 10 rebounds and Samba Diallo added 10 points for the Minutemen.

UMass (10-15, 4-8) has dropped seven of 10. The Minutemen have lost 10 straight against AP top-10 teams, dating back to a 61-59 upset of No. 7 Connecticut on Dec. 29, 2004.

“We were gonna hold the secondmost off ensive effi cient team in the country to 60 points,” Minutemen coach Matt McCall said. “We were right there.

Just that one stretch.”

Dibaji Walker’s layup with 11:23 remaining brought the Minutemen back within 46-41 after the Flyers led by fi ve at halftime. Crutcher then hit back-toback 3-pointers, a layup and another 3 with 7:03 remaining to push Dayton’s lead up to 14.

“When I hit my fi rst shot, that’s when I was feeling it,” Crutcher said. “So it was on from there.”

After the Flyers led by as many as 16, UMass used a late 7-0 run to pull within single digits and trailed 67-61 after two Diallo free throws with 23 seconds to play.

Toppin missed two free throws and Carl Pierre made a quick layup to make it

Jalen Crutcher scored 11 straight points over a nearly two-minute span to help Dayton pull away from UMass 71-63 for the Flyers’ 14th straight win. AP

67-63 with 14 seconds to go. Crutcher made two free throws to help seal it and Pierre missed a desperation 3 in the closing seconds.

Dayton led 31-26 at the break behind an 11-point fi rst half for Toppin.

Mitchell scored six of his team’s fi rst 10 points as UMass led 10-4 fi ve minutes in. A 3-pointer by Mitchell made it 15-10 before Dayton rallied with a 15-0 run while holding the Minutemen scoreless over a nine-minute span.

“For me, I didn’t have anything to lose (today). I didn’t,” Mitchell said. “I think a lot of people are gonna take notice of today’s performance. It was just another opportunity for me.”

No. 3 Kansas 87, Oklahoma 70: Marcus Garrett scored a career-high 24 points, Devon Dotson added 19 and third-ranked Kansas kept pace with No. 1 Baylor in what has become a two-team race toward the Big 12 title.

Garrett hit a career-best six 3-pointers while adding seven assists, fi ve rebounds and four steals. Udoka Azubuike added 15 points and 17 rebounds, and Ochai Agbaji scored 10 points, as the Jayhawks (22-3, 11-1) won their 10th straight since falling to the Bears at Allen Fieldhouse in early January.

Kristian Doolittle had 27 points and

12 rebounds to lead Oklahoma (16-9, 6-6), but the senior forward needed 20 fi eld-goal attempts to get there.

No. 8 Florida State 80, Syracuse 77: Patrick Williams scored 17 points and pulled down seven rebounds for FSU, which played without star guard Devin Vassell. M.J. Walker scored 16 points, including fi ve 3-pointers, as the Seminoles (21-4, 11-3 ACC) won their 20th straight home game.

Georgetown 73, No. 16 Butler 66: Terrell Allen tied a career high with 22 points, including key baskets on backto-back possessions late, and shorthanded Georgetown endured on the road without its top two scorers. The Hoyas (15-10, 5-7 Big East) were missing injured starters Mac McClung and Omer Yurtseven. Butler (19-7, 7-6) struggled without injured point guard Aaron Thompson.

Oklahoma State 73, No. 24 Texas Tech 70: Jonathan Laurent and Kalib Boone each scored 16 points, and Oklahoma State (13-12, 7-5 Big 12) earned its fi rst win over a ranked opponent this season. Kevin McCullar and Davide Moretti each scored 15 points and Jahmiús Ramsey added 14 for Texas Tech (16-9, 7-5).

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Kentucky pulls off yet another escape act John Hale

Louisville Courier Journal USA TODAY NETWORK

LEXINGTON - Immanuel Quickley picked a good moment to break out of his shooting slump.

After missing nine of his fi rst 11 shots and his fi rst six 3-point attempts, Quickley hit a 3-pointer with 9:51 remaining against Ole Miss that sparked a 7-0 run to turn a seven-point defi cit into a tie game.

As part of the 7-0 run that pulled Kentucky back into the game, Quickley contributed fi ve points and one assist. The sophomore guard scored 14 of his 17 points in the second half to lead UK to a 67-62 victory.

“Teammates keep telling me to shoot. Coaches keep telling me to shoot,” Quickley said. “They instill a lot of confi dence in me, which helps me give a lot of confi dence in myself. ... Eventually one’s got to fall.”

Kentucky won despite hitting just 2 of 22 3-point attempts thanks in large part to a 19-for-24 mark at the free throw line. Ole Miss hit 6 of 17 3s but attempted just 11 free throws.

The two teams traded leads nine times in the fi nal fi ve minutes with neither team leading by more than one point from the 5:31 mark until six seconds remained.

Kentucky took the lead for good on two Nick Richards free throws with 1:11 remaining, but still needed several miscues from Ole Miss to escape with the win.

Ole Miss star Breein Tyree, who entered the day tied for the Southeastern Conference lead in scoring, stepped to the free throw line with 57 seconds left and a chance to tie the game following Ashton Hagans’ fi fth foul but missed the front end of a one-and-one.

Playing point guard with Hagans relegated to the bench, Kentucky guard Tyrese Maxey turned the ball

Immanuel Quickley missed nine of his fi rst 11 shots but ended up scoring 14 of his 17 points in the second half as UK rallied past Ole Miss 67-62. AP

over with 29.9 seconds to give Ole Miss another chance.

This time Rebels guard Devontae Shuler airballed a 3 with 7.5 seconds left, and Quickley answered with two free throws for a 65-62 lead.

Kentucky elected to foul Tyree on the next possession to avoid a possible game-tying 3-pointer, but he missed the front end of a one-and-one for the second time in the fi nal minute. UK freshman forward Keion Brooks rebounded the miss and converted two free throws to close out the game.

Kentucky made its last 13 free throw attempts over the fi nal 13:36 of the game.

“That was the diff erence,” Ole Miss coach Kermit Davis said. “They shot 24 (free throws) and we shot 11.

Improved Buckeyes wallop Purdue

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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State hit its fi rst bucket of the game against Purdue and never looked back.

Aside from a 28-second tie at 3-3, the Buckeyes led every minute and topped the Boilermakers 68-52 Saturday afternoon for their fi fth win in the past six games.

Ohio State (17-8, 7-7) pulled to .500 in the Big Ten for the fi rst time since December, while Purdue (14-12, 7-8) lost its second in a row.

All eight Buckeyes to play hit the scoreboard, led by Kyle Young with a career high 16 points, and Kaleb Wesson had 13 and a season-high three steals. Luther Muhammad added 11.

“We knew it was going to be a fi ght from start to fi nish,” Muhammad said.

“Purdue came out to play hard. The coaches were just hitting on us to compete, execute, Toughness.

“They got on us to pressure the ball a lot and really just fi nd a way to… guard the three and control the drive.”

Ohio State beat Purdue for just the second time in their last six meetings.

“Our defense was as good and as sound as we have played all year,” Ohio State coach Chris Holtmann said. “Our defensive consistency was good. Purdue puts their players in great position to make it diffi cult to guard. We had stretches in fi rst half where we both missed shots and turned it over on their pressure, which they are good at.

Some of that was on us; some of that was a credit to them.”

Evan Boudreaux contributed 17 for the Boilermakers, while Jahaad Proctor added 15.

Kaleb Wesson’s has now scored 1,158 in his Ohio State career and surpassed Frank Howard for 40th on the Buckeyes all-time list.

Ohio State is on the road Thursday at Iowa.

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They got to the line and we didn’t. They went up one and had to make free throws and they did.”

Tyree, who totaled 101 points in the last three games before Saturday, led Ole Miss with 19 points but hit just 2 of 8 shots in the second half.

Quickley was joined in double fi gures by Richards (16) and Maxey (14), but Kentucky coach John Calipari was unwilling to single out any of his players for individual praise.

“At halftime, folks, we were 1 for 13 (from 3-point range), and from three-feet we were 1 for 10,” Calipari said. “How are you in the game? Like, I walked out and said, ‘You know what, I’m happy we’re in the game.’

And then we have dumb fouls down the stretch and they make them, and we fi ght to win.”

Saturday continued a recent trend for Quickley in making key plays down the stretch even on off shooting nights.

He made just 2 of 10 shots at Vanderbilt on Tuesday before hitting two important late 3s in the comeback win. At Arkansas, Quickley hit just 2 of 13 shots before knocking down the 3 that capped Kentucky’s run to take control of the game, then converted all four of his free throws in the fi nal minute. Against Mississippi State, Quickley hit just 3 of 11 shots but tied a school record by making all 14 free throw attempts, including eight in the fi nal minute.

“He’s in the gym every day working on his game,” Richards said of Quickley. “I think he just has so much faith in his game he just trusts himself to make the right play and knock down shots.”

Quickley’s confi dence is a weapon that fi gures to serve Kentucky well in postseason play.

“I don’t think Cal probably gets enough credit for player development,” Davis said.

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Tate is coming on for hot NKU J.L. Kirven

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Jalen Tate picked up where he left off Friday Night.

After scoring a season-high 24 points in his last performance, the junior outdid himself with a 31point showing in Northern Kentucky’s 84-70 win over IUPUI at BB&T Arena.

The win was the Norse’s (19-7, 11-3 Horizon League) fi fth straight.

Here are three takeaways from another impressive showing from Northern Kentucky.

Tate was great: Tate was the man on Friday night.

His season-high 31 points came in variety and with effi ciency. Tate was 10-of-14 from the fi eld, 2-of-4 from 3-point range and 9-of-11 from the free throw line. It was clear early that the guard was still feeling himself after the Norse’s win last week. He came out with confi dence and pushed the pace for himself and his teammates.

With the ball in his hands, the Norse’s fi rst eight points were either made or assisted by Tate. It was crucial that Tate brought it. The Norse were without star forward Dantez Walton and it had its hands full with Marcus Burk’s 30 points. Tate’s scoring and playmaking (seven assists, six rebounds, six steals) gave the Norse the push it needed to overcome an early defi cit and pull away.

A game of runs: A 14-point diff erential looks like a blowout, but the Jaguars hung tough with the Norse for most of the night. IUPUI’s grip would fi nally give

out midway through the second half. With 13:25 remaining Burk made a jumper to shorten Northern Kentucky’s lead to fi ve. The Jaguars wouldn’t score again until the clock read 9:14. During IUPUI’s 4-plus minute drought, Adham Eleeda hit a three-pointer, Tate scored four points, Tyler Sharpe sank two free throws and the Norse expanded its lead to 14 points. There was still plenty of game to play, but Northern Kentucky was able to keep the Jaguars at a distance for the remainder of the game.

No place like home: Despite the light crowd of 3,013, BB&T Arena held up its reputation of being a tough place to win on Friday night. Northern Kentucky has struggled at times on the road this season (8-5), but have been nearly perfect at home.

The Norse are 11-2 at home this season, but the longest homestand of the season is almost over. Following Sunday’s game against UIC, Northern Kentucky’s four-game home stretch will come to an end.

It’ll be back to the road for games against Cleveland State (Feb.20) and Youngstown State (Feb. 22).

Luckily for the Norse (19-7, 11-3 Horizon League), its season fi nale and most important game of the season will be at home Feb.28 against fi rst-place Wright State (22-5, 12-2). Wright State is the one team in Northern Kentucky’s way of a third-straight Horizon League title.

The Raiders humiliated the Norse with a 95-63 whipping in their fi rst meeting. The Norse plan to have the full strength of its roster and of BB&T Arena when the Raiders come to town, however.

CLEMSON, S.C. – Johnny Newman III had a career-high 23 points and Clemson used a strong defensive fi rst half to send No. 5 Louisville to its second straight defeat, 77-62 on Saturday.

The Tigers (13-12, 7-8 Atlantic Coast Conference) held the Cardinals to their lowest fi rst-half output this season as they led 31-14 at the break and limited the ACC’s leading scorer Jordan Nwora to fi ve points.

After Louisville cut a 21-point lead to 44-34 on Dwayne Sutton’s jumper with 9:49 left, Clemson took off on an 11-2 run to put the Cardinals in a hole they could not climb out of.

Tevin Mack’s basket started Clemson’s clinching surge, then Aamir Simms, Newman and Alex Hemenway added 3s to restore the large lead.

Louisville (21-5, 12-3) could not rally, losing consecutive games for just the second time this season.

Coupled with Clemson’s 79-72 win over then third-ranked Duke on Jan. 14, the Tigers topped a pair of top fi ve teams for the fi rst time since the 1979-80 season.

Fans rushed the court when the fi nal buzzer sounded, surrounding players and cheering Clemson’s victory.

Clemson coach Brad Brownell was disappointed with his team’s defensive play in an 80-62 loss at Louisville last month.

The slump dropped Louisville out of fi rst in the ACC after No. 7 Duke topped Notre Dame on Saturday to improve to 12-2 in the league.

Miami 65, Northern Illinois 60: Isaiah Coleman-Lands had 15 points off the bench to lift the RedHawks. Dae Dae Grant had 11 points for Miami (10-15, 3-9 MidAmerican Conference), which ended its fourgame losing streak. Elijah McNamara added 10 points. Bam Bowman had 10 points.

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Daytona Continued from Page 1C

similar as Logano threw a block on reigning series champion Kyle Busch that caused a wreck that collected Logano teammate Brad Keselowski. Angry words were exchanged, cars destroyed and only six drivers were running at the end. Keselowski and Logano are downplaying any feud, but blocking is a legitimate concern for Sunday.

“At the end of the day, you block because it works. It works until it doesn’t,” Clint Bowyer said. “That’s successful until it’s not, and then you’re the bad guy. You’ve wrecked the whole fi eld because it was an untimely block, and you wrecked everybody, but if you didn’t, you should have and you’re going to lose the race.

“So it’s a tricky thing to judge. It puts you on the spot. And it’s do or die, and it’s a decision that has to be made that fast.”

Kevin Harvick, the 2008 Daytona 500 winner, thinks smart racing will be critical Sunday with drivers having to ignore the way they’ve previously raced the speedway.

“I think survival will be more talked about this year than any year in the past,” Harvick said. “We have all been programmed to block and do things with the old package for so many years, and this is not the old package. The runs are happening faster. The cars are kind of lining up and spin out really easy to the right when you push them wrong.

They are fast compared to where we were before.”

Two-time and defending race winner Denny Hamlin is the William Hill betting favorite at 10-to-1 and his Toyota has indeed been good every time he’s hit the track. And even after he suff ered extensive damage in the Clash, he was still able to push teammate Jones to the victory.

The Daytona 500 has not had a backto-back winner since Sterling Marlin in 1994 and 1995, and he’s one of only three drivers to accomplish the feat.

“It’s tough, but there is more confi dence,” Hamlin said. “I think it’s been really a great run we’ve had over the last eight years in particular. We’ve been a factor to win every Daytona 500 it seems like for the last decade. I come here thinking there’s no reason that should be any diff erent.”

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Castillo is looking to expand his repertoire Bobby Nightengale Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

GOODYEAR, Arizona – As pitchers and catchers conducted their fi rst offi cial workout Saturday, Luis Castillo fl ashed a smile when he signaled for his fi rst changeup in a bullpen session.

Catcher Tucker Barnhart hollered with excitement from behind the plate.

Castillo threw about a half-dozen changeups before he fi nished his fi rst bullpen of spring training. It’s the fi rst step as he tries to improve on his breakout 2019 season. Castillo fi nished with a 15-8 record and 3.40 ERA in 32 starts. He struck out a team-high 226 batters in a career-high 1902⁄ 3 innings.

“It’s the same goals as last year, being an Opening Day starter and getting to the All-Star Game, maybe even the Cy Young,” Castillo said through translator Jorge Merlos. “You know how good this team is right now, our goal – and my goal especially – is to get to the postseason and hopefully into the World Series.”

As much as Castillo’s changeup was a weapon last year – 155 of his 226 strikeouts were through changeups, according to Statcast – he’s working on developing his slider. He threw his slider about 17% of the time last year, but he wants to become more unpredictable for hitters.

“I’ve been defi nitely working on the slider a lot,” he said. “I felt really good last year. I thank God that he gave me the opportunity to go out there and play well. Hopefully, this year, we have enough health for myself and the rest of the team that we’ll do well this year.”

BARNHART SWITCH: Barnhart experimented with hitting only left-handed during the fi nal month of the 2019 season and he decided in the off season that he was going to drop switch-hitting.

Last season, Barnhart had a .760 onbase plus slugging percentage as a lefthanded hitter and a .436 OPS when he hit as a righty.

“I just feel like for me it’s putting my best foot forward,” Barnhart said.

“Sometimes hitting right-handed, I felt like I’d go to the plate with a hand tied behind my back. At the end of the day, it’s about production. It’s about producing for your team and being comfortable and confi dent and giving yourself and your team the best chance to win. I feel like that’s what hitting left-handed does for me.”

With Barnhart as a left-handed hitter and Curt Casali as a right-handed hitter, it adds to the possibility of a platoon at catcher this season. Barnhart could hit against right-handed starting pitchers

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BACKUP SHORTSTOP: Shortstop is the one area of the Reds’ roster that doesn’t have much depth. Freddy Galvis is the starter, but there are no other natural shortstops on the 40-man roster.

Eugenio Suárez has started only two games at shortstop since 2015. Alex Blandino has 602⁄ 3 innings at the position in his big-league career and Kyle Farmer played one inning at shortstop last season.

“I think people underestimate how he plays that position,” Reds manager David Bell said of Farmer. “I would have no hesitation having Kyle play an extended period of time at short. We don’t have the depth at that position as we do at pretty much every other position. It’s a consideration. We’ll get a lot of guys playing time over there.”

Farmer, a utility infi elder and backup catcher, was a shortstop at the University of Georgia where he set school fi elding records. He moved to catcher when he was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2013.

“I think Kyle, I don’t see any reason for him to play, really, any other position in spring training besides short and catch because we know he can play second base,” Bell said. “We know he can play third. We know he can do those two too, but he might as well get his work in as much as we can at those two spots.”

It will be the fi rst time Farmer focused on shortstop throughout an entire spring training.

“I’m a shortstop who can play catcher,” Farmer said, smiling, “not a catcher playing shortstop.”

INJURY REPORT: Relievers Nate Jones and Jesse Biddle, both non-roster invitees to camp, will have a delayed start to spring training games.

Jones, a Northern Kentucky product, had right fl exor mass surgery in May and was sidelined for the remainder of the 2019 season. He is not expected to participate in games until the second week of spring training. “(Friday) was actually my last bullpen on that (rehab) program,” Jones said. “I threw about 30 pitches. All pitches, fastballs, changeups, sliders.

Everything went well. Now, I get to be a regular person and get mapped out how spring is going to go now, so I’m pretty excited about that.”

The left-handed Biddle has arthroscopic surgery on his left shoulder in September. He is not expected to throw in games until March.

OPENING SPRING STARTER: Reds prospect Tejay Antone is expected to start the Reds’ fi rst spring training game against the Cleveland Indians on Saturday.

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“I was shocked, for sure,” Votto said.

“It seemed like it was one after the other.

I was pleasantly surprised. I think that I’m like anybody that’s watched this team after the last little bit. I think we’re excited about being competitive throughout the entire year.

“I just think that we have a very strong team this year. Obviously, players have to play really well and have career years and stay healthy, but it’s a very good start.”

There is no clear favorite in the National League Central, but the Reds should be in the mix for divisional contenders. Votto felt confi dent last season that if the Reds continued to pitch well, they’d have a lot of success.

Votto didn’t make any bold prediction or guarantees before the start of camp, but it’s easy to sense his optimism for the 2020 season. They are in their best preseason position to make the playoff s

since 2013.

“We’ll see. We’ll see. We’ll see,” Votto said. “It’s nice to be on a team where lots of guys are making money. It’s important. That’s a sign. The best teams, there are a bunch of guys that have their own egos and have big paychecks every two weeks. Very rare is the team that guys aren’t making seven fi gures or more. It’s really a fantastic thing.”

Votto knows he needs to play better than he did last year for the Reds to reach their potential. Entering his age-36 season, expectations are high for himself and the club.

“I had a great off season,” Votto said.

“I picked up a bat for the fi rst time last week. It’s good to be back. I’m excited to compete. I’m excited to work. I’m motivated to play well. I’m motivated to be a part of a winning team and to play every day. I’ve got a lot of things to look forward to.

“I was going to go on a trip before I got here, but I decided against it just because I just didn’t want to deal with too much jet lag. I’ll have to save that for after we win the World Series.”

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Dusty calls for an end to shots at the Astros Chuck King

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Dusty Baker wants action from Major League Baseball: End the criticism of the Astros from across baseball over sign stealing, and take steps to ensure pitchers don’t throw at his players.

“It’s not good for the game, it’s not good for kids to see it, so I think both,” the new Houston manager said Saturday. “Stop the comments and also stop something before it happens.”

Baker spoke in response to a wave of harsh comments during spring training about the Astros’ use of video to steal signs in 2017 and 2018. Los Angeles Dodger fi rst baseman Cody Bellinger said Friday the Astros “stole” the 2017 World Series title from them and adds that Jose Altuve did likewise with the MVP, denying the Yankees’ Aaron Judge.

Houston players, management and ownership spent the fi rst day of camp apologizing for their actions and professing remorse. But many players and front offi ces around the league didn’t feel they went far enough.

Washington general manager Mike Rizzo said he wanted to hear the Astros use the word “cheated” when addressing the situation.

“I’m depending on the league to try to put a stop to the seemingly premeditated retaliation that I’m hearing about,” Baker said. “In most instances in life you get kind of reprimanded for when you have premeditated anything.”

Los Angeles pitcher Ross Stripling indicated he might intentionally throw at Houston batters.

“We don’t start nothing,” Baker said.

“This is kind of the slogan of my team: We don’t start anything – not intentionally. Guys are going to be getting hit intentionally and unintentionally. If you say you are going to drill somebody and all of the sudden you drill them, you can’t say, ‘I wasn’t trying to hit them,’ you know what I mean?”

Houston ace Justin Verlander expects the commissioner’s offi ce to se-

verely punish retaliation.

“The game has changed,” Verlander said. “I think the commissioner has made it very clear in the past few seasons that throwing a baseball at somebody intentionally isn’t an appropriate form of retaliation in the game any longer.”

CUBS: Kris Bryant realized all along his service-time grievance against the team would be tough to win, and he still believes how he handled himself might help players in the future.

The 28-year-old Bryant will be eligible for free agency in two years after arbitrator Mark Irvings ruled against the third baseman last month. If Bryant had been successful, he could have become a a free agent after the 2020 season.

Irvings’ decision was applauded by Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred.

“I just saw this as a process that is eventually going to help the players in the next round of negotiating and I was going to be that guy to have the courage to do it,” Bryant said Saturday, speaking to reporters for 35 minutes upon his arrival in Cubs camp.

“I know there’s going to be backlash for it and I understand it. It was really important to me to stand up for what I believe in, what we as players believe in and that’s a good thing. There’s no hard feelings at all.”

Bryant, who has said in the past he hoped to play his entire career with Chicago, remains open to discussions with the club about a long-term deal.

Yes, the trade rumors have been disappointing.

“I’ve always had the stance I want to play here, I love the city,” Bryant said.

“The only thing that matters is what comes from my mouth, and never once have I said I never wanted to play here. … I’m always open to it, I’m always here to talk, it’s fun to talk about stuff like that. It’s a city that I love so much, people I love so much, fans, teammates, everybody here that I’m so comfortable with. Of course you want to be here. (but) I don’t hold those cards.”

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Goalkeeper competition coming down to the wire Pat Brennan

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BRADENTON, Florida – By Sunday night, after Przemyslaw Tytoń starts in goal for FC Cincinnati against Nashville SC, FC Cincinnati’s goalkeeping competition will have concluded for all intents and purposes.

An off day, three training sessions and split-squad scrimmages follow Sunday’s match, so there will still be some work to do, but Tytoń , along with Spencer Richey, will have played their fi nal live game action prior to FC Cincinnati’s coaching staff selecting a starting goalkeeper and a backup between the two players to begin the 2020 MLS season.

The player that starts the Feb. 21 match against KR Reykjavik will start the March 1 regular-season opener.

“It’s going well. They sat us down – Tytoń , myself, Jack (Stern, goalkeeping coach) and Ron (Jans) – and just put it all on the table,” Richey said. “They’re being transparent with us, which is good, and they said we’re gonna split the games in Tucson. ... I think the playing time over the matches this week are going to be 90 and 90 and then they’re gonna make the call, so I’m just trying to do everything I can each day in training and games to show that I deserve the spot.”

Whether it’s Tytoń in net or Richey, no one appears to be stressing the decision except the two players themselves – maybe.

