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COLLEGES/OLYMPICS
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Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Denton Record-Chronicle
Longtime Florida AD Foley retiring
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basketball (2006, 2007).
Foley and Florida made his-
tory in 2006 when the Gators
became the first to win national
championships in football and
men’s basketball in the same
year. Foley was rewarded with
an 11-year contract that paid him
$1.2 million annually and set up
his retirement.
The deal included a clause
that gives Foley the option of
serving as emeritus athletic di-
rector and senior adviser to the
university president for five
years after his retirement, either
full or part time. Foley also can
choose to be an adviser to his
successor.
Foley made it clear he plans
to remain connected to the
program, especially during the
completion of several on-cam-
pus facility upgrades. The
O’Connell Center is undergo-
ing a $64.5 million renovation
that will be completed in De-
cember, and a $25 million aca-
demic center for student-ath-
letes is expected to open later
this month.
“I’ve invested a lot in this
place,” said Foley, who also has
130 SEC tiles on his resume. “Ev-
erybody who knows me knows
I’m not putting my feet up. I still
have some work to do for this or-
ganization.”
van and Meyer
were among
his best hires.
Each won a
SEC
By Mark Long
Associated Press
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Flor-
ida athletic director Jeremy Fo-
ley drove through the baseball
parking lot, turned left at the
grounds crew entrance and
stopped a few feet from left field.
Any closer and he would
have been in the dugout.
“It’s good to be king,” Foley
said Sunday as he emerged from
his SUV before the Gators and
someone to sustain that success.
“I want to do what’s right for
Florida,” Foley said in a statement
“That’s why I have spent a lot of
time thinking it through. And I
want to make sure everyone un-
derstands this is my decision. I’m
not sick. I’m not dissatisfied. I’m
not getting pushed It happens to
all of us. The time comes.”
The 63-year-old Foley will
officially step down Oct. 1. He in-
formed his staff and head coach-
es of the move Monday morn-
ing, calling it quits after four de-
cades at Florida. The school
scheduled a news conference
with Foley for this afternoon.
Foley started in the ticket of-
fice in 1976, became a full-time
employee a few months later
and needed just five years to be-
come an assistant athletic direc-
tor. His rise continued until he
was named AD in 1992, taking
over a program that had been
known mostly for cheating and
mediocrity and helping turn it
into a model organization accus-
tomed to winning champion-
ships the right way.
Although Foley didn’t hire
Spurrier, he brought a distin-
guished list of coaches to
Gainesville while molding one of
the SEC’s elite programs. Dono-
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pair of nation-
al champion-
ships.
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including giving football coach-
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Wilfredo Lee/AP
Miami of Florida’s Edgar Michelangeli rounds third base after
hitting a grand slam against Boston College on Sunday in Cor-
al Gables, Fla.
champ their first head-coaching
jobs. Foley’s critics also point to
Florida falling well back in the
arms race of football facilities, a
problem second-year coach Jim
McElwain inherited and has
been working to correct.
But all those championships
speak for themselves.
Under Foley, the Gators won
national titles in 13 sports. They
had won nine national champi-
onships in five sports before he
took over. He is one of two sit-
ting ADs — along with UCLAs
Dan Guerrero — to have won at
least one national title in each of
the last seven years. Foley’s
streak continued when the
men’s track and field team won
the NCAA outdoor crown last
week.
Florida State played Game 2 of
their NCAA super regional.
His reign is coming to an
Bat flips
Miami’s CWS return
end.
One ofthe most successful col-
lege sports leaders in the country,
Foley announced his retirement
Monday after 40 years at Florida.
He started as an intern long be-
fore Steve Spurrier, Billy Donovan
and Urban Meyer coached at
Florida, worked his way to the top
of the athletic department and
built a powerhouse program
whose annual operating budget
has risen from $30 million to
more than $119 million.
The Gators have won 27 na-
tional championships during
Foley’s 25 years at the helm and
claimed the Southeastern Con-
ference’s All-Sports Trophy ev-
ery year except one during his
tenure.
Now, they’re searching for
By Tim Reynolds
Associated Press
CORAL GABLES, Fla. -
Edgar Michelangeli does not
lead the Miami Hurricanes in
any official stat category. He may
lead the nation in bat flips.
Michelangeli’s big swings
have helped the Hurricanes
back to the College World Series,
and the antics that followed
those swings have merited plen-
ty of attention. He tiptoes be-
tween celebratory and overex-
uberant, and his reaction after a
grand slam against Boston Col-
lege on Sunday that essentially
clinched Miami of Florida’s 25th
trip to Omaha helped spark a
benches-clearing brouhaha.
“It’s spur of the moment,
honestly,” Michelangeli said. ‘A
lot of emotions go on in those
moments. I play with passion
and it happens.”
Some might say there’s a little
too much passion. The Hurri-
canes aren’t bothered — they’re
back in the College World Series
for the second consecutive year,
and will face Arizona in their
opening game of the CWS this
weekend.
Twice in recent weeks, Mi-
chelangeli has swung and
watched a ball take flight toward
left field without any doubt that
it would soon be clearing the
wall. Michelangeli’s reaction to
both has been largely the same
College baseball
College World Series
— he would start slowly walking
to first base, bat held out in front
of him for a few steps, before he
tosses it in the air and begins his
trot around the diamond.
“That’s as good as it gets, I’ve
got to say,” Miami outfielder Wil-
lie Abreu said. “It’s exciting.
Baseball’s evolving. You hear
‘make baseball fun again’ and
those are the kind of things that
make baseball exciting.”
Miami’s opponents have a
slightly different perspective.
