On Long Island, Barbara Barker wrote under the header, "Will NBA Drop The Ball On Sexual Harassment?" NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said that the Mavericks at the league's BOG meeting earlier this month "told him they expect to complete their investigation" of workplace misconduct in the organization by the end of July. But what "remains unknown is whether those results will be shared with the public and what punitive steps, if any, the league will take against the team" and Owner Mark Cuban if the investigation "finds that he was complicit in creating a hostile work culture for women." Silver has been "curiously patient" in the wake of the SI report, "waiting for the result of an investigation that has taken more than five months." The league has "established a hotline for employees who feel harassed and sent memos" to teams' HR departments. Barker: "But I'm not sure that's enough" (NEWSDAY, 7/29).
TACKLING THEIR PROBLEMS: SOCCER AMERICA's Paul Kennedy notes USSF President Carlos Cordeiro in his first major address about the state of U.S. soccer since securing the co-hosting rights to the '26 World Cup "proposed to form a task force" to address "myriad youth soccer issues." Cordeiro, speaking Saturday at the U.S. Youth Soccer annual general meeting in Frisco, Texas, touched on "stagnant participation numbers; fragmented and fractured landscape; overemphasis on winning trophies and making money; lack of level playing field; and high cost of pay-to-play" (SOCCERAMERICA.com, 7/30).
