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SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge sentenced former stat e sen a-tor Leland Yee on Wednesday tofive years in prison after heacknowledged in a p lea deal th at heaccepted thousands of dollars inbribes and discussed helping anundercover FBI agent buy automat-ic weapons from the Philippines.

Senior District Court JudgeCharles Breyer called the weaponsallegations against Yee — a gun

control advocate — unfathomableand said it was frighteni ng that Yeewould be willing to go entirelyagainst his public position onguns in exchange for money.

“I don’t feel I should be lenient, ”Breyer said during the hearing.

 Yee gets fiveyears prisonJudge sentences former statesenator for accepting bribes

By Austin WalshDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Millbrae City MangerMarcia Raines will earn

$20,436 per month, whichequates to more than$245,000 in annual salary,under a pay raise granted bythe City Council.

Councilmembers unan-imously approved, withcouncilwomen GinaPapan and Ann Schneiderabstaining, to give

Raines a 4 percent raise,during a meetin g Tuesday,Feb. 23.

Millbrae’s top official receives raiseCity Manger Marcia Raines to earn more than $245,000

By Austin WalshDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

Concerned parents looking tomaintain the privacy of previous-ly confidential student informa-tion h ave roughly on e month leftto file their ob jection to t he courtordered release of s ensiti ve data.

The pending disclosure of pri-

vate student information such asSocial Security numbers, address-es, test scores, mental healthrecords, addresses and more forroughly 10 million studentsacross the st ate comes as the resultof a lawsuit levied against theCalifornia Department of Education.

Those hoping to preserve the

privacy of their child’s informa-tion are encouraged to submit awritten objection to the disclosurebefore an April 1 deadline.

Though no San Mateo Countyschools are involved in the law-suit, which was brought by par-ents in the Morgan Hill UnifiedSchool District, local officialsfeel it is imperative parents stay

informed regarding their opportu-nity to protect information theymay feel should be kept private.

Molly Barton, assistant super-intendent of the San Mateo-FosterCity Elementary School District,said school officials are workingwith campus administrators andparents to keep all concerned par-ties educated on the i ssue.

“We feel strongly that, betweenthe information we have providedto t he princip als and PTA, parentsshould have a choice of what th eywant to do,” she said.

The San Mateo-Foster CityElementary School District hasposted the disclosure objection

Lawsuit prompts private student information disclosureDeadline looms for parents to oppose release of sensitive data such as Social Security numbers, test scores

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About 275 cats in shelter at the Nine Lives Foundation in Redwood City need permanent homes by the end of May as the nonprofit agency has lost its lease.

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Former state senator Leland Yee was sentenced by a federal judge in SanFrancisco to five years in prison for a political corruption conviction.

By Bill SilverfarbDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

A no-kill shelter in RedwoodCity has lost its lease and the 274cats in its care need permanenthomes while the Nine LivesFoundation looks to relocate fromits Rolison Road facility after los-ing its lease.

Nine Lives has operated theshelter in Redwood City for eightyears but the building’s ownerrecently died and his familyreevaluated the use and tenancy of the building, said Dr. MonicaRudiger, who founded the shelterin 2003.

The Redwood City locati on is itsfifth home and Rudiger hopes the

Cats in shelter need homes

Nine Lives Foundation in Redwood City loses lease

Marcia Raines See RAINES, Page 20See CATS, Page 18

See YEE, Page 20

See DATA, Page 18

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Where is the ‘LOVE?’ Philadelphiasculpture moved for renovation

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia’siconic “LOVE” statue has taken a rideto its temporary home while the parknamed after it gets a multimilli on-dol-lar renovation.

The Robert Indiana sculpture wasloaded onto a lift truck Tuesday morn-ing at the no w-closed Love Park. It wasslowly transported across the street toits new home at Dilworth Plaza, near

City Hall.Perennial tourist attraction LovePark is closed for about a year duringthe renovation.

The new-and-improved park willhave more green space, a new fountainand a food and beverage operatio n.

However, it won’t hav e the si gnaturegranite sl abs th at made it a skatebo ard-ing mecca. Mayor Jim Kenney has s aidthe granite will be given to skate parksaround the city.

The statue itself needs some renova-tions before being returned to therevamped park.

Horse and dog die aftereating poisoned cookie

SANTA ROSA — Authorities say ahorse and a dog were killed, and anoth-er horse was sickened, after the ani-mals ate poisoned cookies that appar-ently were deliberately left for them toeat.

Sonoma County Sheriff’s Officespokeswoman Sgt. Cecile Focha saidTuesday deputies recently identified aperson of interest in the poisoningcase, but authorities would not giveany details.

The animals became ill on Feb. 12after someone planted the homemadecookies o n the woman’s property in anunincorporated area of Sebastopol .

Necropsies o n the ho rse and dog thatdied revealed they had ing ested olean-der, a p lant that is poisonous to hors-es, dogs, cats, cows and birds.

Homeless gnomes: Pennsylvaniastate park evicts tiny houses

NEWPORT, Pa. — Nearly 40 gnomehomes have been evicted from aPennsylvania state park after a deci-sion change sent t hem packing.

Pennlive.com reports that park man-agement at Little Buffalo State Parkgave permissio n for Steve Hoke to cre-ate the mini, magical houses inDecember. Sin ce then, he has made 38tiny houses in tree roots, hollow logsand on stumps around the forest nearNewport, about 25 miles northwest of Harrisburg.

He says the houses were a major

attraction for children.Park Manager Jason Baker tells thenews site he gave the OK originally,but it was later decided the h omes couldaffect wildlife habit at.

Hoke removed the little abodes

Monday after being told he had untilFeb. 29.

Duncannon and Millerstown haveboth offered to house them in localparks.

Baby’s bodydiscovered in Long Beach alley

LONG BEACH — Long Beach pol iceare investigating the discovery of adeceased infant’s b ody in an alley.

Police say neighborhood residentsspotted the body among cardboard

boxes and debris Tuesday afternoon .The body was initially reported to

have b een burned but detectives deter-mined the appearance was actually th eresult of decomposition.

A police statement says the LosAngeles County coroner’s office willdetermine the infant’s approximateage and race and the cause of death.

Woman bites rare pearl whiledining at Italian restaurant

ISSAQUAH, Wash. — A woman bitdown on a rare pearl while eating ameal of clams and other seafood at anItalian restaurant in Issaquah.

KOMO-TV reports Lindsay Hasz andher husband Chris were eating at

Montalcino Ristorante Italianorecently when she bit in to somethinghard in her entree.

Hasz says she wasn’t sure what it wasbut put it in her pocket and went hometo do research.

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Comedian Carrot Top is 49.

This Day in History

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1986

President Ferdinand Marcos fled thePhilippines after 20 years of rule inthe wake of a tainted election;

Corazon Aquino assumed the presiden-cy.

“Hero-worship is strongest where thereis least regard for human freedom.”

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Actress Tea Leoniis 50.

Actress RashidaJones is 40.

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Wreckage covers the grounds of a mobile home park a day after it was hit by a tornado, in Convent, La.

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Friday nig ht : Mostly cloudy in the evening then becom-ing partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in theevening. Lows around 50. Northwest winds around 5 mph.Chance of showers 20 percent.Saturday: Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.Saturday ni ght and Sunday: Partly clo udy.

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In 1836, inventor Samuel Colt patented his revolver.In 1905,  the Upton Sinclair novel “The Jungle” was firstpublished in serial form by the Appeal to Reason newspa-per.In 1913 , the 16th Amendment to th e U.S. Constitution,giving Congress the power to levy and collect incometaxes, was declared in effect by Secretary of State Philan derChase Knox.In 1922,   French serial killer Henri Landru, convicted of murdering 10 women and the son of one of them, was exe-cuted in Versailles.In 1940, a National Hockey League game was televi sed forthe first time by New York Cit y s tation W2XBS as the NewYork Rangers defeated the Montreal Canadiens, 6-2, atMadison Square Garden.In 1956,   Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev harshly criti-cized the late Josef Stalin in a speech before a CommunistParty congress in Moscow.In 1964,   Eastern Airlines Flight 304, a DC-8, crashedshortly after taking off from New Orleans InternationalAirport, killing all 58 on board. Muhammad Ali (thenknown as Cassius Clay) became world heavyweight boxingchampion as he defeated Sonny Liston i n Miami Beach.In 1973,   the Stephen Sondheim musical “A Little NightMusic” opened at Broadway’s Shubert Theater.In 1983 , playwright Tennessee Williams was found dead inhis New York h otel s uite; he was 71.

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Country singer Ralph Stanley is 89. Actor Tom Courtenayis 79. Former CBS newsman Bob Schieffer is 79. ActressDiane Baker is 78. Actress Karen Grassle is 74. Humorist JackHandey is 67. Movie director Neil Jordan is 66. Rock musi-cian Dennis Diken (The Smithereens) is 59. Rock singer-musician Mike Peters (The Alarm; Big Country) is 5 7. ActressVeronica Webb i s 51. Actor Alexis Denisof is 50. ActressLesley Boone is 48. Actor Sean Astin is 45. Singer DanielPowter is 45. Latin singer Julio Iglesias Jr. is 43. Rhythm-and-blues singer Justin Jeffre is 43. Rock musician RichardLiles is 43. Actor Anson Mount is 43.

