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Quantum BASS,
leap for COUNCIL
clean PERSIST
energy DESPITE
TUMULT
Bay Area scientists are
first to generate power
through carbon-free
nuclear fusion.

By Corinne Purtill Photographs by Carolyn Cole Los Angeles Times Homeless emergency
is OKd in a meeting
In a first, U.S. scientists THE CECIL HOTEL was supposed to be a model for permanent supportive housing in downtown L.A., where De León votes
have created “net energy” but a year later, it’s mostly empty. Above, Brent Fode and TaterTot are among those now living there. from a back room.
through a nuclear fusion
reaction, the Department of OPEN HOUSING By Julia Wick,
Energy announced Tuesday. David Zahniser,
Project struggles to fill rooms even as homeless crisis grows Dakota Smith
The successful experi- and Benjamin Oreskes
ment, which took place By Jaimie Ding
Dec. 5 at Lawrence Liver- The Los Angeles City
more National Laboratory, It’s not much — a bed with a mat- Council approved Mayor
is the most significant mile- Karen Bass’ declaration of a
stone yet reached in the dec- tress, a small nightstand, a dresser, a homelessness emergency at
ades-long quest to produce a fraught four-hour meeting
cheap, clean, carbon-free en- closet and some assorted appliances Tuesday, giving the new
ergy through nuclear fusion. mayor a potentially critical
in a 160-square-foot room. tool for addressing the hu-
“We have taken the first manitarian crisis.
tentative steps toward a Some of those rooms have bath-
clean energy source that The vote should have
could revolutionize the rooms, but most don’t. Several floors been a simple procedural
world,” said Jill Hruby, ad- step. But it was thrown into
ministrator of the National of the 14-floor building were swelter- jeopardy by the tumult at
Nuclear Security Adminis- City Hall.
tration. ing over the summer. The kitchen is
Embattled Councilmem-
Energy Secretary Jenni- all the way on the bottom floor. ber Kevin de León stepped
fer M. Granholm called the onto the council floor mid-
achievement “one of the Still, the Cecil Hotel represents an way through the session.
most impressive scientific Council President Paul
feats of the 21st century,” opportunity for its formerly home- Krekorian immediately
adding that it “will go down called for a recess, sending
in the history books.” less inhabitants to have a room of the meeting into limbo.

In a nuclear fusion reac- one’s own — one that comes with 24- De León has faced wide-
tion, two atoms slam to- spread calls for his resigna-
gether and merge into a hour security and the freedom to tion as fallout from a racist
larger atom of a heavier ele- leaked audiotape roiled the
ment, releasing their excess come and go without curfews. city. Several colleagues had
mass in the form of energy. threatened to leave the room
The historic hotel, with its if he showed up. Tensions in-
Fusion is the process tensified over the weekend
through which the sun haunted reputation and 600 rooms, after De León was involved
makes energy. The sun’s in a fight with an activist
core is the ideal high-pres- reopened in December 2021 as a pri- during an Eastside Christ-
sure, high-temperature en- mas tree lighting.
vironment for hydrogen at- vately funded permanent supportive
oms to fuse into helium; rep- For much of the meeting,
licating those conditions on housing project. With most of the it was unclear whether the
Earth has proved difficult. council would have enough
rooms reserved specifically for those members willing to sit in the
Scientists at Lawrence room with De León and cast
Livermore in the San Fran- in the bottom 30% of the area’s medi- votes. Ten members are
cisco Bay Area achieved needed to conduct council
SINCE ALL its residents will use vouchers to pay rent, the building an income, it’s open to any of the business.
[See Fusion, A7] relies on organizations that serve homeless people to fill its units.
thousands of [See Cecil, A9] But after a long standoff,
followed by De León’s exit
COLUMN ONE from the room, the council
ultimately voted 13 to 0 for
He broke color lines the mayor’s declaration. Al-
before Robinson did though De León was out of
his chair, he was able to cast
Jorge Pasquel integrated Mexican his vote from a back room
baseball in ’40s. Where’s his plaque? that is considered part of the
council chamber.
By Kevin Baxter
reporting from veracruz, mexico The chamber exploded
with anger as protesters re-

[See Council, A12]

P edro “Charrascas” Ramírez was born more than Biden signs
a century ago, and he concedes his eyesight is marriage bill
fading and his knees ache when he climbs the
narrow 15-step staircase to his breezy second- President affirms
story apartment in the old part of Veracruz. same-sex unions in
White House ceremo-
His mind, however, remains sharp, and the memories ny where love is the
theme. NATION, A6
it holds might prove key to an implausible campaign to
Health of P-22
get a flamboyant, daring Mexican millionaire named Blake Kessler Palisades Tahoe appears poor

Jorge Pasquel enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame. A WORKER clears a path at the Palisades Tahoe resort, which received almost Officials say the
3 feet of snow from the recent storm. Some ski areas got as much as 4 feet. mountain lion may
Ramírez is the only survivor of the 1946 Mexican have to be euthanized
Storm no drought-buster, nor if his condition wors-
League season, one in which Pasquel, the league presi- a good predictor for season ens. CALIFORNIA, B1

dent, used suitcases full of money to lure nearly two Fraud charges
for FTX founder
dozen white American players south, where they played
Sam Bankman-Fried
alongside Negro League stars banned from the majors diverted funds and
made illegal political
because of the color of their skin. donations, prosecutors
allege. BUSINESS, A8
Pasquel’s gambit was not sustainable, and the league
Weather
would later go bankrupt. But it became the first in pro- Dry and cool.
L.A. Basin: 62/44. B6
fessional baseball to fully inte- [See Baseball, A4]
Printed with soy inks on
Associated Press Snowpack gets a truly reverse its historic dry of last year, when a similarly partially recycled paper.
needed boost, but it’s streak. soggy December gave way to
JORGE PASQUEL, right, with Babe Ruth and too early to know if California’s driest January 7 85944 00200 5
Mickey Owen, left, one of the big leaguers Pasquel wet weather will last. For many, the massive through March on record.
lured away to play in his Mexican league, in 1946. storm system that soaked
By Hayley Smith swaths of the West Coast “December has started
with inches of rain and feet of off obviously very well in
Winter storms that snow was a reminder of sea- terms of building snowpack
doused California with sons past as it snarled traf- and even soaking other
much-needed rain and snow fic, triggered rock slides and areas with rainfall,” said
over the last week have man- sparked a blizzard of “winter David Rizzardo, hydrology
aged to ease some dire wonderland” posts on social section manager for the Cal-
drought conditions, but ex- media. ifornia Department of Water
perts warned that the state Resources. But “it’s defi-
still has a long way to go to But as the state’s climate nitely too early to tell, espe-
grows warmer and drier, cially when right now it
sustained periods of winter seems like we’re getting sim-
rain and snow are becoming ilar signals of a possible dry
increasingly sporadic, ex-
perts say. Many fear a repeat [See Drought, A12]

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PERSPECTIVES

Musk is testing how low Twitter can sink

Embrace of anti-Fauci, QAnon conspiracies gives them credibility among his followers

MICHAEL HILTZIK Patrick Pleul Pool Photo block California’s new anti- and devastating published
medical misinformation take down” of the declara-
People trying ELON MUSK’S latest actions have intensified questions about where he intends law.) tion’s premises in an email
to track the to lead Twitter, how regulators should respond and whether his behavior matters. to Fauci.
intellectual In their lawsuit, Bhat-
and moral Roth and his family have platform — that is, Musk — plausible. But Musk’s be- tacharya and his co-plain- But as Bhattacharya
deterioration reportedly been forced to will lose. havior is indistinguishable tiffs accuse the Biden White admits, no such “published
of Twitter leave their home to avoid a at this moment from that of House, seven federal agen- take down” ever appeared.
under its new torrent of threats and abuse Lichfield’s point was that someone experiencing a cies and Fauci, among oth- Instead, he claims, “covert”
owner, Elon following Musk’s tweet. the attention paid to Musk personality meltdown and ers, of staging one of the censorship took place.
Musk, have resembled that paid to seeking succor from fringe federal government’s great- (Anyway, the president in
gotten a few Musk also has bought Donald Trump’s outra- communities willing to est assaults on freedom of October 2020 was Trump,
more data points to work into claims by opponents of geous behavior during his shower him with hero-wor- speech “in the nation’s not Biden.)
with in recent days. broad-based public health presidency, which obscured ship because they also history.”
policies aimed at combating the deeper damage Trump’s resent being treated as Musk has been trying to
On Sunday, Musk signed the pandemic that they acolytes were doing to gov- outcasts by the big, bad They assert that the lend credibility to these
on to the right wing’s cam- have been “censored” by ernment policies and the world. administration “subsidized, claims by releasing internal
paigns against Dr. Anthony social media platforms, rule of law. protected, and fostered the files detailing efforts by
Fauci, the highly respected including Twitter. Take Bhattacharya, for creation of speech-censor- Roth and other pre-Musk
infectious disease expert Yet that won’t do. Musk example. He’s one of the ship policies in a small, Twitter executives to deal
whose role in the battle On Dec. 10 Musk met has far more influence over authors of the Great Bar- concentrated group of with the tide of misinforma-
against the HIV and with Stanford medical Twitter than Trump had rington Declaration, a 2020 social-media firms” through tion and disinformation
COVID-19 viruses may have professor Jay Bhattacharya, over the federal govern- open letter that called for Section 230 of the Commu- inundating Twitter.
saved hundreds of thou- who has asserted in a fed- ment. As Twitter’s undis- allowing the COVID-19 virus nications Decency Act of
sands, if not millions, of eral lawsuit and on Twitter puted owner, Musk gets no to run rampant among all 1996, with the goal of sup- As the documents show,
lives. that the Biden adminis- pushback from inside the but the most vulnerable pressing the Great Barring- their efforts were not invari-
tration coerced social media platform. members of society (such as ton Declaration and other ably successful — and some-
“My pronouns are Prose- firms to “blacklist” him in the elderly and chronically critiques of anti-pandemic times may have gone too far
cute/Fauci,” Musk tweeted violation of his 1st Amend- His endorsements of ill) by keeping schools open policies. — but at least they were
Sunday. ment rights. conspiracy theories amplify and barring lockdowns, in trying.
those false narratives and the expectation of achieving Blaming the adminis-
When former astronaut In a tweet following their give them credibility among “herd immunity,” a natural tration for social media That doesn’t appear to
Scott Kelly (the twin meeting, Bhattacharya many of his 120 million Twit- communal resistance to the policies is plainly an effort to be true of Musk-era Twitter.
brother of Democratic Sen. praised Musk for establish- ter followers and 200 mil- disease. get around the fact that the On Monday, Musk abruptly
Mark Kelly of Arizona) ing a new Twitter “where lion-plus users, including 1st Amendment guaran- dissolved the platform’s
upbraided Musk for not only transparency and free the 13% of Americans who Critics in the medical teeing freedom of speech independent Trust and
attacking a “dedicated speech rule.” (He didn’t say they regularly get their community call this notion applies only to government Safety Council, which ad-
public servant” but mocking respond to my request for news from Twitter. “a dangerous fallacy unsup- entities, not private compa- vised executives on modera-
the practice among LGBTQ more details of the meet- ported by scientific evi- nies such as Twitter. tion policies.
individuals and others of ing.) Long-term observers of dence.” Indeed, it hasn’t
posting their preferred Musk and his businesses worked in places that have Section 230, as I’ve On Tuesday, the watch-
pronouns online and in Musk’s latest outbursts aren’t sure what he’s up to tried it, including Sweden, reported, is the legal provi- dog group Media Matters
emails, Musk doubled have intensified questions here. Tech reporter Kara where COVID case and sion that inoculates social for America and the
down. about where he intends to Swisher speculates that he’s death rates have far out- media platforms, as well as LGBTQ advocacy organiza-
lead Twitter, about how trying to create another stripped those of more newspapers and other tion GLAAD reported that
“Forcing your pronouns government regulators, right-wing media company cautious Nordic countries, enterprises that host out- the anti-LGBTQ slur
upon others when they lawmakers and the commu- to supplant a fading Fox Sweden’s nearest demo- siders’ content or images, “groomers” has soared since
didn’t ask ... is neither good nity of long-term Twitter News. graphic neighbors. from liability for the third- Musk’s takeover, with right-
nor kind to anyone,” he users should respond, and party content on their sites. wing and anti-LGBTQ
tweeted back. “As for Fauci, about whether his behavior Conor Friedersdorf of Bhattacharya is joined in Liability rests only with the accounts he restored ac-
he lied to Congress and matters. the Atlantic argues that his lawsuit against the actual content producers. counting for a huge share of
funded gain-of-function Musk’s inviting back onto Biden administration by the increase.
research that killed millions Gideon Lichfield, the Twitter a horde of tweeters Martin Kulldorff, another The lawsuit calls this a
of people.” editor in chief of Wired, whose accounts had been co-author of the declara- “unique liability shield,” but Musk may defend his
argued Tuesday that the blocked for hatefulness or tion, and a few other plain- that’s false. The shield is lenience toward hatefulness
Neither of those as- media’s Musk obsession inciting violence or a host of tiffs. As the writer Walker exactly the same as the one as a victory for free speech,
sertions about Fauci has distracts us from more other infringements of civil Bragman has pointed out, enjoyed by bookstores and but the question is: Free
been shown to be true, important questions about behavior had been unfairly they’re represented by the magazine stands, which speech for whom? Those
though they’re articles of “Twitter’s role in the world disparaged by “alarmist” New Civil Liberties Alliance, can’t be sued over the con- who have tried to craft
faith among bloviating — its importance to natural- left-wing critics who ignored a right-wing litigation fac- tent of the books and peri- effective online moderation
right-wingers such as Sen. disaster management or to the amnesty’s “potential tory that has received fund- odicals they sell. policies do so because nox-
Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and any number of communities upsides,” such as making ing from the Koch network. ious and vicious attacks
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. for whom it’s a store of social Twitter more trustworthy. (The alliance is also suing to Curiously, having and invective don’t encour-
wealth” in favor of a fixation (Good luck!) blamed Section 230 for the age more open discussion,
The day before, Musk on how much money the censorship the plaintiffs but drive thoughtful par-
had falsely accused Yoel Their conjectures may be claim to be suffering, the ticipants out of the discus-
Roth, the former head of lawsuit then attacks the sion.
Twitter’s trust and safety Biden administration for
team, of advocating allow- considering a repeal of If Musk continues down
ing children to access adult Section 230. Its argument is this road, Twitter won’t be a
material online. He did so by that by threatening repeal, beacon of free speech, but a
selectively and misleadingly Biden is goading the social miasmic, malodorous
quoting from Roth’s 2016 media platforms to impose swamp. There’s no point
doctoral thesis at the Uni- greater censorship on Bhat- trying to ignore his influ-
versity of Pennsylvania. tacharya and Kulldorff. ence, because Twitter is all
him. His promotion of lies
The charge that gay One problem for the and attacks on innocent
individuals such as Roth are plaintiffs is that they can’t people won’t be good for
implicated in child sexual point to any specific cases in Twitter or anyone who truly
abuse is a homophobic slur which the government values free speech.
out of the playbook of the forced social media firms to
conspiracy movement censor its critics. They How much lower can
QAnon. largely refer to efforts by Musk’s Twitter sink? Those
government officials to who argue that Musk is
The claim has been present the private firms striving to remake the plat-
picked up by far-right fig- with facts to counter critics’ form into a successful busi-
ures such as Rep. Marjorie misinformation, but noth- ness seem confident that he
Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who ing further. knows something we don’t
used it against California know. The question is: Do
state Sen. Scott Wiener Indeed, in a declaration we want to know?
(D-San Francisco), who is filed with the lawsuit, Bhat-
gay, posting a tweet calling tacharya asserts that in Hiltzik writes a blog on
him a “communist October 2020, Francis latimes.com. Follow him on
groomer” within days of Collins, then director of the Facebook or on Twitter
getting her Twitter account National Institutes of @hiltzikm or email
restored by Musk. Health, called for a “quick [email protected].

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THE WORLD

Putin will skip his annual news conference

No reason is given for Russia. Kremlin officials are Putin ordered the inva- ian capital, Russian troops ment and supplies. criticism from Russian
canceling the event, almost certainly extremely sion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, pulled back from areas In a rare acknowledg- hard-liners who have de-
which has been used sensitive about the possibil- saying that its aim was to around Kyiv in March. nounced the president as
to polish the Russian ity that any event attended “demilitarize” and “denazi- ment last week that the weak and indecisive and
leader’s image. by Putin could be hijacked fy” the country and citing In September, Ukraine campaign in Ukraine was called for ramping up strikes
by unsanctioned discussion the North Atlantic Treaty won back large swaths of taking longer than he antici- on Ukraine.
associated press about the ‘special military Organization’s refusal to of- land in the northeastern pated, Putin admitted that
operation.’ ” fer Russia guarantees that Kharkiv region, and last wrapping up his special mili- Sergei Markov, a pro-
Russian President Vladi- Ukraine wouldn’t be invited month it reclaimed control tary operation could be a Kremlin political analyst,
mir Putin will not be holding Putin also canceled an- to join the alliance. Ukraine of the strategic southern “lengthy process.” At the said Putin’s decision to ditch
his annual year-end mara- other annual fixture, a tele- and much of the world have port city of Kherson. same time, he continued to the news conference and his
thon news conference, a vised call-in show on which denounced the Russian at- claim that the campaign was failure so far to deliver the
break in long-held tradition he takes questions from the tack on its neighbor as an A mobilization of 300,000 going according to plan and state of the nation address
that observers attribute to public to nurture his father- unprovoked act of aggres- Russian reservists that would achieve its goals. reflected hesitancy about
the Kremlin’s uneasiness of-the-nation image. sion. Putin ordered in September the future course of action.
over a string of battlefield so far has failed to reverse The Kremlin has muz-
setbacks in its war on And he has not delivered Putin and his officials the Kremlin’s battlefield for- zled any criticism of its ac- “Shall we forge ahead and
Ukraine. the televised state-of-the- hoped to rout the Ukrainian tunes. The mobilization or- tion in Ukraine from the libe- defeat the enemy?” Markov
nation address to parlia- military in a few days, but a der has prompted hundreds ral antiwar camp, shutting wrote, reflecting hard-liners’
Kremlin spokesman ment that he is obliged by fierce Ukrainian resistance of thousands of Russians to down news outlets and crim- calls for widening attacks on
Dmitry Peskov confirmed the Russian Constitution to quickly derailed those plans. flee abroad to avoid recruit- inalizing the spread of any Ukraine. “Or on the con-
Monday that Putin would be give each year. The Kremlin After a botched attempt to ment, and those who have information that departs trary, shall we prepare for a
skipping the annual news hasn’t set a date for the ad- quickly capture the Ukrain- been called up reported glar- from the official view. But it difficult but necessary com-
conference for the first time dress. ing shortages of key equip- has faced increasingly vocal promise?”
in 10 years. He didn’t give a
reason, but many commen- Bolsonaro supporters and police clash in Brazil
tators ascribed it to Putin’s
reluctance to face unpleas- Backers of defeated Mateus Bonomi Anadolu Agency peatedly claimed that the
ant questions about what he president allegedly try nation’s electronic voting
calls Russia’s “special mili- to invade the federal FIREFIGHTERS work to extinguish car fires ignited Monday by supporters of system is prone to fraud and
tary operation” in Ukraine. forces’ headquarters. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro during street confrontations in Brasilia. has not conceded defeat,
told supporters Friday that
The annual news confer- associated press ordered the temporary ar- Lula da Silva on Oct. 30, Monday, the nation’s elec- his political future was in
ence has been used by the rest of Jose Acacio Serere many of his supporters have toral authority awarded their hands.
Kremlin to polish Putin’s im- RIO DE JANEIRO — Xavante, who is suspected of gathered outside military Lula and his vice presi-
age. The tightly stage-man- Supporters of outgoing Bra- participating in anti-demo- barracks across the country dential running mate an offi- “The depredation and at-
aged program, televised live, zilian President Jair Bol- cratic protests. refusing to concede defeat cial certification, sealing tempted invasion of the fed-
lasted up to 4½ hours and sonaro clashed with police, and asking for the armed their victory. eral police building in
featured Putin talking about setting fire to several vehi- Since Bolsonaro lost his forces to intervene. Earlier Brasilia is unacceptable,”
a wide variety of domestic cles and allegedly attempt- reelection bid to Luiz Inácio Bolsonaro, who has re- said Flavio Dino, incoming
and foreign policy issues. ing to invade the federal po- justice and public security
lice’s headquarters in minister in Lula’s adminis-
Political analyst Abbas Brasilia, the capital. tration.
Gallyamov said in a video
commentary that Putin can- Images of chaos as a The leader of the opposi-
celed the annual news con- small number of protesters tion in the Senate, Randolfe
ference because “he has roamed the city — many of Rodrigues, said some pro-
nothing to say from the them wearing the yellow and testers, whom he called “ter-
point of view of strategy.” green of Brazil’s flag, which rorists,” had congregated
have come to symbolize around the hotel where Lula
In a commentary on Bolsonarismo — circulated is staying.
Twitter, the British Defense on local television channels
Ministry said: “The press and social media Monday. Police in full gear were
conference has become a rushed to the federal police
significant fixture in Putin’s Brasilia’s public security headquarters as backup, as
calendar of public engage- secretariat said in a state- officers had to use stun
ment and has frequently ment that clashes broke out grenades and rubber bul-
been used as an opportunity after police carried out an lets, local media reported.
to demonstrate the sup- arrest warrant. Earlier Mon- Police also blocked several
posed integrity of Putin. day, Supreme Court Justice avenues and streets across
Alexandre de Moraes had Brasilia.
“Although questions are
almost certainly usually vet- Protesters elsewhere set
ted in advance, the cancella- at least one bus on fire and
tion is likely due to increas- were seen gathering metal
ing concerns about the prev- barriers.
alence of anti-war feeling in

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Mexican millionaire integrated baseball in 1940s

[Baseball, from A1] Antonio Ordeñana, who had
been fringe major leaguers.
grate. But by 1946 he was all in,
offering exorbitant con-
Although Jackie tracts not only to Green-
berg, Musial and Feller but
Robinson would join the also to Ted Williams, Vern
Stephens, Phil Rizzuto and
Brooklyn Dodgers a year Joe DiMaggio.

later in 1947, the last vestiges Most of Pasquel’s over-
tures were unsuccessful, but
of the color line would not major league owners be-
lieved Pasquel’s boldness
disappear until 1959, when had to be answered, so
Chandler, the baseball
Pumpsie Green debuted commissioner, instituted a
five-year ban for any player
with the Boston Red Sox, who jumped to Mexico.

the last major league club to Pasquel responded by
offering Chandler $50,000 to
integrate. become commissioner of
the Mexican League.
Pasquel was gone by
“[Pasquel] was a direct
then, having died in a 1955 challenge to a number of the
ideas that were the support-
plane crash at age 47. But ing rationale for the segre-
gation of MLB,” Burgos
now a grandson he never said. “One of them was that
white players were unwilling
knew is revisiting his accom- to play with Black players.
As Danny Gardella and a
plishments and insisting few others began signing
and migrating south, that
that Pasquel’s role in inte- disrupted that narrative.
The other was he showed
grating baseball makes him players would be invested in
breaking the color line and
worthy of enshrinement in breaking down racial segre-
gation if the price was right.
the Hall of Fame.
“Owners didn’t want to
“He belongs for many pay these players more than
they had to. They were
reasons,” said Miguel trying to exercise a monopo-
ly on talent. That is what
Pasquel, a sports broad- raised the ire of owners.”

caster in Mexico City. “He Baseball also was op-
erating under the reserve
really helped a lot to break clause, which bound a play-
er to his current team indefi-
the color barrier. Thanks to nitely. Players breaking
their contracts to accept
him, many, many Negro more money in Mexico not
only threatened the sport’s
League players were able to segregation but also its
financial model by creating
play in Major League Base- the option of playing else-
where.
ball, including more than 18
In response to Pasquel’s
Hall of Famers who were raids, major league salaries
spiked. Musial’s went from
here in Mexico. $13,500 in 1946 to $31,000 a
year later. Greenberg, al-
“This is not a dream. ready the game’s top-paid
player, got a $30,000 raise,
This is justice which my while Newhouser, another
player Pasquel had enticed,
family and myself are look- nearly doubled his salary to
$70,000.
ing for.” Associated Press
But the biggest threat
Miguel’s cousin Bernar- JORGE PASQUEL, president of the Mexican league, managing his Veracruz team, sits with the son of resulting from Pasquel’s
hiring was a lawsuit filed by
do Pasquel, owner of the former Dodgers catcher Mickey Owen, whose job he took over, and former Giant Danny Gardella, left. Gardella to overturn Chan-
dler’s five-year ban on play-
Mexican League team in ers who jumped to Mexico.
When a federal court or-
Veracruz and the only mem- dered a jury trial to investi-
gate baseball’s labor prac-
ber of the family still in- Ramírez is one of the few most ethnically diverse in tices, the owners quickly
realized the reserve clause
volved in baseball, said people still alive who experi- Mexico. likely would be overturned,
potentially costing them
current events have made enced Pasquel’s showman- “Racism was not present millions in salary. So they
offered Gardella a lucrative
Jorge Pasquel’s story impor- ship and visionary thinking here,” Ramírez said from settlement and a chance to
return to the major leagues.
tant again. first-hand. the sofa of a living room
It would be 26 years
“Everything that’s going Nearly a decade before packed with memorabilia before an arbitrator finally
ruled against the owners in
on right now, Black Lives Robinson’s big league de- from his playing days. another lawsuit, brought by
pitchers Dave McNally and
Matter and all the social but, Pasquel integrated the “There were no problems.” Andy Messersmith, that
ushered in free agency and
injustices, it’s a relevant Mexican League by recruit- That wasn’t true across changed the landscape of
professional sports forever.
story,” he said. “There was ing top Black players, even- the border. When Pasquel
“Who knows what hap-
this guy that, 70 years ago, tually signing more than 200 and his chauffeur once pens if Danny Gardella
doesn’t settle the lawsuit?”
brought athletes to Mexico, by giving them cars, apart- stepped into a diner in Dodgers historian Mark
Langill said. “Why would
treated them like the stars ments, dignity and con- Texas, the manager showed [the owners] settle it unless
they were nervous he might
that they were no matter the tracts that had zeros where the light-skinned Pasquel to win?”

color of their skin. That’s their old ones had decimal a table but insisted the The threat Pasquel
posed to the major leagues
what is relevant about this.” points. driver, who was much was short-lived — the mon-
ey he spent to import U.S.
Josh Rawitch, president Ramírez never saw that darker, wait outside. players bankrupted the
Mexican League after two
of the National Baseball kind of money. Few Mexi- That incident would seasons and by 1952,
Pasquel and his brother
Hall of Fame and Museum cans were paid anything later fuel Pasquel’s passion Bernardo were out of base-
ball. Even so, his influence
in Cooperstown, N.Y., close to what the Negro to have a baseball league in still is being felt today.
Pasquel might not have
doesn’t disagree. But the League players and white which a man’s talent, not ended segregation or over-
turned the reserve clause,
bar Pasquel must clear is a major leaguers got. But few skin color, determined but he certainly hastened
the demise of both.
high one. complained. The U.S. play- whether he could play.
And though he was seen
Because he was a non- ers not only brought the Unlike playing in exhib- as a villain by U.S. baseball,
he was a hero in Veracruz,
player who made contrib- Mexican League attention ition games, “the Mexican where more than 20,000
mourners lined the streets
utions to the game before but made the league better. League meant that you see the day his coffin was
carried through the old part
1980, Pasquel must be con- “Do you know how much each other as equals,” said of town.

sidered alongside hundreds I earned? Two-hundred- Kevin Baxter Los Angeles Times Adrian Burgos Jr., a history But is that enough to get
him in the Hall nearly seven
of nominations for umpires, fifty pesos a month,” said PEDRO RAMÍREZ, a Mexican Hall of Famer, professor at the University decades after he died?

executives and managers of Ramírez, who hit .297 and is the last surviving player from the 1946 season. of Illinois Urbana-Cham- “The time is right when-
ever we can figure out an
the so-called Classic Era. won 51 games on the mound paign and author of opportunity to right a
wrong,” Kendrick said.
Those nominations are in 13 seasons in Mexico, “Playing America’s Game:
For Burgos, the question
whittled down to eight according to the Mexican Pasquel dropped $25,000 shoes,” Ramírez said. “I sold Baseball, Latinos, and the is one of time, not timing.

candidates who are voted baseball encyclopedia. “I in cash on the bed in Stan them for 100 pesos.” Color Line.” “One of the dimensions
that becomes challenging is
on by a panel of 16 Hall of imagine that those people Musial’s hotel room in an A natty dresser, Pasquel “You’re teammates, you the longevity,” he said. “Was
Pasquel around long
Fame members, club execu- who came earned a fortune. effort to entice the National attended games wearing a are sharing the locker room, enough to be enshrined in
Cooperstown?”
tives and baseball histori- Good players continued to League batting champion suit — often with a pearl- the dugout space. It is a very
Ramírez, who at 101 has
ans, with 12 votes needed for come. There was always south. handled pistol tucked in the different dimension. And been around longer than
most, said longevity can be
induction. The next Classic good baseball.” None of those players waistband — but that didn’t that’s what Pasquel tapped overrated. In Pasquel’s case,
he said, it’s what he did, not
Era ballot won’t be consid- That was just the first accepted, but 21 others did. stop him from borrowing a into.” how long it took him to do it.

ered until December 2024. step of Pasquel’s plan to Pitcher Sal Maglie and catcher’s mitt and warming Off the field too. Even “Should he be in the Hall
of Fame?” Ramírez asked,
Rawitch noted that when integrate the game he loved. outfielder Danny Gardella up pitchers. One season, when Blacks began inte- repeating the question. “¡Si!
Because he didn’t discrimi-
you are competing against During a frenzied two-year were two of eight players disappointed with his grating the major leagues, nate.”

the most iconic figures from period beginning in 1946, who left the New York Gi- team’s performance, he they often were barred from

the first century of base- Pasquel and his brothers ants. Left-hander Max traded the suit for a uni- the hotels and restaurants

ball’s history, the odds of tried to lure top white play- Lanier walked away from form, managing Veracruz to their white teammates

making it onto the ballot, ers such as Hank Green- the St. Louis Cardinals in a league championship. used. In Mexico City,

much less into the Hall, are berg, Hal Newhouser and mid-season. So did infielder Another time, Ramírez Pasquel gave his players

long ones — especially be- Bob Feller — three future Lou Klein and pitcher Fred showed up at the ballpark in luxury apartments, and

cause Pasquel’s story isn’t Hall of Famers — by offering Martin. Puebla only to find fans when they went on the road,

widely known. $1 million combined at a In Mexico, the pitchers crowding outside the gates. there were no signs telling

The influence of what he time when the top salary in threw to Black catchers, the When Pasquel asked why, them which drinking foun-

accomplished, however, still professional baseball was infielders turned double they said the owner of the tains or restrooms to use.

resonates, although $55,000. plays with Black infielders, land where the ballpark “It was the first time in

they showered and dressed stood had locked them out. my life that I felt free,” the

next to Black teammates, “A half an hour later, I late Monte Irvin, who would

and they took orders from returned,” Ramírez said. later play in the majors with

How to contact us Black managers. The games “[Pasquel] had bought the the Giants and Chicago
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THE NATION

Biden signs same-sex marriage legislation

‘The antidote to hate Kent Nishimura Los Angeles Times quired to recognize mar-
is love,’ the president riages conducted elsewhere
declares as landmark PRESIDENT Biden hands Vice President Kamala Harris the pen he used to sign legislation protecting same- in the country.
law takes effect. sex marriage, seen as threatened by the Supreme Court. The new law also protects interracial marriage.
A majority of Republi-
By Chris Megerian laws introduced in the states also there. riages if the U.S. Supreme cluding the legalization of cans in Congress still voted
targeting transgender chil- “It’s not lost on me that Court ever reverses Oberge- same-sex marriage, stirring against the legislation. But
WASHINGTON — Presi- dren, terrifying families and fell vs. Hodges, its 2015 deci- fear that more civil rights enough supported it to side-
dent Biden signed same-sex criminalizing doctors who our struggle for freedom sion legalizing same-sex could be imperiled by the step a filibuster in the Sen-
marriage legislation into law give children the care they hasn’t been achieved,” said unions nationwide. court’s conservative major- ate and ensure its passage.
Tuesday before a crowd of need.” Kelley Robinson, president ity.
thousands, a ceremony that of the Human Rights Cam- The new law also protects Tuesday’s ceremony
reflected growing accept- “Racism, antisemitism, paign. interracial marriages. In Thomas did not include marks another chapter in
ance of such unions. homophobia, transphobia, 1967, the Supreme Court in interracial marriage with Biden’s legacy on LGBTQ
they’re all connected,” Bid- “But this is a huge step Loving vs. Virginia struck other cases he said should rights.
“This law and the love it en said. “But the antidote to forward, and we have to cele- down laws in 16 states bar- be reconsidered. Thomas is
defends strike a blow hate is love.” brate the victories we ring interracial marriage. Black and his wife, Ginni He memorably — and un-
against hate in all its forms,” achieve and use that to fuel Thomas, is white. expectedly — endorsed
Biden said on the South Among the attendees the future of the fight.” The signing culminates a same-sex unions in a televi-
Lawn of the White House. were the owner of Club Q, a months-long bipartisan ef- Lawmakers crafted a sion interview in 2012, when
“And that’s why this law gay nightclub in Colorado Robinson attended the fort sparked by the Supreme compromise intended to as- he was vice president. Days
matters to every single where five people were killed ceremony with her wife and Court’s decision in June to suage conservative con- later, President Obama an-
American.” in a shooting last month, 1-year-old child. overturn Roe vs. Wade, the cerns about religious liberty, nounced that he also sup-
and two survivors of the at- 1973 ruling establishing such as ensuring churches ported same-sex marriage.
Lawmakers from both tack. The suspect has been “Our kids are watching abortion as a constitutional could still refuse to perform
parties were there, as well as charged with hate crimes. this moment,” she said. “It’s right. same-sex unions. A clip of the interview was
First Lady Jill Biden and very special to have them played at the ceremony.
Vice President Kamala Har- Plaintiffs from lawsuits here and show them that In a concurring opinion in In addition, states will
ris and her husband, Doug that originally helped secure we’re on the right side of his- that decision, Justice Clar- not be required to issue mar- “What this is all about is a
Emhoff. Singers Sam Smith the nationwide right to tory.” ence Thomas suggested re- riage licenses to same-sex simple proposition: Who do
and Cyndi Lauper per- same-sex marriage were visiting other rulings, in- couples. But they will be re- you love?” Biden said on
formed. The new law is intended NBC’s “Meet the Press” a
to safeguard same-sex mar- decade ago.
“For once, our families,
mine and a lot of my friends “Who do you love and will
— and people you know, you be loyal to the person
sometimes your neighbors you love? And that is what
— we can rest easy tonight, people are finding out is
because our families are val- what all marriages at their
idated,” Lauper said at the root are about.”
White House briefing room
before the ceremony. A Gallup poll showed
only 27% of U.S. adults sup-
Senate Majority Leader ported same-sex unions in
Charles E. Schumer (D- 1996, when President Clin-
N.Y.) wore the same purple ton signed the Defense of
tie to the ceremony that he Marriage Act, which said the
wore to his daughter’s wed- federal government would
ding. His daughter and her only recognize heterosexual
wife are expecting their first marriages. Biden voted for
child in the spring. the legislation.

“Thanks to the dogged Earlier this year, 71% said
work of many of my col- same-sex unions should be
leagues, my grandchild will recognized by law.
live in a world that will re-
spect and honor their moth- Biden has pushed to ex-
ers’ marriage,” Schumer pand LGBTQ rights since
said on the Senate floor in taking office.
the morning.
He reversed President
The triumphant mood Trump’s efforts to strip
played out against the back- transgender people of anti-
drop of a right-wing back- discrimination protections.
lash over gender issues, His administration includes
which has alarmed gay and the first out gay Cabinet
transgender people and member, Transportation
their advocates. Biden criti- Secretary Pete Buttigieg,
cized the “callous, cynical and the first transgender
person to receive Senate
confirmation, Assistant
Secretary for Health Rachel
Levine.

Megerian writes for the
Associated Press.

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Southwest jaguars
could be restored

Group seeks federal Jaguar populations in
places from Mexico to South

help reintroducing the America are shrinking. In
Argentina, they are being
big cats, which used to reintroduced to their his-
toric range after being bred
roam the region. in captivity.

associated press The Center for Biological
Diversity was among the

groups involved in launch-

PHOENIX — An environ- ing the recovery of the gray

mental group has petitioned wolf population, which had

the U.S. Fish and Wildlife dropped nearly to extinction

Service to help reintroduce half a century ago.

the jaguar to the Southwest, Like jaguars, gray wolves

where the big cat roamed for once ranged across most of

hundreds of thousands of the U.S., but by the 1930s

years before humans hunted they were largely wiped

it down to just one known out under government-

survivor in the region. sponsored poisoning and

The male jaguar, Sombra trapping campaigns.

