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Acting U.S. Attorney for the
Southern District of New York
Joon H. Kim speaks during a
press conference after an-
nouncing the arrest of four
assistant basketball coaches
from Arizona, Auburn, the Uni-
versity of Southern California
and Oklahoma State on fed-
eral corruption charges, Tues-
day, Sept. 26, 2017, in New
York.
Associated Press
4 coaches,
Adidas executive
charged in Cowboys rebound for 28-17
college bribe win over Cardinals
scheme

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and
TOM HAYS
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — In one of
the biggest crackdowns on
the corrupting role of mon-
ey in college basketball,
10 men — including a top
Adidas executive and four
assistant coaches — were
charged Tuesday with us-
ing hundreds of thousands
of dollars in bribes to influ-
ence star athletes’ choice Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott (4) celebrates his touchdown against the Arizona Cardinals during the first half of
of schools, shoe sponsors, an NFL football game, Monday, Sept. 25, 2017, in Glendale, Ariz.
agents, even tailors. Associated Press
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NFL opts not to react to Trump’s anthem kneel ‘rule’ tweet

By HOWARD FENDRICH the back-and-forth with theticals and the specula- a bench or took other ac- while the Cowboys knelt,
AP Pro Football Writer Trump. tion to others. I’m not going tions during the anthems at which Trump tweeted was
WASHINGTON (AP) — No “He’s exercising his free- to go down that road.” games Sunday. the “loudest I have ever
matter what challenges his dom to speak,” league Trump brought up the On Monday night, Dal- heard.”Among his other
administration faces, Presi- spokesman Joe Lockhart topic for the fifth day in a las Cowboys owner Jerry tweets Tuesday: “The NFL
dent Donald Trump is keep- said on a conference call row, dating to a speech to Jones — a staunch sup- has all sorts of rules and
ing up his running commen- with reporters, “and I’m ex- a crowd of supporters in porter of Trump — and his regulations. The only way
tary on the NFL — tweeting ercising my freedom not to Alabama on Friday night, players knelt, arm-in-arm, out for them is to set a rule
Tuesday about the football react.” when he referred to an NFL before the anthem, then that you can’t kneel during
league’s TV ratings and Asked about the possibility player making a gesture rose for the playing of the our National Anthem!”
suggesting it bar players of the NFL punishing play- during “The Star-Spangled song ahead of the team’s And this : “Ratings for NFL
from kneeling during the ers or league employees Banner” as a “son of a 28-17 victory at the Arizona football are way down ex-
national anthem. for actions during the pre- bitch.” Cardinals. cept before game starts,
The NFL, for its part, was not game anthems, Lockhart In response, more than Some spectators at Ari- when people tune in to see
all that eager to continue said: “I will leave the hypo- 200 players knelt or sat on zona’s stadium booed Continued on Page 21