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During her nearly three days at an

Arizona drug detox center, law en-
forcement reports show, an Ohio
mother repeated the same request to
multiple staff members: Take me to the
hospital.
Madison Cross, 22, traveled from
A.W. “Dub” Barron had an insatiable appetite for women, but loyalty to her home outside Columbus, Ohio, last
the children he left his girlfriends was not his strong point. FAMILY PHOTO Oct. 7 to check into Se-
renity Care Center, a
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suburban Phoenix. Her
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He plans to file a lawsuit on behalf of
the family.
A spokesman for Serenity said the
center provided appropriate care and
monitoring for Cross.
The center performs regular room
checks, vital signs readings and inter-
venes when required, spokesman
George Haj said.
Patients who are undergoing with-
drawal and trying to stay clean are par-
ticularly vulnerable to medical emer-
gencies. As the opioid epidemic causes
demand for addiction treatment to
surge, industry veterans said tougher
standards, better screening and greater
oversight are needed to improve patient
safety.
Treating addiction
More than 1.4 million people sought
treatment for alcohol or drug addiction
from inpatient, outpatient and residen-
tial treatment programs in 2015, accord-
ing to the Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration. The
federal agency recorded 3,362 deaths.
States separately report death inves-
tigations at residential treatment cen-
ters. In California alone, state regulators
have investigated more than 150 deaths
at treatment facilities since 2014. That
includes 44 during the fiscal year that
ended June 30.
Industry officials said the for-profit
centers that have flooded the growing
market for addiction treatment are in
some cases providing aggressive mar-
keting and substandard care.
“This is a huge issue for the industry,”
said Marvin Ventrell, executive director
of the National Association of Addiction
Treatment Providers. “It is a critical
time where we can get this right or we
can get this wrong.”
Ventrell was speaking generally. He
was not addressing Cross’ death, Seren-
ity or any particular center.
His organization, which represents
about 850 facilities in the USA, tight-
ened its policies this year to require
members to adhere to an updated code
of ethics that prohibits such practices as
“patient brokering” – paying recruiters
to bring in patients who can generate lu-
crative insurance payments for services
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that must be covered under the Afford-
able Care Act.
The association is cracking down on
websites that deceive consumers about
treatment and offer inducements to get
people in treatment.
Unscrupulous providers try to sell a
service to a prospective patient, indus-
try leaders said, rather than assessing
individual medical needs. Many pa-
tients, leaders said, might fare better if
they received medications such as sub-
oxone or methadone from a doctor rath-
er than checking into a facility and de-
toxing.
“The key is not to be assessed by a
marketer on a website but by a clinical
provider at a reputable center,” Ventrell
said.
The burgeoning industry has attract-
ed the attention of congressional inves-
tigators. The House Energy and Com-
merce Subcommittee on Oversight and
Investigations called industry leaders to
a hearing in July on advertising and
marketing practices.
Longtime treatment organizations
said they welcome tighter regulations
for an industry flooded with newcomers
seeking to profit off the addiction crisis.
Advocates said for-profit treatment
centers provide Americans much-need-
ed access to care. They said it’s inaccu-
rate to say bad business practices have
led to poor care at for-profit centers.
Mark Covall is CEO of the National
Association of Behavioral Healthcare,
an industry organization that repre-
sents about 1,000 nonprofit and for-
profit members that provide inpatient,
outpatient and residential treatment for
mental health and substance abuse.
Covall said association members ad-
here to state licensing requirements and
often are scrutinized by third-party ac-
crediting organizations such as the
Joint Commission and the Commission
on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facil-
ities.
“For-profit or nonprofit is a tax sta-
tus,” Covall said. “That doesn’t neces-
sarily give any indication of how well or
not well a provider is doing.”
Signs of struggle
Video footage taken in Cross’ small
detox room during the early morning
hours of Oct. 10, 2017, shows her strug-
gling.
She attempted to open a restroom
door, but seemed confused. Legs wob-
bling, she stumbled away from her bed
and fell to her knees. She grabbed a shelf
and held on for several seconds. Her
right arm dangled to her side. She col-
lapsed to the floor and lay still.
Six minutes and 25 seconds passed
before a Serenity employee entered the
room. The technician took her pulse –
there was none, medical and sheriff ’s
reports showed – rolled her on her back
and began chest compressions.
Paramedics arrived minutes later
and took her to Banner Del E. Webb Hos-
pital, blocks away on the same street.
Efforts to revive her were unsuccess-
ful. She was pronounced dead at the
hospital.
Joshua Michael Kennedy, the techni-
cian who discovered Cross’ body, was
interviewed by sheriff ’s investigators
that morning.
Kennedy said Cross asked to be sent
to the hospital because she didn’t think
she was getting the medication she
needed. She worried she might have
contracted strep throat from her daugh-
ter, investigators wrote.
Kennedy took her vital signs at 3 a.m.
He noted an elevated pulse rate and
less-than-ideal blood pressure, investi-
gators wrote. He reported this to nurses
at Serenity, but he “felt as if their re-
sponse to him was as if he were being a
nuisance,” the investigators said.
Wrona, the family’s attorney, argued
that Serenity’s nurses failed to recog-
nize the seriousness of Cross’ condition
soon enough. He said the problem was
compounded by a policy that limits
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communication from family members
during detox.
“There is a difference between some-
one who is going through a garden-va-
riety detox and one who has a life-
threatening medical condition,” Wrona
told USA TODAY. “If they had spoken to
her family, they would have been able to
advocate for her in some way.”
Haj, the Serenity spokesman, said
privacy laws prohibit the center from
discussing the details of Cross’ case.
“Our policy is that medical personnel
constantly monitor a patient’s condi-
tion ... including regular in-person mon-
itoring of vital signs and in-person room
checks,” he said.
Staff members “do not rely solely on
the video feed,” he said.
“Patients undergoing withdrawal
frequently request transfers to hospi-
tals in the hopes of relieving anxiety or
in the hopes of obtaining drugs,” Haj
said. “If all requests are satisfied, a pa-
tient’s substance use disorder treat-
ment can be severely hampered. Pa-
tients are monitored to see if medical in-
tervention is required.”
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US ends
pact with
Iran after
UN court
ruling
Tehran had used treaty
to object to sanctions
Kim Hjelmgaard
and Deirdre Shesgreen
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON – Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo announced Wednesday
that the United States is canceling a
relatively obscure but decades-old
economic treaty with Iran after a sanc-
tions-related ruling by the United Na-
tions’ highest court.
Before the second phase of Washing-
ton’s reimposition of sanctions on Iran
next month over its nuclear program,
the U.N. International Court of Justice
(ICJ), based in the Hague, Netherlands,
ordered President Donald Trump’s ad-
ministration to lift any punitive mea-
sures that affect Tehran’s imports of hu-
manitarian goods and products and
services linked to civil aviation safety.
The ruling was provisional.
Iran challenged the U.S. sanctions
in a case filed in July on the grounds
that they violate the 1955 Treaty of
Amity, an agreement covering eco-
nomic relations and some reciprocal
consular rights.
“This is a decision that is, frankly,
39 years overdue,” Pompeo said in a
news briefing in Washington. He said
Iran tried to interfere with the “sover-
eign rights of the United States” by go-
ing to the ICJ. “Iran is abusing the ICJ
for political and propaganda causes,”
he said. He said Iran’s claims to the
court are “absurd.”
“This is a decision that is,
frankly, 39 years overdue.”
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
Washington has long insisted that
its sanctions do not target humanitar-
ian goods or services, but the sanc-
tions it imposed on Iran after Trump
pulled out of a nuclear deal with Teh-
ran and world powers in May restrict
Iran’s ability to use the international
banking system – that, in turn, has af-
fected its imports of essential medi-
cines and consumer goods. It has also
pressured international companies
operating in the Middle Eastern coun-
try. Many have wound down their op-
erations in recent months.
In its judgment, the court said
Washington must “remove, by means
of its choosing, any impediments aris-
ing from” the reimposition of sanc-
tions that affect exports to Iran of
medicine and medical device; food
and agricultural commodities; and
spare parts and equipment necessary
to ensure the safety of civil aviation.
Iran has an aging civilian aircraft
fleet for which it’s unable to acquire
spare parts, and it has seen numerous
airplane crashes in recent years.
Richard Goldberg, a senior adviser
at the Foundation for Defense of De-
mocracies, a Washington-based re-
search institute, said the “U.S. sanc-
tions already have a humanitarian ex-
emption for food, medicine and agri-
culture commodities – an exemption
the mullahs (Iran’s religious leaders)
often use to make money on the black
market while denying the Iranian peo-
ple access to humanitarian goods.”
The next installment of U.S.-spon-
sored sanctions on Iran is due Nov. 4. It
will target Iran’s lucrative oil industry.
Sanctions reinstated in August
clamped down on Iran’s access to U.S.
dollars, its car industry and trading in
some commodities.
Neither Wednesday’s ruling nor the
termination of the treaty is likely to have
significant impact on the Trump ad-
ministration’s implementation of the
sanctions.
The International Court of Justice’s
rulings are legally binding, but the court
has no power to enforce them.
Pompeo escalated his criticism of
Iran’s role in Iraq, saying Iran was to
blame for a recent mortar attack near
the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and a
rocket attack on the U.S. Consulate in
Basra. The State Department an-
nounced last week it would close the
Basra facility.
Hjelmgaard reported from London
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Study shows toll
sex assault takes
on midlife women
Victims experience
more health issues
Kim Painter
USA TODAY
A history of sexual assault or work-
place sexual harassment can have a
major effect on the mental and phys-
ical health of a middle-aged woman, a
new study suggests.
Victims of sexual assault suffer
high rates of depression, anxiety and
sleeplessness; victims of harassment
have elevated rates of high blood pres-
sure and sleep loss, according to the
study published Wednesday in JAMA
Internal Medicine.
The study, which will be presented
at a medical meeting this week, comes
as many midlife women across the
USA are sharing stories of abuse and
harassment, sometimes decades old.
Christine Blasey Ford, 51, a Califor-
nia psychology professor, said at a
Senate hearing last week that she was
sexually assaulted by Brett Kava-
naugh, a nominee for the Supreme
Court, when they were teens – and still
suffered from anxiety, post-traumatic
stress and phobias as a result. Kava-
naugh denied the assault allegation.
The study is not the first or largest
to link sexual assault and harassment
with mental and physical health prob-
lems. But it may carry extra weight be-
cause the women in the study were di-
rectly examined by researchers and
underwent formal mental health as-
sessments. Some previous studies
were based on surveys.
The researchers did not know their
Five Veterans Affairs hospitals remain
at bottom of ratings for third year in row
Donovan Slack
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON – The number of
one-star Veterans Affairs hospitals
has dropped from 14 to nine since last
year, according to star rankings the VA
released Wednesday.
Five VA hospitals remain at the bot-
tom of the rankings for the third straight
year, including in Big Spring and El Pa-
so, Texas; Loma Linda, California; and
Phoenix, where a wait-time crisis in
2014 triggered a national scandal.
The VA regularly scores 146 of its
medical centers based on dozens of
quality factors, including death and
infection rates, instances of avoidable
complications and wait times. The
agency uses a five-star scale on which
one is the worst and five the best.
Also among the one-star hospitals
for the third straight year is the VA
medical center in Memphis, Tennes-
see, where USA TODAY reported pa-
tient safety problems have soared in
recent years.
Overall, 40 VA hospitals dropped
one star or more, 68 stayed the same
and 38 improved in the rankings. The
largest improvement was in Hot
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study would come out when assault
and harassment are in the headlines,
but the timing “just underscores how
important these issues are and that we
do need a national dialogue about pre-
vention and intervention,” said study
author Rebecca Thurston, a professor
of psychiatry at the University of Pitts-
burgh.
The study included 304 women,
ages 40 to 60, originally enrolled in a
study of menopause symptoms. When
asked if they had ever been sexually
harassed at work, either verbally or
physically, 19 percent said “yes.” When
asked if they had ever been forced or
pressured into unwanted sexual con-
tact involving “private parts,” 22 per-
cent said “yes.”
Here’s how these women differed
from the women in the study who re-
ported no harassment or assault:
❚ The women who said they were
assaulted were almost three times
more likely to have symptoms of major
depression and two times more likely
to suffer from anxiety.
❚ The women who said they were
harassed were two times more likely to
have untreated high blood pressure.
❚ Both categories of women were
two times more likely to have trouble
sleeping.
Such problems are common in mid-
life women. The study shows they are
even more common in women dealing
with the fallout of harassment or as-
sault – though it cannot prove the in-
cidents caused the health problems.
The study does not address whether
the incidents were ongoing, recent or
distant, nor whether they were single
or repeated events.
Springs, South Dakota, which went
from two stars to five.
“With closer monitoring and in-
creased medical center leadership and
support, we have seen solid improve-
ments at most of our facilities,” VA Sec-
retary Robert Wilkie said in a statement.
The rankings compare VA hospitals
against each other, but the number of
one-star hospitals is not constant. Med-
ical centers in that bracket can be ele-
vated to two stars based on quality-of-
IN BRIEF
At least 5 police officers shot,
1 fatally, in South Carolina
At least five law enforcement offi-
cers have been shot, one fatally, in
Florence County, South Carolina, au-
thorities said Wednesday.
Local media reports said the shoot-
ing may have escalated from a domestic
violence situation Wednesday night.
Officers responded to an active shoot-
ing in Vintage Place, an upscale resi-
dential subdivision, Florence County
Emergency Management tweeted.
A suspect was in custody.
Pentagon: Suspicious substance
in envelopes was castor seeds
A Pentagon spokeswoman said a
suspicious substance found in enve-
lopes turned over to the FBI contained
the substance from which the poison
ricin is derived but not ricin itself.
Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White
said Wednesday that the substance was
castor seeds. Tuesday, Pentagon offi-
cials said two envelopes suspected of
containing ricin were sent to the FBI.
Senate approves aviation bill
with $1.7B in disaster aid
The Senate passed legislation that
would provide $1.7 billion to help resi-
dents of the Carolinas and elsewhere
recover from recent natural disasters.
Lawmakers described the aid for those
affected by Hurricane Florence as a
down payment, and billions of addi-
tional dollars probably will be needed.
Officials warn that Arizona dam
could fail and flood village
An earthen dam in Arizona’s south-
ern desert could fail and flood a small
village because the lake behind it is
swollen with runoff from the remnants
of Tropical Storm Rosa, according to
the National Weather Service.
Ali Chuk, a Native American com-
munity of 162 people on the Tohono
O’odham Nation reservation, was
evacuated, the tribe’s public safety de-
partment said in a statement.
Syria’s Assad: ‘Understanding’
reached with Arab states
President Bashar Assad told Al-
Shahed, a Kuwaiti newspaper, that
Syria reached a “major understand-
ing” with Arab states after years of
hostility over the country’s civil war.
Assad didn’t name the Arab coun-
tries but said delegations visited Syria
to prepare to reopen diplomatic and
other missions. Syria’s membership in
the 22-member Arab League was sus-
pended early in the war, and Arab coun-
tries imposed economic sanctions.
Japanese spacecraft drops
observation device onto asteroid
A German-French observation de-
vice called the Mobile Asteroid Surface
Scout, or MASCOT, safely landed on
the asteroid Ryugu on Wednesday af-
ter a Japanese spacecraft released it as
part of a research effort to find clues
about the origin of the solar system.
From staff and wire reports
Overall,
40 VA
hospitals
dropped
one star or
more in
the
rankings.
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care factors.
The agency did not start releasing the
ratings until USA TODAY obtained and
published them for the first time in 2016.
The VA then committed to posting them
annually.
The VA also rates 133 agency nursing
homes. Those ratings, unlike the hospi-
tal rankings, take private-sector nursing
home averages into account. As of March
31, nearly half of VA nursing homes – 58 –
received the lowest one-star rating.
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Nothing sacred about legal precedent

Supreme Court justices
could revisit Roe v. Wade
Richard Wolf
USA TODAY

WASHINGTON – Back when Brett

Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomina-
tion appeared to hinge on his legal
views, senators concerned about the fu-
ture of abortion rights pressed him on
the sanctity of Supreme Court prece-
dents. His practiced responses were in-
tended to be reassuring.
“Precedent is a foundation of our sys-
tem,” Kavanaugh said. He called the
court’s Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 that
legalized abortion nationwide “a pre-
cedent that’s been reaffirmed many
times over 45 years.” As such, he said, it
constituted “precedent on precedent.”
But the Supreme Court overruled two
major precedents in June, on public em-
ployee union fees and internet taxes.
Wednesday, the justices considered
toppling another on private property
rights. Within the next few months,
they’ll tackle two others, including a
major decision that permits federal and
state prosecutions for the same crime.
The high court’s willingness to over- Demonstrators for and against abortion rights try to outshout each other outside the court July 9. TASOS KATOPODIS/GETTY IMAGES
rule itself may not indicate greater risk
for Roe or other precedents relished by
liberals or conservatives. But it demon- sis of race. It stood for 60 years before cautioned that the original case “was unsuccessful state efforts. As such, it
strates that some justices – particularly being overruled by Brown v. Board of decided 32 years ago. This is a very com- represents “a very, very important tool,”
the court’s conservatives – are eager to Education in 1954. plicated area of law. Why not let sleep- says Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the
right what they view as past wrongs. Wednesday’s debate focused on a ru- ing dogs lie?” NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
“The Supreme Court could overrule ral Pennsylvania property that includes Within months, the court will con- Striking down the precedent could
all three of these cases,” said Paul Clem- an old burial ground. The township re- sider overruling a precedent from 1959 affect prosecutions in the investigations
ent, a former U.S. solicitor general who quired the landowner to provide public that allows for dual state and federal of Russian interference in the 2016 elec-
has argued about 90 cases before the access, but she refused. prosecutions. The court reasoned then tions. If President Donald Trump were
court. The precedent at stake dates to 1985, that although double jeopardy is uncon- to pardon associates convicted by spe-
Since Chief Justice John Roberts when the court ruled that property own- stitutional, the state and federal govern- cial counsel Robert Mueller or federal
took the center seat on the court in ers must go through state courts before ments are separate sovereigns and can prosecutors, separate state prosecu-
2005, the justices have been reluctant to taking their claims for compensation to bring separate cases. tions could be jeopardized.
second-guess the decisions of their federal court under the Fifth Amend- The precedent has been “something The third precedent in question
predecessors. They have done so slight- ment. Within minutes, conservative of an insurance policy for prosecutors,” dates to 1979, when the Supreme Court
ly more than once a year, the slowest justices were on the warpath. says Kannon Shanmugam, an appellate ruled that states are not immune from
pace in more than 50 years. “You have taken her property, and lawyer who argues frequently at the being sued in other states’ courts. Like
The court usually adheres to the prin- you have denied her compensation,” As- high court. It allowed the federal gov- the property rights case, it could split
ciple of “stare decisis,” or adhering to its sociate Justice Samuel Alito told Teresa ernment to successfully prosecute Los the conservative and liberal justices
earlier decisions. But occasionally, Ficken Sachs, representing the Pennsyl- Angeles police officers in the beating of down the middle.
those earlier rulings cry out for change, vania township. “Why is that not a vio- Rodney King in 1991, as well as a South “The only interesting question is
such as Plessy v. Ferguson, which up- lation of the takings clause?” Carolina police officer for the fatal whether there will be a ninth justice to
held separate public facilities on the ba- Associate Justice Stephen Breyer shooting in 2015 of Walter Scott after hear it,” Clement said.

