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Three venues to split

Spirit home games

The Washington Spirit struck
a deal with D.C. United to play
four games apiece at two United-
owned stadiums next season and
the remaining four at its current
home, maryland SoccerPlex,
multiple people familiar with
the negotiations said friday.
In strengthening its alliance
with United, the Spirit will leave
SoccerPlex altogether after the
2020 season, ending a marriage
that began in 2013 but one that
isolated the National Women’s
Soccer League team far from the
District.
In 2021, the Spirit plans to
play seven matches at 20,000-
capacity Audi field and five at
Segra field, United’s 5,000-seat
venue that opened in August in
Leesburg, Va.
No later than 2021, the Spirit
also will relocate practices and
daily functions to Leesburg,
where United is constructing a
40,000-square-foot training
complex near Segra field.
— Steven Goff
Champions League broadcasts
in the United States will move
from Turner to CBS beginning
with the 2021-22 season, a
person familiar with the
negotiations told the Associated
Press....
N ew York City fC will have its
fourth coach in six seasons.
The mLS team said it has
reached an agreement for coach
domènec Torrent to depart, a
decision that followed a loss to
To ronto in the Eastern
Conference semifinals. To rrent
succeeded Patrick Vieira in
June 2018. Jason Kreis coached
NYC in 2015, its initial season.

golf
Matthias Schwab started
with an eagle and finished with
a birdie to lead by one shot after
the second round of the Turkish
Airlines open in Antalya, Turkey.
The 24-year-old Austrian shot
a 5-under-par 67 to move to
12 under overall, leading a four-
man group that includes danny
Willett (66) and Alex noren
(67)....
Australian Hannah Green
shot a 5-under 67 to finish the
first round of the LPGA Japan
Classic in Shiga tied for the lead
with local favorite Ai Suzuki.
Green carded five birdies at
Seta Golf Course to finish a
stroke ahead of six golfers,
including Lydia Ko and
Jennifer Kupcho....
Jeff Maggert shot a 6-under
65 to increase his lead to four
strokes in the Charles Schwab
Cup Championship in Phoenix,
with Bernhard Langer second
in a bid for his record sixth PGA
To ur Champions season points
title.
maggert birdied three of the
first four holes in a front-nine 31
and capped the bogey-free round
with a birdie on the par-4 17 th in
perfect conditions at Phoenix
Country Club. He had a 14-under
128 total.

baseball Three minor league pitchers were suspended after testing positive for steroids. Cincinnati’s Israel Lantigua and the New Yo rk mets’ Amaury Pereya were banned 72 games each and To ronto’s Jackxarel Lebron 52 games. The suspensions start next season.

tennis Last year’s runner-up, Alex de Minaur, will have to overcome a partisan home crowd in Saturday’s final if he is to win the Next Gen finals. To p-seeded De minaur of Australia will face Italian wild card Jannik Sinner after both won their semifinals at the season-ending tournament for the top under-21 players. The 18-year-old Sinner beat Miomir Kecmanovic of Serbia, 2-4, 4-1, 4-2, 4-2, to the delight of the home crowd at the Allianz Cloud in milan. Earlier, De minaur beat second-seeded Frances Tiafoe, a Hyattsville native, 4-2, 4-1, 0-4, 4- 2, at the tournament, in which each set is first to four games.

colleges Jacob rainey kicked a 23- yard, game-winning field goal late in the fourth quarter and Tulsa rallied past UCf at home, knocking off the two-time defending American Athletic Conference champs, 34-31. UCf (7-3, 4-2) led by as many as 11 points and was ahead 31-24 heading into the fourth quarter. Tulsa (3-7, 1-5) put together a 63- yard drive early in the final period, knotting the score on a Seth Boomer 1 7-yard touchdown pass to Sam Crawford Jr.... The top-ranked Virginia women’s soccer team defeated No. 5 florida State, 2-1, in the ACC semifinals in Cary, N.C., when rebecca Jarrett scored a golden goal in the 97th minute. Virginia will face No. 3 North Carolina in the ACC title game Sunday.