— Spanish for “shadow” — A remnant population in

has been seen in southern the western Great Lakes

Arizona several times since region has since expanded

he was first imaged by a to some 4,400 wolves. And

Philip Saltonstall Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory wildlife camera in the Dos more than 2,000 occupy six

THE TARGET CHAMBER at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Cabezas Mountains in 2016. states in the Northern

A few jaguars also live across Rockies and Pacific North-

A nuclear fusion breakthrough the border in the Mexican west.
state of Sonora. North America’s rarest

The Center for Biological subspecies of gray wolf, the
Diversity wants the federal Mexican wolf, was listed as

agency to help expand criti- endangered in the 1970s,

[Fusion, from A1] cal habitat for jaguars in prompting a U.S.-Mexico

their breakthrough by train- remote areas and launch an captive breeding program

ing 192 lasers at a diamond- experimental population in with the last seven wolves.

coated target roughly the New Mexico’s Gila National The latest annual survey

size of a peppercorn, heating Forest along the Arizona of the Mexican wolves, re-

it to more than 3 million de- state line. leased in March, showed at

grees Celsius (more than “Over 50 years since the least 196 in the wild in New

5.4 million degrees Fahren- jaguar was placed on the en- Mexico and Arizona — the

heit) and — briefly — mim- dangered species list, we sixth straight year that the

icking the conditions of a should not be facing the real- population has increased.

star. Fusion began. istic prospect that this sole Robinson said efforts to

“This had all happened jaguar in Arizona will be the protect the jaguar never

before. One hundred times last,” Michael J. Robinson, gained the momentum of

before,” said Marvin Adams, senior conservation advo- the gray wolf campaign.

the National Nuclear Securi- cate for the center, wrote to “People forget or don’t

ty Administration’s deputy Interior Secretary Deb Haa- know that the jaguar actu-

administrator for defense land and Martha Williams, ally evolved in North Ameri-

programs. “But last week, Fish and Wildlife director. ca, ranging from the Pacific

for the first time, they de- “This could be an amaz- to the Atlantic, and then

signed this experiment so ing opportunity for us to re- spread to the south,” he said.

that the fusion fuel stayed store a native species that ... Concerns about the jag-

hot enough, dense enough deserves to come back,” he uar were mentioned in an

and round enough for long said in an interview. Oct. 19 letter his group sent

enough that it ignited and Jaguars ranged through- to outgoing Arizona Gov.

produced more energy than Damien Jemison Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory out North America before Doug Ducey, giving the Re-

the lasers had deposited.” SCIENTISTS compare the breakthrough at the Bay Area facility to the Wright they were killed almost to ex- publican’s administration a

That net energy gain was brothers’ first flight. Any practical application is probably decades away. tinction for their stunning 60-day notice of its intent

“about two megajoules in, spotted pelts and to protect to file a lawsuit to halt the

about three megajoules said Lee Bernstein, a pro- physics was possible, and in- and they want to see a livestock. placement of shipping con-

out,” Adams said. fessor of nuclear engineering spired others to build upon carbon-free energy source Robinson said failing to tainers along the U.S.-Mexi-

A fusion reaction gener- at UC Berkeley and former their success. being produced,” Glenzer act could also affect efforts co border as a barrier.

ates three to four times as deputy group leader at “It’s a defining moment, said. “It’s an exciting time for to save Mexico’s dwindling The letter says the San

much energy as fission, the Livermore Laboratory’s certainly,” Bellan said. “It researchers of any age.” jaguar population, which Rafael Valley in southeast-

which itself is roughly a mil- National Ignition Facility, shows that it’s worth work- needs the kind of genetic di- ern Arizona is among jag-

lion times more powerful where the experiment took ing on, and eventually, we’ll Times staff writer Sammy versity that mating with a uars’ and ocelots’ last estab-

than any other energy place. get to something that will be Roth contributed to this new group of the big cats to lished corridors between the

source on Earth. While Tuesday’s an- profitable.” report. the north would provide. two countries.

Nuclear fission, or the nouncement is a major step While it might take dec-

splitting of atoms, releases a toward that ideal, there’s a ades for fusion to reach com-

massive amount of energy in long road ahead. Any practi- mercial readiness, nuclear

a chain reaction. Fission re- cal application is likely “dec- fission has helped power the

actions have been channeled ades” away, said Kim Budil, U.S. for decades.

productively into nuclear Livermore’s director. Ninety-three nuclear

power plants and destruc- “This is one igniting cap- reactors generated nearly

tively into nuclear weapons. sule, one time. To realize one-fifth of the nation’s elec-

Unlike fission, nuclear fu- commercial fusion energy, tricity last year; among them

sion does not release harm- you have to do many things. is the Palo Verde plant off In-

ful radioactive byproducts You have to be able to pro- terstate 10 in Arizona, which

that take thousands of years duce many, many fusion ig- supplies Los Angeles and

to decay. And since it doesn’t nition events per minute,” other cities as the country’s

involve a chain reaction, it’s Budil said. “With concerted largest electricity generator.

intrinsically less dangerous. effort and investment, a President Biden sees nucle-

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FTX’s founder
faces wire fraud,
other charges

Al Seib Los Angeles Times He diverted funds at grew to become the second-
crypto exchange and largest cryptocurrency ex-
PROPOSITION 22 enabled Uber, DoorDash and other app-based companies to avoid classifying their drivers made illicit donations, change in the world.
as employees. A lower court ruling against the measure is being appealed. Above, a demonstration in 2020. prosecutors allege.
That all unraveled
Challenge to gig worker law By Ken Sweet quickly last month, when
goes before appeals court reports called into question
NEW YORK — U.S. pros- the strength of FTX’s bal-
Judges weigh a ruling efits such as a minimum tem seems to me to be not The makeup of the Cali- ecutors charged Sam Bank- ance sheet.
that Prop. 22, backed wage, overtime and workers’ just an alteration but a de fornia Supreme Court, how- man-Fried, the founder and
by app-based firms, is compensation in case of in- facto dismantling of a huge ever, has shifted in recent former chief executive of Customers moved to
unconstitutional. jury. portion of the benefits that years. Of the seven justices, cryptocurrency exchange withdraw billions of dollars,
in the Constitution the Leg- only one — Carol A. Corrigan FTX, with a host of finan- but FTX could not meet all
By Suhauna Hussain The lower court’s ruling, islature is charged with pro- — was nominated by a Re- cial crimes and campaign fi- the requests because it ap-
made by Alameda County viding,” he said. publican governor. Pro- nance violations Tuesday, parently had used its cus-
For more than a year, the Superior Court Judge Frank position 22 could be the first alleging that he played a tomers’ deposits to cover
Roesch in August 2021, At times, however, highly contested ballot ini- central role in the collapse of bad bets at Bankman-
California voter-approved found the law conflicts with Streeter also leaned toward tiative to test the court, he FTX and hid its problems Fried’s investment arm, Ala-
the state Constitution by re- deference to the power of said. from the public and in- meda Research.
gig economy law known as stricting the Legislature’s voters and appeared skepti- vestors.
ability to regulate workers’ cal of the idea that allowing The ultimate decision on “We allege that Sam
Proposition 22 has hung in compensation rules. The voters to make changes to Proposition 22 will have a The indictment says Bankman-Fried built a
ruling also argues that Pro- workers’ compensation in- broad effect not only in Cali- that, beginning in 2019, house of cards on a founda-
the balance after a judge position 22 violates a consti- fringes on the state Legisla- fornia but across the U.S., as Bankman-Fried intention- tion of deception while
tutional provision requiring ture’s authority. He also said the gig company coalition ally devised “a scheme and telling investors that it was
invalidated the ballot initia- initiatives to be limited to a the single-subject rule is behind the successful initia- artifice to defraud” FTX’s one of the safest buildings in
“single subject.” flawed because it is so sub- tive looks to legalize its busi- customers and investors, crypto,” said SEC Chair
tive allowing giant ride-hail- jective and up to interpreta- ness model in other states, diverting their money to Gary Gensler.
Roesch wrote that al- tion. said Stacey Leyton, an attor- pay expenses and debts at
ing and delivery companies though the law claims to ney with Altshuler Berzon, his crypto hedge fund, Ala- The SEC complaint al-
protect gig workers, it also The gig company coali- the firm representing plain- meda Research, and to leges that Bankman-Fried
to classify their workers as “obliquely and indirectly” tion, called Protect App- tiffs Service Employees In- make lavish real estate pur- has raised more than $1.8 bil-
prevents them from bar- based Drivers & Services, at ternational Union and sev- chases and large political lion from equity investors
independent contractors gaining collectively and thus a video news conference on eral drivers who filed the donations. since May 2019 by promoting
“appears only to protect the Monday ahead of the hear- original complaint against FTX as a safe, responsible
rather than employees. economic interests of the ing, urged the appeals court the proposition. Bankman-Fried was ar- platform for trading crypto
network companies in hav- to overturn the decision. rested Monday by Bahami- assets.
On Tuesday, a California ing a divided, un-unionized “Our hope is that in strik- an authorities at the request
workforce.” California courts have re- ing down Proposition 22, of the U.S. government, Instead, the complaint
appeals court heard oral ar- peatedly underscored a companies will not try to run which charged him with says, Bankman-Fried di-
Justice Tracie L. Brown mandate to “jealously guard another initiative,” Leyton eight criminal violations, in- verted customers’ funds to
guments in San Francisco during the hearing ques- voters’ initiative powers and said. “People have become cluding wire fraud, money Alameda Research without
tioned the provision in the uphold their acts wherever more and more aware of how laundering and conspiracy telling them.
on whether it should uphold law limiting legislative possible,” said Kurt Oneto, workers are misclassified.” to commit fraud on the
amendments on collective an attorney with Nielsen United States. “He then used Alameda
the lower court ruling that bargaining as outside the Merksamer, a firm repre- Gig workers with labor as his personal piggy bank
scope of Proposition 22’s senting the coalition. Oneto advocacy group Rideshare He was also charged with to buy luxury condomini-
deemed Proposition 22 un- stated purpose, and floated at the video news conference Drivers United rallied out- making more than $25,000 in ums, support political cam-
the hypothetical idea of described the legal chal- side the Earl Warren Build- illegal campaign contrib- paigns, and make private
constitutional and unen- striking down one provision lenge to Proposition 22 as a ing in San Francisco on utions — a notable charge as investments, among other
rather than the whole law. broader “attack on voters’ Tuesday morning during the Bankman-Fried was one of uses,” the complaint reads.
forceable. direct democracy powers.” hearing. A rally was planned the largest political donors “None of this was disclosed
California election law simultaneously outside a this year. to FTX equity investors or to
Members of the three- professors, in a friend-of- Deputy Atty. Gen. Jose state appeals court in Los the platform’s trading cus-
the-court brief filed ahead of Zelidon-Zepeda, a repre- Angeles. The criminal charges are tomers.”
judge panel expressed the 1st District Court of Ap- sentative of the state in addition to civil charges
peal hearing, made a similar charged with defending Pro- Ceola Luna, 43, a driver announced earlier Tuesday Alameda did not segre-
doubts about the legality of point, describing the provi- position 22, reiterated this who attended the Los Ange- by the Securities and Ex- gate FTX investor funds and
sion as “unprecedented in point at the hearing, de- les rally, said she didn’t change Commission, which Alameda investments, the
the 2020 ballot measure but the history of California ini- scribing the “liberal stand- understand the wording of also alleged that Bankman- SEC said, using that money
tiatives,” and said it would ard” California courts have Proposition 22 on the ballot Fried defrauded investors to “indiscriminately fund its
also about the validity of the “work mischief ” and “allow a adopted regarding voters’ but “saw the reality of it” re- and used their proceeds to trading operations,” as well
bait and switch in which vot- authority. flected in depressed earn- buy real estate on behalf of as other ventures.
ruling, which experts de- ers pass an initiative on Sub- ings after it passed. himself and his family.
ject A but the fine print will At the closing of oral ar- Bankman-Fried’s arrest
scribed as a surprising re- unconstitutionally prevent guments, Justice Stuart R. “I feel like if we don’t do The maximum potential came just a day before he
or limit the Legislature’s Pollak alluded to sweeping something as drivers to prison exposure from these was due to testify before the
buff of the aggressive effort ability to legislate on Sub- implications of Proposition speak out against the pay charges is 115 years, accord- House Financial Services
ject B.” 22, remarking that “the we’re receiving that it’s just ing to Nicholas Biase, a Committee. Rep. Maxine
by gig companies to rewrite court is certainly aware of going to keep going lower,” spokesperson for the prose- Waters (D-Los Angeles), the
Jeffrey L. Fisher, an attor- the significance of this case.” she said. cutors. chair of the committee, said
the rules of work. California ney defending Proposition she was “disappointed” that
22 on behalf of a coalition of The case is expected to The appellate court is re- U.S. authorities will also the American public, and
judges are usually reluctant gig companies, argued that make its way to the Califor- quired to issue its decision seek to have Bankman- FTX’s customers, would not
the singular purpose of the nia Supreme Court. within 90 days, though attor- Fried forfeit all financial get to see Bankman-Fried
to strike down voter-ap- law “is very clear” and at its neys said they anticipate it gains he might have received testify under oath.
core defines gig drivers’ “re- Kenneth P. Miller, a pro- being released much sooner. as part of the scheme. They
proved measures. lationship to companies fessor of state and local gov- are expected to seek his The hearing was held
with which they work.” ernment at Claremont Mc- Proposition 22 has re- extradition to the United Tuesday despite his arrest,
Industry proponents of Kenna College, said the type mained in effect thus far States, although the timing with the new chief executive
Justice Jon B. Streeter of technical, process-ori- through the appeals proc- of that request is unclear. of FTX, John J. Ray III, giv-
the measure had previously characterized Proposition ented argument that under- ess. Major gig companies — ing testimony.
22 as a threat to legislative girds this case historically Uber and Lyft, among oth- A lawyer for Bankman-
derided the lower court rul- power. “To remove a vast hasn’t often worked in Cali- ers — have repeatedly de- Fried, Mark S. Cohen, said Bankman-Fried said re-
number of workers from the fornia to convince courts to clined to comply with man- Tuesday that his client was cently that he did not “know-
ing in paid advertisements workers’ compensation sys- invalidate voter-approved dates to reclassify their “reviewing the charges with ingly” misuse customers’
ballot initiatives. workers as employees. his legal team and consider- funds, and said he believes
as the concoction of an “ac- ing all of his legal options.” his millions of angry custom-
ers will eventually be made
tivist judge” who ignored the FTX filed for bankruptcy whole.
Nov. 11, when it ran out of
will of voters. money after the cryptocur- The SEC challenged that
rency equivalent of a bank assertion Tuesday in its
At stake is the business run. complaint.

model of Uber, Lyft, Door- Since FTX collapsed, “FTX operated behind a
Bankman-Fried has been veneer of legitimacy Mr.
Dash, Instacart and other holed up in his Bahamian Bankman-Fried created by,
luxury compound in Nassau. among other things, touting
app-based companies, He has a right to contest his its best-in-class controls, in-
extradition, which could de- cluding a proprietary ‘risk
which spent more than lay but probably not stop his engine,’ and FTX’s adher-
transfer to the U.S. ence to specific investor pro-
$200 million pushing Pro- tection principles and de-
Bankman-Fried was one tailed terms of service. But
position 22 as a way to pro- of the world’s wealthiest as we allege in our com-
people on paper; at one plaint, that veneer wasn’t
tect people who choose to point his net worth reached just thin, it was fraudulent,”
$26.5 billion, according to said Gurbir Grewal, director
work as independent con- Forbes. He was a prominent of the SEC’s Division of En-
personality in Washington, forcement.
tractors. The measure was donating millions of dollars
to mostly left-leaning politi- “FTX’s collapse high-
approved by nearly 60% of cal causes and Democratic lights the very real risks that
political campaigns. FTX unregistered crypto asset
voters in November 2020. trading platforms can pose
for investors and customers
For hundreds of thou- alike.”

sands of drivers, Proposition Sweet writes for the
Associated Press.
22 preserved the flexible

schedules associated with

remaining an independent

contractor but took away

protections granted by a

2019 law, AB 5, requiring gig

workers across many indus-

tries to be classified as em-

ployees with stronger ben-

MARKET ROUNDUP

Stocks climb on report showing inflation cooled in November

associated press 500 index ended 0.7% higher. ing the summer. rates for mortgages and
An early-morning burst of Tuesday’s report offers
Stocks on Wall Street fin- Major stock indexes 2.8% nearly vanished by other important loans, fell to
ished higher Tuesday after a lunchtime. It had climbed hope that the worst of infla-
report showed inflation 1.4% a day earlier, with tion really did pass during 3.51% from 3.62% late Mon-
cooled more than expected much of that gain coming in the summer.
last month, cementing ex- Index Close Daily Daily % YTD % the last hour of trading on day. The two-year yield,
pectations that the Federal change change change anticipation of the inflation More important for mar-
Reserve is about to dial data. kets, the slowdown bol- which more closely tracks
down the size of its interest +0.30 -6.14 stered investors’ expecta-
rate hikes. Dow industrials 34,108.64 +103.60 +0.73 -15.66 The Dow flipped briefly tions that the Fed will down- expectations for the Fed,
S&P 500 4,019.65 +29.09 +1.01 -28.05 to a loss before ending 0.3% shift to an increase of half a
The encouraging infla- Nasdaq composite +0.58 -11.69 higher, while the Nasdaq percentage point when it an- plunged to 4.22% from 4.39%.
tion data raised hopes for S&P 400 11,256.81 +113.08 +0.76 -18.39 composite rose 1% after nounces its next hike to
easing pressure on the econ- Russell 2000 2,509.78 +14.47 +1.53 shedding most of a 3.8% short-term rates Wednes- Technology stocks
omy ahead of an interest EuroStoxx 50 1,832.36 +13.75 +0.40 +4.27 gain. day.
rate policy update Wednes- Nikkei (Japan) 3,981.69 +59.87 +0.68 -2.91 helped push the S&P 500
day from the Fed. Hang Seng (Hong Kong) -16.25 The source of all the ac- “The market’s hanging
27,954.85 +112.52 tion was data showing that on to what the Fed does,” higher. The benchmark in-
Stocks initially surged, 19,596.20 +132.57 U.S. inflation slowed to 7.1% said Michael Antonelli, mar-
driving the Dow Jones in- last month from 7.7% in Oc- ket strategist at Baird. dex added 29.09 points to
tober and more than 9% dur-
The yield on the 10-year close at 4,019.65. The Dow
Treasury, which helps set
rose 103.60 points to

34,1087.64. The Nasdaq

Associated Press gained 113.08 points to finish

at 11,256.81.

dustrial average more than get carried away by hopes for Small-company stocks
700 points higher, but then a rate ease by the Fed, as
pared their gains as analysts they have in the past. also gained ground. The
cautioned investors not to
The Standard & Poor’s Russell 2000 index rose 13.75

points, or 0.8%, to 1,832.36.

LATIMES.COM A9S WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2022

Two-thirds of homeless project still empty

[Cecil, from A1] Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times town Women’s Center, the
unhoused Angelenos who 63-year-old applied for an
have government-funded VOUCHER holders are waiting two to five months to get the necessary approvals to move in after applying to apartment on Dec. 1, 2021,
vouchers. Many viewed the live at the Cecil, building manager Raoul Zibi said. Above, resident Melony Bohler in her apartment in April. and was approved nine days
project as a promising new later.
model in L.A. because of its Group (now separate from “Fill the Cecil now!” the aren’t interested in rooms manager, says he starts the
size and flexibility. Simon Development). “We ad said. that lack a bathroom and process by submitting a re- Untangling red tape
figured out a way ... we can kitchen. quest for the housing au-
“There aren’t necessarily service that part of the mar- Susie Shannon, policy di- thority to inspect a potential As of the start of Decem-
other projects like this,” said ket and become a viable rector for the Housing Is a Government vouchers resident’s unit, which often ber, the Cecil Hotel is home
Jet Doye, former chief ad- business plan.” Human Right division of the give the unhoused up to a takes weeks to complete to about 200 residents, with
vancement officer of the foundation, said they year to look for housing suit- even when it’s scheduled to an additional 30 or so rooms
Skid Row Housing Trust, It’s one of the few afford- wanted to draw attention to able for their needs, thus take place within days. Then reserved for future tenants
which serves as the Cecil’s able housing projects in Los empty properties such as many may be keeping the the housing authority must with pending applications.
building manager. In addi- Angeles of this size that is the Cecil Hotel, Hotel Clark Cecil as a last resort, Van- submit an official rent offer
tion to the all-private capital fully privately financed. Pub- and Embassy Hotel, among Natter said. before the tenant can sign The goal is to reach 10 to
financing, she notes that it’s licly funded projects often others. the lease. 15 people moving in per
unusual for a landlord to be cost more and take longer to Even if VanNatter is right week, but the average is
willing to accept any tenant- construct. For Baron and his “When you look at the about the Cecil not being the Voucher holders are wait- closer to five, Baron said —
based voucher someone investors, the new plan had Cecil, there’s 601 rooms and first choice among some ing two to five months to get and he’s frustrated. He can’t
might have. an upside in that they would it’s been vacant for years,” prospective tenants, it the necessary approvals fill the building without the
be serving tenants in need Shannon said. “They litera- doesn’t fully explain why from the housing authority help of the city agencies and
And yet, a year later, two- whose rents would be paid lly have homeless encamp- hundreds of rooms have no to move in after applying to nonprofit groups involved,
thirds of the Cecil remains for by the federal govern- ments in the shadows of occupants. live at the Cecil, Zibi said. and he blames their lack of
unoccupied. ment, a guaranteed source these vacant buildings.” coordination and co-
of income for the building. Slow-moving system “We are not aware of any operation.
At a time when more Cecil’s developers, how- EHV holders waiting as long
than 40,000 people are expe- However, Baron said he ever, called the attack misin- Despite how eager the as five months to get their “What partnership do we
riencing homelessness in quickly ran into one of the formed. owners of the Cecil are to fill rent offers,” the housing au- have with the public right
the city, it may seem unfath- biggest challenges with the the building, the problems in thority’s VanNatter said now? We’ve got nothing,”
omable for 400 units to be sit- Cecil project: figuring out Baron said the hotel has L.A.’s homeless housing sys- when asked about the re- Baron said. “We’ve got really
ting empty in a building near how to work with the city been plagued by delays since tem run deep and are often ports of long wait times, minimal help, frankly.”
skid row, the epicenter of and various agencies that it opened due to a surge in out of the control of any one though he later noted that
L.A.’s homelessness crisis. deal with homelessness and COVID-19 cases in early actor. the Emergency Housing Mike Neely, a former
But even with solid funding housing. 2022, the lengthy process of Voucher office has been commissioner of the Los An-
and the best of intentions, getting rooms and rents cer- In July 2021, the U.S. grappling with a staffing geles Homeless Services Au-
the Cecil project has strug- The building relies on or- tified by the housing author- Department of Housing shortage and a large number thority, said what’s happen-
gled to overcome a system ganizations that work di- ity, and renovations on a ma- and Urban Development of submissions. ing with the Cecil is just an-
beset with a slow-moving rectly with the homeless jority of the hotel’s rooms. awarded 70,000 Emergency other example of a broken
bureaucracy and multiple population to fill its units, Only 20% of the units were Housing Vouchers to hous- Given the delays with the system bogged down by
failure points, and to offer since all of its residents will completed when the Cecil ing authorities across the voucher system, local serv- bureaucracy, even when
housing that serves a popu- rely on vouchers to pay rent. had its ribbon-cutting in De- U.S., including 3,365 vouch- ice providers are utilizing the housing is available
lation with myriad needs. These include groups such cember 2021. ers to Los Angeles and a cou- preexisting rapid rehousing and traditional obstacles to
as the Downtown Women’s ple thousand more to L.A. subsidies to get clients into voucher holders, such as un-
A future home Center, Hilda L. Solis Care On top of those issues, County. This means there housing. Intended as short- welcoming landlords, aren’t
First Village, Union Rescue the Cecil, Baron added, also are more than 7,000 voucher term rental assistance and a factor.
“The confined space kind Mission and Hope of the Val- is reliant on the city’s agen- holders looking for housing distributed by the county
of bothers me,” Lakeshia ley Rescue Mission. cies and nonprofit partners in the L.A. region during a through nonprofit partners, “Here you are with a
Luckey said as she peered for sending resident refer- time of historically low va- the subsidies are aimed at really innovative and coop-
into one of the rooms. The Baron also had to work rals, as well as for complet- cancy rates. getting the neediest people erative project between the
44-year-old has been living in with the Housing Authority ing the paperwork and vari- off the streets as quickly as public sector and the private
her car for several months of the City of Los Angeles to ous approval processes that The effort is part of the possible and giving them as sector that could work, and
after her house was fore- determine the market rate allow the people to move in. American Rescue Plan Act long as two years to find a all that’s required is co-
closed on and she lost her job for a single-room occupancy signed by President Biden in long-term funding solution operation from a city agency
at a care facility. unit in the area and ran into “What interest would a an attempt to help those or become self-sufficient. to be able to do the job,”
snags over how to calculate greedy real estate developer most vulnerable in society as The eligibility rules are more Neely said.
She feared that the it. The housing authority ini- possibly have in allowing his COVID-19 exacerbated their limited than they are with
cramped quarters of the tially offered a monthly rent building to remain empty economic struggles. The vouchers, however, and re- L.A. City Councilmem-
apartment wouldn’t be good lower than Baron expected, and not collecting rents?” housing subsidies are a part cipients must already be in bers Kevin de León and Bob
for her mental health. “When but eventually settled on said Doye of the Skid Row of the federal Section 8 the system and working with Blumenfield proposed a so-
I get stable, I don’t want to $1,242. Housing Trust. program and geared toward a case manager. lution July 1 to try to fill the
fall in that space again,” people and families who are Cecil faster: a master lease
Luckey said. By June, after months of Even before the hotel homeless, at risk of becom- Several case managers agreement with the city of
renovation, the former hotel opened, Baron’s firm spent ing homeless, recently told The Times there were Los Angeles. Under their
As they shuffled through was nearly finished, with $25 million on renovations. homeless or fleeing intimate no delays in helping clients plan, the city would foot the
the narrow hallways of the people slowly trickling in The total cost of the project violence, sexual assault, eligible for a rapid rehousing entire bill for a number of the
10th floor, prospective ten- through its doors. has topped $80 million, stalking or human traffick- subsidy move in as soon as building’s rooms, bypassing
ants had a range of reac- which translates to slightly ing. they decide they want to live the red tape of dealing with
tions. “The table has sort of less than $140,000 a unit, at the Cecil. About 50% of federal government-funded
been set,” Baron said at the Baron said. In July, The Times the Cecil’s residents have vouchers. Outreach workers
One man, who had been time. “Now we just need to reported that, after a year, been able to move in right could offer housing to people
living in one of the tiny home bring people to the dinner, “We’re paying payroll for only 5.8% of vouchers re- away with the help of the on the streets and theoreti-
villages in the San Fernando so to speak.” a full staff. We’re paying, you ceived by the city had been subsidies, Zibi said. cally move them in on the
Valley run by Hope of the know, water and sewer bills. used. As of Dec. 11, that num- same day.
Valley Rescue Mission, Frustrations build We’re paying electricity, ber has grown to 20%. Sev- “It’s been real, real
quickly decided on a corner we’re paying insurance, all eral unhoused people with smooth and real easy to get The city’s Homeless and
unit that had a shower. “I’m In July, the AIDS Health- the things that you have to vouchers described signifi- the clients in there,” said Housing Committee ap-
just ready to move,” he said. care Foundation ran a full- pay for to run a building,” cant wait times with the Cindy Vigil, a housing navi- proved a motion to direct
page ad in the Los Angeles Baron said. “Why in God’s housing authority after ap- gator for Hope of the Valley staff to look into how such an
“Make sure to write the Times addressing the issue name would we want to keep plying for an apartment, Rescue Mission. agreement would work and
[room] number if you like it,” of vacant single-room-occu- this building empty?” with some never hearing be funded, and it was passed
said Jose Tovar — residents pancy units in L.A. while back. Melony Bohler moved in by the City Council on Aug.
know him as Pedro — who’s thousands of unhoused An- The housing authority’s with relative ease due to the 24. There has been no move-
worked at the Cecil for 38 gelenos waited in the streets Section 8 director, Carlos Months later, the Cecil is rapid rehousing dollars. ment on the plan since then,
years. — and it put the Cecil Hotel VanNatter, offered one ex- still encountering the same With help from the Down- Baron said, noting that the
front and center. planation for why he thinks problem. Zibi, the building turmoil in the City Council
While some immediately the Cecil has been slow to fill: and the recent election cer-
went downstairs after the He believes that people tainly didn’t help. (De León,
tour to submit an applica- who proposed the motion,
tion with building manager has faced a chorus of calls for
Raoul Zibi, others went out- his resignation after partici-
side and scoffed at the idea pating in racist remarks
of living there. made in a leaked audio of
L.A. City Council members.)
“Not nearly enough
space,” said Christopher Baron hopes the change
Vivier, who was looking for a in leadership will bring some
room with his wife, Victoria. much-needed urgency to
“I personally like our tiny deal with the problems the
home better than there.” Cecil faces. “The new admin-
istration has reached out to
But the ones who’ve de- us, whereas frankly the old
cided to make the Cecil their administration never did,”
home have few complaints. Baron said.
So far, nearly a fifth of Cecil’s
residents have come from Meanwhile, the staff at
word-of-mouth referrals. the Cecil is trying to take
matters into its own hands.
William Moore moved Leslie Morales, the build-
into his room in mid-July ing’s leasing outreach coor-
from another tiny home vil- dinator, hand-delivered
lage in the San Fernando hard copies of 20 applica-
Valley. He had been there tions to the housing author-
since November 2021 and ity Dec. 1 after electronic
was previously homeless for submissions were met with
about two years. months of radio silence.

“It’s really quiet here, She received seven rent
no ghosts,” Moore said, proposals the next day.
laughing, referring to the ho-
tel’s history of mysterious “I told them I’ll be there
and violent deaths, which once a week dropping off
became the subject of a 2021 files,” Morales said.
Netflix documentary. He’s
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EXCEPT ASTO CERTAIN EXCEPTIONS EXPLICITLY SET FORTH INTHE BAR DATE ORDER ANY PERSON OR ENTITYWHO NA NA 2.79 3.30 4.07 4.18 4.28 4.49 4.70
At the time, the firm was FAILS TO FILE A PROOF OF CLAIM ON OR BEFORE THE GENERAL BAR DATE OR GOVERNMENTAL BAR DATE MAY
working with the Skid Row NOT BETREATED AS A CREDITORWITH RESPECTTO SUCH CLAIM FORTHE PURPOSES OFVOTING OR DISTRIBUTION NA NA 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 909-450-2050
Housing Trust to make 15%
of the apartments afford- Who Must File a Proof of Claim. Pursuant to the Bar Date Order, all persons and entities, including Community 4.39% APY 30 mos. CD Special - $100K Minimum to open - Member FDIC www.ccombank.com
able for the extremely low- individuals, partnerships, estates, trusts, and governmental units who have a claim or potential claim against Commerce Bank
income bracket. While the the Debtors that arose on or before October 30,2022,no matter how remote or contingent such right to payment
developer was securing or equitable remedy may be, including holders of claims allowable under section 503(b)(9) of the NA NA 3.04 3.50 4.00 4.25 4.50 4.75 4.50
funding for the hotel portion Bankruptcy Code, MUST FILE A PROOF OF CLAIM on or before January 11, 2023 at 4:00 p.m. prevailing
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COVID-19 hit — and “blew 2023 at 4:00 p.m. prevailing Eastern Time, (the“Governmental Bar Date”). All other administrative claims
up” the financing for the under section 503(b) of the Bankruptcy Code must be made by separate requests for payment in accordance First Credit Bank Member FDIC
project. The hotel industry with section 503(a) of the Bankruptcy Code and shall not be deemed proper if made by Proof of Claim.
was gutted. The developer NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 213-362-1200
needed a new business plan. Filing a Proof of Claim.Each original proof of claim,including supporting documentation,must be filed so NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 562-924-7500
as to be actually received by the Debtors’notice and claims agent, Omni Agent Solutions, Inc.(“Omni”) on or
The housing trust came before the General Bar Date or the Governmental Bar Date (or,where applicable,on or before any other Bar Date HAB Bank Special: 11 Month - 2.65% APY 1,500 Min www.habbank.com
up with the idea of turning set forth in the Bar Date Order) (i) via the electronic filing interface available at https://omniagentsolutions.
the entire building into af- com/vesta-claims or (ii) by United States mail or other hand delivery system at the following address: For First 0.05 1.01 0.50 0.75 2.02 1.51 1.51 1.51 1.51
fordable housing. Class Mail or Overnight Mail to:Vesta Holdings, LLC Claims Processing, c/o Omni Agent Solutions, 5955
De Soto Ave.,Suite 100,Woodland Hills,CA 91367. 100 50,000 2,500 2,500 2,500 2,500 2,500 2,500 2,500 714-730-5662
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huge homeless problem,” converted to United States dollars,the conversion rate used in such conversion); (iii) clearly identify the Debtor TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS FEATURE, CALL SALES DEPARTMENT @ 773-320-8492
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1 The Debtors in these chapter 11 cases, along with the last four digits of each Debtor’s federal tax
identification number are: Vesta Holdings, LLC (8730); Summit Risk Advisors LLC (4225); and Dunham
Insurance Agency, LLC (1992). Vesta Holdings, LLC’s service address is P.O. Box 25, Montgomeryville, PA 18936-
0025.Summit Risk Advisors LLC and Dunham Insurance Agency, LLC’s service address is 160 Chapel Road #101,
Manchester,CT 06042.

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OPINION

EDITORIALS

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988 is a lifeline that will
wither without funding

With federal support it can grow ters open, including the Didi Hirsch Mental Eric Risberg Associated Press
into a valuable resource for people Health Services center in Los Angeles
in crisis, as it was meant to be. County. A SIGN on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco offers counseling. This year,
a new three-digit number was launched to connect people in crisis with services.
F or all the convulsive court The missing piece is federal funding and
decisions, congressional hearings, technical assistance to ensure that the state contribute to homelessness and have been the training and, ideally, the personal expe-
price increases, invasions, mass systems are fully linked, continuously op- linked to at least some mass shootings. The rience to help the caller.
killings and social media take- erated and coordinated with 911, the emer- problem increased with the cataclysmic
overs, 2022 should also be remem- gency response system that summons po- events of 2020 — the pandemic, the shut- When a mobile response is also needed,
bered as the year of 988 — the nationwide lice and firefighters. Rep. Tony Cárdenas downs and resulting isolation and economic it’s important to have an alternative to po-
crisis line that went live in July. If the states (D-Pacoima) sponsored HR 7116 to autho- and learning loss, and a death toll that is ap- lice, who are ill-equipped to deal with psy-
and the federal government do their work, rize five years of funding, boost Medicaid proaching 1.1 million. Political turmoil and chiatric emergencies. Miles Hall, the Walnut
the number could become far more than coverage for mental health counseling on anxiety make matters worse. Emergency Creek man after whom the California bill
just an easier-to-remember suicide preven- the phone and in person, and require the rooms have struggled to keep up with waves was named, was killed by police who were
tion resource. It could be the foundation of a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Serv- of critical coronavirus cases and are strug- responding to his family’s call for help.
vastly improved mental health and emer- ices Administration to set standards for be- gling to concurrently deal with people suf- There are too many other tragic cases, in-
gency response system and an essential tool havioral health services. Because the sys- fering from serious mental illness or other cluding David Ordaz Jr., shot dead by L.A.
to defuse needless police violence. tem requires a well-trained workforce of cli- behavioral health crises. County sheriff ’s deputies responding, ironi-
nicians, counselors and other mental health cally, to a call for assistance when he was
Turnaround time was short, in govern- professionals, the bill assists states in pro- For many people, phone counseling is, in feeling suicidal. And Isaias Cervantes, an
ment terms, between a 2019 proposal from viding training and scholarships. itself, an important treatment, even without autistic man shot and critically injured by
the Federal Communications Commission a mobile response or transport to a crisis deputies when his family called for help. Al-
and the system’s debut five months ago. It’s The next few days are critical. The center. It is often the conversation that de- ternative crisis response could be the key to
now possible to connect with a crisis center midterm elections will put the Republicans fuses the emergency. But to be of value the addressing policing, equity and mental
by calling 988 almost anywhere in the na- in control of the House and alter the politi- service must be available 24 hours a day, health challenges.
tion. But it’s mostly up to states to provide cal dynamic in Washington. Congress, in the seven days a week, in the language of the
for crisis call centers, mobile psychiatric re- midst of a particularly busy lame-duck person in need, and with people who have But first, the funding. Congress, don’t
sponse teams and specialized care centers session that could run through Christmas, blow the chance to keep 988 in service.
— or as system proponents put it, someone is trying to pass a spending bill to keep the
to call, someone to come and somewhere to government running while providing fund-
go. ing for priorities like fighting COVID-19 and
assisting Ukraine’s resistance to the Rus-
Just under half the states passed sian invasion.
legislation this year to fund 988 services.
California, to its credit, is one of the states Members would be wise to include, in
that has committed to building out a com- their sprint, the 988 funding and programs
prehensive system by passing AB 988, also laid out in Cárdenas’ bill.
known as the Miles Hall Lifeline Act. Gov.
Gavin Newsom signed the bill in September, The United States is in the midst of a
creating enough funding to keep 13 call cen- mental health crisis, already apparent when
the lifeline expansion was proposed. For ex-
ample, suicide is the second-biggest cause
of death for teenagers, after accidents, and
is also a leading killer of veterans. Under-
treated emotional or psychiatric conditions

PERSONAL NOTE

The sad plight of P-22, Los Angeles’ mountain lion to have hair loss on his face.
Did his leonine desire to roam lead him
Since being collared, he has California Department of Fish and Wildlife have been collared with GPS devices are
become emblematic of all that is to transport him elsewhere. Officials from tracked as they go about their lives. to cross the delicate boundary between his
wild and wonderful about the city. the department had said earlier he seemed territory and ours? Years ago, he came
to be “in distress.” In the decade since P-22 was collared as close to crossing the line when he (prob-
I t was heartbreaking to see P-22, a young lion for the study, he has become ably) killed a koala at the L.A. Zoo one
the majestic and resourceful moun- But who knows what that means? All we emblematic of all that is wild and wonder- night. Officials at the zoo said they would
tain lion who lives in Griffith Park, know is that his forays into the surround- ful in Los Angeles. He was immortalized in do a better job of securing the koala enclo-
lying tranquilized in a heap on a green ing neighborhoods became more frequent a photo taken by a remote camera that sure at night.
tarp in a Los Feliz backyard on Mon- and unsettling. In the Hollywood Hills, he caught him standing on a hillside with the
day, surrounded by authorities. The last stalked a dog walker with a Chihuahua and Hollywood sign behind him. He is possibly His options now are unclear. Putting
time he was cornered by people in Los Feliz killed the dog. He injured another dog. He the oldest lion — 12 going on 13 — in the him in a zoo after a life in the wild would be
seven years ago he was hiding out in the ventured south of Los Feliz Boulevard. He study still alive. He has survived mange cruel. Relocating him to another wild area
crawlspace of a house under construction. had a stare-down with a pit bull but didn’t and a cramped range in Griffith Park, would be dangerous since he might end up
When no one was looking, he dashed back attack. He showed up on plenty of neigh- always assiduously avoiding the people competing against a younger lion who had
to Griffith Park without incident and re- borhood video cameras, sometimes just a there. The lions who live in the hillsides already staked the area as his own. He
turned to his normal life. Not this time. lone figure slinking down a brightly lit around us are masters at avoiding us, even could go to a sanctuary, but when the 9
residential street past cars. In the last few when they are caught on doorbell video square miles of Griffith Park are consid-
P-22’s clever way of living in the second days there was a report that he had been slinking through backyards in the dead of ered tiny for a mountain lion, it may be a
largest metropolis in the country has been hit by a car. night. challenge to find a sanctuary that offers at
upended. He was taken from the backyard least that. Euthanasia seems unthinkable.
to Los Angeles Zoo, where veterinarians It’s not that he ran out of prey in Griffith But something changed recently for
evaluated his health and found him to be in Park. Just weeks ago he killed a big deer P-22. From photos and video, Seth Riley, a If only he could scamper back to Griffith
stable condition — or stable enough for the buck and feasted on it. “It was good to see National Park Service researcher who has Park like he did seven years ago, that would
him still killing and eating deer,” Jeff Sikich, studied P-22 for a decade, could see he be ideal. But he may have finally outgrown
one of the researchers who study the lions wasn’t the same cat that he was in 2013 it. Wherever he goes next will be a test of
in the 20-year National Park Service study, when he was snapped in front of the Holly- whether we care enough about the extraor-
said last month. The lions in the area that wood sign. He looked older and appeared dinary lions in our midst to find this one a
place worthy of his last years.