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OPINION
TODAY'S DEBATE: PRESIDENTIAL FINANCES
Our view: Trump inherited a
fortune and managed it poorly
Among many of President Donald
Trump’s most adoring fans, it is an arti-
cle of faith that he was, before his elec-
tion, a shrewd businessman. How
could he not be? He played one on TV.
In fact, Trump’s business career was
checkered at best. He borrowed money
at the wrong times and at punitively
high rates of interest, causing him to
fail in the Atlantic City casino business
even before the city fell on hard times.
His survival might have involved cre-
ative tax avoidance. It certainly in-
volved using a very forgiving bankrupt-
cy code to walk out on his debts, profit-
ing while others took serious hits.
Much of this has long been known.
But Trump’s continuing refusal to re-
lease his tax returns, and his extreme
skittishness about Justice Department
probes into his pre-presidential fi-
nances, suggest that more unsavory
things about his business shortcom-
ings could eventually emerge.
Reinforcing this perception was
Tuesday’s exhaustive report in The
New York Times, which found that
Trump and his siblings used sham
companies to avoid virtually all taxes
on more than $1 billion in inheritance
from their wealthy father. Some of the
tax avoidance schemes involved pad-
ded invoices, improper deductions and
undervalued real estate holdings, ac-
cording to the report.
The disclosure is deeply disturbing.
It is also utterly predictable from a man
who seems to be the living embodiment
of the late Leona Hemsley’s credo, ut-
tered to her housekeeper: “Only the lit-
tle people pay taxes.”
The Times asserts that the sham
companies involved “instances of out-
right fraud.” We leave that determina-
tion to the tax authorities. The presi-
dent also has some serious explaining
to do about his foundation, which the
New York attorney general alleges has
been used more for self-dealing than
for selfless giving.
Perhaps the most eye-opening dis-
closure in The Times report is not its
assertion of fraud but the sheer amount
of Trump’s inheritance. According to
The Times, his portion of the bounty,
received from the 1940s to 2004, was at
least $413 million in today’s dollars.
At the risk of stating the obvious:
That is a lot of money. A lot of daddy’s
Opposing view: Donald Trump
had virtually no involvement
Charles J. Harder, a lawyer for Presi-
dent Donald Trump, issued this written
statement:
The New York Times’ allegations of
fraud and tax evasion are 100 percent
false, and highly defamatory. There
was no fraud or tax evasion by anyone.
The facts upon which The Times bases
its false allegations are extremely inac-
curate.
All estate matters were handled by
licensed attorneys, licensed CPAs (cer-
tified public accounts) and licensed
real estate appraisers who followed all
laws and rules strictly. All matters were
filed with the IRS and New York taxing
authorities.
The returns and tax positions that
The Times now attacks were examined
YOUR SAY
I know about college drinking culture
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When I worked in student affairs at
the Michigan State University, I facili-
tated alcohol education sessions for
students who were sanctioned for alco-
hol violations. During these sessions,
we asked students if it was OK to do
things to others who had too much to
drink and had passed out. We started
with small things, like pranks, e.g. writ-
ing on someone’s face, shaving their
heads, etc. And progressed to touching,
and then violating someone sexually.
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money, to be specific.
It’s a far cry from the “small loan of a
million dollars” that Trump claims
launched him in business. And it fur-
ther undermines the claim that Trump
was some kind of business genius who
could easily translate that acumen to
running Washington.
For years, many of those who have
poked around Trump’s business deal-
ings have concluded that he might be
equally wealthy had he simply invested
his inheritance in mutual funds or a
broad portfolio of stocks. With the ca-
veat that investing in such an open
fashion would have meant — the hor-
ror! — paying taxes, The Times report
supports that argument.
It’s a sobering thought. This would
mean that all of Trump’s schemes to
profit at others’ expense — paying him-
self a fortune to run his casinos into the
ground, transferring personal debts to
his failing companies, using bankrupt-
cy protection to force creditors to ac-
cept less, signing up customers for the
defunct Trump University — have
managed only to maintain his inheri-
tance plus something close to market
rates of return.
It’s a good thing for Trump that most
of his business career was spent run-
ning a family business rather than a
public company answerable to direc-
tors and shareholders. Because long
ago he likely would have been told:
“You’re fired.”
in real time by the relevant taxing au-
thorities. The taxing authorities re-
quested a few minor adjustments,
which were made, and then fully ap-
proved all of the tax filings. These mat-
ters have now been closed for more
than a decade.
President Trump had virtually no in-
volvement whatsoever with these mat-
ters. The affairs were handled by other
Trump family members who were not
experts themselves and therefore re-
lied entirely upon the aforementioned
licensed professionals to ensure full
compliance with the law.
Should The Times state or imply that
President Trump participated in fraud,
tax evasion or any other crime, it will be
exposing itself to substantial liability
and damages for defamation.
I was always amazed at the number
who said that if someone had too much
to drink, then it was their fault and they
couldn’t blame someone else for violat-
ing their personal space. They didn’t
consider it rape if the victim was too
drunk to know what was happening, or
even if the victim was completely
passed out. And, in my experience,
those who had no issue violating some-
one were all men. The women may have
thought it was funny to write on some-
one or do a prank. However, once it en-
tered into touching and especially sexu-
al assault and rape, the women said,
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Why Ford’s story
resonated with me
I blamed myself for
a 1980s sexual assault
Kirsten Powers
When I was 15 years old, I passed out
at a party after being fed all sorts of al-
coholic concoctions by older boys I
knew and idolized, but who in hind-
sight were eager to get me drunk.
I awoke with a popular senior bas-
ketball player on top of me and my shirt
off. Dizzy and confused, I could barely
remember anything. I asked what had
happened and the boy told me we had
just snuggled, but he couldn’t explain
why my shirt was off.
A few days later, a male classmate I
was close to exited the boys locker
room visibly shaken. He told me this
boy had bragged in the locker room that
he had molested me when I was passed
out. (That’s my word. The boy gleefully
described in salacious detail what he
did to me while I was unconscious.)
My face burned with shame. I
begged my friend not to tell anyone
else, and as far as I know he didn’t. I
feared that if more people in my small
Jesuit high school found out, I would be
viewed as a “slut” or “damaged goods.”
The only people I would have trusted
with this information were my parents,
but to tell them would involve explain-
ing why I was at a party drinking rather
than at the sleepover I had permission
to attend. I would have been grounded
for eternity. I told no one.
I don’t know what month it was. I
don’t know whose house it was. I re-
member one of my two best friends be-
ing there but she doesn’t remember it,
and why would she? It was just a ran-
dom party as far as she knew back then.
I can hear the doubters: Why didn’t
you tell? Why didn’t you report him?
Liar.
The answer is simple: I didn’t think I
had been sexually assaulted. In the
early 1980s, we didn’t have the vocabu-
lary to make such declarations. I
thought I did something stupid and
paid a price. I thought it was my fault.
This memory came flooding back
last week with Christine Blasey Ford’s
testimony against Brett Kavanaugh.
Many have focused on the fact that she
didn’t mention the event to anyone un-
til 2012. As a former teenage girl in the
early 1980s, this does not seem remark-
able. In fact, the first time I spoke of the
“No, absolutely not right.”
I don’t know what actually happened
in the situations that have arisen re-
garding Judge Brett Kavanaugh, but I do
know about the party/drinking culture
and how often men feel it is their right to
do whatever they want to people “stupid
enough to get drunk.”
And, at 56, I am very capable of re-
membering with great clarity events
that occurred at high school and college
parties. During my freshman year, I was
dating someone. We had been drinking.
We were “making out,” fully clothed and
my date was getting very aggressive. I
kept pushing his hands away, suggest-
ing we just keep kissing, but he kept try-
ing. He was drunk. He was big and
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incident chronicled here was last week.
Yet I have zero doubt of what happened
and who did it to me.
When I was in high school, the
phrase “sexual assault” was reserved
for incidents of women being grabbed
in dark alleys by strangers. It was al-
ways violent. If it wasn’t, then it wasn’t
sexual assault. It wasn’t something
done by a popular boy at school.
Lance Morrow of the Ethics & Public
Policy Center channeled the 1980s view
in The Wall Street Journal: “No clothes
were removed, and no sexual penetra-
tion occurred. The sin, if there was one,
was not one of those … that cry to heav-
en for vengeance.”
He didn’t rape you for God’s sake. Get
over it. You don’t want to ruin a promis-
ing young man’s life, do you?
The same boy who molested me had
forced one of my best friends to give
him oral sex the year before while they
were on a date. We were disgusted by
him. We thought he was a creep. But the
phrase “sexual assault” never came up.
If the person who sexually assaulted
me and my friend turned into an out-
standing citizen, good father and hus-
band, do I think he should be put on the
Supreme Court? No, I don’t.
As a Christian I believe in forgive-
ness and redemption. However, we
cannot send teenage boys the message
that they can sexually assault someone
and, as long as they become good citi-
zens, we will elevate them to one of the
most important positions in our soci-
ety. We cannot send the message to
teenage girls that attacks on their bod-
ies don’t matter because the perpetra-
tor is young like them, or that their re-
sponse is what will be put on trial.
The fact that my friend and I con-
tinued to go to parties where this boy
was, or said hello to him in the hallway,
does not mean these things did not
happen. Our behavior then is not the
problem. Ford’s failure to talk to anyone
about what happened to her for dec-
ades is not the problem. The problem is
that the culture did not give us the lan-
guage to describe such violations, and
made us feel that talking to an author-
ity figure would make things worse.
Fortunately for women, what hap-
pened in the 1980s isn’t staying in the
1980s. It’s a reckoning that is overdue.
Kirsten Powers, a CNN news analyst,
writes regularly for USA TODAY and is
co-host of The Faith Angle podcast.
strong. I was getting very nervous.
Thankfully, the fire alarm went off. I
never went out with him again. I will al-
ways remember how I felt that night. I
will always remember all the details. I
will always be thankful for that alarm.
We need the FBI investigation to get
to the facts related to Christine Blasey
Ford’s accusations, so both sides have
an opportunity to get to the truth.
Leyla Kayi
South Hadley, Mass.
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Kavanaugh
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much of the FBI’s investigation into Ka-
vanaugh’s past should be available for
public view. Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell said only that sena-
tors will be able to see the results of the
FBI’s work. A handful of Senate aides
may view the findings as well.
The report was the result of a dra-
matic and emotional hearing before the
Judiciary Committee last week in which
Ford and Kavanaugh recalled the sum-
mer of 1982, when she said the attack
occurred. Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., voted
to advance Kavanaugh’s nomination
but called for the reopening of the inves-
tigation into his background.
Republican leaders and White House
officials said the strict limitations on
who would see the results are standard
practice for background checks on
nominees for senior roles.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., a
Judiciary Committee member, said it
would be ideal to make public as much
Daddy
Continued from Page 1A
California, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisi-
ana, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tex-
as and Wisconsin while he was married
to at least eight women.
While driving a cab, working con-
struction, selling cars, fixing radiators or
working on an oil rig, Barron would fa-
ther more than a dozen children across
the USA and in Indonesia. Along the
way, he would face charges of bigamy
and statutory rape.
Many of the young women whom
Barron wooed and left considered him a
scoundrel the rest of their lives.
Like Looney, several took him back
anyway – if only for a private
rendezvous – when he would circle back
to town.
Barron’s kin joked years later that the
6-foot-4, blue-eyed libertine was aller-
gic to latex.
“We woke up many a night to a phone
call with some girl crying, asking, ‘Is he
down there? He’s left me,’ ” his half-
brother Bob Sexton recalled. “Course, he
had probably left her with a little pre-
sent.”
Not even Sexton, Barron’s closest
confidant, could have predicted the
widespread impact of his brother’s reck-
lessness.
King of the road
To Sexton, A.W. Barron was “Dub,”
the devil-may-care older half-brother
who parlayed his hard beginnings in
East Texas into a great adventure.
Their mother, Beulah, lost her first
husband after the flu pandemic in 1918.
Her second husband, Dub’s father, was
a heavy drinker who died when Dub was
11.
She remarried a third time, produc-
ing Sexton, and had one more marriage
after that.
Dub and Bobby, as Sexton was called,
grew up six years apart during the De-
pression. Each dropped out of school
around eighth grade.
When Sexton was 11 and Barron 17,
their mother was killed in a crash
caused by a drunken cabbie.
The younger brother was taken in by
family but preferred the company of his
extroverted older brother. The two be-
came close friends, and whenever Bar-
ron felt the need to leave behind his lat-
est romantic conquest, they were part-
ners on the road.
“I was sort of like the sidekick in an
old Western,” said Sexton, 86.
In the early 1950s, when Barron was
in his late 20s, the brothers took to the
roads of Texas, Iowa and Indiana. They
drank together, got in fights together
and flopped at their girlfriends’ homes,
looking for ways to make easy money.
One scheme, Sexton said, was to
paint house numbers on curbs in front
of houses and leave notes saying they
were veterans working for donations.
The two would go home, have a few
beers and return at night to knock on the
doors of people whose house numbers
they had painted. More often than not,
they would leave with a cigar box full of
cash – and a new flirtation.
“I always had fun with it. Dub said he
always got a kick out of watching me,
the way I would grin and carry on,” Sex-
ton said. “Like this one woman … she
was in her 30s. When she come to the
door, I said, ‘Is your mother home?’ ”
Though Barron had more swagger
than his half-brother, his success with
women had more to do with playing the
odds than charisma, family members
said.
He tried his luck at roadside diners,
information as possible, allowing for re-
dactions of private or compromising in-
formation. “But I think if the report dis-
appears into a black hole from which no
fact emerges, it will just add to the dis-
sension here and to the questions,” he
said.
Republicans noted that a bipartisan
memorandum of understanding in
2009 dictates the handling of such re-
ports. George Hartmann, a Judiciary
Committee spokesman, told USA TO-
DAY that the guidelines call for sending
a single copy of the FBI’s findings to
Capitol Hill and housing it in a safe in
the committee’s office.
Democrats questioned the secrecy –
and the decision to rely on the standard
procedure – given the significance.
Ron Klain, a veteran Washington at-
torney and former chief of staff to Vice
Presidents Al Gore and Joe Biden, said
there is nothing wrong with maintain-
ing the confidentiality of the report as
long as it doesn’t make it impossible for
senators to digest the information be-
fore the vote.
“Standard procedures often need to
be modified for nonstandard situa-
Michael Banks says his father, A.W. “Dub” Barron, jumped in and out of his life. When Barron abandoned Banks and his
mother in 1959, the roving philanderer left his 7-year-old son a teddy bear as consolation. A few months later, it was
discovered that Barron had given Banks something else: a baby brother. RODNEY WHITE/USA TODAY NETWORK
store windows, truck stops, dance halls,
cafeterias – with women young and old,
married and single.
In those years after World War II,
more women asserted independence,
and more marriages were strained.
Barron’s pickup lines worked, Sexton
said.
Girlfriends would give him gifts:
a shotgun for hunting, clothes, a place
for Sexton and Barron to flop for weeks
at a time. One woman let Barron run up
her credit at grocery stores to fill his
trunk.
Years later, Barron’s nieces and
nephews would recall him dropping in
from “up north” with silver dollars in his
pocket and bicycles as gifts. He’d sweep
in to pay a hospital bill for a sick relative
who didn’t ask and to give his lady
friends jewelry.
One nephew, whose family was broke
and living in a motel, recalls how his
flashy uncle bought him a lawnmower
to help him make side money.
“I think God uses people that aren’t
perfect,” his nephew Larry Sexton said.
“To me, He used Dub to bless me.”
Toys, trinkets and disappointment
In Tyler and Des Moines, life for the
women Barron got pregnant was much
less of a blessing.
Betty Lou, the 18-year-old waitress
caught with Barron by his pregnant
wife, would give birth about two weeks
later in Ottumwa to a baby boy named
Steven.
In 1950, Betty Lou and the baby were
living with her parents when Barron
swung back by their house in Iowa, try-
ing to talk his way in with a basket full of
toys.
“I made my mother throw them out,”
she said.
In all, Barron would father at least six
children in Iowa – including two by a
girlfriend he met after Betty Lou.
That girlfriend, Norma Banks, is be-
lieved by her children to have met Bar-
ron through a close friend not long after
Nina Looney chased Barron and Betty
Lou in the cab.
Banks, a farm girl who felt unwanted
by her parents, never married Barron
but loved him all her 87 years, her son
Michael said.
tions,” Klain said. He cited the example
of how the FBI’s findings were handled
when it investigated accusations of sex-
ual harassment by Anita Hill against Su-
preme Court nominee Clarence Thom-
as. Klain was a chief counsel for Judicia-
ry Committee Democrats during the
Hill-Thomas hearings in 1991.
“In extraordinary situations – like the
Thomas-Hill hearings – procedures
have been adopted to protect confiden-
tiality while also facilitating access for
all senators,” he said.
Some Republican senators said at
least a portion of the document should
be available for public review.
“I hope the FBI report is made public.
Normally, it is not, out of respect for the
privacy for the person being investigat-
ed, but this is an unusual circum-
stance,” said Sen. John Kennedy, R.-La.,
on the Judiciary Committee.
Kennedy said that if all findings can-
not be released, he’d support an objec-
tive summary of the report to be shared
to avoid senators leaking “selected ver-
sions that advance their position.”
The Justice Department referred
questions about the investigation to the
Barron’s kin joked that the
6-foot-4, blue-eyed libertine
was allergic to latex.
She gave birth to Michael in August
1952 after Barron moved from Des
Moines to California.
Michael Banks remembered yearn-
ing as a child for the “Leave It to Beaver”
life of others in the neighborhood.
To his delight, Barron returned to
Norma when he was 5, staying about six
months.
It was enough time to develop lasting
memories of his father.
Barron treated Michael to bacon and
eggs at a neighborhood cafeteria – Dub
favored waitresses all his life – and
adopted a terrier he named “Rebel.”
At Christmas, Barron drove Michael
and Norma into the country and
chopped down a tree for them.
“It didn’t matter to him whose land it
was,” Michael Banks said.
He and his mother had no way of
knowing Barron was using another
name – Allan Kain – to pick up new girl-
friends in Des Moines and other towns.
Trouble with the law
By 1955, when Barron was 29, he had
abandoned at least six children and four
mothers in Iowa and Texas, and his
troubles in both states launched him to
other locales.
Relatives said Barron was rumored to
have married as many as four women in
Louisiana and one in South Carolina af-
ter his relationship with Banks.
He went on to follow another woman
from Indiana to Pennsylvania, fathering
a daughter named Dena, who didn’t
learn he was her dad until 2010.
In 1957, one of Barron’s Louisiana
wives had him jailed for bigamy. Au-
thorities in Baton Rouge got wind of
three marriages after they approached
one of his wives to repossess a car.
Barron’s arrest made headlines
around the country. He signed a state-
ment admitting he married three wom-
en but said he thought each had ob-
tained a divorce. He wasn’t convicted.
NEWS
White House. White House spokes-
woman Sarah Sanders said, “We’ve
been very open and transparent
throughout the process.”
It is not clear whether the document
will draw conclusions about the allega-
tions.
Michael Mukasey, a former U.S. at-
torney general under President George
W. Bush, said the supplemental FBI
background investigation would cover
credible allegations of misconduct. The
FBI probably won’t try to resolve dis-
putes between conflicting witnesses,
and witnesses wouldn’t be tested by
polygraph, he said.
Mukasey spoke with reporters on a
call organized by Judicial Crisis Net-
work, a conservative group that backs
Kavanaugh’s confirmation.
“The FBI doesn’t make credibility de-
terminations about ultimate facts,” Mu-
kasey said.
“They simply present the statements
of witnesses so that the senators who
are the ultimate deciders can make their
decision.”
Contributing: John Fritze, Bart Jan-
sen, Nicole Gaudiano
Norma Banks, who still pined for him
in Des Moines, wrote and told him
where he could find her after he was re-
leased from jail.
Barron returned to Des Moines in
1959 but saw Norma and Michael, then
7, for only a few days.
Michael Banks remembered break-
ing down outside his mother’s house in
Des Moines when he realized his father
was leaving again.
“He tried to console me by giving me
a stuffed red-and-white bear from the
back window of his car, where he had
several,” Banks said.
A few months later, Norma Banks
discovered she was pregnant with a sec-
ond son from Barron.
Over that next year, three children –
Lori Stangl, Candi Hoyt and Michael
Banks’ younger brother, Matthew –
would be born to three women in Iowa.
By then, the 33-year-old Barron was
in Wisconsin, getting ready to marry 16-
year-old Kathleen Joseph, telling her
that he was 22.
That same year in Portage, Wiscon-
sin, Barron was accused of having sex
with another teenage girl who was
younger than 16. He was charged with
statutory rape.
When Joseph, his new bride, found
out, Barron had a story ready. He told
her he had rejected the teen’s advances
and she then accused him of trying to
rape her, according to Connie Hoye, Jo-
seph’s daughter.
“For bail, he put up land in Texas that
he didn’t own,” Hoye said. “When they
let him out, he hightailed it.”
Despite that, Joseph, Barron’s teen-
age bride, hopped a train in the middle
of the night to meet her new husband in
Washington state. From there, the two
moved to San Rafael, California, and
eventually Minneapolis.
Not long after Hoye was born, anoth-
er woman showed up on her family’s
doorstep in Minnesota with the wom-
an’s father and another baby in tow. Dub
wasn’t home at the time. The woman
never came back.
Back in Tyler, Dub’s brother had long
since decided to marry and settle down.
He and others worried their footloose
relative was in over his head.
But Barron’s real trouble hadn’t be-
gun. Not by a long shot.
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U.S. crash deaths fell slightly in 2017

but still reflected the second-deadliest
year on the road in the last decade.
The number of people killed in traf-
fic crashes in 2017 was 37,133, down 1.8
percent from the year before, accord-
ing to figures from the National High-
Milk consumption way Traffic Safety Administration fig-
ures released Wednesday.
GENERAL MOTORS
5.5 billion But the nation’s pedestrian safety
crisis continued as 5,977 pedestrians
gallons were killed, according to NHTSA.
While that total declined 1.7 percent
SURVEY SAYS US COMPANIES Total U.S. beverage milk from 2016, it was the second-highest
ADDED 230K JOBS IN SEPT. sales in 2017 – the lowest number reported by NHTSA in the pre-
level in at least 43 years, vious 27 years. It was topped only by
U.S. businesses added a robust according to Agriculture 2016’s 6,080 pedestrian deaths, a fig-
230,000 jobs in September, a private Department data. ure that was recently revised up from
survey found. Payroll processor ADP 5,987.
said Wednesday that September’s job
gain was the most in seven months. It
y50% NHTSA officials said they were en-
couraged to see overall crash fatalities
followed 168,000 new jobs in August, Decrease in whole milk decline slightly, but they said it’s not
a figure revised slightly higher. sales since the 1970s. cause for celebration.
Heidi King, deputy administrator
for NHTSA, said “there is no single rea-
son for the overall decline.”
SHOPPERS EXPECTED TO She flagged concerning factors that
SPEND MORE THIS HOLIDAY GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO could be contributing to the elevated
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Dairy experts
Shoppers, buoyed by low unemploy- cluding increases in drugged driving
ment and a slight uptick in wages,
should make this a jolly holiday season See DEATHS, Page 2B
for retailers. The National Retail Feder-

doubt deal will

ation forecasts sales in the last two
months of this year should rise be-
tween 4.3 and 4.8 percent compared
to 2017. Not counting purchases of
cars, gas or meals at restaurants,

reverse decline
shoppers are expected to spend be-
tween $717 billion and $720.89 billion.

Dow Jones Industrial Avg. Farmer: Pact with Canada is ‘more of the same’
27,000

26,900 Rick Barrett Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and eggs to the U.S., and that’s not
USA TODAY NETWORK much for American farmers.
26,800 54.45 “The impacts will be minimal. Geoffrey the giraffe. TOYS R US
4:00 p.m. U.S. dairy farmers remain hopeful Canada’s entire dairy market is
26,700
a new trade deal with Canada could smaller than that of Wisconsin,”
Geoffrey may
9:30 a.m. 26,828
26,600 26,774 help lift them out of a deep slump, Goodman said.
but some are casting doubt it will Tensions over the North American
make much of a difference in an Free Trade Agreement were height-
get second life
26,500

American market flooded with milk. ened last year when Canada raised

WEDNESDAY MARKETS
The deal, announced Monday by tariffs on ultrafiltered milk used to
President Donald Trump, is “more of make cheese and other dairy prod- as Toys R Us
eyes return
INDEX CLOSE CHG the same,” except it hurts ucts. Exports that had
Nasdaq composite 8025.08 x 25.54 Canadian farmers, said grown to $102 million
S&P 500 2925.51 x 2.08 Jim Goodman, a Wiscon- skidded to a halt at a time
T-note, 10-year yield 3.15% x 0.08
Oil, light sweet crude $76.41 x 1.18 sin dairy farmer and presi- “The likeli- when America’s dairy in- Joan Verdon
Gold, oz. Comex $1198.30 y 4.10 dent of the National Fam- dustry, then in its third USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY
Euro (dollars per euro) $1.1517 y 0.0028 ily Farm Coalition. hood that a consecutive year of low
Yen per dollar 114.34 x 0.65
“Canadian family farms prices, was losing money Toys R Back?
SOURCES USA TODAY RESEARCH, MARKETWATCH.COM
❚ USA MARKETS, 4B will go out of business, and
revised NAF- and farms. The new pact Not quite, but the first signs of how
Canadian dairy farmers TA will resolve could restore some lost the financial firms who carved up Toys
will see their incomes fall sales, and it could set the R Us plan to resurrect the iconic brand
due to increased U.S. im- the low prices stage for making trade from the ashes of its bankruptcy have
USA SNAPSHOTS© ports. And while the that U.S. dairy deals with countries in started to emerge.
slightly expanded market the Asia Pacific region. The lenders who own a key piece of
will offer small benefits to farmers have “The export story is the old Toys R Us have revealed that
Average CD yields some U.S. farmers, it does
been experi- probably the silver lining they are keeping the corporate brand
nothing to reduce the in the dark cloud that names and intellectual properties, in-
overproduction at the encing the hangs over the dairy in- cluding Geoffrey, the brand’s giraffe
heart of our dairy crisis,” dustry today,” said Tom mascot, and are dipping their toes back
Goodman said. last several Vilsack, U.S. agriculture in the toy business with a wholesale
This Last Year The new deal is called years is fairly secretary from 2009 to venture called Geoffrey’s Toy Box.
week week ago the United States-Mexico- 2017. Details are still be- They also are saying they hope to
Canada Agreement. Under limited.” ing ironed out, but the have pop-ups in place inside the stores
6-month 0.44% 0.38% 0.23% the terms, still being final- trade deal is a positive de- of a regional mass merchant in time for
ized, Canada would open Veronica Nigh velopment, said Vilsack, the holidays, and to re-launch Toys R
1-year 0.78% 0.77% 0.40% more of its dairy market to An American Farm Bureau now president of the U.S. Us and Babies R Us stores down the
trade and has agreed to Federation economist Dairy Export Council, an road.
2½-year 0.99% 0.99% 0.58% drop its quota and pricing industry trade group. Geoffrey’s Toy Box introduced itself
system for “Class 7” milk powders – a “It’s fair to say that it should pro- to toy manufacturers and sellers Tues-
5-year 1.35% 1.33% 0.99% move that could help the struggling vide stability in the dairy markets be- day at the opening of the Dallas toy
American dairy industry as it seeks cause now we know for certain that show, with an exhibit booth and a cos-
export markets. the United States is not going to get tumed Geoffrey mascot, who was spot-
NOTE As of Wednesday. SOURCE Bankrate.com But it opens only about 3.6 percent
JAE YANG, KARL GELLES/USA TODAY of Canada’s market for dairy, poultry See DAIRY, Page 2B See TOYS R US, Page 2B
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out of the trilateral relationship with
Mexico and Canada,” Vilsack said.
Still, in the short run, the deal isn’t
likely to raise the price U.S. farmers re-
ceive for their milk – which in some
cases has been below their cost of pro-
duction. “The amount of milk we’re go-
ing to be able to move into Canada is
pretty insignificant,” Goodman said.
“The likelihood that a revised NAFTA
will resolve the low prices that U.S.
dairy farmers have been experiencing
the last several years is fairly limited,”
said Veronica Nigh, an American Farm
Bureau Federation economist.
In a global market awash in dairy
products, prices have skidded, and
many U.S. farmers have burned through
their savings and farm equity to remain
in business.
“The dairy hole is so deep, and people
have lost so much money, it’s going to
take a lot to get out of the hole,” said
Zack Clark, government relations direc-
tor for the National Farmers Union.
While consumers have been eating
more cheese and yogurt in recent years,
keeping many farms afloat, sales of milk
as a beverage have been declining for
decades. Americans consume about the
same number of gallons of beverages as
they did years ago, but they’re drinking
a lot less milk. A flood of new beverages,
including bottled water, sports drinks,
bottled teas and soy and almond drinks
have taken a toll on milk sales.
The gallon milk jug was invented to
feed a nation that, decades ago, was
largely eating most meals at home as a
family. But now, things such as break-
fast cereal swimming in milk have been
replaced by fast-food egg sandwiches or
a bagel at work.
“Cereal accounts for almost 25 per-
cent of the (milk) decline … and we
the cereal industry,” said Paul Ziem-
nisky, a vice president at Dairy Man-
agement Inc., a trade group that pro-
motes dairy products.
The prices farmers receive for their
milk should improve some in coming
months, industry experts say, but
that’s from market forces rather than
the trade deal, which hasn’t been ap-
proved by the three countries yet and
could take years to fully implement.
U.S. dairy experts say questions re-
main about whether Canada will find
another way to dump milk on the in-
ternational market, lowering prices for
American farmers. “That’s one of the
reasons why we aren’t doing back-
wards somersaults over this deal,” said
Jim Mulhern, president of the National
Milk Producers Federation, a U.S. in-
dustry trade group.
Canadian dairy farmers will be hurt
because the trade deal reduces their
milk supply protections, such as im-
port quotas.
“It could ruin the livelihood of thou-
sands of farm families in Canada,” said
Mark Kastel, co-founder of The Cornu-
copia Institute, a Wisconsin group that
monitors agricultural issues. “The race
to the bottom that’s been so injurious
to family farmers in the U.S. might
have just been exported to Canada.”
Dairy Farmers of Canada said it was
disappointed. The trade group said it
“fails to see how this deal can be good
for the 220,000 Canadian families that
depend on dairy for their livelihood.”
U.S. consumers probably won’t no-
tice a difference in dairy product prices
at the grocery store. “I don’t see a big
resurgence in prices because of it,”
said Bob Wellington, an economist for
Agri-Mark, a Northeast cooperative
based in Andover, Massachusetts,
which represents 900 farms.
Contributing: Joseph Spector and
Chad Arnold, Gannett Albany, New
York, bureau.
Bezos supplants Gates
on Forbes richest list
Mike Snider
USA TODAY
For 24 years, Microsoft co-founder
Bill Gates held the top spot on Forbes’
ranking of the richest Americans. But
no longer.
Amazon.com CEO and founder Jeff
Bezos has supplanted Gates on the
magazine’s annual list of the 400 rich-
est Americans. His net worth is $160
billion, up from $81.5 billion a year ago.
Gates is now No. 2 with Berkshire
Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett, Face-
book co-founder and CEO Mark Zuck-
erberg and Oracle co-founder Larry El-
lison holding the next three spots, the
same positions as in last year’s list, the
magazine reported Wednesday.
President Donald Trump dropped 11
spots on the list to No. 259, but his net
worth remained about the same at $3.1 Jeff Bezos’ net worth nearly doubled
billion. from a year ago to $160 billion. AMAZON
He is tied with 11 others at that spot
with Third Point hedge fund founder
Daniel Loeb and Mary Alice Dorrance
Malone, the largest shareholder in the
Campbell Soup Co., among others. President Donald Trump
In an accompanying story, Forbes
notes Trump’s not getting any richer as dropped 11 spots on the list
president. The magazine found that to No. 259, but his net worth
the Trump Organization’s net operat-
ing income dropped 27 percent be- remained about the same at
tween 2014, the year before Trump an-
nounced his run for president, and
$3.1 billion.
2017, his first year in the White House.
It makes sense Bezos would assume
the top spot, as three months ago he lan, assistant managing editors of
was named the richest person in mod- wealth at Forbes Media, said in a state-
ern history by the Bloomberg Billion- ment. “For the first time, more than a
aires Index. third of U.S. billionaires were too poor to
Bezos is the largest shareholder in make this elite list of the nation’s 400
Amazon, which has seen its shares richest.”
(AMZN) rise 60 percent this year to The average of those on the list was
$1,971.31 per share. His stake is valued $7.2 billion, a record and an increase
at $158.1 billion, according to S&P from $6.7 billion a year ago.

