Rio Olympics flame ignited amid protests
Brazil’s beleaguered President Dilma Rousseff ignited the Olympic flame Tuesday, as a nationwide torch relay got under way with protests highlighting the country’s deep political and economic crisis.
“Brazil is ready to host the most successful Olympics in history,” Rousseff said in a speech to begin the torch relay, which will reach 329 Brazilian cities and end Aug. 5 at the Opening Ceremonies in Rio’s Maracana Stadium.
[...] security experts have been expecting protests during the relay, and on Tuesday, a few hundred protesters gathered on a relay route controlled with a heavy police presence.
Duke Kinamon’s RBI infield single in the eighth inning produced the go-ahead run as Stanford held off USF 7-6 at Sunken Diamond.
Courts: A race- and gender-discrimination lawsuit filed against the University of Texas by former women’s track coach Bev Kearney can proceed, a state appeals court ruled.
Kearney resigned under pressure of being fired in January 2013 after school officials confronted her about a relationship with one of her athletes a decade earlier.
Shortly after Kearney resigned, Texas revealed that former assistant football coach Major Applewhite was reprimanded, but not fired, for a relationship with a female student trainer on a 2009 bowl trip.
Former Harvard and Fordham instructor Joe Bernal has been banned from coaching for life by USA Swimming, which says he violated sexual-misconduct policies adopted to protect athletes.
The resolution asks the university administration to consider adding the wearing of headdresses as a violation of the student code of conduct.