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Fran Belibi Became The Second Woman To Win The McDonald’s All-American Dunk Contest
Ex-Yale Coach Expected
The best men’s and women’s high school players in the country have descended upon Atlanta for the week as McDonald’s All-American Game festivities began on Monday with the dunk con- test at Wheeler High School.
Some of the top men’s play- ers in the country took part, including Memphis commit James Wiseman, but it was Fran Belibi, the Stanford commit, who put on for the women by taking home the crown with a quartet of dunks that all earned a perfect 80 score from the judges.
Belibi’s in-game dunks became viral sensations this year, as she throws down with regularity in high school games. She’s impossible to
From there, she showed off that she can throw it down with the left hand as well, crossing over and taking off her right foot and putting it through with the left. How- ever, the dunk that had every- one going crazy was her first dunk in the finals when she threw down a two-handed slam from an off-the-back- board alley-oop.
The former women’s soc- cer coach at Yale University is expected to plead guilty Thursday to taking bribes in exchange for pretending ap- plicants were recruits to boost their chances of getting into the school.
Rudy Meredith was a key figure in the investigation into the wide-ranging school admissions scandal in which authorities say parents paid an admissions consultant to rig their children’s test scores and bribe coaches at sought- after schools.
Meredith began cooper- ating with the FBI last year after investigators set up a sting in a Boston hotel room and caught him soliciting a
RUDY MEREDITH
$450,000 bribe from a par- ent. He led authorities to Rick Singer, the consultant at the center of the scheme, who later agreed to work with investigators and record his conversations with par- ents.
To Plead Guilty In
Bribery Scheme
FRAN BELIBI
miss, throwing down dunks in her goggles, and on Monday night she wowed the crowd with some fantastic slams. Her first dunk saw her go baseline, take off under the rim, and finish with the right on the other side.
Pat Riley, Heat
Honor Chris Bosh At
Jersey Retirement
Chris Bosh's No. 1 Miami Heat jersey nes- tled into its forever home on Tuesday night during the Heat's
Shaquille O’Neal Joins With
Ceremony
home game
against the Orlando Magic.
Bosh is just the fourth Heat player to have his jersey retired, and March 26 will now officially be known as Chris Bosh Day in Miami-Dade County.
Bosh’s former teammates Dwyane Wade and Udonis Haslem sat alongside head coach Erik Spoelstra as Bosh's jersey was raised in American Airlines Arena.
Papa John’s hopes a 7-foot center can help it rebound.
The Louisville, Ky.-based pizza chain publicly an- nounced that Shaquille O’Neal would be starring in a “triple-header”: in addition to franchising nine Papa John’s stores in Atlanta, the 47-year-old former NBA champion will appear in
CHRIS BOSH
Papa John’s, In New Deal
Embattled Pizza Pusher,
SHAQUILLE O’NEAL
commercials for the com- pany, adding a cool $8 mil- lion to his reported net worth of $400 million. Shaq will also be the first African American on Papa John’s Board of Directors. For the “king of endorsements,” this is just Shaq’s latest money move that netted the former NBA All-Star more than he made in his extraordinary NBA career.
The deal lends O’Neal’s considerable fame to a com- pany that has struggled with its messaging since the shocking departure of founder John Schnatter, who had been the company’s longtime spokesman.
Papa John’s sales have struggled for the past 15 months, leading to closed franchised locations and a rescue investment from ac- tivist investor Starboard Value.
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