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and distracted driving.
While NHTSA officially classified
only 8.5 percent of 2017 deaths as “dis-
traction-affected,” King said the true
number is probably higher.
How much higher? King said it’s
difficult to quantify since drivers are
hesitant to reveal they were distracted.
But she said state and local law-en-
forcement authorities report that driv-
ers are increasingly looking away from
the road to use their devices.
timated that fatalities declined 3.1 per-
cent compared with the first half of
2017.
About 17,120 people were killed on
the road in the first half of this year, ac-
cording to preliminary data. Actual fig-
ures will be released sometime in
2019.
In 2017, total miles traveled in-
creased slightly. As a result, the num-
ber of deaths per 100 million miles
traveled fell 2.5 percent to 1.16.
But that still reflected the worst rate
since 2008, when 37,423 people were
killed for a rate of 1.26 per 100 million
miles traveled.
Global Market Intelligence.
Collectively, the 400 richest Amer-
icans’ net worth rose to $2.9 trillion, up
from $2.7 trillion in 2017. Minimum net
worth to make the list was $2.1 billion,
up from $2 billion last year.
“We’re seeing more billionaires
than ever before, thanks in part to the
strong stock market and continuing
tech boom,” Luisa Kroll and Kerry Do-
For the first time, Forbes ranked
those on the list for their philanthropic
efforts. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, No. 24 on
the list ($19.6 billion), earned the No. 1
philanthropy score.
Slightly more women (57) made the
list, with Alice Walton, the daughter of
Walmart founder Sam Walton ($44.9
billion), being the highest-ranked at No.
12.

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ted wearing a cape with the words
“Back from Vacation.” Toy manufac-
turers at the show were tweeting and
posting on LinkedIn that they had
spotted Geoffrey and Richard Barry,
the former chief merchandising officer
at Toys R Us who appears to be head-
ing the new venture for the investors.
The new venture, for now, is being
operated out of the Toys R Us head-
quarters building in Wayne, New Jer-
sey, where a small number of former
Toys R Us executives and employees
continue to report to work.
Toy partnerships
The Toy Book, a trade publication,
reported that Barry said that the new
company is exploring “stores within
stores” partnerships with a large Mid-
western retailer.
“There’s a very limited scope of who
that could be, and the immediate
name that comes to mind is Meijer,
which is regional, based in Michigan,
and (former Toys R Us chief executive)
Dave Brandon was on their board of di-
rectors,” said James Zahn, a toy re-
viewer and publisher of The Rock Fa-
ther magazine.
Zahn said he believes that putting
Geoffrey’s Toy Box displays in another
retailer “cheapens the brand.”
“It feels like a last ditch effort to
keep Geoffrey in front of consumers in
the holiday season at a time when Toys
R Us really doesn’t exist anymore,” he
said.
If it gets launched, Geoffrey’s Toy
Box will have a lot of tough competi-
tion in the pop-up space this year, Sil-
ver said. Party City’s Toy City stores
are doing well already. FAO Schwarz is
planning pop-ups, and retailers like
Walmart and Target have expanded
their holiday toy departments, he said.
Toys R Us opted to close all of its
stores after lenders backing the bank-
confidence in the company’s reorgani-
zation plan. All of the stores closed by
the end of June.
The lender group told the bankrupt-
cy court in a document filed Monday
that it had canceled an auction for the
brand names and intellectual proper-
ties scheduled for Thursday, saying it
believed that keeping the property
rights and launching a branding busi-
ness and possible retail operation
would produce greater financial re-
turns.
Short-term strategy
The lenders group told the bank-
ruptcy court it envisions “a new, oper-
ating Toys R Us and Babies R Us brand-
ing company that maintains existing
global license agreements and can in-
vest in and create new, domestic, retail
operating businesses under the Toys R
Us and Babies R Us names, as well as
expand its international presence and
further develop its private brands
business.”
Bloomberg News reported Tuesday
that the Geoffrey LLC group includes
the Solus Alternative Asset Manage-
ment and Angelo Gordon funds. The
brand names and intellectual property
rights served as collateral to secure
loans. Geoffrey LLC owns the rights to
more than 20 toy and baby brands
Toys R Us sold as part of its private la-
bel merchandise, including Imaginar-
ium, Koala Baby, Fastlane and Journey
Girls.
Corrections & Clarifications
A story Wednesday about Amazon
raising its minimum wage misstated
the value of Amazon’s purchase of
Whole Foods in 2017. Amazon paid
$13.7 billion for the grocery chain.
USA TODAY is committed to accuracy.
To reach us at any time, call 800-872-7073 or e-mail
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USA & MAIN

Search for assistant is crucial task

Paul C. Brunson
Special to USA TODAY

I’ve worked with dozens of assistants

in my career as an entrepreneur. Some
came from placement agencies, others
came from advertisements I posted, and
I even had some come from referrals.
None were a great fit for me – and fit
is the most critical element. Assistants
aren’t simply people completing admin-
istrative tasks. A great assistant is an
extension of you, and in the best cases,
they outperform you in certain areas.
An amazing assistant is the nearest
thing we have on earth to a duplication
machine. Their fit allows you to get more
done in your business and life.
For eight years, I searched for a great
personal assistant, to no avail. But now,
I’m happy to report, I’ve found an amaz-
ing assistant who has given me the abil-
ity to produce at the highest levels of my
career. I didn’t find her in a traditional
way, and I want to share with you the
four non-conventional steps I took.

1. Figure out your areas of need.

This is key because there are now

personal assistants for every area of
your life. I identified the places I needed
the most help by examining both what I
didn’t enjoy and what I had less skill at
doing. Completing payroll documenta-
tion, tracking down accounts receivable
and scheduling social media posts were
all things I was miserable doing. I took
longer to complete these tasks and did
them poorly.
2. Identify people you admire who
appear to be getting a lot done.
There are thousands of people with a
similar business and station in life as
you who are getting a lot done with the
help of assistants. Leverage them. I
used social media to look for people like
me who were building a small business,
creating an expert personal brand and
who valued personal time with family.
Upon digging deeper into their profiles,
the “Twin Doctors,” also known as Idries
and Jamil Abdur-Rahman, rose to the
top of my list. They appeared to have all
the attributes I admired.
Pro tip: You can also “reverse engi-
neer” this step by first looking for per-
sonal assistants, then researching their
An entrepreneur’s assistant does more than just administrative work. GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO
client base to find people you admire
whose circumstances seem similar to
your own.
3. Track down their
personal assistants.
This seems to be the hardest step, but
it’s actually the easiest. It’s only human
to tell the world when we have a good
thing, and social media amplifies our
voices. A simple scroll through a few
months of social feed of the Twin Doc-
tors and I saw several mentions of
someone they referred to as “more than
a publicist.” I focused on researching
that person – including their projects
and areas of expertise, other clients
they were working with and what I
could determine of their values –
through their website and social media
platforms.
Pro tip: If the personal assistant
doesn’t get a mention in the social feed
of the client, contact the client directly.
Let them know you admire their work
and ask if they have an assistant. Many
assistants don’t work full time, and if
the client has the best intentions for
their personal assistant, they will want
to see them get additional work.
4. Reach out to the assistant
and share your areas of need.
Cast your net wide and reach out to
many candidates. In my case, I hap-
pened to have had a previous profes-
sional relationship with the Twin Doc-
tors’ assistant, so connecting with her
was easier. When you reach out to the
assistant, find out if the person has
demonstrated expertise in the areas of
need you’ve identified and whether they
are able to take on new projects.
Keep in mind that your diligence in
finding the assistant doesn’t guarantee
they’ll be a perfect fit for you. Whenever
possible, establish a trial period so you
and the assistant can evaluate the rela-
tionship.
Pro tip: If you don’t have the money
to cover the assistant’s fees, negotiate.
They may be interested in an alternative
arrangement, such as a barter or a per-
centage of the revenue from the project
they’re working on with you.
This is exactly how I found my assis-
tant, Dr. Renee Matthews, and when I
shared this strategy with a friend, she
was able to find her assistant the same
way.
Remember, time is the most valuable
asset you have. If you don’t have an ad-
min, you are your admin. Start your
search for a personal assistant today.
Paul C. Brunson, host of USA TODAY’s
video series “Uncommon Drive,” is a se-
rial entrepreneur with three exits and a
pioneering matchmaker (yes, he is the
real-life “Hitch”). He also is building a
school in Jamaica. Follow him on
LinkedIn or Instagram for behind-the-
scenes footage and insights from his in-
terviews and travels.
The views and opinions expressed in
this column are the author’s and do not
necessarily reflect those of USA TODAY.

Tricky Halloween can be a small-business treat

Steve Strauss
Special to USA TODAY

Halloween may never again be like it

was when I was young, when we kids
would run rampant for hours with nary
an adult in sight, trick-or-treating our-
selves into sugar oblivion.
These days, it’s the adults out run-
ning around on Halloween. According to
the National Retail Federation:
❚ Since 2009, adult spending on Hal-
loween has doubled – from a little more
than $4 billion to more than $9 billion a
year.
❚ Half of all Americans bought cos-
tumes last year. Half!
❚ And about 20 percent of us plan on
outfitting our pets in costume.
How are these adults dressing up?
You know, as witches, vampires, “Star
Wars” characters, and maybe this year,
Black Panther and Wonder Woman.
As a small-business owner, you may
be inclined to nix the Halloween mix, We’re not just talking about spending too much on candy or costumes. SMILEUS ISTOCKPHOTO
but that’s the wrong plan. Instead of let-
ting the Halloween bogeyman scare
you, let the day be a treat. Have a costume contest Offer specials and deals than resist it. Doing so sure is a lot more
Here’s how: fun than saying “Boo!”
A costume contest for the staff – or People always love a good deal. By of- ❚ Today’s tip: One challenge we
Decorate the store even the public – is a particularly great fering a sale on something even tangen- small-business people have these days
way to have some fun and get some at- tially related to the holiday, you become is that we run so many different applica-
Given the newfound popularity of the tention. part of the conversation. Consider invit- tions, we can’t keep track of them all.
holiday, dressing up the shop in a Hal- A costume contest – or even just al- ing customers to a secret, Halloween- Whether it’s CRM software, email, cloud
loween motif is an easy win. Adding or- lowing your staff to wear costumes dur- theme sale that evening and running a apps, web analytics or online polls,
ange and black to the windows or put- ing Halloween week – also is a surefire flash sale at your decorated online site. keeping track of it all is difficult. That is
ting pumpkins on the stoop is festive social media winner. Posting pictures why I was happy to learn recently about
and fun, and Halloween excitement is on Instagram and Facebook of the dif- Cater to the kids Nextiva’s new NextOS, an all-encom-
attractive to everyone. Check out sites ferent costumes in your shop will get passing platform that streamlines all of
such as Pinterest for ideas, then make you some social media love and could Now that most trick-or-treating is these functions in one place.
your own page and share it. drive customers to your online store, done in safe environments with lots of It’s very cool, and definitely useful.
too. (Your pumpkin-carving contest is supervision, consider working with Steve Strauss, @Steve Strauss on
Get in the spirit ripe for social sharing, as well.) your neighborhood association to make Twitter, is a lawyer specializing in
your block/office building/area one of small business and entrepreneurship
What about holding a pumpkin- Party on the places where kids in your town can who has been writing for USATODAY
carving contest, with the winner getting safely get some candy. Decorating the .com for 20 years. Email sstrauss
a store discount? And even if you work Everybody has a Christmas party, but neighborhood and making it, and your @mrallbiz.com. You can learn more
in an office and not a retail location, you you can be different – and just maybe small business, a Halloween night des- about Steve at MrAllBiz.com.
can still get in the spirit by having a better – by hosting a costumed Hallow- tination builds community goodwill. The views and opinions expressed in
candy jar available all month or other- een party for adults to make your busi- Halloween has become such an event this column are the author’s and do not
wise handing out treats. ness an evening destination. that you need to ride this wave rather necessarily reflect those of USA TODAY.
4B ❚ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2018 ❚ USA TODAY MONEY

MONEY

MoviePass forcing some

ex-clients to opt out again
Dalvin Brown
USA TODAY

MoviePass has undergone several

changes to stay afloat lately, from can-
Sears stock is now selling for 77 cents a share. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS celing its unlimited plans to testing
“surge pricing” and blocking in-de-

Struggling Sears, Kmart

mand showtimes, just to name a few.
So what’s the latest survival tactic?
Asking former customers to “opt out”

set to close more stores

Nathan Bomey
USA TODAY
Sears Holdings is closing at least
three additional stores as the retailer
faces serious questions about its future
heading into the crucial holiday shop-
ping season.
The company is closing one Sears
store in New York, a Kmart in New York
and a Kmart in Virginia, according to
layoff notices filed to government au-
thorities.
Business Insider reported that the
company is closing another five Sears
and three Kmarts for a total of 11 loca-
tions in this latest round.
The company has closed several
hundred stores in recent years as it tries
to stabilize its finances amid deteriorat-
ing sales. The most recent round, an-
nounced Aug. 23, involved plans to close
13 Kmart stores and 33 Sears locations in
November.
As of Aug. 4, the company still had
506 Sears locations, including 482 full-
line department stores and 360 Kmart
stores, according to a public filing.
Sears spokesman Howard Riefs de-
clined to confirm the latest round of clo-
sures, referring instead to the compa-
ny’s Sept. 13 statement: “We continue to
evaluate our network of stores, which is
a critical component to our integrated
retail transformation, and will make
further adjustments as needed.”
Investors are increasingly con-
cerned about the company’s future as
it negotiates a potential deal to sell as-
sets to its largest shareholder and
CEO, Eddie Lampert.
Lampert has described such a deal
as vital to the company’s future, say-
ing it would provide much-needed
cash and debt reduction.
Lampert’s hedge fund last month
proposed that Sears sell more assets
and restructure its liabilities to further
extend its life, saying it “must act im-
mediately to have sufficient runway to
continue its transformation.”
Sears shares have lost more than 40
percent of their value since that state-
ment. Shares were down 3.9 percent to
78 cents in afternoon trading Wednes-
day. The company faces a key deadline
of Oct. 15, when it must make a $134
million debt payment that could strain
its finances.
The latest round of stores to close:
❚ Kmart: 635 Dutchess Turnpike in
Poughkeepsie, New York
❚ Kmart at 4251 John Marr Drive in
Annandale, Virginia
❚ Sears at Eastern Hills Mall in Will-
liamsville, New York
of enrollment by Thursday or risk be-
ing charged without consent, accord-
ing to a company email posted on the
Verge and shared widely on social
media by former MoviePass custom-
ers.
Launched in 2011, MoviePass allows
subscribers to pay a flat fee every
month to see multiple movies. That
monthly price has fluctuated between
$9.95 and $14.95 over the past several
months as the troubled company tries
to avoid going under.
In an email sent to a select group of
customers, the floundering e-ticketing
app said: “Because we really hope you
begin enjoying your MoviePass sub-
scription again, we have chosen you to
be a part of a select test group, who be-
ginning Friday, October 5th will be re-
stored to unlimited movies.”
In other words, the company will re-
sume charging some former custom-
ers for the service unless they click a
link in the email.
“To be clear, unless you opt out,
your unlimited subscription will be re-
stored and you will begin enjoying un-
limited movies again ... at $9.95 per
month, and your credit card on file will
be charged on a monthly basis begin-
ning Friday, October 5th, 2018,” the
email said.
MoviePass says in the email the en-
rollment will allow customers to enjoy
the “same subscription that (they)
signed up for previously and ... en-
Subscribers pay a flat fee every month
to see multiple movies. MOVIEPASS
joyed.” However, that’s not exactly true.
Once upon a time, in the glory days of
MoviePass, customers had free reign to
enjoy unlimited movie tickets for $9.95
a month. In August, MoviePass moved
all its subscribers to three movies a
month unless they wanted to cancel
their membership.
Now, the app offers a select number
of movie options based on “existing in-
ventory,” which means users won’t have
access to the latest blockbusters until
demand is low.
MoviePass has yet to release a state-
ment on the matter. However, users who
choose to “opt out” or cancel service
won’t be able to rejoin until nine months
have passed, the email states.
Earlier in the year, a handful of AMC
theaters disappeared from MoviePass,
and not long after, MoviePass barred us-
ers from viewing the same movie twice.
In July, the company ran out of cash,
which led to a temporary outage. That
month the company began charging
peak pricing for popular movies.
In August, a company executive re-
signed citing management issues.

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Sector Close Chg. 4wk 1 YTD 1
ASK A FOOL GAINERS Company (ticker symbol) Price $ Chg % Chg
YTD
% Chg Technology 75.93 +0.23 +2.1% +18.7%
Consumer discret. 114.89 -0.39 -0.9% +16.4%
Health care 95.33 -0.18 +3.2% +15.3%

Cashing out
SVB Financial Group (SIVB) 321.39 +14.44 +4.7 +37.5 Energy 77.49 +0.62 +4.5% +7.2%
10-year treasury yield soars, shares follow. Industrials 79.60 +0.33 +2.6% +5.2%
Financials 27.95 +0.26 -1.9% +0.1%

an old 401(k)
Utilities 52.54 -0.64 -3.5% -0.3%
Valero Energy (VLO) 119.99 +4.47 +3.9 +30.6 Materials 58.34 -0.42 -1.5% -3.6%
Positive earnings expected, rises in gaining sector. Telecom 57.71 -0.04 +4.5% -4.7%
Consumer staples 53.62 -0.58 -1.3% -5.7%
Marathon Petroleum (MPC) 86.39 +3.11 +3.7 +30.9
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Advancing
Declining
1,416
1,413
1,823
1,088
Climbs along with peers in strong sector on higher oil prices. Unchanged 77 142
Total 2,906 3,053
Matthew Frankel Phillips 66 (PSX) 118.47 +3.78 +3.3 +17.1
Issues at
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Question: I know that cashing out a United Rentals (URI) 165.53 +5.13 +3.2 -3.7 Total
Advancing
3,538,835,625
2,147,652,483
2,962,774,554
2,109,262,502
Reverses loss on $1 billion loan issuance talks.
retirement account isn’t a great Declining 1,284,517,178 824,054,584

choice, but does it ever make sense?

Unchanged 106,665,964 29,457,468
Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD) 183.57 +5.38 +3.0 +6.2
Say, if I have a lot of high-interest Rated perform, rises all day in advancing sector. TOP 10 EXCHANGE TRADED FUNDS
credit-card debt or if I have no other ETF, ranked by volume Ticker Close Chg. % Chg %YTD

way to pay bills?

iShares Brazil EWZ 36.90 +1.29 +3.6% -8.8%
Michael Kors Holdings (KORS) 68.08 +1.98 +3.0 +8.1 SPDR Financial XLF 27.95 +0.26 +0.9% +0.1%
Rated buy at Citi on multitude of positives.
Answer: The short answer is no. Un- iShs Emerg Mkts EEM 42.04 -0.35 -0.8% -10.8%
SPDR S&P500 ETF Tr SPY 291.72 +0.16 +0.1% +9.3%
fortunately, more than one-third of Twitter (TWTR) 29.01 +.82 +2.9 +20.8 VanE Vect Gld Miners GDX 18.79 -0.26 -1.4% -19.1%
Americans end up cashing out their Shares rise ahead of third-quarter earnings call. US Oil Fund LP
iShares Rus 2000
USO
IWM
16.08
165.97
+0.21
+1.44
+1.3% +33.9%
+0.9% +8.9%
401(k) after leaving a job. SPDR Lehman HY Bd JNK 35.88 -0.06 -0.2% -2.3%
Generally speaking, cashing out a Huntington Bancshares (HBAN) 15.27 +.41 +2.8 +4.9 SPDR Utility
Barc iPath Vix ST
XLU
VXX
52.54
26.20
-0.64
-0.22
-1.2% -0.3%
-0.8% -6.2%
Advances after 10-year treasury yield jumps.
401(k) should be seen as a last resort.
Let’s say you have $20,000 in a YTD INTEREST RATES MORTGAGE RATES
LOSERS
401(k) from your former employer. Company (ticker symbol) Price $ Chg % Chg % Chg Type Close 6 mo ago Type Close 6 mo ago
Cashing out will trigger a 10 percent Prime lending
Federal funds
5.25%
2.18%
4.75%
1.68%
30 yr. !xed
15 yr. !xed
4.68%
3.99%
4.28%
3.68%
Acuity Brands (AYI) 135.01 -20.47 -13.2 -23.3
penalty from the IRS if you’re younger Beats earnings, but falls on surprise margin miss. 3 mo. T-bill 2.22% 1.74% 1 yr. ARM 3.94% 3.84%

than 591⁄2 years old, plus you’ll have to 5 yr. T-note

10 yr. T-note
3.02%
3.15%
2.60%
2.78%
5/1 ARM 4.46% 4.02%
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pay income taxes on the withdrawal. International Paper (IP) 48.24 -2.06 -4.1 -16.7
Let’s assume you’re in the 22 percent Negative industry capacity note, shares slip. COMMODITIES
marginal tax bracket for federal income Commodities Close Prev. Chg. % Chg. % YTD
Edwards Lifesciences (EW) 155.74 -6.36 -3.9 +38.2
taxes and 5 percent for your state. All of Down another day on multiple stock rating downgrades.
Cattle (lb.)
Corn (bushel)
1.13
3.65
1.14
3.68
-0.01
-0.03
-0.7%
-0.8%
-8.0%
+4.0%
a sudden, your $20,000 becomes Gold (troy oz.) 1,198.30 1,202.40 -4.10 -0.3% -8.3%

$12,600.
Hogs, lean (lb.) .67 .66 +0.01 +1.6% -6.0%
Sealed Air (SEE) 38.44 -1.46 -3.7 -22.0 Natural Gas (Btu.) 3.23 3.17 +0.06 +2.0% +9.4%
So even if you have high-interest Positive industry notes but loses early momentum. Oil, heating (gal.) 2.44 2.41 +0.03 +1.2% +17.4%

credit-card debt, it’s probably a bad idea

Oil, lt. swt. crude (bar.) 76.41 75.23 +1.18 +1.6% +26.5%
Silver (troy oz.) 14.59 14.61 -0.02 -0.1% -14.5%
to cash out. You’re taking a 37 percent Packaging Corporation of America (PKG) 105.94 -3.95 -3.6 -12.1 Soybeans (bushel) 8.62 8.66 -0.04 -0.5% -9.5%
Negative industry with “capacity jitters,” stock falls. Wheat (bushel) 5.15 5.19 -0.04 -0.8% +20.7%
haircut on your savings to pay it off.
Even worse is what would happen to Weyerhaeuser (WY) 30.90 -1.08 -3.4 -12.4 FOREIGN CURRENCIES
that $20,000 if left alone. If you’re 35 Product prices decline more, dips premarket. Currency per dollar Close Prev. 6 mo. ago Yr. ago
now, leaving it alone until you’re 65 British pound
Canadian dollar
.7707
1.2841
.7705
1.2816
.7114
1.2801
.7549
1.2490
would result in more than $152,000, as- Clorox (CLX) 147.21 -5.05 -3.3 -1.0
Chinese yuan 6.8835 6.8835 6.2891 6.6428
Industry in unfavorable !nancial atmosphere, dips.
suming 7 percent annualized returns. Euro
Japanese yen
.8683
114.34
.8662
113.69
.8152
106.61
.8509
112.90
The choice between $12,600 now or Microchip Technology (MCHP) 75.12 -2.53 -3.3 -14.5 Mexican peso 18.9744 18.7979 18.2232 18.2212

more than 12 times that amount when Morgan Stanley cuts industry estimates, shares fall.
you retire seems like a no-brainer. FOREIGN MARKETS
A gray area arises if you’re having se- WestRock (WRK) 51.80 -1.57 -2.9 -18.1 Country Close Prev. Change %Chg. YTD %
Sector has “capacity jitters,” announces earnings call. Frankfurt 12,287.58 12,287.58 unch. unch. -4.9%
rious financial hardship. In situations Hong Kong 27,091.26 27,126.38 -35.12 -0.1% -9.5%

such as these, it can make sense to con-

Japan (Nikkei) 24,110.96 24,270.62 -159.66 -0.7% +5.9%
Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR) 53.78 -1.55 -2.8 -9.9 London 7,510.28 7,474.55 +35.73 +0.5% -2.3%
sider cashing out, but only if you’ve ex- Falls again after negative drug result report. Mexico City 49,005.36 49,376.50 -371.15 -0.8% -0.7%

