| Brazil Brazil deny dressing down for Dunga
The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) denied on Friday that national team coach Dunga had been asked to tone down his attire on the touchline. Dunga, whose daughter Gabriela Verri is a fashion student and designs his clothes, raised eyebrows last Tuesday with a garish black and white shirt in the 2-0 defeat by Portugal, his first loss in six games in charge. A number of foreign publications, including Argentina's sports daily Ole, have poked fun at his dress sense. In a previous friendly away to Switzerland, Dunga caught the eye with a grey, polar-necked sweater under a grey jacket with a maroon handkerchief tucked into his breast pocket. On Friday, the Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper reported that CBF president Ricardo Teixeira had asked him to adopt a more discrete, traditional line.
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Two San Francisco Chronicle reporters will avoid jail time under a plea agreement by a criminal defense lawyer who admitted leaking them secret grand jury documents from the BALCO steroids investigation. In court papers filed yesterday in U.S. District Court, attorney Troy Ellerman said he allowed reporters Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada to view transcripts of the grand jury testimony of baseball stars Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi, Gary Sheffield and sprinter Tim Montgomery. Ellerman had represented Victor Conte, founder of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, the Burlingame, Calif., supplements lab that allegedly provided performance enhancing drugs to the elite athletes, as well as BALCO vice president James Valente. Ellerman agreed to plead guilty to four felony counts of obstruction of justice and disobeying court orders, and to spend up to two years in prison and pay a $250,000 fine.
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