Los Angeles Times

More FIFA revelation­s

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A $12-million bonus paid to Sepp Blatter from the 2014 World Cup and yet another police raid for evidence of financial crimes at FIFA revealed the turmoil at soccer’s world body was far from over.

The scale of Blatter’s pay deal at the end of his 17-year presidency was finally confirmed by FIFA itself in a stunning opening of its financial books on Friday.

The now-banned Blatter and two recently fired top officials — secretary general Jerome Valcke and finance director Markus Kattner — awarded themselves raises, bonuses, and future golden handshakes totaling tens of millions of dollars.

Some of the contracted payments appear to break Swiss law, lawyers for FIFA said.

A federal judge in Chicago ruled that the U.S. women’s soccer team does not have the right to strike to seek improved conditions and wages before the Summer Olympics, seeming to end the prospect of an unpreceden­ted disruption by one of the most successful American national teams.

The Big 12 is bringing back its football championsh­ip game in 2017, regardless of whether the conference decides to expand from its current 10 members.

Tennis pro Tommy Haas was hired Friday as tournament director of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, replacing Raymond Moore, who quit in March after making controvers­ial comments about female players.

Haas’ hiring must be approved by the ATP and WTA tours, which play at the combined $7-million, two-week event every March in the Southern California desert.

Haas has been ranked as high as No. 2 in the world. The 38-year-old German has won 15 ATP Tour titles, reached the semifinals of the Australian Open three times and Wimbledon once, and won a silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. His career has been stalled by injury since he had shoulder surgery two years ago and right foot surgery six weeks ago.

Brad Keselowski led a Team Penske front-row sweep and won the pole for Sunday’s NASCAR race at Pocono Raceway in Pennsylvan­ia. Teammate Joey Logano gave Penske the top two spots.

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