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Mooney’s Beck to coach both soccer teams

YOUNGSTOWN

Cardinal Mooney boys soccer coach Thomas Beck is now the head coach of the girls team, the school announced on Wednesday. Beck played college soccer at Mount Union and Cleveland State. He currently plays for AFC Cleveland in the National Premier Soccer League.

Annual meeting at Boardman Lanes

BOARDMAN

The Youngstown USBC Youth Association is holding their annual meeting at Boardman Lanes on June 19 at 7 p.m. Any youth bowler can attend, and any youth bowler 14 or older can vote.

Red Sox announcer apologizes for remarks

NEW YORK

Boston Red Sox broadcaster Jerry Remy has apologized for his on-air remarks that pitchers such as Yankees star Masahiro Tanaka shouldn’t be allowed translators on the mound.

Remy apologized on Twitter a day after he said during the NESN telecast of the game between Boston and New York that pitchers such as the Japanese-born Tanaka should “learn baseball language.”

His comments quickly drew sharp criticism on social media.

“I sincerely apologize to those who were offended by my comments during the telecast last night,” Remy tweeted Wednesday.

In 2013, Major League Baseball adopted a rule that permitted interpreters to join mound conferences.

Police probe Rex Ryan assault complaint

NASHVILLE, TENN.

Nashville police are investigating a misdemeanor assault complaint made by a man who says former Buffalo Bills and New York Jets coach Rex Ryan grabbed him by the neck.

Police spokesman Don Aaron said that Matthew Havel, a 30-year-old from Pueblo, Colorado, made the complaint Sunday night.

Havel told police that he saw the Ryan brothers — Rex and former NFL defensive coordinator Rob Ryan — at the Margaritaville restaurant in downtown Nashville near Bridgestone Arena. Aaron said Havel indicated he went up to the Ryans’ table and was there for over an hour before Rex Ryan “reached across and grabbed at his neck.”

Havel told police the incident was unprovoked.

Aaron said no arrests have been made and no charges are presently outstanding.

Two Michigan State players arraigned

EAST LANSING, MICH.

Two Michigan State football players charged in the sexual assault of a woman in a bathroom during an on-campus party in January have appeared in court. East Lansing District Court records show Donnie Corley Jr. and Josh King — both 19 — were arraigned Wednesday. Demetric Vance was arraigned Tuesday.

Preliminary examinations are June 22.

Corley and the 20-year-old Vance are charged with third-degree criminal sexual conduct. King is charged with first- and third-degree criminal sexual conduct and with distributing an image of an unclothed person.

A woman told police she was raped and forced to perform oral sex.

King, a defensive end, is from Darien, Illinois. Vance, a defensive back, and Corley, a receiver, are from Detroit.

The players have been dismissed from the football program.

CONMEBOL accuses Leoz of embezzlement

ASUNCION, PARAGUAY

The South American soccer confederation has accused its former president of embezzling $28 million from the regional body.

CONMEBOL made the allegation against Nicolas Leoz in a complaint to the Paraguayan attorney general’s office. The move was authorized by current president Alejandro Dominguez, the confederation’s law yer, Osvaldo Granada, told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Associated Press