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RIO DE JANEIRO -- The Latest on the Olympics being held in Rio de Janeiro (all times local):12:50 p.m.Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross advanced to the quarterfinals of the Olympic beach volleyball tournament.The Italians led in each set, but the Americans rallied to put them away 21-10, 21-16 in just 35 minutes. That made it an early night -- of sorts -- for the fans who came out to watch the three-time gold medalist play at midnight.It was the third time in four Olympic matches that Walsh Jennings and Ross were slotted for the midnight match -- the better to showcase them on American television. While previous matches had pockets of empty seats -- this one was packed.Among those in the stands: U.S. comedian and Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones, who draped an American flag around her shoulders and led her section in cheering.---12:20 p.m.Paolo Nicolai and Daniele Lupo have won an all-Italian battle for a spot in the beach volleyball quarterfinals.The two Italians wearing white beat Adrian Carambula and Alex Ranghieri, in blue, 21-12, 23-21 on Friday night.Carambula wowed the crowd with his high, spinning Skyball serve. Trailing 20-18 with the match on the line, though, he delivered three straight regular jump serves for winners.Nicolai and Lupo then came back to take a 22-21 lead and won it after a challenge determined a spike went out of bounds without being touched.---11:45 p.m.Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica showed off a spectacular new hairdo during track and field 100 meters heats and ended up the only woman to beat 11 seconds.The yellow-and-green-haired Fraser-Pryce will be trying to become the first woman to win the same individual Olympic athletics events at three Olympics in a row.Two others werent able to accomplish the feat Friday. Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia took bronze in the 10,000 meters and Valerie Adams of New Zealand finished with silver in the shot put.In the outside lane late Friday, Fraser-Pryce crossed in 10.96 seconds, with Michelle-Lee Ahye of Trinidad and Tobago setting the second best time of 11.00. All the favorites advanced, with Dafne Schippers of the Netherlands, Elaine Thompson of Jamaica and Americans Tianna Bartoletta, English Gardner and Tori Bowie also winning their heats.---11:25 p.m.Over halfway home, and Britains Jessica Ennis-Hill is where she wants to be -- leading the heptathlon after four of seven events.With a blistering 200 meters, the defending champion overtook surprise early leader Nafissatou Thiam of Belgium to regain the momentum going into the final day.With a time of 23.49, Ennis-Hill pushed up her total to 4,057 points, the only woman to break the 4,000-mark. Thiam only set the 24th best time over the 200 meters and fell back to second with 3,985.Akela Jones of Barbados was third with 3,964.The heptathlon was supposed to be a battle between Ennis-Hill and Brianne Theisen-Eaton but the Canadian was disappointing throughout the day and was in sixth position with 3,871 points.---11:20 p.m.Switzerlands Martina Hingis and Timea Bacsinszky will face Russias Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina for the tennis gold medal in womens doubles Sunday. Two Czech teams will play for bronze Saturday.Hingis and Bacsinszky, seeded fifth, beat sixth-seeded Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka 5-7, 7-6 (3), 6-2 on Friday, while the seventh-seeded Russians defeated Lucie Safarova and Barbora Strycova 7-6 (7), 6-4.---11:05 p.m.Sixteen years after winning his first individual gold medal at the Olympics, Anthony Ervin picked up his second with a furious dash from one end of the pool to the other.Completing a remarkable journey in the blink of an eye, the oldest member of the U.S. swimming team touched first in the 50-meter freestyle, edging the defending Olympic champion, Florent Manaudou of France, by a mere hundredth of a second.Another American, Nathan Adrian, took the bronze.The 35-year-old Ervin won his first gold at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, tying teammate Gary Hall Jr. for the top spot. Then, Ervin walked away from swimming, skipping the next two Olympics while he embarked on a journey to find his purpose in life.Turns out, it was swimming all along. He returned to make the American team in 2012, but failed to win a medal in London. Now, improbably, hes back on the top of the podium again.