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IN BRIEF
Curry hits record
13 3-pointers
Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. — Ste-
phen Curry let it fly from the top
of the arc, backpedaled as his
record-breaking 3-ball dropped
and then wildly began bobbing his
head and shuffling his feet with
the swagger of a two-time reign-
ing MVP.
Add another remarkable
achievement to a long list of them
for Curry: most 3-pointers in one
game. The star guard sank 13 to
set an NBA mark — one game
after missing all his 3-point tries
for the first time in two years —
and the Golden State Warriors
beat the winless New Orleans Pel-
icans 116-106 on Monday.
“This was a special night,”
Curry said.
He finished with 46 points, three
days after his league-record streak
of 157 games with at least one 3
was snapped when he went 0 for
10 on 3-point tries in a 117-97 road
loss to the Los Angeles Lakers.
“I was hard on myself in prac-
tice the last two days. I had pretty
good shooting sessions,” he said.
“I don’t overreact to games like
that whether I go 0 for 10 or 2 for
12 or whatever it is. My process is
the same, but I had another level
of focus the last two days trying
to get my rhythm back and see the
ball go in.”
Curry shot 13 of 17 from
beyond the arc in his seventh
career game with double-digit 3s.
He broke the mark with 2:23 to go
and bobbed his head in delight as
the crowd roared.
Curry shared the previous
3-point record of 12 with Kobe
Bryant and Donyell Marshall.
“Nothing you can do about it.
He was being Steph,” Pelicans
star Anthony Davis said.
Internet freezes
for ‘mannequin
challenge’
Associated Press
Forget dumping ice buckets,
dancing or planking, the latest
viral phenomenon sweeping the
internet consists of people stand-
ing still as part of the “mannequin
challenge.”
Videos of the challenge fea-
ture posing as mannequins in dra-
matic postures. They began to
appear late last month online and
by last weekend everyone from
high school cheerleaders in Texas
to the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks
had taken part.
The Dallas Cowboys went air-
borne for their challenge , com-
plete with a stoic Tony Romo
being stuffed into an overhead
compartment on the team plane.
The challenge has become
a victory celebration for some
teams. Texas Christian, Penn State
and Clemson’s football teams
posted mannequin challenges
after big wins Saturday.
The videos are set to the song
“Black Beatles” by rap duo Rae
Sremmurd, which held a live ver-
sion of the challenge during a con-
cert last week.
Seattle gets Ruiz
from Dodgers
Associated Press
SEATTLE — The Seattle Mar-
iners have picked up needed depth
at catcher after acquiring Carlos
Ruiz from the Los Angeles Dodg-
ers in exchange for left-handed
pitcher Vidal Nuno on Monday
at the start of the general manager
meetings.
“First and foremost, Carlos
brings us a veteran presence with
outstanding leadership qualities
and a winning pedigree,” Seat-
tle general manager Jerry Dipoto
said in a statement. “His combina-
tion of strong on-base skills, situ-
ational awareness and game-call-
ing ability are a welcome addition
to the Mariners.”
As part of the trade, the Mari-
ners exercised the option on Ruiz
for the 2017 season worth $4.5
million.
AP Photos/Charles Rex Arbogast
‘Friendly chalkboard’
Cubs fans sign outside of Wrigley walls
By ANDREW SELIGMAN
AP Sports Writer
HICAGO — Matt Ridley climbed his ladder,
scrawled a tribute to his deceased loved ones
and high fived his mom when his feet hit the
sidewalk.
The Cubs winning it all still seemed a bit surreal to
him. Yet, there he was writing “Ridley Nation” high
on the brick bleacher wall along Waveland Avenue in
honor of his brother, father and uncle.
“Every time I hear the call of the last out, it almost
sounds like it’s not real — like it’s a joke,” Ridley said
Monday.
No joke, the Chicago Cubs at long last won the
World Series when they beat the Cleveland Indians
last week. And their first championship in 108 years
stirred all sorts of emotions.
Fans who weren’t sure they would ever see it hap-
pen have been thinking about loved ones who never
got to witness it. They’ve been flowing to Wrigley
Field in a steady stream, turning the walls and side-
walks outside the famed ballpark into one gigantic
chalkboard.
The bricks beyond the ivy are jammed with names
and notes to family members. There are messages
encouraging the team, and drawings, too.
It’s all in chalk, and it’s all about to go away.
The Cubs announced Monday they need to remove
the messages and artwork due to offseason construc-
tion. Fans have until 5 p.m. CST Tuesday. After that,
final photographs will be taken and displayed publicly
at a later date.
Fans started writing encouraging messages to the
team in chalk on the walls outside the bleachers during
the run to the Cubs’ first championship since 1908,
and they have continued in such a steady stream there
is little room left anywhere outside the ballpark, be it
outside the bleachers or near the marquee.
Along Sheffield Avenue, beyond right field, Kath-
leen and Bob Dove of Evanston found a spot a few
C
feet up the wall to pay tribute to her mother. They col-
ored a brick in light blue chalk and wrote “Dorothy
McGuire” in white.