The reason for the club’s contentment with the goalkeeping position is simple.

Tytoń , who came into 2019 as the starter, and Richey, the presumed backup last season, basically halved the starts with “Titi” starting 15 matches to Richey’s 19.

Both players were dislodged from the starting spot through injury, but with those ailments in the distant past and both having proven themselves as able MLS starters, the situation looks like a win-win for FC Cincinnati.

Further, it sounds like everyone’s

Spencer Richey split time with Przemyslaw Tytoń in goal last season, but one is expected to be named the starter in the coming week or so. FCC plays Nashville SC today. ENQUIRER FILE

getting tired of the situation being viewed from the outside as a competition.

“Honestly, I don’t have to prove anything,” Tytoń said this week. “I’m just focused on my work. Those kinds of competitions between players, it’s nice for the media, for the people, but not for me. ... I don’t want to waste my time and energy worrying about what’s going on in the media.”

“The goalkeeper – you can talk about it, whatever you want,” Jans told The Enquirer, “but we have two good goalkeepers and we didn’t have any worries with the goalkeepers yet in games and training sessions, too.”

Tytoń started FC Cincinnati’s fi rstever MLS match against Seattle Sounders but was injured in the match. He then fl ip-fl opped starts with Richey in the middle of the season and took command of the starting role for the fi nal 12 matches of 2019.

Richey started seven consecutive matches starting with the club’s second-ever match on March 10. He went on to string 11 consecutive starts together but wasn’t used again in 2019 after the July 21 loss to New England Revolution at Nippert Stadium.

Because Richey was the presumed backup last year but ended up playing more than Tytoń , there’s an awareness that being the No. 1 on March 1 doesn’t mean that player gets to keep that mantle indefi nitely.

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Wills, OT, Alabama: Jacksonville had a below average off ensive line in 2019, which aff ected the team’s quarterback play.

The Jaguars have questions at several positions, including quarterback, but Wills is a safe pick and can start right away at tackle. Many think he’s the best tackle in this year’s draft. If he’s available at No. 9, he might be too good to pass up for Jacksonville.

Wills is athletic and strong. Running back Leonard Fournette will approve of this pick.

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defenses well, he’s a quick decision maker and he has the mobility to extend plays.

The Heisman Trophy winner was in a pro-style system at LSU that will translate well at the next level.

Burrow didn’t attend this year’s Senior Bowl coached by the Bengals and Detroit Lions. Nevertheless, the Bengals have been doing their homework on him for a while.

2. Washington Redskins: Chase Young, DE/OLB, Washington Redskins: Ohio State pass rusher Chase Young is the best overall prospect in this year’s draft. If the Bengals weren’t in the market for a quarterback, Young would be their man.

Instead, the Washington Redskins will swoop in on Young in a hurry. Washington probably already has its draft card in.

The Redskins had the 27th ranked defense in 2019. Young will certainly help a leaky Washington defense.

Young led college football last year with 161⁄ 2 sacks.

3. Detroit Lions: Jeff Okudah, CB, Ohio State: This is where the draft gets interesting. The Detroit Lions are in desperate need of cornerback help. Detroit has three-time Pro Bowl cornerback Darius Slay and a bunch of below-average corners surrounding him. Detroit had the NFL’s worst pass defense in 2019.

Jeff Okudah is the top-rated corner in the draft. The Lions could snag him at No. 3 or make a trade with a quarterbackneedy team.

The Los Angeles Chargers and other teams in search of a QB could call Detroit to move ahead of the Miami Dolphins (No.5 overall) who appear committed to selecting Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa.

4. New York Giants: Andrew Thomas, OT, Georgia: Don’t’ be surprised if the Giants go for a wide receiver at No. 4.

However, the Giants do need to upgrade their pass protection and create more rushing lanes for running back Saquon Barkley.

Thomas fi lls a need for New York. The 6-foot-5, 320-pound tackle has good length and athleticism. The Giants draft the best tackle available at No. 4.

5. Miami Dolphins: Tua Tagovailoa, QB, Alabama: Remember the “Tank for Tua” slogan? Much to the dismay of Dol-

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phins fans, the team didn’t tank. Miami’s talent-deprived roster fi nished 5-11, winning three of its last fi ve games.

It appears the Dolphins might be awarded for their integrity. Tua Tagovailoa could fall to their lap at No. 5. Tagovailoa’s injury history is a concern. A November hip injury that necessitated surgery on Nov. 18 has caused him to slip down draft boards a little.

Before he sustained a season-ending hip injury, many thought Tagovailoa was the top quarterback prospect in the 2020 draft. Doctors have said Tagovailoa is expected to make a full recovery. Yet, injuries naturally take a toll on the human body. Still, Tagovailoa’s pre-hip injury talent is undeniable. He has the highest ceiling of any QB in the draft. It’s hard to see him slipping out of the top six.

6. Los Angeles Chargers: Justin Herbert, QB, Oregon: Herbert was considered the top quarterback in the 2019 NFL Draft before he elected to return to Eugene for his senior season. Herbert’s productivity declined last year, which consequently has caused him to slide some on the 2020 draft board.

However, a strong Senior Bowl showing in Mobile, in which he won MVP, has Herbert destined to be a top-10 pick. The 6-foot-6, 237 pound quarterback has a good arm and mobility.

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Carolina ranked 29th against the run and were in the bottom half of the league in total defense.

Matt Rhule and the Panthers also have a hole at linebacker after Luke Kuechly decided to walk away from the game. But there aren’t any linebackers worthy of a top-10 pick in this year’s draft class.

It worth noting the Panthers are another team with some uncertainty at quarterback.

8. Arizona Cardinals: CeeDee Lamb, WR, Oklahoma: Could the Cardinals reunite Kyler Murray with his former college wideout? The two have chemistry and the fi lm to prove it.

Lamb caught 65 passes for 1,158 yards and had 11 touchdown catches during Murray’s Heisman campaign.

Arizona could use more youthful offensive threats. Wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald and running back David Johnson are productive, but they are both past their primes.

10. Cleveland Browns: Javon Kinlaw, DT, South Carolina: Kinlaw had a dominant fi rst two practices in Mobile at the Senior Bowl before shutting it down.

The fi rst-team All-American fi nished his senior year with 35 tackles, six sacks and two fumble recovers. He created consistent pressure in the interior versus SEC off ensive lines.

Cleveland had the 30th ranked run defense in 2019. A disruptive defensive tackle would defensive help a poor run defense.

Round 2 33. Cincinnati Bengals: Jordyn Brooks, LB, Texas Tech: A 2-14 team has several defi cient areas. The Bengals could select a linebacker, off ensive lineman or defensive lineman with pick No. 33. This year’s linebacker class isn’t considered strong, but the Bengals need to address the position this off season.

If Oklahoma linebacker Kenneth Murray doesn’t fall out of the fi rst round, Texas Tech’s Brooks might be the best linebacker available.

Brooks has the speed and athleticism to be on the fi eld when the Bengals play nickel with two linebackers.

Round 3 65. Cincinnati Bengals: Solomon Kindley, G, Georgia: Solomon Kindley is projected to be a second-day pick. Some have him going as high as the second round.

If drops to round three, the Bengals would be happy to take him.

The 6-foot-4, 335-pound guard is big and powerful. He’ll help what was a below average off ensive line.

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Now, he’s in a tiny room in the recesses of the dome, waiting to take the makeshift stage for a mass interview. He’s smoking a cigar. To be precise, a Karl Malone BarrelAged from La Aurora cigar makers in the Dominican Republic. “Aged in rum barrels for 6 months, giving the cigar a distinct wood and spice profi le,’’ according to the company’s website. The NBA Hall of Famer’s son K.J., an LSU strength coach, passed them out after the game.

Twenty-three-year-old Joe Burrow looks relaxed and unmoved and not at all like he’d just led his team to a national title. It’s as if he sees this moment as a prologue.

It’s a fantastic photo, perfectly lit and framed. It’s already iconic in Louisiana, where LSU football is worshiped like bon temps and the mud-bug harvest. Already, folks down there have suggested the photo be the model for the inevitable Joe Burrow statute that will decorate a spot near LSU’s Tiger Stadium, aka Death Valley.

Some think park benches all over Baton Rouge should include smokin’ Joe’s likeness, taking up space at one end.

The guy who snapped the pic is a technologically challenged author and journalist, who barely knows how to send a text message. Who had no business being where he was, and surely would not have been there had he not gotten lost on his way to the postgame news conference.

“Didn’t mean to go there, shouldn’t have been there,’’ Jeff rey Marx explained this week. Marx is a Pulitzer-winning reporter, a best-selling author and a guy I met some 38 years ago. I was a rookie sports editor for a paper in rural Maryland. Marx was a ballboy at Baltimore Colts training camp nearby. He wrote stories from camp. I got them in the paper.

He went on to share a Pulitzer Prize for a series of stories that exposed the underbelly of UK basketball. He wrote Season of Life, a heartwarming best-seller about a former Colts player named Joe Ehrmann, whose post-NFL career as a high school coach earned him civic acclaim.

Marx did all this and then on the night of Jan. 13 he found himself lost in the Superdome catacombs, looking for a press conference. “I was headed toward the LSU locker room,’’ he recalled. “The door opened, Joe and Coach O (Ed Orgeron) came out.’’ Marx followed them, believing they’d lead him to the presser. Instead,

they stopped in a tiny waiting area, until Clemson coach Dabo Swinney fi nished addressing the media.

“No one stopped me’’ from being there, Marx said.

So he’s by himself, hangin’ with Saint Joe and Coach O in the best moment of their lives. Marx has lived in Baton Rouge for many years. He knew Orgeron from previous meetings; he didn’t know Burrow at all. No one minded his presence.

Another guy was there shooting video, so Marx hesitantly took out his phone and snapped several shots.

“I didn’t want to get up in (Burrow’s) face,’’ Marx said. “I could see he was just soaking it all in. It was just a beautiful moment for the state of Louisiana.’’

What has happened since has been equally winsome.

Marx took the photo at 12:04 a.m. and tweeted it out at 12:06. “It went nuts,’’ he said.

In Philadelphia an artist named Jordan Spector saw the tweeted photo. Spector paints athletes. He’s good enough at it that pro jocks have commissioned him to paint their portraits. A week later, Marx’s daughter Alex saw Spector’s painting of Burrow online. It looked identical to her dad’s photo.

Long story short: Jeff and his lawyer contacted Spector. Legally, the photo belonged to Jeff the instant he snapped it.

Jeff wanted no money for himself, but if somebody else was going to profi t from his work, well …

“I thought we ought to fi nd a way to do something good for people with it,’’ Jeff said. Spector was entirely agreeable. Jeff had been touched by Joe Burrow’s Heisman Trophy acceptance speech, in which Burrow paid loving tribute to the needs of his neighbors in Athens County. Jeff contacted Joe’s father Jimmy, who suggested some of the proceeds go to the Athens County Foundation, Joe Burrow Fund, to help families in need.

Jeff wanted to do something for Louisiana, too, so half the proceeds will go to Dreams Come True of Louisiana, an organization similar to the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

Jordan Spector is selling prints of his painting at Spectorsportsart.com. Tshirts bearing the iconic photo are in production. And two good causes are getting a little better. All because a media guy took a serendipitous picture in the wrong place at the right time.

“I’ve had all kinds of lucky things happen through the years,’’ Marx said. “This just came out of nowhere.’’

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New Richmond league champ again

Shelby Dermer

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Although the Wyoming football season came up just a few wins away from a state championship last fall, the Cowboys’ boys basketball team could be the next squad to bring the ultimate hardware back to Pendery Avenue.

Wyoming (21-0) polished off an unblemished regular season with a 65-38 road victory over Indian Hill Friday night. The Cowboys also clinched their sixth Cincinnati Hills League championship (fourth outright) in the last seven seasons, edging out Deer Park, which fi nished 18-1. Wyoming is now 44-1 in the regular season over the past two years.

“You always worry when you go into your rival’s senior night and records usually don’t mean anything,” Wyoming head coach Matt Rooks said. “I was really proud of how our kids played. I’ve very proud of the eff ort, very proud of the guys – league championship, undefeated regular season.

I’m very happy for them.

“It’s hard to go 21-0, especially when you have the bull’s-eye on your back, teams give you their best shot. I know it’s the fi rst time it’s been done in a long time (at Wyoming).”

Wyoming senior Evan Prater turned in one of his best performances in his fi nal regular-season game. The University of Cincinnati football commit poured in 24 fi rst-half points and fi nished with a game-high 30. It was Prater’s second time ever scoring 30-plus.

His career-high was 35 in a win over Harrison.

“I think we just came out with a lot of energy,” Prater said. “The thing about our team I think we just love running in transition. One of our focuses was to rebound tonight. They hurt us on the boards the last game and tonight we came out, rebounded and got good looks in transition.”

The top-seeded Cowboys open sectional tournament play with a fi rstround matchup against No. 19 Batavia next Friday at Mason. The Braves open with No. 7 Aiken next Saturday.

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In a vote ending Feb. 14, Cincinnati.com readers voted for the Cincinnati Enquirer athletes of the week winners, Feb. 3-9, presented by TriHealth.

You do not have to be a subscriber to vote for athlete of the week, a period that runs Monday to Friday at 5 p.m. each week. Please submit any nominees by Monday morning for the previous week’s performances to mlaughman@enquirer.com. The new ballot will be posted Monday evening. You can vote once an hour from any device.

This week’s winners are: Ohio boys basketball team of the week: New Richmond – The Lions beat Clinton Massie 55-44, and Wilmington 72-53 last week, to clinch Southern Buckeye Conference. This is the fi rst time they have won the conference since 2014, and the fi rst time to outright win the conference since 1970.

Ohio girls basketball team of the week: Turpin – The Spartans prevailed in overtime to beat Milford, 48-42, Feb. 8.

NKY/Indiana boys basketball team of the week: Campbell County – The Camels defeated Bourbon County in a key 10th Region game, dropping Bourbon to 21-5 on the year.

NKY/Indiana girls basketball team of the week: Ryle – The Raiders improved to 14-11 with a big win over Ninth Region contender Notre Dame Feb. 8.

Ohio winter team of the week: Milford varsity competition cheerleading – The team just won its secondstraight national championship this past weekend at the UCA Nationals.

They won the Gameday Division and fi nished third overall in the Traditional Performance routine.

Northern Kentucky winter team of the week: Beechwood unifi ed bowling team – Hailey Noah and Jensen Linder won the 2020 KHSAA State Bowling Unifi ed Championship in Louisville when Noah rolled three consecutive strikes in the 10th frame to clinch a 159-122 victory.

Ohio boys DI basketball: Zyon Tull, Western Brown – The junior forward

had 18 points and seven rebounds in Western Brown’s 68-58 road win over Batavia.

Ohio boys DII-IV basketball: Kadin Pollard, New Richmond – The junior forward had 23 points, 14 of them in the foourth quarter, while going 9-for-11 from the foul line and pulling down 6 rebounds in the 72-53 win over Wilmington.

Ohio girls DI basketball: Nevaeh Dean, Lakota West – The senior forward had 14 points and 19 rebounds to help the Firebirds defeat GMC-rival Oak Hills in overtime, 58-54.

Ohio girls DII-IV basketball: Cortney Smith, New Richmond – The sophomore made only one basket, but she tied a career-high with 15 rebounds in New Richmond’s 60-28 win over Georgetown.

NKY boys basketball: Evan Mullikin, Newport Central Catholic – He had 20 points and seven rebounds in NCC’s overtime win over Bishop Brossart.

NKY girls basketball:Abby Holtman, Ryle – The freshman scored 23 points and had eight rebounds in Ryle’s crucial 66-38 win over Ninth Region challenger Notre Dame.

Boys bowling: Joey Kapszukiewicz, Loveland – The junior had a 439 two-game series (232, 207) in a loss to West Clermont.

Girls bowling: Emily Fischer, New Richmond – She helped lead the Lady Lions to their fi rst SBAAC American Conference championship. She was the overall top girl for the tournament with a 634 three-game series.

Ice hockey: Devin Hoff nagle, Northern Kentucky Norsemen – He scored two goals and two assists in three games last week against Louisville Metro, Talawanda and Indian Hill.

Ohio DI boys swimming: Gavin Schulze and Owen Pelzer, Oak Hills –

The seniors each won a OHSAA Division I sectional swimming and diving meet event, with Schulze winning the 50-yard freestyle and Pelzer winning the 100-yard backstroke. They were the only swimmers other than St. Xavier swimmers to win individual events at Keating.

Ohio DII boys swimming: Tommie McQueary, Bethel- Tate – The junior won the 100 breaststroke at the Princeton DII sectional swimming and diving meet.

NKY boys swimming: Parker Knollman, Covington Catholic – The junior won the 100 backstroke and 100 butterfl y at the KHSAA Region 7 swimming and diving meet, helping CovCath to a second-place team fi nish.

Ohio DI girls swimming: Leah Luckett, Kings – The senior won the 100 and 200 freestyle events at the Division I Mason sectional swimming and diving meet.

Ohio DII girls swimming: Savannah Mueller, Ross – The junior won the 50-yard freestyle at the Division II Keating sectional swimming and diving meet.

NKY girls swimming: Lainey Epperson (8) Brooke Giff en (12) Chloe Loftis (11) and Caroline Meister (12), Scott – Their relay qualifi ed for state in two events and each athlete posted their personal best times at the KHSAA Region 7 Swimming meet at Silverlake.

Ohio wrestling: Alex Coleman, Ross – The heavyweight, ranked No. 1 in his weight class in the latest DII coaches poll, got three wins in the OHSAA regional wrestling dual team tournament, including a pin for the win in the fi nal match against Wyoming, to help Ross win the DII team title.

NKY wrestling: Noah Duke, Ryle – He won the 182-pound regional championship to help the Raiders to second place in the team standings.

Join the Enquirer high school sports Facebook group, Enquirer Preps Plus, to keep current on the high school sports scene during the summer. There’s also a group called Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Sports Parents for those interested.

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PRO BASKETBALL NBA All-Star Rosters At United Center Chicago Sunday, Feb. 16 (c-captain; i-injured/will not play; r-injury replacement) Team LeBron Starters c-LeBron James, LA Lakers Anthony Davis, LA Lakers Kawhi Leonard, LA Clippers Luka Doncic, Dallas James Harden, Houston Reserves r-Devin Booker, Phoenix Nikola Jokic, Denver i-Damian Lillard, Portland Chris Paul, Oklahoma City Domantas Sabonis, Indiana Ben Simmons, Philadelphia Jayson Tatum, Boston Russell Westbrook, Houston Coach — Frank Vogel, LA Lakers Team Giannis Starters c-Giannis Antetokounmpo, Milwaukee Joel Embiid, Philadelphia Pascal Siakam, Toronto Kemba Walker, Boston Trae Young, Atlanta Reserves Bam Adebayo, Miami Jimmy Butler, Miami Rudy Gobert, Utah Kyle Lowry, Toronto Brandon Ingram, New Orleans Khris Middleton, Milwaukee Donovan Mitchell, Utah Coach — Nick Nurse, Toronto FRIDAY Team USA 151, Team World 131 TEAM WORLD (131) Barrett 11-17 5-6 27, Clarke 11-15 0-0 22, Hachimura 7-11 0-0 14, Doncic 6-11 0-0 16, Gilgeous-Alexander 7-15 1-2 16, Melli 1-3 0-0 3, Mykhailiuk 2-11 0-0 6, Wagner 6-9 3-4 16, Alexander-Walker 2-12 0-0 6, Okogie 2-5 0-0 5. Totals 55-109 9-12 131.

TEAM USA (151) Nunn 7-11 0-0 16, Williamson 7-11 0-0 14, Jackson Jr. 4-7 3-4 12, Morant 5-9 0-0 10, Young 7-13 0-0 18, Bridges 8-12 1-2 20, Paschall 10-13 2-3 23, Washington 4-5 0-0 8, Graham 3-7 0-0 9, Sexton 9-14 0-0 21.

Totals 64-102 6-9 151.

TW 39 42 24 26 — 131 TU 30 41 44 36 — 151 3-Point Goals—Team World 12-49 (Doncic 4-9, Mykhailiuk 2-9, Alexander-Walker 2-10, Melli 1-2, Wagner 1-2, Okogie 1-4, Gilgeous-Alexander 1-7, Barrett 0-4), Team USA 17-39 (Young 4-8, Sexton 3-6, Bridges 3-7, Graham 3-7, Nunn 2-4, Jackson Jr. 1-4). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-Team World 44 (Clarke 8), Team USA 43 (Jackson Jr. 7).

Assists-Team World 32 (Barrett, Doncic, Okogie 5), Team USA 32 (Young 7). Total Fouls-Team World 8, Team USA 9.

NBA STANDINGS EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 40 15 .727 — Boston 38 16 .704 1 1⁄ 2 Philadelphia 34 21 .618 6 Brooklyn 25 28 .472 14 New York 17 38 .309 23 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Miami 35 19 .648 — Orlando 24 31 .436 11 1⁄ 2 Washington 20 33 .377 14 1⁄ 2 Charlotte 18 36 .333 17 Atlanta 15 41 .268 21

Central Division W L Pct GB Milwaukee 46 8 .852 — Indiana 32 23 .582 14 1⁄ 2 Chicago 19 36 .345 27 1⁄ 2 Detroit 19 38 .333 28 1⁄ 2 Cleveland 14 40 .259 32 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB Houston 34 20 .630 — Dallas 33 22 .600 1 1⁄ 2 Memphis 28 26 .519 6 San Antonio 23 31 .426 11 1 New Orleans 23 32 .418 11 ⁄ 2 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Denver 38 17 .691 — Utah 36 18 .667 1 1⁄ 2 Oklahoma City 33 22 .600 5 Portland 25 31 .446 13 1⁄ 2 Minnesota 16 37 .302 21 Pacific Division W L Pct GB L.A. Lakers 41 12 .774 — L.A. Clippers 37 18 .673 5 Phoenix 22 33 .400 20 Sacramento 21 33 .389 20 1⁄ 2 Golden State 12 43 .218 30 Wednesday's games Cleveland 127, Atlanta 105 Orlando 116, Detroit 112, OT Brooklyn 101, Toronto 91 Washington 114, New York 96 Indiana 118, Milwaukee 111 Memphis 111, Portland 104 Charlotte 115, Minnesota 108 Dallas 130, Sacramento 111 Phoenix 112, Golden State 106 Utah 116, Miami 101 L.A. Lakers 120, Denver 116, OT Thursday's games Oklahoma City 123, New Orleans 118 Boston 141, L.A. Clippers 133, 2OT Friday's games 2020 Rising Stars Challenge Team USA 151, Team World 131 Saturday's games No games scheduled.

Sunday's Games 2020 All-Star game Team Giannis vs Team LeBron, 8 p.m., Chicago LEADERS THROUGH FEBRUARY 13 Scoring FG FT PTS AVG Harden, HOU 517 532 1800 35.3 Anttknmpo, MIL 529 307 1438 30.0 Young, ATL 459 392 1483 29.7 Lillard, POR 507 368 1594 29.5 Beal, WAS 459 305 1340 29.1 Doncic, DAL 418 306 1271 28.9 Leonard, LAC 398 256 1141 27.2 Westbrook, HOU 473 234 1223 27.2 Davis, LAL 428 320 1225 26.6 Booker, PHX 463 347 1374 26.4 LaVine, CHI 483 258 1392 25.3 James, LAL 488 189 1274 25.0 Ingram, NOP 401 249 1169 24.9 Mitchell, UTA 477 205 1288 24.3 Siakam, TOR 385 170 1033 23.5 DeRozan, SAS 445 298 1196 23.0 Embiid, PHI 290 262 893 22.9 Wiggins, GSW 374 164 1011 22.5 Tatum, BOS 406 178 1121 22.4 Walker, BOS 332 181 1001 21.8 FG Percentage FG FGA PCT Gobert, UTA 310 450 .689 Holmes, SAC 204 309 .660 Allen, BKN 229 357 .641 Capela, HOU 244 388 .629 Clarke, MEM 243 390 .623 Whiteside, POR 332 542 .613 Valanciunas, MEM 320 545 .587 Simmons, PHI 359 615 .584 Adams, OKC 218 374 .583 Adebayo, MIA 334 577 .579 Rebounds OFF DEF TOT AVG Drummond, CLE 238 566 804 15.8 Gobert, UTA 193 565 758 14.6 Whiteside, POR 203 515 718 14.1 Capela, HOU 168 369 537 13.8 Anttknmpo, MIL 118 528 646 13.5 Sabonis, IND 158 490 648 12.5 Embiid, PHI 104 361 465 11.9 Vucevic, ORL 115 361 476 10.8 Assists AST AVG James, LAL 551 10.8 Young, ATL 459 9.2 Doncic, DAL 381 8.7 Rubio, PHX 403 8.6 Simmons, PHI 441 8.3 Lillard, POR 429 7.9 Graham, CHA 420 7.8 Lowry, TOR 327 7.6 Harden, HOU 374 7.3 Brogdon, IND 301 7.3 NBA Calendar April 15 — Regular season ends.