— Carla Hall
a member of the editorial board

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Mel Melcon Los Angeles Times that I am not the only one Let P-22 retire specism exists just as other and statements. Disrupting
doing so. Once in a while, at the L.A. Zoo prejudices. community events serving
A METRO train on the new K Line passes cyclists you will see a police officer the poor and underprivi-
along Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angeles. standing around on the Re “L.A. celebrity mountain Sharon Ryan leged is wrong.
platform, usually looking at lion P-22 is captured,” Dec. Charleston, S.C.
Can free transit means to use it. their smartphone. 13 Such actions don’t have
alter car culture? I thought it was a given :: my support nor that of many
Until the issue of policing Griffith Park mountain others in Council District 14.
Re “Would you ride Metro that people do not value (or lack of policing) is ad- lion P-22 is older now, and I wish P-22 all the best.
bus, rail if it were free?” Dec. what they don’t have to pay dressed, making the system surviving on his own will be But his method of capture David Trujillo
10 for. Free transit is not going free will only make this harder for him. Maybe that raises the question: Why Los Angeles
to change the psychology of situation worse. is why he is going after eas- can’t law enforcement use
While transportation L.A., where if you own a car, ier targets. larger tranquilizing darts to ::
officials are considering you exist. Bob Hoffman subdue fleeing human sus-
making Metro buses and Long Beach Now that wildlife author- pects instead of shooting I can neither confirm nor
trains free, and experts Ruth Kramer Ziony ities have captured P-22, them with bullets? deny the assertion that
believe that congestion Los Feliz :: and he has survived this those protesting De León do
pricing is a great way to long and become a beloved I understand the drug not actually live in his dis-
encourage use of public :: Ending fare collecting and acclaimed celebrity takes a little time to take trict. What I do know, howev-
transportation, they fail to will speed boarding time, (including to me), I believe effect, but it would appear er, is that I live in El Sereno,
understand what using I use the A and B Lines making transit faster. That he deserves to live out his to be less lethal than bullets which is part of Council
transit represents to Ange- (formerly the Blue and Red change alone will make years in the currently un- from a gun. District 14. And I believe De
lenos psychologically. Lines, respectively) to go to transit more appealing. used lion enclosure at the León is a disgrace to his
shows and dinner in Holly- Los Angeles Zoo. Patrick Parish elected office, which he
Owning a car here is a wood. While safer and less Peter Jacobsen Torrance should have resigned long
status symbol. Car culture is hassle than driving, it is not Port Townsend, Wash. There, he would get the ago.
the dominant mode of a pleasant experience. The very best care and life en- From Kevin de
thought and has been ever lack of policing and fare :: richment a beloved celebrity León’s district I voted for him, and I
since the freeways were checking make the Metro like P-22 deserves. regret that. De León actively
constructed. In L.A., for system an attractive shelter No, I would not ride Re “L.A. politics reach a new conspired to disenfranchise
better or worse, you are option for homeless people. Metro if it were free. It Louise Oshiro low with melee,” Dec. 11 Black Angelenos. That is
defined by the fact that you doesn’t feel safe. I have been Los Angeles unethical, immoral and
own a car and possess the I have spent years writ- on the subway while home- As a resident of L.A. City antithetical to real progress.
ing the various agencies less people slept on seats :: Council District 14, I don’t
responsible but with no next to me. I have listened to mind protesters airing their I can assure you I am not
visible results, and I am sure people scream on the trains. It seems more and more grievances against Council- alone in these feelings, and I
that mountain lions and man Kevin de León. But I am confident De León will
The stations and trains other wildlife are being oppose any attempt to stop never hold another elected
feel unsafe and are un- trapped and put down, with food and toy-drive give- office in this city. Nor should
kempt. Last time I took a the excuse that they are aways in the community. he.
bus, I had to wait 45 minutes dangerous to the public.
for one to appear. Worse yet, They just happen to be in The protesters who Thomas Peyton
it feels like Metro couldn’t the area, and officials are confronted him at a holiday El Sereno
care less about this. making us think the ani- event, culminating in a
mals are too stressed to physical altercation involv- HOW TO WRITE TO US
Until those issues are exist. ing the council member,
resolved, no amount of disrespected community Please send letters to
incentives will increase Relocate captured ani- members who have nothing [email protected]. For
ridership. Fix these issues, mals like P-22. Please, let to do with De León’s actions submission guidelines, see
and then let’s talk. them live. Unfortunately, latimes.com/letters or call
1-800-LA TIMES, ext. 74511.
Manny Padilla Jr.
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OP-ED

Is the new film ‘Navalny’ A Big Ten boon for
a life insurance policy? athletes at UCLA

The dissident, imprisoned Alexei Navalny By Tyrone C. Howard Critics of the Big Ten transition
by Putin, continues to fight also say it will be bad for student
against Russian corruption. RUSSIAN politician Alexei Navalny is shown with his wife and T he proposed move of athletes who would have to spend
children in a Berlin hospital in a post on his Instagram account. UCLA and USC from extra time and days traveling
ROBIN ABCARIAN the Pac-12 conference to across the country to locations
“Putin,” she told the gathering, hostage siege in a Moscow theater. the Big Ten has rocked such as Maryland or New Jersey.
As Vladimir Putin “wants Navalny to be irrelevant. Islamist separatists held about the college sports land- They say money is being placed
wages his misbe- We were aware that this film was 900 people hostage for three scape. Many traditionalists lament above the needs of student ath-
gotten war on life insurance.” days, threatening to blow up the the fact that age-old rivalries that letes. But the increase in travel
Ukraine, there’s theater unless the government were rooted in geographic proxim- days would be minimal when com-
another, quieter “Navalny” has gotten the kind withdrew troops from Chechnya. ity and convenience will no longer pared with current travel sched-
war he’s prose- of attention most filmmakers Russian police pumped a narcotic exist. However, that geographical ules and apply only to a few sports.
cuting, this one yearn for: two top awards at the gas into the theater, and at alignment rationale has long since
against a 46-year- Sundance Film Festival, where it least 125 hostages died because evaporated. What matters isn’t ge- Moreover, the Big Ten will allow
old man who sits in premiered in January, and a slew police did not administer the ography, but money. And the in- UCLA to provide enhanced re-
a Russian prison, in solitary con- of other honors. antidote shot that would have creased revenue that the schools sources that players are asking for
finement, on trumped-up charges saved them, nor turn them onto stand to gain in shifting to the Big to compete as elite students and
of fraud. Shortly before the Four Sea- their stomachs so they would not Ten is an opportunity for athletic elite athletes. For instance, the
sons event, Pevchikh and I met in choke on their own vomit, among departments to radically rethink athletic department could double
Alexei Navalny, the Russian the lobby of the Palomar Hotel in other blunders. how to support student athletes. or even triple its investment in
anti-corruption crusader and Beverly Hills, where we talked learning specialists, tutors, men-
cheeky YouTube star, is the face of about how she ended up as Naval- “I knew I wanted to try to USC’s status as a private school tors and other academic support
democratic opposition to Putin’s ny’s lieutenant, exposing Russian change what’s happening to my appears to have simplified the de- staff. By providing student ath-
presidency. He is, Time magazine corruption on a global scale. In the country,” Pevchikh said. “It was cision-making process. However, letes with more customized sup-
declared in January, “The Man last two years, the Anti-Corrup- like Putin was destroying the the deliberation is much more port, including virtual tutoring and
Putin Fears.” tion Foundation’s videos have country and I couldn’t understand complicated for UCLA, with its ties mentoring, academic outcomes
traced ownership of a sprawling why one man would be able to do to the University of California sys- can improve significantly. More
Obviously, he must be crushed. billion-dollar-plus palace complex these awful things.” tem and its status as a public insti- funding would allow academic sup-
In August 2020, Navalny fell on the Black Sea to Putin — which tution. The UC regents will vote port staff to travel with teams to
desperately ill on a plane en route he denies. They have linked Putin “What does a 22-year-old girl do Wednesday on UCLA’s proposed ensure that students receive
to Moscow from Siberia, where he to a $700-million yacht, the Sche- to stop Putin?” she asked. departure to the Big Ten. Some UC proper academic assistance
had been campaigning for allies in herazade, that was seized in May “Through Navalny, I found this regents are worried there will be a needed while traveling.
local elections. Pilots made an by authorities in Italy after the vehicle.” loss of revenue for UC Berkeley by
emergency landing, and two days foundation and the New York UCLA’s departure from the Pac-12. A game changer would be if aca-
later, under international pres- Times exposed its links to the In 2011, she was back in Moscow demic departments working with
sure, Russia allowed him to be Russian president — which he and saw that Navalny had adver- But both UCLA and USC, along the athletic department commit to
flown to Berlin, where doctors denies. tised a job opening for a lawyer at with other members of the Pac-12, a flexible hybrid model for certain
confirmed he’d been poisoned by his foundation. She used the post- have not been satisfied with the TV courses. We learned during the
the nerve agent Novichok. Poison- Pevchikh, 35, was born in Mos- ing to get a foot in the door. and media revenue payout from pandemic that many students pre-
ing, as the world knows but Putin cow and started college at Moscow the conference in recent years. In ferred the online learning format
denies, is a signature of Russia’s State University when she was 15. In January 2021, after he fully May, when the conference released for flexibility and convenience.
domestic security service, the She was put off, she said, by pro- recovered from the poison, its 2020-21 financial results, each of Moving to this model would essen-
FSB. fessors soliciting money from Navalny returned to Russia, know- its 12 member schools reportedly tially mean that student athletes
Four months later, thanks to students for better grades. ing that he faced a good chance of received just under $20 million for would not miss much, if any, class
CNN’s reporting and the extraor- being arrested. Roher’s cameras the year from the conference’s $344 time at all.
dinary open-source investigative “I quickly figured out if I want rolled as Navalny and his wife, million in revenue. That figure was
collective Bellingcat, which pur- to get something that looks like an Yulia, landed. He was immediately down from about $34 million per Another area of investment
chased phone data on the black education,” she said, “I need to detained by police and has been in school the year before. With the could be in mental health support.
market, Navalny was able to iden- start over.” At 18, she enrolled at custody since. In January, he is move to Big Ten, media contracts Many college students, including
tify the men he believes tried to kill the London School of Economics, expected to face a new trial on could yield close to a billion dollars student athletes, struggle with
him. One by one, he called them studied political science and dis- charges that his Anti-Corruption a year, with some estimates sug- anxiety, depression and other is-
up. When he confronted them as covered Navalny, who had become Foundation is a terrorist organiza- gesting that Big Ten members sues. By hiring more therapists
himself — It’s Alexei Navalny well known in Russia as an anti- tion, and he could face a sentence could receive anywhere from $65 and mental health specialists who
calling and I was hoping you Putin blogger. of 30 years, on top of the nine he is million to $100 million a year. would work exclusively with stu-
could tell me why you wanted to already serving. dent athletes, the university would
kill me? — they hung up. But when “He would write about politics UCLA’s athletic department is be taking a bold stance to make
he posed as an official of Russia’s in such a funny way,” she said. There’s no way of knowing, managing a three-year $100-million student wellness and mental
Security Council investigating the “He’s a brilliant writer.” however, what Putin will do. debt. Being in the Big Ten means health a priority.
botched assassination, they the department would have more
talked. While she was in London, in “The man is chaotic,” Pevchikh resources for student athletes and The influx of additional revenue
The emotional climax of a new 2006, a former FSB agent and said. “He is not governed by any wouldn’t have to cut other sports could also create a basic stipend
film about Navalny is the moment vocal Putin critic, Alexander logic. It’s equally likely that tomor- as we have seen at universities else- for all student athletes. Each per-
he gets one of his would-be Litvinenko, was poisoned with row Putin decides to free Navalny, where around the country. son could receive a base-level in-
assassins, a military chemist military-grade polonium in Lon- have a democratic election and come that goes beyond room and
named Konstantin Kudryavtsev, don. His death, which generated just pretend that nothing has Some opponents to the Big Ten board, helping to cover the high
to admit the nerve agent was international headlines and out- happened, and the probability is migration have raised concerns cost of living in Los Angeles.
placed in Navalny’s underpants. rage to match, was slow and ago- exactly the same that tomorrow he that Black male students, in par-
On Monday, thousands of miles nizing. nukes the whole world.” ticular, would be most harmed by This is a time for UCLA to be a
from the 5-by-11-foot cell where the decision. Black males make up leader in truly prioritizing student
Navalny is allowed to read one “I remember sitting in a class Putin is unmoved by criticism about 14% of UCLA’s student ath- athlete well-being holistically and
book every two weeks, his col- surrounding by students who said, or shame. He was emboldened letes, according to data from creating a new model for athletic
league Maria Pevchikh sat on a low ‘Maria, why is your president enough to put Navalny in prison UCLA’s admissions office, and departments. If managed respon-
riser in a tented garden of the doing that? You can go to the for the crime of wanting to oust Black male student athletes who sibly and transparently, the Big
elegant Four Seasons Hotel in middle of a foreign country, con- him, and surely wants his No. 1 remain at UCLA for five or six years Ten revenue boon could go a long
Beverly Hills, at a luncheon organ- taminate half of London and just critic dead. That critic may be have graduation rates that are way in providing a positive experi-
ized by the film’s producers. kill someone you are unhappy locked away in a Russian prison, equal to, if not higher, than Black ence for all student athletes.
Pevchikh is on a breakneck with?’ It was embarrassing.” but the movement he inspired males who are not student ath-
international tour promoting the carries on. letes. If there’s worry about the Tyrone C. Howard is professor
documentary — directed by Dan- Four years earlier, she said, she move harming Black male student of education in the School of
iel Roher and broadcast on CNN had been shocked at the incompe- @AbcarianLAT athletes, that is cause for a much Education & Information Studies
and streaming on HBO Max, in tence of Russian police during a deeper and different discussion, at UCLA. He is also director of the
which she, as head of Navalny’s because they face more complex UCLA Black Male Institute and
Anti-Corruption Foundation, is a challenges than which conference director of the UCLA Pritzker
featured player. their school is in. Center for Strengthening Children
Pevchikh and many other & Families.
Navalny colleagues are in exile,
wanted by Russian authorities AJ Mast Associated Press
for a bevy of made-up crimes, most
recently terrorism and extremism. UCLA BASKETBALL players celebrate a win during the 2021
Pevchikh lives in Vilnius, the NCAA college basketball tournament in Indianapolis.
Lithuanian capital, and has made
peace, she said, with the possibil-
ity of never living in Russia again.
She may be on a PR tour, but
something far more important
than box-office success or Holly-
wood awards hardware is at play.
The documentary, she believes, is
one way to keep Navalny alive, not
just physically, but in the world’s
imagination.

Newtown tragedy was 10 years ago. It continues today

By Jim Ruland after.” Not just my life, I was naive rors of Sandy Hook would never be has, like so many things, become ings a thing of the past. I do know
enough to think, but the history of repeated. I needed to believe that predictably political. that losing a child, a family mem-
T en years ago, the un- the entire nation. in the foreseeable future we could ber or a neighbor to gun violence is
thinkable happened. send our children to school and feel At least Alex Jones, who lied by devastating. Carrying that trauma
On Dec. 14, 2012, 20 While we were in Newtown for confident about their safety. calling the shootings at Sandy for a lifetime comes with social,
children and six adults Avielle’s memorial service, we Hook a “false flag” operation, has emotional and financial costs that
were slain at Sandy watched the community and the It fills me with frustration, rage been sued into the Stone Age. He never go away.
Hook Elementary School in New- country, from local restaurants to and sorrow that those things did now owes the litigants close to $1.5
town, Conn. One of those children global corporations, do what they not come to pass. billion, but for them and the na- Some of the parents who lost a
was Avielle Richman, whose father, could to help alleviate the cata- tion, it’s too little, too late. The child at Sandy Hook have since
Jeremy, had become friends with strophic suffering that descended Although some gun control damage of endless devastating had children who are now older
my family when he worked with my on Newtown. Celebrities reached measures have been introduced, losses, and a politicized response than the siblings they will never
wife, Nuvia, in San Diego. out to offer their condolences, and it’s not nearly enough. It’s largely to mass shootings, has been done. know. If Avielle and her classmates
strangers appeared to handle the up to the states to determine who And what do we have to show for it? were still alive, they’d be spending
We attended birthday parties tasks that emerge when your small gets to own a firearm and where the holidays with their families,
and barbecues at the home he town becomes a talking point on they can carry it, creating a byzan- Traumatizing active-shooter waiting to hear which colleges
shared with his wife, Jennifer the national news. What do you do tine patchwork of laws with plenty drills, entire communities de- they’d been accepted to for the fall
Hensel. Our daughters went trick- when the funeral homes run out of of loopholes. stroyed and defenders of the 2nd of 2023.
or-treating together. We remained coffins and incoming mail threat- Amendment who believe they’re
close after Jeremy and his family ens to overwhelm the local post of- The result? There have been so victims of a government that wants Instead there’s a hole in the fab-
relocated to Newtown. fice? many mass shootings between to take their rights away. ric of our nation that grows and
Sandy Hook and now, we can’t pos- grows and grows. Each week
I heard about the shootings at As dark as things seemed, the sibly remember them all. For every We live in much more cynical there’s another family, another
Sandy Hook while I was at work. I collective response gave me hope Las Vegas, Orlando and Parkland, times now. school, another community ripped
texted my wife what little I knew. that the compassion of everyday there’s an El Paso, San Bernardino apart by gun violence. We owe it to
What I didn’t know at that moment Americans would prevail over and Sutherland Springs. After the killings in Newtown, these survivors to resist the cyni-
was that our friends in Newtown groups like the National Rifle Assn. psychologists told the community cism of the status quo.
were living a parent’s worst night- of America that had hijacked con- There are towns nationwide to get ready: alcoholism, divorce
mare. Their little girl was gone. servative politicians in the U.S. that are associated with mass and suicide were coming. Those We once thought Sandy Hook
Senate and the House of Repre- shootings. It feels as if the nation grim words proved to be true. would be the last straw. So many
“Just get out here,” Jennifer sentatives. has become blasé about these Avielle’s father, Jeremy — our dear mass shootings have happened in
texted Nuvia. crimes, so much so that law en- friend and a scientist who tirelessly the 10 years since. How many more
Like many people, I believed the forcement officers in Uvalde, advocated for better education will it take before we put a stop to
I left my office to get Nuvia and shootings would serve as a catalyst Texas, couldn’t be bothered to do about brain health — took his own this madness?
fly to Connecticut. As I waited for for the federal government to be their jobs while a gunman killed 19 life in 2019.
the elevator, I remember thinking, able to enact stronger gun control young children and two adults in- Jim Ruland is a writer living in
“This is it. This is the moment that measures and ensure that the hor- side Robb Elementary School in I don’t know what it’s going to San Diego.
will divide my life into before and May. The outcry after these events take to make our nation’s lawmak-
ers wake up and make mass shoot-

A12 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2022 LATIMES.COM

Declaration of homeless emergency OKd

[Council, from A1] Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times
alized De León had voted on
the proposal from outside EMBATTLED L.A. City Councilmember Kevin de León, left, talks with Council President Paul Krekorian at Tuesday’s council meeting.
the room, with chants of
“Shame” and “You lie!” re- The arrangement con- termined to say out of what- from protesters intermit- soon afterward, heading competitive bidding or
verberating through the fused many in the audience, ever room he was in. tently echoed throughout again to the back room. council approval.
space. who noticed that De León the room. Krekorian then Soto-Martinez and Hernan-
was out of the room but still De León entered City exited the chamber, leaving dez returned to their seats. Talking to reporters after
Councilmember Hugo marked present on a large Hall shortly before noon, es- De León alone at the horse- the vote, Krekorian said it
Soto-Martinez, who had screen above the floor. corted by several police offi- shoe. Some people at the coun- would have been a “horrible
promised earlier in the day cers. On his way in, he told a cil meeting expressed sup- disservice” to both Bass and
to stay out of the chamber if “He can’t face us! If he’s reporter that the council De León remained at his port for De León and frus- the city’s 40,000 unhoused
De León was present, said he going to vote, he needs to needed to pass the mayor’s seat in the chamber for tration at disruptions. Juan individuals if the council
did not initially realize that stand right there,” protester emergency order, noting about an hour, occasionally Jose Gutierrez, a business failed to sign off on the emer-
De León was in another Brett Sullivan yelled from that his district has the conferring with staff mem- owner who lives in De León’s gency order.
room casting votes. the audience. “largest homeless popula- bers amid periodic out- district, began shouting in
tion in the country.” bursts from the thinning support as others in the “This is a great example
“I saw him walk away,” he The upheaval took place crowd. council called on the council- of why this council must con-
said. “I was surprised to see on a critical day for City Hall. “We have millions of folks man to resign. tinue to do its work, no mat-
he was still voting.” The council cast a number of who go to work every day He finally left the room a ter what,” he said.
other high-profile votes, re- with folks that they don’t little after 1 p.m., sparking “We’re sick of these pro-
Soto-Martinez called De electing Krekorian as its like, and they still get up ev- competing chants from his fessional agitators,” Gutier- After the meeting, coun-
León’s behavior “despica- president and approving a ery morning and go to work,” supporters and detractors. rez told The Times. Those cil members joined other
ble.” At the same time, he one-month extension of the he said. “We just got to get He then went into a back angry at the councilman city officials at an outdoor
said, he and others were de- city’s COVID-19 eviction back to work.” room with Krekorian. should go through the proc- reception for the council’s
termined to cast votes on moratorium. ess of seeking a recall of De five newly elected members,
renter protections and the Once De León was in his With De León out of the León, he said. where attendees ate choco-
emergency declaration. It was also the first time chair, council members room, other council mem- late crepes and listened to
five new council members walked out of the chamber. bers eventually filed back in, Bass declared a state of classic oldies.
“We just could not allow took their seats around the Protesters angrily yelled for and the meeting soon recon- emergency on homelessness
him to hold us hostage,” he chamber’s horseshoe, and De León to leave, and his vened. after taking office Monday; it Bass showed up partway
said. their last meeting before supporters chanted his needed a City Council vote to through the event to thank
their winter recess. name and “Sí, se puede.” But then De León re- go into effect. The declara- the council for approving her
Had the council been un- entered, spurring Soto-Mar- tion will allow her to spend emergency declaration.
able to conduct a vote, Bass At times, council mem- Krekorian called for a re- tinez and Councilmember money on services and facili-
could have seen her first ma- bers appeared to be engaged cess and then quietly con- Eunisses Hernandez to ties to assist L.A.’s un- “This is a monumental
jor policy proposal delayed in a cat-and-mouse game ferred with De León for more leave the room once again. housed population without day for the city of Los Ange-
by a month. The council’s with De León, with some de- than 15 minutes, as screams les,” she said in a separate
next meeting is Jan. 10. De León left his chair statement on the vote.

Dozens of protesters re-
peatedly disrupted the
meeting even before De
León arrived, screaming ex-
pletives at various city offi-
cials and demanding a halt
to the proceedings. Several
rows of De León supporters
occasionally sparred ver-
bally with his detractors.

The disorder at City Hall
raises questions about how
the council will proceed if De
León continues to attend
meetings. It’s unclear
whether the same procedur-
al sleight of hand — with De
León present but out of
the room — will be used
again.

The chamber’s voting
software is set to register
each of the 15 lawmakers as
an automatic “yes” vote.
Members must press a but-
ton to vote “no” from their
chairs but can easily cast
“yes” votes from outside the
room.

Once council members
are marked present at a
meeting, they are free to chat
in the hallway, go to the
bathroom and make use of
multiple meeting rooms be-
hind the chamber while
casting votes.

Storm’s U.S. jury convicts

bounty Hugo Chávez’s

a drop in onetime nurse

a bucket Claudia Diaz, who used to pay for the couple’s
became Venezuela’s lavish lifestyle.
[Drought, from A1] treasurer, is guilty of
money laundering. The government’s case
stretch ahead.” relied heavily on the testi-
associated press mony of one of Diaz’s prede-
There was some cause for cessors as treasurer, Alejan-
MIAMI — The former dro Andrade, who said the
relief, though. Rizzardo said nurse of late Venezuelan kickback scheme he struck
President Hugo Chávez has with Gorrin continued
reservoir levels had inched been found guilty of money under Diaz.
laundering in connection to
up from the storms, includ- bribes paid by a billionaire Like Diaz, Andrade, a for-
media mogul to greenlight mer presidential security of-
ing capacity gains at Lake lucrative currency trans- ficer, leveraged a personal
actions when she served as connection with Chávez to
Shasta and Lake Oroville of the country’s treasurer. rise through the ranks of the
army and government,
about1% over the week prior. A jury in Fort Lau- amassing a fortune almost
derdale, Fla., deliberated for overnight.
The statewide snow water just a few hours Tuesday be-
fore finding Claudia Diaz In 2021, he was released
equivalent, or the amount of and her husband, Adrían Ve- from prison after serving
lasquez, guilty of five of the less than half of a 10-year
water contained in the snow- six counts detailed in a 2020 sentence for his role in a
indictment accusing them of scheme to siphon millions
pack, was at 223% of normal Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times taking at least $4.2 million in from state coffers. As part of
bribes. his plea agreement, he for-
as of Monday. TENTACLES formed by the ebb and flow of tides etch a pattern into mud in the feited more than $260 mil-
Colorado River Delta in Baja California in March, showing effects of drought. The couple, who will be lion in cash and assets, in-
“There’s no doubt it’s all sentenced in February, face cluding an oceanfront Palm
a maximum of 20 years in Beach, Fla., mansion, luxury
beneficial, and the alterna- prison for each of the crimi- vehicles, show-jumping
nal counts. horses and several Rolex
tive is certainly not what we into the winter months, but spring.” lost from the Earth’s surface and Hublot watches.
as we know, particularly Indeed, seasonal out- to the atmosphere — is in- The jury trial was seen as
want,” he said. from last year, we can have creasing as the state gets a crucial test of U.S. prose- Attorneys for the couple
good early-season storms looks issued by the National warmer and more dry. cutors’ ability to hold ac- expressed their disappoint-
David Simeral, a re- come in, and then the tap Oceanic and Atmospheric countable so-called Venezu- ment with the verdict.
gets turned off in early Administration still lean “We’re realizing it isn’t elan kleptocrats for fleecing
search climatologist at the January.” toward a dry start to the year just a question of precipita- the oil-rich nation. “We will continue to
across much of the West. tion,” he said. “As things get fight for our clients,” Maris-
Western Regional Climate A repeat of last year’s Bolstering that prediction is warmer, and as the atmos- The U.S. Department of sel Descalzo and Andrew
swing from wet December to the rare third appearance of phere increasingly demands Justice has aggressively in- Feldman said in a state-
Center and one of the au- bone-dry January was a La Niña, a climate pattern in more water from the land- vestigated corruption in ment.
common concern among ex- the tropical Pacific associ- scape, unless we’re getting a Venezuela’s government,
thors of the U.S. Drought perts. ated with drier-than-aver- lot more water on average taking advantage of the The trial took place as
age conditions in California, falling from the sky than we United States’ unique posi- normally hostile relations
Monitor, said Thursday’s re- “We’re reminded of this particularly the southern used to, then it’s not going to tion as the destination of between the U.S. and Vene-
point last year — the end of part of the state. be in balance.” choice until recently for in- zuela are starting to ease af-
port will almost certainly December when we had siders to stash their ill-got- ter the Trump-era policy of
really abundant snowfall,” But while La Niña tends That didn’t stop many ten gains. But Diaz was the “maximum pressure” to re-
show “some chipping away said Rizzardo, of the De- to be a somewhat reliable Californians from celebrat- first former senior official to move President Nicolás
partment of Water Re- harbinger of overall condi- ing the arrival of wintry actually fight charges, and Maduro has stalled.
at the drought,” at least in sources. “The weather and tions, it “sometimes gets weather, however. Many had she managed to walk
climate outlook was looking overwritten by other factors people took to social media free it could’ve drastically Recently the Biden
the southern two-thirds of rather dry to start off the cal- that are much more difficult to share images of snow- undermined that decade- administration loosened
endar year, and that’s indeed to predict,” Swain said, in- capped mountains, misty long effort. crushing oil sanctions
the state. Last week’s up- what happened. We quickly cluding when and where foothills, fresh powder and against the OPEC nation, al-
fell back into ‘good try, but high pressure systems mani- frolicking pets. Even the Los According to the indict- lowing U.S. oil company
date showed 85% of the state still in the drought,’ and fest. Angeles River, so often re- ment, Diaz and Velasquez Chevron for the first time in
that’s kind of the feeling duced to a trickle, turned received payments from more than three years to re-
under severe, extreme or ex- right now.” Adding to that uncer- out some flow. companies controlled by sume production to support
tainty are disruptions to the their co-defendant, fugitive fledgling negotiations with
ceptional drought condi- It’s something UCLA cli- jet stream, or the fast-flow- The researchers said Venezuelan media mogul the opposition.
mate scientist Daniel Swain ing air currents in the upper moisture of any kind was Raul Gorrin, through ac-
tions, the three worst cate- referred to as “hydroclimate level of the atmosphere that welcome. A thorough dous- counts in Miami allegedly But criminal investiga-
whiplash,” and he said it’s guide weather systems from ing early in December can tions against Venezuelan in-
gories. certainly possible again this west to east. Swain said the prevent soil from stealing siders remain closely
year. Just weeks ago, condi- jet stream pattern is cur- too much water later in the watched in south Florida,
“The back-to-back tions were so dry that state rently “topsy-turvy” be- season, and at the same home to millions of Venezue-
water officials said they may cause of ridges of extreme time, heavy snowpack can lans, Cubans and Nicara-
storms we’ve had over the only be able to allocate 5% of high pressure in the Arctic, mean more reliable supplies guans fleeing leftist rule in
requested supplies to urban contributing to wider fore- later in the year. their homelands.
past several weeks have defi- water agencies in 2023. cast variations than normal.
“It was a nice cold storm
nitely made an impact in “We did have some de- Though many metrics do — one where places didn’t
cent early season water, and look healthier than a week struggle to see snow in the
terms of the drought, al- now December is looking ago, Swain also noted that mountains, as has been so
good for most of the state reversing the state’s signifi- common in recent years and
though they haven’t erased just based on what’s already cant dryness in today’s decades,” Swain said. “We
happened,” Swain said. But warming climate is no longer see fewer of those storms in a
the deficits,” he said. “We’re there is a “tilt in the odds just a matter of rain and warming climate, but they
toward drier-than-average snow. Evaporative demand do sometimes happen, and
going to wait and see how conditions January through — or the amount of water this was one of them.”

things play out moving for-

ward, but I definitely would

say there are some things to

be optimistic about.”

Simeral said soil mois-

ture levels had also im-

proved from the storms, es-

pecially around the coastal

and transverse mountain

ranges that run from the Bay

Area down to just above Los

Angeles, which received a

good deal of rain. Moisture

levels there now range from

the 80th to 95th percentile,

he said.

“These are really, really

good numbers, but I don’t

want to get too excited,” he

said. “I’m cautiously opti-

mistic as we move further

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CALIFORNIA

W E D N E S D AY , D E C E M B E R 1 4 , 2 0 2 2 :: L A T I M E S . C O M / C A L I F O R N I A

L.A. County
sees declining
COVID rates

Respiratory illnesses, slowdown of coronavirus-
including flu, in kids positive hospitalizations.
and adults remain a For the week to Monday,
strain on hospitals. there were 1,359 new corona-
virus-positive hospital ad-
By Luke Money, missions across L.A. County,
Rong-Gong Lin II and down 9% from a seasonal
Emily Alpert Reyes peak of 1,481 for the week to
Dec. 2.
Jason Armond Los Angeles Times The number of newly re-
ported COVID-19 cases has It’s not a given that the
RAPPER Megan Thee Stallion arrives at court to testify about the wild night when she ended up in a hospital ticked down in Los Angeles declines will continue. Dur-
with bullet fragments in her feet. She said defendant Tory Lanez fired a gun at her; he has said he did not. County, a reprieve following ing the second Omicron
weeks of increases. wave last spring and sum-
Megan Thee Stallion calls mer, there were several brief
her trial experience ‘torture’ Whatever the wider prog- downturns in the case rate
nosis for the winter, this dip and subsequent increases
Her testimony about Damian Dovarganes Associated Press name is Megan Pete, talked will almost surely delay the before the peak in late July.
being shot touches on about depression and sui- return of a public indoor
depression, peer DEFENDANT Tory Lanez is facing charges of assault cide. She teared up repeat- mask mandate in the na- [See Illness, B4]
pressure and regret. with a firearm and negligent discharge of a gun. edly. And she expressed re- tion’s most populous county.
gret for ever coming forward ‘CATFISH’
By James Queally about the incident that For the week to Tuesday,
landed her in court Tuesday L.A. County’s case rate was COP TOLD
Megan Thee Stallion usu- — her 2020 shooting, alleg- 3,148 a day, down 18% from
ally isn’t shy when holding a edly at the hands of Canadi- last week. On a per capita POLICE OF
microphone in front of tens an hip-hop star Tory Lanez. basis, that’s 218 cases a week
of thousands of people at for every 100,000 residents. A MENTAL
music festivals and during “I wish he would’ve just rate of 100 or more is consid-
headline sets across the shot and killed me if I knew I ered high. CHECKUP
country. was going to have to go
through this torture,” Pete, Many experts caution Virginia hired Austin
But donning a purple suit 27, testified. that official case figures, Lee Edwards as a state
before an audience of fewer while a useful metric, are trooper despite the
than 100 inside a downtown For four hours on the wit- likely a significant under- reveal, records show.
L.A. courtroom, the nor- ness stand Tuesday, Pete count due to the prolifera-
mally swaggering voice be- spoke in detail about a wild tion of at-home tests, which By Summer Lin
hind hits such as “WAP” and July 2020 night that started are not reliably reported to and Erin B. Logan
“Savage” was often on the at a Hollywood Hills party public health agencies.
verge of cracking. and ended with her in hand- Austin Lee Edwards, the
cuffs and later in a Los Ange- “Almost three years into now-deceased cop who “cat-
The rapper, whose legal les hospital with bullet frag- the pandemic, there could fished” a 15-year-old Riv-
ments in her feet. be a sense of resignation erside girl and killed her
with the ebbs and flow of grandparents and mother
Lanez, whose real name transmission,” L.A. County last month, disclosed during
[See Trial, B2] Public Health Director Bar- his application to become a
bara Ferrer said during a re- Virginia state trooper that
cent briefing. “We’ve seen he had voluntarily checked
that even during the worst of himself into a mental health
surges, cases will start to facility several years earlier,
come down after a few according to records re-
weeks. It would be danger- viewed by The Times.
ous, however, for us to feel
that we no longer need to try The Virginia State Police
to minimize the impact of hired him anyway.
these surges by taking some
practical steps that can re- Corinne Geller, a Virginia
duce transmission and ill- State Police spokeswoman,
ness severity.” said last month that there
weren’t “any indicators of
The drop in case num- concern” that surfaced dur-
bers is more meaningful ing Edwards’ extensive hir-
when accompanied by a ing process. But the records
reviewed by The Times show
Earth’s water will the agency had at least some
be monitored indication of Edwards’ men-
from 553 miles up tal health struggles.

