THE HOT CORNER

1 COLLEGE BASKETBALL:

Evansville coach Walter McCarty was placed on administrative leave pending a Title IX investigation, the school announced. The school also sent out an internal campus memo detailing the timeline of possible Title IX violations. “The University has received reports of unwelcome conduct by Coach McCarty since his arrival in March 2018,” school president Christopher M. Pietruszkiewicz said in the memo.

2 PRO SOCCER:

Veteran striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic is returning to help his struggling former club AC Milan. The 38-year-old Swede has agreed to a deal until the end of the season with the option to extend the contract for another season, the Italian club announced Friday. Ibrahimovic scored 56 goals in 85 appearances for the club and helped AC Milan to win the league title in 2011 and the Italian Super Cup the same year. He then moved to Paris Saint-Germain, and subsequently to Manchester United and the LA Galaxy of MLS.

3 PRO SOCCER:

The Chicago Fire hired former U.S. youth coach Raphael Wicky as their coach, the latest move in a makeover by the struggling MLS team. Wicky is leaving his job as coach of the U.S. under-17 team to join the Fire. He succeeds Veljko Paunovic, who was fired after an eighth-place finish in the Eastern Conference.

4 OLYMPICS:

Russia confirmed Friday that it will appeal its fouryear Olympic ban for manipulating doping data. The Russian antidoping agency, known as RUSADA, sent a formal letter disagreeing with the sanctions imposed this month by the World Anti-Doping Agency. The case is now heading to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Next year’s Olympics in Tokyo will be the third consecutive edition preceded by a legal battle over Russian doping.