---11:05 p.m.MEDAL ALERT: Michelle Carter of the United States upset favorite Valerie Adams in womens shot put with a throw of 20.63 meters. Adams had been trying to win the event for the third straight Olympics.---10:50 p.m.MEDAL ALERT: Anthony Ervin of the United States has won the gold medal in the 50-meter freestyle at the Rio Olympics. Florent Manaudou of France claims silver and Nathan Adrian of the United States gets bronze.---10:50 p.m.Katie Ledecky has delivered another dominating performance at the Rio Games, handily breaking the world record in the 800 freestyle.Ledecky joined Debbie Meyer as the only women to sweep the three longer freestyle events at the same Olympics. Meyer took the 200, 400 and 800 at the 1968 Mexico Games, and Ledecky matched that performance with a couple of world records as well.Ledecky was merely racing the clock as she powered away from the field to touch in 8 minutes, 4.79 seconds, eclipsing the mark 8:06.68 that she set at a grand prix meet in Texas back in January.Then she waited for the rest of the field to finish.Jazz Karlin finally touched in 8:16.17 to claim the silver, just ahead of Hungarys Boglarka Kapas grabbing the bronze in 8:16.37.Some 23 seconds after Ledecky touched the wall, the last of the eight finalists finally got to the end of the grueling race.---10:45 p.m.Britains track and field Super Saturday is still on -- barely.Defending long jump champion Greg Rutherford was a jump away from elimination after two fouls, but he scraped through on his last attempt with a mark of 7.90 meters for 10th best position as only a dozen were allowed into Saturdays final.Rutherford won the long jump in London, within that crazy hour of athletics when fellow-Britons Mo Farah won the 10,000 meters and Jessica Ennis-Hill the heptathlon for one of the greatest moments in British sporting history.All three could do it again on Saturday.Ennis-Hill is leading the heptathlon after four of seven events. And Farah is a strong favorite to extend his title.---10:45 p.m.LaShawn Merritt, Kirani James and Wayde van Niekerk all came through their track and field heats comfortably in the 400 meters, an event thats shaping up to be a titanic battle between those three.Merritt, the 2008 Olympic champion, looked good in winning his heat in 45.28 seconds from lane eight.The American didnt seem to mind the sparse crowd at Rio de Janeiros Olympic Stadium, saying 45.2, not too much energy put out. Great track, nice atmosphere. I feel good.Defending Olympic champion Kirani James ran the fastest time of the heats with 44.93. Van Niekerk, the South African who surprised those two to win the world championships last year, won heat two in 45.26 and was relieved. He said he was a little nervous before his Olympic debut.---10:30 p.m.MEDAL ALERT-WORLD RECORD: Katie Ledecky of the United States has set a world record to win the 800-meter freestyle, her fourth gold medal at the Rio Olympics. Jazz Carlin of Britain gets silver, while Boglarka Kapas of Hungary claims bronze.---10:30 p.m.Maya DiRado of the United States has denied Katinka Hosszus bid to become a four-time gold medalist at the Rio Olympics.Hosszu got off to a blistering start and led almost the entire race. But DiRado rallied furiously on the final lap and got Hosszu at the touch to win in 2 minutes, 5.99 seconds.Hosszu settles for silver in 2:06.05, while Canadas Hilary Caldwell took the bronze in 2:07.54.DiRado couldnt believe what she had done in her one and only Olympics. She put her hands on her cap in disbelief when she saw he name on top of the scoreboard.---10:25 p.m.A stunner at the Rio Olympics: Michael Phelps has been beaten.Joseph Schooling of Singapore built a big lead on the opening lap and easily held off the hard-charging Phelps to win gold in the 100-meter butterfly. So, unless Phelps decides to come out of retirement again, his final individual race at the Olympics will go down as a silver. He still has a chance to win his 23rd gold medal in his final race of the Olympics, the 4x100 medley relay.Phelps was sixth at the turn and Schooling -- almost exactly a decade younger than the 31-year-old American -- wouldnt let him pull off one of his patented comebacks on the return lap. The winning time was 50.39 seconds.Phelps shared the silver with two other longtime rivals, Chad le Clos of South Africa and Laszlo Cseh of Hungary. They all touched in 51.14.