“The whole time I grew up, it revolved around
the Cubs game — meals,” Kathleen Dove said. “She
knew all the players every year. She would tell me all
the statistics, this will be the year. She was a very typ-
ical diehard, I mean just brutally diehard, Cubs fan.
She would be really amazed at this.”
Bob Dove, a retired sound technician for Chicago
PBS affiliate WTTW, recalled working on a documen-
tary about Bill Veeck Jr. during the last year of his life.
And he has little doubt Veeck would have loved the
scene playing out along the streets outside Wrigley.
“We have all of this angst about immigrants and
racial animus and all that stuff,” Bob Dove said. “The
Cubs’ victory is the greatest thing to happen in Chi-
cago right now because everything else that’s going
on right now is so negative. Veeck would love this
wall because it’s representative of his philosophy of
being a team for everyone. And he was the person that
integrated the American League.”
Bill Veeck went to work for the Cubs when his
father Bill Sr. was team president and was responsible
for the ivy being planted in 1937. He also integrated
the American League as owner of the Cleveland Indi-
ans when he signed Larry Doby and frequently hung
out in the Wrigley Field bleachers after selling the
White Sox to Jerry Reinsdorf in 1981.
ABOVE: Messages in
support of the Cubs’
championship run and
in remembrance of
friends and family who
never saw the Cubs
win the World Series,
are written and drawn
in chalk on an outer
wall at Wrigley Field
Monday in Chicago.
Fans started writing
messages encouraging
the Cubs on the walls
outside the famed
ballpark’s bleachers
during the run to the
team’s first champion-
ship since 1908. Wrigley
Field’s days as the
“Friendly Chalkboard”
are coming to an end.
The Chicago Cubs say
they need to remove
chalk messages and
artwork left by fans on
the ballpark’s exterior
walls due to offseason
construction.
LEFT: Three children
from left, Milo Sagun,
Aliya and her twin
sister Kira Limon, look
at messages in support
of the Cubs’ champion-
ship run and in remem-
brance of friends and
family who never saw
the Cubs win the World
Series.
Monday madness ends in Seahawks victory
By TIM BOOTH
AP Sports Writer
SEATTLE — Another Monday
night of controversy and madness
involving the Seattle Seahawks.
For the third time in the past five
seasons, a Monday night game in
Seattle finished with most of the
attention on the mistakes of officials,
this time after the Seahawks beat the
Buffalo Bills 31-25.
For how good Jimmy Graham,
Russell Wilson and Tyrod Taylor
were in putting on an entertaining
primetime performance, their efforts
became overshadowed by officiating
mistakes at the end of the first half
that eventually played a role in the
final outcome.
“I’m not really sure what hap-
pened. I will say the refs were horri-
ble at managing it,” said Taylor, who
had one of the best performances of
his career throwing for 289 yards and
running for another 43 yards, and
giving Buffalo a chance in the clos-
ing moments. “They made some hor-
rible calls throughout the game, too.
It’s not a thing where we’re blaming
the refs. I just think they need to be
held accountable for that and at least
give some explanation.”
Taylor’s final pass of the night on
fourth-down in the closing moments
fell incomplete in the end zone and
handed the Bills their third straight
UP NEXT: SEAHAWKS
• Seattle Seahawks(5-2-1)
at New England Patriots (7-1)
• Sunday, 5:30 p.m. TV: NBC
AP Photo/John Froschauer
Seattle Seahawks tight end Jimmy Graham makes one of his two
one-handed touchdown catches against the Buffalo Bills in the first
half on Monday night in Seattle. Seahawks won 31-25.
defeat . Taylor had to throw in that
situation because of what happened
at the end of the first half that cost
Buffalo a shot at a reasonable field
goal attempt and eventually forced
the Bills to try for a touchdown in the
final seconds.
The chaotic final moments of
the second quarter started calmly
with Dan Carpenter lining up for a
53-yard field goal with 3 seconds left
and ended several minutes later with
anger. Richard Sherman was called
for offside and not unnecessary
roughness after he crashed into Car-
penter attempting to block the kick
— an incorrect decision according to
NFL head of officiating Dean Blan-
dino. Buffalo was assessed an injury
timeout after trainers ran on the field
believing Carpenter was injured and
forcing the Bills to spike the ball
with 1 second left as Carpenter had to
leave the field. That was followed by
officials not resetting the play clock
and Buffalo being assessed a delay of
game and the half finally ending with
Carpenter missing a 54-yard attempt.
The chaos seemed a footnote at
the time with Seattle leading 28-17
at the half, and became a focal point
when Buffalo rallied in the second
half, but needed a touchdown at the
end.
“Player safety was not in their
mind. He was offside and dove at our
kickers’ leg while he was in motion.
That’s a dirty play,” Buffalo line-
backer Jerry Hughes said.
Seattle’s been the center of crazy
Monday night moments in the past.
In 2012, the infamous “Fail Mary”
game ended when Golden Tate
caught a disputed touchdown on the
final play to give Seattle a win over
Green Bay, a decision that was made
by replacement officials. Last year,
K.J. Wright should have been called
for illegal batting for knocking a
fumble out of the end zone for a Seat-
tle touchback in the final moments
of a win over Detroit. The penalty
would have given possession back to
Detroit but no flag was thrown.