misc. Khabib nurmagomedov said that Conor McGregor would need to win 10 straight fights to earn a rematch for his UfC title. mcGregor hasn’t fought since Nurmagomedov beat him by submission for the UfC lightweight title in october last year. The Irish fighter last month outlined his plan for two fights leading up to a rematch with the russian. That’s not enough for Nurmagomedov. “A s for a rematch, to fight for a belt in the UfC, I remember I had something like nine or 10 fights. If he wins 10 fights in a row, then that’s completely possible,” he said.... Stewart Friesen held off Brandon Jones in the last two laps at ISm raceway in Avondale, Ariz., to earn a spot in the four-man fight for the season title next week in the NASCAr Truck Series playoffs finale. — From news services and staff reports

Digest

“H e’s truly an amazing individ- ual and an out-front leader,” Lon- don said of Williamson, who shares a special bond with his coach. London was a bone marrow donor for his 7-year-old daughter, Ticynn, in 2003 and has been an advocate for bone marrow donation ever since. “There are two miracles I’ve seen,” London said, “including one I’ve been directly involved in.” Ticynn London, who is pursu- ing a master’s degree in athletic training at Lynchburg University, will celebrate her 24 th birthday in Williamsburg on Saturday when William & mary hosts rhode Is- land in what’s being billed as the Be the match game. Plemons will accompany Williamson and the Tribe’s other captains to midfield for the pregame coin toss as part of the effort to raise awareness about the donor program and registry. “It’s one of those experiences in life that you can’t put into words,” Williamson said of being a donor. “You kind of just have to feel it. Because of the attention on this Be the match game, I hope there are a lot more people in the world that get to experience this feeling.” Plemons said he was nervous but excited about all of the attention he would receive this week- end. “I’m not one to go o ut in crowds and stuff, but I think of all the people who might sign up because of this,” Plemons said. “So many people could be a 10 out of 10 match. I’m hoping it just blows up to where everyone signs up. I didn’t know anything about it until I was diagnosed, and now I’m really grateful for it. I wouldn’t be alive if it wasn’t for him.” [email protected]

model for other schools, with its annual Alan Buzkin memorial Bone marrow Drive dating from

The football team has orga-
nized its own bone marrow drive
for the past six years, a tradition
that started under legendary
coach Jimmye Laycock, who re-
tired last season, four years after
losing his close friend and former
Tribe football star russ Brown to
leukemia. roughly one in 430
people who join the registry re-
ceive a call to donate, and Wil-
liamson was the second Tribe
football player to become a donor
in three years, joining former
kicker John Carpenter, who sacri-
ficed part of his senior season in
2014 to help save a life.
for Williamson, there was an-
other factor in his decision to
donate, a personal tragedy that
has shaped his outlook on life.
five days after Williamson gradu-
ated from William monroe High
in June 2015, Craig Jeffers, one of
his best friends and former team-
mates, died in a car accident.
“one of the things that my
friends and family talked about
was how much life he had to live,”
Williamson said. “I was given this
opportunity to give this 18-year-
old boy fighting for his life a
chance to have all the time that
my friend didn’t.... I look for-
ward to seeing all the great things
he’s going to do in life.”
With three games left in his
senior season, Williamson, who is
on pace to graduate in December,
is busy planning his own future.
on Wednesday, he received a con-
ditional offer from the Albemarle
County Police Department. first-
year William & mary coach mike
London, who spent time as a po-
lice officer and detective in rich-
mond before beginning his coach-
ing career, wrote Williamson’s
recommendation letter.

handler at UPS. “He’s the healthiest he’s ever been,” said Cobb, who made the eight-hour drive to Williamsburg with her son Thursday night for an emotional meeting with Wil- liamson that was three years in the making. Confidentiality policies pre- vent anonymous patients and do- nors from connecting within the first year, but Be the match helped Plemons and Williamson exchange contact information about six months ago. Williamson was provided what he thought was Plemons’s cellphone number and, after wrestling with what to say to a stranger with his own DNA pulsing through him, sent an introductory text message. “I said, ‘Hi, my name is mark Williamson, and I believe you’re the person I donated bone marrow to,’ ” he said. “It turned out that it was actually his mom’s number. The response I got back was a heartfelt, tear-jerking message from her about how happy she was.” When Plemons learned Wil- liamson’s identity, he also read about his journey from walk-on to team captain. They chatted via facebook messenger and text message, and Williamson sug- gested he come to a game. Wil- liamson said his teammates were talking about friday’s meeting all week. After Plemons watched friday’s practice from the President’s Suite at Zable Stadium, two of the Tribe’s co-captains led him onto the field, where Williamson was waiting. Plemons and Williamson embraced in front of the entire team, and Plemons was presented a William & mary jersey with Williamson’s No. 75 and his own name on the back. William & mary’s bone marrow donation program has long been a