By Corinne Purtill Studies is supported by a National Park Service Edwards’ disclosure
and Rosanna Xia unique alliance of Earth’s should have triggered fur-
scientists eager to answer GRIFFITH PARK denizen P-22, shown here in good health, was captured after ther investigation before he
Before the sun rises on key questions about flood- attacking two Chihuahuas. If his decline continues, he may need to be euthanized. was hired, said William
Thursday, a rocket carrying ing, climate patterns and Pelfrey, a professor of crimi-
the Surface Water and our future water supply. Examination finds cougar nal justice at Virginia Com-
Ocean Topography satellite P-22 in declining health monwealth University’s
will blast off from Vanden- The satellite will be able Wilder School of Govern-
berg Space Force Base to see through storm clouds Big cat, trapped this week, unlikely to return to wild ment.
north of Santa Barbara. and accurately measure the
height of flood waters when It’s unclear whether Vir-
When SWOT reaches its terrestrial gauges are sub- ginia State Police asked any
destination 553 miles above merged. If a country refuses follow-up questions once
Earth’s surface, a new era in to share information about Edwards disclosed his past
the study of climate change its water usage along a river, mental health difficulties.
will begin. the spacecraft will be able to Geller said in a statement
provide it instead. last week that “human error
The satellite will be the resulted in an incomplete
first to survey almost all the SWOT is designed to ob- database query during Ed-
world’s surface water, allow- serve the planet with un- wards’ hiring process.”
ing researchers to consis- precedented precision and
tently track the volume and frequency, returning reams [See Trooper, B4]
movement of every ocean, of data to help scientists and
river, lake and stream on the policymakers plan for Queen Mary
planet. floods, droughts and sea- is opening up
level rise.
This joint mission of The Long Beach
NASA and France’s Na- Scientists say the attraction, forced to
tional Center for Space $1.2-billion mission has the close by the pandemic,
will offer free tours. B2
[See Water, B2]
LAPD tool is
Chris Okula U.S. Space Force 30th Space Wing By Christian Martinez and attack small pets. the other health issues that under scrutiny
and Nathan Solis The California Depart- he seems to be facing,” Ed
THE SWOT satellite will survey almost all the Pert, a regional manager of The agency doesn’t
Earth’s bodies of water at least once every 21 days. P-22, Los Angeles’ leg- ment of Fish and Wildlife the California Department fully track its use of
endary mountain lion, is suf- said no options are off the ta- of Fish and Wildlife, said at a facial recognition, a
fering from serious health is- ble when it comes to deter- news conference Tuesday. report finds. B3
sues and will not be released mining what might come
back into Griffith Park, ac- next for the cat, who in No- Wildlife officials decided Times reporter
cording to officials, who said vember killed a leashed to capture the 12-year-old was KGB target
euthanasia is one option if Chihuahua in the Hollywood mountain lion after his be-
his health deteriorates. Hills and attacked another havior became erratic. Robert C. Toth, who
Chihuahua in Silver Lake. helped lift the paper
When the big cat was Long wary of busy areas, to renown in the last
hauled out of a Los Feliz Now biologists say P-22 P-22 had started to venture century, dies at 93. B5
backyard Monday, wildlife won’t be going back home to farther south into Silver
officials planned to give him Griffith Park, where he has Lake and other neighbor- Lottery ...................... B4
a thorough examination in resided for more than a dec- hoods and stay for increas-
order to assess what may ade. ing periods of time.Already
have led him to wander into known as a killer, P-22 was
residential areas recently “At the moment, it’s not increasing his nighttime
likely that P-22 will be re- prowling.
leased back into the wild
based on [his condition] and [See Mountain lion, B5]

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B2 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2022 LATIMES.COM

Satellite will monitor Earth’s water sources

[Water, from B1] NASA/JPL-Caltech pected to hit with greater
potential to change our frequency and intensity in
understanding of Earth’s “THE possibilities are so endless,” said one lead scientist on the SWOT project, adding, “It’s like whacking a the coming decades, and
water as significantly as the piñata ... and having all this candy pour out, and you just don’t even know what to grab first.” data from SWOT will signifi-
microscope changed our cantly improve the forecasts
view of the human body. “Right now we have satel- reservoirs and natural lakes Since 1992, sea-level data the coast,” said Benjamin communities rely upon to
lites that can tell us where to determine how climate has been largely measured Hamlington, a research prepare for that future.
“The possibilities are so water is, and we have satel- change and human behavior by TOPEX/Poseidon and scientist at NASA’s Jet
endless that I’m almost not lites that can tell us what the affect water storage. Her other satellite altimeter sys- Propulsion Laboratory in La Barnard, who oversees
sure where to start,” said elevation of water is, but we work has relied on NASA’s tems, along with a network Cañada Flintridge who is USGS research of climate
Tamlin Pavelsky, a global hy- don’t have satellites that can ICESat-2 satellite laser al- of tide gauges that scientists guiding the sea-level rise sci- impacts and coastal haz-
drologist at the University of effectively do both of those timeter, which delivers data pieced together across mul- ence on the mission. “That’s ards along the West Coast
North Carolina at Chapel things at the same time. And on the globe’s 227,000 largest tiple countries, agencies and where SWOT will come in.” and across the Pacific Ocean
Hill and the mission’s hy- that’s the sort of killer thing lakes and reservoirs two to research institutions. These basin, said satellite technol-
drology science lead. “It’s that KaRIn can do,” Pavel- four times a year. It’s the gauges provide only spo- The new satellite will also ogy has completely revolu-
like whacking a piñata with a sky said. “It turns the world’s most sophisticated surface radic snapshots of any given measure more subtle fea- tionized his field.
baseball bat and having all water from 2D to 3D.” water satellite technology coastline, and when a storm tures in the open ocean that
this candy pour out, and you currently available. hits or a high-tide flood sub- other satellites have never Traditionally, a re-
just don’t even know what to On the freshwater side, merges a neighborhood, sci- been able to capture with searcher might spend sev-
grab first.” SWOT will provide the first That’s about to change. entists trying to measure the clarity. These smaller-scale eral years studying a single
comprehensive survey of the SWOT will return data on up tide level typically rely on the currents and circulation beach, lake or river valley.
Previous satellites have planet’s network of rivers, to 6 million bodies of water nearest tide gauge, which is patterns play an important The scientific community
monitored either oceans or lakes and streams, which are no less than once every three often miles away. but little-understood role in would then piece that work
fresh water. SWOT will be too numerous — and often weeks. The satellite can how the oceans absorb heat into the greater Earth-sys-
the first to observe both. The too remote — to consistently sense almost every river And the altimeters al- — and where it ultimately tem puzzle.
mission is a joint effort in monitor from the ground. that’s at least 100 feet wide ready in orbit, while ground- goes. (The oceans, it is worth
oceanography and hydrol- and every lake larger than 15 breaking for more than a noting, have absorbed more In just the last decade,
ogy — two related scientific “I can finally use a remote acres. generation of oceanogra- than a quarter of the carbon Barnard and his team re-
disciplines that are often sensing method to estimate phers, have one blind spot: dioxide released by humans cruited scientists in Japan,
siloed apart. stream flow, rather than be “It’s a huge, huge differ- they can’t take measure- since the Industrial Revolu- Australia, New Zealand and
reliant on the stream gauge ence,” Cooley said. “It’s actu- ments right at the tide line. tion and about 90% of the re- Canada to study how El Niño
“The entire water cycle is stations, which are pretty ally kind of crazy to think The closest they can get is sulting heat.) and changing climate condi-
really important in under- sparsely distributed,” said about what that’s even going about six miles offshore; in tions have increasingly
standing how climate Aakash Ahamed, a doctoral to be like, and how we’re go- many places, readings are That knowledge is criti- threatened coastal commu-
change is affecting Earth’s candidate in geophysics at ing to work with that data.” taken as far as 18 miles from cal to our understanding of nities across the Pacific
surface processes — and not Stanford University. the coast. climate change, said Ham- Basin. It took 200,000 hours
just the transport of water, SWOT will also make a lington, who also heads to collect and analyze data
but heat as well,” said Pat- Sarah Cooley, a surface huge difference in the way “We don’t actually know NASA’s Sea Level Change from 48 beaches across three
rick Barnard, a research di- water hydrologist at the Uni- scientists monitor changes exactly what’s happening at Team. Coastal flooding is ex- continents, ultimately ac-
rector at the U.S. Geological versity of Oregon, monitors in the oceans. counting for just 124 of the
Survey’s Pacific Coastal and 6,200 miles of sandy shore-
Marine Science Center in line along the Pacific Rim.
Santa Cruz who is not affili-
ated with the mission. “Now, from space, we can
get a lot of that information
The data gathered by daily, if we really wanted to,
SWOT, he said, will “heavily and from anywhere in the
advance our understanding world — which is just mind-
of not just climate change, blowing,” Barnard said.
but also climate variability,
and how that affects SWOT won’t replace
droughts and things like boots-on-the-sand field-
monsoons.” work completely. For the
first few years of the mission,
The satellite’s primary scientists will need to val-
tool is the Ka-band Radar idate its results through ex-
Interferometer, or KaRIn. tensive on-the-ground mea-
The satellite sends out radio surement.
waves, and KaRIn records
how much of that energy re- The sheer amount of data
turns to the satellite, and SWOT will return presents
how long it takes to arrive. challenges of its own. Stor-
Coupled with other mea- ing and handling that
surements, these return sig- amount of information is a
nals tell the satellite whether major undertaking in itself.
it’s sensing water and the
height of that water’s sur- It’s also an exhilarating
face. one. Researchers say trans-
formational technology like
Once fully operational in SWOT not only offers fresh
June, SWOT will survey answers to existing prob-
everything between the Arc- lems, it raises new questions
tic Ocean and Antarctica at entirely, said Cooley, the
least once every 21 days. The surface water hydrologist in
initial mission will run for Oregon.
three years.
“That’s really exciting as
a scientist,” she said.

Rapper tells of night she was shot

[Trial, from B1] Pete asked to be let out of and Harris. While Mgdesyan gun, Mgdesyan pointed to Jay L. Clendenin Los Angeles Times
is Daystar Peterson, has the car. But as she walked has not flat out said Harris prior police interviews in
been charged with assault away, Pete said in court fired the weapon — which which Pete either said that THE 86-YEAR-OLD Queen Mary in Long Beach is
with a firearm, illegal weap- Tuesday, Peterson allegedly has been a popular theory she didn’t realize she’d been still undergoing repairs, including structural work.
ons possession and negli- opened fire on her and yelled among Peterson’s most ar- shot or that she had her back
gent discharge of a gun. If “dance, bitch!” wounding dent supporters — he has turned to the gunfire, ques- Queen Mary to
convicted, he faces more Pete’s feet. contended that his client’s tioning how she could pos- reopen for tours
than 22 years in prison. DNA was not found on the sibly have identified
“I’m in shock. I’m scared. weapon used in the attack. Peterson as the gunman. Ship has been closed The city previously said
The case has reinvigo- I hear the gun going off, and I during the pandemic. that about 75% of the proc-
rated discussions about mi- can’t believe he’s shooting at Mgdesyan spent more Pete also spoke about Its hotel, restaurants ess — largely plumbing, me-
sogyny in the male domi- me,” Pete said Tuesday. than two hours cross-exam- how the shooting had ruined may resume next year. chanical and other metal
nated hip-hop industry, ining Pete on Tuesday, hunt- her relationship with Harris, work — should be completed
which Pete has risen to the The group drove away ing for inconsistencies be- who is expected to testify lat- By Alexandra E. Petri by the end of the year. All in-
top of with a discography of from the area, with Pete try- tween statements she made er this week. Harris suppos- ternal repairs should be
songs about powerful wom- ing to stanch her bloody to police and prosecutors edly met up with Peterson in The Queen Mary is back wrapped up in early 2023, al-
en. Peterson released an en- wound with towels in the and in an interview with the days after the shooting, in business. lowing the city to work on
tire record denying the backseat. Pete said Tuesday Gayle King earlier this year. which Pete took as a “be- aesthetic projects, such as
shooting in 2020. More re- that Peterson immediately The attorney repeatedly trayal.” The two have not Beginning Thursday, painting and flooring.
cently, Drake hinted he promised each woman raised the fact that Pete lied spoken since 2020, Pete said. fans of the aging Long Beach
didn’t believe Pete’s accusa- $1 million if they did not tell about the nature of her rela- Prosecutors plan to call Har- tourist attraction will be “The Queen Mary has
tions against Peterson in the police about the incident. tionship with Peterson to ris to corroborate a text mes- able to tour sections of the been an icon of our Long
track “Circo Loco.” authorities and reporters sage she sent identifying vessel for the first time since Beach shoreline for 55
Pete did not initially re- until admitting on the stand Peterson as the shooter. March 2020, the city of Long years,” City Councilmember
On Tuesday, Pete ex- port the shooting. On Tues- Tuesday that they had been Beach announced this week. Mary Zendejas said. “We re-
pressed fury that much of day, Pete repeated her as- “intimate.” A small group of demon- To celebrate, the city is offer- main dedicated in our ef-
the discussion around the sertion that she did not feel strators holding signs read- ing free guided tours for a forts to preserve the ship’s
case had focused on whether comfortable talking to the “How could I share my ing “I Stand With Megan” limited time. history and structural safe-
she and Peterson ever had LAPD, especially in the sum- body with someone who stood near the Temple ty. I look forward to welcom-
sex — a fact she had denied mer of 2020 in the wake of the would shoot me?” Pete Street entrance to the court- The hourlong tours in- ing the community back on
publicly until the trial — killings of George Floyd and asked, saying she was too house, where Pete arrived clude biographical lessons, board!”
rather than her injuries. Breonna Taylor. embarrassed to reveal their shortly before 9 a.m. and en- along with some haunted
interactions. tered the Hall of Justice. history, about the Queen Over the last 50 years,
“This whole story has not “At the time, we are at the Mary and access to select Long Beach has brought in
been about the shooting. It’s height of police brutality. ... I It remains unclear Jaki Murillo, a youth areas of its promenade deck, several firms — including
only been about who I been felt like if I said, ‘This man whether Peterson will testify mentor with the Young all led by a docent. Tours Walt Disney Co. — to try to
having sex with,” she said. has just shot me,’ they might in the trial, which is expected Women’s Freedom Center, were full by Tuesday convert the floating hotel
“When people talk about shoot first and ask questions to last about eight days. said she felt the need to show morning, according to the into a profitable tourist at-
Megan Thee Stallion getting later,” Pete said. up Tuesday because of what city’s website. traction, with mixed results.
shot, all the headlines are He did not look at Pete she sees as male hip-hop art- Disney planned in 1990 to in-
Megan Thee Stallion is on Pete also noted that “in when she entered the court- ists’ frustrating refusal to The ship’s hotel, restau- corporate the ship into a $3-
trial, and I’m not on trial!” the Black community, in my room but seemed to be tak- believe Pete. rants, bar and other ameni- billion sea-themed amuse-
community, it’s not really ac- ing detailed notes as she tes- ties will remain closed until ment park but ditched the
Pete said Tuesday that ceptable to be cooperating tified. Outside court, he has “We’re here because a lot plumbing and other repair idea a few years later.
she was driving away from a with police officers.” She ul- looked jovial while playing of Black and Brown women work are completed in early
party at makeup mogul timately reported the attack with his young son, flanked are asked twice, not once,” 2023, according to the city. Long Beach had consid-
Kylie Jenner’s house with days later and then, in an In- by a small group of support- when they make domestic ered sinking the 86-year-old
Peterson, his bodyguard stagram live video the next ers. violence allegations, Murillo The tours come after the ship after taking control of
and her former longtime month, publicly accused said. COVID-19 pandemic forced the vessel last year from
friend Kelsey Harris when Peterson of shooting her. Mgdesyan also sought to the closure of the converted Eagle Hospitality Trust,
an argument erupted inside undercut Pete’s description Murillo said she has been British ocean liner and a se- which filed for bankruptcy
their SUV on Nichols Can- Peterson’s defense attor- of the exact moment she was inspired by Pete’s decision ries of renovations, includ- and defaulted on lease
yon Road. Peterson became ney, George Mgdesyan, has shot. While Pete testified she to speak out against ing critical structural work, agreements. But even scrap-
upset that Pete had asked said the case is about “jeal- heard Peterson shout Peterson and press charges delayed its reopening. Sev- ping it would cost an esti-
him to leave the party, she ousy” and suggested the “dance, bitch!” and turned despite the pushback eral studies have estimated mated $190 million, officials
said Tuesday. fight in the car was between around to see him holding a against her in the hip-hop in- that the vessel needs hun- learned.
a highly intoxicated Pete dustry. dreds of millions of dollars in
Then Peterson turned upgrades. A 2021 report Keeping the Queen Mary
around and told Pete she Jason Armond Los Angeles Times “That’s why I respect her. called for $23 million in im- afloat has cost an estimated
needed “to stop lying” to She’s still going through mediate repairs to prevent $6 million since restoration
Harris about their relation- MEGAN Thee Stallion constantly testified that re- with this after all that,” the ship from capsizing. got underway this year, but
ship. porting Tory Lanez had damaged her musical career. Murillo said. “She gives officials say the cost is offset
other girls hope to speak by revenue from special
Pete told the court that up.” events at the ship.
she and Peterson had be-
come friends and bonded On the stand Tuesday,
over the loss of their mothers Pete constantly raised the
in the months before the idea that reporting Peterson
shooting. They also occa- had damaged her career.
sionally had a sexual rela- The incident occurred not
tionship. long after she released a
remix of the track “Savage”
Harris had a “crush” on with Beyonce, an accom-
Peterson, according to Pete, plishment that was quickly
and after the revelation overshadowed by the shoot-
about their sex lives, the ar- ing.
gument spiraled out of con-
trol. Peterson called both “This whole situation in
women “bitches and hos,” the industry is like a big boys
Pete testified Tuesday, then club,” she testified. “Like I’m
the two began bickering over telling on one of y’all friends,
their musical careers. now you’re all about to hate
me.”

LATIMES.COM B3WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2022

CITY & STATE

LAPD unable to
fully track use of
face recognition,
inspector finds

which, for example, a facial

Report notes lack of recognition hit leads to the
misidentification of a sus-
means to verify search pect, Smith said. While offi-

results or document cers are not supposed to ar-

erroneous matches. rest someone based solely
on a facial recognition

By Libor Jany match without providing ad-
ditional evidence, there is no

way to track if that is occur-

Two years after Los An- ring, he said.

geles police leaders set “We believe there needs

tougher limits on the use of to be an accounting of when

facial recognition technol- that happens because it has

ogy, a follow-up report found an impact on the person de-

Luis Sinco Los Angeles Times the department lacks a way tained,” Smith told commis-

FROM SEA TO SNOW to track its outcomes or ef- sioners on Tuesday.

fectiveness. Later in the presenta-

A snow-capped Mt. Baldy is seen in the distance from Sunset Beach on Tuesday. While coastal regions The report, by the LAPD tion, commission President
of Southern California had rain this weekend, cold air brought snow to local mountains. inspector general’s office, William Briggs asked Smith
found that department per- if he could offer a breakdown

sonnel used facial recogni- of the demographics of peo-

tion software in an effort to ple falsely identified through

identify criminal suspects the program.

Former Cal Fire leader charged nearly2,000timeslastyear. “Right now, I’m not
Of those searches, about aware of a way to enumerate
55% resulted in a positive those instances,” Smith re-
match — meaning that an sponded.

image of an unidentified sus- In January 2021, the com-

with intent to sell steroids pect was matched through mission approved its cur-
artificial intelligence to a rent facial recognition policy
mug shot or other photo of a after The Times reported
known person, the report that LAPD officers had used

found. the technology more than

On Tuesday, Inspector 30,000 times since 2009 de-

By Richard Winton new job as Sparks, Nev., fire the Uniform Controlled Sub- cords, the former top Cal General Mark Smith told spite department claims to
chief — a position he held stances Act, two counts of Fire leader was caught on the department’s civilian the contrary.

less than a week — when au- possession of a controlled Oct. 9, 2020, in possession of oversight commissioners Among other things, the

A former Cal Fire division thorities there learned of his substance and possession the illegal drugs with intent that the LAPD was largely in policy established new mea-

chief has been charged in Ne- pending criminal prose- with intent to sell a con- to sell. compliance with a 2021 pol- sures for tracking the Police

vada with four felonies, in- cution, according to a city trolled substance, court re- Lance Forrester, who icy that set out rules for Department’s use of the

cluding possession of ana- statement. cords show was identified in court re- when and how specially county system. It limited use

bolic steroids for sale and Lawson, 56, who is set to According to court re- cords as a co-defendant with trained officers can use a of the sheriff ’s system to

conspiracy related to the be arraigned Jan. 31, could cords, Lawson was found Lawson, was charged with facial recognition program cases where there is an im-

possession and sale of a con- not be reached for comment with 34.6 grams of an anabo- three felonies, including be- maintained by the county minent threat to life, or in

trolled substance. Tuesday. lic steroid on Aug. 26, 2021. ing involved in a conspiracy Sheriff ’s Department. The which investigators are try-

Mark A. Lawson was He served 32 years with The steroid is considered a with Lawson on Oct. 9, 2020, county program runs im- ing to solve a crime or to

charged Dec. 9 with possess- the California Department Schedule III controlled sub- and possessing steroids on ages against a database of identify someone who is in-

ing such significant quan- of Forestry and Fire Protec- stance. In addition, court re- July 28 and possessing ster- roughly 9 million mug shots capacitated or at risk. The

tities of steroids in 2020 and tion, rising to become divi- cords say Lawson possessed oids with intent to sell on of people who have been policy also explicitly states

2021 that Nevada’s attorney sion chief in Merced County .089 gram of modafinil, a cen- March, 16, 2021. Forrester booked into the county’s that any match determined

general alleged it amounted before taking the job in tral nervous stimulant that served as a Nevada correc- detention facilities — a far by the software can only be

to a possession-for-sale case Sparks. Cal Fire pay records is used as an alternative to tional officer until 2020, ac- less expansive pool than used as a lead by officers but

rather than personal usage, show he last worked for the amphetamine, and is a cording to Transparent Ne- some third-party search does not constitute prob-

according to court records. agency in 2019. Schedule IV controlled sub- vada, a watchdog website platforms. able cause for an arrest and

Earlier this month, Lawson was charged stance. documenting salaries for But having no clear proc- cannot serve as the sole ba-

Lawson resigned from his with conspiracy to violate According to court re- state employees. ess for documenting either sis for criminal charges.

an investigation’s results or The move came after pro-

corroborating evidence that tests by privacy watchdogs

confirms the photo match and civil rights advocates,

State may Cougar kittens make debut meanttherewas“nowayto who had sought an outright
verify or analyze the search ban. They pointed to re-
results,” the report says. search that suggests such

get share Four females will roam the Santa Monica Mountains This, it says, also made it im- technology is unreliable, in
of opioid possible to track the number particular when trying to
settlement By Salvador of times the technology may match the faces of Black
Hernandez have misidentified someone people, exacerbating histor-
— a common criticism of fa- ical racial disparities in the
cial recognition. criminal justice system.

“The risk of a “false pos- Tuesday’s report does
itive” — an instance when ... not specify how many times
a match ultimately results in the department used facial

Four new mountain lion the identification and arrest recognition before the new

kittens are prowling in a of the wrong person due to rules were adopted, only

rocky area of the western the fact that insufficient cor- that photo-comparison soft-
By Christian Martinez Santa Monica Mountains, roborating evidence was ob- ware had been used “exten-

the National Park Service tained prior to law enforce- sively” since 2009.

California could receive announced. ment action being taken — is The report also does not

more than $500 million from The litter, all female, is always of paramount con- address LAPD officers’ use

a $5.7-billion multistate believed to have been born in cern,” the report says. of facial recognition soft-

agreement to settle a raft of late July. The report also found ware from Clearview AI, a

lawsuits filed against Wal- Known to researchers as that the department had no technology company. The

greens over the pharmacy P-109, P-110, P-111and P-112, the way of determining whether department’s use of the con-

chain’s role in the opioid cri- kittens were tagged and will officers follow a state law troversial program was first

sis, officials said. be part of a 20-year-old and an internal policy that disclosed in 2020 by Buzz-

“The settlement will re- study into how the big cats’ prohibit using photos taken feed, which reported that 25

solve allegations that the lives intertwine with the from an officer’s phone or LAPD employees had per-

company failed to appropri- urban environment. cameras worn by an officer formed nearly 475 searches

ately oversee the dispensing According to the Na- Jeff Sikich Associated Press or mounted in a police vehi- of Clearview’s database of

of opioids at its pharma- tional Park Service, the cats P-112, one of a litter thought to have been born in late cle in facial recognition pro- more than 3 billion photos

cies,” the California attorney each weigh about 4 pounds July, will be part of a National Park Service study. grams. compiled from Facebook,

general’s office said Monday and appear to be healthy. For every facial recogni- Google and other sites.

in a release. To tag the four mountain constant radio contact with The most well-known of tion query, officers are ex- After the Buzzfeed arti-

In November, Walgreens lions on Aug. 24, a biologist each other,” the National the local mountain lions, pected to complete a form, cle, the LAPD conducted its

and CVS Health agreed to used radio signals to track Park Service said in a P-22, was captured Monday which includes the investi- own inquiry, which found

pay about $5 billion each to the mother and make sure statement. “Hence, there is by the National Park Service gator’s name and identifica- only eight employees had

settle thousands of lawsuits she had left the den area. little chance that they will and the California Depart- tion number, a reason for the used a trial version of the

in which state and local gov- Colleagues then took the kit- encounter the mountain lion ment of Fish and Wildlife search and whether the sub- Clearview program to con-

ernments alleged the chain tens a short distance away mother.” after officials said he had re- ject of the search is a sus- duct18 searches for “Depart-

filled prescriptions that and did a workup — which Researchers also added cently been “exhibiting pect, victim or witness, as ment-related searches,” ac-

should have been marked as involves a physical exam, two adult mountain lions to some signs of distress,” well as the search’s results cording to the inspector gen-

inappropriate. The funds where body measurements the study, a pair captured in including killing a leashed and the search date. eral’s report.

were to be split among the are recorded, and attaching the Santa Susana Moun- Chihuahua and attacking What the form fails to

participating states. an ear tag — before the tains. The cats, P-105 and another dog. The big cat was capture, however, are details Times staff writer Kevin

Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta mother returned. P-106, are believed to be 4 and found in the backyard of a on the outcomes of these in- Rector contributed to this

called the settlement a win “Biologists remain in 6 years old, respectively. home in Los Feliz. quiries and instances in report.

in the fight against the over-

dose crisis by targeting the

pharmacy chain’s “role in fu-

eling the opioid epidemic.”
More than 500,000 deaths

Man dies while canyoneering alone in Death Valleyoverthelast20yearsinthe
U.S. have been linked to opi-

oid abuse.

“To all those struggling of his rope, but “appears to their plans,” Wines said in a After leaving a note on that people canyoneer as
with substance abuse disor- By Grace Toohey
have made a mistake” when statement. “The park the tent, rangers returned to part of a group, due to the in-

ders, to all those desperately moving to rappel past the doesn’t track the 1.7 million pack up the site’s equip- herent risks.

in need of treatment and re- A 54-year-old man was knot, Wines said. people that visit each year.” ment, noticing climbing gear This is the third con-

covery options — help is on found dead in a Death Valley The man was found Dec. Unfortunately, she said, and a package with the firmed death in the park this

the way,” Bonta said in the National Park canyon, 3, days after park officials the search “did not start in man’s name and address, year outside of traffic fatali-

release. where officials said he had noticed signs of the man’s time to save his life.” A satel- she said. ties, according to officials. In

The vast majority of the probably fallen 30 feet while abandoned campsite and lite communication device Rangers matched that June, a man died after run-

funds going to states from adventuring alone. car, but it’s unclear when the could have assisted in jump- name and address to the ning out of gas and another

the settlement must be used The man, who was not fatal fall occurred. The Inyo starting the search if the registration of a vehicle that was found dead in a remote

to address opioid addiction identified, was canyoneer- County coroner’s office has man survived the fall, she they noticed had remained section of the park.

including by providing treat- ing — an adventurous sport not determined the cause of said. for days at the Mosaic Can- One of the most famous

ment and recovery services. that involves hiking and rap- death and is still working to Park rangers became yon trailhead, Wines said. canyoneering misadven-

The settlement would pelling into canyons — in the notify the next of kin before aware of an issue after a A multiagency search be- tures, which became the ba-

also require that Walgreens park’s Mosaic Canyon when releasing the man’s name. campground host reported gan Dec. 3, finding the man’s sis for the movie “127 Hours,”

investigate prescriptions officials believe he reached Wines said it probably an abandoned campsite body along the West Fork involved adventurer Aron

with “red flags” before the end of his rappel rope took more than a week for of- Nov. 27 — about six days be- route in Mosaic Canyon, Ralston, who got his arm

dispensing medications, about 30 feet above the ficials to discover the man fore the body was located, which Wines said is not a wedged between a boulder

among other stipulations. ground, according to a state- because he was never re- Wines said. The campsite canyoneering route com- and a canyon wall while ex-

California is “assessing ment from park spokes- ported missing. still had a tent set up with monly descended. She said a ploring alone in Utah. He

the terms” of the proposed person Abby Wines. “We recommend that items inside, but no vehicle, helicopter was key to locat- was pinned for six days until

agreement with CVS, the at- The man tried to tie a anyone going into the back- and was past its reservation ing the man. he cut off part of his right

torney general’s office said. piece of webbing to the end country lets someone know date. Wines recommended arm to free himself.

B4 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2022 S LATIMES.COM

Hospitals battle Agency knew of
respiratory illness cop’s mental issue

[Illness, from B1] taking rapid tests before [Trooper, from B1] Riverside Police Department
With holiday travel and attending large events and Geller did not immedi-
restricting gatherings to VIRGINIA State Police
festivities still on tap, condi- outdoors can help. ately respond to a request should have investigated
tions could be ripe for an for comment Tuesday. before hiring Austin Lee
uptick in transmission. Additionally, it’s impor- Edwards, an expert says.
tant to stay up to date on The Times reported last
Though it’s not required, COVID-19 vaccinations, in- week that Edwards was de- tivity may be compromised,”
L.A. County strongly recom- cluding the updated biva- tained for psychiatric
mends masking in indoor lent booster, experts say. Irfan Khan Los Angeles Times evaluation in February 2016 Pelfrey said. “It doesn’t dis-
public settings, as do offi- after cutting his hand and
cials with the California De- “We are not asking people DECLINING rates of COVID-19 transmission mean threatening to kill his father. qualify them, but it does
partment of Public Health to curtail their activities, to L.A. County will likely avoid a mask mandate. According to an Abingdon,
and the Centers for Disease avoid activities or to shut Va., police report obtained warrant further investiga-
Control and Prevention. down any activities,” Ferrer by The Times through a
told reporters last week. public records request, Ed- tion as part of the back-
L.A. County is the only “We’re letting people know wards was taken into cus-
part of California that has that the risk is higher with outdoors to handle the in- However, she said, “what tody after emergency medi- ground process.”
publicly committed to insti- elevated transmission. And creased demand, including we’re seeing is now people cal technicians called police
tuting a public indoor mask because this is having an Huntington Hospital in are having co-infections to help restrain him. According to the records
mandate should pandemic impact on our healthcare Pasadena, UC San Fran- with flu and COVID” or
conditions worsen to the system and our vulnerable cisco Benioff Children’s Hos- other viral combinations. EMTs, accompanied by reviewed by The Times, Ed-
point that COVID-19 is ex- residents, it’s time to layer in pital in San Francisco and police, took Edwards to a
erting sustained pressure on sensible protections.” facilities in San Diego Flu and RSV this year de- hospital, where he was de- wards told the agency in an
hospitals. County. Pomona Valley Hos- scended much earlier than tained under an emergency
Because of the prior pital Medical Center re- usual, so “even without hav- custody order. Later that interview before his poly-
Specifically, the weekly uptick in cases and cently had a record high ing COVID numbers shoot- day, a judge approved a tem-
rate of new coronavirus-pos- hospitalizations in L.A. number of patients at its ing out the roof, as we did porary detention order, and graph test that he had vol-
itive hospital admissions County, COVID-19 deaths emergency department in a last year with Omicron, we Edwards was transferred to
would have to be at least 10 are increasing. The county single day. are experiencing a constella- a local psychiatric facility. untarily checked into a men-
per 100,000 residents, and at reported 103 deaths for the tion of illness for the commu-
least 10% of staffed inpatient week that ended Tuesday, Children’s hospitals in nity,” Gin said. “And that’s The new records show tal health facility. The poly-
hospital beds would need to up 34% from the prior week Orange County have been so what’s different.” that while applying to be-
filled with such patients for and the first time the rate stressed with viral illnesses come a state trooper, Ed- graph exam was adminis-
two consecutive weeks. The has exceeded 100 since the that the health officer has At Cedars-Sinai Medical wards told his background
criteria were determined by summer. declared a health emer- Center in Los Angeles, “we investigator in a pre-test in- tered Feb. 9, 2021, in
the county Public Health gency. Officials say the num- are definitely very, very busy, terview that “he had volun-
Department based on The summer peak was bers of patients at emer- for sure, but managing at tarily checked himself into a Lebanon, Va.
guidelines from the U.S. 122 deaths, for the week that gency departments are at this point,” said Dr. Jeffrey mental health facility in
Centers for Disease Control ended Aug. 6. unprecedented levels, forc- A. Smith, executive vice 2016.” The records showing that
and Prevention. ing playrooms to be con- president of hospital opera-
In addition to COVID-19, verted into care areas. tions. The Times in a Dec. 6 Edwards disclosed much of
L.A. County has already L.A. County is grappling email asked Geller whether
hit the first threshold and with high levels of influenza. In Fresno County, some Smith said Friday that Edwards had disclosed the his personal history were
before the recent stabiliza- emergency rooms “are close “the entire hospital is full” 2016 incident. She said he
tion appeared on track to The emergency room at to disaster levels,” with hos- but estimated that COVID, had not. shared with The Times by
reach the second in late De- Children’s Hospital Los pitals working over capacity, RSV and the flu represent
cember. But the latest num- Angeles, where the flu pos- the local health department 13% of patients. Among Geller said the state Jeff Pike, chief executive of
bers extend that timeline, itivity rate is 18%, remains so has said. COVID patients, “very few agency would not have hired
and officials last week ex- stressed that it cannot al- are in our intensive care any officer candidate who it investigation company
pressed cautious optimism ways accommodate trans- Dr. Nancy Gin, regional units,” he said. knew had been detained
that a masking order can be fers from other facilities. medical director of quality under an emergency cus- Complete Surveillance &
avoided. and clinical analysis at Kai- Bailey of Providence said tody order or a temporary
The cumulative flu hospi- ser Permanente Southern one wrinkle is that the flu detention order. Investigative Services. Pike
Even with the downturn, talization rate is higher for California, said Friday that treatment Tamiflu is in lim-
transmission remains high. this time of the season than cases of respiratory syncy- ited supply. Geller previously de- worked in law enforcement
L.A. County’s weekly case it has been for the last dozen tial virus among young chil- clined a public records re-
rate last week reached a sea- years, according to the CDC. dren seem to have crested in “Hopefully, any steep rise quest sent by The Times for in Virginia for nearly two
sonal high of 272 for every the previous weeks. with COVID will politely Edwards’ background check
100,000 residents. Even at a “Influenza is ramping up wait its turn until after the and psychological evalua- decades and said he shared
lower rate — around 260 — a quite dramatically,” affect- flu has peaked,” he said. tion, stating that they are
gathering of 200 people ing both adults and children, part of his personnel file and the records to shed light on
would have an 80%-90% Dr. Charles Bailey, medical exempt from mandatory
chance of including at least director for infection pre- disclosure. the lower hiring standards
one infected person. vention at Orange County’s
Providence St. Joseph Hos- Pelfrey, the criminal jus- for law enforcement in the
That’s why it remains im- pital and Providence Mis- tice expert, said that de-
portant to take precautions, sion Hospital, said in an in- pending on the nature of the state.
experts say. terview Friday. incident, a law enforcement
agency should seek addi- “The official narrative
Staying home when sick, Some California hospi- tional details when a police
tals have had to set up tents officer applicant discloses was not consistent with the
that they voluntarily sought
mental health treatment, facts,” Pike said.
particularly if the incident
involved violence or suicidal Two people with deep
ideation.
knowledge of the Virginia
“Because law enforce-
ment is empowered to use State Police’s internal sys-
violence when they deem it
necessary, force may be re- tems and protocols, who
quired to take a suspect into
custody,” Pelfrey said. “So were granted anonymity be-
you want somebody who has
really good, objective judg- cause they fear retaliation
ment in when to use a force
with a suspect. for speaking to the news

“If someone has a history media, verified the records’
of violence against themself
or others, then their objec- authenticity.