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FOSTER CITYArrest. A 62-year-old San Mateo man wasarrested for drunk driving near East Third

Avenue and Anchor Road before 2:59 p.m.Sunday, Feb. 2 1.Traffic hazard. Traffic lights were seenmalfunctioning near Foster City Boulevardand Triton Drive b efore 7:44 p.m. Saturday,Feb. 20.Disturbance . Somebo dy was heard yellingon San Miguel Lane before 10:33 p.m.Friday, Feb. 19.Arrest. A 49-year-old Daly City woman wasarrested on a $22,500 warrant out of SanPablo for vehicle theft on East HillsdaleBoulevard before 3:59 a.m. Friday, Feb. 19.

SAN CARLOSArrest. A man was arrested and booked forbeing drunk in public on the first block of Laurel Street before 10:30 a.m. Wednesday,Feb. 17.

Suspended license. A man was cited fordriving with a suspended license n ear HollyStreet and Old County Road before 1:31 a.m.Wednesday, Feb. 17.Arrest. A 31-year-old Richmond man wasarrested for public intoxication on the 600block of Laurel Street before 6:20 p.m.Saturday, Feb. 13.

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 Just kickin itA man was seen doing karate in front o f his v ehicle on D Street in Redwood Citybefore 2:20 p.m. Monday, Feb. 15.

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PALO ALTO — Nike co-founder PhilKnight is donating $400 million to

Stanford University to help create thelargest fully-endowed scholarship in theworld with the g oal of preparing a new gen-eration of global leaders, university offi-cials said Wednesday.

With Knight’s gift and donations fromalumni and Stanford’s Board of Trusteesmembers, the Knight-Hennessy Scholarsprogram endowment already has $700 mil-lion in funding, and is expected to grow to$750 million, university officials said.

The money will enable 100 students ann u-ally, nominated by their undergraduate uni-versities, to receive funding for three yearsto pursue master’s or doctorate leveldegrees, or professional programs atStanford.

“We wanted to create somethin g en during,that would be unlike anyth ing els e currently

available to the world’s brightest minds,and that would make the biggest impactpossible t oward solving glo bal challengesaffecting the environment, health, educa-tion and human rights,” said StanfordPresident John Hennessy, who will serve asthe pro gram’s director after he steps down as

president later this year.Hennessy came up with the idea for the

program and approached Knight about it.Marc Tessier-Lavigne, who will suc-

ceed Hennessy as president, said hegreatly admires the vision and ambition

of the program.“As the beneficiary of a Rhodes

Scholarship , I can attest to t he value of suchprograms to provide a broad base of knowl-edge and exposure to a dynamic, interna-tional network of peers,” he said.

Stanford creates world’sbiggest scholars program

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Torso found at Dumbarton Pier maybelong to missing Brisbane woman

Fremont police said the dismemberedtorso found on a levee in Fremont Sunday

evening may belong to a57-year-old Brisbanewoman who was reportedmissing last Monday.

The grizzly discoverywas made by a group of people fishing at theDumbarton Pier, around8:15 p.m. Sunday, nearthe end of MarshlandsRoad.

The arms, legs and headhad been severed from the torso by th e time itwas reported and investigators were uncertainhow long the torso had been in the water.

The identity of the victim has not yetbeen confirmed, but investigators say it’stoo soon to rule out the possibility that itmay be Shelly Titchener, who was last s eenFeb. 15 at a Nordstrom in San Mateo.

Her husband, Paul Titchener, died by sui-cide Tuesday evening jumping from the SanFrancisco Bay Bridge, according to police.He was a person of interest, but not namedas a suspect.

South San Francisco policeinvestigate alleged school threats

An anonymous letter expressing concernabout possible threats at the South SanFrancisco and El Camino high schoolcampuses has both the police and districtofficials investigating, according topolice.

The validity of the threats has not been

confirmed, b ut police wanted to get the wordout to heighten awareness of suspiciousactivity at either campus.

As a precaution, extra security measuresare being put in place for the remainder of the week to address the s afety of the s tudentbody, but both campuses will remain open,according to police.

Although school will be in session, par-ents will b e permitted to keep their chil drenat home if desired, but must notify theschool office of the absence, which will beexcused. Anyone with information relatedthis in vestigation is encouraged to call theSouth San Francisco Police Department at(650) 877-8900 or the anonymous TIP lineat (650) 952-2244.

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WASHINGTON — Inmates wanted fordeportati on when they are released from fed-eral prison will b e turned over to U.S. immi-gration authorities rather than local law

enforcement ag encies with o utstanding war-rants, Attorney General Loretta Lynchanno unced Wednesday.

The policy change comes less than a yearafter the fatal shooting of Kate Steinle, 32,in San Francisco by an immigrant who wason the streets after local police ignored arequest from federal autho rities to hold hi mfor deportation proceedings.

The change announced by Lynch in testi-mony before a House Appropriations sub-committee calls for th e Bureau of Prison s tofirst give Immigration and CustomsEnforcement the opt ion t o take inmates fac-ing deportation into custody. She said locallaw enforcement agencies could still g et theimmigrant for prosecution on other crimes,“but we would have to have ass urances th at

ICE would also then beable to get the individualback.”

Steinle was shot byJuan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez as she walked on

a pier with her father.Lopez-Sanchez, who hadbeen deported five times,was sent to SanFrancisco after being

released from federal prison because localauthorit ies h ad a warrant. They decided notto prosecute him and released him.

Lopez-Sanchez has pleaded not guilty tosecond-degree murder and other charges. Hesaid the shooting was accidental.

The case focused attention on immigrant-friendly communities with policies callingfor local authorities to not cooperate withfederal immigration officials.

San Francisco’s newly elected sheriff, VickiHennessy, said she needs details on how thepolicy will be enforced.

U.S. immigration will get priorityon inmates released from prison

Loretta Lynch

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Speaker: Legal stepsto stop Obama fromclosing GuantanamoBy Andrew TaylorTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — House SpeakerPaul Ryan said WednesdayRepublicans are taking l egal stepsto stop President Barack Obamafrom closing the U.S. prison atGuantanamo Bay, Cuba, a day afterthe president unveiled his plan toshutter the facility and move thedetainees to the United States.

Ryan told reporters that lawmak-ers have the votes to blockObama’s plan in Congress andenough votes to override any veto.Separately, the WisconsinRepublican said the GOP is“preparing our legal challenge” toensure the prison remains op en anddetainees aren’t moved to the U.S.

Earlier this month, HouseRepublicans awarded the Jones Daylaw firm a $150,000 contract toperform the legal work in caseObama tries to move Guantanamodetainees to federal prisons.

“These detainees cannot come toAmerican soil,” Ryan said.

Obama has pushed to fulfill a2008 campaign promise and close

Gu a n t a n a mo ,arguing that thefacility is arecruitment toolfor terrorismworldwide andopposed bysome allies. Thepresident hasfaced strongopposition in

Congress, where Republicans andsome Democrats maintain there isno alternative and argue they don’twant these detainees transferred toU.S. prison s, even maximum secu-rity facilities.

Under Obama’s plan, roughly 35of the 91 current prisoners will be

transferred to other countries in thecoming months, leaving up to 60detainees who are either facing trialby military commission or havebeen determined to be too danger-ous to release but are not facingcharges.

Those detainees would be relo-cated to a U.S. facility.

Ryan said Obama’s plan flouts alongstanding ban annually passedby Congress that blocks the presi-dent from transferring Guantanamo

detainees to U.S. so il.“If the president proceeds with

knowingly breaking the law ... hewill be met with fierce bipartisanopposition here in Congress andwe are taking all legal preparationsnecessary to meet with that resist-ance,” Ryan told reporters. “Hecan’t do it because the law is reallyclear. I’ll j ust leave it at that. ”

Drew Hammill, a spokesman forHouse Minority Leader Nancy

Pelosi, D-Calif., criticizedRepublicans for spending taxp ayerdollars on the issue.

“Republicans must stop playingpolitics with our national securityand stop awarding no-bid, taxpay-er-funded contracts to politically-connected Washington lawyers tothe tune of hundreds of dollars anhour,” Hammill said.

In the Senate, Armed ServicesChairman J ohn McCain dismissed

the plan as incomplete and saidGOP senators would join theirHouse counterparts on any legalchallenge.

“Absolutely,” McCain toldreporters at a news conference,adding that Obama has “a proclivi-ty to act by executive order.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.,said the Senate would hol d hearing son Obama’s plan in the comingweeks.

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Detainees sit in a holding area while watched by U.S. military police inside Guantanamo Bay.

Paul Ryan

Ammon Bundy,others plead not guiltyin Oregon refuge case

PORTLAND, Ore. — AmmonBundy and another 15 defendantspleaded not guilty Wednesday tofederal conspiracy charges relatedto the 41-day occupation of anOregon wildlife refuge.

Several of the accused, howev-er, expressed doubt that theyenjoy the presumption of inno-cence.

Bundy sat at the main defensetable while most of his co-defen-dants sat in the jury box as theylistened to a government prosecu-tor read the indictment and U.S.District Judge Anna Brown tellthem their rights.

