MLS received an A- for head coaches, a B+ for team professional administration

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Tommy Tuberville was a 3-year-old the last time Cincinnati won a road game against a Big Ten Conference opponent, defeating Indiana in 1957 in Bloomington.Tuberville, who will celebrate his 62nd birthday on Sept. 18, got an early present Saturday when the Bearcats dominated Purdue, 38-20 in Ross-Ade Stadium.Quarterback Hayden Moore passed for three touchdowns and ran for two more, and linebacker Mike Tyson intercepted Purdues David Blough three times, laying the foundation for a relatively easy victory.With five turnovers, youre going to win most of your games, Tuberville said. I dont care if you are playing on the moon. That was a good game for us. I thought we handled it well.Purdue (1-1) was trying to start the season 2-0 for the first time since 2007, but Blough was intercepted five times, and J.D. Dellinger missed a 28-yard field goal. Three interceptions of Blough set up Cincinnati touchdowns.I was just doing my job, Tyson said of his three interceptions. If it wasnt for our defensive front playing so well, I wouldnt have gotten any interceptions.Blough threw a 19-yard touchdown pass to Domonique Young and a 36-yarder to DeAngelo Yancey, and Richie Worship ran 4 yards for another Purdue score. Blough passed for 401 yards.The Bearcats ability to successfully convert on third down was at the core of their offensive dominance. Cincinnati converted 12 of its first 14 third-down situations.Moore threw touchdown passes of 5 and 28 yards to Nate Cole and 20 yards to D.J. Dowdy and ran 9 and 23 yards for scores. His 23-yard TD run with 2:19 iced the outcome.We got a little conservative in the fourth quarter, but it was a big win for us, Tuberville said.Moore completed 19 of 32 passes for 250 yards and ran eight times for 58 yards.Cincinnati drove 85, 80, 75, 32 and 49 yards for touchdowns and had another 13-play, 79-yard drive that produced a 26-yard Andrew Gantz field goal in the third quarter that extended the lead to 24-7.Safety Tyrell Gilberts fourth-quarter interception of Blough set up the 28-yard touchdown pass to Cole, pushing the Cincinnati lead to 31-7 with 14:10 to play.When you cant get off the field on third down, and then you have too many turnovers, youre not going to win, said Purdue coach Darrell Hazell, now 7-31 in his fourth season with the Boilermakers with four victories against FCS opponents.TAKEAWAYS:CINCINNATI: Tyson intercepted Blough three times, once in the end zone, and Gilbert made a key pick to set up a score, allowing the Bearcats to win the turnover battle. In its season-opening victory against Tennessee-Martin, Cincinnati turned the ball over three times. Coupled with Moores solid day, the Bearcats won each side of the ball.PURDUE: The Boilermakers defense allowed 7.6 yards each time Cincinnati snapped the ball in the first half, when the Bearcats were 9 of 11 on third-down conversions. Coupled with the five interceptions of Blough, Purdue mistakes denied the Boilermakers a chance of rallying from what was once a 24-point deficit.KEY NUMBERSBloughs five interceptions are the most by a Purdue quarterback since Ohio State intercepted Scott Hoffman five times in the Buckeyes 1990 victory against the Boilermakers. Former Super Bowl winning quarterback Bob Griese was intercepted five times by Illinois in a 1966 game that Purdue actually rallied to win, 25-21.INJURIESPURDUE: The Boilermakers played without three starters -- defensive end Austin Larkin (ankle), cornerback DaWan Hunte (ankle) and linebacker Jimmy Herman (hamstring) and then lost starting running back Markell Jones in the third quarter with a sprained shoulder.UP NEXT:CINCINNATI: The Bearcats return home to play No. 6 Houston on Thursday night, hoping to improve to 3-0 and spring a major upset.We were not looking ahead to Houston, but its hard not to because we hear so much about them, Bearcats running back Tion Green said.PURDUE: The Boilermakers have a bye on Sept. 17 and will play Nevada on Sept. 24 in West Lafayette. It will be the first meeting between the schools. USA Soccer Jerseys 2020 . But by the time the game started, the Toronto Raptors forward felt even worse. 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Major League Soccer made improvements in both its racial and gender hiring practices, according to an annual report by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport.MLS received an overall grade of B+ with a combined grade of 84.7, up by a significant 1.5 percentage points from the leagues 2015 overall grade.Richard Lapchick, the author of the report, said MLSs improvements are encouraging.The league office is doing really in the racial and gender hiring practices and were seeing some increases at the team level as well, so thats definitely a plus, Lapchick told The Associated Press on Thursday.Laphchick said that MLS Commissioner Don Garbers office has been the pacesetter with an A+ in racial hiring and an A- in gender hiring and added, The teams need to follow the Leagues example more closely.For its racial hiring practices, MLS earned 88.5 points, up a substantial 2.1 percentage points from 86.3 in 2015. This resulted in a B+, the same letter grade as last year.MLS received an A- for head coaches, a B+ for team professional administration, and a B for team senior administration and assistant coaches when it came to racial hiring practices. There was a major improvement in the general manager position where four GMs who were people of color were hired, prompting the grade to rise from an F in 2015 to a B+ this year.MLS earned a B for gender hiring practices, the same letter grade as in 2015. In so doing, MLS remains the only other mens professional league other than the NBA with a B for gender hiring practices.The most notable achievement for gender hiring practices came at the leaguue office employee level, where the MLS received an A- grade.dddddddddddd. The team senior administration received a C- and team professional administration received a C+. There was also major improvement for gender in senior administration where the MLS jumped from an F in 2015 to a C- in 2016, although Lapchick said in his report that area remains a serious concern.MLS earned an A+ for its outstanding diversity initiatives for the eighth consecutive season.Some other notes from the report:- The MLS League Office continued to be the standard-bearer for the entire league with people of color comprising 36.4 percent of all professional positions, while women filled 37 percent of these positions.- People of color with head coaching positions increased from 10 percent in 2015 to 20 percent in 2016. The Colorado Rapids, Houston Dynamo, New York City FC and FC Dallas were the four MLS franchises led by Latinos.- Assistant coaches of color decreased by 5.2 percentage points from 18.8 percent in 2015 to 13.6 percent in 2015.- MLS teams have the worst record in professional sport for hiring people of color as team vice presidents. There was a decrease in vice presidents who were people of color in the 2016 season from 6.4 percent in 2015 to 4 percent in 2016.- Alex Leitao with Orlando City Soccer was the only person of color holding the position of CEO/president.- Earnie Stewart, of the Philadelphia Union, was the first African-American GM in MLS since its inception. ' ' '