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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2015
PAGE 3B
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"The report identified serious and wide-ranging issues with the bidding and selection process."
Michael Garcia in a statement, referring to the 2010 voting process
FACT OF THE DAY
FIFA earned $2 billion from the 2014 World Cup.
Forbes.com
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q. How many terms has current president Sepp Blatter served for FIFA?
A: Four, and he's running for a fifth
— FIFA.com
THE MORNING BREW Corruption plagues FIFA World Cup in 2022
There's no question that soccer is becoming more popular by the day in America, and
there's proof right down 1-70 with Sporting Kansas City establishing one of MLS' best fan bases in a matter of years.
Soccer's international governing body, FIFA, and its president, Sepp Blatter, are unfortunately becoming more and more corrupt by the minute
On March 19, FIFA announced the 2022 World Cup in Qatar will be the first in its history to be played in the winter months, with the final being held on December 18.
FIFA is holding the World Cup five months earlier than scheduled due to Qatar's extreme heat in the summer, which, according to accuweather.com, averages a high of 120 degrees during June and July.
Player exhaustion from high temperatures was already copious during
Brazil's 2014 World Cup, so why did FIFA stick with giving Qatar the opportunity to host in 2022?
Blatter reasoned in 2010 that "the Arabic World deserves a World Cup after never hosting one before. But many people believe money played the biggest part in Qatar being chosen.
FIFA will profit hundreds of millions of dollars from TV revenue alone, as it
did from 2014's World Cup.
However, the illegal money Mohammed bin Hammam supposedly used to coax FIFA officials to vote for Qatar in 2010's bidding process is a separate matter.
Rhamam, who was one of 24 members on FIFA's board to vote for the 2022 bid, had been accused by newspapers, such as The Sunday Times in Britain, of illegally paying FIFA officials across the world in hopes of securing their support for Qatar.
FIFA hired U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia to do an internal investigation of any wrongdoing in the bidding process, but when FIFA released its official report, Garcia's findings were nowhere to be found.
Instead FIFA Ethics Judge Hans-Joachim Eckert used a 42-page document to absolve the organization of any corruption. The document was heavily scrutinized.
What Garcia found will never be published by FIFA, and it's obvious Blatter wanted it that way.
Soccer fans will have to simply put up with Blatter, but thankfully change could happen soon.
FIFA Vice President Jim Boyce previously said he would be in favor of doing a re-vote for the 2022 World Cup. However, the time for that has already passed.
Former Portugal soccer player Luis Figo is running for FIFA president in 2015 against Blatter, and if he wins, the hope of a corruption-free program can once again be reinstated in millions, if not billions of fans.
— Edited by Laura Kubicki
Re-energized Brey leads Notre Dame against Shockers
Will Graves @AP
CLEVELAND — The blessing of being the son of an Olympic athlete meant Mike Brey grew up in a house where excellence wasn't requested from his mother, but required.
It brought its own sense of pressure, one that Brey says fueled his rise from gym rat to Notre Dame head coach.
“To be around that intensity every day, maybe it wasn't the healthiest,” Brey said with a laugh. “I'll probably need therapy later in life because of it, but I tell you one thing: she made me think about competing every day.”
That drive is what kept him from telling his players about her death last Saturday at age 84 until after the Irish had held off Butler in overtime to earn a spot in the NCAA Tournament's Sweet 16. No need to
burden his players with his grief. Betty Brey didn't do self-pty anyway. Not her style.
"She always made me feel like I could be special because she was," Brey said. "It gave me a lot of confidence."
Something Brey has passed on to his overachieving team. The third-seeded Irish (31-5) will try to reach the Elite Eight for the first time since 1979 when they face seventh-seeded Wichita State (30-4) in the Midwest Regional semifinal. It's a dizzying precipice for a program that lost 17 games a year ago, one that has roared back much like its resilient coach.
Brey didn't share the news of his mother's passing until after the 67-64 win against the Bulldogs. Sunday morning, he told the Irish about his mother's remarkable life, from her spot on the 1956 U.S. Olympic swimming team to her role as the swim coach at George Washington University and her
spot in the Indiana swimming Hall of Fame. Then it was a short trip to Florida, where he smoked a cigar with his father and celebrated his mother's memory.
By Monday, Brey was back on campus in the safe cocoon basketball has always provided from the time he first slipped off to camp with his brother at age 9.
"I think coaches are the greatest compartmentalizers in the history of the world and have to be to survive this thing," Brey said. "There is such a good vibe and positive energy coming off this team, it's really good for me to be around it this week and get back and be busy and teach."
There are plenty of lessons to impart. The biggest might be to not get lost in the moment. This is rarified air for a program that's spent decades in the shadow of the football team. That's not the way it is at Wichita
State. Listening to coach Gregg Marshall rattle off the teams the Shockers have faced in the tournament over the last three years is akin to listening to a financial adviser rattle off blue
"You realize cloud nine can be replaced by cloud 10 if you win these two games this week."
RON BAKER
Wichita State junior guard
RON BAKER
chip stocks in their portfolio.
Ohio State. Louisville.
Kentucky, Indiana. Kansas.
That last one, by the way, may have been the most important.
Spoiling for a fight against their unwilling in-state rivals for more than 20 years. Wichita State blew Kansas off the floor in the round of 32. The celebration could have gotten out of
Calling them the Shockers these days is a bit of a misname. Nothing Wichita State does anymore is surprising, including getting caught up in its own hype. Defeating the Jayhawks was great and all, but it's only one stop on a journey the Shockers believe is far from complete.
"You realize cloud nine can be replaced by cloud 10 if you win these two games this week," junior guard Ron Baker said.
control. Three or four years ago, it might have. Not anymore.
Wichita State can get halfway there on Thursday night. Standing in its way will be another marquee name, one guided by a man still processing a great loss by relying on the toughness his mother instilled in him long ago.
"Coach is a leader," senior guard Jerian Grant said. "We hurt for him. We want to play for him."
STYLE POINTS:
The Stockers have one of college basketball's most suffocating defenses, but they insist they can get up and down the floor too. Notre Dame has built a reputation on its free-flowing offense but has gotten every stop it needed down the stretch during a seven-game winning streak that includes the ACC Tournament title.
"We can run and we will run," Wichita State guard Tekele Cotton said. "We can switch it up. That's one of the reasons we're successful."
UNDERDOGS NO MORE:
Despite being the lower seed, the Shockers are a favorite. Just consider it another motivating tool at Brey's disposal the Irish try to spoil a potential rematch between the Shockers and the Wildcats, who met in a thrilling round of 32 game last spring in which Kentucky ended Wichita State's perfect season.
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