April 18 — Playoffs begin.

May 19 — Draft lottery, Chicago.

May 21-24 — Draft combine, Chicago.

June 4 — NBA Finals begin.

June 25 — NBA draft.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL SATURDAY No. 12 Kentucky 67, Mississippi 62 MISSISSIPPI (13-12) Buffen 6-13 1-2 13, Sy 1-6 0-0 2, Shuler 5-13 0-0 11, Tyree 6-16 4-6 19, Hinson 5-9 1-1 13, Collum 1-3 2-2 4, Williams 0-0 0-0 0, Crowley 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 24-60 8-11 62.

KENTUCKY (20-5) Montgomery 0-0 2-2 2, Richards 6-10 4-5 16, Hagans 3-11 0-0 6, Maxey 7-13 0-0 14, Quickley 4-15 8-10 17, Juzang 1-4 2-2 5, Sestina 2-4 1-3 5, Brooks 0-2 2-2 2. Totals 23-59 19-24 67.

Halftime—Mississippi 27-25. 3-Point Goals-Mississippi 6-17 (Tyree 3-6, Hinson 2-5, Shuler 1-5, Buffen 0-1), Kentucky 2-22 (Juzang 1-4, Quickley 1-8, Hagans 0-5, Maxey 0-5). Fouled Out-Sy, Montgomery, Hagans.

Rebounds-Mississippi 32 (Collum 7), Kentucky 37 (Montgomery 8).

Assists-Mississippi 3 (Hinson 2), Kentucky 8 (Hagans, Maxey 3). Total Fouls-Mississippi 20, Kentucky 16.

A-20,417 (23,500).

Ohio St. 68, Purdue 52 PURDUE (14-12) Boudreaux 6-8 4-4 17, Williams 2-6 0-0 4, Eastern 0-4 0-0 0, Hunter 3-8 0-0 8, Proctor 6-12 2-2 15, Stefanovic 1-4 0-0 2, Thompson 0-5 0-0 0, Haarms 1-4 4-5 6, Wheeler 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 19-54 10-11 52.

OHIO ST. (17-8) A.Wesson 3-7 1-2 8, K.Wesson 3-8 5-9 13, Young 6-9 4-4 16, Muhammad 3-5 2-2 11, Walker 3-6 2-4 9, Washington 3-5 0-0 7, Liddell 0-3 1-2 1, Ahrens 1-2 0-0 3, Hummer 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 22-45 15-23 68.

Halftime—Ohio St. 29-20. 3-Point Goals-Purdue 4-20 (Hunter 2-5, Boudreaux 1-2, Proctor 1-4, Haarms 0-1, Wheeler 0-1, Thompson 0-2, Williams 0-2, Stefanovic 0-3), Ohio St. 9-20 (Muhammad 3-5, K.Wesson 2-3, Washington 1-1, Ahrens 1-2, Walker 1-2, A.Wesson 1-4, Young 0-3). Fouled Out-Boudreaux. Rebounds-Purdue 25 (Williams 8), Ohio St. 31 (K.Wesson 8).

Assists-Purdue 8 (Williams 3), Ohio St. 14 (K.Wesson, Walker 4). Total Fouls-Purdue 21, Ohio St. 15. A-18,809 (18,809).

No. 6 Dayton 71, UMass 63 DAYTON (23-2) Mikesell 4-5 0-1 9, Toppin 8-13 2-4 19, R.Chatman 2-5 2-2 7, Crutcher 5-11 4-6 17, Landers 3-8 0-2 6, Matos 1-2 0-0 3, Cohill 1-2 2-2 4, Tshimanga 3-4 0-0 6, Watson 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 27-51 10-17 71.

UMASS (10-15) Diallo 3-9 4-4 10, T.Mitchell 11-22 2-4 26, K.Mitchell 1-4 1-4 3, Pierre 3-14 2-2 9, Santos 2-5 0-0 4, Walker 2-5 2-2 7, East 2-3 0-0 4, Baptiste 0-1 0-0 0, Clergeot 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 24-63 11-16 63.

Halftime—Dayton 31-26.

3-Point Goals-Dayton 7-13 (Crutcher 3-5, Matos 1-1, Mikesell 1-1, R.Chatman 1-2, Toppin 1-2, Landers 0-1, Watson 0-1), UMass 4-20 (T.Mitchell 2-5, Walker 1-2, Pierre 1-8, Diallo 0-1, East 0-1, Santos 0-3). Fouled Out-Tshimanga. Rebounds-Dayton 31 (Toppin, Landers 7), UMass 28 (T.Mitchell 10). Assists-Dayton 17 (Crutcher 5), UMass 15 (K.Mitchell 6). Total Fouls-Dayton 21, UMass 18.

Miami U. 65, N. Illinois 60 N. ILLINOIS (15-11) James 4-10 4-4 13, McCarty 2-5 3-5 9, Beane 2-6 1-3 5, German 8-20 3-5 21, Hankerson 3-5 2-2 8, Cochran 0-1 0-0 0, Mateen 2-5 0-0 4, Daow 0-0 0-0 0, Scott 0-1 0-0 0, Johnson 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 21-53 13-19 60.

MIAMI U. (10-15) Brewer 2-2 0-0 4, McNamara 4-7 2-3 10, Grant 4-12 3-4 11, Jovic 1-5 0-1 2, Lairy 2-9 0-2 5, Coleman-Lands 4-7 5-6 15, Ayah 2-2 4-4 8, Bowman 4-5 0-0 10, White 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 23-50 14-20 65.

Halftime—Miami 31-27. 3-Point Goals-N. Illinois 5-16 (McCarty 2-4, German 2-5, James 1-2, Beane 0-1, Hankerson 0-1, Scott 0-1, Mateen 0-2), Miami 5-20 (Bowman 2-2, Coleman-Lands 2-5, Lairy 1-6, White 0-1, Grant 0-3, Jovic 0-3).

Rebounds-N. Illinois 35 (Cochran 9), Miami 28 (Ayah 8). Assists-N. Illinois 5 (Hankerson 2), Miami 10 (Grant, Lairy 3).

Total Fouls-N. Illinois 16, Miami 16. A-3,831 (6,400).

FRIDAY N. Kentucky 84, IUPUI 70 IUPUI (6-21) Goss 2-7 5-7 9, Kenyon 0-2 0-0 0, Burk 11-20 6-6 30, Minnett 4-15 0-0 9, Weatherford 4-9 0-0 10, Depersia 3-3 1-2 8, White 0-1 0-0 0, Kemp 1-2 2-3 4, Stoltz 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 25-59 14-18 70.

N. KENTUCKY (19-7) Adheke 1-4 1-2 3, Faulkner 4-8 4-7 14, Langdon 2-7 0-0 5, Sharpe 4-7 2-4 13, Tate 10-14 9-11 31, Nelson 4-6 3-4 11, Mocaby 0-1 0-0 0, Djoko 0-1 0-2 0, Cobbs 0-0 2-2 2, Eleeda 1-2 0-0 3, Harris 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 27-51 21-32 84.

Halftime—N. Kentucky 42-39. 3-Point Goals-IUPUI 6-19 (Weatherford 2-4, Burk 2-7, Depersia 1-1, Minnett 1-6, Goss 0-1), N. Kentucky 9-19 (Sharpe 3-5, Faulkner 2-4, Tate 2-4, Eleeda 1-2, Langdon 1-3, Adheke 0-1).

Fouled Out-Depersia.

Rebounds-IUPUI 28 (Goss 11), N. Kentucky 31 (Adheke 8). Assists-IUPUI 13 (Minnett 6), N. Kentucky 15 (Tate 7). Total Fouls-IUPUI 23, N. Kentucky 17. A-3,013 (9,400).

Top 25 Fared, SATURDAY *LATE GAME 1. Baylor (23-1) beat No. 14 West Virginia 70-59. Next: at Oklahoma, Tuesday.

2. Gonzaga 25-1) at Pepperdine*. Next: vs.

San Francisco, Thursday.

3. Kansas (22-3) beat Oklahoma 87-70.

Next: vs. Iowa State, Monday.

4. San Diego State (25-0) did not play.

Next: at Boise State, Sunday.

5. Louisville (21-5) lost to Clemson 77-62.

Next: vs. Syracuse, Wednesday.

6. Dayton (23-2) beat UMass 71-63. Next: at VCU, Tuesday.

7. Duke (22-3) beat Notre Dame 94-60.

Next: at N.C. State, Wednesday.

8. Florida State (21-4) beat Syracuse 80-77. Next: vs. Pittsburgh, Tuesday.

9. Maryland (20-4) at Michigan State*.

Next: vs. Northwestern, Tuesday.

10. Seton Hall (18-6) at Providence*. Next: vs. No. 19 Butler, Wednesday.

11. Auburn (22-2) at Missouri*. Next: at Georgia, Wednesday.

12. Kentucky (20-5) beat Mississippi 67-62. Next: at No. 25 LSU, Tuesday.

13. Penn State (20-5) beat Northwestern 77-61. Next: vs. No. 22 Illinois, Tuesday.

14. West Virginia (18-7) lost to No. 1 Baylor 70-59. Next: vs. Oklahoma State, Tuesday.

15. Villanova (18-6) at Temple*. Next: at DePaul, Wednesday.

16. Colorado (19-6) at Oregon State*. Next: vs. Southern Cal, Thursday.

17. Oregon (19-6) did not play. Next: vs.

Utah, Sunday.

18. Marquette (17-7) did not play. Next: vs.

No. 23 Creighton, Tuesday.

19. Butler (19-7) lost to Georgetown 73-66.

Next: at No. 10 Seton Hall, Wednesday.

20. Houston (20-5) at SMU*. Next: vs.

Tulsa, Wednesday.

21. Iowa (17-8) did not play. Next: at Minnesota, Sunday.

22. Illinois (16-9) lost to Rutgers 72-57.

Next: at No. 13 Penn State, Tuesday.

23. Creighton (19-6) vs. DePaul*. Next: at No. 18 Marquette, Tuesday.

24. Texas Tech (16-9) lost to Oklahoma State 73-70. Next: vs. Kansas State, Wednesday.

25. LSU (18-7) lost to Alabama 88-82.

Next: vs. No. 12 Kentucky, Tuesday.

Top 25 schedule Sunday's games No. 4 San Diego State at Boise St., 4 p.m.

No. 15 Villanova at Temple, 1 p.m.

No. 17 Oregon vs. Utah, 9 p.m.

No. 21 Iowa at Minnesota, 1 p.m.

PRO HOCKEY NHL STANDINGS PRIOR TO SATURDAY’S GAMES EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Boston 58 35 11 12 Tampa Bay 58 38 15 5 Toronto 58 30 20 8 Florida 57 30 21 6 Montreal 60 27 26 7 Buffalo 58 26 24 8 Ottawa 57 19 27 11 Detroit 59 14 41 4 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Washington 57 37 15 5 Pittsburgh 56 35 15 6 NY Islanders 56 33 17 6 Philadelphia 58 32 19 7 Columbus 59 30 18 11 Carolina 57 33 21 3 N.Y. Rangers 57 30 23 4 New Jersey 57 21 26 10 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT St. Louis 57 32 15 10 Colorado 56 33 17 6 Dallas 57 33 19 5 Winnipeg 59 29 25 5 Nashville 56 27 22 7 Minnesota 57 27 23 7 Chicago 57 25 24 8 Pacific Division GP W L OT Vancouver 58 32 21 5 Edmonton 57 30 21 6 Vegas 59 29 22 8 Calgary 59 30 23 6 Arizona 60 28 24 8 San Jose 57 25 28 4 Anaheim 57 23 27 7 Los Angeles 58 20 33 5 Friday's games Pittsburgh 4, Montreal 1 Carolina 5, New Jersey 2 N.Y. Rangers 3, Columbus 1 San Jose 3, Winnipeg 2 ECHL STANDINGS PRIOR TO SATURDAY’S GAMES Eastern Conference North Division GP W L OL SOL Newfndlnd 48 36 11 0 1 Reading 47 28 14 5 0 Brampton 50 27 20 3 0 Maine 51 27 21 2 1 Adirondack 52 18 22 7 5 Worcester 50 17 30 3 0

Pts 82 81 68 66 61 60 49 32 Pts 79 76 72 71 71 69 64 52 Pts 74 72 71 63 61 61 58 Pts 69 66 66 66 64 54 53 45

Pts 73 61 57 57 48 37

South Division GP W L OL SOL S. Carolina 50 36 10 3 1 Florida 51 34 12 3 2 Greenville 52 24 25 2 1 Orlando 49 22 21 5 1 Atlanta 49 21 26 1 1 Jacksonville 46 18 22 5 1 Norfolk 50 12 33 5 0 Western Conference Central Division GP W L OL SOL CYCLONES 51 29 14 7 1 Toledo 46 28 13 4 1 Indy 49 26 20 2 1 Fort Wayne 50 23 19 6 2 Wheeling 47 22 20 5 0 Kalamazoo 48 19 22 6 1 Mountain Division GP W L OL SOL Allen 52 34 10 6 2 Utah 51 29 15 5 2 Idaho 50 27 16 3 4 Rapid City 50 26 20 4 0 Tulsa 53 23 24 5 1 Wichita 55 21 26 8 0 Kansas City 51 22 25 3 1 Friday's games Newfoundland 5, Maine 1 Orlando 4, Norfolk 0 Jacksonville 4, Greenville 3, OT Kalamazoo 4, Toledo 3, OT South Carolina 4, Adirondack 3, OT Reading 3, Brampton 1 Florida 5, Atlanta 3 Wheeling 5, Cincinnati 3 Tulsa 7, Wichita 1 Fort Wayne 5, Indy 3 Utah 5, Kansas City 1 Allen 4, Rapid City 0

Pts 76 73 51 50 44 42 29 Pts 66 61 55 54 49 45 Pts 76 65 61 56 52 50 48

AUTO RACING NASCAR - Daytona 500 Lineup Thursday's qualifying; race Sunday At Daytona International Speedway Daytona, Fla. Lap length: 2.5 miles (Car number in parentheses) Row 1 (47) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Chevrolet (88) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet Row 2 (22) Joey Logano, Ford (24) William Byron, Chevrolet Row 3 (10) Aric Almirola, Ford (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet Row 4 (6) Ryan Newman, Ford (42) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet Row 5 (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford (4) Kevin Harvick, Ford Row 6 (43) Bubba Wallace, Chevrolet (41) Cole Custer, Ford Row 7 (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet (20) Erik Jones, Toyota Row 8 (19) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota (21) Matt DiBenedetto, Ford Row 9 (95) Christopher Bell, Toyota (1) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet Row 10 (17) Chris Buescher, Ford (77) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet Row 11 (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota (8) Tyler Reddick, Chevrolet Row 12 (38) John Hunter, Ford (13) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet Row 13 (9) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet (34) Michael McDowell, Ford Row 14 (12) Ryan Blaney, Ford (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota Row 15 (14) Clint Bowyer, Ford (36) David Ragan, Ford Row 16 (37) Ryan Preece, Chevrolet (66) Timmy Hill, Ford Row 17 (16) Justin Haley, Chevrolet (15) Brennan Poole, Chevrolet Row 18 (00) Quin Houff, Chevrolet (32) Corey LaJoie, Ford Row 19 (51) Joey Gase, Chevrolet (52) BJ McLeod, Ford Row 20 (62) Brendan Gaughan, Chevrolet (27) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet NASCAR Xfinity NASCAR Racing Experience 300 Results Saturday At Daytona International Speedway Lap length: 2.5 miles Starting position in parentheses 1. (12) Noah Gragson, Chevrolet, 120 laps.

2. (8) Harrison Burton, Toyota, 120.

3. (26) Timmy Hill, Toyota, 120.

4. (6) Brandon Jones, Toyota, 120.

5. (10) Chase Briscoe, Ford, 120.

6. (3) Justin Haley, Chevrolet, 120.

7. (11) Brandon Brown, Chevrolet, 120.

8. (16) Ray Black II, Chevrolet, 120.

9. (9) Ryan Sieg, Chevrolet, 120.

10. (19) Alex Labbe, Chevrolet, 120.

11. (2) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, accident, 119.

12. (34) JJ Yeley, Chevrolet, 119.

13. (22) BJ McLeod, Chevrolet, 119.

14. (25) Vinnie Miller, Toyota, 119.

15. (36) Joe Nemechek, Chevrolet, 119.

16. (35) Mike Harmon, Chevrolet, 119.

17. (20) Robby Lyons II, Chevrolet, 119.

18. (31) David Starr, Chevrolet, 119.

19. (18) Jesse Little, Chevrolet, accident, 118.

20. (33) Chad Finchum, Toyota, 118.

21. (32) Josh Bilicki, Toyota, 117.

22. (23) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 115.

23. (4) Jeb Burton, Chevrolet, accident, 114.

24. (24) Brett Moffitt, Chevrolet, accident, 114.

25. (15) Austin Cindric, Ford, accident, 113.

26. (17) Josh Williams, Chevrolet, accident, 113.

27. (21) CJ McLaughlin, Chevrolet, 113.

28. (29) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, 113.

29. (14) Caesar Bacarella, Chevrolet, accident, 112.

30. (13) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, accident, 107.

31. (30) Matt Mills, Toyota, electrical, 101.

32. (7) Riley Herbst, Toyota, accident, 59.

33. (1) Myatt Snider, Chevrolet, accident, 59.

34. (27) Chris Cockrum, Chevrolet, accident, 59.

35. (28) Austin Hill, Toyota, accident, 37.

36. (5) Joe Graf Jr., Chevrolet, accident, 37.

LOCAL HIGH SCHOOLS

RESULTS FRIDAY, FEB. 14 BOYS’ BASKETBALL Badin 58, Alter 52 Alter (17-4, 12-2 GCL Co-Ed) – Conner 3 1 10, Smith 3 0 8, Shane 1 1 3, Kolb 3 2 11, Stolly 4 4 14, Uhl 2 4 6. Totals: 16 10 52.

Badin (17-5, 10-4 GCL Co-Ed) – Flaig 0 2 2, Hegemann 7 3 17, Watkins 1 9 12, Switzer 7 6 21, Giesting 1 2 4, DeLong 1 0 2. Totals: 17 22 58.

Halftime: B 29-26. 3-pointers: B 2 (Watkins, Switzer), A 10 (Conner 3, Kolb 3, Stolly 2, Smith 2).

Bethel-Tate 54, Batavia 50 Batavia (6-16) - Kango 1 2 4, Applegate 3 0 7, Lift 3 0 6, Hart 0 2 2, Gardener 0 1 1, Wiscombe 2 0 5, Stepp 1 2 5, Weisbrodt 5 2 12, Shepherd 3 2 8. Totals: 18 11 50.

Bethel-Tate (8-13) - Smith 9 3 22, Reinhart 2 2 6, Williams 1 3 5, Stiles 1 0 2, Brookenphal 6 1 13, Manz 1 1 3, Frondorf 0 3 3. Totals: 20 13 54.

Halftime: 22-19. 3-pointers: B 3

(Applegate, Wiscombe, Stepp), BT 1 (Smith).

Chaminade Julienne 41, Purcell Marian 37 Chaminade Julienne (10-12 5-11 GCLC) Menker 3 0 7, Turner 5 4 14, Rose 1 0 2, Gibson 3 2 8, Tucker 1 0 2, Chandler 1 0 2, Nauseef 2 2 6. Totals: 16 8 41.

Purcell Marian (7-15 6-8 GCLC) - Baldock 2 1 6, Christian 1 0 2, Hoover 1 0 3, Boyd 1 1 3, McMillan 2 0 6, Simmons 3 0 7, Murray 1 0 2, Davis 2 3 8. Totals: 13 5 37.

Halftime: PM 19-18. 3-pointers: CJ 1 (Menker), PM 6 (McMillan 2, Baldock, Christian, Simmons, Davis).

Covington Catholic 77, Dixie Heights 45 Dixie Heights (7-19) - Snelling 5 4 16, Lames 1 0 2, Geraci 3 6 13, Summe 4 2 12, Landers 0 1 1, Rohlman 0 1 1. Totals: 13 13 45.

Covington Catholic (23-4) - Diskin 5 0 12, Murphy 1 0 2, Sommerkamp 2 0 5, Green 5 010, Starks 4 0 8, Moser 3 0 6, Stocks 4 2 11, McHale 4 1 11, Horn 1 0 2, Jackson 3 0 7, Skinner 1 2 4. Totals: 33 5 78.

Halftime: CC 34 30. 3-pointers: DH 6 (Snelling 2, Summe 2, Lames, Geraci), CC 7 (Diskin 2, McHale 2, Sommerkamp, Stocks, Jackson).

Elder 49, La Salle 48 Elder (13-9, 2-4 GCL-S) – Miller 4 0 10, Keller 2 3 9, Cluxton 2 2 7, Luebbe 3 3 10, Harp 2 0 5, Nieman 1 0 3, Larkins 2 1 5. Totals: 16 9 49.

La Salle (19-3, 3-3 GCL-S) – Queen 1 0 2, Lovette 1 0 2, Lemons 7 2 17, A. Schneider 4 1 9, Eddings 5 4 15, Taylor 1 0 3. Totals: 19 7 48.

Halftime: E 24-16. 3-pointers: L 3 (Lemons, Eddings, Taylor), E 8 (Miller 2, Keller 2, Cluxton, Luebbe, Nieman, Harp).

Hamilton 55, Oak Hills 43 Oak Hills (15-7, 12-4 GMC) – Dietrich 3 5 13, Brandt 0 1 1, Murphy 0 2 2, Caneris 4 0 10, Dennis 3 2 9, Schreiber 2 0 4, Richmond 1 2 4. Totals: 13 12 43.

Hamilton (16-6, 11-5 GMC) – Robinson 9 5 27, Walton 1 1 3, Burnett 5 1 11, Marshall 2 0 4, Lewis 4 0 10. Totals: 21 7 55.

Halftime: H 18-15. 3-pointers: OH 5 (Dietrich 2, Caneris 2, Dennis), H 6 (Robinson 4, Lewis 2).

Lakota East 64, Lakota West 57 Lakota East (20-2, 15-1 GMC) - McCorkle 3 1 7, Coles 1 0 2, Mangold 3 2 8, Fuhrmann 6 3 16, Johnson 9 10 28, Adkins 1 1 3. Totals: 23 17 64.

Lakota West (11-11, 8-8 GMC) - Mackey 9 3 25, Combs 5 6 17, Fishman 2 0 5, Weber 3 1 8, Allen 1 0 2. Totals: 20 10 57.

Halftime: LE 29-23. 3-pointers: LE 1 (Fuhrmann), LW 7 (Mackey 4, Combs, Fishman, Weber).

Loveland 45, West Clermont 41 Loveland (12-10 7-7 ECC)- McElveen 1 1 3, Towle 0 2 2, Hedgepeth 3 3 10, Foust 5 1 13, Cox 5 2 17. Totals: 14 9 45.

West Clermont (15-7 9-5 ECC) - Turner 5 1 11, Vianello 3 0 7, Takam 3 0 7, Wilzbach 0 1 1, Ames 6 3 15. Totals: 17 5 41.

Halftime: 20-20. 3-pointers: L 8 (Cox 5, Foust 2, Hedgepeth), WC 2 (Vianello, Talam).

Mason 75, Fairfield 58 Fairfield (7-15, 6-10 GMC) – Ricks 3 0 7, Singer 4 0 10, Pope IV 5 0 11, Crim 3 2 9, Cropenbaker 2 1 6, Simpkins 4 0 8, Swanson 2 0 4. Totals: 24 4 58.

Mason (13-7, 11-5 GMC) – Dardis 0 4 4, Rivers 0 1 1, Greer 3 2 9, Cooper 2 5 11, Abid 4 2 10, Pitcock 1 0 3, McCormick 1 2 4, Stuart 2 1 5, Smith 5 4 14, King 2 2 6, Ramsey 3 0 8.

Totals: 23 23 75.

Halftime: M 34-26. 3-pointers: F 6 (Singer 2, Cropenbaker, Ricks, Pope IV, Crim), M 6 (Ramsey 2, Cooper 2, Greer, Pitcock).

McNicholas 40, Carroll 39 McNicholas - Seemann 3 2 10, Conrad 3 3 9, Kocisko 3 0 8, Brunot 4 0 8, Schoening 1 0 3, Schulte 0 2 2. Totals: 14 7 40.

