Real Salt Lake beats Vancouver in Major League Soccer
Alvaro Saborio scored in each half to help Real Salt Lake beat the Vancouver Whitecaps 2-1 Friday night in a Major League Soccer match.
Real Salt Lake's Javier Morales and Will Johnson, top, congratulate Alvaro Saborio on a goal Friday in Sandy, Utah.
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Real Salt Lake's Javier Morales and Will Johnson, top, congratulate Alvaro Saborio on a goal Friday in Sandy, Utah.
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Soccer
Real Salt Lake prevails
Alvaro Saborio scored in each half to help Real Salt Lake beat the Vancouver Whitecaps 2-1 Friday night in a Major League Soccer match.
Real Salt Lake (13-7-3) has won three home matches in a row and is a point behind league-leading San Jose.
Darren Mattocks scored for Vancouver (9-7-7),which is third in the Western Conference. The Whitecaps have three points more than Sounders FC (8-5-7), but Vancouver has played three more matches.
Whitecaps goalkeeper Joe Cannon got a red card when he committed a hand-ball infraction outside the penalty area in the 76th minute and will miss the team's next match as a result.
FA charges Chelsea's Terry
Chelsea captain John Terry was charged by the English Football Association with racially abusing an opponent, two weeks after he was cleared by a court of the same offense.
The FA said it considered the evidence from the trial before charging Terry, 31, with directing abuse at Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand during a Premier League match in October.
"I deny the charge and I will be requesting the opportunity to attend the commission for a personal hearing," Terry said.
Glasgow Rangers demoted
Glasgow Rangers will begin next season in the fourth tier, Scotland's lowest professional league, after the move was approved by the country's soccer authorities.
The Scottish Football League said agreement had been reached after weeks of discussions to allow the team conditional membership in the Scottish Football Association.
Rangers, Scottish champion a record 54 times, were put in bankruptcy protection because of tax debts exceeding $30 million.
College football
Harris criticizes Freeh report
Hall of Famer Franco Harris and two other former Penn State players say the report about the school's handling of the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse scandal "is highly flawed, and factually insufficient."
Harris, Rudy Glocker and Christian Marrone sent to other Penn State alumni an email and letter criticizing the Freeh report they plan to publish in The Wall Street Journal and other publications.
The players contend there was a rush to judgment by media, the board of trustees, university officials and the NCAA after the blistering report was released July 12.
The report, compiled by a team led by former FBI director Louis Freeh, accuses school officials, including late coach Joe Paterno, of covering up the abuse to avoid bad publicity.
"A grave injustice has occurred over these past two weeks that began with the issuance of the Freeh report," the email states. "After much review, it's clear the report is highly flawed, and factually insufficient. Yet, the media, the Board of Trustees, University officials and the NCAA, seem to have read only the conclusions and not the content of the report and have failed to question the report's evidentiary basis or lack thereof — they have rushed to judgment. As a result, OUR program has been brutally harmed and our Coach has been completely tarnished."
The 62-year-old Harris, who had his best NFL years with the Pittsburgh Steelers, played for the Seahawks in the 1984 season.
O'Brien says he has a plan
Penn State coach Bill O'Brien has a plan for dealing with the limitations of sanctions imposed on the Nittany Lions by the NCAA because of the Sandusky scandal.
With no bowl appearances for four years, combined with scholarship reductions, Penn State must find a way to recruit or the program could be in trouble for a decade.
"I don't understand how people think you just say, 'Well I quit, see you later.' That's a bunch of bull," O'Brien said at a Big Ten media day. "You look at the sanctions, and you figure out how to deal with them."
Elsewhere
• The NHL Winnipeg Jets signed defenseman Toby Enstrom, 27, to a $28.75 million, five-year contract extension.
• The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series car Regan Smith is driving Sunday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway will honor victims of the shootings at a Colorado movie theater.
Smith drives for the Furniture Row Racing Team; the shop is about 7 miles from the Aurora theater where a gunman launched an attack July 20 that killed 12 people and injured 58 others.
The car lists the names of the 12 killed, plus the inscription, "For Those Lost, Those Injured And Countless Acts of Bravery 7/20/12."