“When I first got diagnosed, I was really scared,” Plemons said this week. “You automatically think it’s a death sentence, and it very well could’ve been if mark wouldn’t have donated.” “To watch him go through that was absolutely heartbreaking for me,” Brandie Cobb, Plemons’s mom, said of the months leading up to her son’s transplant. “We had a lot of really deep conversa- tions because there were possibilities either way and the hospital didn’t hide the bad possibilities. I never thought I would be doing a living will with my 18-year-old child. He’s just awesome. I’ve learned about how strong he can actually be, that’s for sure.” Williamson dressed for Wil- liam & mary’s first three games of the 2016 season and played in one game before undergoing a surgi- cal procedure to harvest his bone marrow at VCU. Plemons’s transplant took place Sept. 20. William- son, who returned to practice a few weeks later but did not play the remainder of the season, received word in November that Plemons was doing well enough to spend Thanksgiving at home. “That made it all worth while,” Williamson said. “That was very powerful for me.” Plemons’s recovery in the three years since included a few set- backs, and he was hospitalized a couple of times for infections, but his body is now producing completely normal blood cells, Cobb said. As of last week, he is off all medications for the first time since his diagnosis. By working out regularly, Plemons has lost almost all of the weight he gained as a side effect of the steroids he was prescribed and said he is about to start a job as a package

donor from d1

Tribe football player meets cancer survivor he saved

BY ADAM KILGORE

In the wake of distance runner mary Cain’s allegations of abuse during her time with the Nike oregon Project track club and coach Alberto Salazar, Nike announced friday amid a flood of criticism that it will investigate the since-shuttered distance running program. In a New York Times video op-ed released Thursday, C ain, 23, described how a “systemic crisis in women’s sports and at Nike” left one of track and field’s bright- est young stars with a broken body and spirit. Cain joined the Nike oregon Project shortly after Salazar contacted her at age 16. Cain said Salazar obsessed over her weight and forced her to take medication, some of which was banned. Cain said the weight loss led to her having bone disease, losing her period for three years and, ultimately, having suicidal thoughts and cutting herself. on social media, several former members of the oregon Project confirmed or added to Cain’s accounts of Salazar’s fixation on weight. one former runner, olym- pian Amy Begley, said Salazar kicked her out of the club in 2011 after saying she was too fat and “had the biggest butt on the start- ing line.” In a statement friday, N ike said that it was not aware of Cain’s allegations and that Cain had sought to train under Salazar this year. “These are deeply troubling allegations which have not been raised by mary or her parents before,” a Nike spokesman said in an emailed statement. “mary was seeking to rejoin the oregon Proj- ect and Alberto’s team as recently as April of this year and had not raised these concerns as part of that process. We take the allegations extremely seriously and will launch an immediate investiga- tion to hear from former oregon Project athletes. At Nike we seek to always put the athlete at the center of everything we do, and these allegations are completely inconsistent with our values.” In a thread on Twitter, Cain confirmed she had been in contact with Salazar in the spring. “I wanted closure, wanted an apology for never helping me when I was cutting, and in my own, sad, never-fully healed heart, wanted Alberto to still take me back,” Cain wrote. “I still loved him. Because when we let people emotionally break us, we crave more than anything their very approval.” In their spring meeting, Cain said, Salazar opened up about personal “struggles,” which Cain took as a sign of possible reconcil- iation. When they fell out of touch over the summer, she believed Salazar only cared about her performance, not her as a person. “Then, after the USADA report dropped, I felt this quick and sudden sense of release,” Cain wrote.