B r o w nreminded thedefendants they

are consideredinnocent untilproven guilty.One by one, sheasked them if they under-stood. Bundy

simply said “yes,” but four co-defendants took the opportunityto express skepticism.

“It’s difficult to understand pre-sumption of innocence when I’vespent the last month in a jail celland been led around in shacklesand chains,” Ryan Payne sai d.

By Mary Clare Jalonick THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — The WhiteHouse is considering RepublicanGov. Brian Sandoval of Nevada asa possible nominee to theSupreme Court, two people famil-iar with the process saidWednesday.

The nomination of a Republicanwould be seen as an attempt byPresident Barack Obama to breakthe Senate GOP blo ckade of any of his choices. Senate MajorityLeader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.,

has said his 54-member GOPcaucus isopposed toholding confir-mation hear-ings or vote onObama’s pick,insisting thatthe choice restswith the next

president.The officials declined to be

named because they weren’tauthorized to s peak publicly.

Mari St. Martin, Sandoval’s

communications director, saidWednesday that the governor has-n’t been contacted by the WhiteHouse.

“Neither Gov. Sandoval nor hisstaff has been contacted by ortalked to the Obama administra-tion regarding any potential vet-ting for the vacancy on the U.S.Supreme Court,” she said.

Sandoval met with SenateDemocratic Leader Harry Reid onMonday in Washington while hewas in town for a meeting of theNational GovernorsAssociation.

White House considering NevadaGov. Sandoval for Supreme Court

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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. —Republicans are barreling toward SuperTuesday with another debate in the off-ing and Donald Trump’s opponentsreaching for perhaps their last bestchance to knock him off stride for thepresidential nominatio n.

Expect a nast y turn, Trump warned, asif the roiling GOP race were anythingbut that already.

The New York billionaire predictedthat th e relative civility between MarcoRubio and himself would fall away inthe frantic grasp for hundreds of con-vention delegates in the 11 states that

hold Republican primaries Tuesday.Even John Kasich, a trailing con-

tender whose calling card has been apositive campaign, went sharply nega-tive Wednesday in a campaign broad-side against Rubio, the Florida senatorwho is soaking up Republican estab-lishment support and thereby threaten-ing to starve Kasich’s effort of itsremaining oxygen.

Trump exercised bragging rights withtrademark gusto after Nevada handedhim his third straight victory the nightbefore.

Relaxed on stage at Virginia’s RegentUniversity, Trump fielded questionsfrom Christian conservative figure Pat

Robertson, tickingoff Obama adminis-tration executiveorders he wants toreverse as presidentand joking about hisrecent dustup withthe pope.

He said earlier hemight tone downhis contentious

rhetoric if he makes it to the WhiteHouse — or not, since “right now itseems to be working pretty well.”

And what of Rubio?“So far he’s been very nice and I think

I’ve been very nice to him,” Trump saidon NBC’s “Today” show. “We haven’tbeen in that mode yet but probably it ’ll

happen.” He meant attack mode.On the Democratic side, Hillary

Clinton scored the endorsement of Nevada’s Harry Reid, th e party’s Senateleader, i n advance of a primary Saturdayin South Carolina, where she looksstrong. She prevailed in the NevadaDemocratic caucuses days before theGOP contest there, dulling rival BernieSanders’ drive and making SuperTuesday of crucial importance to him.

On Tuesday:• Republicans will award 595 dele-

gates in 11 st ate races, with 1,2 37 dele-gates needed to clinch t he nomination.

• Democrats wil l award 865 delegatesin 11 states and American Samoa, with

2,38 3 needed for thenomination.

The election cal-endar suggests thatif Trump’s rivalsdon’t slow him bymid-March, theymay not ever.Delegate totals sofar: 82 for Trump,17 for Ted Cruz, 16

for Rubio, 6 for Kasich and 4 for BenCarson.

For Republicans, Nevada offered lit-tle evidence Republicans are ready tounite behind one strong alternative toTrump, who many in the party fear istoo much of a loose cannon to win inNovember.

Mainstream Republicans who don’tlike Trump are also in large measurecool on Cruz. With J eb Bush out of therace and time short, they have begungravitating to Rubio, long a man of promise in t he race but one who has yetto score a victory.

The Florida senator edged Cruz, aTexas senator, for second place inNevada, and it’s clear his time is at hand— if he’s to have on e.

With Bush gone, the GOP debateshave lost a prime Trump critic, thoughCruz has been a fierce antagonist attimes and Rubio faces pressure to con-front the billionaire more directlybefore it’s too late.

GOP barrels toward Super Tuesday

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A combination photo shows Republican presidential candidates Marco Rubio, left, in North Las Vegas, Donald Trump, center,in Spartanburg, S.C., and Ted Cruz in Las Vegas.

Senate candidate Harrisnot taking sides in FBI, Apple fight

NORWALK — U.S. Senate candidate Kamala Harris saidWednesday that she is n’t pickin g sides in Apple Inc.’s fight

with the FBI over accessing a locked andencrypted iPhon e used by used by a gun-man in the San Bernardino shootingsthat l eft 14 dead.

Harris, the state attorney general and

the leading candidate to replace retiringSen. Barbara Boxer, told reporters that asolution needs to be worked out that bal-ances the interests o f public safety with atechnology industry that frequentlyfaces questions about consumer privacy

and snooping .“We want law enforcement to have access to the material

that we need to be able to save lives ... but the issue is alsowhat we are going to do in terms of policy going forward,”Harris said.

“What will th e protoco ls be g oing forward?” asked

 Judge blocks Gov. Browns prison population planSACRAMENTO — A state judge on Wednesday blocked

Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed ballot initiative to reduceCalifornia’s prison population, sidingwith district atto rneys who argued that i timproperly b ypass ed normal procedures.

Sacramento County Superior CourtJudge Shelleyanne Chang blockedAttorney General Kamala Harris fromissuing documents — the title o f the ini-tiative and a summary of what it woulddo — that would let supporters begingathering signatures for Brown’s pro-posal.

“The court finds that t he attorney general abused her dis-cretion,” Chang said, ruling that the amendments radicallychange the focus of the original initiative without allowingfor necessary public comment.

“What the amendments did was the type of mischief theLegislature had in mind” when it required that amendmentsto ballot i nitiatives be related to the original initiative, th e

 judge said.

State lawmakers slam officials for technology gapsSACRAMENTO — California lawmakers at a hearing

Wednesday accused officials from the Department of Technology of failing to protect state agencies consideredvulnerable to hacking.

The review follows a critical report by state AuditorElaine Howle, who found holes in the online security of 73of 77 agencies she reviewed last year. The technologydepartment has not been provi ding agencies with sufficienttraining or qualified workers to keep up with cybersecurityprotocols, Howle said Wednesday.

 John Kasich Ben Carson

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 Jerry Brown

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02-29-2016

By Tom Murphy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The federal government is tighteningloopholes that let customers on theAffordable Care Act’s public insuranceexchanges buy coverage outside the law’s

annual enrollment window.That could ease a major concern health

insurers have about the exchanges.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid

Services said Wednesday that it will startrequiring documentation or proo f from peo-ple who say they need to buy a plan orchange coverage outside that window forreasons like marriage, a permanent move orthe birth of a child.

Millions of people have used the ACA’sstate-based exchanges to buy health insur-ance over the past few years. The vastmajority do so during an open enrollmentwindow that starts every fall and runs intoJanuary.

The law established that window to pre-vent people from waiting until they becomesick to buy insurance. It also created special

enrollment periods in case a life-changingevent causes a customer’s insurance needs tochange outside of open enrollment.

UnitedHealth Group Inc. and other insur-ers have said they get a lot of expensiv e cus-tomers through these special enrollmentperiods. They suspect that some customers

were waiting until they become sick to buyinsurance since no one was asking for proof that they qualified for a special enrollmentperiod.

Such proo f can come in th e form of a birthcertificate or a marriage license, and insur-ers require it for coverage purchased off theACA’s public exchanges. But they aren’tallowed to ask for that proof from theirexchange customers.

The special enrollment documentationwill be required in the 38 states that use thefederal, HealthCare.gov website for theirexchange. The new requirement will unfoldover the next several months.

A CMS spokesman said the governmenthas to notify customers about the newrequirement, get documentation from themand then verify it.

Feds want proof for Affordable Care Actexchange special enrollment windows

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — With billions in tax-payer dollars at stake, the Obama adminis-tration has taken a “passive” approach toidentifying potential fraud involving thepresident’s health care law, nonpartisancongressional investigators say in a reportreleased Wednesday.

While the Government AccountabilityOffice stopp ed short of alleg ing widespreadcheating in President Barack Obama’s sig-nature program, inv estigato rs found that theadministration has struggled to resolve eli-gibility questions affecting millions o f ini-

tial applications and hundreds of thousandsof consumers who were actually approvedfor benefits.

The agency administering the health law— the Centers for Medicaid and MedicareServices — “has assumed a passiveapproach to identifying and preventingfraud,” the GAO report said. In a formal writ-ten response, the administration agreedwith eight GAO recommendations whilemaintaining that it applies “best practices”to fraud control .

Release of the report came as the HouseEnergy and Commerce Committee held ahearing on the Department of Health andHuman Services budget.