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MONEY
STATE-BY-STATE
ALABAMA Tuscumbia: A traveling
exhibit highlighting the state’s histo-
ry will be at the Tennessee Valley
Museum of Art from Oct 7-26.
ALASKA Juneau: The body of man
aboard a helicopter that crashed last
week has been recovered.
ARIZONA Prescott: Mark Dillon, the
former chief of the Crown King Fire
District, has been arrested for the
alleged theft of public funds.
ARKANSAS Little Rock: Poultry pro-
ducers in Benton and Washington
counties added more chicken houses
to their farms this year, according to
new state data.
CALIFORNIA Sacramento: State vot-
er registration has hit an all-time
high at more than 19 million.
COLORADO Florence: Bowling alley
owner Ector Rodriguez, 65, has died
after getting stuck in a pin setting
machine. Foul play is not suspected.
CONNECTICUT Norwich: The Rien-
deau family has been reunited with
its dachshund five years after the dog
went missing.
DELAWARE Dover: A new law will
ensure that animal cruelty laws apply
to all cats, whether owned or stray.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Council-
man and former Mayor Vincent Gray
is contemplating pressing charges
after he said a bouncer shoved him
out of a club during an arts event.
FLORIDA Miami: Officials say ori-
ental fruit flies have been eradicated
from area farmlands.
GEORGIA Atlanta: Mayor Keisha
Lance Bottoms says pay for police
officers will rise 30 percent over the
next three years.
HAWAII Hilo: Power has been re-
stored to nearly all Hawaii Electric
Light customers in Leilani Estates,
which was evacuated when the Ki-
lauea volcano began erupting.
IDAHO Caldwell: Police say a man
accidentally shot and killed his wife
while cleaning handguns. The shoot-
ing is under investigation.
Social Security scams
rise, but defenses exist
Rita Williams
The Motley Fool
The Social Security Admini-
stration (SSA) recently issued a
warning about an upsurge in
schemes targeting Social Secu-
rity recipients. Someone calls
you over the phone claiming to
be from the SSA and says your
Social Security accounts have
been suspended due to suspi-
cion of illegal activity. They
may be a real live person or a ro-
bocaller. The caller then says
that if you fail to resolve the is-
sue by calling back a certain
phone number, your assets will
be frozen.
Pretty scary, right? Especial-
ly when a majority of older peo-
ple rely on Social Security
benefits for a large part of their
income after retirement. The
specter of criminal prosecution
or the freezing of vital assets
can frighten elderly Social Se-
curity recipients into giving the
caller whatever information he
or she asks for.
And guess what: The info
you provide – which may in-
clude your Social Security
number, your mother’s maiden
name, your date of birth and
your bank account numbers –
will be used for identity theft.
Scams are widespread
Unfortunately, this is only
the most recent of many scams
targeting Social Security
recipients. Several years ago,
many Social Security benefi-
ciaries received an email pur-
porting to be from the SSA. It
used a highly official-looking
email address, “no-re-
ply@ssa.gov,” and asked recipi-
ents to click on a link to receive
protection for their benefits.
Fraudsters have set up fake
websites looking like the SSA
portal to entice people to apply
ILLINOIS Rockford: The words
“rape” and “shame” were painted
across the Republican headquarters.
They have since been removed.
INDIANA Indianapolis: The Indian-
apolis Zoo will add a black mamba
and other exotic snakes to a new
exhibit set to open in 2019.
IOWA Ames: The Department of
Transportation is looking to hire
hundreds of snow plow drivers.
KANSAS Wichita: De’Andrew Dix-
on, 33, has been sentenced to 170
years in prison for kidnapping and
sexually assaulting women who
walked alone at night.
KENTUCKY Covington: The state
has been granted an extension to
implement REAL IDs.
LOUISIANA New Orleans: Pastor
Otho Schilling has pleaded guilty in
a $200,000 Social Security scheme.
MAINE Old Orchard Beach: A sci-
entist studying whether white
sharks are becoming more common
in Maine waters says another one
has been detected.
MARYLAND Ellicott City: Two bills
that will allocate nearly $17 million
toward a five-year flood mitigation
plan have been approved.
MASSACHUSETTS Tyngsboro: The
Tyngsboro Funeral Home will ded-
icate its new flag pole to the town’s
first responders.
MICHIGAN Muskegon: The state
appeals court has affirmed the use
of new DNA testing technology to
assist authorities.
MINNESOTA St. Paul: Premiums are
dropping for Minnesotans who buy
their own health insurance in 2019.
MISSISSIPPI Tupelo: Mississippi’s
BancorpSouth Bank has completed
its purchase of Icon Capital Corp, a
bank in Houston, for $152 million in
cash and stock.
MISSOURI Tuscumbia: Joseph Mc-
Kenna, 26, has been charged in the
death of his marijuana oil dealing
partner, Tyler Worthington.
for Social Security benefits.
Callers also can duplicate the
Washington, D.C., area code so
you’re more likely to believe
you’ve been called by a govern-
ment agency. So don’t be fooled
by calls, emails or websites that
look official.
3 steps to protect yourself
If you’re targeted by one of
these calls, take these three
steps to protect yourself.
❚ Hang up immediately: If
you are contacted out of the
blue by the SSA, it is probably a
fraudster. The SSA says it calls
Social Security beneficiaries
only in response to something
the beneficiary has initiated,
such as a question. So if you get
an unsolicited call from the
SSA, it’s likely not them.
Hang up immediately. Some
robocalls will ask you to press a
button to stop getting these
calls. Don’t respond! Fraud-
sters use these responses to
identify potential victims.
❚ Never provide personal
information over the tele-
phone to an unknown caller:
Don’t give out your personal in-
formation over the phone to
someone you don’t know,
whether they are threatening
action or not. The info is likely
to be used in ways that will
harm you, not help you. If the
caller asks to verify informa-
tion, don’t say “yes.” They may
be recording your voice. The
word “yes” can then be used
out of context – to authorize
charges on your bank accounts
and credit cards, for example.
❚ Report the call: Finally,
you should report the call to the
SSA Fraud Hotline. You can
reach it at 1-800-269-0271 or, if
you’re hearing-impaired, at 1-
866-501-2101 (TTY). You can
also report fraud online at
https://oig.ssa.gov/report.
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MONTANA Helena: One of four
designs will be selected to replace a
Confederate memorial fountain that
was removed from a city park last
year. Residents may weigh in.
NEBRASKA Tecumseh: A chemical
spill ignited a small fire in a state
prison closet. No one was injured.
NEVADA Reno: Firefighters helped
three bear cubs escape from a
dumpster.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Manchester:
Library officials will stop issuing
late fees for children’s books in or-
der to encourage children to return
to the library.
NEW JERSEY Bernardsville: The
James B. Christie House, built in the
1940s and designed by Frank Lloyd
Wright, is on the market for
$1,450,000.
NEW MEXICO Las Cruces: Space-
port America CEO Dan Hicks is
requesting an additional $700,000
for next year’s operating budget.
NEW YORK Albany: People will now
be allowed to take pets on public
transportation when evacuating
during an emergency.
NORTH CAROLINA Plymouth: A
federal program will provide the
Plymouth Municipal Airport with
$7 million for major upgrades.
NORTH DAKOTA Fargo: The state’s
first Veterans National Cemetery is
on pace to begin accepting burials
by late spring or early summer.
OHIO Columbus: The Columbus
Dispatch has endorsed Democrat
Richard Cordray in the state’s race
for governor.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Liquor
stores are selling cold beer, and
grocery stores and gas stations are
selling wine and strong beer after a
new law took effect Monday.
OREGON Portland: Madison High
students staged a sit-in and walkout
to protest the school’s handling of
sexual assault and harassment.
PENNSYLVANIA Indiana: Urban
Outfitters says it plans to invest
NOTICES
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT
FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS, HOUSTON DIVISION
In re: § Chapter 11
IHEARTMEDIA, INC., et al.,1 § Case No. 18-31274 (MI)
Debtors. § (Jointly Administered)
NOTICE OF HEARINg TO CONSIDER CONFIRmATION OF THE
FOURTH AmENDED JOINT CHAPTER 11 PlAN FIlED BY THE
DEBTORS AND RElATED VOTINg AND OBJECTION DEADlINES
PlEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT on September 20, 2018, the United States
Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas (the “Court”) entered an
order [Docket No. 1481] (the “Disclosure Statement Order”): (a) authorizing
iHeartMedia, Inc.and its affiliated debtors and debtors in possession (collectively,
the“Debtors”),to solicit acceptances for the Fourth Amended Joint Chapter 11 Plan
of Reorganization of iHeartMedia,Inc.and Its Debtor Affiliates Pursuant to Chapter 11
of the Bankruptcy Code (as may be amended,supplemented,or otherwise modified
from time to time, the“Plan”);2 (b) approving the Disclosure Statement Relating to
the Fourth Amended Joint Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization of iHeartMedia, Inc.
and Its Debtor Affiliates Pursuant to Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code (as may be
amended,supplemented,or otherwise modified from time to time,the“Disclosure
Statement”) as containing “adequate information” pursuant to section 1125 of
the Bankruptcy Code; (c) approving the solicitation materials and documents
to be included in the solicitation packages (the “Solicitation Packages”); and
(d) approving procedures for soliciting,receiving,and tabulating votes on the Plan
andforfilingobjectionstothePlan.
PlEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE THAT the hearing at which the Court will
consider Confirmation of the Plan (the“Confirmation Hearing”) will commence on
December 11,2018,at 9:00 a.m.,prevailing CentralTime,before Marvin Isgur,in
the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District ofTexas,located at 515
RuskStreet,Courtroom404,Houston,Texas77002.
PlEASE BE ADVISED: THE CONfIRMATION HEARINg MAy BE CONTINUED fROM
TIMETOTIME ByTHE COURT ORTHE DEBTORS wITHOUT FURTHER NOTICE OTHER
THAN By SUCH ADJOURNMENT BEINg ANNOUNCED IN OPEN COURT OR By A NOTICE
Of ADJOURNMENT fIlED wITH THE COURT AND SERvED ON All PARTIES ENTITlED
TONOTICE.
ImPORTANT INFORmATION REgARDINg VOTINg ON THE PlAN
Voting Record Date. The voting record date is September 13,2018,which is
the date for determining which Holders of Claims or Interests in Classes 4,5A,5B,6,
7C,7D,7E,7f,7g,8,and9,asapplicable,areentitledtovoteonthePlan.
Voting Deadline. The deadline for voting on the Plan is on November
9, 2018, at 5:00 p.m., prevailing Central Time (the “voting Deadline”). If you
received a Solicitation Package, including a ballot, and intend to vote on the Plan
you must: (a) follow the instructions carefully; (b) complete all of the required
information on the ballot;and (c) execute and return your completed ballot accord-
ing to and as set forth in detail in the voting instructions so that it is actually
received by the Debtors’ Claims, Noticing, and Solicitation Agent, Prime Clerk llC
(the“Claims,Noticing,and Solicitation Agent”) on or before the voting Deadline. A
failuretofollowsuchinstructionsmaydisqualifyyourvote.
ARTIClE VIII OF THE PlAN CONTAINS RElEASE, EXCUlPATION, AND
INJUNCTION PROVISIONS, AND ARTIClE VIII.C CONTAINS A THIRD PARTY
RElEASE. THUS, YOU ARE ADVISED TO REVIEw AND CONSIDER THE PlAN
CAREFUllYBECAUSEYOURRIgHTSmIgHTBEAFFECTEDTHEREUNDER.
Plan Objection Deadline. The deadline for filing objections to the Plan is
November 28, 2018, at 5:00 p.m., prevailing Central Time (the“Plan Objection
Deadline”). All objections to the relief sought at the Confirmation Hearing must:
(a) be in writing;(b) conform to the Bankruptcy Rules,the Bankruptcy local Rules,
and any orders of the Court; (c) set forth the name and address of the objector
and the nature and amount of Claims held or asserted by the objector against
the Debtors’ Estates or property; (d) state, with particularity, the legal and factual
basis for the objection and, if practicable, a proposed modification to the Plan (or
related materials) that would resolve such objection; and (e) be filed with the
Court (contemporaneously with a proof of service) and served upon the following
parties so as to be actually received on or before the Plan Objection Deadline: (i)
Co-Counsel to the Debtors: KIRKlAND & EllIS llP, Christopher J. Marcus, P.C.,
601 lexington Avenue, New york, New york 10022 -and- KIRKlAND & EllIS llP,
James H.M. Sprayregen, P.C., Anup Sathy, P.C., Brian D.wolfe, william A. guerrieri,
Benjamin M. Rhode, 300 North laSalle, Chicago, Illinois 60654 -and- JACKSON
wAlKER,llP,Patricia B.Tomasco (TX Bar No.01797600),Elizabeth C.freeman (TX
Bar No.24009222),Matthew D.Cavenaugh (TX Bar No.24062656),1401 McKinney
Street, Suite 1900, Houston, Texas 77010; (ii) Counsel to the Term Loan/PGN
Group: JONES DAY, Bruce Bennett, Joshua M.Mester, James Johnston, 555 South
flowerStreet,fiftiethfloor,losAngeles,California90071; (iii)Counseltothe2021
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$30 million into a facility in Indiana
County. The project is expected to
bring 225 full-time jobs.
RHODE ISLAND Portsmouth: State
Police are launching the HOPE initia-
tive, which stands for Heroin-Opioid
Prevention Effort.
SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: Sena-
tors have passed a bill that links the
state tax code to the federal tax code.
SOUTH DAKOTA Pierre: A federal
appeals court has refused to rehear
the case of Charles Russell Rhines,
who was sentenced to death for the
killing of a doughnut shop employee
in 1992.
TENNESSEE Nashville: Jack White
has scheduled a concert in his home-
town Nov. 20.
TEXAS Dallas: First Baptist Dallas, a
church with 13,000 members, has
taken out a demolition permit for a
building it owns across the street
from its downtown campus.
UTAH Salt Lake City: Gov. Gary Her-
bert issued a state of emergency
amid concerns of flooding from the
remnants of Tropical Storm Rosa.
VERMONT Colchester: Vermont fuel
dealers say they are seeing a shortage
of younger drivers.
VIRGINIA Norfolk: A report suggests
that the Hampton Roads region has
mostly recovered economically from
the Great Recession.
WASHINGTON Spokane: The state
has killed a second wolf from a pack
that has been preying on cattle in
Ferry County.
WEST VIRGINIA Wheeling: A $1 mil-
lion project to pave city streets has
started.
WISCONSIN Madison: Vice President
Mike Pence will be in the state next
week for two fundraisers for Gov.
Scott Walker.
WYOMING Evanston: A University of
Utah School of Medicine employee
who was last seen Saturday in Wyo-
ming was found safe at a homeless
shelter in Utah.
From staff and wire reports
Noteholder Group: gIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER llP, Robert Klyman,Matthew
J.williams,333 South grand Avenue,los Angeles,California 90071; (iv) Counsel to
the Term Lender Group: ARNOlD & PORTER KAYE SCHOlER llP, Alan glantz,
250 w. 55th Street, New york, New york 10019 -and- ARNOlD & PORTER KAYE
SCHOlER llP, Michael D.Messersmith,70 w.Madison Street,Suite 4200,Chicago,
Illinois 60602; (v) Counsel to the Consenting Sponsors: wEIl, gOTSHAl &
mANgES llP, Matthew S. Barr, Jacqueline Marcus, gabriel A. Morgan, 767 fifth
Avenue, New york, New york 10153; (vi) Counsel to the Official Committee of
UnsecuredCreditors:AKIN gUmP STRAUSS HAUER & FElD llP,Philip C.Dublin,
Naomi Moss, Edan lisovicz, One Bryant Park, New york, New york 10036-6745;
and (vii) U.S. Trustee: OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRUSTEE, Hector Duran,
StephenDouglasStatham,515RuskStreet,Suite3516,Houston,Texas77002.
ADDITIONAl INFORmATION
Obtaining Solicitation materials. The materials in the Solicitation Package
are intended to be self-explanatory. If you should have any questions or if you
would like to obtain additional solicitation materials (or paper copies of solicitation
materials if you received a CD-ROM or flash drive), please feel free to contact the
Debtors’ Claims, Noticing, and Solicitation Agent, by: (a) visiting the Debtors’
restructuring website at: https://cases.primeclerk.com/iheartmedia; (b) writing
iHeartMedia Ballot Processing, c/o Prime Clerk llC, 830 Third Avenue, 3rd floor,
Newyork,Newyork 10022;(c) emailing iheartmediaballots@primeclerk.com;and/
or (d) calling the Debtors’ restructuring hotline at: U.S. Toll free: 877-756-7779,
International:347-505-7142.
you may also obtain copies of any pleadings filed in the Chapter 11 Cases for a
feeviaPACERat:http://www.txs.uscourts.gov.
Please be advised that the Claims,Noticing,and Solicitation Agent is authorized
to answer questions about,and provide additional copies of,solicitation materials,
butmaynotadviseyouastowhetheryoushouldvotetoacceptorrejectthePlan.
The Plan Supplement. The Debtors will file the Plan Supplement on or
before October 26,2018,and will serve notice on all Holders of Claims or Interests
entitled to vote on the Plan, which will: (a) inform parties that the Debtors filed
the Plan Supplement; (b) list the information contained in the Plan Supplement;
and (c) explain how parties may obtain copies of the Plan Supplement.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Debtors have the right to amend and supple-
ment the documents contained in, and exhibits to, the Plan Supplement through
theEffectiveDate,inaccordancewiththetermsofthePlan.
BINDINg NATURE OF THE PlAN:
IF CONFIRmED, THE PlAN SHAll BIND All HOlDERS OF ClAImS OR
INTERESTS TO THE mAXImUm EXTENT PERmITTED BY APPlICABlE
lAw, wHETHER OR NOT SUCH HOlDER wIll RECEIVE OR RETAIN ANY
PROPERTY OR INTEREST IN PROPERTY UNDER THE PlAN, HAS FIlED
A PROOF OF ClAIm OR INTEREST IN THE CHAPTER 11 CASES, OR FAIlED
TOVOTETO ACCEPT ORREJECTTHEPlANORVOTEDTOREJECTTHEPlAN.
Houston,Texas,September 21,2018
/s/ Patricia B. Tomasco , Patricia B. Tomasco (TX Bar No. 01797600), Elizabeth C.
freeman (TX Bar No. 24009222), Matthew D. Cavenaugh (TX Bar No. 24062656),
JACKSON wAlKER l.l.P., 1401 McKinney Street, Suite 1900, Houston, Texas
77010,Telephone: (713) 752-4200,facsimile: (713) 752-4221,Email:ptomasco@
jw.com, efreeman@jw.com, mcavenaugh@jw.com, Co-Counsel to the Debtors
and Debtors in Possession -and- James H.M. Sprayregen, P.C., Anup Sathy, P.C.
(admitted pro hac vice),Brian D.wolfe (admitted pro hac vice),william A.guerrieri
(admitted pro hac vice), Benjamin M. Rhode (admitted pro hac vice), KIRKlAND
& EllIS llP, KIRKlAND & EllIS INTERNATIONAl llP, 300 North laSalle
Street, Chicago, Illinois 60654, Telephone: (312) 862-2000, facsimile: (312) 862-
2200, Email: james.sprayregen@kirkland.com, anup.sathy@kirkland.com, brian.
wolfe@kirkland.com, will.guerrieri@kirkland.com, benjamin.rhode@kirkland.
com -and- Christopher J. Marcus, P.C. (admitted pro hac vice), KIRKlAND & EllIS
llP, KIRKlAND & EllIS INTERNATIONAl llP, 601 lexington Avenue, New
york, New york 10022, Telephone: (212) 446-4800, facsimile: (212) 446-4900,
Email: christopher.marcus@kirkland.com, Co-Counsel to the Debtors and Debtors
in Possession
1
Due to the large number of Debtors in these Chapter 11 Cases, for which joint
administration has been granted, a complete list of the Debtors and the last four
digits of their tax identification, registration, or like numbers is not provided
herein. A complete list of such information may be obtained on the website of the
Debtors’Claims, Noticing, and Solicitation Agent at https://cases.primeclerk.com/
iheartmedia. The location of Debtor iHeartMedia,Inc.’s principal place of business
and the Debtors’service address is: 20880 Stone Oak Parkway, San Antonio,Texas
78258.
2
Capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein have the same meanings as set
forthinthePlan.
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FIRST WORD
It demonstrates the reason
that so many sexual assault
survivors are deterred or discour-
aged from coming forward because
they face exactly this kind of
public shaming and character
assassination.”
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., to
USA TODAY on Wednesday before a
subcommittee hearing on the Olympic
sex abuse scandal. Blumenthal was
referring to President Trump’s mock-
ery of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford during
a Tuesday appearance. Blasey Ford
testified last week before the Senate
Judiciary Committee that Supreme
Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexu-
ally assaulted her at a high school
party in the Washington, D.C., suburbs
in the 1980s.
NOTABLE NUMBERS
6 Countries in the new SailGP racing
league, which will feature wing-
sailed catamarans expected to reach
50 knots (60 mph). Larry Ellison’s lat-
est sailing venture kicks off in Febru-
ary with racing in Sydney. The USA will
have a five-person crew competing
along with Australia, China, France,
Britain and Japan.
$32.6M In compensation
this year for 15
former assistants to Alabama coach
Nick Saban now working as NFL or
Division I head coaches, including nine
in the Bowl Subdivision, according to
the USA TODAY coaches salary data-
base.
LAST WORDS
No more talk. Let the kids
play.”
Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr., wearing a
backward cap, just as he did as the
fresh face of the sport in the early
1990s, in a Major League Baseball ad
blasting the game’s so-called “un-
written rules,” including the anti-bat
flip attitudes of many traditionalists.
We never fought, that’s not
our relationship. We’re two
even-keeled guys, and I can’t even
remember raising my voice to him
or him to me in our four years of
friendship.”
Golfer Brooks Koepka, dismissing
reports in European media of two
separate quarrels with Ryder Cup
teammate Dustin Johnson.
From staff and wire reports
USA SNAPSHOTS©
The Miami Hurricanes and Florida
State Seminoles have played
62
times since
1951, with
Miami leading
the football
series
32-30
SOURCE USA TODAY research
ELLEN J. HORROW, JANET LOEHRKE/USA TODAY
COACHES’ PAY
AT BIG BLUE,
LOTS OF GREEN
Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh is making $7.5 million this season. QUINN HARRIS/USA TODAY SPORTS
Is Harbaugh a good deal for Michigan at $7.5M a season?
Erik Brady, Steve Berkowitz
and Christopher Schnaars
USA TODAY
Jim Harbaugh is making $7.5 mil-
lion this season to coach football at the
University of Michigan. Jimbo Fisher
is making roughly the same at Texas
A&M. Only Alabama’s Nick Saban
($8.3 million) and Ohio State’s Urban
Meyer ($7.6 million) are making more.
Such soaring salaries seem more
suited to Wall Street than Sesame
Street, but let’s borrow a sing-song
game from the venerable children’s
show anyway: One of these things is
not like the others.
Three of these coaches have won
national championships. Harbaugh
has not.
Nor has he won a Big Ten champi-
onship, or even a division title; his
Wolverines have finished third, third
Rockies far from rested for NLDS
Todd Rosiak
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
USA TODAY Network
One day after the Brewers celebrat-
ed their National League Central Divi-
sion title with champagne and beer
showers in the tiny visiting clubhouse
at Wrigley Field in Chicago, the Rock-
ies took their turn spraying away there
as well.
They had to work much harder to
knock off the Cubs than the Brewers
did, however.
The Rockies scored once in the first
inning and not again until the 13th,
when Tony Wolters singled in Trevor
Story with the go-ahead run in a 2-1
wild-card victory that propelled them
into the NL Division Series.
Although the travel won’t be bad —
a bus ride to Milwaukee is obviously
better than having to hop on a plane
and pass through time zones — the
four extra innings the Rockies had to
play could have an effect on them
when they take the field for Game 1 at
Miller Park late Thursday afternoon in
Milwaukee.
It took 4 hours, 55 minutes to beat
the Cubs, and manager Bud Black used
his best pitchers to get the team to the
finish line. Starter Kyle Freeland went
62⁄3 innings before five relievers, in-
cluding closer Wade Davis and setup
man Adam Ottavino, each pitched at
least one high-stress inning.
The Brewers, meanwhile, should be
in much better shape by virtue of their
Game 163 victory over the Cubs on
Monday.
USA TODAY ❚ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2018 ❚ SECTION C
EVERY WEEK
IS ANOTHER
CHANCE AT
GREATNESS
GREATNESS
GREATNESS
COVERAGE
BEGINS TODAY
CONTINUES FRI - SUN
The brassy fight song – Hail!
to the victors valiant. Hail! to
the conqu’ring heroes –
sounds a tad hollow when
none of the victors’ victories
come against ranked teams
on the road.
and fourth in the Big Ten East. Oh, and
his record against bitter rivals Ohio
State and Michigan State is a lamenta-
ble 1-5.
The brassy fight song — Hail! to the
victors valiant. Hail! to the conqu’ring
heroes — sounds a tad hollow when
none of the victors’ victories come
against ranked teams on the road.
All of which leads to a leading ques-
Tony Wolters, left, and Scott Oberg
celebrate late Tuesday after the
Rockies won. JIM YOUNG/USA TODAY SPORTS
Thursday’s NLDS games
❚ Rockies at Brewers, 5:07 p.m. ET, FS1
❚ Braves at Dodgers, 8:37 p.m. ET, MLB
Network
❚ For coverage of Wednesday’s AL Wild
Card game between the Athletics and
Yankees, check out mlb.usatoday.com
They’ll have gotten two crucial rest
days for reliever Josh Hader, who’s com-
ing off a two-inning save, not to mention
the remainder of a squad that finished
out the regular season on an eight-game
winning streak.
“Rest is nice,” center fielder Lorenzo
Cain said after Monday’s game. “We’re
©2018 PGA TOUR, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
tion: Is Harbaugh really worth $5.5 mil-
lion plus $2 million in premiums for a
creative life insurance policy that can
create millions more down the road?
“Absolutely,” Michigan athletics di-
rector Warde Manuel says. “Every
dime.”
Rodney Fort, a sports economist and
professor of sport management at
Michigan who is sometimes critical of
college athletic spending, also thinks
the answer is yes. He points out Har-
baugh has been highly successful in cre-
ating interest and filling seats.
“You have to put 107,601 of the nicest
people every week into the hole that
Yost dug,” Fort says.
That would be Fielding Yost, Michi-
gan’s coach when Michigan Stadium
opened in 1927. The cost to build the
Big House then: $950,000, or roughly
See COACHES, Page 6C
all banged up in some way. Every team is
banged up right now. To get a few days
to recover is huge.
“We have to continue to stay focused
and understand that our main goal now
is to get to the World Series, and when
we do play again bring our A game and
be ready to go.”
Milwaukee has had good success
against Colorado this season, going 5-2
overall and winning both series.
Colorado, meanwhile, has gone 51-28
since July 2 and finished September on
a surge similar to what the Brewers did
to force the NL Central tiebreaker game
with the Cubs.
The Rockies are an extremely dan-
gerous offensive team with the All-Star
trio of center fielder and leadoff man
Charlie Blackmon, third baseman Nolan
Arenado and shortstop Story leading
the way.
Story in particular has been a thorn
in the Brewers’ side this season, lighting
them up with a .333 average, 7 home
runs and 18 RBI. The latter two figures
are season highs for Story against any
team.
Colorado has other dangerous hitters
as well, including outfielders Carlos
González and Gerardo Parra (the former
Brewer), second baseman D.J. LeMa-
hieu (a former batting champion) and
first baseman Ian Desmond.
Led by Freeland — a likely top-five
finisher in the Cy Young Award balloting
in the NL — and Germán Marquez, the
Rockies’ starting rotation was surpris-
ingly solid. The bullpen has bounced
back as well after some early-season
struggles.
2C ❚ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2018 ❚ USA TODAY
GOLF
Brendan Steele will attempt to win the Safeway Open for a third year in a row starting Thursday. ROBERT LABERGE/GETTY IMAGES
Mickelson, Couples help
christen 2018-19 season
Steve DiMeglio
USA TODAY
There is no shortage of intriguing sto-
ry lines as the PGA Tour begins its 2018-
19 wraparound season Thursday in the
Safeway Open at Silverado Resort & Spa
in Napa, California.
Brendan Steele will try to become the
first player to three-peat at a PGA Tour
stop since Steve Stricker won a third
consecutive John Deere Classic in 2011.
Phil Mickelson is playing four days
after his dismal performance as the U.S.
got drubbed by Europe in the Ryder Cup
in Paris.
Many of the 21-member rookie class
are in the field, including rising star Joa-
quin Niemann of Chile.
Major champions Fred Couples, who
turned 59 Wednesday, and John Daly,
52, are taking advantage of an off week
on the PGA Tour Champions and are
playing on sponsor’s exemptions.
Retired Athletics and Cardinals left-
hander Mark Mulder is playing on a
sponsor’s exemption. Mulder, who
plays golf right-handed, won the Amer-
ican Century Celebrity Championship
three consecutive years starting in 2015
and finished runner-up to retired Cow-
boys quarterback Tony Romo last year.
“I just want to compete. I fully under-
stand how much better all these guys
Wie returns from hand injury to play for USA
Beth Ann Nichols
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INCHEON, South Korea – There are
no captains at the UL International
Crown. No substitutes either. When
England’s Mel Reid took two top-50
players to the 18th hole by herself two
years ago at Merit Club after Charley
Hull fell ill, it was riveting theater.
Michelle Wie tees it up at the Interna-
tional Crown for the first time since she
withdrew from the Ricoh Women’s Brit-
ish Open on Aug. 2 with a lingering right
hand injury. She started working on her
game again just 10 days ago, raising
questions as to how she’ll hold up over a
four-day competition. Wie said the
break was tough on her mentally.
“I think you go through something
like that and you kind of just realize that
you take a lot of things for granted,” she
said. “Just not being able to do what I
loved to do, it was very hard. But I’m just
so excited to be back here playing golf
again. Very excited.”
Wie will partner with Jessica Korda
in Thursday’s (Wednesday night in the
U.S.) opening four-ball competition
against Sweden. The pair of friends of-
ten compare ailments.
“Michelle (Wie) and I just say we’re
glass houses and that we just need dif-
ferent body parts,” Korda said at last
year’s U.S. Women’s Open. “When
you’re tall and lanky, it’s a problem.”
The injuries often lead to unplanned
swing changes as well.
“You know when I started practicing,
I picked up a golf club and I couldn’t
swing the way I used to,” she said. “I
are than I am, so there’s no misconcep-
tion there,” Mulder said. “I will be more
nervous on the first tee Thursday than I
was for my first big-league start or my
first playoff start. But I love the feeling of
trying to find a way to feel comfortable
in uncomfortable situations.”
He likely talked about that with
Steele during a practice round Tuesday,
for no one has felt right at home at Silve-
rado the last few years more than Steele.
After taking the 54-hole lead but falter-
ing down the stretch into a tie for 17th in
the 2015 Safeway Open, Steele has won
the last two.
He is the fourth player in 2018 going
for a three-peat. Earlier this year Hideki
Matsuyama (Waste Management Phoe-
nix Open), Daniel Berger (FedEx St.
Jude Classic) and Jhonattan Vegas (RBC
Canadian Open) could not accomplish
the rare feat.
“I’ve seen this place in a lot of differ-
ent conditions and it just seems to fit my
eye no matter what’s going on and
where my game is coming into the
week,” said Steele, who is 50-under par
in his last four starts in the Safeway and
his 69.50 career scoring average is the
best in tournament history.
His game was off at the end of last
season as he missed the cut in five of his
last eight starts.
“Whether you’ve had a good year or a
Michelle Wie will play in South Korea for the first time since withdrawing from
the Women’s British Open on Aug. 2 with an injury. PAUL ELLIS/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
worked with my trainer, David (Lead-
better), and we just tried to figure out
what position doesn’t hurt. Went there,
and just trying to swing as pain-free as I
can. It actually feels pretty good. ...
Thankfully I’m used to just ripping up
my swing, so just another day.”
Advice for home-crowd fans
All four players on South Korea’s
team boast major championships.
They’re sports heroes in Korea, with
dedicated fan clubs who travel the globe
to watch them compete. Eight countries
qualified for the International Crown,
bad year, there’s something really excit-
ing about everybody starting from
scratch again,” Steele said.
Mickelson clearly wasn’t comfortable
at Le Golf National in the Ryder Cup, los-
ing both of his matches. But he’s com-
fortable in California’s wine country. He
finished third last year and eighth in his
first visit.
In seven of his last eight rounds at
Silverado, he’s broken 70 seven times.
Mickelson is seeking his 12th PGA Tour
victory in the Golden State.
Couples’ comfort level has always
been determined by the status of his
troublesome back. His last non-major
start on the PGA Tour was in the 2016
Northern Trust. He’s finished in ties for
18th and 38th the past two years in the
Masters, which he won in 1991.
Couples, a member of the World Golf
Hall of Fame, played just seven Champi-
ons events last season.
“I don’t want to ever say this is my
last PGA Tour event, but I’m planning on
this being my last PGA Tour event be-
sides Augusta,” he said after Wednes-
day’s pro-am. “I really like the course.
It’s not 9,000 yards long, so at least I can
get it around. I feel good. If I was playing
a lot of the Champions tour and came
out here, I think I could play well on this
course. So now, I have to do everything
pretty well to probably make the cut.”
but the majority of the crowd will be fo-
cused on the last two tee times Thurs-
day, when South Korea takes on Taiwan.
Organizers expect 30,000 fans, num-
bers which could easily rival what the
Presidents Cup drew here in 2015.
Candie Kung vowed to bring an air
horn on Thursday to help control the
crowds.
“You’re going to hear cellphones
clicking, ringing, people walking, talk-
ing; anything you can think of it’s going
to happen tomorrow,” Kung said. “There
is going to be a point where I’m probably
not going to be able to walk from the
green to the tee box.”
SPORTS
Key stats
20, 42 Respective ages of
Sungjae Im, the
youngest of the 21-member rookie
class this season, and Chris Thompson,
the oldest member. Im led the Web.com
Tour money list last season with
$534,326, won twice and finished sec-
ond three times. Thompson finished
20th on the money list with $181,738 to
earn his card as one of the top 25 on
the money list.
343.1 Average driving
distance last season of
Cameron Champ, a single-season rec-
ord on the Web.com Tour. He earned his
PGA Tour card with five top-10 finishes,
including a Utah Championship win.
103-60 Career record of
left-hander Mark
Mulder, 41, whose time in Major League
Baseball was cut short due to injuries
after pitching nine seasons for Oakland
and St. Louis. Mulder, who plays golf
right-handed, is playing in his first PGA
Tour event on a sponsor’s exemption.
He won the American Century Celebrity
Championship, a tournament in South
Lake Tahoe, Nevada, from 2015 to 2017
and was runner-up to former Cowboys
quarterback Tony Romo in 2018.
Tee times
Two-time defending champion Brendan
Steele begins the new season alongside
Sangmoon Bae and Phil Mickelson, who
is coming off a disappointing Ryder Cup
last weekend (3:30 p.m. ET Thursday,
Golf Channel). Mulder is out with Carlos
Ortiz and Sepp Straka (4:20). The fea-
tured groups on Golf Channel on Friday
include Fred Couples out with Brandt
Snedeker and Patrick Cantlay (3:30 ET)
and rising youngsters Patrick Rodgers,
Beau Hossler and Joaquin Niemann
(3:40 ET).
FedExCup
Justin Rose is the reigning FedExCup
champion. If he’s able to become the
first to win the FedExCup in back-to-
back seasons, he’d join Tiger Woods as
the only two-time winners of the sea-
son-long race. Rose won a $10 million
bonus last season; the grand prize is
$15 million this season. And for the first
time in FedExCup history, a regular-
season bonus of $2 million will be paid
to the leader heading into the playoffs,
and three playoff events will be in play
instead of four.
SAFEWAY OPEN
Site: Napa, California
Course: Silverado Resort
Yardage: 7,166. Par: 72.
Purse: $6.2 million
Winner’s share: $1,116,000
TV (ET): Thursday-Sunday, 5:30-8:30
p.m. (Golf Channel)
Kung and Phoebe Yao will take on
World No. 1 Sung Hyun Park and In-Ky-
ung Kim in Friday’s foursomes. In Gee
Chun and So Yeon Ryu will square off
against Teresa Lu and Wei-Ling Hsu.
Park’s caddie, David Jones, said the
craziest day he has experienced work-
ing in Asia came last year at the LPGA
KEB Hana Bank Championship when
Jin Young Ko and Minjee Lee were
paired with his boss in the final group on
Sunday. Jones said there were more
than 20,000 fans following the group.
“It was just absolute carnage,” he
said. “You can’t police it. It’s too much.
In fact, the more you try to police, the
more noise you create.”
So Yeon Ryu said South Korean fans
tend to be more aggressive than an
American crowd. She had a message for
fans before the event.
“If there was one favor I could ask to
the gallery or the crowds that will be
showing up,” Ryu said, “I think that if
they could refrain from very, very sharp
criticism that would help as well. With
the game of golf, you never know who is
going to win until you take off the gloves.
“Of course we need to take advice,
but really painful, sharp criticism can
actually erode our confidence. I think
that if we were given a lot of support
during the event then we would defi-
nitely be able to win this time.”
The favorites every year on paper,
South Korea has yet to win this event.
Spain triumphed at the inaugural com-
petition in 2014 and the U.S. followed in
2016. South Korea finished one point be-
hind the U.S. at Merit Club. Ryu is the
only returner from that team.
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METHODOLOGY Pay for FBS head coaches

