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MLS: Kaka scores

twice in Orlando

City win over NE

By The Associated Press sel had a goal and the
Kaka had two goals, Yo- expansion Atlanta United
shimar Yotun and Dominic clinched a playoff spot by
Dwyer each had a goal beating the Philadelphia
and Orlando City beat Union 3-0. Gressel scored
a 10-man New England his fourth goal in the 27th
6-1 Wednesday in Major minute and set up Jo-
League Soccer. sef Martinez’s 18th in the
Xavier Kouassi was sent off 33rd minute. It was Gressel
for the Revolution with a ninth assist, one behind the
red card in the 11th minute league record for first-year
after he fouled Seb Hines. players. Clint Mathis had
Kouassi won the ball, but 10 for the Los Angeles Gal-
his follow through went into axy in 1998. Jack Harrison
Hines’ legs and the referee scored in the 10th minute
went to the video to deem and New York City FC held Orlando City’s Kaka (10) moves the ball past New England Revolution’s Chris Tierney, right, during
the foul serious. on to beat Montreal 1-0. the first half of an MLS soccer match, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017, in Orlando, Fla.
Yotun assisted on goals for Fidel Escobar’s own goal Associated Press
Antonio Nocerino in the in second-half stoppage las snapped a 10-game Nicolas Loderio had a goal Whitecaps 3-0. Nemanja
22nd minute and Hines 10 time lifted last-place D.C. winless stretch with a 2-0 and two assists and La Liga Nikolic scored twice in the
minutes later. Kaka scored United to a 3-3 draw with victory over Colorado. Al- veteran Victor Rodriguez second half to break Chi-
in the 43rd and 77th, Dwyer New York. berth Elis scored two late scored his first MLS goal to cago’s season goal record
in the 84th and Yotun in the Maynor Figueroa and Ro- goals and slumping Hous- help the Seattle Sounders with 20 and the Fire beat
90th. land Lamah scored in the ton rallied to draw Los An- beat the Western Confer- the San Jose Earthquakes
At Atlanta, Julian Gres- first 10 minutes and FC Dal- geles 3-3. ence-leading Vancouver 4-1.q
Nervous People school’s sports teams.

Louisville announced on
Continued from Page 18 coaches. June 3 the unexpected
If the allegations are true signing of recruit Brian Bow-
But with mentions of peo- — and there seem to be a en, who hadn’t been con-
ple associated with the lot of wiretaps supporting sidering the university pre-
University of Louisville and them — it could also mean viously. Pitino at the time
University of Miami caught the end of Rick Pitino’s bragged to a local radio
on wiretaps scheming to coaching career and pos- station he didn’t have to
pay players as much as sibly the end of Louisville’s spend a dime on recruiting
$150,000 to come to their powerhouse basketball visits for Bowen.
schools, there figures to be program. “In my 40 years coaching
a lot of nervous people in Yes, it looks as if Pitino is in this is the luckiest I’ve ever
college basketball waiting trouble again, just months been,” Pitino said.
for the other, er, shoe to after the NCAA ordered Pitino may not be feeling
drop. the school to vacate its so lucky now. If the allega-
Make no mistake about 2013 national title be- Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Joon tions are proven the NCAA
it. These aren’t bumbling cause strippers danced H. Kim, second from right, and FBI Assistant Director William may have no choice but
Sweeney, Jr., right, hold a press conference to announce
NCAA inspectors leading and performed sex acts the arrest of four assistant basketball coaches from Arizona, to can Pitino and give Lou-
the investigation into shady for recruits and players. Pi- Auburn, the University of Southern California and Oklahoma isville the death penalty,
agents, shoe companies tino was also suspended State on federal corruption charges, Tuesday Sept. 26, 2017, in eliminating basketball at
and unscrupulous coach- for five conference games New York. the perennial national con-
es. and the school’s basket- Associated Press tender.
These are FBI agents and ball program put on four rogue assistant coaches for in the meeting noted they Just as interesting were
U.S. attorneys with great years’ probation, actions so long. had to be careful because details in the complaint
powers of both subpoena he claimed were unjust Louisville is the school Louisville was already on that outed Miami as the
and persuasion. Their in- because he said he knew named in the complaint probation. university where Adidas
vestigation is not done nothing about what was as University 6, where the According to the com- and another unnamed ap-
and anyone leaning on going on. family of a top basketball plaint filed in the Southern parel company were in-
the fence about whether Defiant then, he claims to recruit was allegedly prom- District of New York, the volved in a bidding war for
to cooperate will have to be shocked now. Pitino is- ised $100,000 in late May or money was to be funneled a 2018 recruit that reached
balance their loyalty to sued an incredibly tone- early June if he signed with through Adidas, whose di- $150,000.
programs with the very real deaf statement Tuesday the school. The FBI said it rector of basketball mar- The allegations shouldn’t
fact they might go to prison blaming “a few bad ac- recorded a meeting in July keting was charged in the be a shock to anyone who
if they don’t fess up. tors,” and painting the where an assistant coach filing. Just last month, Lou- has been around an in-
And fess up they will. A day university and his program at Louisville was briefed on isville and Adidas reached cestuous sport laden with
of reckoning may be com- as victims of a “third-party a plan to funnel thousands agreement on a 10-year, snake oil shoe salesmen,
ing for some big programs, scheme.” of dollars to the recruit’s $160 million contract to millionaire coaches and
and some big-name Guess you can only blame family, and the participants equip and sponsor the sleazy recruiters. q