GAO “raises many red flags,” committeechairman Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., said ina joint statement with other Republicans.“Perhaps the most unsettling is t hat whileHHS agrees there are many vulnerabilities,the agency has no urgency or plan to fixthese critical errors.”

The health care law offers subsidized pri-vate insurance to people who don’t haveaccess to job-based coverage, provided thatthey are citizens or legal immigrants, andfall within a certain income range. The GAOreport raised numerous questions about thegovernment’s system for verifying eligibil-ity for those b enefits.

Advocates for low-income people say theproblem isn’t fraud, but a convoluted docu-mentation system that leaves out hundredsof thousands of consumers legally entitledto benefits because their personal informa-tion may not exactly match what’s in gov-ernment files. About 12.7 million havesign ed up for cov erage this year.

Probe shows HealthCare.gov

‘passive’ on heading off fraud

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When people apply for coverage through HealthCare.gov and state insurance exchanges, abehind-the-scenes electronic system called the ‘data services hub’ pings federal agencies suchas Social Security, IRS and Homeland Security to verify their personal details.

“Perhaps the most unsettlingis that while HHS agrees thereare many vulnerabilities, the

agency has no urgency or planto fix these critical errors.” 

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By George JahnTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

VIENNA — Overwhelmed by a wave of refugees and what th ey call indecision in t heEuropean Union, Austria and its southernneighbors along the Balkan migrant routeagreed Wednesday to tigh ter bo rder control s— and warned that soon er or later they willhave to shut their doors entirely.

Playing off warnings that the restrictionswill lead to disastrous accumulations of refugees on borders along the route,Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner called for “a chain reaction of rea-son.”

“We need measures that lead to a ... adomino effect. We must reduce the flow of 

migrants now,” she said. “Because therefugee question can become a question of survival for the European Union .”

Interior and foreign ministers from EUmembers Austria, Slovenia, Croatia andBulgaria, as well as Albania, Bosnia,Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro andSerbia met Wednesday i n Vienna and is sued adeclaration that struck the same tone. Itcited “limited resources and reception capac-ities, potential consequences for internalsecurity and social cohesi on as well as chal-lenges with regard to integration.”

“It is not possible to process unlimited

numbers of migrants an d appl icants for asy-lum,” it said, s uggesting that a full stop inthe future was in evitabl e.

Greece, the first po int o f landing for mostof the migrants arriving by boat fromTurkey, was not invited to the meeting andresponded angrily by threatening to blockdecisions at a forthcoming EU migrationsummit if sharing of the refugee burden isnot made obligatory for member states.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said thatfrom now on Greece “will not assent toagreements” unless all i ts partners in the EUare forced to participate proportionately inthe relocatio n and resettlement of refugees.

A senior government official, who spokeon customary condition of anonymity, clar-ified that Tsipras was specifically referring

to the March 7 summit on immigration.Tsipras lashed out at EU member states

that “not only erect fences on their bordersbut at the same time do no t accept to take ina sing le refugee.”

Austria has recently capped the n umber of asylum-seekers it will accept daily at itsborders to 80, and limited the number of refugees it will l et pass t hrough the country.That has led to more border restrictionsbeing introduced further south, hurtingcountries along the route, in cluding Greece,which has seen 102,00 0 migrants reach itsshores so far this year.

Smart rats sniffing outCambodia’s vast mine fields

TRACH, Cambodia — It’s been a busy

morning for Cletus, Meynard, Victoria andothers of their furry band. Tiny noses andlong whiskers twitching, they’ve scurried andsniffed their way across 775 square meters(8,300 square feet) of fields to eliminate ascourge that has killed thousands of Cambodians: land mines.

Meet th e Hero Rats: intelligent, surprising-ly adorable creatures with some of the mostsensitive noses i n the animal kingdom. Sentfrom Africa, where they successfully clearedminefields in Mozambique and Angola, they

began the same task in northwesternCambodia early this month and have already

scored tangible results.Two hectares (4. 4 acres) have been declared

mine-free around this vi llage where more than15 people have been kill ed or wounded by th eexplosives, forcing some to abandon theirhomes and rice fields and seek jobs elsewhere.

One villager, Khun Mao, says the rats havebeen sniffing for suspected mines in a ricefield he had been afraid to cultiv ate for years.He says that while it is too soon to saywhether the rodents can remove every mine,“To me, these rats are wonderful.”

Austria and Balkan nations,

want stop to migrant influx

REUTERS

Migrants wait to cross the border from Slovenia into Spielfeld in Austria.

Around the world

By Zeina KaramTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIRUT — Russian President VladimirPutin spoke Wednesday with key players inthe Syria conflict, including President BasharAssad, ahead of a U.S.-Russia-engineered

cease-fire, as t he opp osition voiced concernsthat the truce due to begin later thi s week willonly b enefit the Syrian gov ernment.

Government troops backed by Russian war-planes waged fierce battles to regain controlof a strategic road southeast of Aleppo fromthe Islamic State group. The extremist groupseized the town of Khanaser and surroundinghills on Tuesday, cutting the main land routeto Aleppo.

The state-run news agency said 18 peoplewere killed in IS shelling of government-heldneighborhoods in the city over the past 24hours.

The truce agreement, which is set to takeeffect at midnight Friday local time, does not

cover the Islamic Stategroup, Syria’s al-Qaidabranch known as theNusra Front, or any othermiliti a design ated as a ter-rorist group by the U.N.Security Council.

It’s not clear exactlywhere along Syria’s com-plicated front lines thefighting would stop and

for how long — or where counterterrorismoperations could continue. Also unresolvedare how breaches in the truce would be dealtwith.

It remains shaky at best and major ques-tions over enforcement are still unresolved.

In a further reflection of the complicatedterrain, Turkey’s president said Wednesdaythat a U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish militiagroup — which Turkey regards as a terrororganizatio n — should also be kept outside of the scope of the agreement.

Russian leader pushes Syriatruce deal amid skepticism

By Menelaos HadjicostisTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Israel’s defense min-ister on Wednesday accused Iran of buildingan internatio nal terror network that includes“sleeper cells” that are stockpiling arms,intelligence and operatives in order tostrike on command in places includingEurope and the U.S.

Moshe Yaalon said Iran aims to destabi-lize the Middle East and other parts of theworld and is training, funding and arming“emissaries” to sp read a revolution. He saidTehran is the anchor of a “dangerous axis”that includes Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut,Sanaa and other cities in the region.

“The Iranian regime through the Iranian

Revolutionary Guard corps is building a

complex terror infrastructure includingsleeping cells that are stockpiling arms,intell igence and operatives and are ready toact on order including in Europe andAmerica,” Yaalon said after talks with hisCypriot counterpart.

Israel considers Iran the biggest threat tothe region, citing its support for anti-Israelmilitant groups like Hezbollah and Hamas,and has been an outspoken critic of theinternatio nal nuclear deal with Iran.

The Israeli defense minister offered nodirect evidence of such sleeper cells exist-ing in the U.S. or Europe, but referred indi-rectly to the case of a Hezbollah memberwho was jailed in Cyprus last June follow-ing the seizure of nine tons of a chemicalcompound that can be converted into an

explosive.

Israel: Iran has terror network in Europe, U.S.

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NEW YORK — The sto ck marketreversed steep declines and endedslightly higher on Wednesday,thanks in part to a pickup in theprice of crude oil .

Indexes continue to be weigheddown by bank stocks, whichremain under pressure due to eco-nomic unease and worries aboutthe amount of loans on theirbooks to struggling oil and gascompanies.

The Dow Jones industrial aver-age rose 53.21 p oints, or 0.3 per-cent, to 16,484.99. The Standard& Poor’s 500 index rose 8.53points, or 0.4 percent, to1,929.80 and the Nasdaq compos-ite rose 39.02 points, or 0.9 per-cent, to 4, 542.61.

Stocks had been dramaticallylower earlier in the day, with theDow down as much as 265 points.

However as oil prices recoveredthrough the day, so did energystocks and the broader market.After being down nearly 4 percentearlier, oi l closed up 28 cents , or 1percent, to $32.15 a barrel. The

energy component of the S&P500, which had been down rough-ly 2 percent, closed up 1 percent.

“As goes oil, so goes every-thin g,” s aid Ian Winer, co-h ead of equities trading at WedbushSecurities.

The market’s only place of weakness by the end of tradingwas the financial sector. Bankstocks had some of the biggestlosses, and the financial servicescomponent of the S&P 500 lost

0.8 percent.

Despite substantial gains inrecent days, many investorsremain hesitant to commit moremoney to the market and don’tneed much reason to sell, analystssay. Bank stock s are often a proxy

for how well an economy isexpected to do, since loans cansour during an economic slow-down. While oil rose on Tuesday,the pressure on the commodityprices seems t o b e ever downward.

While oil rose 1 percentWednesday, crude fell 4 p ercent th eday before after Saudi Arabia’s oilminister, Ali Al-Naimi, told ameeting of energy leaders inHouston that production cutsaimed at supporting falling crudeprices won’t work. He said that th emarket should instead let someoperators go out of business.

“Fundamentally, there’s noth-ing th at shows the U.S. economyis faltering here. But people con-

tinue to be worried about lo w com-modity prices and there is generalunease that has lin gered from howthe markets started this year,” saidDavid Kelly, chief investmentstrategist at J.P. Morgan Funds.