To determine the total pay packages of Foot- For information on payments made in addition to those in BOLD, see notes
ball Bowl Subdivision head coaches, USA TODAY
Bonuses paid School buyout
requested all forms of compensation for the School Name School pay Total pay Max bonus 2017-18 as of Dec. 1
coach at all 130 schools. About 20 schools or
Air Force Troy Calhoun N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
athletics departments are private or are public
Akron Terry Bowden $411,000 $412,500 $225,000 $50,000 $688,500
schools covered under state law exempting
them from releasing full compensation data. Alabama Nick Saban $8,307,000 $8,307,000 $1,100,000 $500,000 $33,600,000
Schools that provided information were given Alabama-Birmingham Bill Clark $900,000 $900,000 $950,000 $165,471 $3,847,500
the opportunity to review their figures. Appalachian State Scott Satterfield $712,500 $712,500 $295,000 $145,000 $2,160,417
Any pay the university guaranteed (even if Arizona Kevin Sumlin $1,600,000 $2,000,000 $2,025,000 N/A $10,000,000
paid by shoe/apparel company or another Arizona State Herm Edwards $2,000,000 $2,000,000 $3,010,000 N/A $8,166,667
source) is listed as “school pay.” Anything not Arkansas Chad Morris $3,500,000 $3,500,000 $1,000,000 N/A $12,500,000
guaranteed by the university is included in Arkansas State Blake Anderson $825,000 $825,000 $185,000 $25,000 $300,000
“total pay.” Army Jeff Monken N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
A not available (N/A) in the chart denotes
Auburn Gus Malzahn $6,700,000 $6,705,656 $1,400,000 $375,000 $32,143,750
amounts that could not be obtained. A $0
Ball State Mike Neu $435,689 $435,689 $380,000 $30,000 $980,300
means the coach doesn’t, or did not, get com-
Baylor Matt Rhule N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
pensation from that source.
COMPENSATION CATEGORIES Boise State Bryan Harsin $1,650,010 $1,650,010 $475,000 $145,000 $7,784,038
SCHOOL PAY: Base salary; income from con- Boston College Steve Addazio $2,514,859 $2,514,859 N/A N/A N/A
tract provisions other than base salary that are Bowling Green Mike Jinks $437,228 $437,228 $245,000 $81,250 $874,456
paid, or guaranteed, by the university or affili- Brigham Young Kalani Sitake N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
ated organizations, such as a foundation. Ex- Buffalo Lance Leipold $455,500 $455,500 $381,000 $- $1,020,833
amples include payments in consideration for: California Justin Wilcox $1,500,000 $1,500,000 $900,000 $75,000 $7,208,500
shoe and apparel use; television, radio or other Central Florida Josh Heupel $1,700,000 $1,700,000 $250,000 N/A $3,587,500
appearances. Except as noted, these amounts Central Michigan John Bonamego $655,000 $655,000 $415,000 $45,000 $1,125,000
are based on the coach’s annual pay rate for a
Charlotte Brad Lambert $625,000 $625,000 $120,000 $0 $556,389
full, standard-length contract year; they do not
Cincinnati Luke Fickell $2,000,000 $2,000,000 $625,000 $0 $7,100,000
reflect amounts earned for a partial year
worked after hiring or a partial year worked at Clemson Dabo Swinney $6,205,000 $6,543,350 $1,125,000 $500,000 $35,000,000
an annual pay rate other than the current Coastal Carolina Joe Moglia $400,000 $400,000 $800,000 $25,000 $516,667
amount. Colorado Mike MacIntyre $2,878,500 $2,878,500 $2,150,000 $297,000 $10,314,583
It also includes deferred payments earned Colorado State Mike Bobo $1,800,000 $1,800,000 $905,000 $50,000 $8,000,000
annually, conditional or otherwise; contractual Connecticut Randy Edsall $1,100,000 $1,100,000 $650,000 $129,000 $1,000,000
expense accounts (if unaudited) or housing Duke David Cutcliffe $2,540,928 $2,540,928 N/A N/A N/A
allowance; signing and other one-time bonuses East Carolina Scottie Montgomery $1,102,500 $1,102,500 $850,000 $0 $1,233,333
earned in the current contract year. Eastern Michigan Chris Creighton $460,000 $460,000 $395,000 $10,000 $950,000
It does not include the value of standard Florida Dan Mullen $6,070,000 $6,070,000 $925,000 N/A $12,000,000
university benefits such as health care or the
Florida Atlantic Lane Kiffin $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,150,000 $40,000 $2,850,000
value of potentially taxable items such as cars;
Florida International Butch Davis $945,000 $945,000 $550,000 $35,000 $3,185,626
country club memberships; game tickets; the
value of stadium suites, travel upgrades or Florida State Willie Taggart $5,000,000 $5,000,000 $1,475,000 N/A $21,958,333
spouse/family travel and game tickets. Fresno State Jeff Tedford $1,550,000 $1,550,000 $2,765,000 $1,240,000 $5,440,000
Salaries reported do not take into account Georgia Kirby Smart $6,603,600 $6,603,600 $1,150,000 $1,350,000 $27,917,500
deductions that have occurred because of Georgia Southern Chad Lunsford $650,000 $650,000 $295,000 N/A $83,333
suspension without pay. Georgia State Shawn Elliott $569,000 $569,000 $220,000 $60,000 $1,500,000
Georgia Tech Paul Johnson $3,060,018 $3,060,018 $1,330,000 $225,000 $4,000,000
TOTAL PAY: Sum of School Pay and athletically
related compensation received from non- Hawaii Nick Rolovich $425,004 $486,504 $1,260,000 $0 $300,000
university sources. (Effective Aug. 1, 2016, the Houston Major Applewhite $1,750,000 $1,750,000 $782,500 $20,000 $2,112,500
NCAA rescinded a rule that required athletics Illinois Lovie Smith $5,000,000 $5,000,000 $1,000,000 $50,000 $12,636,991
department employees to disclose athletically Indiana Tom Allen $1,830,000 $1,830,000 $1,441,668 $0 $2,000,000
related income from non-university sources. Iowa Kirk Ferentz $4,700,000 $4,700,000 $2,875,000 $600,000 $22,396,250
However, some universities continued to collect Iowa State Matt Campbell $3,500,000 $3,500,000 $750,000 $650,000 $19,291,667
this information. The NCAA put the requirement Kansas David Beaty $1,701,109 $1,701,109 $2,000,000 $0 $3,000,000
back into effect on Aug. 8, 2018 — too late for Kansas State Bill Snyder $3,500,000 $3,500,000 $580,000 $50,000 $3,000,000
recent information to be collected from football
Kent State Sean Lewis $440,000 $440,000 $406,000 N/A $1,150,000
coaches.)
Kentucky Mark Stoops $4,000,000 $4,013,600 $3,100,000 $300,000 $15,625,000
MAXIMUM BONUS: The greatest amount that Liberty Turner Gill $947,281 $947,281 N/A N/A N/A
can be received if the team meets on-field Louisiana Tech Skip Holtz $700,000 $700,000 $395,000 $0 $2,508,333
performance goals , academic or player conduct Louisiana-Lafayette Billy Napier $850,000 $850,000 $435,000 N/A $2,671,875
goals. It also includes possible payments based Louisiana-Monroe Matt Viator $390,000 $390,000 $50,000 $0 $175,000
on ticket revenue or sales or departmental
Louisville Bobby Petrino $3,980,434 $3,980,434 $1,472,917 $869,917 $14,056,250
fundraising amounts, although Central Florida,
LSU Ed Orgeron $3,500,000 $3,500,000 $1,575,000 $100,000 $5,291,667
East Carolina, Missouri and Southern Mississippi
Marshall Doc Holliday $762,570 $762,570 $145,000 $55,000 $1,951,708
offer open-ended bonuses under which coach
can receive a percentage of all revenue above a Maryland DJ Durkin $2,512,000 $2,512,000 $625,000 $0 $5,096,178
certain benchmark. Massachusetts Mark Whipple $500,000 $500,000 $305,000 $20,000 $300,000
Memphis Mike Norvell $2,600,000 $2,600,000 $775,000 $185,000 $7,431,667
BONUSES PAID: Amount coach was paid for Miami (Fla.) Mark Richt $4,058,061 $4,058,061 N/A N/A N/A
meeting personal or team-performance goals
Miami (Ohio) Chuck Martin $524,826 $524,826 $582,110 $12,669 $522,300
connected to the 2017-18 season or school
Michigan Jim Harbaugh $7,504,000 $7,504,000 $1,325,000 $150,000 $17,111,110
year. Does not include longevity and/or reten-
tion payments. Includes payments due to head Michigan State Mark Dantonio $4,390,417 $4,390,417 $650,000 $125,000 $7,000,000
coaches, regardless of whether they distributed Middle Tennessee Rick Stockstill $801,504 $803,004 $126,142 $65,142 $6,633,774
portions to staff. Amounts presented only for Minnesota P.J. Fleck $3,550,000 $3,550,000 $900,000 $0 $9,291,667
head coaches who are at the same public school Mississippi Matt Luke $3,000,000 $3,000,000 $1,550,000 N/A N/A
that employed them as the head coach last Mississippi State Joe Moorhead $2,600,000 $2,600,000 $1,350,000 N/A N/A
season. Missouri Barry Odom $2,350,000 $2,350,000 $1,025,000 $375,000 $1,912,500
BUYOUT OWED AS OF DEC. 1, 2018: Amount Navy Ken Niumatalolo $2,163,000 $2,163,000 N/A N/A N/A
school would owe coach if it fired him without Nebraska Scott Frost $5,000,000 $5,000,000 $950,000 N/A $25,416,667
cause on Dec. 1, 2018. Many of these amounts Nevada Jay Norvell $500,000 $500,000 $210,000 $0 $900,000
are expressly subject to coach’s duty to make Nevada-Las Vegas Tony Sanchez $600,000 $600,000 $260,000 $0 $950,000
good-faith efforts to find another job, with New Mexico Bob Davie $822,690 $823,740 $340,000 $0 $1,303,294
income from that employment offsetting the New Mexico State Doug Martin $419,640 $419,640 $220,000 $20,000 $1,532,790
amount owed. Amounts don’t take into account North Carolina Larry Fedora $2,575,000 $2,575,000 $900,000 $50,000 $12,215,625
per-day prorating for a partial contract year. North Carolina State Dave Doeren $3,000,000 $3,000,000 $1,350,000 $275,000 $6,125,000
North Texas Seth Littrell $1,425,000 $1,425,000 $580,000 $130,000 $4,425,000
NOTES Northern Illinois Rod Carey $633,460 $633,460 $205,000 $42,500 $1,822,918
PITTSBURGH, TEMPLE AND PRIVATE Northwestern Pat Fitzgerald $3,619,775 $3,619,775 N/A N/A N/A
SCHOOLS: The pay information listed came Notre Dame Brian Kelly $2,129,638 $2,129,638 N/A N/A N/A
from federal tax returns or the Pennsylvania Ohio Frank Solich $580,331 $580,331 $333,833 $60,772 $558,275
Right-to-Know Law report. Documents provide Ohio State Urban Meyer $7,600,000 $7,600,000 $775,000 $350,000 $38,058,402
compensation for 2016 calendar year based on Oklahoma Lincoln Riley $4,800,000 $4,800,000 $700,000 $180,000 $20,833,333
all income paid by the school or support organi- Oklahoma State Mike Gundy $5,000,000 $5,000,000 $900,000 $62,500 $16,250,000
zations, including benefits, perks and perform-
Old Dominion Bobby Wilder $654,667 $654,667 $504,895 $0 $1,200,000
ance bonuses.
Oregon Mario Cristobal $2,500,000 $2,500,000 $1,825,000 N/A $5,208,333
AMOUNTS IN ADDITION TO TOTAL PAY Oregon State Jonathan Smith $1,900,008 $1,900,008 $1,275,000 N/A $4,037,517
Includes payments made by schools Penn State James Franklin $4,800,000 $4,800,000 $1,000,000 $300,000 $18,375,000
and/or their affiliated organizations on behalf Pittsburgh Pat Narduzzi $3,017,718 $3,017,718 N/A N/A N/A
of newly hired coaches who owed buyout Purdue Jeff Brohm $3,800,000 $3,800,000 $1,290,000 $180,000 $21,516,667
amounts to their previous employer for termi-
Rice Mike Bloomgren N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
nating contracts so they could accept employ-
Rutgers Chris Ash $2,200,000 $2,200,000 $960,000 $50,000 $10,350,000
ment elsewhere.
San Diego State Rocky Long $872,576 $873,576 $720,000 $95,000 $447,412
ALABAMA: If Saban remains head coach as of San Jose State Brent Brennan $590,424 $590,424 $210,000 $0 $1,476,060
the date of the completion of the team’s final South Alabama Steve Campbell $600,000 $600,000 $295,000 N/A $918,333
game, including postseason games, the univer- South Carolina Will Muschamp $4,200,000 $4,200,000 $1,400,000 $100,000 $18,650,000
sity also has agreed to pay $100,000 to Saban’s
South Florida Charlie Strong $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $815,000 $70,000 $192,308
family charity, the Nick’s Kids Foundation, or
Southern California Clay Helton $2,625,965 $2,625,965 N/A N/A N/A
another charitable organization that Saban may
designate after conferring with the university. Southern Methodist Sonny Dykes N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Southern Mississippi Jay Hopson $500,000 $500,000 $870,000 $15,000 $1,583,333
ARKANSAS: Agreed to pay up to $2 million to Stanford David Shaw $4,311,543 $4,311,543 N/A N/A N/A
Southern Methodist to cover the buyout Morris Syracuse Dino Babers $2,401,206 $2,401,206 N/A N/A N/A
owed. Arkansas’ contract with Morris also said
Temple Geoff Collins N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
the university was treating this amount as
Tennessee Jeremy Pruitt $3,846,000 $3,846,000 $1,200,000 N/A $11,780,000
taxable wages, but that it will neutralize to $0
Texas Tom Herman $5,500,000 $5,500,000 $725,000 $75,000 $15,416,667
the tax impact on Morris by paying the taxes
owed. The university declined to disclose the Texas A&M Jimbo Fisher $7,500,000 $7,500,000 $1,350,000 N/A $68,125,000
amount of those additional payments. Texas Christian Gary Patterson $4,840,717 $4,840,717 N/A N/A N/A
Texas State Everett Withers $700,000 $700,000 $70,833 $0 $773,958
FLORIDA: Paid $500,000 to Mississippi State to
Texas Tech Kliff Kingsbury $3,703,975 $3,703,975 $1,500,000 $25,000 $4,231,250
cover the buyout Mullen owed.
Texas-El Paso Dana Dimel $700,000 $700,000 $741,665 N/A $2,991,667
FLORIDA STATE: Paid $1,370,122 to Oregon to Texas-San Antonio Frank Wilson $1,100,000 $1,100,000 $185,000 $17,500 $3,562,500
cover a pro-rata portion of the Toledo Jason Candle $1,125,000 $1,125,000 $585,000 $210,000 $3,558,333
$1.7 million buyout Oregon had agreed to pay Troy Neal Brown $810,000 $810,000 $490,000 $100,000 $2,911,667
South Florida to cover a buyout that Taggart Tulane Willie Fritz $1,629,000 $1,629,000 N/A N/A N/A
owed for leaving that school following the 2016 Tulsa Philip Montgomery $1,518,177 $1,518,177 N/A N/A N/A
season. FSU also is paying Oregon $61,224 a
UCLA Chip Kelly $3,300,000 $3,300,000 $1,085,000 N/A $9,000,000
month toward the
Utah Kyle Whittingham $3,787,917 $3,787,917 $935,000 $279,167 $9,250,000
$3 million buyout Taggart owed Oregon.
Utah State Matt Wells $900,000 $900,000 $765,000 $65,000 $2,122,917
NEBRASKA: Paid $3 million to Central Florida to Vanderbilt Derek Mason $2,812,523 $2,812,523 N/A N/A N/A
cover the buyout Frost owed. Virginia Bronco Mendenhall $3,550,000 $3,550,000 $2,165,000 $75,000 $18,193,750
Virginia Tech Justin Fuente $4,000,000 $4,000,000 $435,000 $75,000 $15,000,000
❚ For all footnotes pertaining to individual Wake Forest Dave Clawson $1,831,580 $1,831,580 N/A N/A N/A
schools, go to sports.usatoday.com
Washington Chris Petersen $4,375,000 $4,377,500 $1,050,000 $300,000 $26,354,166
Washington State Mike Leach $3,500,000 $3,500,000 $725,000 $75,000 $4,900,000
❚ USA TODAY was assisted by Stephanie Klein;
West Virginia Dana Holgorsen $3,605,000 $3,617,500 $1,000,000 $90,000 $7,150,000
Robert Lattinville. who is of counsel to Spen-
Western Kentucky Mike Sanford Jr. $800,000 $805,850 $400,000 $0 $1,200,000
cer Fane LLP and whose practice areas include
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NFL QB HOT SHEET

What’s wrong with Eli Manning?