Cain’s allegations became the latest scandal Nike, Salazar and his former club face. In late Sep- tember, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency banned Salazar and Jef- frey Brown, his personal physi- cian, for four years for administer- ing a banned substance, tamper- ing with the doping control process and trafficking testosterone. Salazar said immediately after the ruling that he plans to appeal. Nike subsequently shut down the oregon Project. USADA’s report on the case included a 2009 email exchange between Brown and Nike CEo mark Parker in which Brown de- tailed the results of an experiment with a topical hormone gel and Parker thanked him for the up- date and asked whether there were “other topical hormones th at would create more dramatic results.” Parker announced in october that he will step down in January to become the company’s execu- tive chairman. He told CNBC his decision “had absolutely nothing to do with” Salazar’s ban or the oregon Project. Early this decade, Cain emerged as one of the most preco- cious stars track and field had seen. In 2 012, in the summer after her sophomore year of high school, she set a girls’ U.S. high school record by running the 1,500 meters in 4:11.01 at the ju- nior world championships in Bar- celona. She was the youngest American athlete to represent t he United States at the world championships. By 17, she had set six American j unior records and won a national indoor title in the 1,500. She set her sights on the 2016 rio de Janeiro olympics, at which point she would have been 20. Cain’s partnership with Sala- zar, by her account, cut short her aspirations. In the Times video, Cain said Salazar demanded she weigh 114 pounds, an “arbitrary”

target. Cain said Salazar gave her birth control medication and di- uretics — which are banned in track and field — to control her weight. Cain acknowledged weight matters in distance running but said Salazar’s methods were unhealthy. The weight loss, Cain said, dis- rupted her development. She lost her period for three years, which led to a lack of estrogen produc- tion, which led to osteoporosis. She broke five bones, she said. With her performance dimin- ished and her body weakened, Cain started to cut herself, she said. Because all the officials at the Nike oregon Project were friendly with Salazar, Cain said, she felt she couldn’t turn to any- one for help. After a disappointing performance at a 2015 meet, Cain recalled in the Times video, she huddled under a tent with fellow competitors during a rainstorm. Salazar screamed at her. She broke down and told him she was cutting herself. Salazar, she said, responded by telling her he was tired and wanted to go to sleep. In a statement to the orego- nian, Salazar denied that he mis- treated Cain. “mary’s father is a medical doc- tor, and both of her parents were deeply involved in her training, competition and health through- out the period she was coached by me,” S alazar s aid, according to the paper. “for example, mary’s father consulted on medications and supplements mary used during her time at t he NoP. Neither of her parents nor mary raised any of the issues that she now suggests occurred while I was coaching her. To be clear, I never encour- aged her, or worse yet, shamed her, to maintain an unhealthy weight.” But several athletes Salazar trained at the club backed Cain’s account. Canadian runner Cam

Levins apologized to Cain through his Twitter account for not supporting her when they were teammates the oregon Proj- ect. “I knew that our coaching staff was obsessed with your weight loss, emphasizing it as if it were the single thing standing in the way of great performances,” Levins wrote. “I knew because they spoke of it openly among other athletes.” Adam and Kara Goucher, a married couple, both competed for the track club and have levied criticism at S alazar and Nike since leaving. Kara asked Nike on Twit- ter to come to her during its inves- tigation “because I have stories to match all of mary’s claims and so much more.” Adam wrote on his Twitter feed that the way club officials and coached talked about women’s bodies was “disgusting.” He recalled the 2011 Boston marathon, which took place seven months after Kara gave birth. Af- ter Kara finished fifth, Adam said, Salazar approached Kara’s moth- er and said: “Don’t tell Kara, but she is still too heavy. She needs to lose her baby weight if she wants to be fast again.” Steve magness, a former oregon Project assistant coach who was a crucial whistleblower in USADA’s case against the club, confirmed Cain’s accounts on his Twitter feed. magness said Sala- zar would encourage athletes to leave meals hungry and would rebuke them for eating certain foods, such as hamburgers. He called Salazar “obsessed” with weight and said Salazar tried to get athletes to take “shady” supplements. “I’ve witnessed the harm and damage that such a culture cre- ates,” magness wrote. “It’s lasting mental health issues. That’s the issue. The culture made it where crazy is normal.” [email protected]

Nike vows to investigate Cain’s abuse allegations

JonatHan Ferrey/getty Images Mary Cain, shown in 20 14 , said abuse during her time with the nike oregon Project led her to cutting.

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