Carroll - Dahm 7 2 16, Severt 5 0 13, McKitrick 3 0 8, Deep 1 0 2. Totals:16 2 39.

Halftime: M 19-18. 3-pointers: M 5 (Seemann 2, Kocisko 2, Schoening), C 5 (Severt 3, McKitrick 2).

Middletown 59, Princeton 53 Middletown (7-15, 3-13 GMC) – Brown 1 0 3, Hall 3 1 7, Mumford 7 2 18, Thompson 4 7 16, Shealey 3 3 9, Blake 2 2 6. Totals: 20 15 59.

Princeton (15-7, 10-6 GMC) – Crawford 1 0 2, Walker 1 0 3, Berkhalter 8 2 20, Thomas 7 0 14, Davis 3 0 7, Randle 2 0 5, Johnson 1 0 2.

Totals: 23 2 53.

Halftime: M 28-23. 3-pointers: M 4 (Mumford 2, Brown, Thompson), P 5 (Berkhalter 2, Walker, Davis, Randle).

Moeller 57, St. Xavier 51 Moeller (21-1, 6-0 GCL-S) - Land 5 0 11, McCracken 4 5 16, Williams 4 2 12, Currin 0 2 2, Duncomb 4 6 14, Turner 0 2 2. Totals: 17 17 57.

St. Xavier (14-7, 1-5 GCL-S) - Wilson 1 0 3, Majick 3 1 9, Greive 1 0 2, Thomas 7 5 22, Rodgers 6 0 15. Totals: 18 7 51.

Halftime: SX 28-27. 3-pointers: M 6 (McCracken 3, Williams 2, Land), SX 8 (Thomas 3, Rodgers 3, Majick 2).

Northwest 53, Harrison 48 Northwest (7-15, 5-7 SWOC) – Grant 1 1 4, Horton 3 1 7, Willis 0 1 1, Sanders 8 7 24, Hill 7 3 17. Totals: 19 13 53.

Harrison (11-11, 6-6 SWOC) – Bill 1 0 2, Combs 4 0 11, Nieman 1 1 3, Kinnett 10 3 24, Chuck 3 0 8.

Halftime: H 22-21. 3-pointers: N 2 (Grant, Sanders), H 6 (Combs 3, Chuck 2, Kinnett).

St. Henry 80, Holmes 70 St. Henry (20-4) - Bessler 13 1 28, Veith 7 5 21, Con. Shea 3 2 9, Teten 4 0 8, Ravenscraft 1 3 6, Butler 2 0 4, Cor. Shea 1 0 3, Maher 0 1 1. Totals: 31 12 80.

Holmes (11-14) - Foster 11 3 25, Ruff 5 0 11, Mullens 4 0 10, Abdullah 4 1 9, Elmer 2 0 4.

Totals: 30 5 70.

Halftime: H 47-43. 3-pointers: SH 6 (Veith 2, Bessler, Con. Shea, Ravenscraft, Cor. Shea), H 5 (Calloway 2, Mullens 2, Ruff).

Sycamore 63, Colerain 44 Colerain (1-21, 0-16 GMC) - Johnson 0 1 1, Reeder 0 2 2, Sinclair 3 1 7, Tait 7 2 17, Murray 1 1 3, Prather 3 1 10, Fitzgerald 1 2 4.

Totals: 15 10 44.

Sycamore (7-15, 4-12 GMC) - Kramer 5 2 15, Bruggeman 3 0 8, Grandison 7 3 17, Williams 3 0 6, Darbyshire 3 2 9, Fehr 3 0 8.

Totals: 24 7 63.

Halftime: S 29-24. 3-pointers: C 4 (Prather 3, Tait), S 8 (Kramer 3, Bruggeman 2, Fehr 2, Darbyshire).

Turpin 53, Milford 37 Milford (9-13, 7-7 ECC) - Liles 3 6 13, Chaney 0 2 2, Owens 2 0 6, Ketchum 0 1 1, Hannah 2 0 5, Harris 3 0 8, Ackerman 1 0 2. Totals: 11 9 37.

Turpin (19-3, 13-1 ECC) - Holt 3 2 9, Cantrella 3 2 8, Lee 1 2 4, Spencer 11 5 31, Johnson 0 1 1. Totals: 18 12 53.

Halftime: M 26-17. 3-pointers: M 6 (Owens 2, Harris 2, Liles, Hannah), T 5 (Spencer 4, Holt).

Wyoming 65, Indian Hill 38 Wyoming (22-0, CHL 14-0) - Prater 10 8 30, Crayton 4 3 11, Mitchell 1 0 2, Walker 5 1 13, O’Gara 1 0 2, Gray 1 1 3, Rooks 1 2 4. Totals 23 15 65.

Indian Hill (13-9, CHL 7-7) - Young 1 0 2, Thorton 2 2 8, Wachs 3 2 10, Folke 1 0 2, Lopez 2 0 4, Guttman 1 0 3, Robinson 3 0 6, Durban 0 2 2, Peek 0 1 1. Totals 13 7 38.

Halftime: W 39-16. 3-pointers: Wyoming 4 (Prater 2, Walker 2), Indian Hill 5 (Thorton 2, Wachs 2, Guttman).

OTHER SCORES: Anderson 54, Kings 53 Bishop Brossart 81, Bracken County 61 Blanchester 65, Hillsboro 62 Cincinnati College Prep 54, Riverview East 50 Cincinnati Country Day 67, Miami Valley Christian 35 Cooper 64, Campbell County 58 Deer Park 97, Reading 51 Gamble Montessori 72, Oyler 45 Heritage Academy 81, June Buchanan 62 Highlands 90, Lloyd 64 Madison Central 70, Walton-Verona 58 Mariemont 57, Madeira 44 Mount Healthy 66, Edgewood 41 Ross 65, Talawanda 62 (OT) Simon Kenton 87, Scott 58 Spingboro 66, Lebanon 62 OT Taylor 58, Finneytown 51 Walnut Hills 71, Withrow 52

GIRLS’ BAKSETBALL Christian Academy 51, Beechwood 37 Beechwood (9-17) - Stokes 2 0 4, Reis 1 1 4, Arlinghaus 4 7 15, Mueller 4 0 8, Johnson 0 2 2, Boyd 1 2 4. Totals: 12 12 37.

Lexington Christian Academy (5-22) Kenney 0 1 1, Buckler 3 4 10, Royalty 4 4 12, Teall 4 3 11, Gabbert 4 1 12, Wills 0 2 2, Roberts 1 0 3. Totals: 16 15 51.

Halftime: LCA 28-19. 3-pointers: B 1 (Reis), LCA 4 (Gabbert 3, Roberts).

Ludlow 73, Frankfort 52 Frankfort - M. Close 2 0 5, Edelen 0 2 2, H. Close 2 0 6, Mitchell 3 8 16, Irish 0 3 3, Chenault 5 5 15, Williams 1 3 5. Totals: 13 21 52.

Ludlow - Mahan 6 9 23, Lay 1 0 3, Arnold 1 2 5, King 0 2 2, M. Arnold 1 0 5, Gaiser 0 1 1, Franklin 1 2 4, Brown 2 0 5, Lillard 7 4 19, Katrellan 4 1 9. Totals: 23 21 73.

Halftime: L 39-21. 3-pointers: F 5 (H.Close 2, Mitchell 2, M. Close), L 6 (Mahan 2, Lay, Arnold, Brown, Lillard).

OTHER SCORES: Bishop Brossart 50, Newport Central Catholic 43 Boone County 81, Dixie Heights 78 Grant County 63, Bracken County 23 Holy Cross 48, St. Henry 33 Lloyd 61, Dayton 45 Lexington

GOLF The Genesis Invitational Scores Saturday At Riviera Country Club Los Angeles Purse: $9.3 million Yardage: 7,322; Par: 71 Third Round Adam Scott 72-64-67-203 Matt Kuchar 64-69-70-203 Rory McIlroy 68-67-68-203 Russell Henley 67-69-68-204 Harold Varner III 67-68-69-204 Joel Dahmen 68-71-66-205 Dustin Johnson 72-66-67-205 Max Homa 72-69-65-206 Talor Gooch 70-72-64-206 Sung Kang 69-67-70-206 Luke List 71-68-68-207 Scott Brown 71-68-68-207 Bryson DeChambeau 68-70-69-207 Jon Rahm 70-68-69-207 Wyndham Clark 67-68-72-207 Hideki Matsuyama 71-72-64-207 Collin Morikawa 73-67-68-208 Sebastian Munoz 69-69-70-208 Paul Casey 69-69-70-208 James Hahn 68-70-70-208 Chez Reavie 69-68-71-208 Matthew Fitzpatrick 71-70-68-209 Kyoung-Hoon Lee 67-73-69-209 Brian Stuard 72-68-69-209 Scott Piercy 70-69-70-209 Carlos Ortiz 68-70-71-209 Rafa Cabrera Bello 68-69-72-209 Sam Burns 73-68-69-210 Lanto Griffin 71-70-69-210 Andrew Landry 68-72-70-210 Marc Leishman 70-72-68-210 Brooks Koepka 69-73-68-210 Cameron Tringale 74-69-67-210 Si Woo Kim 69-69-72-210 Vaughn Taylor 69-67-74-210 Denny McCarthy 69-72-70-211 Sergio Garcia 70-70-71-211 Patrick Cantlay 68-72-71-211 J.T. Poston 69-72-70-211 Adam Schenk 67-73-71-211 Ryan Moore 71-71-69-211 Adam Hadwin 71-71-69-211 Xander Schauffele 72-70-69-211 Martin Trainer 72-71-68-211 Joseph Bramlett 74-69-68-211 Patrick Reed 68-73-71-212 Scottie Scheffler 69-72-71-212 Patrick Rodgers 71-71-70-212 Jordan Spieth 72-70-70-212 Martin Laird 71-71-70-212 Justin Rose 69-69-74-212 Pat Perez 73-70-69-212 Alex Noren 71-70-72-213 Brian Harman 70-69-74-213 Abraham Ancer 76-67-70-213 Bud Cauley 74-69-70-213 Rory Sabbatini 72-68-74-214 Steve Stricker 72-71-71-214 J.B. Holmes 69-69-76-214 Tony Finau 72-71-71-214 Brendon Todd 73-70-71-214 J.J. Spaun 73-69-73-215 Tiger Woods 69-73-76-218 Charles Howell III 77-66-75-218 Kyle Stanley 71-70-78-219 Jason Dufner 75-68-76-219 Tyler Duncan 73-69-79-221 Ryan Palmer 71-70-81-222 LECOM Suncoast Classic Scores Saturday At Lakewood National Golf Club Lakewood Ranch, Fla. Purse: $600,000 Yardage: 7,161; Par: 72 Third Round Peter Uihlein 68-64-66-198 Andrew Novak 69-64-66-199 Jack Maguire 66-66-67-199 Chandler Blanchet 69-67-65-201 Greyson Sigg 66-67-68-201 Alex Chiarella 69-64-68-201 Robert Garrigus 70-62-69-201 David Kocher 71-64-67-202 Sebastian Vazquez 70-65-67-202 J.T. Griffin 69-66-67-202 Taylor Moore 67-68-67-202 John Chin 68-66-68-202 Eric Cole 68-69-66-203 Jimmy Stanger 66-70-67-203 Drew Weaver 70-67-66-203 Nicolas Echavarria 71-65-67-203 Dylan Wu 66-69-68-203 Zecheng Dou 69-69-65-203 Jamie Arnold 66-72-65-203 Taylor Montgomery 65-69-69-203 Luke Guthrie 68-65-70-203 Austin Smotherman 67-68-69-204 Carl Yuan 69-65-70-204 Kevin Dougherty 70-65-69-204 Adam Svensson 68-66-70-204 Ben Silverman 67-67-70-204 Taylor Pendrith 68-66-70-204 T.J. Vogel 66-67-71-204 Will Zalatoris 71-68-65-204 Joey Garber 68-65-71-204 Jamie Lovemark 68-69-68-205 Lee Hodges 67-70-68-205

TENNIS ATP World Tour Argentina Open Results Saturday Buenos Aires Purse: $611,420 Surface: Red clay BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Results Saturday from Argentina Open at Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club (seedings in parentheses): Men's Singles Semifinals Pedro Sousa, Portugal, def. Diego Schwartzman (1), Argentina, walkover.

Casper Ruud (8), Norway, def. Juan Ignacio Londero, Argentina, 4-6, 7-5, 6-1.

Men's Doubles Semifinals Marcel Granollers, Spain, and Horacio Zeballos (1), Argentina, def. Matwe Middelkoop, Netherlands, and Marcelo Demoliner (4), Brazil, 6-2, 7-5.

Guillermo Duran and Juan Ignacio Londero, Argentina, vs. Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen (3), Belgium, 7-6 (4), 6-4.

TRANSACTIONS BASEBALL American League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Designated 3B Andrew Velazquez for assignment.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Assigned RHP Parker Markel outright to Salt Lake (PCL).

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Placed RHP Daniel Mengden on the 60-day IL. National League MIAMI MARLINS — Signed RHP Brad Boxberger to a minor league contract.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Traded RHP Burch Smith to Oakland for cash.

Frontier League NEW JERSEY JACKALS — Released RHP Eduard Reyes.

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Teams for NBA Africa League announced Tim Reynolds ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO – The NBA-backed Basketball Africa League on Saturday announced the 12 teams that will compete in the inaugural season.

The clubs, from a dozen African nations, are: Groupement Sportif des Pétroliers (Algeria), Petro de Luanda (Angola), Forces Armées et Police (Cameroon), Zamalek (Egypt), Gendarmerie Nationale Basketball Club (Madagascar), AS Police (Mali), AS Salé (Morocco), Ferroviàrio de Maputo (Mozambique), Rivers Hoopers BC (Nigeria), Patriots BC (Rwanda), AS Douanes (Senegal) and Union Sportive Monastirienne (Tunisia).

“It’s amazing creating a league in Africa,” said reigning NBA MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks, a Greek born to Nigerian parents.

“Giving opportunities to African talent and African players to go out there and showcase their talent, I knew it was go-

ing to happen.”

The teams from Algeria, Cameroon, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique and Rwanda earned the right to be in the league through qualifying tournaments.

The teams from Angola, Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal and Tunisia was guaranteed a spot by winning their national leagues.

The league tips off in Dakar, Senegal, on March 13.

“I think it’s really important because there’s a lot of special talent that the world doesn’t know about,” said Philadelphia 76ers All-Star Joel Embiid, who hails from Cameroon. “If you look at the guys in the league who have been able to make it, there’s probably somebody better than me or has the potential to be better than me in the future. So I think it’s a great initiative.”

Embiid, Antetokounmpo and Toronto’s Pascal Siakam – all of African descent – will be teammates on Team Giannis in Sunday’s All-Star Game.

UPCOMING Sun. MBB at ECU, 12 p.m.

Tues. WBB at Houston, 8 p.m.

Wed. MBB vs. UCF, 7 p.m.

Sun. WBB at Indiana, 2 p.m.

Wed. WBB vs. Nebraska, 7 p.m.

Thurs. MBB at Iowa, 7 p.m.

Feb. 22 MBB at Akron, 4 p.m.

Feb. 25 MBB at Kent, 7 p.m.

Feb. 26 WBB at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

Sun. WBB at DePaul, 3 p.m.

Mon. MBB at St.Johns, 6:30 p.m.

Fri. WBB vs. Providence, 11:30 a.m.

Sun. WBB vs. Miss. St., 5 p.m.

Tues. MBB at LSU, 9 p.m.

Thurs. WBB at Ole Miss, 8 p.m.

Sun. WBB vs. Notre Dame, 3 p.m.

Wed. MBB vs. Syracuse, 7 p.m.

Thurs. WBB at Ga Tech, 6 p.m.

Sun. vs. Indy, 3 p.m.

Thurs. vs. Toledo, 7:30 p.m.

Fri. vs. Wheeling, 7:30 p.m.

Sun. MBB vs. UIC, 2 p.m.

Thurs. MBB at Clev. St., 7 p.m.

Thurs. WBB at Wright St., 7 p.m.

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LEBRON AND VOGEL: Before this season, the three best teams that Frank Vogel coached were, in order of winning percentage, the 2013-14 Indiana Pacers, the 2011-12 Pacers and the 2012-13 Pacers.

They all ultimately met the same fate: a playoff loss to the Miami Heat and LeBron James.

This year, of course, James and Vogel are paired up with the Los Angeles Lakers – the team leading the Western Conference. Vogel is also coaching Team LeBron in the All-Star Game. James said Saturday he felt a bond with Vogel before they began a coach-player relationship this season.

“I already respected Frank just from a competitive standpoint, and when I was in Miami competing versus the Indiana Pacers teams you saw how they were always prepared,” James said.

“They were dedicated to their game plan. They were always ready for our matchups every time we played them.

The battles we had versus those teams

in Indiana. Didn’t need to have a level of respect because it was already there from the jump.”

McIlroy in three-way tie with Kuchar, Scott for Riviera lead

The idea is to peak for the Masters, still about two months away.

LOS ANGELES – Rory McIlroy returned to No. 1 in the world for the fi rst time in more than four years and is playing like he wants to stay there for a while.

McIlroy had a 3-under 68 on Saturday at Riviera and shared the 54-hole lead with Matt Kuchar and Adam Scott going into the fi nal round at the Genesis Invitational.

Riviera is a thorough test, and the greens are diffi cult enough that no one could run away with it. Tiger Woods managed to run the other direction with a 76 that left him 15 shots behind.

Kuchar had a two-shot lead at the start of the gorgeous day and kept there with three birdies and no bogeys through 12 holes. But he started to miss short putts, made three bogeys in a fourhole stretch and had to rally with a birdie on the 17th to regain a share of the lead with a 70.

Scott holed a 10-foot birdie putt on the 18th for a 67 that gives him a great chance to start his new year off with a win. Scott last played about two months ago when he won the Australian PGA Championship. He has a trophy from Riviera in 2005, even if the PGA Tour doesn’t count it as an offi cial win because it was shortened to 36 holes by rain.

They were at at 10-under-par 203, and the fi nal round fi gurs to be wide open.

Sixteen players were separated by four shots.

Harold Varner III birdied his last two holes for a 69 and was one shot behind, along with Russell Henley (68). Dustin Johnson, who won at Riviera three years ago, had only two pars over his fi nal 12 holes. That stretch also featured fi ve birdies and an eagle for a 67. He was two shots behind, along with Joel Dahmen (66).

Still in the mix was Hideki Matsuyama, who bogeyed his last hole Friday and was the last player to make the cut.

Matsuyama played in the fi nal group off the back nine, away from all the attention, and posted a 64. He was four shots behind and very much in the picture.

Woods will have to wait another year to win at Riviera, another week to seek his record 83rd victory on the PGA Tour.

In a spot where he couldn’t aff ord to drop shots, he made more mistakes than he had all week, especially on the greens.

He four-putted from 18 feet on No. 13, his second four-putt in as many tournaments this year and the fi rst times since 1998 that Woods had multiple tournaments with a four-putt. He three-putted the 17th for par. He fi nished with a threeputt bogey from about 12 feet on the 18th.

It added up to a 76, leaving him at the bottom of the pack. It was his highest score since he opened with an 81 at Royal Portrush in the British Open last summer, and the fi rst time since the PGA Championship in May that Woods had consecutive rounds over par.

“I hit the ball quite a few times, especially on the greens, and it was a long day,” Woods said. “I didn’t have a feel for it, I didn’t see my lines, I couldn’t feel my pace and I was just off . … Obviously, there wasn’t a whole lot I did right today, and fi gure it out tomorrow.”

Woods said he wasn’t ready for the Mexico Championship next week and was not sure when he would play next.

Liverpool continues its march toward Premier League title

330 AMBASSADORS: As has become a tradition at All-Star weekend, James brought 23 high school students from his Akron, Ohio, hometown – his “330 Ambassadors,” he calls them, a nod to Akron’s area code – to experience a new city and volunteer as well.

The kids volunteered at a book bank Thursday, sorting and inspecting books, and selected a book to share with other children in Chicago. That’s akin to what they do at James’ I PROMISE School in Akron, helping at-risk students read.

“I was a young kid growing up in the inner city with not many resources, not much help,” James said. “So, for me to be able to be in the position I am today to be able to give back, not only to my hometown, but go all over the world and inspire people and inspire kids and inspire the youth, I think it’s just as important as what I do on the basketball fl oor.”

NORWICH, England - Winning fi ve of the remaining 12 games will guarantee Liverpool the end of its 30-year title drought.

Sadio Mane produced the sole moment of quality as Liverpool fended off Storm Dennis and Norwich for a 1-0 win that sent the visitors 25 points clear at the top of the Premier League on Saturday.

Mane climbed off the bench to net his 12th league goal of the campaign and extend Liverpool’s winning streak to 17 top-fl ight matches.

Mane delivered with a lovely touch to control Jordan Henderson’s ball over the top and strike at the near post in the 78th minute. It was a fi ne way for Mane to mark his fi rst Liverpool action since hobbling out of a 2-1 win at Wolverhampton on Jan. 23.

“It was not easy,” Mane told Sky Sports television. “Everyone wants to play all the time. I worked hard and I came back. We are happy with today.”

The runaway leaders inched closer to a fi rst title since 1990 by grinding out a nervy win, amid howling winds and driving rain.

Russia to lose another Olympic gold medal for doping SALZBURG, Austria – Russia is set to lose a biathlon gold medal from the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics following a new doping ban for a leading athlete.

The International Biathlon Union on Saturday announced a two-year ban for Evgeny Ustyugov, who was part of the gold medal-winning men’s relay team six years ago, citing evidence he used the banned steroid oxandrolone around the time of the Olympics.

His results from the 2013-14 season have been disqualifi ed, including the Olympic victory.

When confi rmed by the International Olympic Committee, it will knock Russia off top spot in the Sochi medal table in terms of golds. The host nation would have 10 golds, against 11 for Norway, and 28 total medals, the joint-most along with the United States.

Germany is in line to inherit the relay gold, subject to IOC confi rmation.

Ustyugov, who is also facing another anti-doping charge on another matter, denies any wrongdoing and suggested the IBU was unfairly targeting him with a series of investigations.

Bertens, Rybakina to meet for St. Petersburg championshiip ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – Kiki Bertens will face Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina in the fi nal of the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy as the Dutch player tries to successfully defend her title.

Eighth-ranked Bertens stumbled in the second set but recovered to win her semifi nal 6-1, 4-6, 6-1 against Ekaterina Alexandrova on Saturday. That gives her the chance to end an 0-3 streak in tour fi nals since she beat Simona Halep in Madrid in May. Bertens has not successfully defended a title since Nuremberg in 2017.

Rybakina, 20, reached her third fi nal of the year by beating Maria Sakkari 3-6, 7-5, 6-1.

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Cybercrooks are targeting retirement accounts And there’s no guarantee you’ll get your money back Paul Gores

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Beth Bennett didn’t often check on the balance in her employer-sponsored retirement account.

“Maybe every couple of months I’d go online and take a look at it,” said Bennett, of Madison, Wisconsin.

When she logged in to view her account in November, she expected to see a balance of more than $80,000. Instead, she saw a balance of only about $8,000.

“I was very shocked by that. I thought there must be some mistake here,” she said.

She soon found out it was no mistake.

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This winter’s fl u season challenges small business Joyce M. Rosenberg ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK – As this winter’s fl u outbreak intensifi es, small-business owners try to keep their companies from being overwhelmed by employee absences.

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Money, it’s a gas. Unless you need to borrow some from your parents. Then it’s a conversation many adults will avoid at all costs, even if it means paying for groceries with couch nickels.

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Asking your parents for money Even bona fi de adults need help from the bank of mom and dad sometimes. In fact, 70% of young adults (ages 18-34) received fi nancial support from their parents in the past year, according to a 2018 survey by Merrill Lynch.

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Defamation lawsuit off ering a new wrinkle Strictly Legal Jack Greiner Guest columnist

A former Rhodes College student who faced expulsion over allegations that she cheated in organic chemistry has fought back with a defamation suit.

And the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently upheld her right to proceed with the case.

According to the appellate court’s opinion, in her sophomore year at the Memphis college, Prianka Bose was accepted into the early selection program for George Washington University’s medical school. The program guaranteed Bose admission, without taking the MCAT, if she maintained a 3.6 GPA and received at least a B- in required science courses.

In the spring semester of her sophomore year, Bose successfully completed Organic Chemistry I, taught by Roberto de la Salud Bea. The following summer, Bea approached Bose in a parking lot on campus, where the two struck up a conversation. After exchanging pleasantries, Bea began asking more personal questions. As he asked her questions, Bea moved closer to Bose, who eventually stepped backward to create space

between them. Bea then asked her whether she would like to have dinner and catch up. Bose declined the dinner invitation and left.