When Michelangeli first
flipped the bat against North Car-
olina State (who bat-flipped the
Hurricanes an inning earlier) in
the Atlantic Coast Conference
tournament with a go-ahead
three-run home run in the ninth,
he heard unhappy sentiments
from Wolfpack players.
“I might have said a word or
two,” N.C. State first baseman
Preston Palmeiro said.
And when Michelangeli did
it again Sunday after his slam
blew the game with Boston Col-
lege open, the Eagles’ displea-
sure was evident.
Michelangeli is hitting .274,
sixth-best among Miami’s regu-
lars. He’s shown a knack for big
hits, but he’s not exactly a big
bopper, with five homers in 212
at-bats.
Foley also is the only AD in
Division I history to lead a pro-
gram that won multiple national
championships in football
(1996, 2006, 2008) and men’s
Rio mayor’s star rose, and now is falling
By Mauricio Savarese
Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO — Just a
year ago, Rio de Janeiro Mayor
Eduardo Paes was hailed by
Olympic Committee executives
as the driving force behind the
Summer Games that are set to
kick off in August in Samba City.
Overseeing billions of con-
struction dollars for glittering ath-
letic venues, Paes was so popular
that he was often mentioned as a
potential presidential contender.
But Paes’ once-bright star has
dimmed as he’s been blamed for
mounting problems and associat-
ed with a probe into corruption at
state oil company Petrobras.
“There has been so much bad
news for him,” said Leonardo
Paz Neves, a political science
professor at Ibmec, a university
in Rio de Janeiro. “His public
image has been severely hit.”
The April collapse of a section
of a new bike lane, an Olympic
beautification project, plunged
two men to their deaths and
raised questions about how well
the venues have been built Offi-
cials have failed to meet targets
for cleaning up Rio’s notoriously
polluted waterways, including
some where Olympic events will
be held And anger is growing
over the city’s inability to provide
basic services amid a punishing
recession and massive public
spending on the Games.
Paes acknowledges the last
year has been tough.
“I wish I could be doing noth-
ing but legacy construction
works for the city,” he recently
said during a news conference.
Paes, a lawyer who speaks
fluent English, entered politics
in the 1990s as an appointed
borough administrator of Barra
da Tijuca, an area of Rio that in-
cludes the Olympic park. He lat-
er became a city councilor and
then a representative in the low-
er chamber of Congress before
winning a close race to become
Rio’s mayor in 2008.
Paes was thrust into the in-
ternational spotlight the follow-
ing year when the International
Olympic Committee awarded
the 2016 Games to Rio over Chi-
cago, Madrid and Tokyo.
The mayor basked in the at-
tention as venues went up in re-
cent years, framing the Olympic
preparations as a chance to mo-
dernize one of the world’s most
iconic cities. Two years ago Rio
was also in the spotlight when it
hosted World Cup matches in-
cluding the final.
But now city prosecutors and
council members say they are
scrutinizing Olympic contracts
for possible corruption as the in-
vestigation continues into the
multibillion-dollar
scheme at Petrobras.
There are also two other in-
vestigations directly involving
the mayor. Earlier this year Paes’
name appeared on a leaked list
of payments made by Brazilian
construction giant Odebrecht,
one of the central companies in-
volved in the scandal. Paes ar-
gues that they were legal cam-
paign donations, not bribes.
Summer Games
Rio de Janeiro
In the other probe, Brazil’s
chief investigator is examining
whether Paes erased bank re-
cords for an ally during his time
as a representative. The mayor
denies any wrongdoing.
Even headaches that clearly
are not of Paes’ making are find-
ing their way to City Hall. Amid
the worst recession to hit Brazil
since the 1930s, Rio de Janeiro
state is in such dire financial
straits that the city of the same
name had to take over adminis-
tration of two ofthe state’s hospi-
tals.
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Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes talks with the media in-
side the Expressway Tunnel on March 24, 2015, in Rio de Ja-
neiro. Paes’ once-bright star has dimmed as he’s been blamed
for mounting problems and associated with a probe into cor-
ruption in Brazil.
While Olympic projects have
created some jobs, Rio is still
struggling with 10 percent un-
employment. Many residents
like Feliciano Silveira, a 58-year-
old doorman, find it hard to con-
tain their anger over how the city
is being run these days.
“It used to take me about an
hour to go to work. Now it takes
almost two hours,” said Silveira,
who voted for Paes twice and re-
grets it today. “Paes changed the
bus system without much care,
he blocked the city center with
Olympic projects that never
seem to be ready and my kids go
to a municipal school that often
has no classes.”
Clearing space for the Olym-
pic venues has also cost the mayor
politically. To build what will be-
come upper-class housing at the
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Olympic Park, the city bulldozed
the shantytown of Vila Autodro-
mo. Paes initially said residents
could stay if they wanted, but re-
versed course and ordered evic-
tions when many decided to do
so. Only about 30 of700 families
who once lived in the area remain,
and they face being forced out by
police in the coming weeks.
“Paes has become very linked
to the wealthy for demolishing
[those] homes,” said Felipe Pe-
na, a communications professor
at Rio’s Fluminense Federal
University.
The Olympics will give Paes
one last chance to shine before
his term ends Dec. 31, and ahead
of a possible run for state gover-
nor in 2018.
The mayor has said he believes
residents will ultimately look
proudly on the civic facelift over
which he presided. Along with
the Olympic Park, there is a new
tram system, a revamped port ar-
ea and a new expressway running
through the sprawling city,
among other improvements.
“The comparison that mat-
ters is between Rio and Rio,”
Paes said recently as he inaugu-
rated a new sanitation facility.
“Rio before the Olympics and
Rio now.”
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