---10:15 p.m.UPSET ALERT: Michael Phelps has been beaten in the 100-meter butterfly at the Rio Olympics. Joseph Schooling of Singapore takes the gold, while Phelps ties for the silver with Laszlo Cseh of Hungary and Chad le Clos of South Africa.---10:10 p.m.MEDAL ALERT: Maya DiRado of the United States has won gold in the womens 200-meter backstroke at the Rio Olympics. Hungarys Katinka Hosszu takes the silver, while Canadas Hilary Caldwell claims bronze.---10 p.m.Belgiums Nafissatou Thiam swept into the lead of the heptathlon after three events, winning the shot put on top of the high jump earlier Friday.With a throw of 14.91 meters, Thiam reach 3,107 points for an edge of 80 points over defending champion Jessica Ennis-Hill.Ennis-Hill was again well below her best with a shot put mark of 13.86.Brianne Theisen-Eaton is surprisingly 199 points of the lead, and her shot put result of 13.45 was only 17th best.The 200 meters concludes the program on Friday before the hepathletes have long jump, javelin throw and the concluding 800 meters on Saturday.---9:45 p.m.MEDAL ALERT: Rafael Nadal and Marc Lopez of Spain won the first tennis gold medal of the Rio Olympics tennis competition, beating Florin Mergea and Horia Tecau of Romania 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 in the mens doubles final.Nadal and Lopez won the last three games Friday night after trailing 4-3 in the third set.Its the second Olympic gold of Nadals career. He was the singles champion at Beijing in 2008. Its the first medal for Lopez.Steve Johnson and Jack Sock won the bronze for the United States.---9:40 p.m.Venus Williams is one victory away from her record-tying fifth Olympic tennis medal -- and she got there by beating the woman who halted her sisters bid for a calendar-year Grand Slam.The 36-year-old American and Rajeev Ram reached the Rio Games mixed doubles semifinals with a 6-3, 7-5 victory Friday against Roberta Vinci and Fabio Fognini of Italy.It was Vinci who pulled off one of the biggest upsets in tennis history by defeating Serena Williams in the 2015 U.S. Open semifinals.Venus Williams owns one singles gold and three doubles golds.Kathleen McKane won five Olympic tennis medals -- one gold -- in the 1920s.Williams and Ram face Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna of India on Saturday for a berth in the mixed doubles final.---9:25 p.m.Kyrie Irving scored 15 points and the U.S. mens basketball team survived its second straight strong challenge in the Rio Games, edging Serbia 94-91.The Americans won their 48th consecutive international tournament game, but it was anything but easy.Serbias Bogdan Bogdanovic missed a 3-pointer from the left wing with 2 seconds left that would have tied it, and Kevin Durant grabbed the rebound to keep the Americans unbeaten. They barely escaped against Australia on Wednesday.Seeking their third straight gold medal, the Americans built an early 18-point lead on Friday but couldnt put away the Serbians, who lost by 29 to the U.S. in the 2014 Basketball World Cup final.DeAndre Jordan scored 13 and Carmelo Anthony 12 for the U.S., which will close pool play on Sunday against France.Nikola Jokic scored 25 and Miroslav Raduljica 18 before fouling out for Serbia.---9:25 p.m.Sophie Schmidt scored in the 56th minute and Canada advanced to the womens soccer semifinals at the Rio Games with a 1-0 upset France on Friday night.The tenth-ranked Canadians, who won the bronze medal at the London Olympics, had not dropped a match in Brazil but faced a tough quarterfinal against No. 3 France.Canada will play Germany on Tuesday in Belo Horizonte.Canada also defeated France in the bronze medal match in London.---9:25 p.m.The Netherlands has one team through to the quarterfinals in the mens bracket at the Copacabana beach volleyball venue.Reinder Nummerdor and Christiaan Varenhorst beat Mexico 21-18, 21-15 in the opening round of the knockout stage on Friday. Nummerdor is at his third Olympics, and hes never finished worse than fifth.The other Dutch mens team will play on Saturday. If it beats Canada, there will be an all-Dutch matchup for a spot in the semifinals.Italy is already going head-to-head later on Friday with the two mens teams meeting in the round of 16.Nummerdor said: Its not nice in the Olympics that you compete with your own country.