Bose took Bea’s Organic Chemistry II class the following fall semester as she had planned. Throughout the term, Bea called Bose “pretty” or “beautiful” and would compliment her clothing. Bea gave all of his students the option to take tests and quizzes early. Bose often used this option. She would arrive at Bea’s offi ce around 7:30 or 7:45 a.m.; Bea would give her the test and leave shortly before 8:00 a.m. to teach another class.

When he left, Bea would leave his laptop running without logging off , which meant the laptop could be accessed without his password. In early November 2015, Bose took a quiz in Bea’s offi ce. Bose testifi ed that Bea was in the offi ce with her nearly the entire time she took the quiz, leaving only momentarily to collect class evaluations.

Bea testifi ed that when he returned to his offi ce, he noticed that the answer key was open on his laptop in a larger view or “zoom” level than he typically uses. Bea explained that he then began to suspect Bose was cheating.

A colleague advised Bea to create a fake answer key and stay logged in on his computer to see whether Bose used

it. Bea created a document entitled “Answer Key,” with credible, though incorrect, answers to an upcoming quiz.

Shortly thereafter, Bose took the quiz in Bea’s offi ce. Her answers matched the fake answer key precisely. Later that day, Bea emailed several administrators and accused Bose of cheating and of changing her grades in his grade roster.

Student academic conduct at Rhodes is governed by an Honor Code, administered by students elected to serve on an Honor Council.

Two days after Bose took the quiz, the Honor Council president emailed Bose to tell her she was under investigation for cheating “on multiple assignments in Organic Chemistry II.” The Honor Council determined that Bose had violated the Honor Code. Because of the “nature and severity” of the underlying off ense, as well as what the Council deemed Bose’s “egregious lies” during the hearing, the Honor Council voted to expel her.

In May 2016, Bose fi led her lawsuit against Rhodes and Bea. Her suit against Bea alleged defamation under Tennessee law for Bea’s statements that Bose had violated the Honor Code. Bea fi led a motion to dismiss. He argued that his accusations of cheating were made as part of “quasi-judicial proceedings” and were therefore subject to an abso-

lute privilege under Tennessee defamation law. The district court agreed and dismissed the defamation claim.

The appellate court disagreed. It found that while Tennessee does recognize an absolute privilege for statements made in quasi-judicial proceedings, Tennessee courts have applied the privilege only to statements made before public bodies.

The court explained that “[t]he policy underlying the privilege is to encourage the public to speak freely at public, governmental hearings,” . . . and “[w]hen [public] boards hold hearings, all interested persons should feel free to express their views without fear of a recriminating lawsuit.” But that rationale doesn’t apply to internal proceedings at a private college.

As the court noted, “[t]o our knowledge, Tennessee has never cloaked defamatory statements made to private entities with an absolute privilege, and we see in the Tennessee cases no indication that its rationale for maintaining the privilege would compel an extension.”

In short, Bose took Bea to school. And her case will live on.

Jack Greiner is managing partner of Graydon law fi rm in Cincinnati. He represents Enquirer Media in First Amendment and media issues.

Getting to long-term care insurance ‘sweet spot’ Simply Money Amy Wagner & Nathan Bachrach Guest columnists

Question: Stacy and Jake from Milford: We’re both close to turning 50 and were wondering if this is too early to start looking for long-term care insurance?

A: Actually, the two of you are approaching the optimal time to start the shopping process since the ‘sweet spot’ for buying a long-term care policy is typically between ages 55 and 64. And you really don’t want to wait much past your 64th birthday – according to AARP, a 65-year-old’s premium can be eight to 10 percent higher than a 64-year-old’s.

But before you start diving into research and doing cost comparisons, there’s a bigger question you need to address: Do the two of you even need a long-term care policy? Because if you have suffi cient retirement savings you might be able to self-insure and pay for any future long-term care expenses – such as a nursing home stay, in-home care, or assisted living – out-of-pocket.

This is something a fi nancial plan from a

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businesses. If a company with just a handful of employees has two or more out at once, it can be diffi cult or impossible to get the work done. So owners pay for fl u shots and use disinfectants in hopes of keeping everyone healthy and urge sick staff ers not to come to work.

And, as Gold Medal Wine Club does, they train and reassign staff ers to cover for sick colleagues.

“Nothing harms our ability to hit deadlines more than a spreading fl u through the ranks of our staff members,” says Alex Kehoe, co-founder of Caveni, a website design company that has 10 employees at its Philadelphia headquarters and more than 10 others who work remotely.

When Kehoe’s staff ers start having fl u symptoms, he encourages them to stay home. Kehoe follows his own advice; he was working at home with a bad cold while being interviewed by phone for this story.

This fl u season started early, and all but two states reported widespread outbreaks by the week ended Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. From 1982 to 2018, the fl u most often peaked in February, so there’s a good chance the rest of the states will see their cases increase this year.

credentialed fi nancial advisor can help you determine.

If you do start looking for a policy in a few years, we recommend shopping for one that covers three to fi ve years of care. Additionally, in most cases it’s better to stick with a straightforward longterm care policy as opposed to a ‘hybrid’ policy that combines whole life insurance and long-term care coverage. This type of policy can be much more expensive, and since it’s trying to serve dual purposes (as a life insurance policy and a long-term care policy), coverage and benefi ts can be spotty. But, of course, your personal situation may dictate otherwise.

Moreover, make sure you can actually aff ord the policy’s premium not only now, but also in the future – because premiums are not guaranteed to remain steady as you age.

It’s also critical that you buy from a reputable insurance company. The provider you decide to work with should be an established name with proven underwriting experience, and a ratings agency (like Moody’s) should rate it highly for its fi nancial strength. One more important note: Depending on an insurance company’s health requirements, not everyone who wants to buy a long-term care policy will actually qualify for coverage. For instance, those with

a debilitating pre-existing condition, such as Alzheimer’s, certain cancers, Multiple Sclerosis, and Parkinson’s, will not be able to buy a policy.

The Simply Money Point is that before you start shopping for a long-term care insurance policy, fi gure out if you really need one.

Q: Karen from Butler County: Do my husband and I have a joint credit score?

A: We understand how it could be easy to assume this, given married couples can have joint checking accounts and the option to fi le their taxes together. But a ‘joint credit score’ does not exist. You each have your own individual credit report and credit score (though any joint accounts will impact you individually).

However, even though you both have separate credit scores doesn’t mean those scores are independent of each other. If the two of you will be applying for a loan together, lenders typically will check both scores – so if one of you has a stellar score and the other doesn’t, that poorer score can impact the interest rate you receive. If this happens to be your situation, work to improve that lower score before applying for any loans together.

Here’s The Simply Money Point: While both people in a marriage share a

lot of things, a credit score is not one of them. Therefore, it’s critical that you still take the time and eff ort to check, nurture, and maintain your individual score. You can see your score for free at credit.com or creditkarma.com.

Every week, Allworth Financial’s Nathan Bachrach and Amy Wagner answer your questions in their Simply Money column. If you, a friend, or someone in your family has a money issue or problem, feel free to send those questions to yourmoney@enquirer.com.

There may be even more concern about illness spreading at work after news that a Washington state man traveling in China contracted a virus that has killed at least 17 people and sickened hundreds more in that country.

The man is now hospitalized near Seattle.

Jo Trizila’s fi rm has fi ve employees and no wiggle room when fl u hits. Clients expect work to be done no matter what circumstances Dallas-based TrizCom Public Relations is dealing with.

Trizila can fi nd herself with 18-hour days to cover her work and a sick staff er’s – she has nowhere else to turn.

“We’re not in a position to hire a temp because our jobs are so specifi c and so creative,” Trizila says. “Someone can’t just step in and do it.”

Like many other owners whose work is done on computers and online, Trizila tells staff ers they can work from home.

But she’s realistic that chills, sore throat and high fever can wipe out an employee’s ability to do any work.

“You don’t even check your phone, you feel so crummy,” she says.

Like many owners, Trizila has encouraged staff ers to get fl u shots. The vaccines are fully covered under many health insurance plans, and some owners arrange for employees to get their shots at work. At Gold Medal, staff ers are paid $25 if they get fl u shots although vaccinations are covered under the company’s insurance.

But owners often can’t require staff -

ers to be vaccinated, says Rick Gibbs, a consultant with human resources provider Insperity. Some employees may be covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, which prohibits employers from requiring employees to undergo medical procedures. However, people who work in health care facilities can be required to be immunized.

Some staff ers don’t want to stay home if they’re sick. Gibbs recommends owners appeal to staff ers’ common sense – it’s better for them and their coworkers if they stay home. And if a staff er wants to work rather than lose pay, Gibbs recommends owners rethink their paid time off or sick leave policy; workers are more likely to stay home if they know they won’t lose pay.

Staff ers whose work is done at customers’ homes and businesses are at risk not only of spreading the fl u, but of catching it. At Christina Clark’s Molly Maid home cleaning franchise, some customers who are sick want their homes cleaned and sanitized anyway.

“As soon as we fi nd out someone is sick in a home, we do ask that we reschedule the cleaning until they are feeling better,” says Clark, whose company is based in Pensacola, Florida.

Clark contracts with a company to give staff ers fl u shots at work. If she has several staff ers out of once, it makes it harder to do all the scheduled cleaning jobs; it’s not the kind of work that Clark can hire part-time workers to do.

“I wouldn’t be comfortable with hav-

ing someone I didn’t know going to a customer’s home,” Clark says.

The employees at Vinnie Sposari’s Mr. Rooter Plumbing franchise have to be careful about germs year-round.

Working with bathrooms, kitchens, drains, sewer lines and septic tanks exposes people in the plumbing business to the possibility of all kinds of illnesses.

It’s standard practice at Sposari’s Seattle business for plumbers to put drop cloths down before putting tools on a surface, Sposari says. That’s meant to protect staff ers and customers.

Carol Galle’s staff ers are continually exposed to germs. Her company, Special D Events, provides administrative services at corporate events; her staff ers hand out registration badges at conferences, run errands and help clients and attendees with problems. There’s never-ending contact: shaking hands, passing ID cards back and forth, borrowing pens and staplers. Galle’s 19 staff ers are often fl ying, and planes are well-known germ carriers.

Galle does the best she can to help staff ers stay healthy or have an easy recovery. “I have a no-questions-asked policy right now regarding work from home. If you are ill, don’t come in,” says Galle, whose company is based in Ferndale, Michigan.

When her staff ers get sick while running an event, Galle has backup plans including a network of freelancers who can fi ll in when someone gets sick.

“The show must go on,” Galle says.

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able to pose as her, changing Bennett’s mailing address, redeeming big chunks of her mutual funds and having checks mailed to new locations – fi rst to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and then New York City. A bank cashed the fi rst two checks, but when Bennett discovered the heist, payment was stopped on a third check.

But another shock was still in store for Bennett.

When she contacted a representative at the mutual fund company, no immediate guarantee was made that she would recover the money.

“When I tell people, they’re like, ‘What?’ And then the next thing is, ‘Well, surely they have to make sure you get your money back.’ And then when I say, ‘Well no, no one will tell me I’m going to get my money back,’ that’s when it gets scary. And that’s when you get people’s attention,” Bennett said.

Attacks on retirement accounts rising Unlike with stolen credit cards, a saver’s losses to fraud in retirement investment accounts aren’t limited by federal law, although mutual fund companies typically say they’ll reimburse funds lost to fraudulent activity.

It’s an issue to be aware of as cyberattacks on retirement funds rise.

“Hackers are fi nding it’s getting harder to hack bank accounts, so they’re saying where else is there more money? Where can we go? And they’ve started to discover 401(k) accounts, they’ve started to discover retirement funds,” said Ed Mierzwinski, senior director of the federal consumer program for the U.S. Public Research Interest Group.

At a 2019 forum for institutions involved in retirement planning, industry expert Larry Goldbrum of Reliance Trust told attendees that while overall cyberfraud and account fraud were down – cyberfraud amounted to $14.7 billion in 2018 – fraud in retirement accounts was rising, according to a report by the National Association of Plan Advisors.

Cybercriminals today are “looking for any possible route into people’s fi nancial transactions, and they are increasingly focusing their eff orts outside fi nancial institutions’ fi rewalls,” said Steven Silberstein, chief executive offi cer of Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center, an industry consortium dedicated to reducing cyber-risk in the global fi nancial system.

“In other words, directly at the public,” Silberstein said. “E-mail compromises, spear phishing and social profi ling are some of the key tactics being used to target all types of assets, including retirement accounts.”

In spear phishing, cyberbandits send emails, purportedly from a known or trusted sender, in the hope of persuading potential victims to reveal confi dential fi nancial information.

The good news in Bennett’s case is that American Funds, the mutual fund company that holds her retirement savings, has agreed to restore the money she lost, even though at fi rst Bennett said representatives gave her no assurance of reimbursement.

Still, what happened to Bennett serves as a cautionary tale that people with 401(k) accounts and other types of retirement savings accounts need to be on guard.

“The scenarios continue to evolve, so

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to get your fi nances under control. Ask for their input and avoid getting defensive if they scrutinize your spending.

Taking this advice into account, Ivers suggests your request could sound something like this: “I was wondering if you could help me with my rent this month. I had a lot of unforeseen expenses (give examples), and, honestly, I didn’t manage my expenses as well as I could have.

“I have already started a budget to monitor things more closely. Would you be willing to go over it with me? It’s kind of tight, but if I cut down on some of the extra things … I will defi nitely have enough to cover things next month.”

When crooks gain entry to consumer bank and retirement accounts, the point of entry more often than not is the victim’s email account, one expert says. GETTY IMAGES

while our nearly 7,000 member fi nancial institutions are constantly developing their cyberdefenses, it’s also critical for consumers to practice good cyberhygiene and be on the lookout for suspicious activity,” Silberstein said.

Beware those fi shy email messages When crooks gain entry to consumer bank and retirement accounts, the point of entry usually is the victim’s email account, said Kevin Bong, director of cybersecurity for the accounting and consulting fi rm Sikich. Often, account passwords, obtained in data breaches and then sold on the “dark web” to cybercriminals, are used to break into an email account and take it over without the victim knowing it.

retirement savings tool is what’s known a Simple Plan, a tax-deferred, employer-sponsored account with some similarities to 401(k) and 403(b) plans that is tailored for smaller employers.

Asked about Bennett’s case, American Fund issued a statement: “Our mission is to help people save for a secure retirement.

When one of our customers is the victim of identity theft, we hold ourselves accountable to immediately conduct a thorough examination of what happened and take appropriate action.

We use instances like this to strengthen our practices and conduct additional staff training if needed.

We have communicated to the customer that her savings, including any accrued dividends or appreciation, will be reinstated. We will work with law en-

Unlike with stolen credit cards, a saver’s losses to fraud in retirement investment accounts aren’t limited by federal law, although mutual fund companies typically say they’ll reimburse funds lost to fraudulent activity.

“We’re defi nitely seeing that by getting just that one account – usually your email account – they use that to fi gure out, ‘Here’s my bank, here’s where my retirement accounts are,’ ” Bong said. “You’ve probably got a diff erent password on your retirement account than you do on your email address, but what do you do if you forget that password? Well, you click ‘Forgot Password’ and they email a link to reset your password. So with access to your email address, they really have access to all those other things in a lot of cases.”

Bennett doesn’t know how a crook got into her American Funds account and started draining it.

American Funds said its system wasn’t hacked and that it sends out notices via postal mail when things like changes of address take place online.

Bennett is executive director of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association. Her

forcement to aid in their investigation.”

Mierzwinski, of the U.S. Public Research Interest Group, said people can’t assume whoever holds their retirement money will reimburse them after a hack, but he said the biggest companies typically do.

Charles Schwab, for example, states online it will “cover 100% of any losses in any of your Schwab accounts due to unauthorized activity.”

Fidelity also says it will reimburse customers for any fi nancial losses resulting from unauthorized activity on Fidelity accounts.

American Funds states on its website: “We review each report of unauthorized access thoroughly, fi le appropriate notices with law enforcement agencies, and, in the event of a fi nancial loss, we assess the facts and circumstances for potential reimbursement to your account.”

Companies need to investigate the

Talking with your partner about debt

sation about how you got into debt, whether it’s student loans, credit cards or a combination of the two, and articulate your plan to pay off your debt. You should also share with your partner any fears you have about how this might affect your relationship.

Debt is a reality in most relationships, so it’s wise to disclose any you carry when things get serious. Ripping off the debt Band-Aid may be terrifying, but it can ultimately strengthen your bond, says Marla Mattenson, a relationship expert.

“The more comfortable you get about talking about your fi nances together, the easier it will be for you to discuss all the challenges that arise in a relationship,” Mattenson says.

Ask your partner to set aside time to chat and off er a heads up on where the conversation is heading, she adds.

Keep it simple, something like: “Can we set aside 30 minutes sometime this week to talk about my personal fi nances?”

Be transparent during your conver-

Negotiating salary Your salary serves as the basis for future raises and job off ers. That’s why negotiating your salary – at the outset and throughout your tenure – is critical.

Here’s how to approach the conversation.

Research industry salary. Use sites like Glassdoor to research salaries by city and company, and ask people in your network what someone with your experience can expect to earn. If you’re comfortable, talk to current co-workers about their compensation when an-

hacks for fraud and make sure law enforcement is notifi ed a crime has taken place, experts said.

How to protect yourself Cybersecurity experts say if retirement savers have access to their accounts online, one of the best things they can do is make it very hard for hackers to take over their accounts.

Recommended tips: ❚ Make sure any computer or device used to access accounts is protected by a fi rewall and has current antivirus and antispyware software. ❚ Be wary of responding to, opening attachments in or clicking on links in emails that ask for your fi nancial information. ❚ Open and read any letters or paper statements from your mutual fund or money manager to see if everything looks accurate, and notify them promptly if it appears unauthorized activity has taken place. Investment fi rms often also will send letters via the postal service to let clients know if any changes have been made to details like a home address.

Sikich’s Bong said a way of increasing security for an account is a strong password that isn’t used for any other types of online accounts.

Long passwords with phrases such as “Dogcatfi sh22” are better and easier to remember than shorter ones, he said.

“It’s a lot longer so people can’t break it as easily,” Bong said.

Mierzwinski said retirement accounts could be particularly vulnerable because account holders might neglect looking at their statements.

In some cases, they’ve been told over the years just to let the money grow and not check on it too frequently.

That advice isn’t prudent anymore in an age of cybercrime.

“You know it’s just a statement, but open it,” he said.

Bennett said she wants people to know they need to check regularly on their retirement savings.

“If it can happen to me, it can happen with everybody,” she said.

gling for a raise.

Bring a list of wins. Come to the conversation armed with tangible examples of how you’ve added value to the company (if you’re asking for a raise). Prepare a list of business you’ve brought on, successful campaigns you’ve run or other metrics you’ve moved. If you’re negotiating for a new job, articulate how your skills and experience will add value to your new employer.

Be prepared for a “no.” If your boss declines your raise request, ask for an explanation. Welcome any recommendations for how to improve your performance and set the expectation that you would like to revisit the conversation in the coming months. When negotiating for a new job, fi nd out if there is any wiggle room and consider negotiating for benefi ts like more vacation time in lieu of a higher starting salary.

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How small businesses can lose dead-end prospects Hints may help owners recognize ‘looky-loos’

likely choice for him or her, and how much time you should spend.

3. Create a sense of urgency.

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It’s human nature to put off making choices until the last minute, but that often puts your business in a crunch. If you can, come up with truthful, positive ways to encourage customers to make a decision quickly – “I’ve got an opening in my calendar in two weeks, but then I’m booked ’til February” or “I can get a discount on materials this month.”

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You’ve had them in your small business: “prospects” who aren’t really prospects at all. They’re not truly interested in buying. They’re just using your expertise to shop elsewhere, or are looking for rock-bottom prices, or are just seeing what’s out there. In real estate, they have a term for these timewasters: “looky-loos.” How can you fi gure out who’s a real prospect and who’s not?

Looky-loos eat up a great deal of your limited time. They want to learn what they can from you and then move on. And they’re not just individuals – big corporate prospects can be “lookyloos,” too. You can use a whole lot of your resources in meetings and preparing bids and proposals, when all they’re really trying to do is get your ideas.

After “wasting” your time with even one or two of these tire-kickers, it’s easy to become cynical, too brusque or even rude to prospects who might turn out to be very profi table paying customers.

Figuring out how much time and energy to spend on prospective customers is a delicate and diffi cult balancing act. Realistically, you have to be responsive – and above all, polite – to all potential customers. But there are ways to limit the amount of time, money and eff ort you spend on dead-end shoppers.

Here’s how to separate real prospects from looky-loos and perhaps turn some into paying customers:

1. Be specifi c in your information, on your website and in marketing materials.

Most prospects actually will decide

4. Be cautious of prospects who want too much information.

Some prospects use proposals as a way of getting free consulting services.

This is true of both small customers and Fortune 500 companies.

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whether you’re a good fi t before taking up a lot of time. Let’s say you sell and install fl oor tiles. The more specifi c you are in your description, the more likely you’ll have the right kind of prospects contact you. Do you specialize in commercial or residential? Do you only serve a specifi c geographic area? Do you install countertops as well as fl oors? That kind of information enables prospects to weed themselves out before calling you.

2. Ask questions of the prospect.

In professional salesperson terms, this is known as “qualifying” the prospect. By asking a few simple, non-intrusive questions, you get a sense of

how serious the prospect is.

Some potential questions: ❚ What’s the scope of the project? ❚ What’s the time frame for the work to be started and completed? ❚ How soon will you be making a decision on a vendor? ❚ How many bids are you getting? ❚ What other alternatives (not competitors) are you considering? (In the fl oor tile example, for instance, you might ask, “What other types of fl oor coverings are you looking at?”) ❚ What are the most important considerations in your decision – price, quality, convenience?

Questions like these give you a better sense of whether a prospect is ready to make a decision, whether you’re a

It’s easy to get excited if you’re approached by a large or well-known company or customer. Don’t lose your judgment. Such customers often take up more of your time, take longer to make decisions and expect highly competitive bids. Sure, it would be nice to have the biggest company in town or the star of the Major League Baseball team on your customer list, but is it worth it if you don’t make a profi t (especially if you can’t use that big name in your marketing)?

6. Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.

It’s easy to get excited about a prospect, especially if it’s a big one. So keep a lot of balls in the air, and remember, a deal isn’t really a deal until the check clears.

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Wagering on sports is a good bet for Kentucky Kentucky has a long history of gambling. Horses are part of our culture. We have a billion-dollar lottery and bingo at our churches. In Northern Kentucky and Louisville, we have casinos minutes from our homes, and there is now a casino within 30 minutes of Paducah (Western Kentucky) and Ashland (Eastern Kentucky). States that surround Kentucky are raking in millions each year off gambling revenue to benefi t their schools, local governments and tourism eff orts.

So why has Kentucky been unable to get casino gaming passed at the state level? Because there aren’t enough votes statewide to get it passed. Rural Kentucky legislators have been blocking casino gaming for years on religious grounds. All the while, church festivals off er pull tabs and bingo to their worshipers to pay their debts. From our perspective, they might as well be working for the Ohio and Indiana casinos. Their eff orts are blocking additional revenue for our Commonwealth. Nobody looking at the issue honestly can claim they are curbing gambling by Kentuckians.

When they make the argument that gambling is evil, ask them why they aren’t trying to get rid of horse tracks or the lottery? Ask them if they’ve recently counted the number of Kentucky license plates at the casinos bordering our state, which on any given day range from 30% to 50%. The point is, they aren’t protecting Kentuckians from anything.

They’re only costing us badly needed revenue. If they truly care about Kentucky families, why not allow us to use some of that revenue for our schools and pensions?

And if they are still a “No” when it comes to casinos overall, why not at least let us have sports wagering? One of our Northern Kentucky legislators, Adam Koenig, has introduced a bill to legalize sports gaming in our state. This is something you can already do legally in Indiana and West Virginia.

Ohio and Tennessee are considering a similar bill now, and it is likely to pass.

Rep. Koenig’s bill passed unanimously out of House committee, and will be coming up for a full vote in the House. Sports wagering won’t bring in new casinos, and frankly, won’t bring in a ton of revenue to the state, but it is better than nothing. It will complement our horse tracks and increase the purses. Our new Governor is in favor of it, as are business and civic leaders. Educators, retired state employees, fi refi ghters, police unions and the tourism industry have all pledged their support behind the legalization of sports wagering to help fund our ailing pension system.

