Speed Reads....

Donald Trump is "looking to buy Argentina’s Club Atletico San Lorenzo di Almagro, best known for running the San Lorenzo soccer team that Pope Francis is an avid fan of” (N.Y. POST, 8/28).

Baseball arbitrator Frederic Horowitz has "ruled in favor of MLB in the case" in which Barry Bonds "claimed he couldn't get a playing job following the 2007 season due to a concerted effort by MLB to keep him out of the game" (CBSSPORTS.com, 8/27).

FIFA yesterday “disowned comments” made by its reform committee Chair Francois Carrard, who had “questioned why American authorities were investigating corruption in soccer, which he described as ‘just an ethnic sport for girls in schools’ in the U.S.” (REUTERS, 8/27).