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ROBERT C. TOTH, 1929 - 2022 OBITUARY NOTICES

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R obert C. Toth, a AGATEP, Aurora Oropilla MCNEIL, Albert. J. CONNOLLY, Joseph M
veteran Los An-
geles Times re- July 5, 1928 - December 1, 2022 February 14, 1920 - November 29, 2022 March 15, 1937 - September 30, 2022
porter and for- Joseph Michael Connolly, beloved
eign correspond- Aurora Oropilla Agatep, 94, of The Heavenly Choir of Angels put out husband and father, passed away
Pasadena, California, passed away the call for a new director and Albert in Santa Monica, CA, on September
ent who was swept into the peacefully on December 1, 2022. John McNeil, the founder and longtime 30, 2022, at age 85. He was born in
director of the Albert McNeil Jubilee Inchicore, Dublin, Ireland, the son of
headlines when he was ar- Aurora was born the 4th of eight Singer of Los Angeles, answered the Patrick and Catherine Connolly. After
children to parents Jose Oropilla call on November 29, 2022. Albert leaving Ireland in his teens, he lived
rested and interrogated for and Maria Fortich on July 5, 1928 was living in Rancho Mirage, California in London and Toronto, and worked
in the small town of Sison, province with his friends Rafael Ceron, Bill on cruise ships that took him all over
days by KGB agents on of Pangasinan, Philippines. She Deacon, and Donald Knapp when he the world. He moved to New York
grew up with a large family: six passed on to his life above. in the early 1960s where he met his
trumped-up espionage brothers—Conrado, Ricardo, Alfonso, wife, Teresa, and had three children.
Salvador, Napoleon and Quintin; and Albert McNeil came into this world The family lived in New York, New
charges, has died at his one sister—Josefina. on February 14. 1920. His mother Jersey, and Arizona before settling
was Rodia McNeil, and his father was in Santa Monica, CA. Joe worked for
home in Maryland. As a teenager, she survived the John McNeil, both famous vaudeville many years as a professional waiter
hardships of World War II which entertainers that settled in the Los and bartender, including at The Brown
An award-winning jour- delayed her education. In 1952, she Angeles area known as Watts. Derby in Hollywood and Chasen’s in
graduated with Honors from the Beverly Hills.
nalist who was among those University of the Philippines, obtaining Albert spent his early childhood Throughout his life, Joe was blessed
her Bachelor of Science in Biology. in Los Angeles with his parents with abundant energy and curiosity,
whose work helped lift The In 1956, she earned a Bachelor of John and Rodia McNeil, who made an unrivaled work ethic, and a
Science in Education, from University a living as vaudeville entertainers. marvelous sense of humor. He felt a
Times to prominence, Toth of Pangasinan. One of Albert’s childhood memories deep connection to Ireland and visited
was seeing musicians such as Louis countless times. He loved singing,
died Sunday of heart failure, While in college, Aurora met and Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Lionel telling stories, cooking, watching
then married Candido Agatep in 1955. Hampton over at their house often for football, and spending time with
said his son-in-law Craig Five months later, Candido travelled to dinner. At 8 years old, Albert’s parents his family. Joe continued doing the
the United States to seek opportunities started him with music lessons, and things he loved, including traveling
Whitlock, a reporter for the Toth Family for the two of them. In 1957, with they would quickly learn their son and working well into his 80’s, right up
money Candido had saved, Aurora possessed a natural talent for piano. until his sudden passing. He is missed
Washington Post. He was 93. FAMILY MAN joined him in Los Angeles. By 14, he was hired as a pianist at beyond measure by his loving family.
Robert C. Toth with his family in London in June 1977 the local church and by his junior year Joe is survived by his wife of sixty
Toth was on the front Aurora cherished both family and of high school, Albert had become years, Teresa Connolly, his children
after being freed by Soviet Union officials on false career. After having two children in the Director of the Youth Choir at The Joseph Connolly, Adrienne Connolly
lines for many of the most vi- charges of espionage while working for The Times. two years, Aurora enrolled at the People’s Independent Church of Christ Spangler (Jon), and David Connolly,
University of Southern California and in Los Angeles. and his brother, Tony Connolly (Marie),
tal stories of the second half graduated in 1960 with a Master of as well as nephews and nieces in the
Science Degree in Biology, accepting Albert earned his bachelor and U.S. and Ireland. He is buried alongside
of the 20th century — the a research position that year at master’s degrees in music education his parents and his siblings who passed
Caltech with a focus on plant growth at the University of California, Los before him, in Mount Jerome Cemetery
early days of the space pro- hormones. Angeles (UCLA), and did his Doctoral in Dublin, Ireland.
studies at the University of Southern
gram, the Nixon White what was to come. Columbia, were he studied While always speaking fondly of her California (USC), Westminster Choir In Memoriam
Then, just as quickly as journalism. He landed at the research, Aurora turned her talents College of Princeton, and the University
House, the arms race, the Providence Journal as a re- towards teaching. In 1968, she began of Lausanne, Switzerland. Prior to Josephine Roseanne
he’d been whisked off the porter and then moved to her new career with the Norwalk-La Albert’s enrollment in UCLA, he had Rescigno
Iran-Contra scandal and the streets, Toth was told he the New York Herald Trib- Mirada School District at Reginald M. met two musicians, Hall Johnson and
could leave the country. une and the New York Benton Middle School. She transferred Jester Hairston. They were composers March 19, 1943 - December 14, 2018
Soviet Union’s unsparing re- Times’ Washington bureau. to William N. Neff High School in 1979, as well as conductors of spirituals. They Dear Josephine,
“It ended on a ludicrous He was hired by the Los An- then to John Glenn High School in 1981 welcomed Albert with “open arms” Four years ago today, you were
pression of dissidents. note” in later wrote in a first- geles Times in 1963. where she remained happily for the into their musical fraternity. taken by Angels to God. I try to find
person account of his ordeal. remainder of her career. words to describe you, but it seems
“Bob Toth was not only a He said a member of the So- Toth returned to his In the early 50s, Albert met Helen impossible. You took your family from
viet news agency Tass asked hometown in 1990 to take During her 38 years of teaching, Katherine Rambo at his local church. a 2-room attic in New Haven, CT to a
gifted journalist, but a seri- if he’d been treated fairly and stock of its blemished envi- Aurora’s teaching skills were Al and Helen created a close bond beautiful home in Beverly Hills. I am
wondered whether he would ronment. At first glance, he recognized and awarded many times. and eventually married. With Helen’s changing the words of the song, “One
ous scholar as well,” said someday enjoy returning to wrote, much had improved. Her most memorable award was one companionship and support, The in a Million” to “One in a 100 Million”.
the country. The mines were gone. The of national recognition at Dodger Albert Mc Neil Singers started to take Jesus of Nazareth, please send regards
Doyle McManus, a Washing- towering piles of coal sludge Stadium for Teacher Appreciation Day, shape. Albert and Helen had a son to Jo-Jo from James Street.
Toth said he bit his had been leveled and turned in 1996, to which she proudly wore her together, whom they named Richard.
ton columnist for The Times tongue. But his escort from into baseball diamonds. The John Glenn High School sweatshirt. Al is survived by his son Richard McNeil, Tom Doolan
the U.S. Embassy did not. carp, and even some trout, She was a much loved teacher-adviser a prominent attorney in Orange
who worked with Toth. “He had returned to the river. to the Asian and Pacific Islander Club, County, and three grandchildren: December 14, 1975 - February 19, 2013
“You forcibly detain him, helping tirelessly with fundraising, Joseph, James and Ava. Preceding him Loved you, Baby.
was proudest not of his Mos- interrogate him without al- But another environ- mentoring and supporting teenage in death is his sister Dorothyea Hanley. Always will.
lowing an American official mental hazard had arrived students through personal struggles. Other family members surviving Albert Priscilla, Alida & Deakie
cow reporting, but of an im- to be present, accuse him of in the form of toxic waste are his niece and nephew Robin Hanley
collecting secret political that out-of-state factories To the dismay of her students, James and Chester H. Hanley. Don’t let the
portant 1990 article on U.S. and military information … were trucking to Throop and faculty and the principal at John Glenn story go untold.
and you ask if it was fair?” illegally pumping into the High School, Aurora retired from her After spending 22 years in the Los
nuclear strategy he co-au- abandoned mine shafts. notable career, at age 78. Retirement Angeles Unified School District, Albert Share your
After Toth returned to Meanwhile, garbage from allowed her time to spend with her took advantage of the opportunity to loved one’s story.
thored for International Se- The Times’ Washington bu- Philadelphia, New York and grandchildren, tend her garden, teach on the college level. In 1968, Dr.
reau, Shcharansky was sen- New Jersey was being travel with her husband and enjoy her McNeil was invited to the University of placeanad.latimes.com/obituaries
curity, a professional journal tenced to 13 years in prison hauled to the small town and hobbies of needlepoint and crochet. California at Davis to become a part of
but later released in a pris- dumped on its outskirts. Her beautiful crocheted tablecloths the Music Education Program. After In partnership with
published by MIT.” oner swap in1986. Shcharan- “We call the Throop dump were prized gifts for family, friends helping to develop the program, he
sky now lives in Israel. the ‘magic mountain’ be- and churches in the Philippines. became head of the Music Department Share a
In June 1977, after wrap- cause it grew so fast,” one In addition, Aurora together with and Director of Choral activities for 21 memory
The son of a coal miner, resident told Toth. Candido established the Agatep- years. He took the U.C. Davis chorus to
ping up a three-year stint as Toth grew up in Throop, Pa., Oropilla Foundation, a nonprofit England, France, Russia, China, Tahiti,
a small, sooty coal town near Along the way, Toth won organization to promote education and Australia. While at UC Davis, Albert
a Times correspondent in Scranton. His grandparents numerous awards for his within the poorer and more remote spent 10 years as the Director of the
both suffered from black- work, including the George regions of the Philippines. Sacramento Chorale and co-founded
the Soviet Union, Toth was lung disease and he wrote Polk Award for his reporting the Sacramento Symphony Chorus.
that early death was a com- in Moscow and Georgetown Aurora is survived by daughter
preparing to leave the coun- mon fate in Throop. Acid University’s Weintal Prize Angeli (spouse Malcolm), sons In addition to his teaching and
fumes drifted in the air, blis- for his work with McManus Clarence (spouse Grace) and Arthur work with the Jubilee Singers,
try with his wife and three tering the paint off of homes. on CIA operations in Central (partner Claire); and grandchildren McNeil was active in the church choir
Yellow sulfurous wastewater America. After retiring from Zoe, Bowen, Mason, Quinn, Phillip, community in the greater Los Angeles
young children when he was poured into the Lacka- The Times in 1993, he served and Elisa. She was predeceased by her area. He was Minister of Music at the
wanna River and bodies of as a fellow with the Pew Re- son, Patrick in 1965 and by her beloved Congregational Church of Christian
handed an envelope suppos- miners who died in cave-ins search Center for The Peo- husband Candido, in September, 2022. Fellowship for over 30 years, as well as
or explosions were placed in ple & The Press. the Director of Music at the Founders
edly containing state docu- wagons and delivered to -Visitation will be Dec. 21 at Forest Church of Religious Science.
loved ones, along with $100 Toth is survived by Paula Lawn Main Mortuary Building, 1712
ments from a person he be- for burial expenses. Goldberg Toth, his wife of 68 S. Glendale Ave., 2nd Floor, Room #6, The Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers
years; daughters Jessica Glendale, from 10:00AM-2:00PM. brought the beauty of the African
lieved was a Soviet re- Toth enlisted in the Mar- Toth and Jennifer Toth; son American spiritual music to countless
ine Corps. after World War II John Toth; sister Barbara -A funeral mass will occur Dec. 21 thousands of people around the
searcher. He was immedi- ended and got out of Polovitch and five grandchil- at Cristo Rey Catholic Church, 4343 world including Kings, Queens, Popes
Throop. He attended Wash- dren. Perlita Ave., Los Angeles, at 1:00PM, and other world leaders leaving
ately grabbed by four KGB ington University in St. Lou- followed by internment at Forest Lawn listeners speechless and nonetheless
is on the GI Bill and then Glendale. influenced. The Albert McNeil Jubilee
agents and hustled off to earned a master’s degree at Singers have toured over 77 countries
To honor Aurora’s focus on helping and 48 of the 50 states, educating and
Moscow’s notorious Le- students achieve their full potential, entertaining vast audiences. In Al’s
the family requests that in lieu of words, it was his mission to share the
fortovo Prison. flowers or gifts, please donate monies Negro Spiritual’s beauty and message
to or volunteer at your local public of an illiterate people with the world”.
Accused of being a spy, school. Every performance brought people to
their feet and moved so many to tears.
Toth was interrogated for BERMUDEZ, Carlos
What Albert accomplished was
days by his unsmiling cap- Born in El Cargadero, Jerez, nothing short of a miracle! He
Zacatecas, Mexico on May 17, 1933, brought people together to experience
tors, who pressed him re- Carlos Bermudez passed away America’s 1st and only true art form.
peacefully in his sleep on December Albert will go down as one of the
peatedly about his contact 4, 2022 in his Los Angeles home at greatest choral conductors to walk this
89 years old. Carlos is survived by planet for those reasons.
with Soviet dissidents, par- his wife, Evangelina; his brother,
Dr. Ignacio Bermudez; 5 children: We thank, praise, and cherish Albert
ticularly Jewish human Sergio, Carlos, Rosario, Armando, and John Joseph McNeil for all of his hard
Eugenia; 16 grandchildren; and 9 great work and talent he has shared with
rights activist Anatoly grandchildren. us. Albert had a mission to spread the
beauty of his music across the globe. It
Shcharansky. Toth later One of seven siblings, Carlos worked is safe to say Albert accomplished that
various warehouse, farming, and goal and so much more. This is a legacy
wrote that he quickly real- factory jobs to support his household. that will be left, but not forgotten.
He maintained a lifelong love of The Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers
ized the espionage charge nature inspired by growing up in the will continue to share and spread the
mountains. Some of the happiest “good news” of the spiritual and all of
was just a ruse to get him to days of his early life were spent on its promises.
horseback in the Mexican mountains
detail his association with forging trails. In 1958, Carlos married A viewing will be held at the White
Eva and in 1967 the couple purchased and Day Center in Redondo Beach
Shcharansky. their Lincoln Heights home where they on Thursday December 15, 2022,
together raised a family that was the from 4:00pm to 7:00pm. A Mass in
Toth’s arrest made head- pride and joy of Carlos’life. celebration of Albert’s life will held at
St. James Catholic Church in Redondo
lines around the world and Carlos touched all he knew with Beach, California, on Saturday
his kindness, humor, and storytelling December 17, 2022 at 10:00 AM.
drew rebukes from the White ability - quick to offer fruit to and The burial will be at Inglewood Park
discuss life lessons with neighbors, Cemetery, in Inglewood, California.
House and State Depart- passersby or friends. Carlos will be
missed by many, but the seeds he
ment. Supporters gathered planted (both figuratively and literally)
will live on for the ages.
in vigil outside the prison. As
Carlos’ funeral service will be held
he was being interrogated, on Friday, December 16, 2022 at 10:30
am at Sacred Heart Catholic Church
his family worried about in Lincoln Heights. In lieu of flowers,
donations in memory of Carlos can
Mountain lion P-22 doesn’t be directed to Sacred Heart Catholic
look likely to return to wild Church.

[Mountain lion, from B1] or animals are hit by cars, P-22 previously survived FOYGELMAN, Irina To sign a guest book
Veterinarian Winston that trauma will take a while mange after eating an ani- please go to
to manifest,” said Deanna mal that had ingested rat Mount Sinai Memorial Parks
Vickers from the UC Davis Clifford, a senior veterinari- poison. The big cat showed Hollywood Hills 800-600-0076 latimes.com/guestbooks
Wildlife Health Center said an with the California De- up on trail-camera footage www.mountsinaiparks.org
he has observed mountain partment of Fish and Wild- looking gaunt, his tail as thin
lions change their behavior life. “So an eye injury always as a pipe cleaner. Biologists Stories live on.
as they age and suffer from makes us a little worried trapped him, treated him Tell theirs.
issues such as tooth prob- about additional head with topical medications
lems and difficulties in tack- trauma that we’re not quite and vitamin K injections Share your loved one’s story.
ling their normal prey. sure of yet.” and released him.
placeanad.latimes.com/obituaries
“I don’t know if you’ve P-22 will undergo more At the time, only two
ever seen any video of a tests, officials said, includ- other cougars studied by the In partnership with
mountain lion attacking a ing a CT scan to check for ad- federal government had
deer, but it is a rigorous ex- ditional injuries and condi- contracted mange, and both
perience for everyone, in- tions. Those tests will help died. But P-22 made a full re-
cluding the mountain lion,” determine what comes next covery.
Vickers said. “I mean, they for the celebrated cat.
have all the aches and pains Sarah Picchi, who owns
and arthritis and things that Mountain lions do not the home where P-22 was
we have ... [and] it can get typically do well when relo- captured Monday, said she
more and more difficult to cated outside their estab- is hopeful his story has a
achieve their normal prey lished territory, in part be- happy ending.
capture.” cause they come into con-
flict with other lions, Pert “My husband and I hope
P-22 recovered well after said. P-22 is safe,” Picchi said.
being tranquilized Monday “Like the rest of L.A., we’re
and removed from a Los Fe- With those consider- just rooting for him.”
liz yard, wildlife officials ations, the options for P-22
said. He was given fluids, vi- seem to be either a sanctu- But the fate of the city’s
tamins and antibiotics and ary or euthanasia if his favorite mountain lion will
was resting comfortably at a health assessment “comes rest in the hands of a team
veterinarian’s office. back very poor,” he said. from the National Park
Service and Fish and Wild-
But initial exams showed Each option has draw- life, as well as outside veteri-
that the cat was in poor backs. narians, Pert said.
shape; he is significantly
underweight, and his fur is “Unfortunately, wild Jordan Traverso, a
thinning, officials said. adult mountain lions don’t spokesperson for Fish and
do very well in captivity, typi- Wildlife, said biologists are
“Video evidence we re- cally,” Pert said. “There will hoping for the best.
ceived ... was showing this have to be an evaluation of
thinning of hair, potential how P-22 behaves under “Everybody understands
muscle loss from his old age those types of conditions.” the importance of this ani-
likely, also potential mange,” mal to the community and to
Jeff Sikich, a biologist with Should tests show that California,” Traverso said.
the National Park Service, the cat’s health decline is se- “And so, if [euthanasia is]
said Tuesday. vere, euthanasia would be the kind of decision that has
“the most humane out- to be made ... it’s not some-
P-22 also has an injury to come,” he said. “We’re just thing that’s taken lightly.”
the right eye, probably the trying to do what’s best for
result of recent vehicular P-22, and that’s often a diffi- Times staff writers Laura J.
trauma, officials said. cult call, just like when Nelson and Gregory Yee
you’re dealing with a pet.” contributed to this report.
“Sometimes when people

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Today in Southern California Today in North America

Dry and cool: High pressure will remain in control today. After another cold start, temperatures will rise a Heavy snow, severe thunderstorms: Thunderstorms, some severe, will
couple of degrees higher than on Tuesday. Moisture spilling eastward from a system over the Pacific will bring march through the lower Mississippi Valley, while rain showers accom-
high clouds periodically today and tonight. The clouds may thicken up at times Thursday as the disturbance pany a cold front to the north. On the north and west sides of this storm,
moves inland from the Pacific, but it will remain dry. snow will continue, with 2 feet accumulating in parts of the Dakotas.

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mostly west at 1-4 feet. 64/43 Beach Temecula
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beaches and low at S.B. County Beach 34 9 -- 32 21 Su 43 32 -- 43 31 Pc
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Clemente Albuquerque 20 5 .06 22 19 Sn Tampa 53 38 .05 52 30 Su
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63/37 Burlington, Vt. 57 42 -- 61 58 Cy Amsterdam
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Bruins eye wins against top-25 teams

Kevin M. Cox Associated Press [UCLA, from B10]
marquee victory, but the
HOUSTON’S Tramon Mark loses the ball against a Bruins won’t get many more
double team by North Carolina A&T defenders. chances to significantly en-
hance their resume after
TOP 25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL this week given a mostly
meh Pac-12 Conference that
Miller, No. 4 Alabama includes only one other na-
hold on, beat Memphis tionally ranked team in No. 9
Arizona.
associated press Results John McCoy Associated Press
Playing Maryland could
Brandon Miller scored MEN’S TOP 25 have a conference feel, given UCLA GUARD David Singleton, a Los Angeles native, had to query a teammate
24 points, including 21 in the No. 4 Alabama 91, Memphis 88 that the game will be played for advice on what kind of coat he should buy for his team’s chilly East Coast trip.
second half, to lead No. 4 Al- No. 5 Houston 74, North Carolina A&T 46 on the same day that Uni-
abama to a 91-88 victory over No. 9 Arizona 99, Texas A&M Corpus Christi 61 versity of California regents 16 UCLA at Andrews have since cor- Flying into the bitter cold
Memphis on Tuesday night decide UCLA’s fate as a fu- 20 Maryland nered the market on the could make Singleton feel as
in Tuscaloosa, Ala. OTHER PAC-12 ture member of the Big Ten Pac-12 freshman of the week if he’s arrived on Mars. He
Utah 91, Texas San Antonio 70 Conference. The teams are When: Tonight, 6 PST award, Bailey winning the said he would query team-
Miller hit a three-pointer Washington 74, Cal Poly 68 scheduled to play again next Where: College Park, Md. award twice and Andrews mate Mac Etienne, a New
and then dunked after re- season at Pauley Pavilion TV: FS1 once. York native, for advice on
bounding his own miss on at No. 5 Houston 74, and could make it an annual what brand of coat he
the next possession in the fi- North Carolina A&T 46: affair as a conference game gleton said. “We can’t play a They have hardly ar- should buy.
nal two minutes for the Ja’Vier Francis had career starting in 2024-25. perfect game — no one ever rived, given that improve-
Crimson Tide (9-1), who highs of 17 points and 15 re- has — but if you make one ment in young players is “I have no idea what to
have the program’s highest bounds, Marcus Sasser Cronin and Maryland mistake, you can’t com- rarely linear and college get,” Singleton said.
ranking in 15 years. scored 17 points, and the counterpart Kevin Willard pound it by making another basketball is filled with vet-
Cougars (10-1) rebounded are already old pals after mistake or the snowball ef- erans eager to humble those After playing Maryland,
Led by Kendric Davis’ from their first loss to rout having spent two seasons fect will happen.” using the game as a momen- the Bruins are scheduled to
30 points, the Tigers (8-3) the Aggies (4-5). together as assistants tary stopover on the way to take a train to New York, the
stayed alive most of the way under coach Rick Pitino at Cronin’s lengthy rant the NBA. team reserving its own com-
in their bid for a second up- at No. 9 Arizona 99, Louisville. Those formative that could be heard two partment as part of a jour-
set of a top-10 Alabama team Texas A&M Corpus Christi years are reflected in their rooms away after the loss to “This is hard, especially ney that could take on a
in as many years. 61: Azuolas Tubelis had 20 teams. Just like Cronin’s Baylor had its intended ef- now with sixth-year players, “Planes, Trains and Auto-
points and 13 rebounds, and Bruins, Willard’s Terrapins fect, his team rolling off five fifth-year players. Teams mobiles” feel.
Alabama climbed into the Wildcats (9-1) made a play a brand of defense that consecutive victories. don’t have to rebuild with
the top five this week after season-best 15 three-point- makes teams uncomfort- young guys, they just get “Let’s hope John Candy
becoming the first team to ers in defeating the Island- able and often takes away Amari Bailey and Dylan [transfer] portal guys,” doesn’t come back from the
beat two No. 1 teams — ers (5-5). Tubelis, a 6-foot-11 their top scoring options. Cronin said. “How many dead,” Cronin cracked of the
North Carolina and Hous- junior from Lithuania, be- freshmen even play in late actor, “and he’s not on
ton — before January since came the 53rd player in Maryland’s personnel America? You know, it’s our train.”
Duke in the 1965-66 season. school history to reach 1,000 also might look familiar to tough, you’re 18 playing
Mark Sears added 18 points. career points. UCLA fans. The Terrapins against 22-year-olds. I Maybe that wouldn’t be
have a savvy, playmaking mean, it’s a different world.” the worst thing. Candy
SOUTHLAND point guard in Jahmir eventually reached his des-
Young and a tough, versatile tination.
MEN TONIGHT guard masquerading as a
power forward in Donta
No. 16 UCLA at No. 20 Maryland .................................................... 6 Scott, a stylistic clone of the
UC Riverside at Oregon .................................................................... 6 Bruins’ Jaime Jaquez Jr.
Long Beach State at USC ................................................................ 8
“He shoots threes, he
drives the ball, he gives
them unbelievable tough-
ness. He’s a winner,” Cronin
said of Scott, and by exten-
sion Jaquez.

A decisive edge in experi-
ence belongs to the Terra-
pins, who start two gradu-
ate transfers, two seniors
and a sophomore. They
should provide a good gauge
of how much UCLA’s mix of
two seniors, a junior and two
freshman starters has
grown since wilting in its
first games against nation-
ally ranked teams. The Bru-
ins couldn’t handle Illinois’
pressure and failed to ad-
equately defend or execute
in the final minutes against
Baylor.

“We learned we can’t
compound a mistake,” Sin-

LATIMES.COM B7S WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2022

NBA STANDINGS Lakers run out of gas late in loss

Standings have been arranged to reflect how the teams will be [Lakers, from B10] and Davis giving the Lakers a lot and
determined for the playoffs. Teams are ranked 1-15 by record. The top going to be needed. But a furious 18-0 the supporting class scuffling to
six teams in each conference qualify for the playoffs. Teams seven run in the second half flipped the make an impact around them in the
through 10 will participate in a play-in tournament with the top- game on its head, putting the Lakers first half.
seeded play-in team meeting the lowest qualifying play-in team. The in front while the Celtics chased.
next-lowest qualifying team would play the second, etc. Head-to- But like so much with the Lakers
head competition is the first of several tiebreakers, followed by con- But Davis missed two key free this season, figuring out what would
ference record. (Western Conference divisions: S-Southwest; P-Pa- throws, the Lakers’ offense went ice happen next was a mystery.
cific; N-Northwest; Eastern Conference divisions: A-Atlantic; C-Cen- cold in overtime and the Boston
tral; S-Southeast). Celtics came all the way back to win At shootaround Tuesday morn-
122-118 in overtime — a classic game in ing, James said the game against the
WESTERN CONFERENCE the team’s regular-season history Celtics would be one of their biggest
but a brutal finish considering the tests.
Team W L PCT GB L10 Rk. position the Lakers were in after
coming all the way back. “A lot of great teams in our league
1. Memphis 18 9 .667 8-2 S2 and they happen to be one of them,”
Davis had 37 points and 12 re- James said. “That first game off a
1. New Orleans 18 9 .667 8-2 S1 bounds, James had 33, nine re- road trip is always tough so it’s good
bounds and nine assists, and West- when you’ve got to be even more
3. Denver 16 10 .615 11⁄2 6-4 N1 brook had 20 points and 14 rebounds locked in with a team that you know
off the bench. But it wasn’t enough as is really good.”
4. Phoenix 16 12 .571 21⁄2 4-6 P1 Jayson Tatum scored 44 for the Celt-
ics. The Lakers, of course, got off to a
5. Portland 15 12 .556 3 5-5 N2 slow start.
The loss, like that win against the
6. CLIPPERS 16 13 .552 3 5-5 P2 Bucks, showed the Lakers could The Celtics, fresh off a blowout
credibly fight with the NBA’s best. loss to the Clippers the night before
7. Sacramento 14 12 .538 31⁄2 4-6 P3 But unlike the game in Milwaukee, and ending a long trip, played with
the Lakers’ flaws were evident early an unmatched energy early. They
8. Utah 16 14 .533 31⁄2 4-6 N3 as the Celtics easily pushed ahead. scored on easy layups, opening
things up from the three-point arc
9. Dallas 14 13 .519 4 5-5 S3 It seemed like the latest piece of where they quickly got hot.
information that would make the
10. Golden State 14 14 .500 41⁄2 6-4 P4 Lakers’ next move murky. Tatum, who had struggled
some over the Celtics’ last three
11. Minnesota 13 14 .481 5 4-6 N4 Everything that’s happened this games, started to just shoot over de-
12. LAKERS 11 16 .423 7 5-5 P5 season up to and including their 27th fenders.
13. Oklahoma City 11 16 .407 7 4-6 N5 game of the season Tuesday has
14. Houston 9 18 .333 9 6-4 S5 been to make it clear whether this But if it was predictable that the
14. San Antonio 9 18 .333 9 3-7 S4 roster is worth investing into or not Lakers would open the game carry-
— and that 20-point early deficit ing some of the road with them, it
EASTERN CONFERENCE joined some big chunks of the sea- was probably a sure bet that the road
son, when that answer seemed like would catch up with Boston, too.
Team W L PCT GB L10 Rk. an obvious “no.”
7-3 A1 The Lakers’ defense slowly tight-
1. Boston 22 7 .759 Injuries and consistency issues ened after giving up 37 first-quarter
1 8-2 C1 for James and Davis were enough to points, absolutely smothering Bos-
2. Milwaukee 20 7 .741 41⁄2 5-5 C2 dampen even the most optimistic. ton for huge chunks of the second
5 8-2 A2 Supporting cast growing pains could half as the Lakers turned a 20-point
3. Cleveland 17 11 .607 6 6-4 A3 easily have been assigned to lack of deficit into a 13-point lead in the
7 6-4 A4 talent as much as they could have to fourth.
4. Brooklyn 17 12 .586 71⁄2 3-7 S1 fit or role. And the obvious roster
71⁄2 3-7 C3 questions led to obvious issues. But Tatum heated up again,
5. Philadelphia 15 12 .556 8 4-6 A5 pushing Boston closer as the Celtics
81⁄2 6-4 S2 Critics of the Lakers’ guard- started their sprint to the finish. The
6. New York 14 13 .519 heavy roster this offseason said they Celtics closed to within two on a Mar-
were too small. Tuesday, unsurpris- cus Smart triple and tied the score
7. Atlanta 14 14 .500 on a Tatum jumper after Davis’ miss-
es — forcing overtime.
7. Indiana 14 14 .500

9. Toronto 13 14 .481

10. Miami 13 15 .464

11. Chicago 11 15 .423 91⁄2 5-5 C4 Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times
12. Washington 11 17 .393 101⁄2 1-9 S3
13. Orlando 8 20 .286 131⁄2 3-7 S4 CELTICS GUARD Marcus Smart, last season’s defensive player
14. Charlotte 7 20 .259 14 3-7 S5 of the year, strips Lakers forward Anthony Davis of the ball.
15. Detroit 7 22 .241 15 3-7 C5

TUESDAY’S RESULTS ingly, they were beaten up on the peak of the roster (leaving the base to
glass and shot over on the perimeter. be made up of players signed with
Bstn. 122, LAKERS 118 (OT) Philad. 123, Sacramento 103 roster exceptions).
Houston 111, Phoenix 97 Milwaukee 128, Golden State 111 Critics also pointed to the roster
Utah 121, New Orleans 100 imbalance — the necessity for all And for as much the as Lakers’
three of the team’s stars to play well win in Milwaukee could ease those
TODAY’S GAMES because so much of the team’s avail- concerns, they were back in the fore-
able money was committed to the ground again Tuesday with James
Favorite Line Underdog Time

at CLIPPERS 6 Minnesota 7 p.m.

at Orlando OFF Atlanta 4 p.m.

at Charlotte 4 Detroit 4 p.m.

at Indiana OFF Golden State 4 p.m. CELTICS 122, LAKERS 118, OT 76ers 123, Kings 103 Bucks 128, Warriors 111 Rockets 111, Suns 97 Jazz 121, Pelicans 100

at Toronto OFF Sacramento 4:30 p.m. BOSTON SACRAMENTO GOLDEN STATE PHOENIX NEW ORLEANS

at Chicago OFF New York 4:30 p.m. Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T

Miami 3 at Oklahoma City 5 p.m. Brown .............42 10-21 2-4 2-15 5 4 25 Barnes ............30 4-12 2-2 1-8 2 1 11 D.Green ...........23 1-3 0-0 0-6 7 2 2 Bridges............38 4-24 8-8 1-3 3 3 18 Murphy III ........24 0-7 0-1 0-0 2 1 0

Portland 61⁄2 at San Antonio 5 p.m. Tatum..............43 15-29 9-10 1-9 6 1 44 Murray.............20 1-5 0-0 0-2 1 3 3 Thompson........27 6-16 0-0 1-1 2 1 14 Craig...............29 2-9 2-2 5-12 2 2 7 Williamson .......25 10-16 6-10 3-9 5 3 26
at Denver OFF
Washington 6 p.m. Griffin..............23 3-11 0-0 1-5 3 3 6 Sabonis...........29 8-10 6-7 4-10 5 4 22 Looney ............18 2-4 1-2 4-8 1 3 5 Ayton ..............14 2-10 1-1 3-3 0 2 5 Valanciunas......19 6-13 3-4 5-6 1 5 15

Smart..............42 7-17 0-0 1-5 6 4 18 Fox .................29 5-15 2-4 0-4 1 2 13 Curry...............27 6-17 5-5 2-6 1 0 20 Paul ................37 5-17 4-4 1-6 7 2 16 Jones ..............20 2-5 2-2 0-0 2 1 6

at Dallas 11⁄2 Cleveland 6 p.m. White ..............26 4-7 0-0 0-1 0 1 10 Huerter............23 3-8 0-0 0-0 1 1 7 Poole ..............31 6-17 3-3 0-2 3 2 18 Shamet ...........31 5-13 0-0 2-4 3 3 13 McCollum ........30 6-17 1-3 2-6 0 1 14

Williams ..........30 3-6 0-0 2-5 0 4 9 Monk ..............23 4-10 7-7 0-3 4 0 16 Kuminga ..........27 6-10 4-6 1-1 3 5 19 Lee .................22 2-9 0-0 0-2 1 2 5 Daniels............26 2-4 2-2 1-5 3 2 7

Kornet .............24 1-3 0-2 6-7 1 2 2 Mitchell ...........18 1-8 0-0 1-3 4 1 2 DiVincenzo .......26 5-15 2-3 2-7 2 0 16 Biyombo ..........21 3-3 1-2 3-6 2 3 7 Nance Jr. .........23 2-7 0-0 3-7 3 2 4

Brogdon ..........21 2-6 0-0 0-2 6 2 5 Lyles ...............17 1-4 0-0 1-6 0 1 2 Lamb ..............25 3-5 0-0 1-3 3 1 8 Okogie.............20 4-8 1-1 2-6 3 5 10 Marshall ..........22 2-5 2-2 0-3 2 0 6

Hauser ............10 1-4 0-0 0-2 0 1 3 Davis ..............13 5-8 0-0 2-2 1 2 12 J.Green ............13 1-4 0-0 0-2 0 6 3 Landale ...........11 3-5 1-1 1-1 0 1 7 Alvarado ..........17 1-6 2-5 0-2 3 1 4

LEADERS Totals 46-104 11-16 13-51 27 22 122 Metu.................9 2-6 0-0 2-4 0 0 5 Moody.............10 0-1 0-0 1-1 3 2 0 Payne................8 3-4 0-0 0-0 1 1 9 Hayes................6 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 0 0

Shooting: Field goals, 44.2%; free throws, Okpala ..............7 1-1 0-0 0-1 0 3 3 Baldwin Jr. .........8 2-3 0-0 0-0 0 0 6 Wainright ...........4 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 Hernangomez .....6 3-5 2-2 0-1 2 0 9
68.8%
Through Tuesday Ellis ..................6 0-1 0-0 0-1 1 1 0 Totals 38-95 15-19 12-37 25 22 111 Totals 33-103 18-19 18-44 22 24 97 Lewis Jr..............6 1-4 2-2 0-1 0 1 4
Three-point goals: 19-48 (Tatum 5-10, Smart 4-11,
Williams 3-5, Brown 3-7, White 2-4, Brogdon 1-2, Holmes .............6 3-4 0-0 1-3 0 0 7 Shooting: Field goals, 40.0%; free throws, 78.9% Shooting: Field goals, 32.0%; free throws, 94.7% Temple ..............6 1-1 0-0 1-2 1 0 3
Hauser 1-4, Griffin 0-5). Team Rebounds: 10. Team Three-point goals: 20-50 (DiVincenzo 4-10, Kuminga 3-5, Three-point goals: 13-51 (Payne 3-4, Shamet 3-11, Bridges
SCORING Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 2 (Kornet, Tatum). Queta................2 0-0 0-0 1-1 1 3 0 Poole 3-7, Curry 3-10, Baldwin Jr. 2-3, Lamb 2-4, Thompson 2-10, Paul 2-10, Okogie 1-3, Craig 1-5, Lee 1-5, Ayton 0-1, Graham .............5 1-2 0-0 0-0 1 0 2
Turnovers: 14 (Brown 4, Tatum 4, Smart 3, Brogdon 2, 2-7, J.Green 1-4). Team Rebounds: 5. Blocked Shots: 2 (Curry, Landale 0-1, Wainright 0-1). Team Rebounds: 6. Team Turn-
G FG FT PTS AVG Hauser). Steals: 6 (Brown 3, Smart 2, Williams). Tech- Totals 38-92 17-20 13-48 21 22 103 Lamb). Turnovers: 18. Steals: 7 (DiVincenzo 2, Lamb 2, Curry, overs: 1. Blocked Shots: 7 (Biyombo 3, Okogie 2, Landale, Totals 37-93 22-33 15-43 25 17 100
nical Fouls: Celtics, 1:03 second. Kuminga, Looney). Technical Fouls: Poole, 6:47 first Paul). Turnovers: 9 (Paul 4, Ayton, Biyombo, Bridges, Okogie,
Doncic, Dallas 25 285 186 827 33.1 Shooting: Field goals, 41.3%; free throws, 85.0% Payne). Steals: 13 (Craig 3, Bridges 2, Lee 2, Paul 2, Shamet 2, Shooting: Field goals, 39.8%; free throws, 66.7%
Three-point goals: 10-42 (Davis 2-5, Holmes 1-1, Okpala 1-1, Okogie, Payne). Technical Fouls: Biyombo, 6:14 third. Three-point goals: 4-27 (Temple 1-1, Daniels 1-2, Hernangomez
Gilgeous-Alexander, OKC 25 260 236 780 31.2 Metu 1-3, Murray 1-4, Huerter 1-5, Monk 1-5, Barnes 1-6, Fox 1-7, 1-2, McCollum 1-2, Graham 0-1, Hayes 0-1, Lewis Jr. 0-1, Marshall
Ellis 0-1, Lyles 0-2, Mitchell 0-2). Team Rebounds: 9. Team Turn- 0-1, Jones 0-2, Valanciunas 0-2, Williamson 0-2, Alvarado 0-3,
Antetokounmpo, Milwaukee 22 252 163 685 31.1 overs: None. Blocked Shots: 4 (Mitchell 2, Davis, Murray). Turn- Nance Jr. 0-3, Murphy III 0-4). Team Rebounds: 15. Blocked Shots:
overs: 17. Steals: 5 (Barnes, Fox, Huerter, Monk, Murray). Techni- 3. Turnovers: 17. Steals: 12. Technical Fouls: Nance Jr., 3:44 second
Curry, Golden State 24 245 108 721 30.0 cal Fouls: Kings, 11:24 second. MILWAUKEE