Sen. Damon Thayer, the Kentucky Senate Majority Floor Leader, recently shared, “I’m 100% in favor of sports wagering. We already have legalized gaming. It’s just an extension of our history and culture here.”

Unfortunately, there is still opposition to the bill.

We are hearing that there may even be Northern Kentucky legislators that aren’t in support. That would be troubling indeed, as a vast majority of their constituents are in favor and would be very surprised to learn their views aren’t being represented.

If you were to ask residents in Florence, Covington and Fort Thomas, you would fi nd that most believe gaming and sports wagering in particular, are a no-brainer. As a general rule, when our Northern Kentucky legislative caucus stands united on an issue, legislation generally passes. We hope and expect our caucus will stand united in favor of sports wagering. Rest assured, the Northern Kentucky business community will be informing everyone how people vote on this issue. That is one thing you can bet on.

Dave Spaulding is chairman of the Northern Kentucky Chamber Business Advocacy Council and lives in Fort Mitchell.

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At 50 years, Cincinnati State celebrates past, great future Your Turn Monica Posey Guest columnist

Fifty years is young for a college. But when I look at all that Cincinnati State has accomplished, I’m very proud to have spent the majority of my career here.

In 1969, the college, then known as Cincinnati Technical Institute, got its offi cial start in a portion of a public high school, with 650 students and fi ve market-driven technical degree programs.

Today, Cincinnati State Technical and Community College includes four campuses and more than 130 degree and certifi cate programs, co-op partnerships with hundreds of employers, transfer partnerships with more than 20 universities, and 10,000-plus students per year.

That growth adds up to Cincinnati State having a major economic impact on our community of more than $650 million annually, according to a recent study by EMSI, and independent national labor market fi rm.

The majority of that impact comes from our thousands of alumni. Eighty fi ve percent of our graduates stay in Greater Cincinnati, a signifi cantly higher percentage than any other local college. Every day they make our community more prosperous, healthy, safe and livable.

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Opinion Furman joins The Enquirer’s Board of Contributors Your Turn Andy Furman Guest columnist

Editor’s note: The Enquirer Board of Contributors is a group of local citizens of diff erent backgrounds and political philosophies selected by The Enquirer to write an op-ed once a month on a topic of their choosing.

I won the lottery!

Well, not really – but I feel as if I did.

You know the feeling – giddy, gushing with joy and ready to tell anyone and everyone the news.

That’s how I feel today because I’ve been appointed to The Enquirer’s Board of Contributors.

Little known fact: I’m a newspaper junkie.

As a kid growing up in Brooklyn, we had seven dailies – all delivered to our home. The Herald Tribune, New York Times, Daily News, Daily Mirror, New York Post, Brooklyn Eagle and Journal American.

Yikes – where have they gone?

What has happened to my beloved daily newspaper?

Work for the New York Post – the best sports section in the country – that’s all I ever wanted to do.

And I did. I think it was like a submission hold in wrestling. They tapped out.

I wrote a letter-a-day to then Sports Editor Ike Gellis – and during my junior year in college he broke and called – I answered.

And worked as a clerk from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. – fi ve days a week.

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Wow – that sports department was like the New York Yankees “Murderer’s Row.” Larry Merchant and Dr. Z. – Paul

Zimmerman – were the columnists.

Maury Allen covered the Yankees and after the All-Star break switched to the Mets.

7.99. You wait for 15 years and a 7.99 mill is a very large jump. There’s a lot of people who can not aff ord such a big hike in taxes. I for one would like to see the salaries and benefi ts of all the administrators and teachers that work for West Clermont School District.

Congress persisting in trying to turn yet another nothing into something, but they are, by inference, calling our Ukraine allies liars. People, please: READ THE TRANSCRIPT!

Steve Serby, who covers the NFL today was on the high school beat.

No computers back then – in fact, my job was to tape stories, then type and transcribe them.

No problem – a true labor of love.

I moved to the Brooklyn Graphic – a weekly – then to the Daily Eagle – and created a Scholastic Roundup notes column. It proved to be a hit in the borough that housed some 24 high schools.

I’d mention alums and where they may have continued their sporting careers – and, of course send the clips cross-country after they appeared in print.

A kid by the name of Arthur (Stretch) Graham played for Brooklyn’s Lafayette High and continued at Oral Roberts University. I wrote about him and, of course, sent the story to Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Athletic Director Bob Brooks was impressed. He fl ew me to Tulsa, and I left newspapers to become the sports information man for the late Rev. Roberts’ school.

Yes, I still love newspapers. I wake up to four dailies in my driveway – besides The Enquirer – the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and The New York Times.

My hopes are that those half my age will have their juices fl ow with newspapers as well.

And someday they too, will have the opportunity to write in this space.

Thank you.

Andy Furman is a member of The Enquirer’s Board of Contributors. He also talks sports nationally on Fox Sports Radio and serves as PR coordinator for Redwood in Northern Kentucky.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Many homeowners cannot aff ord big tax hikes It never fails to amaze me when a school district has a levy coming up for a vote, they try to scare you with all of the cuts they will have to make. They try to make you think that it will not cost you very much. Only $23.30 a month! They always use per month, which makes it seem low. On a $100,000 house. Wow! That’s not too bad. How many houses in Clermont county can you buy for $100,000? According to Zillow Home Values Index, an average home in Clermont County sells for about $195,460.

Let’s take a $175,000 home, for example.

The tax levy would mean that you would pay $40.77 per month and that translates into $489 per year. Now that starts to really add up. What sounds better – $23.30 or $489.00? They say it has been 15 years since a new operating levy has been approved. Why have they waited 15 years? They could have asked for one at 8 years at a much lower millage than

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even more excited about where Cincinnati State is going, and what that means for students, employers and the community.

For example, in December, after a highly competitive process, Cincinnati State received fi nal approval from the Higher Learning Commission to become one of the fi rst community colleges in Ohio to begin off ering applied bachelor degrees, one in land surveying and one in culinary and food science.

For students, this is great opportunity to earn a technical baccalaureate degree that is unique in our region, that leads directly to in-demand careers,

Edward M. Rusk, Sr., Cherry Grove

The truth about Ukraine has already been presented

Ken Kosar, West Chester

Portman should read the book ‘Profi les in Courage’

May we please move forward? In a recent opinion piece, “Calling witnesses would have revealed the truth about Ukraine,” the author fails to state that the “witness” (Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman) was already perjuring himself with his testimony regarding the sharing of information with Congressman Adam Schiff ’s “whistleblower” about the phone call. Please, my friends, there were over 20 people who heard the phone call, yet Congress was unable to produce even ONE person who heard anything untoward in that phone conversation to the level of bribery. Even the Ukraine prime minister said he felt no pressure to do anything. Not only is

In a recent Feb. 10 letter to the editor, the author gives kudos to Senator Rob Portman for “upholding democratic norms” and strongly implies that impeachment in an election year is “undemocratic.” As this argument was raised frequently by many Republicans during the trial, I would like to ask my Republican friends, who profess to know the Constitution in and out, where it is stated that impeachment should not occur in an election year? I must have missed this restriction in my high school civics class. Oh, no restriction? I thought not. As for Portman, I suggest that he read a little book called “Profi les in Courage” to understand how people of conscience act under trying circumstances. Indeed, he need to look no fur-

and that builds on Cincinnati State’s strong history of weaving together academic, technical, hands-on and cooperative education into a seamless program.

Enrollment for these new degrees is now open and classes will begin this fall.

Students in the new applied bachelor degree programs will discover the same thing that students in our many associate degree and certifi cate programs have discovered – that investing in an education at Cincinnati State is one of the best investments you can make for your future.

The formula for this investment is not fancy: First, the tuition at Cincinnati State is much lower than at fouryear colleges, meaning students can complete their program with no debt or

much lower debt. Add to that the excellent quality of education students receive at Cincinnati State, including small classes and available honors.

Many of our two-year associate degree graduates are entering the workplace with outstanding starting salaries, some exceeding $60,000.

Others are going on to complete their bachelor degrees at universities throughout our region with great success, often with special transfer scholarships.

According to the EMSI study, for every dollar a student invests in their education at Cincinnati State, they can expect an average annual return of 18.7% on their investment due to higher future earnings.

That is a much higher average annual return than investing in the stock

ther than Republican Sen. Mitt Romney as a role model as one who felt it important to uphold what he saw as the tenets of the Constitution even in the face of likely condemnation by members of his party.

Jon Witt, Springfi eld Township

Decision on transgender treatments belong to families, not legislatures I thought conservatives wanted to keep government out of people’s lives.

Yet the bill being proposed by Republican Representatives Ron Hood of Ashville and Bill Dean of Xenia would insert the government into gender-identity medical treatments for transgender youth. Doctors who perform this surgery would be charged with a felony. I agree with Republican South Dakota Sen. Wayne Steinhauer, who made the motion to defeat the bill when it was introduced in his state, that this decision should be left with families and not legislatures. I hope you will contact your legislators and tell them the same.

Richard Boyce, Anderson Township

market, according to EMSI. With numbers like that, we think Warren Buff et would be a big fan of students investing in their futures at Cincinnati State, and also of employers, foundations and individuals helping those students through donations for scholarships, equipment and facilities.

As we continue to celebrate our 50th year, we are looking forward to hosting several upcoming events, including a special Alumni Weekend on May 15-16.

We are also looking forward to our next 50 years of serving this wonderful community. Thank you, Greater Cincinnati, for helping make Cincinnati State what it is today and what it will be in the future.

Monica Posey is president of Cincinnati State Technical and Community College.

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Explaining a more or less perfect union Walter E. Williams Columnist

“A More or Less Perfect Union” is a three-part series, produced by Free to Choose Network, that will air on various PBS stations across the nation starting in February. The documentary is a personal exploration of the U.S. Constitution by Justice Douglas Ginsburg, who served on the U.S. Court of Appeals D.C. Circuit and is now a senior justice on the court. Ginsburg explores the U.S. Constitution and features interviews with and gains the perspectives from constitutional experts of all political views – liberal, conservative and libertarian. He examines the key issues of liberty in the U.S. both from a historical and contemporary perspective. Among those issues are freedom of the press and religion, slavery and civil rights, the Second Amendment, separation of powers and the number of ways that the Constitution’s framers sought to limit the power of the federal government.

The fi rst episode is titled “A Constitution in Writing.” It examines the contentious atmosphere that arose among the delegates in that hot, humid Philadelphia summer of 1787. State delegates were sent to Philadelphia to work out the problems of the Articles of Con-

federation, which served as the fi rst Constitution of the 13 original states.

This part of the documentary examines some of the eff orts to deal with the problems of the Articles of Confederation while maintaining its guiding principle to preserve the independence and sovereignty of the states. It also examines the compromises and struggles that led to the document we know as the U.S. Constitution. Some of the framers, particularly the Anti-Federalists, led by Patrick Henry, saw the Con-

the Civil War. Several constitutional scholars discuss how the courts and states ignored and weakened the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, known collectively as the Civil War Amendments, which were designed to ensure equality for recently emancipated slaves.

There is also discussion of Bill of Rights guarantees to people accused of a crime. There is more exploration into the Bill of Rights guarantees of free speech, religious freedom and the no-

The most important audience for “A More or Less Perfect Union” is high school and college students. For it is they who stand a good chance of losing the liberties that made our nation the greatest and freest on earth. stitution as defective and demanded amendments be added that contained specifi c guarantees of personal freedoms and rights and clear limitations on the federal government’s power.

They swore that they would never ratify the Constitution unless it contained a Bill of Rights.

The second episode is titled “A Constitution for All.” One major emphasis of this episode is the examination of the Supreme Court decisions that undermined racial justice both for slaves and later ex-slaves for a century after

tion that “due process of law” be part of any proceeding that denies a citizen “life, liberty or property.” This forced the government to compensate citizens when it takes private property for public use.

Episode three, “Our Constitution at Risk,” examines the many ways that our Constitution is under assault today.

It points out that the framers would be shocked by how all three branches of government have grown as a result of what we the people demand from our elected representatives.

There’s a discussion about how some of our Bill of Rights guarantees mean absolutely nothing today, namely the 9th and 10th amendments, which reaffi rm personal liberty by specifi cally limiting the federal government to its “enumerated powers.”

“A More or Less Perfect Union” is not just a bunch of academics and constitutional experts preaching. It features interviews with everyday Americans weighing in with their visions on the rule of law, the branches of government and the debate over originalism.

There’s a companion book titled “Voices of Our Republic,” edited by Ginsburg. It is a collection of thoughts about the Constitution from judges, journalists, and academics.

It includes the thoughts of Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Neil Gorsuch and Sandra Day O’Connor; publisher Arthur Sulzberger; professor Alan Dershowitz; former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger; and historians Joseph Ellis and Ron Chernow, along with Jack Nicklaus, Gene Simmons and many others.

The most important audience for “A More or Less Perfect Union” is high school and college students.

For it is they who stand a good chance of losing the liberties that made our nation the greatest and freest on earth.

Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.

Dems: Policy debates only matter after you win power Eugene Robinson Columnist

WASHINGTON – I like ideological purity as much as anyone. But not this year. Not this election. The Democrats contending to square off with President Trump face less an opportunity than an imperative. Nuanced policy diff erences among the various hopefuls could not be less important. Winning in November isn’t everything; it’s the only thing.

It is ridiculous to argue the merits of Medicare-for-all versus Medicare-forall-who-want-it versus expanding the Aff ordable Care Act while Trump is taking a blowtorch to the norms that allow our political system to function and bind our society together. His nasty little “Friday Night Massacre” – vindictively ousting offi cials who testifi ed at his impeachment hearings - was a mere taste of what we can expect in the coming months. He has gone full thug.

For Democrats, electability is the whole ballgame. Primary voters need to be as cold-eyed as possible in choosing a nominee who can not only beat Trump but also help generate bluewave turnout that keeps control of the House and takes back the Senate.

That’s going to require compromise from someone: fl ipping Obama-toTrump voters and stoking fl agging Democratic enthusiasm may demand very diff erent approaches and qualities. But whoever that compromise falls on most heavily must be prepared to make it. There is no choice but to take a deep breath and do what needs to be done.

The pro-Trump base is smaller than the anti-Trump base. If voters who believe this president is a dangerous threat to the nation and the world turn out in November, our long national nightmare will be over. But if enough of the majoritarian Resistance stays home – nursing grudges over policy positions that are, at best, aspirational, then Trump wins four more years.

I don’t want that on my conscience under any circumstances. Do you?

Like many who think of themselves as progressive, I believe we should have a truly universal health care system along the lines of those in other wealthy nations. Expanding Medicare sounds like a promising path. But how, exactly, will that even begin to happen as long as Republicans, under Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, still control the Senate?

It won’t. The debate about health care within the Democratic Party, at this point, is purely theoretical. The

necessary fi rst step is winning power.

Only then does it make sense to dig in and argue about the details.

Inequality is a vital issue because it is so corrosive to American society. It is unacceptable that members of the top 1% are doing so well while middle-class incomes stagnate. It is unacceptable that a college education, for so many young people, means burying oneself in student loan debt that can take decades to dig out from under. Maybe it is time to think about a wealth tax that applies only to those at the very top.

Maybe there are less dramatic adjustments to the tax code that can make a real diff erence.

But there won’t be any attempt to deal with inequality in any meaningful way if Trump remains in power and Republicans keep the Senate. Trump and his Mar-a-Lago cronies will keep the scale tipped decisively in their favor, and no one will be in a position to do anything about it.

Are you appalled by the xenophobia and racism of the Trump administration? I am, too.

We should have a debate about whether crossing the border without papers should be considered a crime or not. We should have a debate about the best path to citizenship for the millions of undocumented migrants already living here. But meanwhile, we’ve seen

thousands of children locked up in cages like animals. This kind of sadism won’t end until Trump’s presidency ends.

Do you care about climate change?

All the Democratic candidates care, too. Trump calls it a hoax.

The diff erences among the Democratic candidates pale beside the difference between any of them and Trump.

A Bernie Sanders presidency would not be the same as, say, a Michael Bloomberg presidency.

But the socialist from Vermont, the billionaire from New York and any of the other Democrats would be incomparably better for the nation than four more years of this Trump madness.

And if you love the GOP, or once did, keep those constraints in mind. The Republican Party has been comprehensively remade in Trump’s image.

The only possible way forward is for conservative voters to send their own party down in fl ames this fall so that honorable people can rebuild it from the ashes. Given the constraints on any Democratic president, the sacrifi ce might not be as great as you think.

There is one question for Democratic primary voters: Who can win? Nothing else, at this point, really matters.

Eugene Robinson’s email address is eugenerobinson@washpost.com.

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he fl oor seemed fi lthy and she could not get rid of the grime. Amie Detzel frantically scrubbed that nursing home fl oor with cleaning supplies she’d found when no one was looking. On hands and knees, dragging her IV pole with her, the gravely sick woman incessantly scrubbed. ❚ Meth had found its way into the nursing home. She was suff ering from addiction. So she used it. ❚ The psychotic episode happened after Detzel had

spent days and nights of pushing the drug into the intravenous catheter that her caregivers were using to infuse antibiotics into her infected heart. The infection had come from a contaminated needle.

That catheter, the pathway for lifesaving antibiotics, became just another way to get a drug into Detzel’s body to alter her brain.

This was not heroin, which she’d been through. This was not fentanyl, the deadly synthetic opiate that had rushed into Cincinnati several years ago. This was methamphetamine, the primary drug now fl ooding the streets of Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky and other communities across the country. It’s a psychostimulant. It can induce psychosis.

That explains the scrubbing.

This new wave of meth is causing police and parents of users and even government offi cials to shift their focus from opioids to this stimulant – a drug that used to be common, then faded, but is resurging.

This time, with much more purity, coming directly from Mexico, not backyard cookeries or houses or sheds.

The fresh attention to meth matters. After all, the rise in meth tested at law enforcement crime laboratories across Ohio and Kentucky is staggering.

Just one example of that rise: The 23 drug task forces (including Northern Kentucky’s) that are funded through the Ohio High-Intensity Drug Traffi cking Area agency saw a 1,600% jump in meth seized from 2015 to 2019 (and the 2019 numbers are incomplete).

Read that again: 1,600%.

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“We just simply move like a herd of locusts from one drug to another. Meth is the replacement for the crack of old. We go from opioid (pain pills) to opioid (heroin) to opioid (fentanyl) to stimulant (meth).”

Dr. Mina “Mike” Kalfas

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Meth works way through Japan, wars and recreation:

Only surge with meth overdose deaths in Kentucky:

DEA agent warns of new meth’s danger:

“The Mexican groups are using the heroin distributors to set up the meth.

Because they have so much of it ... they are offering it very cheap to try to get people to start buying it; when you get the established heroin customer and you need two kilos of heroin, and they’re sitting on a pile of meth, then they say, ‘I’ll send you two kilos of heroin but you’ll have to take two pounds of meth with it.’ They’re forcing it that way to try to create the market for meth.”

Meth was synthesized first in Japan in 1919 and was used in the 1940s as a workforce productivity drug. But during World War II, meth was issued to Allied and Axis troops, sometimes to keep them awake for long missions. The alarming amounts of the drug used “left some veterans of the war in the South Pacific wondering if the protracted, bloody nature of the battles had something to do with the fact that both sides were high on amphetamines.”

Overdose deaths related to every drug but meth were down from 2017 in 2018. Meth-related overdose deaths jumped from 269 in Kentucky to 304. Meth was the most-submitted drug to Kentucky State Police for testing.

“The methamphetamine we’re seeing in the Midwest is cheap, highly potent and readily available. It’s a drug that can bring out the absolute worst in people, and its addictive qualities make it hard to quit. Have those talks now with your family so that when someone comes to them offering a cheap quick, high, they can make the best choice by walking away.”

Source: The Ohio Substance Abuse Monitoring Network OSAM-o-Gram, February 2017

Source: Globalsecurity.org

Source: Kentucky Substance Use Research and Enforcement Collaborative (K-SURE)

Source: U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s July 2019 piece: ‘Methamphetamine seizures continue to rise in the Midwest’

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A resurgence in meth use, mostly crystal meth or “ice,” is persistent and frenetic and causing all kinds of havoc for many who are addicted and untreated.

The drug, which can be snorted, smoked, injected and even comes in tablet form to be swallowed, is the polar opposite of opioids.

It’s a psychostimulant.

Methamphetamine causes high levels of the pleasure-inducing chemical dopamine to be released in the brain. That makes the user feel great, energetic, fast.

At the same time, it triggers epinephrine and norepinephrine, the fi ght-or-fl ight hormones. That causes a higher heart rate and blood pressure. It’s that adrenaline rush.

Users’ moods can become extreme and elevated. As their intense feelings dissipate, they feel a strong urge to get that feeling back.

The moods and physical symptoms triggered by meth use can be so strong that they incite psychosis or panic. The drug can stay in the body Kalfas for about 12 hours. Users may be unable to sleep for days.

Dr. Mina “Mike” Kalfas, a Northern Kentucky addiction specialist, calls the eff ects of repeated meth use “pumping the well dry,” explaining the desSammarco peration of the addicted person, who continues to use the drug.

“You reach a situation in which a person keeps hitting a button but nothing happens, because (there’s) no dopamine, epinephrine, norepinephrine to discharge.”

Opioids such as heroin and fentanyl don’t work this way. They are depressants that slow down the central nervous system, including breathing. That’s how people overdose. Death is generally caused by respiratory failure.

A meth-related death is diff erent.

Meth use, and often longer-term meth use, can cause irregular heartbeat and damage blood vessels in the brain leading to heart attacks or hemorrhages, which can cause death.

Long-term meth users also suff er from dental decay, dramatic weight loss, hallucinations, paranoia, anxiety, inability to focus, agitation and more.

There is research, too, showing meth users have a higher risk of suicide than other drug users.

Dr. Lakshmi Sammarco, Hamilton County coroner, said that, sometimes, meth-related deaths happen because the person has ingested too much meth, just as someone with heroin might use too much and cause a collapse in their respiratory system. The infl ux of meth in their system can lead to lethal cardiac arrythmias, she said. The level of meth in their bloodstream indicates how intoxicated they were.

Other times, the deaths are ruled nat-

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But as shocking as that number is, some addiction experts say that we are missing the point behind the new meth wave.

The point: Addiction. The United States has an addiction crisis.

“We just simply move like a herd of locusts from one drug to another,” said Dr. Mina “Mike” Kalfas, a certifi ed addiction expert in Northern Kentucky.

“Meth is the replacement for the crack of old. We go from opioid (pain pills) to opioid (heroin) to opioid (fentanyl) to stimulant (meth).

“We try to get them off of the drug they’re on,” Kalfas said. “What we need to do is, treat the addiction. They’re using (a) drug as a coping mechanism.”

Addiction, which has been with us forever, is what needs to be fi xed. With evidence-based treatment. The American Society of Addiction Medicine is still clamoring for more doctors to learn about such treatment and to attend to the problem as a disease.

Historically, the medical system largely ignored addiction, allowing the criminal justice system and treatment programs outside of the health-care system to deal with it, said Lindsey Vuolo, director of Health Law and Policy and public aff airs for the science-based nonprofi t Center on Addiction in New York City.

The grudging change started with the opioid epidemic. As overdose death tolls soared, the mantra became: Treat addiction. Save lives. Keep people safe if they use drugs. Carry the opioid-overdose antidote naloxone. Provide more needle exchanges to prevent the spread of diseases such as hepatitis and HIV. Continue treatment for this chronic disease.

Those who ignore the advice put us at our own peril, experts say.

“If we don’t start to eff ectively and effi ciently address addiction like the public health issue that it is, we will continue to see drug epidemic after drug epidemic,” said Courtney Hunter, director of advocacy at the Center on Addiction.

Amie Detzel worships at Vineyard Westside in Cheviot. In recovery for a year now, Detzel said she gets help and hope from her faith. PHOTOS BY LIZ DUFOUR

Brittany Christian, 32, plays with her son, Kyler, 2, at her Walnut Hills home.

Christian moved from heroin to meth use and then got help.

So why meth? Why now?

For starters, those who are addicted to opiates are hearing others talk about a new high, cheap and easy to get, and safer than fentanyl.

They are people with addiction, after all, and most people who suff er from addiction will reach for drugs other than the one they primarily use.

Meth is an alternative. But it’s sneaky.

ural, because other baseline conditions acquired over long-time meth use, such as heart disease, can cause the person to die.

Fentanyl still reigns as the biggest killer during this drug epidemic in the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky region. In some areas, like Kentucky, fentanyl-related deaths have dipped as methrelated deaths have risen. But fentanyl’s overdose death toll is still twice that of deaths related to meth.