Lorenzo Reyes the Raiders. It doesn’t get any easier WEEK 1 RANKING
USA TODAY with the stingy Ravens defense that THURSDAY’S GAME
frustrated the Steelers coming into Breakout Star
Every Wednesday during the NFL town. Colts (1-3) at Patriots (2-2)
season, USA TODAY is assessing every-
one’s favorite topic: quarterbacks. Three trending up Time, TV: 8:20 p.m. ET, Fox and
#
1 #Giants
Who’s hot? Who’s not? Who has the
NFL Network
most exciting matchups? Here’s this 1. Mitchell Trubisky, Bears: Coach
week’s QB Hot Sheet: Matt Nagy got creative in scheming Pregame.com line: Patriots by 10 #
2 #Rams
players open, and Trubisky took advan-
Colts’ keys: They have to win in the
Five to watch this weekend tage with dramatic improvement in his
trenches on both sides of the ball.
deep ball accuracy for a 354-yard, six-
1. Drew Brees, Saints: In Monday touchdown showing against the Bucca-
Indianapolis needs to give QB An- #
3 #Packers
drew Luck more time to throw. He
night’s game against the Redskins, neers. The Bears have their bye, but the
looked like the prolific Luck of the
Brees is almost certain to make history. second-year quarterback will have to
He needs 99 yards to pass Brett Favre for prove in a Week 6 tilt against the Dol-
past in Week 4, in part because of #
4 #Titans
solid protection. On defense, the
second place on the all-time list and 201 phins that he can sustain this progress.
Colts need to get QB Tom Brady
to eclipse Peyton Manning (71,940) for 2. Joe Flacco, Ravens: Healthy this
jumpy in the pocket.
No. 1. It also doesn’t hurt that he’s lead- season and armed with a bolstered re- #
5 #Bears
ing the NFL in completion rate (75.8 per- ceiving corps creating more opportuni- Patriots’ keys: With Colts WR T.Y.
cent) and has an 8-0 touchdown-to-in- ties, Flacco is on pace to reach career Hilton ruled out, the defense will
terception ratio. highs in yards (currently 1,252), touch- turn its focus to Colts RB Nyheim #
6 #Bengals
2. Patrick Mahomes, Chiefs: The downs (eight), and passer rating (96.9). Hines, a versatile threat who seems
early front-runner in the MVP race, Ma- After carving up the Steelers on Sunday to get better each week. On of-
homes is fresh off of erasing a 10-point night, Baltimore is tied for first in the fense, New England coach Bill Bel-
deficit at the Broncos. Still, his toughest AFC North at 3-1. ichick clearly wants to rely heavily
#
7 #Browns
test awaits. In what should be a fasci- 3. Andy Dalton, Bengals: The other upon RB Sony Michel, but he will
nating matchup, Mahomes (still with- tied team in Baltimore’s division, the go only goes as far as his blocking
out an interception as he paces the NFL Bengals are getting a huge boost from takes him.
#
8 #Cowboys
with 14 touchdown passes) faces an ag- Dalton. With the emergence of receiver
Who wins? The Patriots haven’t
gressive Jaguars defense that leads the Tyler Boyd, Cincy has a reliable target to
looked like themselves, but they’re
league in passing defense (164.2 yards pair with A.J. Green. Dalton (who went
beginning to find their identity.
#
9 #Chiefs
per game). 29-of-41 for 337 yards, three touch-
Patriots, 31-28
3. Carson Wentz, Eagles: He downs and one interception against the
dropped big numbers in a loss against Falcons) is carrying a team that has Henry McKenna of PatriotsWire #
10 #Chargers
the Titans (33-50, 348 yards, two touch- struggled with injuries and defensive
downs), but Philly’s offense is strug- lapses.
gling in the red zone. The Eagles are con- open Demaryius Thomas streaking
Tune in Thursday before the
verting just 57.1 percent (16th) of their Three trending down down the right sideline on what should
trips into TDs one year after leading the have been the go-ahead score in the fi- Colts vs. Patriots play on
league at 65.5 percent. Against a Vik- 1. Eli Manning, Giants: He missed nal minute sums up his time with the Thursday Night Football on FOX
ings defense still searching for consis- open targets, especially receiver Odell Broncos so far. to discover next week’s Pro
tency, Wentz might try to establish a Beckham Jr., and seemed tentative in
better red-zone connection with tight pockets that were mostly clean. Rather Season rankings Football #FanIndex theme.
end Zach Ertz, who doesn’t have a score than checking it down, he averaged 6.2
yet this year. yards per attempt in a loss against the 1. Patrick Mahomes (last week: 1), 4. Matt Ryan (NR), Falcons: He post-
4. Dak Prescott, Cowboys: Things Saints, it might be time to take chances Chiefs: When Mahomes, a righty, is ed back-to-back games in which he
got a little bit better for Prescott and the down the field. completing left-handed passes on a threw at least 350 passing yards and
Cowboys in a victory against the Lions, 2. Ryan Fitzpatrick, Buccaneers: game-winning drive on the road as three touchdowns with no intercep-
but Dallas would still benefit from es- Well, #FitzMagic was fun while it lasted. Broncos linebacker Von Miller chases tions. But, according to ESPN, he be-
tablishing a threat beyond running back Struggles with accuracy and careless- him, you know things are going well. came the first player to put up those
Ezekiel Elliott. In a prime-time show- ness with the ball in a blowout loss 2. Brees (2): The Saints’ rushing stats in consecutive games and lose.
down with the Texans, the Cowboys are against the Bears ended Fitzpatrick’s game led the charge in a victory against 5. Philip Rivers (NR), Chargers:
likely going to need their leading wide stint as a starter with the Bucs. Jameis the Giants, but Brees stands pat. Whether it’s to receivers, running backs
receiver to have more than 53 yards, Winston will start Week 6 after Tampa’s 3. Jared Goff (NR), Rams: With im- or tight ends, Rivers is simply spreading
which was Cole Beasley’s output last bye. pressive accuracy and downfield pass- the ball (25 completions, 250 yards,
week. 3. Case Keenum, Broncos: Tied for ing production, Goff (72.4 % completion three touchdowns and one pick in the
5. Baker Mayfield, Browns: His re- second-most interceptions in the NFL rate, 1,406 yards, 11 TDs, 2 picks) is look- victory against the 49ers to eight differ-
ceivers didn’t help his case with several with six, Keenum, who threw seven all ing every bit like the franchise quarter- ent targets).
drops, but Mayfield still had an up-and- of last season, does not look like the an- back L.A. expected him to be when it se- Dropped: Fitzpatrick (3), Aaron
down first career start in a loss against swer for Denver. A misfire to a wide- lected him with the No. 1 pick in 2016. Rodgers (4), Ryan Tannehill (5)

