By Elaine Donnelly
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Just when it seemed Chelsea's reputation couldn't sink any lower, along came "Ballboygate."

When the Miami Heat players and coaches showed up for work Saturday morning, basketball was secondary.
All professional soccer players and managers in England and newcomers from abroad will have "cultural lessons" regarding discrimination as part of proposals to fight racism.
All professional soccer players and managers in England and newcomers from abroad will have cultural lessons regarding discrimination as part of proposals to fight racism.

John Terry apologized Thursday for using inappropriate language during an on-field confrontation and will accept a four-match ban for racially abusing an opponent during a Premier League game.
John Terry apologized Thursday for using inappropriate language during an on-field confrontation and will accept a four-match ban for racially abusing an opponent during a Premier League game.
Chelsea captain John Terry has been banned for four matches for racially abusing an opponent.

Chelsea captain John Terry has been banned for four matches for racially abusing an opponent.
This weekend, the two kinds of football played on opposite shores of the Atlantic for once have a shared fascination _ handshakes.

To Major League Soccer, the All-Star Game in recent years had become, in some regards, a sore subject. Envisioned as a spotlight for the league's top talent, the midsummer spectacle instead developed into an arbitrary symbol for how far soccer in the U.S. still has to go.
After four days of foul-mouthed evidence that provided insight into soccer's crude culture, Chelsea captain John Terry was cleared Friday of racially abusing an opponent.
Chelsea captain John Terry took the stand in his racism trial Tuesday to angrily deny he is prejudiced or racially abused an opponent during a Premier League match.
Chelsea captain John Terry pointed to his work helping African footballers and their charities as evidence he isn't prejudiced during police interviews heard at his racism trial on Tuesday.
Chelsea captain John Terry repeatedly denied being a racist in taped interviews heard on the second day of his racism trial.
The owner of I'll Have Another says he sold his Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner to a farm in Japan for $10 million, a price that far exceeded any amount he was offered in the United States.
Chelsea captain John Terry on Instagram said "So So Sad" beneath a picture of a candle, and he urged prayers for school.
"I want to take this opportunity to apologize to everyone for the language I used in the game against Queens Park Rangers last October," Terry said in a statement. "Although I'm disappointed with the FA judgment, I accept that the language I used, regardless of the context, is not acceptable on the football field or indeed in any walk of life."