Some of the rise in overdose deaths counted as “meth-related” stem from use with fentanyl. In 2017, about 15% of drug overdose deaths were related to meth, and half of those deaths involved an opioid, and half of those included fentanyl, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Despite its prevalence for the last three years, it appears meth sneaked in while the opioid epidemic raged.

To try to address it, U.S. Sen. Rob Portman announced recently that a bipartisan bill he sponsored called Combating Meth and Cocaine Act was approved. It lets states use Opioid Response Grant money for treatment of psychostimulant addiction, as well as opioid addiction.

Kalfas calls the current meth problem a new tentacle of the opioid epidemic, noting that most patients he’s seeing who switch from heroin to meth don’t give up opioids for long.

“They perceive (meth) as diff erent, sometimes even lesser somehow, which is how they underestimate it. But when their batteries are dry, they need to ‘come down,’ what will they turn to?

The opiate-addicted turns to opiates.”

Brittany Christian, 32, of Walnut Hills, who’s in recovery, said she learned about meth while she was in treatment for heroin addiction in Louisville.

“Everybody had done it and I hadn’t done it, and I really wanted to try it,” she said. She added: “I did not want to go through the heroin withdrawal again.”

Six months after she left that rehab, in May 2017, she decided to fi nd meth.

“It’s just as easy as getting cigarettes at the gas station,” Christian said.

And cheap. In southwest Ohio, a gram of meth can go for as little as $4.50 and up to $25 a gram, said Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation Assistant Superintendent Heinz Von Eckartsberg.

For Detzel, the woman who fell into obsessive fl oor-scrubbing, drugs were a way to cope with living, she says. Now 35 and in recovery for a year, Detzel was 13 when she was led into a sex-for-drugs traffi cking situation orchestrated by someone close to her family.

She did drugs, she said, because it seemed normal.

“I never knew the proper way, you know, to get help,” she said. “All I knew was to use because that’s what I’d seen ... at a young age.”

She was vulnerable to anything that took her away from her real life.

“I just wanted to try anything. Anything that I thought would take me to another level.”

And by the time she was 30, meth was simply there for her to try, she said.

“Somebody was selling it.”

Like they had sold her.

But Detzel rallied. She was able to maintain sobriety after her stint in the nursing home. She had been prescribed Suboxone for her opioid addiction and had to steer clear of drug use for six See METH, Page 3G

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Meth of old prompted removal of cold meds from shelves:

Meth sneaks into the United States:

Ohio gets ‘new’ meth tablets to tempt users:

Drug court judge on meth’s impact:

In 2005, the FDA banned over-thecounter sales of cold medicines that contain ingredients including pseudoephedrine that were commonly being used to make meth. The Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005 was passed at a time when meth was being manufactured in illegal laboratories throughout the United States.

But the number of domestic methmaking labs seized plunged 88% from 2012 (13,657) to 2018 (1,568), because Mexico’s meth is so prevalent and so pure. There’s no need to make your own, narcotics agents said.

Meth is often concealed in empty spaces in natural voids in vehicles: Tires, fuel tanks. It’s sent into the United States in privately owned cars, or “human couriers, commercial flights, parcel services,” the latest National Drug Threat Assessment shows.

Meth now comes in a relatively new form, hidden in Ecstasy-shaped pills or disguised as prescription amphetamine. The report calls this, in part, a way to draw in new users. Hamilton County has seen this drug in its labs.

“There was a person who appeared to be under a ... mental health emergency, so we called someone from the court clinic and a doctor and said, ‘Hey, can you let me know whether or not this person is going to be safe?’ What it turned out is that what we thought could have been a major mental health issue was meth. They were high on meth. ... It presents itself in a different way than somebody who is high on heroin or high on cocaine or high on oxycodone.”

Source: 2019 National Drug Threat Assessment

Source: 2019 National Drug Threat Assessment

Hamilton County Drug Court Judge Kim Burke

Sources: FDA, DEA

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months before she could have heart surgery. She learned coping mechanisms, learned she’d been traffi cked through no fault of her own and turned to God for help. She celebrated one year in recovery in January.

No such help with meth Both Detzel and Christian had been introduced to medical help for their initial addictions.

There is no medication-assisted treatment available for meth addiction, as there is for opioid addiction.

That lack will become more obvious every day.

“It looks to me that a supply of stimulants will gradually increase in the U.S., as it has been seen in other parts of the world,” said Dr. Adam Bisaga, an addiction research scientist who is a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center. While he doesn’t believe people using opioids will easily switch to stimulants, he’s certain there will be more who use both types of drugs.

Bisaga said it appears the best treatment will be an extension of what’s beginning to happen in the United States with opioid use disorder: Medical intervention treating addiction as a chronic disease, treating both addictions “under one roof.”

The best treatment right now for meth addiction is psycho-social therapy, addiction experts say. The method can include talk therapy, learning about the illness and a rehabilitation regimen that helps people develop social and emotional skills they can employ to live a healthy life. Some suff erers are prescribed anti-anxiety or sleep-help drugs or other medications while they detox from meth.

Like with other addictions, “You have to look at the underlying issues and really make a treatment plan that’s individualized for the person,” said Kat Engel, vice president of nursing services for the Center of Addiction Treatment in the West End. “Are they selfmedicating?”

As is usual with treatment, not enough are getting it. Meth-related deaths are rising. The latest fi gures from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that, from 2012 to 2018, the rate of drug overdose deaths involving methamphetamine and other “psychostimulants with abuse potential” was up almost fi vefold.

Christian, who has been in recovery for a year-and-a-half, said that, “absolutely,” treating drug use has to include treating the individual’s trauma.

“What’s causing someone to use?

What issues are they going through?

You know, I think a lot of it is underneath that needs to be brought up.”

In her case, it was sexual abuse she’d endured as a child.

With meth, says, she was paralyzed, hyper-focused on a single task. Sometimes, she felt empty. She scratched and picked sores onto her body and face. Once, she piloted her car to a hospital, expecting to be locked in a psych ward. But she was discharged.

For her, the confi nes and rules of the Center for Addiction Treatment saved her, she said. She found sobriety by following the rules, then looking into her own traumatic past.

“If they told me I could not have a pair of leggings, oh well, I can’t have a pair of leggings. If they told me to go to group therapy three times a day, I did that. My counselor, when she told me to

Judge Kim Burke presides over Drug Court in the Hamilton County Courthouse. The specialty court’s goal is to keep low-level offenders out of jail and in treatment. PHOTOS BY LIZ DUFOUR

More Kentucky prisoners say they used meth The number of offenders in Kentucky prisons who said they used meth rose from 2012 to 2017.

2012

2017

23.5%

43.9%

Source: Kentucky Department of Corrections

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Meth crime lab submissions skyrocket in Kentucky Kentucky State Police crime labs saw a jump in meth submissions from 2016 to 2018.

2016

2018

7,750

13,744

Source: Kentucky State Police

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Meth deaths rise, fentanyl deaths dip Overdose deaths related to meth rose in Kentucky from 2017 to 2018.

Fentanyl deaths dipped, but still more than doubled meth overdose deaths.

Overdose deaths related to meth increased

269

2017

Overdose deaths from fentanyl went down

683

660

2017

2018

304

2018

Source: Kentucky Substance Use Research and Law Enforcement (K-SURE)

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Hamilton County’s crime lab sees these colorful tablets fairly frequently.

They’re meth disguised as Ecstasy.

journal, I journaled.”

Both she and Detzel believe their continued success has at least something to do with their work.

Christian is an admissions specialist for the Center for Addiction Treatment.

She loves her job, saying, “Somebody did it for me.”

Detzel, now living in Cheviot, works at the YWCA downtown in Cincinnati helping domestic violence and rape victims as well as people with developmental disabilities who struggle with addiction. She’s been in recovery for just more than a year.

The lessons they learned about their own addictions and how to treat them are holding. But they see the avalanche of meth on the streets now. They know the attraction among opioid users to this drug is real.

In Hamilton County, Dr. Lakshmi Sammarco, the county coroner, said the crime lab’s meth caseload leaped from a little more than 600 in 2016 to 3,600plus cases in 2019 – “a sixfold increase.”

In Kentucky, the amount of meth seized and tested at the Kentucky State Police Crime Laboratories rose by 77% in just two years, from 2016 to 2018.

The outcome of all this meth is yet to be seen.

Bisaga has this prediction for those who use such stimulants along with opioids: “The mixed stimulant-opioid addiction is a diff erent one,” Bisaga said. “We do not have a strategy to treat it, and many programs will be taken by surprise.

“The number of overdoses and adverse medical outcomes in people using both will increase, and this will be a fourth wave of the opioid epidemic.”

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The opioid epidemic today looks much different than it did five years ago when the Heroin Impact Response Task Force was formed.

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We all know that more work needs to be done right here in Greater Cincinnati and throughout the nation. That’s the main reason why St. Elizabeth Healthcare is proud to continue its sponsorship of the Cincinnati Enquirer’s heroin crisis series.

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While we know there is much tragedy and heartbreak, we are encouraged by signs of hope. We have seen women transition from heroin to suboxone when pregnant, deliver healthy babies and continue treatment and recovery. We have heard stories about emergency room nurses making the difference for patients with substance use disorders, showing compassion and connecting them with the resources they need to begin the recovery process.

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Being a member of a family gym allows parents to lead by example. Children learn exercise habits from their parents. A tale as old as time. Cincinnati has plenty of family gyms where parents and kids can get healthy together.

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It was the type of bar that I immediately felt comfortable sitting at alone.

Michael Callahan, the bar manager and mixologist, was making drinks and greeted me. He used to manage his family’s bar, Yesterday’s Saloon, in Mount Adams and is one of the partners at Local Post in Columbia-Tusculum.

“The bar has two kind of colliding ideas, which is the 1920s and the 2020s,” Callahan said. He says the bar exists to fi ll a void in classic cocktails in the city.

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The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO) has released its 2020-21 season schedule, featuring four CSO-commissioned world premieres.

CSO Music Director Louis Langrée said in the release that he is proud of the season for its versatility of musical styles and the range of experiences the orchestra will bring to its Cincinnati audience.

“That diversity will extend to our guest artists, who come from many different origins and backgrounds,” he said.

The orchestra will travel to New York City for its performance in the Great Performers series and will embark on a European Tour during the season.

“CSO: Proof,” a series introduced in the fall of 2019, will continue in the coming season as well.

German composer Matthias Pintscher appears in the season more than once. He has been appointed as the orchestra’s new creative partner and will collaborate with Langrée on programming, recommending works, composers and commissions.

“Matthias is a unique personality in the musical world,” Langrée said. “His deep knowledge of repertoire covers centuries of music, and at the same time he is in the center of creation, both as a composer, conductor and champion of the music of our time. He is a passionate advocate and leader for music new and old, and his approach to music-making makes him a perfect partner for the CSO.” Performances and dates for the 2020-21 season are as follows, conducted by Langrée and held at Music Hall unless otherwise noted: ❚ Mozart’s Overture to “Idomeneo,” Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G and Strauss’ “Ein Heldenleben” with pianist Hélène Grimaud, Sept. 18 and 19 ❚ Bjarnason’s Violin Concerto and Grieg’s “Peer Gynt” with the May Festival Chorus, directors Bill Barclay and Robert Porco, violinist Pekka Kuusisto and soprano Camilla Tilling, Oct. 3 and 4 ❚ Wilson’s “Shango Memory,” SaintSaëns’ Cello Concerto No. 1 and Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique” with cellist Johannes Moser, Oct. 9 and 10 ❚ Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with violinist Augustin Hadelich, Symphony No. 6 “Pathétique” and a new work from Julia Adolphe, Oct. 30 and 31 ❚ Rouse’s Symphony No. 6 and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 “Pathétique,” Nov. 5 ❚ New York City Lincoln Center Great Performers Series: Rouse’s Symphony See CSO, Page 9AA

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Have fun working outdoors In the Garden Denny McKeown Guest columnist

Spring is right around the corner.

Soon we’ll be out working in the yard, enjoying the sunshine and fresh air.

While you are waiting to get back out into the yard, the area’s horticulturalrelated businesses are busy making plans and preparing for the season.

One of the greatest challenges these businesses have had in recent years is fi nding people to fi ll the many job openings they have going into the busy season. Unemployment numbers are at record lows and while this is seen as a great thing for the country, it creates a very diffi cult situation for businesses competing against each other to fi nd employees.

Local garden centers, professional landscape companies and plant growers will all be looking for people to fi ll various positions. If you are looking for work, or maybe a change in career, I would certainly recommend working in one of these areas.

Garden centers are a great place for people who love working with the public in addition to working with plants.

Compared to other types of retail customers, garden center customers are very enjoyable. Gardening is a hobby and sometimes a passion for the customers, and they enjoy a trip to the garden center. All of the most successful garden centers have employees who are passionate about gardening. The love of gardening creates great friendships between the customers and employees.

Garden centers will be looking to hire all types of employees. Some could be looking for experienced employees with

horticultural backgrounds to work with the customers. These could be full time positions with benefi ts. There are also many part time positions, like cashiers and greenhouse workers, or helping unload delivery trucks and aiding customers with loading their purchases.

Garden centers have positions to offer people in the many stages of life, from students looking for their fi rst job to stay-at-home parents looking to earn some money while the kids are in school. Most garden centers are open in the evenings in the spring, and weekends are the busiest days of the week, so even those with a full time job can fi nd part-time employment at a garden center.

Professional landscapers are also looking for help. These jobs are great for people who enjoy working with their hands and are willing to work hard. People are drawn to these jobs for the satis-

faction they can achieve with the beauty they create. Landscape companies will tell you that experience is preferred but not mandatory. On-the-job-training is how most landscapers gain their experience. If you are working in a labor intense job and would like a change, consider becoming a landscaper. There are also summer positions available for students coming home from college.

Many of the plants that the garden centers and landscapers sell and use are provided by local plant growers. Jobs are also available in this fi eld too. These jobs are related to the production of the plants from starting the seedlings, then maintaining them until they are ready to be sold. These jobs are great for people who love plants, but don’t necessarily like working with the public.

If you are looking for a new job that could bring some sunshine into your life, you should look into horticulture.

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THE AMISH COOK

Help name the family’s new addition Grandma’s Cheesy Noodles

Gloria Yoder

Special to Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Time keeps marching faster than I can keep up with. I can hardly believe that I’m almost halfway through my waiting period for our little darling who is due in July. We don’t know whether it’ll be a boy or girl, but it doesn’t matter because either way, we love him or her to pieces. I told my cousin the other day that although this is child number six, I have never before been more in love with my unborn child.

I think it is some of the best moments of life. My joy knew no limits when we got the Doppler of the baby’s heartbeat for the fi rst time, and then last week put the ‘icing on the cake’ when the ultrasound machine showed the cutest hands, less than an inch long, waving happily. Ah, why are there no words for those most unbelievable moments? Julia and Austin were elated to be able to see it for themselves.

Every evening before Julia goes to bed, the two of us have some quality moments together, and when I ask her, “What shall we talk about?” without fail, she’ll respond with, “about when the baby is coming!” Of course, she is itching for a little sister, but she also says she’ll be happy with whatever God gives us. This morning she declared that she has fi gured out exactly how I can fi t all six children on the recliner with me and rock them all at once.

She’s all into helping us pick out a name. While some Amish communities stick with using only one name, in our community most of us go by two names besides our last name. My second name is Beth, named after my mother’s girlhood best friend. Choosing a name for the baby is a highlight. In some Amish communities, names get reused a lot; naming little ones after family members or friends. Sometimes people start using nicknames to cut down on the confusion.

While I like naming my children after people I appreciate, the more signifi cant issue to me is that it is a name with an appropriate meaning that Daniel and I are fully agreed on. I’m a bit partial to

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Bible names, yet I don’t feel bound to them because if everyone only stuck to them we’d end up with lots of repeats.

Daniel suggested that I invited your input and ideas for baby names. So, if you have some ideas about what may be a

good fi t for our family, jot down and pop them in the mail. We’d love that, for sure!

Austin is hoping for another brother.

He’s also serious about choosing a name for the baby and sometimes asks if he

can get out the “Name Book” to look for more ideas. Time and again he asks, “Mom, will our baby be okay?” Perhaps he’s more concerned since I’ve had two stillborn sisters. I assure him that as far as we know, all is well.

Rayni is excited about the baby and thinks it’ll be a girl. She’s had this persistent question, “When will the baby be born?” I explained that the baby will be born soon after her June 15 birthday. Of course, it’ll probably be a month later, but it does give her something to aim for.

The little boys are too young to grasp that a baby is being added to our family.

I’m sure they’ll be happy big brothers, yet I don’t expect anything but some adjustments on their part as well.

A dish that I have enjoyed over the past months is Grandma’s creamy noodles. You may also recall that I had mentioned that I’ll fi ll you in on how Julia’s noodles turned out. They turned out fantastic, now here is a recipe for you to try for yourself.

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An Evening with Ledisi is scheduled for Tuesday at Music Hall. PROVIDED

Grammy-nominated singer Ledisi set to perform in Cincinnati Chris Varias

Special to Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Ledisi is new to the Pops, but she’s not new to fronting an orchestra.

The 12-time Grammy-nominated R&B singer is making her debut with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra in a special midweek one-off engagement.

And the time is right for her to do so, considering she has made the crossover into orchestral shows in the last few years.

In a phone interview, she talked about singing with orchestras and shared her thoughts about two vocalists who inspire her.

Question: When did you fi rst perform with an orchestra?

Answer: Probably four years ago with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center. We did two nights. We sold out. The former First Lady Michelle Obama came. I was able to perform pieces of Nina Simone’s music and my own. I had Patrice Rushen play piano. It was amazing.

Q: If that was your fi rst orchestra gig, a sold-out show with the First Lady in attendance at the Kennedy Center with the National Symphony, Cincinnati has

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A: Absolutely not. I don’t take any of the orchestra gigs for granted. It’s all diffi cult and diff erent. Every orchestra is diff erent. They have a diff erent feel, and the conductor’s always diff erent. It’s fun. I love it. It’s a challenge for me. I get so excited, because I forget that I’m performing, and I listen. So I’m learning every time how to be in the moment and perform. It makes me sing better. You feel like the legends when you sing with an orchestra.

Q: How is it diff erent than performing with a small R&B band?

A: Thank God for my theater background and my classical training. I have to use that part of my voice more. It’s a diff erent volume, and it requires more technique, and balancing technique with the storytelling, as well, because

you can get caught up in one or the other. It’s fi nding that nice balance. It’s about the balance in the room, the audience, me, the storytelling, it all has to make sense. That’s why it’s such a beautiful, godly thing. It’s all natural. It’s never one way. It’s whatever’s going to happen in that moment. It never gets old.

Q: You mentioned Nina Simone.

You’ll be performing some of her music with the Pops. Why is she an important artist to you?

A: It’s because of her blend of everything, of life, the topics she sings about, the topics she wrote about. It’s about the blend of genres. You have blues and gospel and soul and the classical part that marries all the genres together. All that together makes it so freeing. There’s no limit on being one way with her music.

And she celebrates being black, a black woman, at that. So my connection to it is all those things, not feeling limited to just being a soul singer.

Q: You were born in New Orleans and moved to Oakland at a young age. Do you consider yourself part of the New Orleans musical tradition by birthright, or is that earned by being raised there?

A: I am New Orleans, everywhere I go. There’s things that I take with me.

There’s a family that surrounds me that I grew up with that moved west, and we always go back home. It’s just part of you when you’re born there, and my music styling is from New Orleans, where we mix everything together in one thing.

So I claim New Orleans. My birth certificate’s from there. I was married there. I keep my connection. To me, I’m New Orleans, but I’m also Bay Area.

Q: Another New Orleans-born singer is Mahalia Jackson. You portrayed her in the fi lm “Selma.” What did you learn about her as you prepared for the role?

A: When I had to record the song for the soundtrack, I couldn’t record in the Bay Area. I couldn’t fi nd a studio or anything in L.A. So I went back to New Orleans, and that’s the only place I could record that I knew people to do it fast.

And before I recorded, I went to her grave and thanked her, and then I went in the studio and recorded the song. And it came out beautifully. Every experience led me back home in studying her. I just paid homage. I thanked her. We give homage to our ancestors fi rst. We always go back to the roots. I always have to go back to the people that I admire or who infl uence me unconsciously. I had to do all my homework before I could become who I am today.

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Americus Playhouse in the Park, 962 Mount Adams Circle, Mount Adams. Runs Feb. 11-March 8. cincyplay.com.

Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story Playhouse in the Park, 962 Mount Adams Circle, Mount Adams. $35-up. 513-421-3888.

Runs Jan. 18-Feb. 16.

Flamingo Court: Life in Three Condos Evendale Bell Tower Arts Pavilion, 3270 Glendale Milford Road, Evendale. Runs Feb. 14-23. 513-471-2030; tricountyplayers.seatyourself.biz.

HMS Pinafore Northern Kentucky University Fine Arts Center, Patricia Corbett Theatre, 1 Nunn Drive, Highland Heights. $10-$17. Runs Feb. 21-March 1. nku.edu/ theatre.

Les Miserables Aronoff Center for the Arts, 650 Walnut St., Downtown. $31-up.

Runs Feb. 11-Feb. 23.

Meet Me In St. Louis The Covedale Center for the Performing Arts, 4990 Glenway Ave., West Price Hill. $26-$29. Runs Feb. 13-March 8.

Serials! 10: Thunderdome 7:30 p.m. Feb. 17, The Know Theatre, 1120 Jackson St., Over-the-Rhine. $15.

The Office: A Musical Parody Aronoff Center for the Arts, 650 Walnut St., Downtown. Runs Feb. 15-16.

Family theater

The Crucible 2 p.m. Feb. 16 Anderson High School, 7560 Forest Road, Anderson Township. $10 online or at the door.

Honk! Anderson Center, 7850 Five Mile Road, Anderson Township. Runs Feb. 14-22.

Dinner theater

Murder at Mardi Gras 7 p.m. Feb. 20, Washington Platform Saloon and Restaurant, 1000 Elm St., Downtown.

Mystery Dinner Series: Wedding Waterloo 7 p.m. Feb. 22, Mill Race Banquet Center, 1515 W. Sharon Road, Springfi eld Township. $39.95 per person, plus tax.

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Cincinnati Ballet: Swan Lake Music Hall,

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Dayton Contemporary Dance Company: Retro/Active Aronoff Center for the Arts, 650 Walnut St., Downtown. Runs Feb. 21-22. $45-$55. cincinnatiarts.org.

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Miami University Opera Theater: Le Nozze di Figaro Gates-Abegglen Theatre, 420 Patterson Ave., 119 Center for Performing Arts, Oxford. Runs Feb. 20-22.

Comedy

The Adventure Zone 7 p.m. Feb. 20, Taft Theatre, 317 E. 5th St., Downtown. $42.50.

My Brother, My Brother and Me 7 p.m.

Feb. 19, Taft Theatre, 317 E. 5th St., Downtown. $42.50.

Vicki Lawrence & Mama 8 p.m. Feb. 22, Lawrenceburg Event Center, 91 Walnut St., Lawrenceburg.

Revenge Comedy Tour 7 p.m. Feb. 20, Memorial Hall, 1222 Elm St., Over-theRhine. $35 VIP includes drink ticket and seat at a table, $25 general admission, $22 students with ID. The Brewery Comedy Tour 8 p.m. Feb. 21, Wooden Cask Brewing Company, 629 York St., Newport. $7.

Tony Woods Go Bananas, 8410 Market Place Lane, Montgomery. $8-$16. Runs Feb. 20-23.

Derrick Knopsnyder 7:30 p.m. Feb. 20, Funny Bone Comedy Club, 7518 Bales St., Liberty Township.

Ricky Velez Funny Bone Comedy Club, 7518 Bales St., Liberty Township. Runs Feb. 21-23.

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ComedySportz Cincinnati Friday Night Match 8-10 p.m. Feb. 21, Madcap Education Center, 3064 Harrison Ave., Westwood. $10.

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The basement lounge area at the newly-opened Twenties cocktail bar on Woodburn Avenue in East Walnut Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati is shown on Jan. 16. The 1920s-themed cocktail bar opened the fi rst week of January inside the former Myrtle's Punch House location. PHOTOS BY SAM GREENE/THE ENQUIRER

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opened earlier this year. The bar wants to educate people, Callahan says.

What should I drink?

So every two months, the bar will focus on a diff erent cocktail. It’s been open since Jan. 2, and the bar has been focusing on old fashioneds. In March, the bar will focus on Manhattans, in addition to the full bar. “We’re pulling straight from the old cocktail books and trying to stay as close to the old recipes as possible.”

Upon my visit, the bar had four specialty old-fashioneds: one with Jameson, one with rum, one with Hennessey and one with mezcal. I tried the one with mezcal. “You know an old-fashioned, but we’re taking it to the next level, which is kind of a modern thing to do,” Callahan said.

