Today’s Confederations Cup match conjures old memories

Brazil’s stunning home loss to Uruguay in the final of the 1950 World Cup is always in the back of the Brazilians’ mind. Even more now ahead of the teams’ match in the semifinals of the Confederations Cup today in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Not a lot of Brazilian fans have actually seen that final, but few forget what happened in the game, which became known as the “Maracanazo.” The comefrom-behind 2-1 win that gave Uruguay its second World Cup title silenced nearly 200,000 fans at the Maracana.

Also: The Oregon Ducks are about to hear the NCAA’s decision on possible recruiting violations. The NCAA’s Division I Committee on Infractions’ decision is due this morning. The NCAA has been looking into payments Oregon’s football program made to recruiting services, including $25,000 to Willie Lyles and Houston-based Complete Scouting Services in 2011. Lyles had a connection with an Oregon recruit.

The Vancouver Canucks hired John Tortorella to be their new coach. Tortorella, 55, was recently fired by the New York Rangers after they lost to the Boston Bruins in the playoffs in five games. He replaces former Canucks coach Alain Vigneault, who took over as the Rangers’ coach last week.

Olympic gold medal swimmers Nathan Adrian and Missy Franklin won the two biggest races, the men’s and women’s 100-meter freestyle at the U.S. national championships. Adrian beat Jimmy Feigen to the wall by more than half a second, finishing in 48.54 seconds to take the race that featured seven Olympic gold medalists. Franklin set a new meet record in 53.43, the second-fastest time in the world this year.

Bobby Labonte’s consecutive start streak will come to an end at 704 races. Labonte is not entered to race Saturday night at Kentucky Speedway, which will bring an end to the second-longest active starts streak in NASCAR behind Jeff Gordon’s 705 starts.