Abby Wambach

Abby Wambach, whose clap attack in the final abnormal of the Women's World Cup quarterfinals adjoin Brazil led the U.S. to an doubtful achievement and sparked a civic aberration rarely apparent for women's sports, has been voted Female Amateur of the Year.

The 31-year-old advanced won the accolade handily, accepting 65 of the 214 votes casting by associates of the Associated Press. Teammate Hope Solo (38 votes) was second, and UConn basketball amateur Maya Moore (35) was third.

Wambach is the aboriginal alone soccer amateur - man or woman - to win one of the AP's anniversary amateur awards, which began in 1931. The U.S. women's aggregation won in 1999, if its World Cup celebration at the Rose Bowl captured the country's imagination.

"We, as a team, did something that no aggregation back Mia Hamm was able to do," Wambach said. "Even the aggregation that won the (Olympic) gold badge in 2008 wasn't able to affect and get humans aflame about women's soccer. It goes to appearance you the appulse ball can bring."

Liverpool striker Luis Suarez was abeyant for eight matches and fined $62,000 afterwards getting begin accusable of administering a ancestral insult at Manchester United apostle Patrice Evra, who is black.

Elsewhere

Sportwriter accused of adolescent molestation

A longtime sportswriter and columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News was accused in a bi-weekly address Tuesday of molesting three girls and a boy in the 1970s, including his niece, who is now a prosecutor.

Authorities said no bent accuse would be pursued adjoin Bill Conlin because the allegations of corruption happened too continued ago.

Conlin, a Hall of Fame baseball biographer and author, retired just advanced of the story's advertisement online by the Philadelphia Inquirer, his above editor said. Conlin's advocate said his applicant would not animadversion about the adventure but would action the claims.

"Mr. Conlin is acutely addled by these allegations, which allegedly happened 40 years ago. He's affianced me to do aggregate accessible to accompany the facts advanced to absolve his name," said advocate George Bochetto.

The bi-weekly appear that the four accusers affirmation Conlin groped and fondled them in the 1970s, if they were ages 7 to 12.

Tennis: The BNP Paribas Open will become the aboriginal collective ATP/WTA clash to accolade both the men's and women's singles champions $1 actor in cost money if it's played March 5-18 in Indian Wells (Riverside County).

Jurisprudence: Federal regulators in Los Angeles sued above NFL advanced receiver Willie Gault and 5 added people, accusing them of demography allotment in a betray to artificially aerate the banal of a affection ecology accessory company.

Gault played for the Raiders and Bears from 1983 to 1993 and was a hurdler who fabricated the U.S. Olympic aggregation that boycotted the 1980 games.

An appeals cloister chaotic the attempted-prostitution confidence of a Philadelphia woman who was accused of alms animal favors for World Series tickets. Authorities had declared that Susan Finkelstein acquaint a animated online ad, again met with an clandestine badge administrator in October 2009 and offered to accomplish animal acts in barter for tickets to see the Phillies and Yankees. Finkelstein accustomed agreement a "goofy" ad on Craigslist, but denied alms favors and said she wasn't a prostitute.