Durant, Brooklyn 28 302 190 840 30.0 LAKERS Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T

Tatum, Boston 27 264 184 801 29.7 Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T G.Antetknmpo...29 9-26 11-17 3-12 5 4 30 HOUSTON UTAH
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Mitchell, Cleveland 24 245 115 696 29.0 James .............42 14-25 2-4 0-9 9 4 33 PHILADELPHIA Middleton ........28 6-13 5-5 0-4 3 2 20 Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T

Walker IV .........23 3-6 0-1 1-3 0 0 7 Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Lopez ..............28 3-5 0-0 0-7 2 4 7 Gordon............22 3-10 2-2 0-3 1 3 10 Markkanen.......30 8-16 1-2 2-11 1 3 19

Davis, LAKERS 23 238 153 638 27.7 Davis ..............46 13-24 11-15 4-12 3 1 37 Harris..............33 9-17 1-1 2-7 9 1 21 Allen ...............27 6-6 2-2 1-4 2 1 16 Smith Jr. ..........29 4-5 3-4 0-8 0 5 14 Olynyk .............16 3-5 0-0 1-5 3 4 6

Morant, Memphis 22 212 147 610 27.7 Beverley...........18 2-5 0-0 0-2 0 1 6 Tucker .............23 2-3 0-0 0-4 0 3 6 Carter..............28 2-3 0-0 1-4 3 1 4 Sengun............28 4-10 2-2 6-16 2 1 10 Vanderbilt ........22 8-9 2-3 8-14 6 5 18

Booker, Phoenix 26 255 142 712 27.4 Schroder..........19 0-2 2-2 0-1 1 2 2 Embiid ............30 10-16 11-13 1-7 2 3 31 Portis ..............32 11-15 2-2 4-11 0 1 25 Green..............37 7-17 11-12 1-7 4 0 26 Clarkson ..........28 4-13 2-2 0-1 3 2 11

Reaves ............35 2-6 0-0 1-4 5 3 4 Harden ............35 7-13 3-6 0-7 15 2 21 Connaughton....19 2-4 4-4 0-3 1 2 9 Porter Jr. ..........33 6-16 4-5 0-5 4 4 18 Conley.............28 2-8 1-1 0-0 6 3 7

REBOUNDS Westbrook........34 7-19 5-6 1-14 5 4 20 Thybulle...........22 5-7 2-3 0-2 0 4 15 Hill .................19 1-1 2-2 1-5 3 1 5 Martin Jr. .........19 3-5 0-0 1-4 0 2 7 Beasley ...........30 8-19 0-0 0-2 4 1 21

G OFF DEF TOT AVG Brown Jr...........30 1-3 0-0 0-3 0 2 2 Milton .............32 5-10 3-3 0-0 3 4 14 Matthews.........13 2-2 0-0 0-1 1 0 5 Eason .............18 3-8 4-4 3-7 0 2 10 Alexndr-Wlkr .....25 7-10 1-2 0-3 6 0 19
212286 12.4
Davis, LAKERS 23 74 194306 12.2 Bryant ...............6 1-1 2-2 0-1 0 0 4 Niang ..............25 4-8 0-0 0-6 3 2 12 Beauchamp .......4 1-4 0-0 2-3 0 1 3 Mathews..........16 2-5 3-3 2-4 1 1 8 Kessler ............23 5-10 1-2 6-16 0 2 11
212303 12.1
Capela, Atlanta 25 112 204249 11.3 Nunn ................6 1-2 0-0 0-0 0 0 3 Korkmaz ..........12 1-3 1-1 0-3 1 1 3 T.Antetokounmpo 2 1-1 0-0 0-0 1 0 2 Nix..................14 2-3 2-2 0-4 1 0 8 Gay.................19 2-6 0-0 1-5 1 0 4
223283 11.3
Gobert, Minnesota 25 91 223316 10.9 Totals 44-93 22-30 7-49 23 17 118 Harrell .............12 0-2 0-0 0-3 1 1 0 A.Green .............2 1-2 0-0 0-0 1 1 2 Garuba............10 0-0 0-0 2-5 1 1 0 Horton-Tucker .....5 2-5 0-0 0-1 1 1 5
222279 10.7
Antetokounmpo, Milwaukee 22 45 Shooting: Field goals, 47.3%; free throws, Reed.................5 0-3 0-0 1-2 0 0 0 Nwora ...............2 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 Fernando ...........9 0-2 0-0 2-4 2 2 0 Agbaji ...............3 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 1 0
73.3%
Springer.............5 0-2 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 Totals 45-82 26-32 12-55 22 18 128 Totals 34-81 31-34 17-67 16 21 111 Azubuike............3 0-0 0-0 1-1 0 1 0
Three-point goals: 8-29 (James 3-11, Beverley 2-3,
Sabonis, Sacramento 25 60 Nunn 1-1, Walker IV 1-1, Westbrook 1-6, Schroder 0-1, Totals 43-84 21-27 4-42 34 21 123 Shooting: Field goals, 54.9%; free throws, 81.3% Shooting: Field goals, 42.0%; free throws, 91.2% Bolmaro ............2 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Brown Jr. 0-2, Davis 0-2, Reaves 0-2). Team Re- Three-point goals: 12-29 (Middleton 3-7, Allen 2-2, Three-point goals: 12-35 (Smith Jr. 3-3, Nix 2-3, Gordon
Zubac, CLIPPERS 29 93 bounds: 10. Team Turnovers: 1. Blocked Shots: 9 Shooting: Field goals, 51.2%; free throws, 77.8% Beauchamp 1-1, Hill 1-1, Matthews 1-1, Lopez 1-2, Connaughton 2-6, Porter Jr. 2-8, Martin Jr. 1-1, Mathews 1-4, Green 1-7, Totals 49-103 8-12 19-59 31 23 121
(Westbrook 4, Reaves 2, Beverley, Davis, James). Turn- Three-point goals: 16-35 (Harden 4-7, Niang 4-8, Thybulle 3-4, 1-3, Portis 1-4, G.Antetokounmpo 1-6, A.Green 0-1, Carter 0-1). Eason 0-3). Team Rebounds: 4. Team Turnovers: 1. Blocked
Vucevic, Chicago 26 57 overs: 11 (James 4, Beverley 2, Westbrook 2, Brown Jr., Tucker 2-3, Harris 2-7, Milton 1-3, Embiid 0-1, Korkmaz 0-2). Team Rebounds: 7. Team Turnovers: 2. Blocked Shots: 5 Shots: 9 (Eason 2, Fernando 2, Gordon 2, Garuba, Sengun, Shooting: Field goals, 47.6%; free throws, 66.7%
Davis, Walker IV). Steals: 7 (James 2, Reaves 2, Brown Team Rebounds: 5. Team Turnovers: 1. Blocked Shots: 4 (Embiid, (Lopez 2, Connaughton, G.Antetokounmpo, Portis). Turnovers: Smith Jr.). Turnovers: 22 (Nix 4, Porter Jr. 4, Eason 3, Gordon 3, Three-point goals: 15-47 (Beasley 5-12, Alexander-Walker 4-6,
ASSISTS Jr., Davis, Westbrook). Technical Fouls: None. Harrell, Harris, Springer). Turnovers: 11. Steals: 10 (Harden 5, Em- 21. Steals: 8 (Carter 3, Connaughton 2, G.Antetokounmpo, Hill, Sengun 3, Green 2, Smith Jr. 2, Martin Jr.). Steals: 6 (Garuba 2, Conley 2-7, Markkanen 2-7, Horton-Tucker 1-3, Clarkson 1-7, Agbaji
biid, Harrell, Harris, Milton, Niang). Technical Fouls: 76ers, 11:47 Matthews). Technical Fouls: Bucks, 5:06 third Porter Jr. 2, Eason, Nix). Technical Fouls: None. 0-1, Gay 0-2, Olynyk 0-2). Team Rebounds: 8. Team Turnovers: 3.
Haliburton, Indiana G AST AVG second. Blocked Shots: 10. Turnovers: 19. Steals: 4. Technical Fouls: Al-
Young, Atlanta 26 280 10.8 exander-Walker, 7:54 second.
Jokic, Denver 25 241 9.6
Doncic, Dallas 23 209 9.1 Boston 37 28 23 22 12— 122 Sacramento 32 23 28 20— 103 Golden State 27 25 25 34— 111 Phoenix 20 15 32 30— 97 New Orleans 30 15 26 29— 100
Garland, Cleveland 25 219 8.8 LAKERS 24 26 32 28 8— 118 Philadelphia 39 41 21 22— 123 Milwaukee 38 26 31 33— 128 Houston 27 27 30 27— 111 Utah 29 23 39 30— 121
22 173 7.9
A—18,661. T—2:29. A—19,768. T—2:14. A—17,628. T—2:22. A—15,128. T—2:11. A—18,206. T—2:14.

Injured Kupp likely NFL NOTES
out rest of season
Cardinals’ Murray out
for year with torn ACL

Rams plan to rest him there’s a 0% chance.” Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times associated press Beasley joins Bills,
for final four games. Kupp has 75 catches this ending retirement
Mayfield will get start RAMS RECEIVER Cooper Kupp, leaping for a pass Kyler Murray’s fourth
Monday at Green Bay. season, six for touchdowns. Nov. 13, has missed four games with an ankle injury. NFL season has been a Receiver Cole Beasley
Wide receiver Allen Rob- lengthy exercise in frustra- ended a brief retirement to
By Gary Klein inson also is on injured re- didn’t bat an eye. Kept com- have a full week to prepare tion and futility. take one more shot at ex-
serve after season-ending peting and moved on to the for the Packers. tending his career by reunit-
Quarterback Baker May- foot surgery. next play.” Now he’s got to deal with ing with Josh Allen and the
field is on track to start the And for the first time in the most serious injury of his Buffalo Bills.
Rams’ last four games, but The absences of Kupp Mayfield completed 22 of weeks, they will practice professional career.
injured star wide receiver and Robinson have created 35 passes for 230 yards and with momentum. Beasley was signed to
Cooper Kupp will not be opportunities for Van Jeffer- the touchdown. During the The Arizona Cardinals Buffalo’s practice squad, re-
catching any of Mayfield’s son, Ben Skowronek, Tutu game-winning drive, a pass- “Confidence can be a big quarterback will miss the re- joining the team that cut
passes. Atwell and Brandon Powell. interference penalty against thing in the NFL,” said Hig- mainder of the year because him in March for salary-cap
the Raiders nullified an in- bee, a seventh-year pro. of a torn ACL suffered on the reasons and after failing in
Coach Sean McVay on Stafford, on injured re- terception and an unsports- “You get a team rolling, that third play of Monday night’s their bid to trade him. The
Tuesday made it clear that serve with what McVay has manlike penalty against the has confidence, you never 27-13 loss to the New England 11th-year player was out of
Kupp, like quarterback described as a spinal cord Raiders afforded Mayfield know what can happen.” Patriots. Coach Kliff Kings- work until being signed to
Matthew Stafford, almost contusion, and Kupp are and the Rams extra bury confirmed the extent of Tampa Bay’s practice squad
certainly will not play again “extensions of the coaching chances. Etc. Murray’s injury Tuesday. in late September.
until the 2023 season. staff right now,” McVay said.
Mayfield made key plays, Defensive lineman Aaron “A difficult year, obvi- The 33-year-old Beasley
“You won’t see Cooper The Rams (4-9) play the delivering a 32-yard pass to Donald sat out the last two ously, from the beginning,“ had four catches for 17 yards
this year,” McVay said dur- Green Bay Packers (5-8) on Skowronek and the touch- games because of a high an- Kingsbury said. in two games with the Buc-
ing a videoconference with Monday night at Lambeau down throw to Jefferson. kle sprain that did not re- caneers before announcing
reporters, adding, “I would Field. quire surgery. Asked Murray was flushed out his retirement Oct. 5.
be hard-pressed to see any Safety Taylor Rapp whether Donald would re- of the pocket and running to
scenario that he would play That will be Mayfield’s sealed the victory with an in- turn to practice this week, his right when he tried to Etc.
again this year.” first start after he came off terception, ending the McVay said, “I wouldn’t rule juke past a defender but
the bench and led the Rams Rams’ six-game losing that out.” ... Wolford prob- tumbled to the grass in obvi- New York Jets quarter-
McVay backtracked a bit to a 17-16 victory over the Las streak. ably will be out this week be- ous pain. Players from both
when asked what went into Vegas Raiders on Thursday cause of a neck injury, McVay teams surrounded the back Mike White said his
the decision to shut down night. The Rams rallied around said. Safety Jordan Fuller quarterback before he was
Kupp, the reigning NFL of- Mayfield and “the energy, (hamstring) “is making carted off the field with a ribs “are good” during a
fensive player of the year About 48 hours after the the fire” that he provided, good progress,” McVay said. towel draped over his head.
who is on injured reserve Rams claimed Mayfield off Rapp said. “Whether that means he ac- team community event.
and has been sidelined for waivers from the Carolina tually will return to play is Kingsbury said he spoke
four games after surgery for Panthers, he came on in re- “The no-flinch, the no- something we’ll talk about.” to Murray after the injury. White was twice forced out of
a high ankle sprain. lief of starter John Wolford in back-down attitude,” Rapp ... The Rams are off Wednes- The coach added that Joe
the first quarter. Mayfield said. “Can’t say enough how day. They will resume prepa- Burrow’s recent recovery the Jets’ 20-12 loss at Buffalo
“It’s just the timing of the engineered two fourth-quar- appreciative we are of that rations for the Packers on from an ACL injury — the
injury and how long it would ter scoring drives, tossing a guy and how much respect Thursday. Cincinnati quarterback tore on Sunday after taking big
take for him to get back to 23-yard touchdown pass to we have for that guy.” his ACL in 2020 before lead-
even being medically cleared Jefferson with 10 seconds left ing the Bengals to the Super hits. ... Cleveland Browns
to return,” McVay said. “He’s for the win. Mayfield and the Rams Bowl in 2021 — gives hope for
making good progress, but a quick turnaround. linebacker Jeremiah
… I still think you’re any- Five days later, Rams
where between three and teammates still were raving It’s unclear whether Mur- Owusu-Koramoah will miss
four weeks away. about Mayfield’s perform- ray will be ready for training
ance. camp next summer. the final four games of the
“I’ve got to be careful
speaking in absolutes. I “His competitive nature “I just wanted to make season after sustaining a left
think it would be surprising helped him get that job done sure he knew how much we
if he was able to play again, — and helped us get that job appreciated him and we’ll foot injury late in Sunday’s
but I don’t want to say done,” tight end Tyler Hig- get through this thing,“
bee said during a videocon- Kingsbury said. “He’s never loss to the Cincinnati Ben-
ference. “And it was impres- been through this type of se-
sive watching him [go] out rious injury, so it’ll be a new gals. ... Pittsburgh Steelers
there and compete. challenge for him.”
quarterback Kenny Pick-
“Things didn’t go his way.
Things didn’t go our way. He ett’s status for this week’s

visit to Carolina is uncertain

after entering the concus-

sion protocol for the second

time in two months. ... The

Atlanta Falcons released

running back Damien

Williams, the veteran who

never returned after a rib in-

jury in his first game with the

team.

B8 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2022 S LATIMES.COM

WORLD CUP SCHEDULE

All times PST Argentina 3, Croatia 0 TV: Channel 11
France vs. Morocco at Al Khor
SEMIFINALS

Tuesday
Today, 11 a.m.

FINALS

Saturday, 7 a.m. Third-place game at Al Rayyan
Sunday, 7 a.m. Championship game at Lusail

WORLD CUP TV Martin Meissner Associated Press

SEMIFINAL MOROCCO VS. FRANCE JULIÁN ÁLVAREZ scores Argentina’s second goal in its World Cup semifinal against Croatia. Argentina
reached its second final in eight years and will attempt to win its first title since 1986, and third overall.
Where: Al Bayt Stadium
Time: 11 a.m. PST Messi, Argentina reach final
TV: Ch. 11, Telemundo, Peacock Premium
The buzz: What an intriguing matchup. The reigning cham- [World Cup, from B10] Petr David Josek Associated Press “Nothing much needs to be
pion in France against upstart Morocco, the first Arab and from the crowd and drinking it said about Messi’s qualities,”
African team to reach the World Cup semifinals. The tourna- in. ARGENTINA’S PLAYERS came together after an Croatian coach Zlatko Dalic
ment’s top scorer in France’s Kylian Mbappe facing a Moroc- opening loss and have been dominant ever since. said. “He’s probably the best
can team that hasn’t allowed an opponent to score in five “What I can say is that I am in the world. And he was again
games. And finally France, a once ruthless colonizer, against enjoying this a lot,” he said af- “We’ve played five finals. mostly by himself. Released today. It was the true Messi
Morocco, a country it once ruled. All the pressure is on ter Tuesday’s win, the hint of a Internally, we were confident by Messi at the halfway line, that we expected to see.”
France, which is playing in the semifinals for the sixth time in smile where a grimace usually that we would make it be- Álvarez charged up the center
its last nine World Cups. Morocco, meanwhile, just the third is. “I am feeling really good. I cause we know how good our of the field, weaving his way Argentina coach Lionel
team outside Europe and South America to reach the final feel strong enough to face ev- team is.” through Croatia’s defense. In Scaloni, who was in tears after
four of a World Cup, is playing with house money. It already ery match. the box, he steered around de- the win, just shrugged.
has eliminated three top-10 teams in Belgium, Spain and Por- That team has grown as fender Josip Juranovic and
tugal — all former African colonizers — winning it over- “Personally, I feel very the tournament progressed, away from Borna Sosa, got “There is nothing left to
whelming popular support in Africa and the Arab world. Its happy.” shutting out Mexico and Po- help from a fortunate deflec- say about Messi. It is indeed a
coach, Walid Regragui, compared the team to Rocky. “When land to win its group, beating tion, then poked the ball in privilege to have Messi in the
you watch ‘Rocky,’ you want to support Rocky Balboa,” he It hasn’t always been this the Netherlands on penalty with his right front from close squad,” he said.
said. “We are now becoming the team that everyone loves be- way. In 2014, his only other kicks in the quarterfinals, and range to give Argentina a 2-0
cause we are showing that even if you don’t have as much tal- World Cup final, Messi vom- then dominating a previously lead at the break. He will be in the squad for
ent and money, you can succeed.” Regragui, who took over ited on the field late in a 1-0 unbeaten Croatian team that at least one more game. Messi,
the team in August and is unbeaten in eight games, is right in loss to Germany. He was made the final four years ago. Messi and Álvarez hooked 35, announced this fall that
saying Morocco is the world’s team: 14 of its 26 players were named the tournament’s best up again in the 69th minute, this World Cup would be his
born outside of Morocco, the highest percentage of any team player, but Germany was the “This is a very intelligent this time with Messi doing last. Sunday’s game will be his
in this tournament. But he’s wrong in saying the team is less best team. squad,” Messi said. “We know most of the work, hugging the 26th in World Cup play, most
talented. Twenty of its players are with major European how to suffer when it’s neces- touchline as he battled Josko all time. His penalty-kick goal
clubs such as Chelsea, Paris Saint-Germain, Bayern Munich Two years later, after miss- sary, how to have the ball Gvardiol up the right wing be- Tuesday was his 11th, break-
and Sevilla, so France won’t overlook Morocco. “We have ing a penalty kick in Argen- when it’s needed. We know fore turning into the penalty ing Gabriel Batistuta’s Argen-
enough experience not fall into that trap,” French defender tina’s loss to Chile in the Copa what we have to do. area and delivering a beautiful tine record.
Raphael Varane said. “We know Morocco are not here by América Centenario final, a ball for Álvarez in the center of
chance.” Morocco plays a selfless defense-first style, content frustrated Messi, speaking “We are not lost. We know the box. There is only thing left for
to cede possession while patiently waiting for opponents to through tears, said he was re- what to do in every moment of Messi to accomplish, and that
make a mistake. But France doesn’t make many: It hasn’t al- tiring from international soc- the game.” The easy finish gave Ál- is to finally lift the Cup. Then
lowed a goal from the run of play in 212 minutes. In addition to cer. He was the tournament’s varez a brace and made Messi he truly will stand alone.
Mbappe, who leads the tournament with five goals, Olivier second-leading scorer on a Messi and forward Julián the first player since 1966 to
Giroud entered the semifinals tied for second with four goals. team that finished second. Álvarez each had a hand in all have a goal and an assist in “A lot is going through my
Morocco has injury concerns with center back Nayef Aguerd, three goals Tuesday, the first three games in the same head — it’s very emotional
who missed the Portugal game with a muscle injury, and his That was two World Cups of which came on a Messi pen- World Cup, an achievement seeing all of this,” Messi said,
partner Romain Saiss, who was substituted out in the 57th ago; Messi didn’t retire and alty kick in the 34th minute, he celebrated with Argen- looking up at a stadium
minute with a hamstring problem. For France, midfielder the stress only has grown. But set up when Álvarez went tina’s fans, darting to the edge packed with 88,966 mostly Ar-
Aurelien Tchouameni (undisclosed injury) and defender now, confident in the fact Sun- down in the box after a clumsy of the stands behind the goal gentine fans, matching the
Dayot Upamecano (illness) missed a recent training session. day’s game will be his last on challenge from Croatia goal- to revel in the applause. largest crowd for a World Cup
soccer’s biggest stage, Messi is keeper Dominik Livakovic. match since the 1994 final at
— Kevin Baxter welcoming the experience. the Rose Bowl. “To see the
Álvarez got the next goal fans — ‘the family’ — during
WORLD CUP LEADERS “I am enjoying it a lot,” he the whole tournament was so
repeated. incredible. We’re going to the
GOALS 3. Andries Noppert, Netherland ......18 final, which is what we
4. Vanja Milinkovic-Savic, Servia .....16 The difference between wanted.”
1. Kylian Mbappe, France ................. 5 5. Shuichi Gonda, Japan .................15 then and now might be the
1. Lionel Messi, Argentina ................ 5 supporting cast. Argentina is ARGENTINA 3, CROATIA 0
3. Julián Álvarez, Argentina ............... 4 TACKLES WON ranked No. 3 in the world, its
3. Olivier Giroud, France ................... 4 best showing in six years, and Argentina.................................. 2 1—3
1. Jude Bellingham, England ...........15 it came to Qatar riding a 36- Croatia...................................... 0 0—0
SHOTS 2. Achraf Hakimi, Morocco ..............13 game unbeaten streak, the
3. Mateo Kovacic, Croatia ...............12 second longest of all time. First half—1, Argentina, Messi, (penalty kick), 34th minute;
1. Kylian Mbappe, France ............... 22 4. Tyler Adams, United States .......... 9 2, Argentina, Alvarez, 39th. Second half—3, Argentina,
1. Lionel Messi, Argentina .............. 22 4. Daley Blind, Netherlands .............. 9 Then it lost its opener to Alvarez, (Messi), 69th
3. Olivier Geroud, France .................13 4. Kalidou Koulibaly, Senegal ........... 9 lowly Saudi Arabia. That loss,
3. Ivan Perisic, Croatia ....................13 Messi said, changed Argen- Yellow cards—Kovacic, Croatia, 32nd; Livakovic, Croatia,
5. Dani Olmo, Spain ........................12 TOUCHES IN ATTACKING AREA tina’s tournament. 32nd; Romero, Argentina, 68th; Otamendi, Argentina, 71st.
5. Serge Gnabry, Germany ..............12
5. Jamal Musiala, Germay ...............12 1. Kylian Mbappe, France ............... 45 “The first match was a Referee—Daniele Orsato. Assistant referees—Ciro Car-
2. Ivan Perisic, Croatia .................... 30 hard blow,” he said. “To start bone, Alesandro Giallatini, Massimiliano Irrati. 4th
ASSISTS 3. Jamal Musiala, Germany ............ 28 in such a way in a World Cup official—Mohammed Abdulla Hassan.
4. Lionel Messi, Argentina ..............27 was a test for the whole team.
1. Harry Kane, England ..................... 3 5. Christian Pulisic, United States .. 23 But we proved how strong we A—88,966.
1. Antoine Griezmann, France ........... 3 are. Every match was a final.
1. Bruno Fernandes, Portugal ........... 3 AERIAL DUELS WON We were aware that if we Lineups
1. Lionel Messi, Argentina ................ 3 didn’t win, things would be Argentina—Emiliano Martinez; Nicolas Tafliafico, Cristian
1. Cho Gu-sung, South Korea .......... 21 harder for us.
SAVES 2. Nicolas Otamendi, Argentina ...... 20 Romero, Nicolas Otamendi, Nahuel Molina (Juan Foyth, 86th);
3. Robert Lewandowski, Poland ......16 Leandro Pareds (Lisandro Martinez, 62nd), Rodrigo De Paul (Ex-
1. Wojciech Szczesny, Poland .......... 21 3. Rodri, Spain ................................16 equiel Palacios, 74th), Alexis Mac Allister (Angel Correa, 76th),
2. Dominik Livakovic, Croatia ..........19 5. Three tied with ............................15 Enzo Fernandez; Julian Alvarez (Paulo Dybala, 74th), Lionel
Messi..

Croatia—Dominik Livakovic; Dejan Lovren, Borna Sosa
(Mislav Orsic, 46th), Josko Gvardiol, Josip Juranovic; Mateo Ko-
vacic, Luka Modric (Lovro Majer, 89st), Marcelo Brozovic (Bruno
Petkovic, 50th); Ivan Perisic, Andrej Kramaric (Marko Livaja,
72nd), Mario Pasalic (Nikola Vlasic 46th).

Ovechkin becomes third NHL STANDINGS Maple Leafs
to reach 800 career goals blow out
WESTERN CONFERENCE EASTERN CONFERENCE lowly Ducks
Metropolitan W L OL Pts GF GA
Pacific W L OL Pts GF GA

Vegas 21 9 1 43 104 85 New Jersey 21 6 2 44 104 71
Seattle 16 9 3 35 98 91
KINGS 15 12 5 35 106 118 Carolina 16 6 6 38 81 73

Pittsburgh 17 8 4 38 102 84

Edmonton 17 13 0 34 109 102 N.Y. Islanders 17 12 1 35 95 84
Calgary 13 11 5 31 87 89
Vancouver 12 13 3 27 97 109 N.Y. Rangers 15 10 5 35 93 85

ing their hats down and Washington 15 12 4 34 100 94 TORONTO 7
chanting “O-vi!” DUCKS 0
associated press San Jose 10 16 5 25 96 112 Philadelphia 9 14 7 25 73 101
Ovechkin moved within DUCKS 7 20 3 17 70 130 associated press
CHICAGO — Washing- one goal of Gordie Howe for Central W L OL Pts GF GA Columbus 10 16 2 22 80 115
ton Capitals star Alex second all time. Wayne Gret-
Ovechkin became the third zky has the record with 894 Atlantic W L OL Pts GF GA
NHL player to reach 800 ca- goals.
reer goals when he scored Dallas 17 8 5 39 110 84 Boston 23 4 1 47 110 61
three times Tuesday night. “It’s a big number,” Winnipeg 18 9 1 37 94 75
Ovechkin said. “It’s the best Colorado 15 10 2 32 87 77 Toronto 19 5 6 44 100 70 TORONTO — Mitch
Ovechkin scored on his company [you can] ever
first two shots, beating Chi- imagine since you started Tampa Bay 18 9 1 37 101 84 Marner had two assists to
cago Blackhawks goaltend- playing hockey.”
er Petr Mrazek 24 seconds Minnesota 15 11 2 32 88 85 Detroit 13 9 6 32 84 87 extend his point streak to 23
into the game before stuffing Ovechkin also praised Nashville 12 12 3 27 70 85
one home on a power play the crowd for its response. St. Louis 13 15 1 27 85 108 Florida 14 12 4 32 102 98 games and Ilya Samsonov
with 11:46 left in the first pe-
riod. The 37-year-old winger “Even in the warmup, I Montreal 14 12 2 30 84 97 made 28 saves for his second
then completed his 29th ca- was feeling that energy right
reer hat trick when he sent a away,” he said. “The fans Arizona 9 14 4 22 74 99 Buffalo 13 14 2 28 115 103 straight shutout as the To-
rebound over a sprawled watch me and the fans want Chicago 7 16 4 18 67 107
Mrazek 6:34 into the third. to see that historical mo- Ottawa 12 14 2 26 86 89 ronto Maple Leafs thumped
ment.”
“Soon as it happened, Note: Overtime or shootout losses worth one point. the lowly Ducks 7-0 on Tues-
kind of relief,” Ovechkin said Ovechkin has seven goals
after Washington’s 7-3 win. in his last four games and a day.
“Kind of happiness and en- team-high 20 on the season.
Charles Rex Arbogast AP His previous four goals were RESULTS Alexander Kerfoot
all empty-netters.
ALEX OVECHKIN gets AT BUFFALO 6 scored twice for Toronto (19-
love from John Carlson KINGS 0
and Nick Jensen for 800. Goalie Pheonix Copley gave up six goals on 16 shots in 5-6), while John Tavares and
AT TORONTO 7 the final period in making his third start for the Kings.
joyment.” DUCKS 0 Pierre Engvall each had a
The rest of the Capitals John Gibson surrendered two goals on 27 shots for the
AT BOSTON 4 last-place Ducks before being replaced by Lukas Dostal. goal and an assist.
poured onto the ice to cele- N.Y. ISLANDERS 3 (SO)
brate after the historic goal, The Bruins’ Jake DeBrusk and David Pastrnak scored in Michael Bunting, TJ
and the fans at the United WASHINGTON 7 the shootout. DeBrusk also had two goals in regulation.
Center responded by throw- AT CHICAGO 3 Brodie and Joey Anderson
The Capitals’ Alex Ovechkin scored three times to become
AT TAMPA BAY 6 the third NHL player to reach 800 career goals. provided the rest of the of-
SEATTLE 2
Corey Perry, Brayden Point and Ross Colton scored goals fense.
AT FLORIDA 4 3:23 apart in the second period for the Lightning.
COLUMBUS 0 Conor Timmins regis-
Sergei Bobrovsky had 22 saves for his first shutout this
CAROLINA 1 season. He was a Blue Jacket from 2013 to 2019. tered a trio of assists for the
AT DETROIT 0
Brady Skjei scored and Pyotr Kochetkov made 27 saves first three-point perform-
DALLAS 4 as the Hurricanes moved to 5-0-1 on their road swing.
AT NEW JERSEY 1 ance of his career. Rasmus
Roope Hintz scored the go-ahead goal with three seconds
EDMONTON 6 remaining in the second period to lift the Stars. Sandin had two assists and
AT NASHVILLE 3
Kings can’t keep it together late The Oilers’ Zach Hyman had a hat trick, and Leon Draisaitl Pontus Holmberg had three.
VEGAS 6 contributed two goals and added three assists.
AT WINNIPEG 5 John Gibson allowed two
Jonathan Marchessault’s second power-play goal late in
AT COLORADO 3 the third period broke a tie and lifted the Golden Knights. goals on 27 shots for the last-
PHILADELPHIA 2
Artturi Lehkonen had a short-handed goal and an assist, place Ducks (7-20-3) before
AT SAN JOSE 3 and the banged-up Avalanche held on to win.
Thompson scoring twice on the minors after Cal Peter- ARIZONA 2 being replaced in the second
the power play. Victor Olofs- sen’s demotion on Dec. 1. The Sharks’ Nick Bonino scored in a fourth straight game,
They give up six goals son and JJ Peterka scored and goalie James Reimer won in his return from injury. period by Lukas Dostal, who
on 16 shots to Sabres goals 13 seconds apart, and “Responsibility. Care-
in the third period as Alex Tuch and Peyton Krebs lessness,” Kings coach Todd finished with 10 stops.
struggles continue. also scored. McLellan said in summing
up the loss. “Been talking Marner is three games
BUFFALO 6 Dylan Cozens had three about it all year. No, I can’t
KINGS 0 assists and the Sabres explain it.” behind Patrick Kane (2015-
improved to 6-3-2 in their
associated press last 11. SABRES 6, KINGS 0 16) for the longest point

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Craig Pheonix Copley stopped KINGS .....................................0 0 0 — 0 streak among active NHL
Anderson stopped 40 shots 25 shots for the Kings, who Buffalo ....................................0 0 6 — 6
for his first shutout in nearly dropped to 5-6-4 in their players.
four years in the Buffalo Sa- last 15. FIRST PERIOD: Scoring—None. Penalty—Cozens, BUF
bres’ 6-0 win over the Kings (Hooking), 16:25. TODAY’S GAMES Detroit at Minnesota, 4:30 p.m. MAPLE LEAFS 7, DUCKS 0
on Tuesday. They also allowed four or Montreal at Ottawa, 4 p.m.
more goals for the sixth time SECOND PERIOD: Scoring—None. Penalties—Power, BUF Vancouver at Calgary, 7 p.m. KINGS at Boston, 4 p.m. DUCKS ....................................0 0 0 — 0
The Sabres went from in their last 11, including a 6-5 (Interference), 6:56. Vilardi, KINGS (Hooking), 8:10. Grundstrom, THURSDAY’S GAMES Dallas at Washington, 4 p.m.
managing just three shots in overtime loss at Columbus KINGS (Hooking), 16:30. Moore, KINGS (Cross Checking), 19:30. DUCKS at Montreal, 4 p.m. Pittsburgh at Florida, 4 p.m. Toronto ....................................2 2 3 — 7
the first period to a six-goal on Sunday. Columbus at Tampa Bay, 4 p.m. Toronto at N.Y. Rangers, 4 p.m.
third period, with Tage THIRD PERIOD: 1. Buf., Thompson 22 (Cozens), 1:21 (pp). 2. Philadelphia at New Jersey, 4 p.m. Vegas at Chicago, 5:30 p.m. FIRST PERIOD: 1. Tor., Kerfoot 3 (Timmins, Engvall), 1:58. 2.
Copley gave up six goals Buf., Olofsson 13 (Asplund, Jost), 9:56. 3. Buf., Peterka 7 (Quinn, Seattle at Carolina, 4 p.m. St. Louis at Edmonton, 6 p.m. Tor., Tavares 14 (Timmins, Marner), 8:41. Penalties—Sandin,
on 16 shots in the final period Cozens), 10:09. 4. Buf., Tuch 14 (Thompson, Cozens), 14:31 (pp). Nashville at Winnipeg, 5 p.m. TOR (Interference), 5:13. DUCKS bench, served by McTavish (Too
in making his third start 5. Buf., Thompson 23 (Dahlin, Tuch), 16:27 (pp). 6. Buf., Krebs 3 Buffalo at Colorado, 6 p.m. Many Men on the Ice), 19:48.
since being called up from (Asplund, Olofsson), 18:33. Penalties—Grundstrom, KINGS
(Slashing), 1:19. Krebs, BUF (Cross Checking), 5:07. Fiala, KINGS SECOND PERIOD: 3. Tor., Brodie 1 (Matthews, Timmins), 12:16.
(Tripping), 13:07. Grundstrom, KINGS (Misconduct), 14:57. 4. Tor., Bunting 6 (Marner, Tavares), 16:33. Penalties—Kulikov,
DUCKS (Tripping), 3:47. Beaulieu, DUCKS (Cross Checking), 8:45.
SHOTS ON GOAL: KINGS 16-14-10—40. Buf. 3-12-16—31.
Power-play conversions—KINGS 0 of 3. Buf. 3 of 6. THIRD PERIOD: 5. Tor., Kerfoot 4 (Giordano, Holmberg), 2:37.
6. Tor., Engvall 5 (Sandin, Holmberg), 5:42. 7. Tor., Anderson 1
GOALIES: KINGS, Copley 2-1-0 (31 shots-25 saves). Buf., An- (Sandin, Aston-Reese), 18:20. Penalties—Kampf, TOR
derson 6-4-1 (40-40). Att—12,873 (19,070). T—2:31. (Roughing), 18:51. Zegras, DUCKS (Roughing), 18:51.

SHOTS ON GOAL: DUCKS 16-6-7—29. Tor. 14-17-10—41.
Power-play conversions—DUCKS 0 of 1. Tor. 0 of 3.

GOALIES: DUCKS, Dostal 0-1-0 (14 shots-9 saves), DUCKS,
Gibson 5-14-3 (27-25). Tor., Samsonov 9-2-0 (29-29).
Att—18,477 (18,819). T—2:33.

