HOPE SOLO SUSPENDED
Hope Solo suspended from national team for 6 months
CHICAGO (AP) — U.S. women’s national team goalkeeper Hope Solo has been suspended for six months for what U.S. Soccer termed conduct “counter to the organization’s principles.”
The suspension is effective immediately.
U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati said Wednesday that comments Solo made after the U.S. lost to Sweden during the Rio Olympics were “unacceptable and do not meet the standard of conduct we require from our National Team players.”
Solo called Sweden a “bunch of cowards” after the Swedes beat the U.S. 4-3 on penalties following a 1-1 draw in the quarterfinals of the Olympic tournament.
Solo, who was previously suspended for 30 days early in 2015 for her conduct, will not be eligible for selection to the national team until February.
YANKEES-MARINERS
Sanchez homers again, Tanaka rolls as Yankees blank Mariners
SEATTLE (AP) — Rookie Gary Sanchez kept up his torrid stretch with his seventh home run in the past nine games, and Masahiro Tanaka won his fourth straight start, leading the New York Yankees to a 5-0 win over the Seattle Mariners on Wednesday.
Tanaka (11-4) threw seven shutout innings and got the better of the Mariners and his former Japan League teammate Hisashi Iwakuma (14-9).
The Yankees won their third straight road series. They took two of three from the Mariners, one of the teams they’re chasing in the AL wild-card race.
Sanchez homered into the second deck in left field in the first inning on the first pitch from Iwakuma, his ninth home run in 18 games since joining the Yankees lineup on Aug. 3.
Sanchez added a double later in the game and his intentional walk in the seventh inning led to Mark Teixeira’s RBI single for a 4-0 lead. The Mariners took no chances with the new catcher the next time, either, again intentionally walking him.
MLS-SOUNDERS-DYNAMO
Lodeiro’s late goal helps Sounders extend streak, tie Dynamo
FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Nicolas Lodeiro scored in the fourth minute of stoppage time and the Seattle Sounders tied the Houston Dynamo 1-1 on Wednesday night to extend their unbeaten streak to five games.
Lodeiro blasted a left-footer from near the spot, off a feed from Joevin Jones, just inside the right post. Lodeiro has two goals and four assists — and the Sounders are 3-0-2 — since signing with the club July 27.
Andrew Wenger put a rising, right-footer into the top-left corner to give Houston a 1-0 lead in the 75th. The Sounders missed two chances to clear and Ricardo Clark tapped a feed — after Seattle (9-12-4) blocked two other Dynamo shots — to Wenger on the right side of the box.
Houston (5-10-10) outshot the Sounders 22-6.
After a five-game winless streak, the Dynamo are unbeaten in their last three.
WASHINGTON STATE-LUANI
Washington State safety Shalom Luani arrested
PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) — Washington State safety Shalom Luani has been arrested after being accused of breaking a man’s nose during a dispute outside a pizza restaurant in Pullman.
Pullman police say the senior was arrested Wednesday morning on suspicion of second-degree assault, a felony, and released.
Police Commander Chris Tennant told The Spokesman-Review that the 22-year-old Luani became verbally abusive when his order took too long and then he struck the victim.
Luani was an honorable mention All-Pac-12 player in 2015, his first year with the Cougars.
The football program declined to comment, saying it was a team matter.
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