---9:20 p.m.MEDAL ALERT-WORLD RECORD: Iran opened its account in Rio with a gold medal and a world record as Kianoush Rostami outmuscled his rivals to win the mens 85-kilogram weightlifting class.Rostami knelt and kissed the platform before adopting a position of prayer after his lift of 217 kilograms in the clean and jerk, which when added to his 179 from the snatch gave him a winning total of 396 -- one kilo above the world record he had set in May.The silver went to Chinas Tian Tao on 395. Tian had a high-risk strategy of attempting 217 on his last lift after twice failing at 210, thus risking finishing last if he didnt make the lift.Bronze went to Romanias Gabriel Sincraian on 390. Sincraian only returned last year from a two-year ban for doping.---9:05 p.m.Tirunesh Dibaba already clinched a track and field bronze in the 10,000 meters early Friday. Now it is time for younger sister Genzebe to step forward in the 1,500.World champion Genzebe easily qualified for the semifinals of the 1,500 late Friday, distancing opposition with a kick a lap from home and coasting from then on.But she was so relaxed that she swerved closely to the inside rail and had to take a corrective step to get back in line. It was her only problem toward a time of 4 minutes 10.61 seconds, more than 20 seconds off her world record.The semifinal is Sunday and the final on Tuesday.---8:05 p.m.MEDAL ALERT: Russia won the mens team foil event Friday for its sixth fencing medal of the Rio Games.Russia rallied from five points down to beat France 45-41, capturing its third gold medal in fencing so far. Hungary and the United States are second in the sports medal count with three.The Russians were trailing 35-30 when Artur Akhmatkhuzin scored 10 quick points to help clinch the bout.---7:50 p.m.Steve Johnson and Jack Sock have won the mens doubles bronze for the United States, the first medal of the Rio Olympics tennis competition.Johnson and Sock beat the Canadian pair of Daniel Nestor and Vasek Pospisil 6-2, 6-4 on Friday night.Sock and Pospisil won the Wimbledon doubles championship together in 2014.Rafael Nadal and Marc Lopez of Spain are facing Florin Mergea and Horia Tecau of Romania in the gold-medal match.-----Follow more on the Olympics at http://summergames.ap.org . Air Force 1 Sleva . One game after a miserable showing in Oklahoma City, Gay tied a career high with 41 points and the Sacramento Kings cruised to a 114-97 victory at the New Orleans Pelicans on Tuesday night. Nike Roshe One Dámské . This should be celebrated because it will not always be this way. 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Umberger scored twice to lead the Blue Jackets to a franchise-record for consecutive wins with a 5-3 victory Tuesday night over the Los Angeles Kings. The world of sports has seen its share of dishonesty and deception going way back to Greek boxer Eupolus, who bribed his three opponents into letting him win at the 98th Olympics in 388 B.C.Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte and three of his teammates probably will go down in the same history book after Lochte claimed they were robbed by gunmen on their trek home from a party last weekend in Rio de Janeiro.Witnesses, surveillance video and statements from Lochtes teammates have proved it was a fabrication, undoubtedly causing some uncomfortable moments for the Olympians, the U.S. Olympic Committee and even some angry Brazilians. On Friday, Lochte apologized for his behavior.Heres a look at 10 other infamous deceptions from the world of sports:Tim Johnson: War storiesJohnson was on the rise as a major league manager, and a prime reason for his success was his skill as a motivator. One of his go-to methods was to relay his experiences as a Vietnam War veteran to push his players through tough times or even get them to accept a lesser role on the team.In his first season at the helm, Johnson guided the Toronto Blue Jays to an 88-74 mark in 1998, good enough for third place in the AL East and just four games short of a wild-card berth. Johnsons war stories found the ear of pitcher Roger Clemens, who decided to buy Johnson a motorcycle helmet with the logo of his combat unit on the side.During his research, Clemens made a phone call to Johnsons wife, who told Clemens she knew nothing of her husbands Vietnam experience, nor did she have a clue he was using those tales to motivate his players. That information eventually filtered through the clubhouse and up to management, and Johnson finally admitted he never fought in the Vietnam War.Backlash began to build and, as the 1999 season approached, Johnsons lie became too much of a distraction. He was fired a month before Opening Day and spent the next seven seasons coaching in the Mexican League, never coming close