FOR THE RECORD

All times ET Saturday: New York-Oakland winner at Boston
(Price (16-7), 8:15 p.m. SPORTS ON TV NC STATE
LSU
41⁄2
21⁄2
58
431⁄2
Boston College
FLORIDA
RHP Fernando Romero from Rochester (IL).
OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Recalled SS Jorge
Monday: Boston (Porcello 17-7) at New York- Missouri 1 63 S. CAROLINA Mateo from Las Vegas (PCL).
NFL Oakland winner, TBA Times Eastern. Programs live unless noted. MICHIGAN 17 47 Maryland TEXAS RANGERS — Recalled RHP Ricardo Rod-
x-Tuesday: Boston at New York-Oakland win- CINCINNATI 7 48 Tulane riguez from Nashville (PCL) and C Jose Trevi-
AMERICAN CONFERENCE
ner, TBA Check local listings. Ohio 131⁄2 711⁄2 KENT ST no, RHP Jonathan Hernandez and LHPs Brett
x-Oct. 11: New York-Oakland winner at Boston, W MICHIGAN 41⁄2 571⁄2 E. Michigan Martin and Joe Palumbo from Frisco (TL).
East TBA Buffalo 71⁄2 51 CENT. MICH. National League
W L T Pct PF PA Houston vs. Cleveland AKRON 31⁄2 49 Miami (Ohio) ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Recalled RHPs
Miami 3 1 0 .750 82 90 Friday: Cleveland (Kluber 20-7) at Houston AUTO RACING: Formula One, Honda Japanese Grand Notre Dame 61⁄2 57 VA. TECH Braden Shipley and Joey Krehbiel from Reno
New England 2 2 0 .500 95 84 Illinois 5 491⁄2 RUTGERS
Buffalo 1 3 0 .250 50 106
(Verlander 16-9), 2:05 p.m.
Saturday: Cleveland (Carrasco 17-10) at Hous-
Prix, practice (ESPN2, 8:55 p.m. and 12:55 a.m. Friday) BOISE ST 14 52 San Diego St
(PCL) and LHP Jared Miller and 2B Domingo
Leyba from Jackson (SL).
N.Y. Jets 1 3 0 .250 89 89 COLORADO 3 64 Arizona St
ton (Cole 15-5), 4:37 p.m. CHICAGO CUBS — Recalled RHP Oscar De La
Liberty 41⁄2 631⁄2 NM ST
South
W L T Pct PF PA
Monday: Houston (Keuchel 12-11) at Cleve- BOXING: Oscar Negrete vs. Joshua Franco (ESPN2, North Texas 27 531⁄2 UTEP
Cruz from Tennessee (SL).
land (Clevinger 13-8), TBA CINCINNATI REDS — Assigned C Tim Federow-
Tennessee 3 1 0 .750 75 73 x-Tuesday: Houston at Cleveland, TBA 10:30 p.m.) Washington
STANFORD
20
5
501⁄2
46
UCLA
Utah
icz and OF Gabriel Guerrero outright to Louis-
Jacksonville 3 1 0 .750 88 56 x-Oct. 11: Cleveland at Houston, TBA ville (IL).
Houston 1 3 0 .250 96 108 Fresno St 13 60 NEVADA
Indianapolis 1 3 0 .250 94 100 National League COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Georgia State at Troy (ESPNU, Washington St 17 65 OREGON ST MIAMI MARLINS — Recalled LHP Dillon Peters,
FS1 and MLB Network California 21⁄2 57 ARIZONA OF Braxton Lee and RHPs Tyler Cloyd and
North 7:30 p.m.); Tulsa at Houston (ESPN, 8 p.m.) UNLV 91⁄2 63 New Mexico James Needy from New Orleans (PCL) and
W L T Pct PF PA Milwaukee vs. Colorado LHP Miguel Del Pozo and RHP Merandy Gon-
Thursday: Colorado at Milwaukee, 5:07 p.m. MICHIGAN ST 10 43 Northwestern
Cincinnati 3 1 0 .750 126 113 zalez from Jacksonville (SL).
(FS1) W. VIRGINIA 29 61 Kansas
Baltimore
Cleveland
3 1 0 .750
1 2 1 .375
123
102
65
104 Friday: Colorado at Milwaukee, 4:15 p.m. (FS1) GOLF: European PGA Tour, Alfred Dunhill Links Cham- Alabama 35 551⁄2 ARKANSAS MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Recalled SS Mauricio
Dubon and RHPs Aaron Wilkerson and Adrian
LA. TECH 9 55 UAB
Pittsburgh 1 2 1 .375 102 116 Sunday: Milwaukee at Colorado, 4:37 p.m.
(MLB)
pionship, first round, in St Andrews, Scotland (GOLF, 8 TEXAS A&M 5 50 Kentucky Houser from San Antonio (PCL) and RHP Mar-
West OKLA. ST 11 541⁄2 Iowa St cos Diplan from Biloxi (SL).
W L T Pct PF PA x-Monday: Milwaukee at Colorado, TBA a.m.); PGA Tour, Safeway Open, first round, in Napa, GEORGIA 26 54 Vanderbilt NEW YORK METS — Recalled LHP P.J. Conlon,
Kansas City 4 0 0 1.000 145 115 x-Wednesday: Colorado at Milwaukee, TBA SS Luis Guillorme and RHPs Gerson Bautista,
Denver 2 2 0 .500 84 97 Los Angeles vs. Atlanta Calif. (GOLF, 5:30 p.m.); LPGA, UL International Crown, Iowa
TOLEDO
7
211⁄2
43
711⁄2
MINNESOTA
Bowling Green Chris Flexen and Jamie Callahan from Syra-
Thursday: Atlanta (Foltynewicz 13-10) at Los cuse (IL), RHP Franklyn Kilome from Bingham-
L.A. Chargers
Oakland
2
1
2
3
0 .500
0 .250
111
97
120
123 Angeles (Ryu 7-3), 8:37 p.m. (MLB) second round, in Incheon, South Korea (GOLF, 9 p.m.); Auburn
Navy
31⁄2
3
411⁄2
48
MISS. ST
AIR FORCE ton (EL) and 2B Gavin Cecchini from St. Lucie
NATIONAL CONFERENCE Friday: Atlanta at Los Angeles (Kershaw 9-5),
9:37 p.m. (FS1)
Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship, second round, in MISSISSIPPI 22 75 La.-Monroe (FSL).
PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Reinstated OF Greg-
East Oklahoma 7 61 Texas
W L T Pct PF PA
Sunday: Los Angeles at Atlanta, 8:07 p.m.
(FS1)
Singapore (ESPN2, 2:30 a.m. Friday) MEMPHIS 35 78 UCONN ory Polanco from the 10-day DL. Recalled SS
Max Moroff and RHPs Jesus Liranzo and Alex
Washington 2 1 0 .667 64 44 La.-Lafayette 31⁄2 59 TEXAS STATE
x-Monday: Los Angeles at Atlanta, TBA RICE 2 50 UTSA McRae from Indianapolis (IL), RHP Dario Agra-
Dallas
Philadelphia
2 2 0 .500
2 2 0 .500
67
82
77
81 x-Wednesday: Atlanta at Los Angeles, TBA NBA: Preseason, Indiana at Houston (NBA, 8 p.m.); BAYLOR 41⁄2 55 Kansas St zal from Altoona (EL) and RHP Luis Escobar
MIAMI 131⁄2 48 Florida St from Bristol (Appalachian).
N.Y. Giants 1 3 0 .250 73 95 Sacramento at Los Angeles Lakers (NBA, 10:30 p.m.) WISCONSIN 18 57 Nebraska SAN DIEGO PADRES — Designated LHP Jose
South
W L T Pct PF PA
SOCCER Colorado St 21⁄2 621⁄2 SAN JOSE ST Torres for assignment. Reinstated 3B Chris-
tian Villanueva from the 10-day DL. Recalled
New Orleans 3 1 0 .750 137 121 NHL: Nashville at New York Rangers (NBCSN, 7:30 HAWAII 3 57 Wyoming
2B Carlos Asuaje, Cs Luis Torrens and Raffy
Carolina 2 1 0 .667 71 60 Major League Soccer NFL
Tampa Bay 2 2 0 .500 112 139 p.m.); Philadelphia at Vegas (NBCSN, 10 p.m.) Thursday
Lopez and RHPs Walker Lockett and Colin Rea
from El Paso (PCL) and SS Allen Cordoba from
Atlanta 1 3 0 .250 116 122 EASTERN CONFERENCE Favorite T O/U Underdog
W L T Pts GF GA
Lake Elsinore (Cal).
North
W L T Pct PF PA
Atlanta 19 6 6 63 65 38 SOCCER: 2018 CONCACAF Women’s Championship, NEW ENGLAND 10 50 Indianapolis SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Reinstated OF Ste-
New York 19 7 5 62 57 32 Sunday ven Duggar from the 10-day DL.
Chicago 3 1 0 .750 111 65 NY City FC 15 9 8 53 55 41 Group Stage, Group A: Trinidad and Tobago vs. Pana- Favorite T O/U Underdog FOOTBALL
Green Bay 2 1 1 .625 92 83
Minnesota 1 2 1 .375 90 110
Columbus 13 9 9 48 39 38
ma, in Cary, N.C. (FS2, 5 p.m.) and USA vs. Mexico Baltimore 3 47 CLEVELAND National Football League
Philadelphia 14 12 5 47 43 45 KANSAS CITY 3 49 Jacksonville CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed DB Arrion
Detroit 1 3 0 .250 94 114
West
Montreal
D.C. United
12
10
15
11
4 40
8 38
42 52
53 48
(FS2, 7:30 p.m.) Tennessee
CAROLINA
31⁄2
7
39
44
BUFFALO
NY Giants
Springs to the practice squad.
DETROIT LIONS — Signed OL Andrew Donnal.
W L T Pct PF PA New England 8 11 11 35 44 49 NY JETS 1 42 Denver Signed S Rolan Milligan to the practice squad.
L.A. Rams 4 0 0 1.000 140 67 Toronto FC 9 15 6 33 54 58 PITTSBURGH 3 57 Atlanta LOS ANGELES RAMS — Signed PK Cairo Santos.
Seattle 2 2 0 .500 85 81 Chicago 8 16 7 31 46 57 Green Bay 1 51 DETROIT OAKLAND RAIDERS — Placed OT Donald Penn
San Francisco 1 3 0 .250 100 118 Orlando City 7 18 4 25 40 66 CINCINNATI 6 49 Miami
Arizona 0 4 0 .000 37 94
on injured reserve.
WESTERN CONFERENCE Group D American League LA CHARGERS 5 53 Oakland TENNESSEE TITANS — Signed OL Jamil Doug-
Thursday’s Game W L T Pts GF GA Lokomotiv Moscow 0, Schalke 1 Favorite Line Underdo Line SAN FRANCISCO 4 41 Arizona las to the practice squad.
Indianapolis at New England, 8:20 p.m. FC Dallas 15 6 9 54 49 38 Porto 1, Galatasaray 0 HOUSTON -137 Cleveland +127 PHILADELPHIA 3 45 Minnesota HOCKEY
Sunday’s Games Sporting KC 15 8 7 52 55 37 LA Rams 7 501⁄2 SEATTLE
National Hockey League HOUSTON 3 45 Dallas National Hockey League
Miami at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. Los Angeles 14 8 8 50 58 46 NHL — Suspended Washington F Tom Wilson
N.Y. Giants at Carolina, 1 p.m. Portland 13 9 9 48 46 45 NBA Thursday Monday 20 games for a blindside hit to the head dur-
Denver at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m. Seattle 14 11 5 47 41 32 Favorite Line Underdog Line Favorite T O/U Underdog ing a preseason game.
Jacksonville at Kansas City, 1 p.m. Salt Lake 13 11 7 46 50 50 PITTSBURGH OFF Washington OFF NEW ORLEANS 6 53 Washington MINNESOTA WILD — Traded D Gustav Olofs-
Green Bay at Detroit, 1 p.m. LA Galaxy 12 11 8 44 60 59 Preseason CAROLINA -138 NY Islanders +128
Boston -117 BUFFALO +107
son to Montreal for F Will Bitten. Assigned
Baltimore at Cleveland, 1 p.m. Vancouver 11 12 7 40 47 59
Atlanta at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. Minnesota 11 16 3 36 45 58
Tuesday’s Games Columbus -130 DETROIT +120
Bitten to Iowa (AHL).
Tennessee at Buffalo, 1 p.m. Houston 9 13 8 35 50 45
Charlotte 122, Miami 113 Chicago -118 OTTAWA +108 DEALS COLLEGE
Colorado 6 18 6 24 32 59 Cleveland 102, Boston 95 Nashville -139 NY RANGERS +129 RUTGERS—Named Tom Conley assistant
Oakland at L.A. Chargers, 4:05 p.m. Houston 131, Memphis 115
Minnesota at Philadelphia, 4:25 p.m. San Jose 4 19 8 20 47 66 ST. LOUIS -114 Winnipeg +104 baseball coach.
Arizona at San Francisco, 4:25 p.m.
Utah 105, Toronto 90 DALLAS -185 Arizona +170 BASEBALL
L.A. Rams at Seattle, 4:25 p.m.
Saturday’s Games Denver 113, L.A. Lakers 111 COLORADO -133 Minnesota +123 COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE — Announced Chi-
Dallas at Houston, 8:20 p.m.
Columbus at Montreal, 3 p.m. Wednesday’s Games LAS VEGAS -160 Philadelphia +150 cago Cubs INF Addison Russell accepted a NHL
New England at Atlanta, 3:30 p.m. New York at Brooklyn 40-game suspension for violating Major
Open: Tampa Bay, Chicago Vancouver at Toronto FC, 5 p.m. College Football
Chicago at Milwaukee League Baseball’s Joint Domestic Violence,
Monday’s Game Minnesota United at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m. Detroit at Oklahoma City Thursday Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Policy, retro- Wednesday’s Games
Washington at New Orleans, 8:15 p.m. Orlando City at FC Dallas, 8 p.m. New Zealand Breakers at Phoenix Favorite T O/U Underdog active to Sept. 21. Edmonton at Cologne
LA Galaxy at Sporting KC, 8:30 p.m. Minnesota at L.A. Clippers HOUSTON 17 70 Tulsa American League Montreal at Toronto
Los Angeles FC at Colorado, 9 p.m. Thursday’s Games TROY 141⁄2 54 Georgia St Boston at Washington
MLB Portland at Real Salt Lake, 9:30 p.m.
BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Recalled C Andrew Su-
sac, SS Engelb Vielma and OF Anthony San- Calgary at Vancouver
New York at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.
Indiana at Houston, 8 p.m. Friday Anaheim at San Jose
Sacramento at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m. Favorite T O/U Underdog tander from Norfolk (IL) and RHP Hunter Har-
Postseason MARSHALL 6 52 MIDDLE TENN. vey from Bowie (EL). Thursday’s Games
Champions League Georgia Tech 41⁄2 571⁄2 LOUISVILLE CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Assigned C Dustin Washington at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
WILD CARD Wednesday’s Matches ODDS BYU 21⁄2 531⁄2 Utah St Garneau outright to Charlotte (IL). Boston at Buffalo, 7 p.m.
Tuesday: Colorado 2, Chicago 1, 13 innings CLEVELAND INDIANS — Recalled RHPs Ben
Wednesday: Oakland (Hendriks 0-1) at New Group A Saturday
N.Y. Islanders at Carolina, 7 p.m.
Atletico Madrid 3, Club Brugge 1 Taylor and Julian Merryweather, 2B Eric Sta- Columbus at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.
York (Severino 19-8) Pregame.com Line Favorite T O/U Underdog mets, OFs Oscar Mercado and Bradley Zimmer Nashville at N.Y. Rangers, 7:30 p.m.
Borussia Dortmund 3, Monaco 0
DIVISION SERIES Group B Major League Baseball
GA. STHERN 131⁄2 541⁄2 South Alabama and S Yu Chang from Columbus (IL). Chicago at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.
South Florida 141⁄2 71 UMASS
(Best-of-5; x-if necessary) PSV Eindhoven 1, Inter Milan 2 Thursday Clemson 18 621⁄2 WAKE FOREST
KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Recalled 2B Ramon Winnipeg at St. Louis, 8 p.m.
American League Torres, OFs Bubba Starling and Paulo Orlando Arizona at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
Tottenham 2, Barcelona 4 National League TEMPLE 101⁄2 521⁄2 East Carolina and RHPs Scott Barlow, Jason Adam and Tre- Minnesota at Colorado, 9 p.m.
All Games on TBS Group C Favorite Line Underdo Line N Illinois 21⁄2 521⁄2 BALL ST vor Oaks from Omaha (PCL) and 3B Kelvin Gu- Philadelphia at Vegas, 10 p.m.
Boston vs. wild card Paris Saint-Germain 6, Red Star Belgrade 1 MILWAUKEE OFF Colorado OFF Syracuse 31⁄2 58 PITTSBURGH tierrez, RHP Andres Machado and 1B Samir
Napoli 1, Liverpool 0 Los Angeles -170 Atlanta +158 UCF 24 75 SMU Friday’s Games
Friday: New York-Oakland winner at Boston Duenez from Northwest Arkansas (TL). Carolina at Columbus, 7 p.m.
(Sale 12-4), 7:32 p.m. FAU 141⁄2 65 Old Dominion MINNESOTA TWINS — Recalled OFs Zack Gran-
OHIO STATE 25 64 Indiana San Jose at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.
ite and Byron Buxtonl, LHP Lewis Thorpe and
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Coaches
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$13.7 million in today’s dollars, not
enough to pay Harbaugh for two sea-
sons.
As it happens, $950,000 was the av-
erage salary when USA TODAY began its
analyses of coaches’ salaries in major-
college football in 2006. That’s more
than $1.2 million in today’s dollars. This
season, among the same group of
schools studied in 2006, that average
salary has more than doubled to $2.6
million. And Harbaugh makes nearly
triple that.
Michigan’s athletics department can
handle that. In 2017, it was among just 21
of 230 Division I public school sports
programs that transferred excess funds
to its university, according to reports the
schools annually file with the NCAA.
Harbaugh declined to speak for this
story through an athletics department
spokesperson, but the Fox TV station in
Detroit asked him in 2015 if he was
worth his princely pay. No, Harbaugh
said. Well, should he give some back?
“Nah,” Harbaugh said then, “I like
making a buck just like the next guy.”
That TV interview was lighthearted
fun: Harbaugh hadn’t coached a game at
Michigan yet and Wolverines fans still
luxuriated in the giddiness of possibil-
ity. His story line was storybook: Former
Michigan ball boy and quarterback
coming home from a successful stint
coaching in the NFL. Cue the marching
band. Play the fight song. Visions of na-
tional championships danced in fans’
heads.
These days, with Harbaugh in the
fourth season of his seven-season deal,
the fan base largely stands by him,
though some cracks are beginning to
show.
“This is the first year patience is
starting to wear thin,” says Mike Persak,
co-managing sports editor of The Mich-
igan Daily, the school’s student newspa-
per. “People always bring up his record
against rivals. He has only one win
against Michigan State and Ohio State
combined and then he lost at Notre
Dame earlier this year.”
That was the Wolverines’ season
opener. Michigan President Mark
Schlissel spoke at the Detroit Economic
Club days later. The theme was the state
of research at the state’s research uni-
versities, but Schlissel got a question
concerning Harbaugh’s status.
“He is not on the hot seat,” Schlissel
said. “He is under contract for four more
years.” (That’s including the rest of this
season.)
Schlissel declined to be interviewed
for this story through an administration
spokesperson who provided a state-
ment from the president: “Coach Har-
baugh embraces everything the Univer-
sity of Michigan is about and I fully sup-
port him. His student-athletes take
their studies seriously and they gradu-
ate. He makes a commitment to each
player that he brings to campus. Coach
sets the tone in wanting to win every
single game, and more importantly, he
wants every student-athlete to have a
great, full U-M experience while they’re
doing it.”
Michigan’s ‘Unicorn’
John Bacon is the author of “End-
zone: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Mich-
igan Football,” a 2015 book that includes
the story of how the university lured
Harbaugh from the San Francisco 49ers
after the 2014 season. Bacon figures Big
Ten titles are just one measure of Har-
baugh’s worth.
“The flip side is, from a purely finan-
cial perspective, there’s absolutely no
question it’s been a phenomenally wise
investment,” he says. “When Brady
Hoke was let go at the end of the 2014
season … they were doing 60,000 or
70,000 fans, no matter what the atten-
dance figures they issued said. So to
have the Big House and the skyboxes
one-third empty costs you a ton of mon-
ey at Michigan, to say the least.”
Michigan has led the NCAA in atten-
dance in each of Harbaugh’s three sea-
sons there. And Harbaugh offers plenty
of fodder for news media and fans
across the college football landscape.
“Whether people like Harbaugh or
not, who does not talk about him na-
tionwide to get more clicks?” Bacon
says. “Harbaugh losing to Notre Dame
gets more attention than Ohio State
winning.”
James Hackett became Michigan’s
interim athletics director on Halloween
in 2014, midway through a season in
which the Wolverines would finish 5-7
and Hoke would be fired. Harbaugh
would go 8-8 that season with the 49ers,
two seasons removed from their Super
Bowl loss to his brother John’s Balti-
more Ravens.
Hackett is now president and CEO of
Ford Motor Company. He declined to
Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh, speaking to Shea Patterson, is 32-12 at the school.
JIM YOUNG/AP
speak for this story through a Ford
spokesperson. But Bacon’s book tells
how Hackett and Harbaugh spoke by
phone on Saturday nights during that
late fall and early winter, a time when
Hackett called Harbaugh by an internal
code name, “Unicorn,” reflecting his sta-
tus as a one-of-a-kind candidate.
Bacon says coaches must fit the cul-
ture at their colleges in ways that are un-
necessary for coaches on the NFL level.
“These college programs may be
businesses to the athletic directors, but
they are religion to the fans,” he says.
“And to have one of your own come
back, the prodigal son and all that, it
goes a long way.”
Manuel is also a U-M grad. That
means something there.
“Look, nobody takes it easy on me or
easy on Jim because we went to school
here and we’re Michigan men,” Manuel
says. “The production and what you do
and how you are” is also important.
“And I’m pleased with who Jim is and
where he is and how he treats these stu-
dent-athletes.”
‘Top perk in corporate America’
Ron Weiser is vice chair of the uni-
versity’s board of regents, which does
not approve coaching contracts. Does
he think Harbaugh is worth the money?
“I don’t know,” Weiser says. “I don’t
know what his contract is for.”
Hard to fathom, given that Har-
baugh’s contract is a matter of public
record and a matter of much news
media and fan scrutiny.
“That’s not up for me to determine
anyhow,” Weiser says of Harbaugh’s
worth. “That’s up to the athletic depart-
ment to determine.”
Harbaugh’s contract spells out his
worth this way: This season he is mak-
ing $550,000 in base salary and
$4.95 million in additional compensa-
tion plus $2 million paid into a life insur-
ance policy from which Michigan will
recover part of the death benefits. Mich-
igan is scheduled to pay $14 million in
loan advances into the policy over the
life of the contract.
Howard Sharfman, senior managing
director of NFP Insurance Solutions, ran
a program for USA TODAY to show what
a split-dollar life insurance plan might
look like using the parameters in Har-
baugh’s deal. (Sharfman is not involved
in Harbaugh’s case but is an expert on
such matters; he offers these numbers
for purposes of illustration.)
Currently, the policy would provide
Harbaugh’s estate a death benefit of a
little more than $75 million, from which
Michigan would get repayment for the
premium loans, plus interest. But
there’s a longer-haul feature: Using pre-
sent dollar values and assuming Michi-
gan pays all of the scheduled premiums,
Harbaugh would be able to draw more
than $1.2 million a year in tax-free in-
come from the policy’s accumulated
cash value from age 70 through age 84
— and the death benefit would still be
more than $32 million, minus the
roughly $20 million in loans and inter-
est Michigan would be owed. The dol-
lars likely will be worth much less in
those years than they are now, but it’s
still an attractive setup.
Bennett Speyer is an attorney who
represents coaches, athletics directors
and sports executives. He declines to
name his clients but says he has about
10 with split-dollar insurance plans in
their contracts, with two more in the
works in the months ahead.
“This has been a longstanding top
perk in Corporate America,” Speyer
says. He figures he negotiated his first
split-dollar insurance plan in a college
coaching contract roughly 10 years ago.
And he thinks such plans will become
increasingly popular in coaching con-
tracts in the years to come. That’s in part
because the new tax law places a 21%
excise tax on non-profits on compensa-
tion over $1 million for an organization’s
top-five-paid employees.
“It costs universities an additional 21
cents on the dollar for compensation
over $1 million,” Speyer says. “So let’s
take a coach making $5 million. If it’s all
cash compensation, it’s going to cost
the university basically $5.8 million,
and change, to pay the coach
$5 million.”
‘Moving in the right direction?’
Micheline Maynard is an author
and journalist who is a lecturer in jour-
nalism in the Lloyd Hall Scholars Pro-
gram at Michigan. Last year she used
Harbaugh’s contract in a class.
“It was a discussion about execu-
tive compensation,” she says. “Nor-
mally I would pull a CEO contract, but
instead I pulled Harbaugh’s because I
figured it might have a little more rele-
vance to the Michigan students.”
The Michigan Daily recently ran a
story on the contracts of all of the
coaches at Michigan. Persak, the co-
managing sports editor, said it is
among the Daily’s most popular sto-
ries of this school year.
Weiser, of the board of regents, says
he can well understand why Michi-
gan’s president might not want to talk
about Harbaugh’s deal.
“No more than I really want to talk
about the contract because I don’t
know anything about it,” Weiser says.
“I’m only talking in general about the
athletic department and the fact that it
is a positive for the university as far as
revenue is concerned.”
While getting less than $300,000
each year from the university, none
from student fees, Michigan’s athlet-
ics department annually operates at a
surplus and sends more than $1 million
of that surplus to the university, ac-
cording to financial reports filed with
the NCAA. During its 2017 fiscal year,
the most recent one for which a finan-
cial report is available, the athletics
department gave more than $4.3 mil-
lion to the university.
“There’s no money that goes from
the school, from the education part of
the school, to the athletic depart-
ment,” says Weiser, chair of the state
Republican party. “It is the other way
around. All of the student-athletes
who are on scholarship, the money is
paid in full by the athletic department
to the education part of the school. So
it’s money coming our way.”
According to its NCAA financial re-
ports, Michigan’s annual operating
revenue from football is much greater
under Harbaugh than it was under his
predecessor, Brady Hoke. However,
Michigan has spent so much more on
football under Harbaugh, beginning
with his compensation, that its sur-
plus from the sport is a little less than it
was under Hoke, who was making
$2.85 million in his final season with
the Wolverines.
In 2013 and 2014, the two full
fiscal cycles with Hoke, Michigan re-
ported averages of $86.4 million in
football revenue and $24.9 million
in expenses, an average surplus of
$61.5 million.
In 2017, the one full fiscal cycle
available for the Harbaugh era, football
revenue was $105.9 million and ex-
penses $46.2 million, a $59.6 million
surplus.
Maynard thinks Harbaugh earns
his worth for Michigan just in terms of
global marketing.
“He’s achieved one of Michigan’s
goals, which was to elevate the visibil-
ity of its football program,” she says.
“Has he achieved the goal of winning
championships? No, he hasn’t … but
he’s done one part of (his job) splen-
didly.”
Manuel cites Harbaugh’s creativity.
“You think about the international
trips that we’ve invested in for our stu-
dent-athletes,” Manuel says. “The way
we have driven success on the aca-
demic side. A lot of people focus on,
‘Do we win? Do we win Big Ten cham-
pionships, do we win national cham-
pionships under Jim?’ ”
Manuel focuses instead on what he
calls a more broad-based look at the
goal of building toward those champi-
onships.
“Are we moving in that direction?”
he says. “Absolutely.”
SPORTS
THREE BEST DEALS
As part of its annual coaches’ com-
pensation package, USA TODAY has
obtained and reviewed the most re-
cent contracts of more than 130 Foot-
ball Bowl Subdivision coaches over the
past year. And for the schools that
hired those coaches, some of these
contracts are better deals than others.
Here are three contracts that provide
the best value for their respective
schools, based on total compensation,
buyout parameters and performance,
among other factors.
Rocky Long, San Diego State
The deal is affordable, the results are
consistently superb, and that combi-
nation will keep Long on this list for
the foreseeable future.
The Aztecs again finished with dou-
ble-digit wins in 2017, even ranking as
high as No. 20 in the first Amway
Coaches Poll of this season. Yet Long,
even with a slight pay raise, is still
making a middle-of-the-road salary in
the Mountain West. His 2018 total
compensation ($873,576) ranks be-
tween Utah State’s Matt Wells and
New Mexico’s Bob Davie and his uni-
versity buyout ($447,412 as of Dec. 1)
is minuscule, should the Aztecs want
to make a change.
Ed Orgeron, LSU
Maybe the Tigers’ 5-0 start to the
season will prove to be a mirage. May-
be it won’t. But in either case, LSU will
likely find itself comfortable with Or-
geron’s deal in the long run.
The 57-year-old is due $3.5 million in
2018, a mild salary by Southeastern
Conference standards, and the school
would be on the hook for just $5.29
million if it fired him on Dec. 1. In an-
other conference, perhaps, these
figures would be significant. But in the
SEC, it’s incredibly reasonable, and, if
LSU keeps winning, it could wind up
being a bargain.
Nick Saban, Alabama
Another year, another national cham-
pionship for Saban and the Crimson
Tide. Though no college football
coach in the country makes as much
money as Saban, no coach wins titles
with as much consistency as he does,
either. That makes his otherwise exor-
bitant compensation ($8.3 million in
2018) a pretty good deal for Alabama.
Tom Schad
THREE WORST DEALS
Here are five contracts that provide
the least value for their respective
schools, based on total compensation,
buyout parameters and performance,
among other factors.
Kirk Ferentz, Iowa
The more you examine his contract,
the worse it looks for Iowa. His base
compensation for 2018 is $4.7 million,
but it’s also riddled with incentives —
bonus opportunities that he should
regularly hit, inflating that number.
If the Hawkeyes simply make a bowl
game, for example, Ferentz will re-
ceive a $100,000 bonus. If they win
seven games, his entire staff will re-
ceive an automatic 8 percent raise.
And if they win eight, as they have in
the first two years of the contract,
he’ll get an additional $500,000. (Win-
ning seven games or more would also
trigger an automatic increase in his
buyout clause.)
Jimbo Fisher, Texas A&M
How bad did the Aggies want Fisher?
Judging by the lopsided nature of his
contract — Pretty darn bad.
Not only is Fisher due $7.5 million in
total compensation this year, which is
among the steepest salaries in the
country, but if Texas A&M wanted to
fire him, they’d owe him whatever’s
left on his 10-year, $75 million deal.
(As of Dec. 1, that would be more than
$68 million, with Fisher under no re-
sponsibility to offset or mitigate that
sum with future earnings.) If Fisher
wanted to leave on his own, mean-
while, he’d owe the school nothing.
Gus Malzahn, Auburn
In response to reported interest
from Arkansas, the Tigers reworked
Malzahn’s deal and gave him an annual
raise of nearly $2 million, a hefty
increase, even by SEC standards. The
real issue is the buyout. Last year,
as of Dec. 1, it would have been
$6.9 million. This year, because his
new contract effectively guaranteed
75% of his deal, it would be more than
$32 million.
Tom Schad
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drugs and health care, but strictly in
the context of the Baxter family, not as
a larger political statement, as “Rose-
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WASHINGTON – It’s hard for a lot of
people to wrap their heads around the
fact that addiction is a disease, even the
man whose story of being a teenage ad-
dict inspired the new drama “Beautiful
Boy.”
“I proved it to myself enough that I
know it now, but it doesn’t make sense,”
says Nic Sheff, who is played by Timoth-
ée Chalamet in the upcoming film (in
theaters Oct. 12). “Why can’t I just drink
a glass of wine like my wife can and not
need to suddenly be drinking all day
long and all night long and then go to
crystal meth and heroin?”
Sheff joined his father David (their
books about their experiences were the
basis for “Beautiful Boy”) and director
Felix Van Groeningen for a presentation
at the U.S. Navy Memorial. The screen-
ing was dedicated to the memory of
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torial page editor Bill Sternberg, who
died last November, and the 72,000 oth-
er victims of drug overdoses last year.
“Beautiful Boy” centers on Nic’s fight
with meth addiction, with many recov-
eries and just as many relapses, as Da-
vid (played by Steve Carell) tries to be
there for his son in whatever ways pos-
sible while struggling to not neglect the
rest of his family.
When the Sheffs were first ap-
proached about a movie, David found it
scary and admittedly “unthinkable.” He
said it was an “anguished experience”
for him and Nic writing books on the
subject – including his first, 2009’s
#BOOKMARKTHIS
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Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman
call their funny, revealing new book
“The Greatest Love Story Ever Told”
(Dutton). The book’s title may be
tongue-in-cheek, but all kidding aside,
these guys really are crazy in love. The
Hollywood couple have been together
for 18 years and just celebrated their 15th
wedding anniversary.
Offerman, along with Amy Poehler,
hosted this summer’s crafting competi-
tion “Making It” on NBC. Mullally re-
turns as kooky Karen Walker on NBC’s
“Will & Grace” this week (Thursdays at 9
EDT/PDT).
Mullally and Offerman (holding
hands) joined USA TODAY in New York
for some tasty repartee during a
#BookmarkThis video chat. Highlights:
Question: So, this project began as
series of conversations that you liter-
ally had in bed on your smartphones?
Most people are falling asleep and you
two are engaging in witty dialogue a la
“Will & Grace”!
Megan Mullally:We were on tour, so
we were never in our own bed, we were
in beds strewn across the country and
perhaps around the world. Every once in
a while I’d say, “Hey, want to lay down a
couple chapters?” And Nick would get
his phone out and put on the recorder. I
wouldn’t tell him in advance what the
topic was, he might front-load. So I’d
say, “OK, the topic is: Families.” And
then we’d just start having a conversa-
tion about families. And it was very in-
teresting. I would find myself closing my
eyes so that I was really focused on what
Nick was saying. I think we learned a lit-
tle bit about each other and a few things
came out that we weren’t necessarily
aware of.
Nick Offerman: When you get into a
relationship you learn by accretion. You
gather bits and pieces along the way. So
when you sit down and say, “OK, let’s
talk for an indefinite period about our
families, our early careers,” you get a
much more complete sense of the biog-
raphy. I had a lot of spaces filled in, es-
pecially in Megan’s young life. I sort of
knew the headlines, but then to have
them pieced together chronologically
was pretty fascinating, elucidating and
also quite tragic when she began talking
about the string of lovers she’s had
David Sheff (Steve Carell) helps son Nic (Timothee Chalamet) through his
addiction in “Beautiful Boy,” based on a true story. PHOTOS BY FRANCOIS DUHAMEL
“Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey
Through His Son’s Meth Addiction” –
“and sort of opening up to try to tell our
story, but at least we had control over it.”
Yet they were impressed with Van
Groeningen’s commitment to “showing
what it’s like without trying to tie it up in
a Hollywood bow at the end,” David
adds.
Growing up in Belgium, the director
says he knew people close to his family
who wrestled with addiction. “I was
young, I experimented with drugs, I
could’ve been like Nic. It didn’t happen,
but it could have happened. So for a lot
Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman have been together for 18 years and just
celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary. ROBERT DEUTSCH/USA TODAY
throughout her life. Con-
tinues to this day.
Q: I think I missed that
chapter!
Mullally: When we did
the chapter about sex he
got really shy and didn’t
really want to do it. But
then he warmed up.
Offerman: I always do.
Mullally: Famous in the
bedroom.
Offerman: (laughs.)
Q: You joke in your
book that Antony and
Cleopatra, Samson and Delilah and
Bogart and Bacall have nothing on you
guys. It’s a great love story, but it’s
also a great “like” story, isn’t it?
Mullally: You know that feeling –
we’ve all been there – in a relationship
when you’re dating someone and you’re
driving along and you think, “I would
rather hurtle myself out of this automo-
of reasons, I felt that it was an important
story to tell.”
Nic visited the set on a day when they
were filming a scene in which his cine-
matic counterpart confesses to his dad
and stepmom (Maura Tierney) about
how much he’d been using.
“Just watching this piece of our life
being re-enacted in front of me was so
bizarre,” he says. “And then seeing on
the big screen, it really felt like a gift to
me. It was just like this reminder, like
every day I should be so grateful for the
fact that I’m alive and that I’m here with
my dad and that we are so close.”
bile going 40 miles an
hour than to listen to one
more millisecond of this
person speaking”? And I
never have that with Nick.
Offerman: I try not to
talk too much in the car.
Mullally: I like him. I
like what he has to say. I
think he’s funny. I think
he’s cute.
Offerman: We love
working together. If we
drive together, if we share
a dressing room, we know
going into it that we’re go-
ing to get along. We’re
very domestically compatible. People
often say to us, “Are you crazy? I can
barely stand my spouse at home every
day after work, how can you choose to
go to work with her?” And we say, “Well,
that sounds really sad for you, because
we just like each other.”
Mullally: And we like to be together.
We’d rather be together than not togeth-
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Nic (Chalamet) hugs his stepmom
Karen (Maura Tierney) in “Beautiful
Boy,” in theaters Oct. 12.
For his father, watching the film “just
shook me to my core how close I came to
losing him,” said David, who adds that
while there are more addiction medica-
tions and therapies, there still needs to
be an “attitudinal shift” when it comes
to the ongoing stigma.
“If somebody comes in (the hospital)
with any other condition, they take it
very seriously,” he says. “But if some-
body comes in because they’ve over-
dosed, they sort of roll their eyes. They
put them in the back of the line. … It’s
hard to treat it, but it is a treatable dis-
ease.”
Now 36, Nic Sheff is eight years sober,
checks in with his doctor every couple of
months, and takes medication for de-
pression and bipolar disorder. “It’s a lit-
tle bit of a hassle,” he says. “But at the
same time, it’s amazing because I put in
the work, and I get to have this amazing
life from it. And I wouldn’t trade that for
anything.”
er. And we have our two-week rule:
We’ve never been apart more than two
weeks. That helps.
Q: Megan, what are we going to see
on the new season of “Will & Grace”?
Mullally: Karen and Stan are getting a
divorce. Karen is a little cut adrift men-
tally and emotionally because she really
did love him and she has been with him
her whole life. But she was having this
kind of “Same Time, Next Year” fling
with Alec Baldwin’s character, Malcolm.
And Stan finds out about it because
Malcolm tells him, because he wants
Karen for himself. Stan sues her for di-
vorce. Alec is back (this season). I love
working with him, he’s amazing. He’s no
Nick Offerman, but he’s darned good.
Q: And Nick, “Making It” got re-
newed for a second season?
Offerman: People responded really
well to it, which was very satisfying. We
wanted to make a show that was all pos-
itive to give us a little respite from the
state of our society right now.
Mullally: Why, what’s going on?
Offerman: Don’t look at the news. Ev-
erything’s cool.
Mullally: Is it about Cardi B getting
arrested?
Q: You’re going to have to make
more crafting puns, you and Amy
Poehler.
Offerman: You know, they really hit
the puns hard. And I’m worried, be-
cause that well is not terribly deep.
There are only so many rhymes for
“glue.”
Q: Megan, in your book you are
critical of the pressure actresses feel
to look a certain way on the red car-
pet, and Nick, you say it’s an example
of sexism in Hollywood. What are
your thoughts on the #MeToo move-
ment?
Mullally: I have some #MeToo mo-
ments that I have not shared yet. They
are my stories to tell and when the time
is right I’ll tell them. I haven’t figured out
yet the right way to do that. I might have
a conversation with Nick and talk about
it. I do feel that real change is upon us in
that arena, and it’s exciting. And a long
time coming. Let’s keep it going.
Offerman: I’m thrilled by this move-
ment ... it’s incredible what’s being ex-
posed as deeply entrenched behavior
and traditions, even among our institu-
tions that seem to be forward-thinking.
I’m happy to be an advocate and use my
ears (to listen) as much as possible.
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Vince Flynn, Kyle dent to stop a potential war; 15th in series (F) (E) Atria/ Remarkable Thing video of an unusual sculpture (F) (H) Dutton the best-selling version of
Mills Emily Bestler Books Hank Green that title this week.
Reporting outlets include
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Bob Woodward Schuster Leadership/Jocko Lead and Win” (NF) (H) St. Martin’s Press Barnes & Noble.com,
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Katz Cowley Central Publishing Powells.com, R.J. Julia
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Little, Brown
13 4 Cravings: Hungry for More/Chrissy Teigen, Adeena Sussman Follow-up to successful cookbook, including famous banana bread recipe (NF) (H) Clarkson Potter
14 101Supernova/Kazu Kibuishi Emily has to find a way to escape after being imprisoned in the Void; eighth in series (F) (H) Graphix
15 6 Whiskey in a Teacup/Reese Witherspoon Subtitle: “What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits” (NF) (H) Touchstone
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17 — Cross Breed/Lora Leigh Cassandra Sinclair offers herself to Dog in exchange for her sister’s safety (F) (E) Berkley
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19 — Together: Our Community Cookbook/The Hubb Community Collection of recipes from women affected by the Grenfell Tower fire in London; foreword by the Duchess of Sussex (NF) (H) Clarkson
Kitchen Potter
20 30 The Hate U Give/Angie Thomas Youth: Starr Carter witnesses a fatal shooting that becomes national news (F) (H) Balzer + Bray
21 — AI Superpowers/Kai-Fu Lee Subtitle: “China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order” (NF) (E) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
22 — Hot Winter Nights/Jill Shalvis Lucas Knight is assigned to keep an eye on Molly Malone; eighth in series (F) (E) Avon
23 23 To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before/Jenny Han Lara Jean Song writes secret love letters to crushes that get mailed; movie (F) (P) Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
24 18 Educated/Tara Westover Memoir by a Cambridge Ph.D. who was raised by Idaho survivalists and did not enter a classroom until she was 17 (NF) (E) Random House
25 32 Room on the Broom/Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler Children: A witch in search of her hat welcomes myriad creatures onto her broom (F) (P) Puffin
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Paperbacks
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29 16 China Rich Girlfriend/Kevin Kwan Rachel Chu, engaged to marry Asia’s most eligible bachelor, discovers her biological father; second in trilogy (F) (P) Anchor
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45 26 Shadow Tyrants/Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison Juan Cabrillo and his Oregon team try to stop two warring tyrants (F) (H) G.P. Putnam’s Sons
46 47 Always and Forever, Lara Jean/Jenny Han Youth: Lara Jean has to be make decisions about her future, including college and her boyfriend; third in series (F) (P) Simon & Schuster
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47 43 StrengthsFinder 2.0/Tom Rath Lifetime strategies for using your talents (NF) (H) Gallup
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TELEVISION