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Leach fought through a USC coach Lincoln Riley showed an image of a smiling state law, but Leach never Shade denotes home game.
bout with pneumonia late has long credited Leach for Leach and the message: “In stopped trying to fight that
this season, coughing un- igniting his coaching career. loving memory.” Black rib- case. He also filed a lawsuit TODAY ON THE AIR
controllably at times during bons were tied to the sta- against ESPN and Craig
news conferences, but Riley, who has coached dium gates and flowers were James that was later dis- TIME EVENT ON THE AIR
seemed to be improving, ac- three quarterbacks to Heis- left there to honor the coach. missed. BASKETBALL
cording to those who worked man Trophy wins, struggled 4:30 p.m. New York at Chicago TV: ESPN, ESPND
with him. to earn any playing time as a At Martin Stadium in While out of coaching for 7 p.m. Minnesota at Clippers TV: BSSC, ESPN,
reserve Texas Tech quarter- Pullman, Wash., a similar two seasons, Leach and his ESPND R: 570,
Leach, who was a college back. He knew the offense tribute was on the vi- wife retreated to their home 7 p.m. G League, Santa Cruz at South Bay Lakers 1330
football head coach for better than anyone else, but deoboard. in Key West, Fla., where he COLLEGE BASKETBALL TV: SpecSN
21 years, is survived by his a shoulder injury he suffered rode his bike around town
wife, Sharon; children Ja- his senior year at Muleshoe Leach was known for his and knocked back drinks at 2 p.m. Women, Colorado at Utah TV: Pac-12
neen, Kimberly, Cody and (Texas) High limited his ef- pass-happy offenses, wide- the bars. 4 p.m. Drexel at Seton Hall TV: FS1
Kiersten; and extended fam- fectiveness throwing the ranging interests — he wrote 4 p.m. South Carolina at Alabama Birmingham TV: CBSSN
ily. ball. Riley was likely to be cut a book about Native Ameri- He returned to coaching 4 p.m. Stephen F. Austin State at Louisiana Tech TV: ESPNU
ahead of the 2003 season, so can leader Geronimo, had a in the Pac-12 Conference but 4 p.m. Appalachian State at Wake Forest TV: ACC
“Mike was a giving and Leach asked the 19-year-old passion for pirates and never gave up that beloved 4 p.m. Ohio vs. Florida at Tampa, Fla. TV: ESPN2
attentive husband, father to join his coaching staff as a taught a class about insur- home in the Keys. 5 p.m. Arkansas Pine Bluff at Minnesota TV: Big Ten
and grandfather. He was student assistant. gent warfare — and off-the- 6 p.m. UCLA at Maryland TV: FS1 R: 1150
able to participate in organ cuff news conferences. Leach landed at Wash- 6 p.m. Western Kentucky at Louisville TV: ESPN2
donation at UMMC as a final Riley made the most of ington State in 2012. After 6 p.m. UC Riverside at Oregon TV: Pac-12
act of charity,” the family the opportunity to soak up An interview with Leach three losing seasons, the 8 p.m. Long Beach State at USC TV: Pac-12,
said in a statement issued by essential traits of Leach’s Air was as likely to veer into poli- Cougars soon looked very Pac-12LA R: 790
Mississippi State. Raid offense, fast-tracking tics, wedding planning or hy- much like his Texas Tech COLLEGE FOOTBALL
his ascent as a young college pothetical mascot fights as teams. In 2018, Washington TV: ESPNU
His influence on college football coaching star. it was to stick to football. He State went 11-2, setting a 6 p.m. NJCAA tournament, Iowa Western CC vs. Kansas
football during the last two considered Donald Trump a school record for victories. Hutchison CC, at Little Rock, Ark. TV: TNT
decades runs deep and will Riley posted on Twitter friend before the billionaire TV: TNT
continue for years to come. on Tuesday morning: businessman ran for presi- Leach moved to the HOCKEY
“Coach - You will certainly dent and then campaigned Southeastern Conference in TV: BSW
Leach’s teams were con- be missed, but your impact for him in 2016. 2020, taking over at Missis- 4:30 p.m. Detroit at Minnesota
sistent winners at programs on so many will live on. - sippi State. TV: 11, KVEA
where success did not come Thankful for every moment. Six of the 20 best passing 7 p.m. Vancouver at Calgary
easy. In 21 seasons as a head You changed my life and so seasons in major college Leach’s Bulldogs team TV: Tennis
coach at Texas Tech, Wash- many others. All of our football history were by finished 8-4 this regular sea- PREP FOOTBALL
ington State and Mississippi prayers are with Sharon & quarterbacks who played for son, including a 24-22 win
State, Leach went 158-107. the Leach family - Rest In Leach, including four of the Thanksgiving night over ri- 5 p.m. Texas State 2-A Division II final, Albany vs. Mart,
And his quarterbacks put up Peace my friend.” top six. val Mississippi. It was his fi- at Arlington, Texas
massive passing statistics, nal game.
running a relatively simple Texas Christian coach Calling plays from a SOCCER: WORLD CUP SEMIFINAL
offense called the Air Raid Sonny Dykes, whose team folded piece of paper smaller Defensive coordinator
that he did not invent but will compete in the College than an index card, Leach Zach Arnett was named the 11 a.m. France vs. Morocco
certainly mastered. Football Playoff semifinals, turned passers such as B.J. Bulldogs’ interim head
also honed his skills on Symons (448.7 yards per coach, and interim athletic TENNIS
Leach’s staff. game), Graham Harrell director Bracky Brett told
(438.8), Connor Halliday ESPN that the team still will 11 a.m. Caen Open, men’s final
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[Leach, from B10] in that little passing game ‘They’re thrust upon him. THE DAY IN SPORTS
attention that a tornado incubator on the windswept open-minded, I asked Leach how often
warning had gone into plains of West Texas always trying to Report: Giants give
effect in Starkville, Miss. changed the way we con- look for a better he saw Riley, and he instinc- Correa $350 million
This piqued Leach’s curi- sider the game of football way. Everyone’s tively railed against
osity, and soon I was riding altogether. No, Leach didn’t got a voice.’ COVID-19. wire reports $6-million, one-year con-
along on his ear as he invent the forward pass, tract, AP reported. ... Curt
walked through Mississippi and, yes, plenty of teams — Mike Leach, “Not as much as you’d Star shortstop Carlos Simmons, the last surviving
State’s football facility, were winning by tossing it like, because I’ll tell you Correa and the San Fran- member of the 1950 Philadel-
looking for a view of the around in the 1980s and on the coaching culture he what’s happened, we cele- cisco Giants agreed to a phia Phillies Whiz Kids
coming storm. certainly the 1990s, but passed on to USC coach brated COVID for 21⁄2 years, $350-million, 13-year con- team, has died. He was 93.
Leach was the first to Lincoln Riley and others and regardless of which side tract, a person familiar with
It was a little after 5 p.m. spread the ball from bound- of the coin you’re on, we can the negotiations told the As- ETC.
local time, and he was now ary to boundary so fear- Kingsbury at Texas Tech. all agree the thing was sociated Press on Tuesday.
debating whether he should lessly that it became an Kingsbury, with the Arizona completely mishandled,” NBA MVP now
jet home or stay on campus established talent equal- Cardinals, now coaches Leach said. “So we’re still Correa, 28, hit .291 with 22 is Jordan Trophy
to remain safe from the izer. Kyler Murray, who was suffering from poor judg- homers last season in Min-
theoretical twister. developed by Riley at Okla- ment and governmental nesota after seven seasons The NBA most valuable
At Texas Tech, Leach’s homa. Heck, this year’s overreach, so as a result in Houston. The contract is player award has been re-
“Maybe I’ll hang around Red Raiders teams went Heisman Trophy winner, everyone is kind of locked the largest for an infielder, named the Michael Jordan
here and do some Cameos,” after Big 12 Conference blue USC’s Caleb Williams, and down and screwing around second largest this offseason Trophy. The trophy had
Leach said, referring to his bloods Texas and Okla- runner-up, Texas Chris- on a computer. You’re not and fourth largest in history. been named for former NBA
side gig sending videos to homa, scheming the oppos- tian’s Max Duggan, were seeing anybody there.” Its length also ties a record. president Maurice Podoloff
fans who were often re- ing blue chippers into space tutored by Riley and Dykes, for about six decades. Jor-
questing his incomparable and blowing past them. respectively. I asked him whether he The Giants also agreed dan, a six-time champion,
wisdom on the navigation of They weren’t trying to pull had ever thought of running with right-hander Ross won the trophy five times.
marriage and mothers-in- upsets by running the clock; Leach, through the guys for office. I have to think the Stripling on a $25-million,
law. Leach wanted more plays he groomed, has his hand- guy could win. two-year contract. Purdue hired Illinois de-
for his offense. prints on just about every- fensive coordinator Ryan
Our interview was going thing, it seems. But while “I hate both parties,” he Stripling made his big Walters as its football coach.
well for him because the Leach’s development of Riley’s mantel is going to said, before telling me why league debut in San Fran- He will replace Jeff Brohm,
tornado diversion was the coaches underneath run out of room by the time there should be term limits cisco with the Dodgers in who left to become the coach
freeing him from having to him was beyond compare. he’s 40, his mentor has to get people out of office 2016, taking a no-hitter into at Louisville. ... North Texas
answer my mundane ques- As we talked that day, he never coached a conference more easily. the eighth before manager hired Eric Morris as coach.
tions about Riley, and he explained the Tech culture title team or a Heisman Dave Roberts pulled him. ... Maryland receiver Rakim
could instead steer us into a that he believed Riley winner in all this time, large- The conversation, re- Jarrett is entering the NFL
real conversation. brought with him to USC. ly because of the places he freshingly aimless, just kept “Still get asked about it draft. Jarrett also says he’ll
chose to port his ship. going. After a while, I won- all the time, ‘Do you think skip the Duke’s Mayo Bowl
“So, where are you “They’re open-minded, dered what it would take for you could have finished it?’ against North Carolina
from?” Leach asked. always trying to look for a Leach could have striven him to end it. An incoming Or ‘Are you still mad at Dave State. ... Clemson defensive
better way,” Leach said. to end up at schools with tornado, apparently, wasn’t Roberts?’ All this kind of end Myles Murphy is skip-
I told him I was from “Everyone’s got a voice. loftier expectations, but he enough. stuff, which I’m not,” Strip- ping the Orange Bowl and
Shreveport, La., which felt Some places, the staff didn’t need the headache — ling said. will declare for the draft.
good because I knew Leach doesn’t have much of a and, if we’re being honest, Marveling at the turn my
would actually know where voice. Our staff, whoever’s many of them didn’t desire afternoon took, I asked Stripling expects to be a Texas forward Aaliyah
that was — not always a the lowest guy at the table, his ... quirks. After being Leach why he’s so tolerant starter in a rotation featur- Moore tore the anterior cru-
given. you still listen to what he forced out at Texas Tech of folks like me compared ing Logan Webb, newcomer ciate ligament in her left
says in case he’s right. With because of player mistreat- with his peers. Sean Manaea, Alex Cobb knee and will miss the re-
“The Pirate” had gotten that said, if your idea is not ment allegations, he landed and Alex Wood. Stripling mainder of the season.
around, and we know that accepted, we don’t have even further off the map in “I like hearing your sto- had Giants manager Gabe
because a man who chose to time for somebody to be a the Palouse. When he ries,” he said. Kapler as his minor league U.S. sprinter Randolph
coach college football in big baby. Your idea is going wanted to try his ways coordinator with the Dod- Ross was banned for three
outposts such as Lubbock, to be held up to scrutiny. where “it just means more” He didn’t mean stories, gers, San Francisco out- years for whereabouts fail-
Texas, and Pullman, Wash., Once a course is set, it’s all in the Southeastern Confer- like this column I wanted to fielder Joc Pederson as a ures and faking an email to
and Starkville, also earned hands on deck, you know?” ence, Starkville was a natu- write on Riley. He meant roommate in the Dodgers anti-doping authorities.
his law degree in Malibu at ral hideout between voyag- stories, like how a kid from farm system and Giants exe-
Pepperdine back when his At Texas Tech, Washing- es to Key West. Shreveport ended up in cutive Farhan Zaidi as his Fox Sports will keep
ship was headed some- ton State and Mississippi Santa Monica. general manager in L.A. broadcasting Major League
where way less interesting. State, Leach set the course Now, it must be said, in Soccer games as part of a
so that his programs did locales off the beaten path, Mike Leach was simply The 32-year-old pitcher four-year deal, ending the
With the official an- not become rudderless as a Leach had full control to do amused by the chance to had career highs of 10 wins, a run of ESPN and ABC. ...
nouncement Tuesday that byproduct of their open- things his way, and that share Mike Leach with 3.01 earned-run average, 24 Syracuse beat Indiana 7-6 on
Leach died after complica- ness. He taught a long list of didn’t always sit well with someone new, and, 55 min- starts and 1341⁄3 innings with penalty kicks after a 2-2
tions from a heart condition proteges how to do the others. The man did not like utes after he answered my Toronto last season. draw Monday for its first
at the tragically young age same — Riley, Kliff Kings- being told what to do, a call, we said goodbye. NCAA men’s soccer title.
of 61, the college football bury, Sonny Dykes, Dana point he drove home Aledmys Diaz and Jace
world will mourn the loss of Holgorsen, Dave Aranda throughout the pandemic In hindsight, the whole Peterson, who both play the
a national treasure, but and Josh Heupel, to name as federal, state, conference thing was crazy. I can’t stop infield and outfield, reached
those of us who love college only some. and school protocols were thinking about that nasty agreements with Oakland
football should also give cough. I have since read on two-year contracts. ...
thanks that Leach deviated So many of the top that Leach told ESPN after Cleveland agreed with
from the law and embraced quarterbacks in college the season that he had been catcher Mike Zunino on a
the lawlessness of Hal football and the NFL have a struggling with pneumonia.
Mumme’s Air Raid offense connection to Leach’s tree. The experience could not
instead. Kansas City Chiefs quarter- have been easy on his body.
back Patrick Mahomes, for
Leach’s influence on instance, was coached by Today, I am sad. But I
college football the last am also grateful that I
25 years is truly immeasur- lucked into seeing this side
able. The concepts churned of a legendary coach, come-
dian and thinker, a man
who definitely made me feel
like I could call anytime.

B10

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Photographs by Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times MAGIC

LeBRON JAMES finished with 33 points, nine rebounds and nine assists, but the Lakers couldn’t complete their comeback at home. MESSI

Unrivaled disappointment WITHIN

Davis and James combine to score 70 possible. ONE WIN
points and push NBA-best Celtics to The pieces were there. The possibility ex-
overtime, but Lakers run out of gas in OF TITLE
their first game after an 11-day trip. isted. The Lakers were figuring it out if things
could go just right. He scores and sets up
BOSTON 122, LAKERS 118 (OT) another goal to reach
But here, back in Los Angeles, on Tuesday the World Cup final in
By Dan Woike night, their performance against the Boston search of first crown.
Celtics was a reminder that the NBA doesn’t
The Lakers and their stars were at their best, quite work that way. ARGENTINA 3
the Eastern Conference favorite firing their best CROATIA 0
shots at LeBron James, Anthony Davis and Sometimes, it’s a little uglier, a little messier
Russell Westbrook and landing only glancing to figure out. By Kevin Baxter
blows.
None of it made sense. Marcus Smart in gold LUSAIL, Qatar — It
It happened seven games ago, in Milwaukee, sneakers, Russell Westbrook in green shoes, the seemed fitting that when the
on a night when the Lakers cooked up such a Celtics blowing a 20-point lead only to see the final whistle blew on Tues-
great performance that anything sort of felt Lakers cough up a 13-point advantage in the day’s World Cup semifinal,
fourth quarter. mercifully ending Argen-
tina’s 3-0 dismantling of
The Lakers slumped and slunk their way Croatia, Lionel Messi stood
through the first 12 minutes against their big- alone in the center of the
gest rival, telling their fans that any emotion field, drinking in the celebra-
they brought with them into the building wasn’t tion.

[See Lakers, B7] Messi has stood apart
from the crowd throughout
this tournament, the last
World Cup of his storied ca-
reer. He has scored five
goals, three of which put his
team ahead to stay. Only
France’s Kylian Mbappe has
as many.

He has assisted on three
others; no one has more.

Eight of Argentina’s 12
goals, which are second
most in the World Cup, have
come from or through Messi,
who has willed his team into
a second World Cup final in
eight years, moving him
within a win of lifting the one
trophy that has eluded him.

One game, against the
winner of Wednesday’s
France-Morocco semifinal,
will determine whether
Messi is the best of all time or
simply a great player who
never won on soccer’s big-
gest stage. The pressure
should be suffocating; it has
crushed Messi before.

Only this time he’s em-
bracing it, standing apart

[See World Cup, B8]

JAYSON TATUM, being defended by
Russell Westbrook, scored a game-high
44 points in the Celtics’ overtime victory.

UCLA hits the road in search of big wins Martin Meissner Associated Press

Bruins look to better itinerary demanded it this showdown against Ken- missed two weeks of classes poses. LIONEL MESSI, left,
NCAA tournament week. That’s not to say the tucky at New York’s Madi- before a midterm exam. That being said …. and Julián Álvarez, right,
standing by beating UCLA shooting guard was son Square Garden. Wins over the No. 20 Terra- “You start worrying scored all of Argentina’s
two top-25 teams. wholly unprepared for his pins (8-2) on Wednesday at goals against Croatia.
team’s East Coast swing. The only other time Xfinity Center and the No. 13 about seeding,” Cronin said,
By Ben Bolch UCLA has left home this Wildcats (7-2) on Saturday “you won’t make the tourna- WORLD CUP SEMIFINALS
His collection of more season, venturing into the could help the No. 16 Bruins ment.”
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — than 150 pairs of shoes hap- chilly Las Vegas desert, the (8-2) catch up quickly. France vs.
Both from and of Los Ange- pened to include a pair of Bruins were out of their ele- In his latest NCAA tour- Morocco
les, David Singleton didn’t Jordan 9 boots, their sturdy ment in the elements. “Games of this magni- nament projections, re-
own a winter coat until his soles built for the cold, rainy tude affect a lot,” UCLA leased Tuesday morning, When: Today, 11 a.m.
mess the Bruins expect to Losses to Illinois and coach Mick Cronin acknowl- ESPN’s Joe Lunardi tabbed Where: Al Khor, Qatar
endure while trekking for a Baylor left them with a lot of edged when asked about the UCLA as a No. 4 seed in the TV: Channel 11
road game against Mary- work to do to improve their trip’s importance for NCAA South Region. That’s not a
land and a neutral-site NCAA tournament stand- tournament seeding pur- terrible place to be without a
ing, like students who had
[See UCLA, B6]

MIKE LEACH: AN APPRECIATION

Colorful, curious coach
took flight with Air Raid

Mike Fuentes Associated Press J. BRADY McCOLLOUGH Pioneer threw them fairly routine, just like
ON COLLEGE FOOTBALL caution to wind this one — I wanted his
MIKE LEACH, who died Monday night after complications from a heart condi- opinion on the one-year
tion at 61, talks to his Texas Tech players in 2009. His curiosity was a great gift. Mike Leach sounded Leach succeeded with turnaround his former pupil
awful. It was Nov. 29, a Tues- pass-happy offenses at Lincoln Riley had pulled off
day afternoon, and he could out-of-way schools. B9 at USC.
hardly speak without it
being followed by a harsh, needed a buffer. Once we were talking, it
hacking cough. I didn’t give “Call anytime,” Leach quickly became clear that
it much thought at the time, Leach wasn’t that invested
as I was too busy enjoying had texted me earlier. in the topic. But he seemed
the fact that a major college We didn’t have a pre- pretty pleased to have ran-
football coach was treating dom company on the other
me like a human being, not existing relationship. We end of the line.
someone from whom he had chatted a few times over
the years for stories, all of Not long into the call,
someone brought to Leach’s

[See Leach, B9]

Baseball’s forgotten pioneer Kings, Ducks blanked Rams plan to keep Kupp on sidelines

Jorge Pasquel integrated Mexican league in 1940s, and Each team suffers a lopsided loss on the road as prob- Star receiver who has missed last four games after
some say he’s worthy of Hall of Fame induction. A1 lems away from home continue for both franchises. B8 ankle surgery likely will miss the final four as well. B7

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DODGERS DUGOUT

Honoring this magnificent seven

Dodgers Dugout’s Hall of Fame welcomes some of the greatest names in team history

By Houston Mitchell

Last month, I asked Dodgers Associated Press
Dugout readers to vote from a list
of candidates in our second annual TOMMY LASORDA is one of the most recognizable figures in Dodgers history after guiding the club to four pennants and two
“Dodgers Dugout Dodgers Hall of World Series championships. He managed the club from 1976 to 1996 and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1997.
Fame.” And, proving that you are
the best newsletter readers in the Associated Press
universe, I received 13,289 ballots. I
mean, some cities don’t get that PEE WEE REESE played 16
many voters in elections. seasons with the Dodgers, the
first 15 in Brooklyn.
And after all the ballots were
counted, seven people were above Los Angeles Times *-Burt Hooton, 0.6%: Nothing
65% and are inducted into this for “Happy” to smile about here.
year’s class. FERNANDO VALENZUELA took Los Angeles by storm right from the start, being named the
National League Cy Young winner in his second season during which Fernandomania was born. *-Van Lingle Mungo, 0.4%: Well,
Some of you were a bit disap- someone has to finish last.
pointed that I lowered the thresh- The 1955 World Series most valu- Bill Russell, 10.8% (2.8%): Long- ries teams.
old for induction from being able player gets little support. time Dodger draws the least sup- 8Ten of the 16 first-time candi-
named on 75% of the ballots to 65%. port among “The Infield.” Bottom 12, off at least dates were eliminated from the
But it turned out not to really mat- Leo Durocher, 14.1% (1.7%): next two ballots next two ballots.
ter, because six of the seven cleared Barely remained on the ballot this Eric Gagne, 9.9% (6.4%): Would
75% and the seventh person had year and his support rose greatly. he receive more support if not for Matt Kemp, 3.9% (2.9%): 8Why did non-players’ votes
over 72% and is certainly a worthy his PED use? Should have been NL MVP in 2011. jump so much? Voters were al-
member of the Hall. Carl Erskine, 14% (9.6%): Key lowed to vote for six this year in-
member of 1955 title team. Andre Ethier, 8.9% (5.1%): *-Mike Marshall, 3.1%: As a re- stead of three.
Remember, there was a players Doesn’t look like many from liever, pitched in 106 games in 1974.
list, from which you could vote for *-Ross Porter, 13.6%: Pioneered Ethier’s prime era will make it. Can you imagine that happening 8There are five people who
up to 12, and a non-players list with using more obscure stats before it today? aren’t in who definitely should be
a limit of six votes. became popular. Ron Perranoski, 8.6% (5.7%): in: Jarrín, Reese, Sutton, Vance
Being a great reliever and longtime *-Preacher Roe, 2.8%: First- and Wheat.
So, without further ado, let’s Dazzy Vance, 13% (8.9%): An- coach didn’t get him much sup- time candidates didn’t fare well
look at the results. The number in other guy who should be in. The port. this year. Added to the ballot next year:
parentheses is what percentage of Don Drysdale of his era. Ralph Branca, Billy Cox, Ron
ballots the candidate appeared on Babe Herman, 8% (4.9%): Great *-Shawn Green, 2.5%: But we’ll Fairly, Frank Howard, Tommy
last year. Pedro Guerrero, 12.8% (8.1%): hitter pretty much forgotten. always remember his four home John, Cookie Lavagetto, Jim Le-
You could argue that he is the best runs in one game. febvre, Rick Monday, Wally Moon,
Elected hitter in L.A. history. *-Fred Claire, 7.7%: Builder of Takashi Saito, Steve Sax, Gary
the 1988 World Series champions. *-Pete Reiser, 2.3%: Seems ap- Sheffield, Casey Stengel, Dixie
Tommy Lasorda, 87.7% (64.8%): *-Jerry Doggett, 12.7%: Comple- ropos that his candidacy also Walker, Red Adams, Monty Bas-
It was a big surprise that he wasn’t mented Scully beautifully on radio Wes Parker, 7.6% (4.5%): Per- crashed into a wall. gall, Ned Colletti, Helen Dell, Rick
elected last year. and television. haps the greatest defensive first Honeycutt, John Ramsey, Stan
baseman ever. *-Mickey Hatcher, 2.2%: One Wasiak.
Walt Alston, 86.5% (55.4%): You Eric Karros, 12.4% (3.9%): This and done.
could make a convincing argument is all you get after hitting the most *-Steve Yeager, 5.5%: He The Dodgers Dugout
that he was a better manager than homers in L.A. history? blocked the plate as well as anyone Clem Labine, 1.7% (2%): Could Dodgers Hall of Fame
Lasorda. Either way, they both de- ever. start and relieve effectively.
serve to be in. Mike Scioscia, 12.4% (4.9%): An- People inducted, with year (and
other what-if: What if he had been Adrián Beltré, 5.4% (1.7%): *-Bob Welch, 1.6%: Just didn’t percentage of vote):
Fernando Valenzuela, 80.6% named Dodgers manager instead Really had only one great season match up to the other candidates.
(65.8%): Created tons of Dodgers of Angels manager? with the Dodgers, but what a sea- Walt Alston, 2022 (86.5%)
fans, and with so many big names son it was. *-Jerry Reuss, 1.3%: Underrated Roy Campanella, 2021 (84.7%)
elected last year, was the first John Roseboro, 11.5% (5.8%): pitcher. Don Drysdale, 2021 (90%)
choice among players on a lot of The key catcher for Koufax and Reggie Smith, 5.2% (3.6%): The Orel Hershiser, 2021 (75.1%)
ballots. Drysdale. best player on the ’77-78 World Se- *-Raul Mondesi, 1%: Great arm. Gil Hodges, 2022 (75.3%)
Sandy Koufax, 2021 (95.6%)
Maury Wills, 76.6% (64.1%): Now Tommy Lasorda, 2022 (87.7%)
he needs to get into the actual Branch Rickey, 2022 (72.1%)
Baseball Hall of Fame. Jackie Robinson, 2021 (88.9%)
Vin Scully, 2021 (92.7%)
Gil Hodges, 75.3% (65.7%): A Duke Snider, 2021 (78.2%)
good year for Hodges, getting into Fernando Valenzuela, 2022
the Baseball Hall and this one. (80.6%)
(One of these is a bit more presti- Maury Wills, 2022 (76.6%)
gious than the other.)
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Branch Rickey, 72.1% (41.8%):
The man who signed Jackie Rob-
inson and created the minor
league system takes his rightful
place.

Just missed (50-64.9%)

Pee Wee Reese, 64.7% (64%):
Really ought to be in. One of four
Dodgers players in the real Hall of
Fame who isn’t in ours.

Walter O'Malley, 64.4% (27.2%):
The first five on the just-missed list
probably will be voted in next year.

Steve Garvey, 63.9% (44.6%): Ei-
ther Garvey or Hodges is the best
first baseman in Dodgers history.

Don Sutton, 61% (41.4%): Leads
or is in top three in many all-time
Dodgers pitching categories, but
always seems to struggle to get re-
spect.

Don Newcombe, 58.1% (48.1%):
His work to help Dodgers strug-
gling with substance abuse is al-
most enough to get him in before
you consider his greatness as a
pitcher.

*-Jaime Jarrín, 53.7%: Really,
should have been in this year. A big
oversight.

(*-New to the ballot this year.)

Best of the rest
(25%-49.9%)

Ron Cey, 42.1% (21.9%): Support
doubled this year. Very underrated
player.

Jim Gilliam, 39.2% (25.1%): Jack
of all trades and the only player not
in the Hall of Fame to have his
number retired by the Dodgers.

Mike Piazza, 35.5% (30.9%):
What would Dodgers history look
like if he hadn’t been traded?

Tommy Davis, 34.3% (17.2%):
Last Dodger to win a batting title
before Trea Turner, and I’m not
sure Turner counts.

Red Barber, 31.9% (4.3%): Vin
Scully before there was a Vin
Scully.

Peter O'Malley, 31.7% (3.2%):
The last owner who cared about
keeping prices down for fans.

Everyone else

Zack Wheat, 24.2% (22.4%): He
should be in. The first truly great
Dodgers position player.

Manny Mota, 23.4% (13.5%):
Best pinch-hitter ever. He would
stay on the roster the whole year
and only pinch-hit.

Kirk Gibson, 23.3% (14.4%): One
amazing season gets him 23% of
the vote.

Davey Lopes, 22.3% (6.3%):
Best base stealer in team history.

Dusty Baker, 19.7% (5.7%): Re-
member throwing bubble gum to
him in left field?

*-Buzzie Bavasi, 19.1%: One of
only six first-time candidates to re-
main on the ballot next year.

Willie Davis, 18.8% (8.3%): Peo-
ple seem to prefer Tommy Davis.

Carl Furillo, 17.6% (9.6%): Best
arm in team history?

Johnny Podres, 17% (10.5%):

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AN APPRECIATION BELLS, BUT IMDb
NO KA-CHING changes
Marvin age-old
Gaye’s The musicians behind the Christmas standard policy
soul mate ‘Jingle Bell Rock’ may have lost out on millions in royalties
In a SAG-AFTRA
A friend, a mother, BY STEPHEN THOMAS ERLEWINE victory, subjects can
a wife and a muse, now decide whether
Jan Gaye triumphed B obby Helms couldn’t have Hop,” a tune written by Joe Beal and Jim to show their age.
over great obstacles. asked for a better first year Boothe, a pair of 50-something composers
in the music business. with backgrounds in public relations and By Anousha Sakoui
By David Ritz Blessed with a soft nasal advertising. Somebody in the studio hauled
twang that bore a resem- out a chord organ and sang the song for The popular film and TV
In 2016, Jan Gaye was in- blance to Webb Pierce, one of Helms. “It was terrible, according to database IMDb has handed
vited to dinner with bell the reigning kings of country Bobby,” says John Kleiman, who managed a win to SAG-AFTRA and
hooks, the great humanist music in the 1950s, Helms caught the atten- the singer during the last decade of his life other lobbyists after a dec-
intellectual, and asked me tion of Ernest Tubb, who invited the Indi- and currently owns licensing rights for ades-long fight over the
along. Jan and I had recently ana native to perform on his popular radio Helms, who died from emphysema in 1997. right to disclose actors’ ages.
collaborated on her autobi- show “The Midnight Jamboree.” His per- “He said the electric organ sounded bad and
ography, “After the Dance,” formance soon secured the 23-year-old the guy who was singing was terrible.” IMDb, a go-to site for
and hooks was eager to meet singer a contract with Decca Records. movie trivia, will now give
the woman who had been “Fraulein,” the second single he released Instead of rejecting the song outright, those who have a profile on
Marvin Gaye’s second wife. for the label, shot straight to No. 1 on Bill- Helms teamed with Hank Garland — a hot- the website the option to de-
board’s Country Songs chart early in 1957. shot Nashville studio guitarist hired for the cide whether to disclose
Hooks soon saw what I Syrupy strings and the Anita Kerr Singers session — and reworked it, adding a bridge, demographic data such as
had already seen in our work helped the swooning follow-up “My Special altering the melody and changing the their age or alternate names,
together. Jan had a wonder- Angel” cross over into the pop Top 10. The words, making sure to avoid any spiritual the Amazon- owned com-
ful sense of humor, a radiant time was ripe for Helms to rush out a sea- connotations. “Bobby came from a very re- pany said Tuesday.
smile and a brilliant mind. sonal single just in time for Christmas. ligious family,” explains Kleiman. “He
She knew hooks’ writing and didn’t want to have rock ‘n’ roll associated The decision follows a
was not in the least intimi- Paul Cohen, a Decca executive who with Christmas because he knew his decade-long legal battle led
dated by her presence. doubled as its house producer in Nashville, mother wouldn’t like it. And that’s one rea- by Hollywood’s biggest
Within minutes, they spoke had a song in mind for Helms: “Jingle Bell son Christmas is not [See ‘Jingle,’ E6] union to give performers
as old friends. Both women greater control over the in-
were warm and welcoming. formation shared on Holly-
They were also scintillating wood’s version of LinkedIn.
storytellers.
SAG-AFTRA President
It was Jan’s story, Fran Drescher celebrated
though, that hooks was ea- IMDb’s decision.
ger to discuss.
“This means profession-
“You’re one of the most als can choose how they
honest and courageous want to represent them-
women I’ve ever met,” hooks selves to fans and industry
said. “But I must ask you — decision-makers,” Drescher
how in the world did you ever said in a statement. “This is
survive?” a major step forward in
championing diversity and
Jan smiled and replied, providing many more op-
[See Gaye, E6] portunities for talent from
all backgrounds to be dis-
TELEVISION REVIEW covered and hired by enter-

‘Kindred’ lost [See IMDb, E2]
in time travel

Tina Rowden FX The adaptation of into wider view. Her 1993 HBO
Octavia Butler’s novel novel “Parable of the Sower”
MICAH STOCK as Kevin and Mallori Johnson as Dana in Hulu’s “Kindred.” keeps the plot intact jumped onto the New York Pelosi through
but muddles its spirit. Times bestseller list in 2020, daughter’s lens
and in the Hollywood spirit
ROBERT LLOYD of “Get me one of those,” sev- A new documentary
TELEVISION CRITIC eral of her works have been takes a candid look at
optioned for development. the public and private
Sixteen years after her The first of these to appear is moments of the U.S.
premature death, Octavia “Kindred,” whose eight-epi- House speaker. E3
Butler is having a moment. sode first season is stream-
As one of the first Black ing on Hulu. Comics ................... E4-5
women to write science fic- Puzzles ...................... E4
tion, Butler has been cele- Published in 1979 and set
brated and studied for a long by turns in the bicentennial
time, but she has lately come year and the early to
mid-1800s, the novel is not
science fiction per se; al-
though it involves time trav-

[See ‘Kindred,’ E3]

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Zucker to lead AN APPRECIATION
media group
Path to wider world narrows

Ex-CNN head will be Smart and edgy, to figure out what exactly is
chief executive of an Bookforum nudged its wrong with the picture. And
investment fund that writers and readers to then, helplessly, you witness
buys media properties. go just a little further. spiraling chaos …. Si-
menon’s genius — his native
By Stephen Battaglio By David L. Ulin inheritance, refined into art
— was for locating the crimi-
Former CNN chief Jeff Mike Coppola Getty Images What was it about Cindy Ord nal within every human be-
Zucker is moving on to his Bookforum? The announce- ing. At the very least, it is im-
next chapter. JEFF ZUCKER will lead ment on Monday morning JAY PENSKE is the founder of Penske Media Corp., possible to read him and re-
New York media invest- that the current issue of the which reently bought Bookforum’s parent company. main convinced that you are
The veteran executive ment firm RedBird IMI. publication, founded in1994, incapable of violence. Every
has been named chief exe- would be the last, has pro- more broadly, in other also published extended re- one of his books is a dark
cutive and operating part- company’s massive debt. voked an outpouring … not words. view essays and urged con- mirror.” Complicity, chaos, a
ner of RedBird IMI, an in- Warner Bros. Discovery of protest (although that tributors to push the sense of context: This is
vestment fund that will fo- too) so much as of grieving. I This was a hallmark of boundaries of their work. At what, at its sharpest, criti-
cus on acquisitions and tak- management has never sug- feel it, too, this sense of loss the journal, which pushed the same time, the maga- cism means to evoke.
ing stakes in media, gested any intention to sell and anger, this feeling that me to think about both my zine felt to me a bit more
entertainment and sports CNN, although the notion is something essential is being own work and that of others. open, or perhaps it’s more Earlier this month,
properties, the company whispered about informally needlessly destroyed. It encouraged me to read accurate to say: less doctri- Penske Media Corp., which
announced. inside the company. ambitiously. Moira Done- naire. The work that reso- owns Rolling Stone and Va-
That’s because for so gan on Sarah Schulman, nates (Ismail Muhammad riety, among other publica-
RedBird IMI is a joint CNN was turning an an- many of us in the book Meghan O’Rourke on Lynne on Charlottesville, Heather tions, purchased Bookfo-
venture backed by two pri- nual profit of more than $1 world, this quarterly review Tillman, Tillman on Don Havrilesky on “Wonder rum’s parent company, Art-
vate investment firms, New billion under Zucker’s lead- journal represented a kind DeLillo’s “Underworld.” Woman”) framed books forum International Maga-
York-based RedBird Capi- ership from 2013 through of critical apotheosis, posi- Such pieces remain models through the lens of a wider zine; although no reason has
tal Partners and Interna- 2022. He was forced to tioned in the middle terri- as much as they are reviews cultural engagement; they been given for the shut-
tional Media Investments in resign earlier this year after tory between service jour- or essays. They rewire our sought to make connections down, it’s not hard to imag-
Abu Dhabi. The new entity he failed to disclosed he is in nalism and the academy. As understanding of what criti- beyond the page. ine this takeover as the
will launch with $1 billion in a romantic relationship both reader and writer (I cism is, and what it can do. cause. Either way, here’s
capital. with Allison Gollust, a long- published several reviews Perhaps the finest exam- what I know: I’m tired of los-
time aide who also served as and essays there between This is not to say Bookfo- ple of this — and among my ing outlets to conglomera-
RedBird was founded in chief marketing officer for 1998 and 2008), there was rum was without anteced- favorite critical essays — is tion. I’m tired of culture be-
2014 by Gerry Cardinale and CNN. something special in the ent; it’s impossible to imag- Lucy Sante’s 2007 exegesis ing under siege because of
currently manages more way Bookforum privileged ine it existing, for instance, on Georges Simenon. Here’s money, of corporations and
than $7.5 billion in assets on Under Warner Bros. Dis- voices — those of the critics without the example of pub- how Sante ends that piece: the wealthy buying plat-
behalf of a global group of covery’s management, CNN as well as of the writers lications such as the New “You the reader are pulled forms and destroying them
blue-chip institutional in- has been in turmoil, facing under review. To engage York Review of Books, the into the situation, maybe just because they can.
vestors. RedBird’s holdings cost-cutting and layoffs with an issue has long felt to Village Voice Literary Sup- against your better judg-
include stakes in the Fen- while searching for a down- me like going to a fabulous plement and the London ment, by an irresistible wish I keep thinking about the
way Sports Group, which the-middle identity at a party where the guests are Review of Books. All of them Believer — sold out from
owns the Boston Red Sox time when cable news audi- not just brilliant but also under its editors by the Uni-
and NESN, a regional ences have become partisan personable. This is how versity of Nevada, Las
sports network. tribes. The network is also criticism is supposed to op- Vegas, only to be rescued af-
facing the long-term chal- erate, to get your blood up. It ter a public uproar. Some-
The firm has also in- lenge of consumers cutting reminds you of how much all thing similar could also hap-
vested in the YES Network, the pay-TV cord, a threat to this matters. It reminds you pen here. But if this really is
the TV outlet for the New subscribers fee revenue. that literature is a collective the last issue of Bookforum,
York Yankees and the soul. I want to remember its vital-
Brooklyn Nets, and Zucker, 57, also served as ity. I want to remember the
SpringHill Co., an enter- president of Turner Sports Collective soul is how I feeling of seeing each issue
tainment company founded from 2019 to 2022 — concur- might describe Bookforum in my mailbox, checking the
by NBA superstar LeBron rent with his CNN leader- also. It was edgy, opinion- table of contents, book-
James and Maverick Carter. ship — and served as and ated, willing to be provoca- marking the work I wished
chief executive of NBCUni- tive, and it encouraged the to read. The current issue is
International Media In- versal from 2007 to 2011. His same of its contributors. no exception, which only
vestments is a private com- rise at NBC began in the The first piece I wrote for the makes the situation that
pany that holds media in- early 1990s when he became magazine was a takedown of much more fraught. This is
vestments overseas, includ- the 26-year-old executive William Gass’ collection of not a dying journal, in other
ing the National, Sky News producer of the morning novellas “Cartesian Sonata” words, but a thriving one:
Arabia, CNN Business Ar- show “Today.” — bloodless, as Gass’ fiction Sasha-Frere Jones on Gor-
abic and the Grid. often was. Rather than leave don Matta-Clark, Harmony
it at that, however, I was en- Holiday on Hilton Als,
Zucker’s leadership in couraged to go further, to Stephanie Burt on N.K.
the joint venture will prob- frame the collection not only Jemisin. Here, we see the
ably lead to speculation on its own terms but also in conversation that is being
that RedBird IMI could relation to Gass’ monumen- taken from us. There is no
make a bid for CNN if Warn- tal achievement as an essay- more elemental dialogue.
er Bros. Discovery decides ist. To consider his writing
to spin off the cable news Ulin is a former book editor
network to help reduce the and book critic of The
Times.