to the major league level again.Josh Shaw: Not so heroicShaw had just been voted co-captain of the USC football team in August 2014 and was days from beginning his senior season when an intriguing story broke on the schools athletic site. Shaw, a skillful cornerback, had sprained both ankles after leaping from a balcony en route to saving his nephew from drowning.The story was quickly picked up by local publications and then went national. For three days, Shaw spoke about the incident, saying hed do it again for whatever kid it was. He continued to stand by his story, even after contradictions began to arise.It wasnt until Shaws name was discovered in a police report involving an off-campus break-in that he finally confessed to the lie. It turned out that Shaw had jumped from his girlfriends third-story balcony after police were called to investigate screaming from inside the apartment.Shaw was immediately suspended and not reinstated until mid-November. His draft stock didnt take as big a hit, however. He was selected in the fourth round of the 2015 NFL draft by the Cincinnati Bengals and appeared in 15 games with one start as a rookie.Marion Jones: Cant outrun the truthJones was the most heralded womens track and field athlete in the world at the start of this century, winning five medals at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.But when the investigation into the BALCO performance-enhancing drug scandal erupted in 2002, Jones was caught in the crosshairs. BALCO founder Victor Conte named Jones as one of his clients during a 2003 interview, also implicating her former boyfriend, sprinter Tim Montgomery.Jones was interviewed by assistant U.S. attorney and federal agent Jeff Novitzky but lied about her involvement with BALCO. She continued to deny using PEDs until finally admitting in October 2007 that she began using steroids just before the start of the 2000 Games.She was stripped of her five Olympic medals from 2000 and officially retired from the sport.Rafael Palmeiro: Finger wagThe steroid scandal at the start of this century exposed a number of athletes as liars and cheats, but Palmeiro took his dishonesty to another level when the former major league first baseman sat before the U.S. Congress in March 2005, boldly wagged his finger and claimed, I have never used steroids, period.Five months later, he was suspended for 10 games after testing positive for steroids, becoming one of the first big-name baseball players to be handed that discipline for using PEDs.Palmeiro has never admitted to using steroids, but the court of public opinion and even major league baseball seems to think hes guilty. Of the 30 major leaguers with at least 3,000 hits, only he and Pete Rose -- who is permanently banned from baseball -- have failed to make the Hall of Fame among eligible players.Palmeiro also has spent the past 11 years out of baseball almost entirely, even as fellow BALCO clients Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire have found coaching positions at the major league level.Tammy Thomas: Hairy situationThomas wasnt yet a household name in the world of cycling, but she became a well-known figure in the BALCO scandal, mostly because she was the first athlete to go to trial as a result of the steroid distribution ring.Thomas also was accused of lying to a federal agent in 2003, which hindered and delayed the investigation into other participants in the scandal. Thomas already had been banned for life from cycling after the performance-enhancing drug Norbolethone was detected in her urine in August 2002.Some of the most damning evidence prosecutors had on Thomas were medical records that revealed she had grown a full beard and experienced dramatic voice changes.ddddddddddddAccording to testimony during her trial, Thomas seemed to be in the middle of shaving her face when an Olympic drug tester made an unannounced visit to her home in 2002.Thomas became the ninth BALCO figure to be convicted but got off with six months home confinement and five years probation.Pete Rose: Bad betRose didnt veer from his story that he never bet on baseball as a player or manager until 2004, when he admitted to making wagers as manager of the Cincinnati Reds.That was my mistake for not coming clean a lot earlier, Rose told ABC News three days before the release of his autobiography, My Prison Without Bars, in which he details his addiction to gambling.Rose insisted he never bet on baseball as a player, but MLBs all-time hits leader