It’s kind of expensive: $12 a cocktail.

The bar has 16 beers on draft and focuses on using local spirits as much as possible, like Columbus’ Watershed.

“I think right now it’s kind of the overfl ow of OTR, in a good way,” Callahan said. He says he sees a lot more young professionals at this bar and I see what he means. The crowd at Twenties is lively and young, but defi nitely not as rowdy as you might fi nd in Over-theRhine.

Happy hour I had just missed happy hour, which was unfortunate because they have a great one. $7 classic cocktails, $1 off draft beer, $3 domestic beer, $4 craft cans and $3 house pour of wine that changes regularly. My friends got to the bar shortly after that and were given the same attention that I had received. We didn’t all usually spend this much time deciding on a drink, but something about Twenties made us ask questions and want to try something that we might not normally drink. The bartenders were really patient.

Twenties is inside of what was formerly Molly Wellman’s Myrtle’s Punch

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The basement lounge area inside the former Myrtle's Punch House location.

The Mezcal Old Fashioned.

House, which closed last year. A lot of the bar looks really familiar. The place has been redecorated, there are now posters on the walls and the TVs have 1920s silent fi lms from Charlie Chaplin to Buster Keaton.

Make sure you check out the basement The upstairs room has been blocked off and will soon be a billiards room, Callahan says. You’ll be able to rent a table for an hour. The basement is now supposed to feel more like a speakeasy lounge. The round tables and four tops are gone. There’s plenty of room in the basement for large groups. It has a really

The simple daiquiri at the newly-opened Twenties cocktail bar.

open layout, with couches and intimate little tables. I think it would be a nice place for a fi rst date if it were a weekday or early enough in the night.

There isn’t a bar in the basement, though, and while I was debating going upstairs to get a drink and possibly losing my seat, one of the bartenders came downstairs to check on us. We were able to order a drink on our tab downstairs and he even brought the drink back to us.

From date night to night out on the town The music is mostly 1920s, instrumental during the day, the bartenders

said. At night, they sometimes play rap including 1990s and 2000s hip-hop, Callahan says.

By the time we were leaving the bar at around 10 p.m., it had changed from date spot to a place you go on the weekend with friends. There was now a bouncer at the door, checking IDs and a small crowd of people around the bar. It was loud and there were people everywhere, but the bartenders still made time to chat.

The bar doesn’t have food yet, but soon, they plan to off er charcuterie boards and small bites.

Twenties is located at 2733 Woodburn Ave. East Walnut Hills. Open Tuesday-Saturday 4 p.m.-2 a.m.

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Emma Robbins: 5,712 BasketShop Gallery, 3105 Harrison Ave., Westwood. Runs Feb. 14-March 14.

Synthetic Clifton Cultural Arts Center, 2728 Short Vine St., Corryville. Free. Runs Feb. 14-March13. cliftonculturalarts.org.

Sunday, Feb. 16

3rd Sunday Funday 1-4 p.m., Taft Museum of Art, 316 Pike St., Downtown.

Tuesday, Feb. 18

Opening Reception: Archie Rand: Sixty Paintings from the Bible 5:30-8 p.m., Hebrew Union College/UC Ethics Center, Mayerson Auditorium, 3101 Clifton Ave., Clifton. Free, reservations recommended 513-487-3098. Runs Feb. 18-June 28. hucinci.org.

Friday, Feb. 21

Jesse James: First Person Program Series 7-8:30 p.m., Heritage Village Museum, 11450 Lebanon Road, Sharonville. $10$20. Advance registration required 513563-9484.

Kahil Robert Irving Contemporary Arts Center, 44 E. 6th St., Downtown. Free.

Runs Feb. 21-July 20. Closed Tuesdays. contemporaryartscenter.org.

N.C. Wyeth: New Perspectives Tour with a Curator 1:30 p.m., Taft Museum of Art, 316 Pike St., Downtown. showclix.com.

The Art of Food 6-10 p.m., The Carnegie, 1028 Scott Blvd., Covington. $235 per couple, $125 single. 859-957-1940. thecarnegie.com.

Vhils: Haze Contemporary Arts Center, 44 E. 6th St., Downtown. Free. Runs Feb. 21-July 6. contemporaryartscenter.org.

Ending soon

Destination Moon: Apollo 11 Mission Union Terminal, 1301 Western Ave., Queensgate. Runs Sept. 28-Feb. 17. cincymuseum.org.

Treasures of the Lloyd Exhibition 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Lloyd Library and Museum, 917 Plum St., West End. Runs Dec. 6-Feb. 21. lloydlibrary.org.

Weathered, Mundane, Chaos and Environmental Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, 2727 Woodburn Ave., Walnut Hills. Runs Jan. 24-Feb. 21. manifestgallery.org.

Continuing

100 Years of Making a Difference: Junior League of Cincinnati Union Terminal, 1301 Western Ave., Queensgate. Runs Aug. 16-June 1. cincymuseum.org.

AAC Faculty Exhibition 2020 Art Academy of Cincinnati, 1212 Jackson St., Over-theRhine. Runs until Feb. 29. artacademy.edu.

Along The Line Indian Hill Gallery, 9475 Loveland Madeira Road, Indian Hill. Runs Jan. 24-March 14.

Bloom and Grow 10 a.m.-5 p.m. TuesdaySunday, Krohn Conservatory, 1501 Eden Park Drive, Mount Adams. $7, $5 ages 5-17, free ages 4-under. Runs Jan. 18March 8.

Confi nement: Politics of Space and Bodies Contemporary Arts Center, 44 E. 6th St., Downtown. Runs Nov. 22-March 1. contemporaryartscenter.org.

From Rituals to Runways: The Art of the Bead Behringer-Crawford Museum, 1600 Montague Road, Covington. $5-$9. 859491-4003; bcmuseum.org. Runs Feb. 4May 10. bcmuseum.org.

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THE WEEK AHEAD Luann Gibbs

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Get a jump start on your home renovation plans this weekend when the Cincinnati Home and Garden Show opens at Duke Energy Convention Center. You’ll fi nd the latest trends and experts ready to help you turn those reno dreams into reality. Over at the Sharonville Convention Center, modernism is all the rage. At 20th Century Cincinnati, you might fi nd the perfect Blenko decanter for your cocktail cabinet, or a George Nelson pendant light that’ll be perfect above the Broyhill Brasilia dining table, dahling.

If the kids are off school on Monday and you’re looking for something fun, free and educational to keep them occupied, the Taft National Historic Site in Mount Auburn has lots of President’s Day festivities planned, incuding reenactments, guided tours and presidential trivia. Speaking of reenactments, outlaw Jesse James makes a visit to the Heritage Village Museum on Friday as part of its new First Person Series.

The Jewish & Israeli Film Festival continues this week with several interesting fi lms, the McElroy brothers bring their popular podcast My Brother, My Brother and Me to town - plus they’ve roped in their dad Clint for a visit to The Adventure Zone - and it’s Wizarding Weekend with the Cincinnati Cyclones.

The fi rst 3,000 through the gate each night get a cool wizard’s wand!

MONDAY, Feb. 17 President’s Day Festivities 9 a.m.-5 p.m., William Howard Taft National Historic Site, 2038 Auburn Ave., Mount Auburn. Free. nps.gov/wiho.

2020 Jewish & Israeli Film Festival: Family in Transition 7:30 p.m., Esquire Theater, 320 Ludlow Ave., Clifton. $10$12. tix.com.

TUESDAY, Feb. 18 Ledisi with Cincinnati Pops: Let Love Rule 7:30 p.m., Music Hall, 1241 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine. $25-up. cincinnatiarts.org.

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 19 Drew and Ellie Holcomb 8 p.m., Memorial Hall, 1222 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine. $25-$45. memorialhallotr.com.

Cincinnati Home & Garden Show Feb. 22-23 and Feb. 27-March 1, Duke Energy Convention Center, 525 Elm St., Downtown. $12-$14, free ages 12-under. cincinnatihomeandgardenshow.com.

20th Century Cincinnati 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Feb. 22-23, Sharonville Convention Center, 11355 Chester Road, Sharonville. $8 adults (good both days). queencityshows.com.

Mark Chesnutt 8:30 p.m., Ludlow Garage, 342 Ludlow Ave., Clifton. $35-$75. ticketmaster.com.

Over the Rhine 7:30 p.m., Parrish Auditorium, 1601 University Blvd., Hamilton. $34-$36. events.miamioh.edu.

The Pink Floyd Laser Spectacular Memorial Hall, 1222 Elm St., Overthe-Rhine. $30-$40. memorialhallotr.com.

Ultimate 80s Party featuring Tiffany 8 p.m., Bogart’s, 2621 Vine St., Corryville. livenation.com.

The Cincinnati Home & Garden Show returns from Feb. 22-23 at the Duke Energy Convention Center. RYAN TERHUNE/THE ENQUIRER

THURSDAY, Feb. 20 Tony Woods Feb. 20-23, Go Bananas, 8410 Market Place Lane, Montgomery. $8-$16. gobananascomedy.com.

Revenge Comedy Tour featuring Sweet Tee 7 p.m., Memorial Hall, 1222 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine. $22$35. memorialhallotr.com.

FRIDAY, Feb. 21 Suzy Bogguss 8 p.m., 20th Century Theater, 3021 Madison Road, Oakley. $30-$35. ticketweb.com.

The All-American Rejects 7 p.m., Bogart’s, 2621 Vine St., Corryville. livenation.com.

The Box Tops 8:30 p.m., Ludlow Garage, 342 Ludlow Ave., Clifton. $20$35. ticketmaster.com.

Ricky Velez Feb. 21-23, Funny Bone Comedy Club, 7518 Bales St., Liberty Township.

First Person Program Series: Jesse James 7-8:30 p.m., Heritage Village

American Authors and Magic Giant 6:30 p.m., Bogart’s, 2621 Vine St., Corryville. livenation.com.

Thrive: We Are 9-10:30 p.m., Woodward Theater, 1404 Main St., Overthe-Rhine. elementz.org.

The Adventure Zone 7 p.m., Taft Theatre, 317 E. 5th St., Downtown. $42.50. tafttheatre.org.

Museum, 11450 Lebanon Road, Sharonville. $10-$20. Advance registration required: 513-563-9484.

Bockfest: Precipitation Retaliation Happy Hour 4-8 p.m., Milton’s Prospect Hill Tavern, 301 Milton St., Mount Auburn. Free. Ages 21-up.

The Art of Food 6-10 p.m., The Carnegie, 1028 Scott Blvd., Covington. $235 per couple, $125 single. 859957-1940. thecarnegie.com.

Maple on Tap 2-7 p.m., Cincinnati Nature Center at Rowe Woods, 4949 Tealtown Road, Milford. $10-$27.50. naturefi nd.com.

Maple Sugar Days noon-4 p.m. Feb. 22-23, Farbach-Werner Nature Preserve, 3455 Poole Road, Colerain Township. Free. Some activities have a small fee.

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locations, which all off er fi tness centers and indoor pools. Nearly all have a basketball court. YMCA membership costs $82/month for single-parent families and $92/month for two-parent families.

Members can go to all of the clubs. Most off er branch-only membership for a reduced rate. myy.org ❚ Blue Ash has a cycling studio, family locker rooms, handball court, kids’ club, nature fi tness trail, on-site preschool, outdoor pool, racquetball court, sauna, steam room, teen zone and whirlpool.

5000 YMCA Drive, Blue Ash. ❚ Campbell County has a baby pool, cycling studio, kids’ club, outdoor pool, racquetball court and sauna.

1437 S. Fort Thomas Ave., Fort Thomas.

Duckpin bowling at Silverlake. PROVIDED

❚ Town & Country is a family gym with a fi tness center, aquatic center, kids’ gym and tanning beds. The aquatic center has an 89-degree pool with two slides for kids and an 83-degree, 3lane/25-yard pool. The kids’ gym has two spring-free trampolines, tubes and tunnels, a sports wall and small basketball court. Childcare is available for kids from infant to eight years old. Family memberships start at $79 per month.

1018 Town Drive, Wilder; www.towncountrysports.com. ❚ YMCA of Greater Cincinnati has 12

Mardi Gras Party 7:30 p.m., Fitton Center for the Performing Arts, 101 S. Monument Ave., Hamilton. $29-$37. fi ttoncenter.org.

❚ Carl H. Lindner has family locker rooms, indoor water park, kids’ club, sauna and steam room.

1425B Linn St., West End. ❚ Central Parkway has an indoor walking and running track, racquetball court and steam room.

1105 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine. ❚ Clermont Family has a cycling studio, family locker rooms, indoor walking and running track, kids’ club, outdoor pool, splash pad, sauna and steam room.

2075 James E. Sauls Sr. Drive, Batavia. ❚ Clippard Family has a baby pool, early learning, family locker rooms, indoor water park, kids’ club, outdoor pool, preschool, splash pad, outdoor waterslide, senior center and whirlpool.

8920 Cheviot Road, Colerain Township. ❚ Gamble-Nippert has a baby pool, cycling studio, kids’ club, outdoor pool, outdoor waterslide, racquetball court, sauna, steam room and whirlpool.

3159 Montana Ave., Westwood. ❚ Highland County has a cycling studio, family locker rooms, indoor walking and running track, nature fi tness trail and sauna.

201 Diamond Drive, Hillsboro. ❚ M.E. Lyons has a baby pool, cycling studio, family locker rooms, kids’ club, large free weight room, outdoor pool, sauna and steam room.

8108 Clough Pike, Anderson Township. ❚ Powel Crosley Jr. has a baby pool, cycling studio, family locker rooms, indoor water park, kids’ club, nature fi tness trail, on-site pre-school, outdoor pool with cold-weather bubble, racquetball court, sand volleyball court, sauna and tennis court.

9601 Winton Road, Springfi eld Township. ❚ R.C. Durr has a cycling studio, family locker rooms, gymnastics, kids’ club, large free-weight room, on-site preschool, outdoor pool, outdoor waterslide, sauna and senior center 5874 Veterans Way, Burlington. ❚ Richard E. Lindner has gymnastics, outdoor pool, racquetball court, sauna and steam room.

2039 Sherman Ave., Norwood.

First, the price-is-not-an-issue options.

How about some cheaper options?

Mardi Gras Party 7-11 p.m., Coverd Headquarters, 1400 State Ave., Lower Price Hill. $100. sweetcheeksdiaperbank.org.

2020 Jewish & Israeli Film Festival: The Mamboniks 3 p.m., Mayerson Jewish Community Center, 8485 Ridge Road, Amberley. $10-$12. tix.com.

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year.

301 Kenton Lands Road, Erlanger; silverlakefamily.com.

Mardi Gras Madness 6-11 p.m., The Church in Oakley, 4117 34th Ave., Oakley. $35-$45.

Cincinnati Cyclones Wizards Weekend 7:30 p.m. Feb. 21-22, Heritage Bank Center, 100 Broadway, Downtown. heritagebankcenter.com.

Gym

❚ Five Seasons is a family gym that has clubs in Symmes Township and Crestview Hills, which off er the same amenities. They were recently renovated with new equipment, furniture, fl oors and paint. Five Seasons has a two-level fi tness center, indoor and outdoor tennis courts, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, indoor walking/jogging track, three weight centers, spinning room, basketball courts and racquetball.

Five Seasons also has men’s and women’s locker rooms with sauna and steam rooms, a yoga studio, salon and spa, café and bar. There are over 60 group exercise classes off ered weekly.

The family gym off ers childcare, a kids’ club, swim school, tennis and pickleball programs, poolside parties and social events. Family membership costs $134 plus tax monthly for families with children under age 23.

11790 Snider Road, Symmes Township; and 345 Thomas More Parkway, Crestview Hills; fi veseasonssportsclub.com. ❚ Silverlake: The Family Place is a family gym with a fi tness center, indoor aquatic center with a small water park and Olympic-sized pool, sauna and steam room, private showers with complimentary soap and shampoo, towel service and an indoor basketball court.

It also features an outdoor waterpark, cooking class studio, duckpin bowling alley, trampoline park, Clip 'n’ Climb, bar and grill. Childcare is off ered free to all members.

Silverlake off ers a Kids Club for ages eight weeks to six years old. There is also KidsQuest for ages 3 to 12. Silverlake off ers after-school care and day camps. It also off ers swimming lessons, gymnastics, sports academy for kids, aquatics, training and group exercise.

Family membership for two adults and children under age 23 living at home costs $159 per month or $1,812.60 per

Vicki Lawrence & Mama 8 p.m., Lawrenceburg Event Center, 91 Walnut St., Lawrenceburg. $24-up. ticketmaster.com.

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No. 6 and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 “Pathétique,” Nov. 8 ❚ European Tour: Nov. 9-22 ❚ Conducted by Roderick Cox: Rachmaninoff ’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with pianist Conrad Tao, James Lee III’s “Emotive Transformations” and Brahms’ Symphony No. 2, Dec. 4 and 5 ❚ Conducted by Pintscher: Andrew Norman’s New Violin Concerto for violinist Leila Josefowicz and Mahler’s Symphony No. 7, Jan. 8 and 9, 2021 ❚ CSO Proof: “Dolorian Days,” a collective memory of the future, Jan. 13 ❚ Conducted by Ruth Reinhardt: Kinds of Kings, Janacek, Kinds of Kings New Work for Eight Blackbird and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 7, Jan. 16 and 17 ❚ Sofi a Gubaidulina’s Concerto for Symphony Orchestra and Jazz Band, Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with pia-

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nist Stephen Osborne and Rachmaninoff ’s Symphony No. 2, Jan. 29 and 30 ❚ Conducted by Karina Canellakis: Lutoslawski’s Cello Concerto with cellist Kian Soltani and Wagner’s Act I of “Die

Walkure” with vocalists Heidi Melton, Stefan Vinke and John Relyea, Feb. 5 and 6 ❚ Haydn’s “The Creation” with the May Festival Chorus, vocalists Mari Eriksmoen, Simon Bode and Matthew Rose

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“Fresh Off the Boat” features Randall Park, Ian Chen and Constance Wu. JOHN FLEENOR/ABC

TV’S BEST BETS Mike Hughes

Special to Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Sunday

“American Idol” opener 8-10 p.m., ABC. The 18th season – and the third on ABC – starts with a flurry of audition sites: Milwaukee, Savannah, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Sun River, Oregon. That leads a busy TV night: Starz has a strong “Outlander” season-opener at 8 p.m., rerunning at 10. NBC reruns the “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist” pilot at 8 p.m., with a new hour at 9. The concept – she hears people’s thoughts via song – is iffy, but the result is fresh and fun. Then NBC’s “Good Girls” opens its season at 10 p.m.

Monday

“America’s Got Talent: The Champions” fi nale 8-10 p.m., NBC. This started with 40 contestants from “Got Talent” shows globally – 22 of them from the American version. Last week, the top 10 performed and viewers voted. It’s a varied bunch – three singers (one adding accordion and dance) and three dance groups (one adding acrobatics), plus acrobats, a trapeze act, a dog act and a violinist. Six had been on “America’s Got Talent”; others did shows in German, Norway, England and the Philippines. One will be named the “world champion.”

Tuesday

“Frontline: Amazon Empire” 9-11 p.m., PBS. Amazon’s success is obvious. It had 40 percent of book sales by 2013, then gobbled other areas; it’s nearing a million employees (and 200,000 robots) worldwide. But that has included “a strategy to monopolize the markets,” says anti-trust expert Stacy Mitchell. Dealing with the company “was like going out to dinner with the Godfather,” a publisher says. This fair documentary, with ample company response, also ranges from product safety to working conditions and anti-union strategy.

Wednesday

“Criminal Minds” fi nale 9 and 10 p.m., CBS. For 15 grisly seasons, these people have been catching serial killers … usually. Three times, however, they’ve failed to get Everett Lynch. Known as “The Chameleon,” he preys on and kills middle-aged women; now there’s an all-out effort to get him.

Rossi (Joe Mantegna), almost killed by Lynch last year, has some new theories, inspired by his former partner (Ben Savage). It’s a tough effort that leaves Dr. Reid with hallucinations of ghosts from his past.

Every fi nale needs that.

Thursday

“Mom” 9 p.m., CBS. Thursdays are situation-comedy nights on the broadcast networks, stuffed with 10 sitcoms. But the recent arrivals (NBC’s “Indebted,” Fox’s “Outmatched”) are disappointing; so is CBS’ fi rst-year show, “Carol’s Second Act.” The solution is to stick with “Mom,” with its terrifi c characters – deeply aware of their own flaws – and sharp humor. Tonight, Christy considers a life-changing decision; her mother, rarely the voice of reason, has advice. Also, Jill sees a fertility doctor.

Friday

“Fresh Off the Boat” series fi nale 8 and 8:30 p.m., ABC. This comedy began six years ago by tracing the real life of Eddie Huang, whose family moved in the 1980s from Washington, D.C. to Orlando … where he and his two brothers felt like the only kids with Chinese roots. That’s key to Friday’s fi rst episode: The boys head to Washington to dig up their time capsule; also, the family goes to Disney World. Then the fi nal episode has Eddie wanting to be a chef (as he did in real life); when his mom sees his high SAT scores, she intervenes.

Saturday

“Almost Family” fi nale 8 and 9 p.m., Fox. It’s the “season fi nale,” but no one expects a second season. That makes this the week’s third series fi nale. When the show started, an esteemed fertility doctor (Tim Hutton) was charged with secretly substituting his own sperm. His daughter (Brittany Snow) was devastated. Now comes the trial – complicated by a threat to reveal an affair between Amanda (with the prosecution) and Edie (formerly with the defense). Edie is one of many offspring; so is Roxy, who plans a drastic move.

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and director Robert Porco, Feb. 20 and 21 ❚ Conducted by Juraj Valcuha: Grieg’s Concerto for Piano with pianist Javier Perianes and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 4, Feb. 26 and 27 ❚ CSO Proof: Departure— Transition—Abschied with mezzo-soprano Michelle De Young and conductor and creator Matthias Pintscher, March 3 ❚ Rachmaninoff ’s “Vocalise,” Bartok’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with pianist Kirill Gerstein, Kodaly’s “Dances of Galanta” and Stravinsky’s “Firebird: Suite,” March 13 and 14 ❚ Conducted by Hannu Lintu: Thorvaldsdottir’s “Metacosmos,” Prokofi ev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with pianist SeongJin Cho and Sibelius’ Symphony No. 1, March 19 and 20 ❚ Conducted by Kahchun Wong: Thorvaldsdottir’s “Aeriality,” Christopher Cerrone’s New Concerto for Trumpet, Tuba and Orchestra with Robert Sullivan and Christopher Olka and Holst’s “The Planets” with the Women of the May Festival

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Chorus and director Robert Porco, April 2 and 3 ❚ Ravel’s “Sheherazade” and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade, Op. 35 with soprano Fatma Said, April 9 and 10 ❚ Classical Roots conducted

by John Morris Russell, April 16 ❚ Conducted by Sir Mark Elder: Berlioz’s “Le corsaire” Overture, Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with pianist Stephen Hough, Debussy’s “La Mer” and Ravel’s “Daphnis et Chloe” Suite No. 2, April 24 and 25 ❚ CSO Proof: The Right to Be Forgotten conducted by Teddy Abrams and composed by Gabriel Kahane, April 30 ❚ Conducted by Ramon Tebar: Perry’s “A Short Piece for Large Orchestra,” Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with violinist Esther Yoo, Strauss’ “Der Rosenkavalier” Suite and Respighi’s “Pini di Roma,” May 7 and 8 ❚ A new work from Gabriela Oritz and Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7, May 15 and 16 The CSO season is presented

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Ellen’s Game of Games: Zoey’s Extraordinary Zoey’s Extraordinary Good Girls: Find Your News (N) (:35) News Playlist: Pilot.

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Sorts 9 Videos (N) 60 Minutes (N) God Friended Me: The NCIS: Los Angeles: NCIS: New Orleans: Bad News (N) Sports Princess. (N) Commitment. (N) Moon Rising. (N) Authority 12 Batwoman (N) Supergirl (N) Men Men Seinfeld Girls 12.2 TMZ (N) The Bob’s The Simp- Duncanville: Bob’s Family Guy FOX19 NOW at 10 FOX19 NOW Full Court sons (N) Pilot. (N) Burgers (N) (N) Regional news. (N) at 11 Press (N) 19 Simpsons Burgers Frasier Frasier Frasier Roseanne Roseanne Roseanne Roseanne The Office The Office 25 Frasier Expedition with Steve Frontline: Battle for Masterpiece: Sanditon. Vienna Blood (N) A Place to Call Home: The Hong Kong.

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