BRUIN’S GOALS BEAT RAPIDS ON HOLIDAY
CITY» Will Bruin scored COMMERCE twice and Stefan Frei made a spectacular save to help the Seattle Sounders to their second win in their last eight games, 2-1 over the Rapids on Wednesday night at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park.
Bruin put Seattle (4-9-3) in front in the 19th minute, finding the ball in open space in front of the goal box and beating goalkeeper Tim Howard with a shot into the lower left corner.
Colorado’s Sam Nicholson headed home a long entry pass from Edgar Castillo in the 40th minute, but Bruin scored the game-winner off an ill-advised clearing pass by Howard in the 59th minute.
Frei dived to his left to deflect a Colorado shot on a breakaway in the 82nd minute.
Five Colorado (4-10-3) players were shown yellow cards, three for unsporting behavior, one for time wasting and one for persistent infringement.
Beckham’s latest Miami stadium plan targets golf course.
David Beckham’s latest soccer plan for Miami might be decided by the city’s voters. His target: a golf course.
Beckham is scheduled to appear before the Miami city commission next week as he and his partners aim to move closer to picking a stadium location for their Major League Soccer franchise. The Beckham group’s latest proposal calls for a 28,000-seat stadium on the site of a public golf course owned by the city that sits near Miami International Airport.
If commissioners approve, voters would decide Nov. 6 whether to change the city’s charter and allow what would be a no-bid deal to lease 73 acres to the group. The deal Beckham is proposing calls for the city to collect nearly $140 million in rent payments over 39 years, a rate of roughly $3.5 million annually.
Source: Amir Johnson returning to Philadelphia next year.
Amir Johnson is going back to the Philadelphia 76ers for at least one more season. A person with knowledge of the negotiations said Wednesday that Johnson has agreed to a one-year contract with Philadelphia that could become official as soon as Friday, when the NBA’s offseason moratorium on player movement ends.
U.S. Rep. Jordan denies claims he didn’t know of Ohio State sex abuse.
OHIO» U.S. Rep. Jim FREMONT,
Jordan said on Wednesday he never knew of sexual abuse by a now-dead doctor who examined wrestlers Jordan helped coach decades ago at Ohio State University.
Jordan, speaking to reporters at a July Fourth rally in Fremont, repeatedly denied claims by ex-wrestlers Mike DiSabato and Dunyasha Yetts, who say the powerful Republican congressman from Ohio knew back then that Richard Strauss was groping male athletes.
“We knew of no abuse. Never heard of abuse,” Jordan said. “If we had, we’d have reported it.”
Yankees place Torres on the 10-day DL.
YORK» Yankees second baseman NEW Gleyber Torres was placed on the 10-day disabled list because of a strained right hip.
Yankees manager Aaron Boone said the club would assess the situation with a day off Thursday before heading to Toronto for the start of an 11-game, three-city road trip.
Motorsports matriarch Dee Ann Andretti dies at 76.
Dee Ann Andretti, the wife of famed driver Mario Andretti and matriarch of one of the most prominent families in motorsports, has died. She was 76.
Andretti died Tuesday, a few weeks after suffering a heart attack. Grandson Marco Andretti announced her death on social media , posting: “RIP Grammy Andretti. You will be missed.”
Mario Andretti and Dee Ann Hoch met while she was teaching English to the Italy-born Andretti in Nazareth, Pa. They were married a few months later, in November 1961.