‘Big Bang’ cast cried

with news of the end
Actors energized for final
season, producer says
Bill Keveney
USA TODAY

BURBANK, Calif. – Expect plenty of

tears – along with the laughs – when
“The Big Bang Theory” ends its 12-sea-
son run in May.
But the crying has already started.
Preliminary talks were under way to
extend the show for up to two more sea-
sons, so the August announcement of
its impending finale brought an event
that always seemed in the distant future
much closer.
“The first few days were very emo-
tional. I think it was an adjustment for
all of us,” says Steven Molaro, a long-
time “Big Bang” executive producer.
Some of the stars, including Jim Par-
sons and Kaley Cuoco, posted their re-
actions on Instagram shortly after the
announcement.
Executive producer Steve Holland
says the cast and crew, like fans, felt the
impending loss, too.
“This has been such a big part of their
lives, so there were definitely tears,” he
says. “But everyone wants to make this
last season great. The next day we had a
run-through, and everyone came to
work to make the best show. I think in
some way it’s really energized everyone
to put everything out there and make
this last season incredible.”
As for news reports that said some
cast members wanted to continue but
that Jim Parsons, who plays Sheldon,
was ready to leave, Holland says, “Dif-
ferent people had different feelings
about what should happen. I think ulti-
mately, everyone knew there was a
chance this was going to be the end and
that the show needed to end in a way we
could still finish strong.”
“Big Bang” writers generally don’t
plot too far ahead, so Molaro and Hol-
land say there’s plenty of time to craft a
satisfying conclusion.
“For years, we’ve talked about what
Jim Parsons and Johnny Galecki end
their 12-year “Big Bang” run in May.
MICHAEL YARISH/CBS
the last episode could be but now we
have to sit down and plan it. It’s good we
knew early enough in the season,” Hol-
land says. As for the final episode, “We
have some ideas we’re really excited
about but nothing set in stone yet.”
In the meantime, early story lines in-
clude picking up on the scientific break-
through Sheldon and Amy teamed on
during last season’s wedding finale; Raj
considers an arranged marriage in his
search for a wife; and Stuart (finally)
gets a girlfriend.
Favorite guest stars will return: Bob
Newhart as Professor Proton and Keith
Carradine as Penny’s father are locked
in, and producers hope Sheldon’s moth-
er (Laurie Metcalf) and Leonard’s
mother (Christine Baranski), two fan fa-
vorites, will reappear, along with Mark
Hamill, who officiated at Sheldon and Six stories of rubble.
Amy’s wedding in the Season 1 finale. A million stories buried underneath.
But “the focus has to be on these
characters,” Holland says. Season 1 exposes political corruption in
Will they all have happy endings? Chicago and the environmental racism beneath.
“I don’t know exactly what the finale
is, so I can’t make that promise, but I Listen wherever you
think we’ve always felt this show is a get your podcasts.
happy, positive show about people who
love each other, so we’re not looking to
kill everyone off in the finale,” he says.
“You have to find a way to end this show ApplePodcasts.com/TheCity
that feels real to these characters.”
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Hardy sionally, he’ll spin the gold band on his

thumb, a token from his grandfather
who died.
Continued from Page 1D His family life is one of the big rea-
sons he took “Venom” in the first place.
critical bust “Spider-Man 3,” then His actress wife, Charlotte Riley, and
played by Topher Grace. sons did not accompany him to the
And Spider-Man himself, to whom shoot in Atlanta. (He and Riley have a
Venom is inextricably linked in Marvel toddler who’s almost 3; his eldest is
comic books, was “off the table from the from a previous relationship.)
start” to appear in “Venom,” Hardy says. “Things have got to change signifi-
(Thanks to a complex Hollywood part- cantly,” he says. “It’s another good rea-
nership, Sony has the rights to Spider- son to transition into things that maybe
Man but effectively loaned the charac- are slightly more lucrative and look at
ter out to Disney’s Marvel Cinematic the option of saying, ‘I need time to be
Universe for five films – which is why here as a parent.’ Like, months of being a
Spidey was in “Avengers: Infinity War.”) parent.”
Hardy persisted, determined to make Tom Hardy doesn't think Venom is a superhero or a villain. “He’s an alien that’s The days of children’s innocence are
a film for as broad an audience as pos- living rent-free in a human being.” SONY PICTURES fleeting, he knows. “There’s a window
sible. It may pay off: Though critics with kids where the world revolves
haven’t been won over, “Venom” is set to around them, because it’s supposed to,”
win the weekend with an estimated take mining a restaurant scene for comedy. whether it’s for DC or Marvel? Can you Hardy says.
of $60 million. “Most actors, you’d pose to them you’re see Eddie Brock and Venom work with When they’re young, “they’re little
“I’m not a hardline comic book fan. going to have to get in the lobster tank, any of your other options? And if you tank commanders, and you’re basically
I’m a creative artist, and I’m going to and they’d balk at it,” Fleischer says. “He can, that’s successful,” Hardy says. there to carry them from one activity to
maybe upset some people, but some initiated it.” In person, Hardy’s accessories are another and feed them, and everything
people I’m not,” Hardy says. The actor was cheered on by his 10- his safety valves. As he dives deeper is done for them. And you don’t want
And so the actor went full bore. For year-old son Louis, who adores Venom. into conversation, a stack of wooden them to bang their heads, you keep
months before filming, Hardy would “If I’m being really candid, he loves all of beaded bracelets are pulled on and off them alive, and you keep them enjoying
workshop Venom’s voice, playing with them,” Hardy says, from Captain Amer- and finally discarded in a pile on the Christmas and whatever you can. Just
recordings on GarageBand at home ica to Batman. couch. He sheds his massive leather enjoy it while it lasts!”
while sending paintings and drawings To some, “Venom” is perhaps an au- jacket. He doesn’t touch his ever-pre- It’s that innate wonder Hardy is pro-
of the symbiote to director Ruben dition to enter Marvel’s “Avengers” line- sent vape pen. (And, yes, there on his in- tecting. A freedom from suffering, from
Fleischer. “He was just obsessed with up, a la Spidey. But for Hardy, the ques- ner bicep is the not-small “Leo knows existential fear, that ahh, he says.
it,” Fleischer says. tion is whether Venom stands up among all” tattoo he got after losing a bet with “I want to pour more into that be-
On the set, it was Hardy’s idea to all the other superheroes. “Could you Leonardo DiCaprio. “It’s like a Basquiat. cause it doesn’t last,” he laughs, consid-
jump into an ice-cold tank of lobsters, see him in a combination of movies, I’ve been signed,” Hardy cracks.) Occa- ering: “Unless you’re Bill Murray.”

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Last Man
Continued from Page 1D
more political fodder coming this sea-
son when Ryan takes over Mike’s fa-
ther’s marijuana dispensary.
At the Television Critics Association
summer press tour in August, Allen
speculated that Mike would probably be
pro-President Trump if it helped his
business, but probably wouldn’t defend
him.
But in an interview last week, he and
Abbott say there are no plans to refer to
Trump directly in the show, which fea-
tured him as part of a Halloween cos-
tume joke in 2016.
Mike “ never mentions him,” Allen
says, and Abbott isn’t writing the presi-
dent into any scripts.
Allen says he doesn’t think there’s
any fresh joke material about the presi-
dent, either. “It’s always about his looks,
his tweeting. It’s been done. It’s done
every night on Colbert, so there’s noth-
ing new.”
Whether it’s a matter of his politics or
comedic sensibility, Allen thinks there
Mike Baxter (Tim Allen) has some strong views, but his wife Vanessa (Nancy
Travis) sometimes applies the brakes on her husband. FOX
would have been plenty of material with
a Hillary Clinton presidency.
Her loss to Trump in 2016, when
“Man” was on ABC, “ took the wind out
of us,” he says. “I was in heaven, going,
‘This is going to be a great next year be-
cause Hillary is going to be president.’
We’d have the pantsuits, … the left,
“Tim Allen is not
Mike Baxter. If you want
Tim Allen’s opinion, come
see me in Vegas.”
Tim Allen
Communists, liberals.It would be so
much more fun.”
Allen, who was born in Colorado and
grew up in Michigan, is not a fan of what
he calls the liberal “bubble of Holly-
wood“ and agrees with some of Mike’s
opinions. “I love that he constantly jabs
at California. Even my liberal buddies
go, ‘Did we just get another tax here?’”
The actor also is a conservative, but
he separates himself from Mike.
“Tim Allen is not Mike Baxter. If you
want Tim Allen’s opinion, come see me
in Vegas,” he says of his stand-up act.
“I’m much much more anarchist-think-
ing because I’m a comedian. I take shots
at everybody, but it’s literally to make
you laugh.”

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NBC Superstore (N) The Good Place Will & Grace A love interest. I Feel Bad Emet tells a lie. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Benson and Stone Local Programs The Tonight Show
(Season premiere) A grand scheme. (N) (N) (Season premiere) (N) help a young girl reunite with her mother. (N) Starring Jimmy Fallon (N)
PBS The This Old House Hour 1920s bungalow. (N) Masterpiece Hugh Armitage runs for office. Antiques Roadshow Book proposal. Amanpour and Company (N)
CW Supernatural One rash choice could alter lives. The Originals Klaus’ plan affects Mikalseon family. Local Programs
ION CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Poker chips. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Actress killed. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Two murdered. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Casino robbery.
Telemundo Exatlón Estados Unidos Desafíos deportivos. (N) Falsa identidad (N) El recluso Ex marino ingresa a una prisión. (N) Al rojo vivo (N) Titulares y más
Univision El rico y Lázaro Drama bíblico. Mi marido tiene más familia La Piloto Yolanda halla redención y amor. Primer impacto extra (N) Noti. Univi. Ed. noc. (N)
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A&E The First 48 Law officer gunned down in cold blood. The First 48 A woman is found bound by the road. (N) Nightwatch Nation A man is attacked. (N) Nightwatch Nation A brawl erupts.
AMC The Walking Dead The Walking Dead The group deals with a new threat. The Walking Dead Motivations begin to be revealed. The Walking Dead Undertaking a dangerous mission.
Animal Planet Northwest Law A pair of elderly men fall overboard. Northwest Law The officers hunt down a criminal. (N) Northwest Law Cracking down on poached shrimp. (N) Northwest Law An angry fisherman is confronted.
BBC America Doctor Who The Doctor meets Hitler in 1930s Berlin. Doctor Who The Doctor helps a little boy with OCD. Doctor Who Amy is trapped in a quarantine facility. Doctor Who The Doctor encounters his darkest fears.
BET Jumping the Broom Two families arrive for a wedding, but realize they come from two backgrounds. (2011) The Grand Hustle Final two compete. (N) The Grand Hustle Final two compete.
Bravo Madea’s Family Reunion Tyler Perry (2006) (6:30) Shahs of Sunset Season highlights. (N) Flipping Out A manager clash on Jeff’s own team. What Happens (N) Below Deck
Cartoon Gumball Gumball American Dad! American Dad! Bob’s Burgers Bob’s Burgers Family Guy Family Guy
CMT Last Man Standing Last Man Standing Last Man Standing Last Man Standing Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team (N) God’s Not Dead College freshman’s faith challenged.
CNBC Undercover Boss Pest control. Undercover Boss Growing franchise. Undercover Boss Culinary talent. Undercover Boss Retail store lacks security.
CNN Anderson Cooper 360° (N) Cuomo Prime Time (N) CNN Tonight with Don Lemon (N) CNN Tonight with Don Lemon (N)
Comedy The Office The Office The Office The Office The Office The Office Daily Show (N) The Jim Jefferies Show
Discovery Gold Rush Fred’s excavator gets stuck in a pit, so he’s forced to abandon his paydirt. (N) Gold Rush Goal at risk; questionable future.
Disney Raven’s Home Raven’s Home Stuck in the Middle Stuck in the Middle BUNK’D BUNK’D Raven’s Home Raven’s Home
DisXD DuckTales Big City Greens Parker Plays Polaris Player Select DuckTales Marvel’s Spider-Man Star vs. the Forces of Evil Star vs. the Forces of Evil
DIY Tiny House, Big Living Tiny House, Big Living Tiny House (N) Tiny House (N) Tiny House, Big Living Tiny House, Big Living Tiny House, Big Living Tiny House, Big Living
E! Botched Rhinoplasty performed by dentist. Botched Dr. Dubrow helps a body builder. Botched Breast cancer survivor feels whole. Botched Full body work on a pair of sisters.
Food Chopped Wild appetizer ingredients are used. Bite Club Southern cuisine in Charleston, S.C. (N) Beat Bobby Flay (N) Beat Bobby Flay Beat Bobby Flay Beat Bobby Flay
Fox News Tucker Carlson Tonight (N) Hannity (N) The Ingraham Angle (N) Fox News @ Night(N)
Freeform Monster House Kids fear a spooky house is alive. The Addams Family A con artist attempts to dupe an eccentric family out of their fortune. (1991) The 700 Club
FX Thor: The Dark World Thor is faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot endure. Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman (2013) Thor: The Dark World Thor is faced with a hazardous mission. (2013)
FXX The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons
GSN Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Cash Cab Cash Cab
Hallmark Pumpkin Pie Wars A feud between bakery owners appears to be involving the next generation. (2016) The Golden Girls The Golden Girls The Golden Girls The Golden Girls
HGTV Flip or Flop Flip or Flop Flip or Flop (N) Hot Properties (N) House Hunters (N) Hunters International (N) Desert Flippers House Hunters
History Mountain Men Tom’s season is threatened by melt. Mountain Men Marty tries to get out of the brush; Mike faces a treacherous mountain. (N) Forged in Fire: Knife or Death Favorites return.
HLN Forensic Files Forensic Files Forensic Files Forensic Files Forensic Files Forensic Files Forensic Files Forensic Files
ID The Coroner: I Speak for the Dead The Coroner: I Speak for the Dead (N) To Catch a Killer Identity theft. (N) 48 Hours on ID Body left in car. (N)
IFC The Green Hornet Seth Rogen, Jay Chou (2011) (6:30) The Mask A downtrodden bank clerk finds a mask that turns him into a dashing trickster. Jim Carrey (1994) The Green Hornet Seth Rogen, Jay Chou (2011)
Lifetime The Help In a small town in Mississippi during the 1960s, a white southern girl returns home from college and interviews black women about their jobs. (2011) 24 to Life Erika tries to break siblings out jail.
MSNBC All in with Chris Hayes (N) The Rachel Maddow Show (N) The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell (N) The 11th Hour with Brian Williams (N)
MTV Jersey Shore: Family Vacation (N) Jersey Shore: Family Vacation Floribama Shore A road trip to New Orleans. Jersey Shore: Family Vacation
NatGeo Life Below Zero Alaskans’ lives are ruled by climate. Life Below Zero: Ice Breakers Essential resources. (N) Life Below Zero Inhabitants of remote Alaska. Life Below Zero Alaskans’ lives are ruled by climate.
NatGeo Wild Man v. Lion A big cat expert gets up close to lions. Jaguar vs. Croc A crew tracks jaguars in Brazil. Swamp Lions Lions are pursued by young male lions. Man v. Lion A big cat expert gets up close to lions.
Nick I Am Frankie (N) SpongeBob Alvin and the Chipmunks Songwriter discovers musical chipmunks. Jason Lee, David Cross (2007) Friends Friends
OWN 20/20 on OWN Gang rape lie. 20/20 on OWN Deadly feud. 20/20 on OWN River death. 20/20 on OWN Sexual assault.
Oxygen Chicago P.D. Team tries to identify a charred body. Chicago P.D. Father seeks vengeance for daughter. Chicago P.D. Tracking down guilty arsonist. Chicago P.D. Intelligence finds a kidnapped person.
Paramount Friends Friends Pitch Perfect Freshman joins a cappella group looking to redeem itself from embarrassing loss. Anna Kendrick, Skylar Astin (2012) Horrible Bosses (2011)
Pop Impact Wrestling Ghostbusters A group of paranormal investigators goes into the ghost extermination business. (1984)
Science Mysteries of the Abandoned Evil ruins. Mega Machines A special look at the building of the world’s most extreme machines. (N) Mega Machines Largest cargo plane.
Sundance Law & Order Biscoe and Curtis match wits with suspect. Law & Order Dream team of attorneys hampers case. Law & Order McCoy obsessed with catching rapist. Law & Order Kidnapping.
Syfy Insidious (2011) (6:24) Jeepers Creepers 3 Davis Tubbs recruits Dan Tashtego to put an end to the Creeper’s killing spree. (2017) (8:45) Insidious: Chapter 3 Dermot Mulroney (2015) (10:52)
TBS Seinfeld Seinfeld Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory Conan Comedian Ted Alexandro. (N)
TCM I’m No Angel A circus performer targets a playboy. Mae West, Cary Grant (1933) Dinner at Eight A businessman’s wife hosts a dinner party for his corrupted associates. Marie Dressler, John Barrymore (1933) (9:45)
TLC Long Island Medium Theresa goes on the road for a cross-country tour delivering healing messages. Long Island Medium Theresa spends some time with her kids and father after separating from Larry.
TNT London Has Fallen Secret Service agent must save U.S. president after terrorist attack on London. (2016) Olympus Has Fallen A guard searches for the president after a terrorist attack on the White House. (2013)
Travel A Haunting New home’s dark past revealed. A Haunting A woman buys a set of Haitian masks; restless spirits are drawn to a teenager. Haunted Live Cragfront House in Castalian Springs.
TruTV Impractical Jokers Impractical Jokers Impractical Jokers Impractical Jokers (N) Impractical Jokers (N) Laff Mobb’s (N) Laff Mobb’s Laff Tracks Impractical Jokers
TV Land Loves Raymond Loves Raymond The Goldbergs The Goldbergs Two and a Half Men Two and a Half Men The King of Queens The King of Queens
USA NCIS A playbook of terror attacks is stolen. NCIS NCIS looks for an escaped petty officer. NCIS Team member is targeted by hit man. The Purge Jenna receives a warning from Catalina.
Velocity Chasing Classic Cars Motorcycle builder Arlen Ness. Chasing Classic Cars 1961 DeVille; 1971 Stingray. Chasing Classic Cars Rare Aston Martin. Overhaulin’ 1982 El Camino goes to the set.
VH1 Why Did I Get Married Too? As four vacationing couples evaluate their marriages, a former spouse arrives. Tyler Perry, Janet Jackson (2010) CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story Keke Palmer (2013)
Viceland Bong Appétit Bong Appétit Bong Appétit Kingpin A former bowling phenom who lost his hand grooms an Amish boy to play the game. Woody Harrelson, Randy Quaid (1996)
WE Braxton Family Values Family thearapy Braxton Family Values (N) (Season finale) Bossip on WE tv (N) (Season finale) Braxton Family Values Therapy session is continued.
Weather Air Disasters A plane stalled over Buffalo, New York. Weather Gone Viral Nature’s wrath. Hurricanes 2017: Cruel and Unusual So You Think You’d Survive? Plane crash; more.
WGN America Last Man Standing Last Man Standing Last Man Standing Last Man Standing Last Man Standing Last Man Standing Last Man Standing Last Man Standing
MOVIE NETWORKS
Cinemax Splice Scientists add human DNA to that of animals and create a lethal hybrid. Insidious: The Last Key A parapsychologist, whose terrifying experiences as a girl led to her understanding The Siege Terrorists attack
Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley (2010) of a malevolent spirit world, must eliminate demons from her childhood home. Lin Shaye (2018) (9:45) New York. (1998)
Encore Legion Humans become part of a horrifying battle Fun with Dick and Jane Man and wife deal with a sudden reversal of fortune by Phantoms A flesh-eating monster stalks visitors to a small mountain town.
between factions of angels. Paul Bettany (2010) (7:17) becoming thieves. Jim Carrey, Téa Leoni (2005) Peter O’Toole, Rose McGowan (1998) (10:33)
FXM Money Monster The host of a stock investment show must work with his longtime producer to save himself Money Monster Television host must diffuse situation after he’s taken hostage FXM Presents (N)
after he is taken hostage by a disgruntled investor. George Clooney, Julia Roberts (2016) on air. George Clooney, Julia Roberts (2016) (9:55)
Hallmark Movies psych Gus’s family comes to town for the holidays; Garage Sale Mysteries: Guilty Until Proven Innocent A fetching antique store owner probes a murder case Murder, She Wrote Harry McGraw’s partner is murdered
suspicious Santa arrested. after an old college friend becomes implicated, being named as the prime suspect in the investigation. (2016) trying to solve cases, one involved Jessica.
HBO Phantom Thread A noted dressmaker and his sister adorn the royals and celebrities of the day in a distinct Insecure The Deuce Ashley and Abby decide to go on a search HBO First Look Filming
style, until he meets a woman who serves as both his muse and lover. Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville (2017) for the identity of a young sex worker. process.
Lifetime Movie Her Worst Nightmare A woman trying to get her life back to normal is unable to escape her past when a stalker Cleveland Abduction A young woman, abducted by a twisted man and held prisoner in his home for over a
brings back haunting memories of her being kidnapped and abused. Claire Blackwelder, Bryan Lillis (2018) decade, clings to her faith in God and a determination to see her son. Taryn Manning, Raymond Cruz (2015)
Showtime Shameless Frank and Fiona Patch Adams A medical student’s belief that humor is a potent medicine is opposed by the school’s dean, Kidding Jeff deal with a Naked SNCTM Damon Naked SNCTM Team is
face off on election day. but it is welcomed in the children’s ward of a hospital. Robin Williams, Monica Potter (1998) one-night stand. struggles to stay loyal. fearful.
Starz The Wrestler A washed-up professional wrestler Warriors of Liberty City Luther Campbell offers Liberty City Warriors of Liberty City Plan to win state championship Warriors of Liberty City Warriors face challenges before
considers a comeback bout that could kill him. (2009) tour and describes Warriors program. hits snag when hurricane distracts attention. Overtown games while city recovers from Irma.
TMC Traffic International drug trafficking and the U.S.’s escalating war on drugs affect the public and personal lives of several people in the Collide A man, with the help of his former employer and drug smuggler, goes on
U.S. and Mexico. Michael Douglas, Don Cheadle (2001) the run from a ruthless gang in order to protect his girlfriend. Nicholas Hoult (2017)
SPORTS NETWORKS
ESPN College Football Tulsa Golden Hurricane at Houston Cougars from TDECU Stadium (Live) SportsCenter
ESPN2 SportsCenter Special with Stephen A. Smith Formula One Practice from Suzuka Circuit in Suzuka, Japan (Live) Golden Boy Boxing from OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa, Calif. (Live)
FS1 To Be Announced To Be Announced Walk-Off Stories Improbably Gibson
Golf PGA Tour Golf (Live) Golf Central LPGA Tour Golf UL International Crown: Second Round from Jack Nicklaus GC Korea in Incheon, South Korea (Live)
MLB MLB Tonight MLB Tonight MLB Tonight MLB Tonight Division Series MLB Tonight
NBA NBA Preseason Basketball Indiana Pacers at Houston Rockets from Toyota Center (Live) NBA Pre. Basketball Sacramento Kings at Los Angeles Lakers (Live)
NBCSports NHL Hockey Nashville Predators at New York Rangers from Madison Square Garden (Live) NHL Hockey Philadelphia Flyers at Vegas Golden Knights from T-Mobile Arena (Live)
NFLN Pregame Show (Live) Thursday Night Football Indianapolis Colts at New England Patriots from Gillette Stadium (Live) Thursday Night (Live)

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