was undone with that claim in 2015 as well. ESPNs Outside the Lines obtained documents that showed Rose -- while still a player -- bet thousands of dollars on games involving every MLB team.Rose has continued to deny that he bet on baseball as a player, a big reason why he continues to be banned from all areas of Major League Baseball.Tiger Woods: Living a life that is a lieWoods won 14 majors between 1997 and 2008, putting him well on pace to break the record of 18 by Jack Nicklaus. But his personal life and golf game seemed to fall apart around the same time of his November 2009 automobile crash in front of his Florida mansion.That widely publicized incident opened a tightly closed door to Woods sordid sex life outside his marriage, one that led to his divorce from Elin Nordegren less than a year later and might have affected his mental edge, as he hasnt won a major championship since.When youre living a life that is a lie, life isnt fun, Woods said before the 2010 Masters.Nordegrens words were much harsher when she gave her first interview a few months later, telling People magazine she felt stupid for not catching on sooner to his lies and infidelity.The word betrayal isnt strong enough, she said. I felt like my whole world had fallen apart. It seemed that my world as I thought it was had never existed. I felt embarrassed for having been so deceived.Manti Teo: Case of the fake girlfriendThe story Teo described of his grandmother and his girlfriend, Lennay Kekua, dying on the same day, Sept. 11, 2012, was gut-wrenching to hear and read and caused many to root for the linebacker during his senior season at Notre Dame that fall.Teo was already one of the nations top players at his position, but his heartbreak off the field seemed to inspire his play. He emerged as a Heisman Trophy candidate while leading one of the top defenses in the nation to the BCS National Championship game, where Notre Dame lost 42-14 to Alabama.Not long after the championship game, however, the sports website Deadspin received an anonymous tip that Teos girlfriend never existed. Rather, he was the victim of an elaborate hoax hatched by an acquaintance and two others.Teo, in fact, had never met his girlfriend but was too embarrassed to reveal to his father and others that he was carrying on a serious relationship with someone he never met. To make matters worse, he continued to speak about her death and their relationship even after receiving a call in early December from a woman who claimed to be her and determining he probably was the victim of catfishing.The San Diego Chargers werent too concerned about the situation, drafting him in the second round in 2013 and signing him to a four-year contract worth just over $5 million. He led the Chargers in tackles last season.Nick Saban: Job fibSaban stepped to the podium for his weekly news conference on Dec. 21, 2006, and, once again, bristled when asked if he was planning to leave the Miami Dolphins and return to the college ranks at Alabama.I guess I have to say it, Saban said adamantly. Im not going to be the Alabama coach.Two weeks later, he was named Alabamas head coach.To his defense, the Dolphins still had two games remaining on their regular-season schedule when Saban made his Alabama denial, and they lost both to finish 6-10 and miss the playoffs for the fifth straight season.Saban also picked the right time to get out, as the Dolphins have advanced to the postseason only once since 2001, and the Crimson Tide have won four national championships under Saban. Still, he probably didnt need to be in such denial before his exit from Miami.Steve Kerr: No trophy for moralityThe media is often the source that uncovers dishonesty and deception, but in the case of Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr, he used the media to propagate his lie.The Warriors were trailing the Cleveland Cavaliers 2-1 heading into Game 4 of the 2015 NBA Finals in Cleveland when Kerr told a group of reporters that he planned to stick with his regular starting lineup.But when the starting five was announced shortly before tipoff, Golden State small forward Andre Iguodala was included in that group, a role he hadnt played in the previous 101 games that season. The wrinkle seemed to work, as the Warriors won the game and the next two to capture their first NBA championship in 40 years.I lied, Kerr said after the game. I dont think they hand you the trophy based on morality. They give it to you if you win. Sorry about that. ' ' '