Bond prices fell. The yield onthe 10-year U.S. Treasury note

edged rose to 1.75 percent from1.72 percent.

In other energy trading, heatingoil rose 3.7 cents, or 3.6 p ercent,to $1.059 a gallon, wholesalegasoline futures rose 4.4 cents, or4.6 percent, to $1.0 1 a gallon andnatural gas fell 0.4 cents, or 0.2percent, to $1.778 per thousandcubic feet. Brent crude oil, whichis used to price oil international-ly, rose $1.14, or 3.4 percent, to$34.1 0 a barrel in London.

In metals trading, gold closed up$16.50, or 1.3 percent, to$1,239.10 an ounce, silver rose5.2 cents, or 0.3 percent, to$15.33 an ounce and high-grade

copper futures fell 0.8 cents, or0.4 p ercent, to $2 .101 a pound.

The dollar rose to 112.05 yenfrom 111.97 yen in the previousday’s trading. The euro was most lyunchanged unchanged at $1.1011.

Stocks erase early loss, manage modest gainsDOW JONES INDUSTRIALS

High: 16,507.39

Low

: 16,165.86

Close: 16,484.99

Change: +53.21

OTHER INDEXES

S P 500:

1929.80 +8.53NYSE Index:

9,506.07 +11.75

Nasdaq: 4542.61 +39.03

NYSE MKT: 2079.25 +13.89

Russell 2000:

1022.08 +9.93

Wilshire 5000: 19,779.39 +102.56

10-Yr Bond: 1.74 -0.003

Oil (per barrel): 32.20

Gold : 1,230.10

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NEW YORK — UPS, looking

for ways to get goods to shop-pers faster, is investing in same-day delivery company Deliv.

Deliv, founded nearly fouryears ago, works with Macy’sInc., Kohl’s Corp. and otherretailers to deliver online orderswithin the same day. Shoppersselect same-day delivery whenthey’re about to buy somethingfrom the retailer’s website andDeliv’s workers get it delivered.

Retailers pay Deliv for its serv-ice and the st ores usually chargecustomers. At Kohl’s, for exam-

ple, shoppers pay $9.95 forsame-day deliveries on ordersabove $75 and $14.95 for ordersbelow $75.

Deliv said Wednesday it raised$28 million from a group of investors, including first-timeinvestor United Parcel ServiceInc. UPS says the investmentwill help it observe the s ame-daydelivery market. Deliv did notspecify how much UPS is inv est-

ing. Other investors include malloperators General GrowthProperties Inc. , Taubman Centers

Inc. and Westfield Corp., whichalso work with Deliv.

Shoppers increasingly expectspeedy deliveries, and stores aretrying to keep up with fast ship-ping from online retailers suchas Amazon.com Inc.

“Same-day delivery is becom-ing a new standard,” says Delivfounder and CEO DaphneCarmeli.

Other retailers working with

Deliv include electronics retailerBest Buy Co. and pharmacyretailer Walgreens Boots

Alliance Inc. Deliv offers itsservices in Atlanta, Chicago,New York, Los Angeles and othercities. Malls have been workingwith Deliv, too, helping to b ringthe items ordered to a centrallocation in the mall so deliverypeople don’t have to go in storesto pick up the items.

Deliv, based in Menlo Parksaid it will use the cash raised toexpand.

UPS invests in same-day delivery company Deliv

By Brandon Bailey THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN FRANCISCO — AppleCEO Tim Cook said Wednesday

that it would be “bad for America”if his company complied withthe FBI’s demand for helpunlocking an encrypted iPhoneused by one of the SanBernardino shoo ters.

In his first interview since thecontroversy erupted last week,Cook told ABC News th at it was adifficult choice to resis t the gov -ernment’s request for help with

the iPhon e usedby SyedFarook, one of two extremistswho killed 14

people in theCalifornia cityin December.

“ S o m ethings are hardand some

things are right, and some thingsare both. This is one of thosethings,” Cook said in a videoclip released by ABC News. Theinterview came as both sides in

the dispute are courting publicsupport while also musteringlegal arguments in the case.

Federal officials have saidthey’re only asking for narrow

assistance in bypassing somesecurity features on the iPhone,which they believe may containinformation related to the massmurders.

Apple has argued that doing sowould make other iPhones moresusceptible to hacking byauthorities or criminals in thefuture.

“We know that doing this

would expose people to incredi-ble vulnerabilities,” Cook said.“This would be bad for America.It would also set a precedent thatI believe many peop le in America

would be offended by.”Cook complained that Apple

learned from the news mediaabout a federal magistrate’s deci-sion last week to order the com-pany to create the software thatFBI investigators want. Courtdocuments indicate that authori-ties had previously consultedwith Apple about ways to obtainthe data on th e phone.

Apple’s CEO Tim Cook: Complyingwith FBI demand ‘bad for America’

Tim Cook 

Salesforce.com’s stock jumps on upbeat outlook

SAN FRANCISCO —Salesforce.com Inc. sh ares jumpedin extended trading Wednesdayafter it issued an upbeat outlookfor the year.

The customer-management soft-ware developer reported a loss of $25.5 million, or 4 cents pershare, in its fiscal fourth quarter.Earnings, adjusted for stockoption expense and amortizationcosts, came to 19 cents per share,matching market forecasts. Its rev-enue of $1.8 1 billi on top ped ana-lyst expectations of $1.79 bil-lion, according to ZacksInvestment Research.

For the year, the companyreported that its loss narrowed to$47.4 million, or 7 cents pershare, on revenue of $6.67 bil-lion.

Man charged withusing social media to

find burglary victimsFULLERTON — A maintenance

worker is charged with usingsocial media to track dozens of college women in order to b urglar-ize their Orange County h omes andsorority ho uses.

Arturo Galvan of Menifeeappeared in court on Tuesday. Hehas pleaded not guilty to burglaryand remains jail ed.

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — On one of themany days over the second half of last sea-son that Denard Span didn’t play, he struckup a conversati on with Emmanuel Burriss.

With both players out of the WashingtonNationals lineup that day against the SanFrancisco Giants, Burriss had plenty to sayabout his days with the Giants. Burriss wasdrafted by the Giants and played in their

organization through the2012 season.

Span, out for all buttwo games after July 6with back and hip prob-lems that led to surgery,remembered the conver-sation when he agreed toa three-year, $31 millioncontract this offseasonto play for San

Francisco.

“He was telling me the type of organiza-tion and ball club they are and how they runthings over here,” Span said after theGiants’ spring trainin g workout Wednesday.“It definitely was a big factor in me makingthe decision t o come here. There was a lot of similarities with how I came up withMinnesota. It definitely caught my atten-tion, and this offseason when they reachedout, I felt li ke it was a perfect fit for me.”

Span, slated to play center field, hasnoticed the atmosphere around the Giants

with their three World Series champi-onships in the past six seasons.

“They expect excellence. That’s the waywe work. Just th e culture around here, it ’s aquiet, confident group. Guys that let theirplay speak for itself on the field,” Spansaid.

Span has also gotten to know Hall of Famer Willie Mays, who has been aroundcamp lately.

“He’s a joker, man. He’s not afraid to let

Span set to take over in center field for the Giants

By Terry BernalDAILY JOURNAL STAFF

With a flurry of offense, the Aragon boy s’soccer team earned its first Central CoastSection playoff victory in 2 3 y ears.

The No. 6-seed Dons (13-5-2 overall) tri-umphed 3-1 over No. 11 MontereyWednesday in the CCS Divisi on II opener atAragon, with all four goals in the gamebeing scored over a 10-minute stretch.Senior forward Dakota Severson bo oted thegame-winner, breaking a 1-1 tie with abreakaway goal in the 32nd minute.

“That was crazy,” Aragon head coachGregory Markoulakis said of the quickexchange of goals. “Not in a high schoolgame, I have never seen that.”

The victory marks Aragon’s first victoryin CCS play since 1993, a win over PaloAlto settled on penalty k icks. It is the firstCCS win in regulation for the Dons since1982 in a quarterfinal victory over MontaVista.

Much of the first half was marked byclose, aggressive play. But then theshootout commenced with the game’s firstthree goals being scored within four min-utes of each ot her.

Aragon got on the board in the 29thminute on a free kick by forward AlexCarrillo. The seni or was staring down a widewall of Monterey defenders from 30 yards

out, but buzzed a high arcing liner over itand on goal, giving the Dons a 1-0 lead.But Mont erey answered right back. On it s

first attack off the ensuing kickoff, midfield-er Mark Diego stormed the right wing toadvance the ball with a cross pass to juniorforward Fernando Cardenas, who took aquick to uch from close range to score off theleft post, tying it 1-1.

“After we scored, we got a lit tle to o excit-ed and they to ok advantage of th at,” Aragonsenior defender Antonio Sandoval said. “ButI feel we were better than this team and wedeserved another goal. ”

The Dons got that goal in a hurry. Just aminute later, Aragon to ok a lon g sho t down-

Long wait is over for Dons

TERRY BERNAL/DAILY JOURNAL

Aragon’s Christian Torres, left, celebrates with Antonio Sandoval after Torres scored the Dons’third goal in their 3-1 win over Monterey in the first round of the CCS Division II tournament.