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A daughter’s-eye view of Nancy Pelosi

HBO documentary HBO ‘Pelosi in atives alike when they dare
reveals the private the House’ suggest she’s violating her
side of the first female FILMMAKER Alexandra Pelosi, left, captures her mother, U.S. House Speaker oath of office.
speaker of the House. Nancy Pelosi, on the go in a scene from a new documentary, “Pelosi in the House.” Where: HBO
Husband Paul is shown
LORRAINE ALI she broke a centuries-old not be seeking another term tempted kidnapping of a When: 1 and 4 p.m. at home dozing in a chair, or
TELEVISION CRITIC glass ceiling to become the as House speaker after a federal official, along with Saturday at her office or staying out of
first female speaker of the kidnapping attempt gone state charges. the limelight as Nancy takes
The clickety-clack of high House. awry. A politically motivat- Streaming: HBO Max, the stage. When Alexandra
heels through various corri- ed intruder broke into her Although the documen- any time turns her camera on him at a
dors of power is a constant Even Alexandra’s mon- San Francisco home and at- tary does not cover the at- work party and asks why
in “Pelosi in the House,” tage of the various pumps tacked her husband, Paul, tack, it does capture the dis- Rating: TV-14 (may be he’s there, he answers, “I’m
documentarian Alexandra (blue, yellow, pink) that Pe- 82, with a hammer. He suf- turbing rise of threats and unsuitable for children just here for the pistachios.”
Pelosi’s film about her losi has worn while govern- fered serious injuries, from violence toward politicians under age 14) “You made that joke last
mother, Speaker of the U.S. ing through six presidencies which he is still recovering. and public servants, from year,” she says. “It’s good to
House Nancy Pelosi. is a slice of Beltway history. the inflammatory “death duction, a biographical deep be consistent,” he quips.
But the film mainly focuses The suspect, who in- panel” hysteria the pre- dive or a formal look at a life-
“For my entire adult life on the most challenging and tended to assault Pelosi, ceded passage of the Afford- time of government service But in more foreboding
I’ve been two steps behind dangerous period in the 82- prosecutors allege, has been able Care Act in 2010 to the à la the 2018 documentary moments, you see Paul Pe-
you with this camera, trying year-old’s career, the Trump charged with multiple fed- deadly insurrection at the “John McCain: For Whom losi being harangued out-
to keep up with you,” Al- presidency. eral counts, including as- U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. the Bell Tolls.” It’s a daugh- side his home by Iraq war
exandra says off-camera as sault on a family member ter’s ode to her mother at a protesters, or while in D.C.,
she races through the U.S. Nancy Pelosi announced of a U.S. official and at- “Pelosi in the House” is particularly perilous time, asking via cellphone why the
Capitol building with the last month that she would not a wonky political pro- designed to humanize a house was left unlocked. He
fast-moving congresswom- leader whose been viciously appears vulnerable, while
an. “Mom, do you realize targeted. his wife operates with the
that? You walk at a pace. It’s iron will of a warrior.
hard to keep up with you.” Candid interviews and
footage only a daughter Ultimately, the film is a
“I’m a workhorse, not a could procure are the main portrait of Nancy Pelosi’s
show horse,” replies the appeal of “Pelosi in the tireless dedication to coun-
elder Pelosi, a statement House.” There’s the speaker try and principle, despite
that’s validated many times at home in her pajamas, ne- the cost, although it’s un-
over in this refreshingly per- gotiating over the phone likely that Pelosi detractors
sonal account of a life spent with then-Vice President will see it that way.
in politics. Mike Pence as she does the
laundry. When Alexandra asks her
The HBO documentary, mother how she weathers all
which premiered Tuesday, At the office, she’s em- the rancor, the speaker re-
briefly covers the California barrassed and entertained members something she
Democrat’s upbringing in a by memes of her viral, con- read overseas: “It was a say-
devout Catholic household descending clap during ing in an African hospital:
of Baltimore politicians, and then-President Trump’s ‘When one day I die and hap-
her three decades in Con- first State of the Union ad- pily go to meet my maker…
gress, including the land- dress in 2018. And in public, he will say to me, “Show me
mark moment in 2007 when Pelosi bites back at lefty pro- your wounds.” And if I have
testers and right-wing oper- no wounds to show him, he
will say, “Was nothing worth
fighting for?” ’ I’m proud of
my wounds.”

‘Kindred’ sence in the novel, whose CULTURE MONSTER
19th century timeline takes
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under the age of 17 with man than his father — one
MALLORI JOHNSON’S turn as the lead character, advisories for violence, sex who might even free his
Dana, is a saving grace in “Kindred.” and coarse language) slaves. But because we see
him this season only as a
er is touching Dana when child, and Kaplan represents
she slips through time the character without really
makes the trip with her, and inhabiting it, the question of
so at one juncture Kevin change, or the lack of it, will
finds himself in the antebel- be punted to next season.
lum past as well. In the book, This may work for the busi-
Dana and Kevin are married ness plan, but it does the
and know each other well; story, and the viewer, a dis-
here they are starting up a service.
romance under strange and
Short of much-expanded contempo- stressful conditions in a
Octavia rary adventures. Less prof- world that treats them as dif-
Butler itably, she also gets an an- ferently as might be imag-
noying, nosy neighbor, ined. “If you can somehow
[‘Kindred,’ from E1] played by Brooke Bloom, a shut out the fact that this
lampoon of white liberal con- whole thing is happening in a
el, it is inexplicable in any but cern. terrifying and horrible place, CELEBRATE
it’s kind of like a retreat,” THE SEASON
metaphysical terms. (Butler After a difficult dinner Kevin will say early on, and
with her relations, Dana ac- Dana seems to agree. Later, WITH US!
described it as a “grim fan- cepts a ride home from Kevin she will be less sanguine.
(Micah Stock), their waiter, (“You’re not seeing what I
tasy.”) Developed by play- who is white, which gives us see every day.” “I know that.”
an opportunity to see not “Do you?”)
wright Branden Jacobs- only that he’s a decent guy
but that he knows his soul MISSING FINER POINTS
Jenkins, the series, relocated music. (He is also a musi-
cian, or was.) It’s difficult, not to say de-
from 1976 to the present day mented, even depraved, to
Dana coincidentally finds form a “nuanced” view of
— 2016 is the pre-pandemic Kevin again on a dating app, slavery in this more (if not
and after they have slept to- completely) enlightened
named year — adopts But- gether and watched an epi- time — though there are
sode of “Dynasty” in her still- those who try — and as in the
ler’s main mechanism and unfurnished new home — novel, “Kindred” does not
the clip has a thematic reso- scant the atrocities of hu-
her main characters and in- nance with things to come — mans treating other humans
Dana suddenly disappears as property. But Butler’s
cidents, with some altera- from 21st century L.A. to find novel is also an investigation
herself in what she will even- of character within context
tions. It remains a story tually learn is a plantation in and “how easily people could
19th century Maryland. She be trained to accept slavery,”
about a Black woman from discovers a baby turned face as Dana observes — written,
down in a crib, turns him on Butler told interviewer Ran-
the 21st century who finds his back. Then, encounter- dall Kenan, “as a reaction to
ing her own mother, Olivia some of the things going on
herself on a plantation in the (Sheria Irving), who she had during the ‘60s, when people
believed long dead, Dana is were feeling ashamed of, or
19th. frightened back into her own more strongly, angry with
time. Was it a dream? She their parents for not having
But in order to turn a thinks so at first. But it hap- improved things faster.” And
pens again; she saves the the series, which invests in
fairly compact book into a same child — now older — the sort of drama believed
from drowning, and finding necessary to power a televi-
series — not a limited series, herself at the end of a gun, sion show through one sea-
disappears again into her son and onto the next, does
either, but one that will re- own time. not catch this subtler aspect.

quire at least a second sea- The child is Rufus (David It doesn’t help that the
Alexander Kaplan), the son white Southerners come off
son to encompass its events of slave-holding plantation as cartoons, speaking theat-
owner Tom Weylin (Ryan rical dialogue, with their
— it has been built out with Kwanten) and his wife, Mar- most villainous aspects writ
garet (Gayle Rankin), and it large; they are too easy to
additional characters, may become clear to you be- dismiss. (For that matter,
fore it does to Dana that she few of the Black characters,
events and subplots that feel is pulled back in time when- including Austin Smith as
ever Rufus’ life is in danger slave-in-charge Luke; Soph-
crafted to provide drama and returns to the present ina Brown as Sarah, who
when she believes she will die runs the cookhouse; Lindsey
and sensation and to make herself. Though she might be Blackwell as her mute
in the past for days or daughter, Carrie; and Chris-
its heroine more actively and months, she is never gone topher Farrar as Rufus’ play-
from her own world for more mate Nigel, are much devel-
conventionally heroic. (With than seconds, minutes or oped either.) Tom is a lout
hours. As in the novel, Dana and a schemer, quick to vi-
the upshot that she is also and Rufus turn out to be his- olence, who has been made
torically intertwined, with something of a homophobe
less contemplative.) So whatever forces are animat- for good measure (he is keen LO, HOW A ROSE
ing this strange relationship to any sort of “feminine” be-
while “Kindred” works fairly safeguarding her existence havior in men), and though DEC 11
as well as his. It’s the sci-fi he believes he’s giving his
well as a righteous historical trope of protecting the pre- slaves “safety, protection,” FESTIVAL OF CAROLS
sent by regulating the past he treats them as disposable
melodrama, much of what and basic to the novel’s when it suits him. Margaret DEC 17
theme that any life is the is high-strung, bordering on
makes the novel interesting product of a complicated hysterical, and territorial HANDEL’S MESSIAH
chain of events, that our when it comes to her child,
— its psychological insights, happy circumstances might who seems to prefer the com- DEC 18
be built on someone else’s pany of Dana.
its thoughtfulness — is dissi- pain — a good metaphor for CAROLS ON THE PLAZA
slavery in the bargain. Time is literally of the es-
pated or obscured by the DEC 19
It turns out that whatev-
adaptation’s length and MESSIAH SING-ALONG

busyness. (If you’re inter- DEC 19

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REDEEMED BY ACTORS

What it has inarguably in
its favor is a strong central
performance by Mallori
Johnson, at the beginning of
what should be a long and
fruitful career. Johnson
plays Dana, who, as the se-
ries begins, has moved to Los
Angeles with hopes of writ-
ing for television. (Butler’s
original Dana is an aspiring
author of novels and short
stories.) Jacobs-Jenkins has
given her an uncle (Charles
Parnell), an ex-cop, and aunt
(Eisa Davis), a nurse, who
will be involved in Dana’s

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HOROSCOPE learning to tell the differ- 12/14/22 Dear Amy: I am a single such a big lift; learning to live held at the courthouse with
ence. gay man in my early 60s. I am differently alongside your a few friends and family in at-
By Holiday Mathis 18): Perplexing entangle- having a real problem get- grief might be a way to frame tendance.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): ments and ridiculous plot ting beyond grief. your efforts.
Aries (March 21-April 19): Over time, the task at hand twists are part of the fun. We all went out to dinner
Problematic teammates goes from being pleasant to Don’t expect to sort it out My ex-partner died al- You are insightful to real- afterward, and each person
may actually be good for the tolerable to tedious. You can quickly, but at least you’ll be most five years ago. We were ize that your household pa- paid for their own meal.
group as they disrupt the make the “pleasant” phase entertained. a couple for 11 years but lived ralysis is linked to your grief.
status quo, causing every- last longer by taking breaks together a total of 21 years The clutter in your home is a I felt like if it had been my
one to look at things they and altering your approach Pisces (Feb. 19-March and were very good friends. physical manifestation of wedding, I would have paid
otherwise wouldn’t notice. to keep a fresh mind-set. 20): Having friends who how powerless you feel. It is for everyone’s meal because
truly enrich your life begins I was there when he took a common reaction to your the guests came to celebrate
Taurus (April 20-May Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): with being adept at spotting his last breath, along with experience, which might me! I think of it as if they had
20): It’s a fortunate time to Matters of image come up, people who have great po- two of his dearest friends. I be characterized as Pro- held a reception, where the
get out and go searching for and you may decide to make tential. also lost my younger brother longed Grief Disorder, which bride and groom would have
someone as playful and fun some changes. seven years ago and a hand- is also known as “compli- paid for and provided re-
as you are. Today’s birthday (Dec. ful of close friends in be- cated grief.” freshments.
Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): 14): The best leaders have tween, due mostly to cancer.
Gemini (May 21-June 21): You’ve become masterful at also been followers. You’ll You need and deserve What do you think is the
Go through your pos- what you do and will contin- toggle between the two roles My circle of friends has professional help through proper way to handle this
sessions and assess what ue to turn out a fantastic re- in 2023. The fact that you shrunk to almost nothing. I grief therapy (you should situation?
you no longer need, as well as sult. wonder indicates your readi- seem to be stuck in grief and also be screened for depres-
what you’re missing and ness to lead, and indeed can’t move forward. I am a sion). You will also start to Confused
would like to try. Sagittarius (Nov. 22- when you’re in charge you very responsible man. I go to feel better very quickly when and Irritated
Dec. 21): There’s no perfect will be brilliant. More high- work every day, pay my bills you make inroads in clearing
Cancer (June 22-July 22): amount of socializing that lights: a connection with and such, but there is a huge out your living space. This is Dear Confused: Another
You could use the help of an fits every individual. The someone who fills your heart void in my life because so an empowering form of self- way to look at this is: You
expert, though you might amount that works well for and a well-earned certifi- many people in my own little care. were part of a very select
solve the problem quickly you will change in different cate. Gemini and Leo adore world are gone. group of people to witness
and for free with an online vi- seasons of life. you. Your lucky numbers: 13, The LGBTQ community this small ceremony. It
deo tutorial. Asking the 17, 10, 36 and 1. I have neglected staying where you live can help to might have been generous
right question will be key. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. on top of clutter at home and hook you up with grief for all of you guests to treat
19): Today will offer the op- Mathis writes her column repurposing things I’ve been groups, cleaners, and organ- the newly married couple to
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Marvin Gaye’s muse — and more vin’s quixotic hit from 1977,
“Got to Give It Up.”
[Gaye, from E1] Nona Gaye
“Some spirit inside kept “She understood my id-
pushing me in a positive di- JAN GAYE met Marvin when she was 17; they had two kids, married and divorced. “Jan saw my soul,” he said. iosyncrasies more than I
rection.” understood them myself,”
Cindy Ord Getty Images she’d found a way to free her- During the studio ses- Christian, in 1975. said Marvin. “Jan saw my
“Was that spirit con- self. sions that would produce “In 1973 I wrote my first soul.”
nected to Marvin?” asked JAN GAYE helped keep Marvin’s megahit “Let’s Get
hooks. Marvin’s artistry alive. “Mom knew,” said Jan, It On,” Ed introduced Jan to song — called ‘Jan’ — for the AN ENDURING BOND
“that she could no longer the soul singer. woman who had become my
“Definitely,” said Jan. From ages 14 months to force me to remain at a resi- muse, but, on a deeper level, Their marriage lasted
“For all that was troubling 14 years, she lived in an unli- dence I so deeply loathed.” “I saw her as more than a it was the spiritual and sen- until their divorce in 1981,
about our life together, he censed foster home in L.A., real girl,” Marvin later told sual love I felt for Jan that in- but their bond endured. De-
conveyed a positive spirit of where she was continually By then her mother had me. “She suddenly ap- formed ‘I Want You,’ ” said spite Jan’s brief romances
love that somehow pre- abused by the woman who married Earl Hunter who, in peared as a gift of God.” Marvin, referring to his with soul singers Teddy
vailed. Even to this day, I owned the facility. Jan’s words, was “another landmark album from 1976. Pendergrass and Frankie
put on his music and can’t hyper-hip character with His infatuation was pro- Beverly, Marvin’s obsession
help but feel my spirit re- By the time she was 15, swag and style. He had a found. Jan had been in love Marvin’s psychological with his second wife never
newed.” funky background, but he with Marvin since she was 8, challenges generated chaos subsided.
accepted me into his home when she saw him singing to those closest to him.
Janis Hunter Gaye died and did his best to love and “How Sweet It Is” on “I’ll be writing about
Dec. 3. She was 66. For the protect me.” “American Bandstand.” “He created pain in his her,” he told me, referring to
last several years, she had Now she suddenly found personal life,” Jan theorized, “Falling in Love Again,” the
been living in Providence, A FATEFUL MEETING herself swept up in a life of “and transformed that pain concluding song of his
R.I., along with her immedi- tremendous excitement into musical ecstasy. The masterwork “Here, My
ate family. Days after Jan’s 17th and endless turmoil. more he suffered, the great- Dear,” “until the day I die.”
birthday, in 1973, Ed er his art.”
I first met Jan in 1979 Townsend, a friend to Bar- “The early years were Rick James, the late
when I was working with bara and Earl, was writing beautiful,” she recalled. Jan designed Gaye’s R&B and funk-rock star,
Marvin on his biography, with Marvin Gaye, then es- “Even dreamlike.” iconic signature look in the was one of Jan’s confidants
“Divided Soul.” She was 23, tranged from his first wife, ’70s: red watch cap, beaded during her trying times. He
strikingly beautiful and ea- Anna, sister of Motown Their daughter, Nona denim shirt, red-laced high- spoke to me of their friend-
ger to reconcile her relation- owner Berry Gordy. “Pie” Aisha, was born in1974; heeled silver boots. She also ship.
ship with the singer who their son, Frankie “Bubby” sang backup vocals on Mar-
was suffering from depres- “She understood the
sion and drug addiction. madness that can accom-
pany gifted artists,” he said.
We were at the home that “Jan was all about compas-
Marvin had bought his par- sion. She had a strength
ents in Mid-City Los Ange- that couldn’t be broken. Es-
les. Sweet one moment and pecially when it came to her
sour the next, Marvin was children. She was the ulti-
out of sorts. mate Mama Bear protect-
ing her cubs.”
Marvin’s mom stepped
in with some advice to her After Marvin’s death, it
daughter-in-law. was Jan who became the
steward of his estate.
“He loves you,” said Al-
berta Gay, who spoke in the “Her unwavering com-
same quiet voice that char- mitment,” said her attorney
acterized her son. “But be- Mark Levinsohn, “was to
cause he’s a genius, his mind ensure the prominence of
is crowded with too many Marvin’s legacy. She was
thoughts. He has a hard passionate about Marvin’s
time sorting out his feelings. music and his dream to in-
All we can do is be patient.” spire positive change, and
she dedicated much of her
Over the years, I saw that life to help achieve that
patience was Jan’s most en- goal.”
during quality. To endure
the story that bell hooks In grieving her passing, I
found so fascinating re- take comfort in remember-
quired almost superhuman ing that she had, in fact, tri-
patience. umphed over great obsta-
cles.
Though Jan was born
into jazz royalty, her child- As a super-strong single
hood was rough. Her father, mom, she had raised her
the singer-writer-instru- children and grandson
mentalist Bulee “Slim” Nolan Pentz with loving
Gaillard, famous for his hit care; she had kept Marvin’s
song “Flat Foot Floogie artistry alive; she had told
(With a Floy Floy),” was a her story with unflinching
bebopper of mythological candor; and she had lived a
import. He was author of life founded in faith.
the “Slim Gaillard Vout-o-
Reenee Dictionary” that de- In our last conversation
lineated a hipster language earlier this year, Jan had
he himself had invented. told me, “It’s taken me a
long time to realize this, but
Jan’s mom, Barbara, had real healing comes not in re-
a short-lived affair with gret, but in gratitude. I’m
Slim, who was married at grateful for so much.”
the time and, as he said,
“had more children than I David Ritz, co-composer of
can name or remember.” the song “Sexual Healing,”
is the author of numerous
books, including “Divided
Soul: The Life of Marvin
Gaye.”

Who penned He continued to play ses-
this standard? sions in Nashville, including
an appearance on Lee’s
[‘Jingle,’ from E1] television show. Oscar Sosa “Rockin’ Around the Christ-
mentioned in the song.” Generation after genera- mas Tree,” and recorded the
BILLY GARLAND, left, holds a copy of the music and lyrics to “Jingle Bell Rock” album “Jazz Winds From a
Helms and Garland tion has grown up with “Jin- as brother Hank Garland, one of the purported writers of the classic, sits nearby. New Direction” in 1960. All
transformed “Jingle Bell gle Bell Rock” playing in the his success came to a halt
Hop” into “Jingle Bell Rock,” background, the years of Billboard charts, “Jingle Bell awarded as payment to loyal CLASSIC TALE when he suffered a debilitat-
a catchy little rock ‘n’ roll ambient repetition cement- Rock” has garnered more colleagues, as when Chuck ing car crash in 1961. After
tune released at a time the ing its status as a holiday on-demand streaming plays Berry’s debut single “May- It’s far from an uncom- the accident, Garland could
music was still young classic. It’s also now part of every year since 2012. The bellene” featured a Cleve- mon story. Susan Genco, the no longer play guitar and the
enough to seem a fad. The an annual tradition in which single remains a staple on land disc jockey credited as co-president of the Azoff Co. royalties he made from his
singer cut the record during a bounty of Christmas re- radio too, racking up more a co-author. and a founder of the artist work as a session musician
an early-morning session cords reappear on the than 40,000 spins each year advocacy group Music Art- were meager. He spent his
designed to accommodate charts every December. since 2018 — an increase A seasonal perennial like ists Coalition, sees this sce- last years under the care of
his busy touring schedule, Currently, 15 of the songs on from the 30,000 spins per “Jingle Bell Rock” generates nario repeating itself today. his younger brother Billy,
then returned to the road. Spotify’s Top 50 in the USA year early in the 2010s. no small amount of money Recently, Genco attempted who helped spearhead a
“He never thought he had are holiday songs, while half on a yearly basis. The late to convince a manager of a 2003 lawsuit against Warner-
something special,” says of Billboard’s Top 40 are Enduring though it may songwriters Beal and major artist that if his cli- Chappell Music, the pub-
Kleiman. “He thought this Christmas tunes. Billboard be, “Jingle Bell Rock” is a Boothe get paid whenever ent’s portion of the song- lisher that wound up owning
was just another Christmas chart historian Chris Molan- product of its time, a cheer- the composition is streamed writing on a new song wasn’t “Jingle Bell Rock.” Billy filed
song.” phy, who hosts the “Hit ful piece of Christmas com- or played on the radio, properly accounted for prior the lawsuit himself. Months
Parade” podcast for Slate, merce made with only one whether it’s the original hit to release, they would be for- before Hank Garland’s
HOLIDAY STAPLE explains, “There’s this weird intention: to sell records version or a subsequent cov- feiting a steady, reliable ave- death in December 2004, a
consistency where we’ve de- during the holiday season of er. For instance, when you nue of income. The manager federal judge dismissed all
Far from being “just an- cided on the new Christmas 1957. Helms knocked it out so stream Lindsay Lohan’s and artist opted to release counts except one. Gar-
other Christmas song,” “Jin- canon and Bobby Helms is swiftly, neither he nor Gar- new version of “Jingle Bell the song anyway. “It was land’s tragic story was told
gle Bell Rock” turned out to part of that core. Alongside land attempted to claim Rock,” from the Netflix mov- more important for the in “Crazy,” a 2008 film star-
be one of the defining holi- Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want credit for their songwriting ie “Falling for Christmas,” record to come out, to ex- ring country singer Waylon
day songs of the rock ‘n’ roll for Christmas Is You’ and contributions. the credited songwriters get plode on streaming,” she Payne as Garland and Ali
era, as instantly recogniz- Brenda Lee’s ‘Rockin’ paid but Helms does not. says. Larter as his wife.
able today as Bing Crosby’s Around the Christmas Tree Helms often told the Recording artists only de-
“White Christmas” or Nat ,’ ‘Jingle Bell Rock’ is in the story of the “Jingle Bell rive royalties when their own Genco argues that pub- Billy Garland died in 2021.
“King” Cole’s “The Christ- top three.” Rock” session, recounting it version is either sold or lishing rights “are these peo- With Helms, Hank Gar-
mas Song (Merry Christmas with such detail that, streamed. Furthermore, in a ple’s annuities. These are land, Beal and Boothe all
to You).” Sixty-five years af- Molanphy says that the Kleiman says, “I have no longstanding legal quirk, pensions and you want to long dead, it’s difficult to de-
ter its initial release, it’s still recent popularity of “Jingle doubt that Bobby wrote the terrestrial radio airplay gen- get it right at the beginning finitively determine the
gaining popularity and prof- Bell Rock” doesn’t mark a majority of the song. I asked erates royalties only for so that they have it. Right- song’s authorship, espe-
itability with each passing resurgence so much as a him, ‘If you wrote this, why songwriters, not for record- fully, it belongs to them.” cially as very little hard evi-
year. reckoning driven by the rise didn’t you confront Decca ing artists. dence survived: There is no
of streaming music on de- Records at that time?’ He Helms received regular songwriting demo or studio
“Jingle Bell Rock” has mand. “It’s only when we said he’s not gonna get into it Helms received perform- performance royalties from paperwork to support either
been streamed over 635 mil- have wide acceptance of with the record label be- ance royalties from the sin- “Jingle Bell Rock,” and he side. “Jingle Bell Rock” does
lion times on Spotify, and streaming and we are now cause if you got into it with gle — Kleiman says “Bobby also was able to tour off its sound more like subsequent
currently sits at No. 3 on the counting every time you hit them, they would stop was a thankful man” — but success until his last days. songs credited to either
Billboard Hot 100, its high- play on Mariah Carey, every putting your music out.” he and Garland probably Hank Garland wasn’t so Helms or Garland than it
est-ever chart placement. time you hit play on Bobby missed out on a sizable pay- lucky. does “Unsuspecting Heart,”
Daryl Hall & John Oates re- Helms, that we realize, ‘Oh Helms’ fear of reprisal day for their songwriting. an old-fashioned, pre-rock
vived the song at the peak of my God, these records are from the record company Kleiman says he’d have no Right after the release of pop number released by
their stardom, covering it huge.’ And they’re bigger was probably justified. Dur- way of guessing the mone- “Jingle Bell Rock,” he be- Terri Stevens in 1955 that
with a wink in 1983 and film- than we even realized. ing the 1950s, the music busi- tary amount Helms could’ve came Elvis Presley’s regular bears Beal’s name as a co-
ing a cheerfully camp video What’s interesting, too, over ness was rife with shady made for writing the holiday guitarist in the studio, ap- writer (a search for record-
that was in regular rotation the course of the decade of deals. Labels were loath to standard, but, he posits, pearing on such hits as ings of other Boothe-penned
on MTV through the 1980s. the streaming era, is that pay out royalties, and song- “I’m sure it’s in the millions.” “Stuck on You,” “Little Sis- songs turned up empty).
The floodgates for “Jingle they get a little bit bigger ev- writing credits were often ter” and “(Marie’s the It also could be argued
Bell Rock” opened up in1987, ery year. Not because Name) His Latest Flame.” that the appeal of “Jingle
when “Lethal Weapon” be- Christmas records are big- Bell Rock” lies as much with
came the first film to feature ger in 2022 than they were in the record as the song itself,
the Helms original in a con- 2013, but because streaming and that success can be en-
temporary setting. Since keeps increasing in penetra- tirely credited to Helms and
then, artists ranging from tion.” Garland: The singer has a
George Strait to Kelly warm, jovial delivery that
Clarkson to the cast of UNSUNG PRAISES matches the guitarist’s
“Glee” have recorded ver- jaunty, jazzy licks. As Molan-
sions. It’s rare that a year The numbers bear this phy says, “Now that we have
passes without “Jingle Bell out. According to Luminate, streaming data, we know
Rock” popping up on the the company that generates that people go back to the
soundtrack for a movie or the data that powers the standards every year, and
‘Jingle Bell Rock’ is a stand-
ard.”
Or as Kleiman puts it, “As
long as we celebrate Christ-
mas, we’ll play ‘Jingle Bell
Rock.’”

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06 Adventist Health Glendale Foundation
07 Advocare Foundation
08 Alliance For A Beter Community

09 American Foundation

For Suicide Prevention

10 Alzheimer’s Los Angeles

12 Alzheimer’s Association

California Southland Chapter

14 Biensestar Human Services
15 Blind Children’s Center

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19 Coalition For Humane

Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA)

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23 Destination Crenshaw
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26 International Institute of Los Angeles
27 LA Family Housing

28 Jewish Community Foundation

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31 Library Foundation of Los Angeles
32 LAFC Foundation
34 Los Angeles Education Partnership
35 Los Angeles Regional Food Bank
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37 Olive Crest
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42 Operation Santa Claus
43 Para Los Niños
44 Orange County United Way
46 Point Foundation
47 Reach LA
48 Puente Learning Center
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Southern California gives the most
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FOR MANY OF US, the season of goodwill California Giving
means more than just buying gits for family and There are nearly 145
friends. Thirty percent of charitable giving also
happens in the month of December, according to tions in California; of th
matching-git platform Double the Donation. public charities, accord
Independent Sector. C
And we’re giving more and more: overall dona- billion to charity each ye
tions grew by more than 4% over the past year of household income. Th
– the 6th consecutive year of growth, despite the around $625 donated an
COVID-19 pandemic puting millions out of work.
Nationwide, some 80%
Here is a look at why we donate during the holi- ties receive comes from
day season; how much Californians give; and some Such generosity allows
donation do’s and don’ts to keep in mind this year. community services whi
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5,000 nonprofit organiza- clubs and museums, while advancing solutions
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ding to nonprofit coalition food insecurity, homelessness, animal welfare, and
Californians give over $25 environmental protection.
ear, which represents 2.79%
his equates to an average of Holiday Generosity
nnually by each Californian. The act of presenting gits to loved ones during

% of the money that chari- the holidays reminds us of the “warm and fuzzy”
m individual private donors. feeling we experience from acts of giving. This
is not just imagined; science has demonstrated
s charities to deliver vital that generosity stimulates “feel-good chemical”
ile also giving voice to those dopamine in the human brain. Many people revisit
s contribute to California this sensation by also donating to charitable orga-
nizations at this time of year.

“Our findings suggest that the reward experi-
enced from helping others may be deeply ingrained
in human nature,” concluded research published
in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychol-
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as happier people tend to give more, said a recent
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA IS GAGA over
their pets – it’s evident from the number of pup-
pies, kitties and other animals we see in our
day-to-day experience, out enjoying the beautiful
weather and terrain with their owners. And, while
the city of Los Angeles became officially “no kill”
for shelter animals in 2021, California has a more
sobering statistic: It has one of the highest shelter
euthanasia rates in the country.

According to data by bestfriends.org, more
than 37,000 shelter animals were euthanized just
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While this seems difficult, much headway has been
made on both the local and the national level, and
much of it is due to charitable giving and volun-
teerism by generous individuals.

In addition, shelters across Southern California
are welcoming to volunteerism – those who can
lend a hand directly elevating the quality of life for
unfortunate furry friends have many opportuni-
ties to do so.

Here’s a look at some amazing organizations that
aid animals in the region:

SpcaLA: The venerable organization has been
serving Southern California pets since 1877 and
shows no sign of slowing down. With two adoption
centers in the South Bay and Long Beach, SpcaLA
has been connecting people with loving pets for
generations. They take donations on their website,

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MISSION STATEMENT

Living God’s love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.

GET INVOLVED

For more than a century, miracles have been taking place at Adventist
Health Glendale, thanks to our committed caregivers who give of
themselves so selflessly. Now, as we enter a season that celebrates
miracles and generosity, we want you to know that your gifts help drive
our mission forward in ways that change lives and inspire more hope
in us all.
This year, your gifts will help fund our areas of greatest need. Your
donations will be used to improve patient care and continue to make
miracles happen for our patients and their families for many years
to come.
Additionally, if you have philanthropic goals beyond a one-time gift,
the Adventist Health Glendale Foundation offers options for recurring
donations, IRA contributions, company matching gifts, bequests and
estate gifts, and more. Our experienced staff is available to answer any
questions or help guide you to the giving program that most closely
matches your goals for charitable giving.
There are several ways to give to the Adventist Health
Glendale Foundation securely. To learn more, visit
AdventistHealthGlendale.org/Miracles. Additionally, donors
may call 818-409-8055 or email [email protected]
for more options.

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ADVOCARE FOUNDATION

CONTACT

Address: 2800 Telecom Pkwy., Richardson, TX 75082
Phone: 214.549.0304
Email: [email protected]
Website: advocarefoundation.org
Top Executive: Whitney Strauss, Executive Director
Year Established: 2015

ABOUT US

In 1993, Charles E. Ragus founded AdvoCare as a health and
wellness company with the commitment to be an advocate
who cared. Today, AdvoCare has taken that commitment
to the next level by establishing the AdvoCare Foundation.
The foundation focuses on providing the support to help
all children be happy, healthy, and safe. The AdvoCare
Foundation is making a difference by identifying and
combatting these three main pillars of unhealthy childhoods
– activity, nutrition education and access to healthy food.
We focus on funding programs with long-term solutions to
improving the physical health and wellness of children in need
in the communities that need it most.

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Our mission is to help all children and families in need lead
healthy, happy and safe lives.

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The AdvoCare Foundation is committed to supporting
children. Millions of children suffer from the effects of u
diabetes, bullying, shorter life expectancies, poor schoo
more. We believe it’s not their fault, so we’re fighting fo
for themselves by partnering with organizations across
work directly impacts the safety and health of children
https://advocarefoundation.org/

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National foundation

GET INVOLVED

Please visit the website to learn more or
email [email protected].

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ALLIANCE FOR A
BETTER COMMUNITY

CONTACT

Address: 1541 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 430, Los Angeles, CA 90017
Phone: 213.201.1120
Email: [email protected]
Website: afabc.org
Facebook: Alliance for a Better Community
Twitter: afabc_la
Instagram: afabc_la
LinkedIn: Alliance for a Better Community
Top Executive: Vanessa Aramayo, Executive Director
Year Established: 2000

ABOUT US

The Alliance for a Better Community was formed in the
mid-1990s to address issues facing Los Angeles’ Latino/a
community. For many years, the organization operated as
a “Tuesday Morning Breakfast Club” and managed various
regional matters through personal and organizational
networks and resources. While they successfully redressed
many of the policy challenges facing Latino/a communities
in Los Angeles, they ultimately decided that L.A. needed
an organization to serve as a voice for the community. The
Tuesday Morning Breakfast Club formed ABC to support
the Latino/a agenda within City Hall, the County, LAUSD, the
media, and other public or influential entities. Today, ABC is a
community-based Latino/a advocacy organization committed
to addressing education, civic engagement, economic
prosperity, and health issues.

Alliance for a Better Community envisions a vibrant
Los Angeles where Latino/as fully participate in,
contribute to and benefit from a prosperous, multi-
ethnic community.

Give today
www.afabc.org/donate

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MISSION STATEMENT

Alliance for a Better Community is advancing social, economic, racial
equity and justice for the Latino/a community and the Los Angeles
region through power building and policy advocacy.

SERVICE AREA

Los Angeles County

GET INVOLVED

Help us improve opportunities in education, health, economic
development and civic participation throughout Los Angeles by
working to strengthen local communities. Your support will help
deliver policy, programs and practices that can lead to lasting
systemic change.
To get involved, you can volunteer for special events,
provide pro-bono professional consultations, or donate to
support community outreach efforts targeting low-income,
Spanish monolingual, and immigrant communities in
targeted LA County regions.

When we all do better...
we all do better.

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AMERICAN FOUNDATION
FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION

CONTACT

Address: 199 Water St., 11th Fl., New York, NY 10038
Phone: 212.363.3500
Email: [email protected]
Website: afsp.org
Facebook: facebook.com/AFSPnational
Twitter: twitter.com/afspnational
Instagram: instagram.com/afspnational
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/afspnational
Top Executive: Robert Gebbia, Chief Executive Officer
Year Established: 1987

ABOUT US

Established in 1987, the American Foundation for Suicide
Prevention (AFSP) is a voluntary health organization that gives
those affected by suicide a nationwide community empowered
by research, education and advocacy to take action against
this leading cause of death.

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AFSP’s mission is to save lives and bring hope to those
affected by suicide.

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AFSP has chapters in all 50 states and Puerto Rico.

GET INVOLVED

AFSP’s Overnight Walk is a 16+ mile walk that changes city each year.
The 2023 Overnight will be in Washington, D.C. on June 3, 2023. Info
can be found at afsp.org and TheOvernight.org. Participants can get
involved with the walk at both links, as well as with local Community
Walks and Chapters nationwide.

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Dedicated to improving the lives of
families affected by Alzheimer’s and
dementia by increasing awareness,
delivering effective programs and
services, providing compassionate
support, and advocating for quality
care and a cure.

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