Lee, 24, of Louisville, Ky., pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to commit sports bribery.
Two former University of San Diego basketball players and a former assistant were among 10 people indicted as part of a conspiracy to commit sports bribery, federal authorities said Monday.
Both are free on bond and will be tried on Feb. 10 on charges of sports bribery, conspiracy to commit sports bribery, interstate transportation and aid of racketeering charges.
■ Twenty-seven people, all but three of them soccer players, were indicted in Italy on charges of committing sports fraud.
This could well be because Big Sam is a Proper Footballing Man and breaking rank to call him out on something could be like committing sporting seppuku: for all its glamour and steroid-pumped Sky coverage, football is still a relatively beef-free sport – most of the personal sniping goes on post-career, within the pages of an autobiography.
BBC Sport - with the help of pundit Steve Claridge, who played for 22 clubs in a 29-year professional career - examines just how far you can go before you commit the sport's ultimate sin.
And he professes bug-eyed curiosity about the lesser-sung Summer Olympic sports he is committed, as sports commissioner, to bringing to New York City en masse in 2012.
Formula One's governing body, the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), has committed the sport to "improving sustainability".
"I am convinced they are committed through sport to developing their country and their community, and they are doing the right things". Qatar was an unusual choice if only because of the controversy surrounding the country's selection as host for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
This result contradicted previous findings that when consumers commit to a sport they are willing to buy special designed clothing for the sport (Dickson and Pollack 2000; Mitchka et al. 2008).