While watching a basketballgame the other night, I got ataste of the inner workings of 

the college recruiting process.There were a handful of Peninsula com-

munity college coaches in attendance atthis particular game, a couple with whom

I am friendly.For those of you

high school athleteswho think they havewhat it takes to playat the college level,let me give you some

insight.College coachesare not just lookin gat what kind of gameyou have. Sure, youhave to have the tal-ent to play at the

next level and if you do, college coacheshave i dentified it already.

More than your skill set, however,coaches are watching your every move onthe court: how you run the floor, whatkind of tenacity you have, h ow you carryyourself on an d off the court, your bodylanguage. All the nuances you neverthought about are dissected by collegerecruiters.

They also want to see how you respondto adversity. How do y ou carry yourself 

when things aren’t going your way? Doyou stop playing and pout? Do you hangyour head and not hustle to get back intothe pl ay? How do you interact with yourteammates an d your team’s coachi ngstaff?

Most importantly, you not only h avegot to want to play, you have to want toattend college class es. You can’t do onewithout the other.

So if you’re a high school athlete andare lucky enough to be participating inthe playoffs, you might want to playevery game like it’s your last and showthat y ou can be a team player. After all,you never know who is watching.

See DONS, Page 14

More to college

recruiting than just talent alone

See LOUNGE, Page 15

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INDIANAPOLIS — San Francis co g eneralmanager Trent Baalke said Wednesday heexpects quarterback Colin Kaepernick t o bewith the 49ers next season.

Asked at the NFL combine if Baalke fore-sees a return to the team by Kaepernick,who lost his job during 2015 to BlaineGabbert, he replied “absolutely.”

Kaepernick went 2-6 in eight starts beforebeing benched. His future in San Franciscoseemed uncertain, but with the hiring of 

Chip Kelly as coach,Kaepernick’s st yle wouldseem a good fit. Kellyprefers mobile quarter-backs who can throw onthe run, but Kaepernickwill need to improve hisaccuracy and decisionmaking.

Kaepernick is recover-ing from medical proce-

dures on his right thumb, his left knee, andon his non-throwing left shoulder to fix a

torn labrum. His $11.9million 2016 contractbecomes fully guaranteedfor injury April 1 if he’son the roster.

“I think the good thingis we’ve got two guysthat have gone intogames and proven theycan play,” Baalke said.“And Colin’s done someawful good things

through hi s career, won so me big games for

the San Francisco 4 9ers and (we) expect himto come back. The main focus right now ishealth, getting him healthy. He’s doing agood job with his rehab. Talking to themedical staff, that seems to be going verywell, and (we) just look forward to gettinghim back and getting him working with thiscoaching staff.”

Kelly is not scheduled to speak to themedia at th e combine.

Baalke has been familiar with Kelly for

Baalke expects Kaepernick to be with 49ers in 2016

See 49ERS, Page 16

See GIANTS, Page 16

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Girls’ soccerCrystal Springs 5 Live Oak 4 PKs

The 11th-seeded Gryphons tied the score at 1in the 72nd minute and after 20 minutes of over-time, knocked out the sixth-seeded Acorns onpenalty kicks.

With the win, Crystal Springs (13-4-1)moves into the quarterfinals and will make ashort trip to Burlingame to take on the Panthersat 7 p.m. Saturday night.

Live Oak (15-2-3) took a 1-0 lead off a cornerkick in the 65th minute, but Crystal Springstied the score on a set piece of its own. BeckyBerman sent a ball from 45 yards into the penal-ty box where she found Megan Duncanson, whochested the ball down and blasted the equalizerinto the back of the net.

EV Nora, Jayla Aldridge, Berman and TessBosley all made their spot kicks, with freshmandefender Sarina Deb earning the win with thefifth penalty-kick goal.

Sacred Heart Prep 6 Soquel 0

The seventh-seeded Gators needed only 20minutes to find their groove as they went on topound the Knights in a Central Coast SectionDivision II playoff game.

SHP (12-5-2), the defending Division III

champ, will play the winner of No. 15 SummitPrep and No. 2 Soledad in the quarterfinalsSaturday at a time and place to be determined.

Mia Shenk recorded a first-half hat trick, scor-ing three times over the final 20 minutes of thehalf. Ingrid Corrigan scored twice in a four-minute span in the second half and McKennaAgnotti rounded out the scoring.

Lindsey Johnson notched four assists for theGators, while Carely Bradley had the other twohelpers.

Menlo School 7 King City 0

The top-seeded Knights overwhelmed the16th-seeded Mustangs in the first round of theCCS Division II tournament.

Menlo School (11-2-6) will face the winner of No. 8 Terra Nova and No. 9 Scotts Valley in thequarterfinals Saturday at a time and place to be

determined.

Alexa Thomases scored three times in the sec-ond half to lead the Knights. Emily Demmonscored twice, while Zoe Enright and Julia Wangeach had a goal apiece.

Menlo-Atherton 3 Gunn 0

The Bears proved worthy of the No. 1 seed inthe Division I tournament with a convincingwin over the Titans.

Mara Cavallaro gave M-A (13-4-2) a 1-0 leadat halftime, converting a pass from KatieGuenin. Gunn (10-8-1) scored an own-goal to

give the Bears a 2-0 lead and Sarah McLeodrounded out the scoring, off an assist fromMargaret Child.

M-A will face No. 8 Piedmont Hills (8-6-7) ina quarterfinal game Saturday at a time and placeto be determined. The Pirates knocked off No. 9Carlmont 1-0, to end the Scots season with a 9-9-3 record.

Boys’ soccerMenlo School 3 Pajaro Valley 1

The 16th-seeded Knights pulled off the stun-ner of the day, beating the top-seeded Grizzliesin the first round of the CCS Division II tourna-ment.

Menlo (13-4-2) will face No. 9 South City ina quarterfinal game Saturday at a time and placeto be determined.

Will Chisolm scored twice for Menlo, with

Daniel Hausen rounding out the scoring .

Other scores

Sequoia was the only PAL team in Division Ito come away with the victory as the fifth-seed-ed Cherokees beat No. 12 Monta Vista 3-2.Sequoia (9-6-5) will host Yerba Buena in a quar-terfinal game at 7 p.m. Saturday.

Westmoor, seeded No. 14 in the Division Ibracket, saw its season come to an end with a 4-1 loss to No. 3 Los Altos (15-1-4). The Ramsfinish the season with a 12-4-4 record.

Also in Division I, No. 4 Woodside, the PALOcean Division champ, was knocked off by No.13 Yerba Buena 1-0. The Wildcats finish the sea-son with a 12-4-3 record.

In Division II action , nin th-seeded South Citytopped No. 8-seed Harbor 3-2. The Warriors (11-

5-4) will now take on Menlo School Saturday.

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In the day and age of one-touch, possession-type of soccer, Burlingame girls’ soccer coachPhilip DeRosa is a throw back to the time of direct, att acking soccer.

King’s Academy is one of those teams thatlikes to keep possession of the ball and theKnights did just that against the Panthers in thefirst round of the Division II tournament.

In order for the possession game to work,however, a team has to — at some point — goon the attack. So while King’s Academy domi-nated possession, it was Burlingame that waslooking to push the ball forward.

In the end, old school beat new school as thethird-seeded Panthers beat the 14th-seededKnights 3-0 Wednesday night in Burlingame.

“I’m just so excited. I wanted it (the win) sobad for these g irls,” said Burlingame midfielder

Kelsey Andrews, who had a goal and assist, andteamed with Alysse LaMond in the midfield toconsistently set up the Panthers’ attack.

She is also one of nearly a dozen seniors onthe team.

“We were so fired up for this game. With 11seniors on the team, we want it bad,” Andrewscontinued.

Burlingame (14-4-3) will host No. 11 CrystalSprings in a quarterfinal game at 7 p.m.Saturday. The Gryphons knocked off No. 6 LiveOak in a shootout to advance.

Unlike King’s Academy, which appeared to becontent to p lay with the ball at its feet and try totake defenders off the dribble, the Panthers wentright on the attack any chance they got. It morethan paid off as they out-shot the Knights 20-3for the game, with 11 of those shots on frame.

“They were a possession team and we had to

deal with it,” said Burlingame coach PhilipDeRosa. “Our midfield was up to the t ask.”

After weathering an initial King’s Academypush to start the game, Burlingame took overoffensively. The Panthers had four shots ongoal in the first seven minutes and it didn’t takelong for them to find the back of the net.

Burlingame earned a free kick about 40 yardsfrom goal. LaMond stepped up and thumped ashot that went right to the Knights’ goalkeeper.

But the ball bounced off her chest andAndrews came flying in, kneeing the reboundinto the net for a 1-0 Burlingame just sevenminutes into the game.

“We have trouble following up (shots),”Andrews said. “I knew no one would follow upand I knew I had to be there.”

Midway through the first half, Burlingamedoubled its lead when Andrews sent a perfectlyweighted diagonal pass through the King’sAcademy defensive line. Grace Colson ran ontothe ball and after juking one defender, carried theball into the box. After a scramble that saw theKnights’ goalkeeper running around in thepenalty box, Colson calmly fired into an emptynet with the goalkeeper closing to put thePanthers up 2-0 at halftime.

