8 WHO ARE LINKED TO COLLEGE HOOPS SCANDAL INDICTED
YORK» A federal grand jury in NEW
New York City has returned indictments against four college basketball assistant coaches charged in a bribery scheme.
The grand jury returned the indictments Tuesday against eight of 10 men arrested in September.
Prosecutors say the men are accused of using bribes to influence star athletes’ choice of schools, shoe sponsors and agents. They face fraud and other charges.
The assistant coaches charged are Chuck Person of Auburn, Emanuel “Book” Richardson of Arizona, Tony Bland of Southern California and Lamont Evans of Oklahoma State.
The time to return an indictment was extended for a month for two defendants, including Brad Augustine, the AAU program director who stepped down.
Lawyers for Person and Richardson say their clients will be exonerated. Lawyers for Bland, Evans and Augustine couldn’t be reached for comment.
• Three UCLA men’s basketball players — including LiAngelo Ball, the younger brother of Los Angeles Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball — were arrested in China before Friday’s season-opening game against Georgia Tech in Shanghai.
The group of players were arrested on shoplifting charges.
UConn trio headlines AP team.
YORK» UConn’s Gabby Williams, NEW
Katie Lou Samuelson and Napheesa Collier headline The Associated Press women’s basketball preseason All-America team, marking the first time a school has had three players on the squad.
Iowa’s Snyder tears ACL again.
Iowa safety Brandon Snyder, who recently returned from an ACL tear, will miss the remainder of the season after tearing the same knee ligament.
Snyder will undergo a second surgery, and the team expects him to be ready for the 2018 season. He suffered the initial injury during spring practice in April and had surgery.
• Texas will be without starting cornerback Holton Hill for the Longhorns’ final three games while serving a suspension for violating team rules.
• Florida State rescheduled its game against Louisiana-Monroe for Dec. 2 at 10 a.m. The game was originally scheduled for Sept. 9 but was canceled due to Hurricane Irma.
World Series didn’t match 2016’s.
The Nielsen company said the Houston Astros’ final victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 7 of the World Series reached an average of 28.3 million viewers on Fox, down from the near 40 million of 2016’s final game between the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians.
Rekindling wins Melbourne Cup.
AUSTRALIA» Rekindling MELBOURNE, stormed home to win the 157th Melbourne Cup by a long neck, overhauling Johannes Vermeer near the finish to give trainer Joseph O’Brien a victory over his famous father in Australia’s most famous race.
Max Dynamite was 2½ lengths further back in third to give the Irish a 1-2-3 finish in the 157th running of the 2-mile classic.
Footnotes. FIFA pledged to publish all votes by soccer officials in the 2026 World Cup bidding race after corruption claims tainted the 2018 and 2022 contests. … Robbie Rogers, the LA Galaxy defender who became the first openly gay male athlete in a major North American professional sport, is retiring from soccer. … USA Gymnastics hired Kerry Perry as its new president and CEO. She was the vice president of business development at Learfield Communications. Perry will officially start on Dec. 1. … Former No. 1 Victoria Azarenka says she will sit out the Fed Cup final between Belarus and the United States because of an ongoing custody dispute with her baby’s father.