Burlingame put the game away in the 63rdminute when LaMond lofted a pass over the topof the King’s Academy defense. MackenzieSchoustra ran by the defense and had only thegoalkeeper to beat. She came off her line,Schoustra went around her and calmly slott ed ashot just inside the right post to all but ice thegame.

DeRosa was especially impressed with theway his midfield played. While King’s Academymay have controlled possession, theBurlingame midfield was opportunistic. Whenthat unit had a chance, it stood up the Knightsand quickly translated into a Burlingame attack.

“They have really gelled to the point they

know what the others are doing ,” DeRosa said.”They just really know how to play together.”

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The chances came time and again for the Carlmont boy s’soccer team. But in th e end, th e Scots couldn’t convert a sin -gle one.

For the second consecutive year, Carlmont (11-7-2 over-all) was eliminated in the opening round of the CentralCoast Section Division I tournament, falling to Everett

Alvarez 1-0 at Usher Field.“We definit ely wanted to p ull toget her and do s omethingspecial for out schoo l, b ut we just weren’t able to conn ect,”Carlmont sen ior defender Thomas Ch in said.

No. 11-seed Alvarez (8-6-4) scored its lo ne goal early, onan eighth-minute strike by freshman Luis Andradre. It wasall the offense the Eagles needed to upset No. 6 Carlmont,despite the Scots being on the offensive through a vastmajority of the second half.

“It was unfortunate,” Carlmont head coach WillStambaugh said. “We just couldn’t set it up. … It was justone of those games that leaves you scratching your head.”

The Scots suffered a significant loss midway through thefirst h alf when seni or forward Foster Kupbens departed withan ankle injury. One of Carlmont’s top scorers this season,his absence left the offense without the finisher it so des-perately needed.

All evening long Carlmont exhibited clever footwork,consistent steals and precise passing. Yet there were

absolutely no finishes to be had, as the Scots managed justfour shots on goal in the second half, three of which camevia free kicks.

“That’s been t he prob lem all y ear,” Stambaugh said. “Wedon’t pull the trigger.”

The Alvarez back row had everything to do with closinglanes deep in its own territory. The defensive quartet con-sisting of seniors Bryan Rosiles, Albert Lazaro and CarlosGarcia, and junior Carlos Vargas were on po int, after night -mare finis h in a Feb. 9 g ame against Pajara Valley during t heEagles’ Monterey Bay League Gabilan Division in whichthey let a late 1-0 lead slip away for a 2-1 loss.

So, holding the s lightest of leads in the closing minutes,Alvarez did everything to isolate any possible Carlmontmomentum - with Eagles players flopping to the turf andpinning the ball i n the corner while boxi ng o ut Carlmont’splayers - much to th e frustration of the Scots and their fans.

“That’s why we were so ant sy at the end, b ecause we havemade mistakes that have cost us games late,” Alvarez head

coach Edgar Luquin s aid.The Eagles’ eighth-minute goal came

about due to a defensive breakdown bythe Scots, who allowed Andrade to getbehind the last tier for a 1-on-1 matchupwith g oalie Peyton Young. With Andradeflying into the penalty box, Young over-committed, allowing Andrade to scorewith an easy chip sh ot.

From there, the Scots’ attacks were asmany as they were fruitless .

Carlmont’s best chance of the first half came in the 22ndminute with a picturesque advance from midfield by DroAvetian and a pass to Paul Bastaki. The junior Bastakiclipped the ball with a back-kick to a streaking BrettFitzpatrick, who stutter-stepped to let a defender pass,before firing a shot off the right pos t. The shot was on themark, b ut Alvarez’s g oalkeeper Sebasti an Ramirez came upwith a deflection made a diving one-handed save.

Young turned in an even more breathtaking sequence inthe 34th minute, as the Scots’ keeper kept his team closewith back-to-back saves on a series of Alvarez rockets.Moises Reyes fired the first attempt from close range; itdeflected off Young’s block and right to the foot of Andrade.Andrare sized up the 1-on-1 matchup and delivered an on-tar-get ball insi de the left post , b ut Young lurched outside toknock it away.

Young, a junior, has been thrust into fulltime duty in the

cage with senior goalkeeper Cameron Dennler lost for theyear after breaking hi s nos e in the regular-season fin ale lastFriday against Menl o-Atherton. Young has seen pl enty of reps this season platooning with Dennler though, and wason h is g ame after the i niti al misst ep Wednesday.

But Carlmont simply couldn’t finish anything on theother side.

“We weren’t able t o make creative runs up top ,” Chi n sai d.“We just didn’t make ro om for our players.”

Two free kicks were the closes t th e Scots — who were shutout three times during t he regular season — came to g ettingon the board.

The first was in the 62nd minute by junior Jack McLean,who boomed one from 35 yards out on the wing t o exact theattempt just under he crossbar. Ramirez, ho wever, timed hisleap perfectly and p unched it over for a dramatic save.

Then in the 79th minute — after Carlmont senior Brent

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Claiming the last seed of California Community College

Northern California field of 18 playoff bracket, the Skylinewomen’s basketball team was forced to take its show on theroad for Wednesday’s postseason opener.

And with a big win, t he Lady Trojans will embrace their road-warrior ways once more.

Despite losing one of its top s corers early on, No. 18-seedSkyline (18-11 overall) rolled to a 79-58 upset of No. 15American River (15-13) in Wednesday nig ht’s play-in game inSacramento. The Trojans will n ow travel to No. 2 Fresno Cityfor a Saturday showdown.

“They were excited after the game,” Skyline head coachChris Watters said. “We’ll celebrate with a day off [Thursday]and get after it Friday to go after it again against Fresno.”

Things didn’t start off well for the Trojans though, as theteam’s second-leading scorer Dana Michaels left the gameearly in the second quarter with a finger inj ury. The sophomoreforward averages 12.4 points per game this season. In hereabsence, however, Skyline’s leading scorer Stephanie Allenstepped up big time.

Not only did Allen score a game-high 23 points, the sopho-more forward did battle with the formidable post presence of American River’s 6-1 center Cassandra Jaimes, who averaged9.2 rebounds per game this season. But Allen did her one bet-ter — actually, make that 1.8 better — by grabbing 11rebounds to notch h er 11th double-double of the season.

“It was just a good team effort,” Allen said. “They had a 6-1girl, but everyone just had to play together and go at it to geton the boards.”

Skyline led it 29-24 at halftime, but came out running andgunning in the second half. Freshman forward Juliet Courtneyadded 16 points and freshman guard Alyssa Dela Cruz had 14.

“We were able to turn it on in the second half,” Watters said.Now the Trojans, travelling to play a Fresno City team

(26-3) with most overall wins in the state, should feel likethey’re playing with h ouse money.

“I think we’ll be fired up to play,” Watters said. “We reallyhave every reason to leave everything on the court and give itour best effort.”

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field. Carrillo sent a p ass from midfield intoSeverson. The junior got behind theMonterey back row and had daylight, buthad to slow down just a tad to control it. Ashe did, two Mon terey defenders caught him,but Severson battled through and untangledhimself from the pack for a scoring strikefrom 15 yards out, giving the Dons a 2-1advantage.

“Our boys are so in lo ve with po ssessi onsthat it’s for them to understand the conceptand stretch the defense,” Markoulakis said.“But they started introducing the long ballto change up the attack.”

Monterey nearly tied it again just one

minute later, on a close attempt by JimmyDiego. The junior had Aragon keeper

Nathan Machak drawn out just a step, andattempted a high left-footed windmill kick,but Machak got ex tended with a dive to j ustget his left hand on it to deflect the sharpattempt and preserve th e lead.

The miss was a tough b low for Monterey.“If we tie it, it’s a different game,”

Monterey head coach Josimar Herrera said.“It was right before the half, so it wouldhave helped us going into the second half.”

Machak’s reactionary save was likeclockwork, though, for a goalkeeper thathas been on e of the best i n the PAL this sea-son, according to Markoulakis.

“Nathan’s positioning, he’s definitelyone of the top two in the league, if not thetop goalkeeper,” Markoulakis said. “Hispositioning is stellar.”

Just before the half, Aragon added an

insurance goal on another long advance.Sandoval sent it in from just past midfield to

a streaking Christian Torres. This time,Monterey senior defender BernardoAlvarado was on hi s mark step for step , butthe precise pass went right to the foot of Torres, who dribbled forward three steps andavoided a tackle attempt by Alvarado toexact a crisp score into the vacated left net,giving Aragon a 3-1 lead at the half.

Throughout the second half, the Donskept the pressure up. Aragon’s forwardsactually provided some of the most tena-cious defense, constantly harassingMonterey’s back row any time theToreadores defenders attempted to controlthe ball.

“We morphed into a 4-3-3 so we couldattack and take advantage of their backline,” Sandoval said. “I feel like that was aperfect system for this game.”

Sandoval is one of 10 Aragon play ers whoplay year round with the San Mateo Lions

for the California Youth SoccerAssociation. A former club player with theJuventus Aztecs, Sandoval left the club teamtwo years ago to join the Lions. The teamhas since celebrated much success and isqualified to pl ay in the Surf Cup t ournamentlater this summer. And the chemistry hascertainly carried over to the high schoolpitch.

“Our chemistry, our bonding, our friend-ship — we get into arguments here andthere, but that’s brother love,” Sandovalsaid.

With the win, Aragon advances toSaturday’s quarterfinals to take on the win-ner of No. 3 Sacred Heart Cathedral and No.14 Soledad. The higher seed of Saturday’smatch will host.

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MANCHESTER, England — The world’sbest professional b oxers could be eligible t ocompete in this year’s Olympics under pro-posals put forward by the sport’s world gov-erning b ody.

The International Boxing Association(AIBA) discussed a fast-track proposal toopen Olympic to urnaments to all box ers dur-ing it s meetings in Manchester this week.

After the meeting Wednesday, AIBAPresident Ching-Kuo Wu said the proposalcould be ratified within months , p otentiallyin time for the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro inAugust.

“We want the best boxers to come to theOlympic Games,” Wu told Britain’s PressAssociation, adding that it was “absolutelypossi ble” the changes could be made in timefor the Rio Games.

But with the qualifying process already

well under way for th e Rio field, a large influxof star pro bo xers seems unlikely this year.

Mike Martino, the executive director of USA Boxing, told The Associated Press thathe doesn’t anticipate any star Americanfighters joinin g the Rio team.

“Do I think i t’s going to h appen this year?No,” Martino said. “Practically speaking,we’re looking at 2020. But it’s somethingthat’s been on our radar screen, somethingwe’ve talked about for the last four years,knowing that AIBA pro boxers were going t obe in the Olympics. We’ve talked to theUSOC about how it impacts the sport, andit’s huge. The Dream Team changed basket-ball in the Olympics forever. This will o bvi-ously change boxin g forever.”

Martino said that while USA Boxing alum-ni such as Andre Ward and Floyd MayweatherJr. have provided financial and personal sup-port to the program, no star professionalboxers have expressed serious interest in

 joinin g the U.S. men’s t eam, which hasn’twon a gold medal in the last two Olympics.

Martino added that he has heard from “sec-ond-tier pros that would consider it becausemaybe they didn’t achieve their goals, butrealistically speaking, I think it’s going tobe difficult” for star bo xers to compete in theOlympics.

It’s also too late to claim many qualifica-tion spots: Martino noted that while CarlosBalderas is the only American already quali-fied for Rio due to his particip ation in AIBA’sWorld Series of Boxing, Russia already haseight boxers qualified in the 10 Olympicweight divisions, while Cuban fighters havealready reserved seven spots.

AIBA said its idea was being proposed tonational federations, and must then be rati-fied by AIBA’s executive commission. Eachnational federation would then have toaddress its own qualification rules to makethe changes possi ble, a process that could be

difficult to complete in time for Rio.

“It is an IOC policy to have the best ath-letes in the Games, and of the internationalfederations, AIBA is probably the only onewithout professional athletes in theOlympics, ” Wu said.

The proposed changes are only the lateststep in AIBA’s multiyear quest to controlevery aspect of boxing, from the lowest ama-teur fights to the heights of the pro sport.Since Wu became AIBA president in 2006,AIBA has dropped the word “amateur” fromits name and banned fighters from wearingheadguards in AIBA-sanctioned men’sevents, still a subject of heavy medicaldebate.

Wu’s efforts have h ad mixed success. Afteryears of apparently heavy spending, AIBA’sWorld Series of Boxing and APB profession-al boxi ng program have gained little tractionoutside nations with no established structureof professional boxing.

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THURSDAY

Boys basketball

Division I

Andrew Hill (15-9)/No. 9 Alisal (20-4) winner atNo. 8 Sequoia (12-13), 7 p.m.Division III

Hillsdale (13-12) at No. 7 Aragon (12-14), 7 p.m.Division IV

No. 9 Terra Nova (11-12) at No. 8 Menlo School

(10-14), 7 p.m.Division V

Crystal Springs (8-17) at No. 5 Alma Heights-Pac-fica (21-5), 7 p.m.Girls basketball

Division II

No. 10 Westmoor (11-10) at No. 7 Gunn (12-10),7 p.m.Division III

No. 11 Capuchino (8-16) at No. 6 Gunderson (14-10), 7 p.m.No. 10 North Monterey County (12-11) at No. 7Mills (16-9), 7 p.m.Pajaro Valley (7-15)/No. 12 Prospect (11-12) win-ner at No. 5 Hillsdale (15-11), 7 p.m.No. 9 Aragon (10-14) at No. 8 Notre Dame-SanJose (8-16), 7 p.m.Division IV

Carmel (17-6)/No. 11 King's Academy (11-13)winner at No. 6 Half Moon Bay (17-8), 7 p.m.King City (14-11)/No. 12 Seaside (11-12) winnerat No. 5 Oceana (22-5), 7 p.m.Division V

No. 11 Crystal Springs (6-16) at No. 6 NotreDame-Salinas (14-9), 7 p.m.

FRIDAY

Boys basketball

Open Division

No. 2 Serra (20-4) vs. No. 7 Palma (22-2) at SantaClara, 5:30 p.m.No. 6 Half Moon Bay (25-2) vs. No. 3 Bellarmineat Santa Clara, 7:30 p.m.No. 4 Menlo-Atherton (22-2) vs. No. 5 Mitty (13-11) at Piedmont Hills, 7:30 p.m.Girls basketball

No. 6 Menlo School (19-5) vs. No. 3 Sacred HeartCathedral (15-8) at Gunn High School, 5:30 p.m.No. 5 Menlo-Atherton (25-2) vs. No. 4 Valley Chris-tian (17-7) at Wilcox High School, 5:30 p.m.

SATURDAY

Boys basketball

Division III

 TBD vs. No. 1 Burlingame (18-8), TBADivision IV

 TBD vs. No. Sacred Heart Prep (14-10), TBAGirls basketball

Division III

Capuchino/Gunderson winner vs. No. 3 SouthCity (16-9), TBA

WHAT’S ON TAPEASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB

 Toronto 38 18 .679 —Boston 33 25 .569 6New York 24 35 .407 15 1/2Brooklyn 15 42 .263 23 1/2Philadelphia 8 49 .140 30 1/2Southeast Division

Miami 32 25 .561 —Atlanta 31 27 .534 1 1/2Charlotte 29 27 .518 2 1/2Washington 26 30 .464 5 1/2Orlando 25 30 .455 6Central Division

Cleveland 41 15 .732 —Indiana 31 26 .544 10 1/2Chicago 30 26 .536 11Detroit 29 29 .500 13Milwaukee 24 33 .421 17 1/2WESTERN CONFERENCE

Southwest Division

San Antonio 48 9 .842 —Memphis 33 23 .589 14 1/2Dallas 30 28 .517 18 1/2Houston 28 29 .491 20New Orleans 22 34 .393 25 1/2Northwest Division

Oklahoma City 41 16 .719 —Portland 30 27 .526 11Utah 28 28 .500 12 1/2Denver 23 35 .397 18 1/2Minnesota 18 40 .310 23 1/2Pacific Division

Warriors 51 5 .911 —

L.A.Clippers 37 20 .649 14 1/2Sacramento 24 32 .429 27Phoenix 14 43 .246 37 1/2L.A.Lakers 11 48 .186 41 1/2

Wednesday’s Games

Cleveland 114,Charlotte 103Indiana 108,New York 105

 Toronto 114,Minnesota 105Golden State 118,Miami 112Detroit 111,Philadelphia 91Chicago 109,Washington 104Memphis 128,L.A.Lakers 119Oklahoma City 116,Dallas 103San Antonio 108,Sacramento 92Denver 87,L.A.Clippers 81Thursday’s Games

Golden State at Orlando,4 p.m.Milwaukee at Boston,4:30 p.m.Oklahoma City at New Orleans,8 p.m.Brooklyn at Phoenix,9 p.m.Houston at Portland,10:30 p.m.San Antonio at Utah,10:30 p.m.

NBA GLANCE

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GAFlorida 59 34 18 7 75 164 137

 Tampa Bay 60 34 22 4 72 165 149Boston 61 33 22 6 72 190 170Detroit 61 30 20 11 71 153 158Ottawa 61 29 26 6 64 176 187Montreal 61 29 27 5 63 167 168Buffalo 61 24 30 7 55 144 167

 Toronto 58 20 28 10 50 142 175Metropolitan Division

Washington 59 44 11 4 92 197 137N.Y. Rangers 60 34 20 6 74 173 155N.Y. Islanders 58 32 19 7 71 168 1 45Pittsburgh 59 30 21 8 68 155 156New Jersey 61 30 24 7 67 138 143Carolina 61 28 23 10 66 151 161Philadelphia 59 26 22 1 1 63 145 161Columbus 61 24 29 8 56 156 190

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Central Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GADallas 61 38 17 6 82 199 172Chicago 62 38 19 5 81 176 148St.Louis 62 35 18 9 79 156 150Nashville 61 29 21 11 69 159 157Colorado 63 32 27 4 68 169 176Minnesota 60 27 23 10 64 157 152Winnipeg 59 25 30 4 54 152 176Pacific Division

Los Angeles 59 35 20 4 74 159 138Anaheim 59 32 19 8 72 147 141Sharks 59 32 21 6 70 1 77 161