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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Joao Havelange, who as president of FIFA for two decades transformed soccers governing body into a multibillion-dollar business and a hotbed for subsequent corruption that damaged its reputation, has died. He was 100.Havelange, who was suffering from a respiratory infection, died early Tuesday while Rio de Janeiro was hosting the Olympic Games, according to the Samaritano Hospital.In 2009, Havelange led off Rios bid presentation to the International Olympic Committee in Copenhagen by inviting the members to vote to join me in celebrating my 100th birthday at the 2016 Games in Brazil.The Brazilian flag was lowered to half-staff at Olympic venues and the IOC said its thoughts are with the family and loved ones of Havelange.FIFA President Gianni Infantino lavished praise on Havelange, saying the whole football community should be grateful for his contribution.During his 24 years as FIFA president football became truly global, reaching new territories and bringing the game to all corners of the world, Infantino said.Havelange expanded the World Cup from 16 to 32 teams and made it one of sports most important events. He organized six World Cups as FIFA president from 1974 to 1998, when Sepp Blatter replaced him. He secured lucrative broadcast deals, brought nations into FIFA and created the womens World Cup.Blatter said Havelange will always be synonymous with the expansion of soccer and turning it into the universal language.Football thus owes him a huge debt of gratitude, Blatter said in a statement.Thanks to Joao Havelange, football is the worlds leading sport -- not only from a social, cultural and economic perspective, but also in terms of its political impact.But with more cash for football also came widespread financial wrongdoing by its top officials, including Havelange. In 2013, FIFA ethics court judge Joachim Eckert said Havelanges conduct had been morally and ethically reproachable.Havelange resigned in December 2011 as a member of the IOC just days before its leadership was expected to suspend him and rule on claims that he took a $1 million kickback.A 100-year-old man has died today and I think it would be entirely inappropriate to discuss that (wrongdoing), IOC spokesman Mark Adams said.Havelange was never punished by FIFA. He was allowed to resign his honorary presidency of FIFA in 2013.If someone had advised him to pay himself a salary, none of this would have come up, said Patrick Nally, a FIFA marketing consultant in the 1970s. What Havelange did for FIFA was extraordinary. He was not a bandit, he was a visionary.But three of FIFAs most notorious officials -- his former son-in-law Ricardo Teixeira, Chuck Blazer and Jack Warner -- joined FIFAs executive committee during Havelanges presidency. All three were subsequently swept up in corruption investigations by Swiss and U.S. authorities last year that also brought the end of Blatters 17-year presidency.Havelange was implicated with Teixeira in taking millions of dollars in kickbacks from World Cup broadcasting contracts. Both left FIFA between 2012 and 2013 to avoid sanctions from the soccer bodys ethics committee. Teixeira has been indicted by the U.S. Justice Department on corruption charges but has stayed out of reach of American investigators, remaining in Brazil, which typically does not extradite its citizens.Havelange was cited as a personal hero in soccer by Blazer, the most senior U.S. official at FIFA and his former executive committee colleague. Blazers testimony admitting widespread corruption charges was key to the sprawling U.S. investigation implicating FIFA. Blazer is seriously ill and awaiting sentencing.Warner, a longtime Havelange ally, also is indicted and is fighting extradition to the U.S. from his native Trinidad and Tobago.FIFA was a small organization with about a dozen employees when Havelange took over at its Zurich headquarters in 1974.I found an old house and US$20 in the kitty, Havelange told FIFAs website. On the day I departed 24 years later, I left property and contracts worth over US$4 billion. Not too bad, Id say.He was re-elected president six times, capitalizing on his contact-building across world football. FIFAs membership expanded by nearly one-third, to more than 200 nations and territories, under Havelange. China was readmitted in 1980 having left the organization in 1958.I clocked 26,000 hours in the air, the equivalent of spending three years in an airplane, Havelange said. The only country I never visited was Afghanistan, because they wouldnt let me in.The son of a Belgian father and a Brazilian mother, Havelange was a top-notch athlete before becoming a sports administrator. He swam for Brazil at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin and played on its water polo team at the Helsinki Games in 1952.He headed the Brazilian football confederation for nearly two decades, when Brazils national team won its first three World Cup titles in 1958, 1962 and 1970.Havelange was the first non-European head of FIFA and its longest serving president, stepping down at age 82.In a 1999 survey by the IOC, Havelange was voted among the top three sports leaders of the 20th century, behind former IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch and modern Olympics founder Pierre de Coubertin. He joined the IOC in 1963.Havelange had a heart pacemaker implanted in 2006. He was hospitalized for more than two months, including several weeks in intensive care, in 2012 because of an infection in his right ankle. He was back in hospital to July to undergo treatment for pneumonia.Rest in peace, Joao, Blatter said. Football -- your passion, my mission -- is in good shape. You should be proud.---AP Sports Writers Rob Harris in Rio de Janeiro and Graham Dunbar in Geneva contributed to this report.Cheap Swell Bottles Australia . This should be celebrated because it will not always be this way. With the amount of money given to players by their clubs these days, it is a wonder that so many of those teams allow the sport to continue to take away many of their assets so they can play for a different team in the middle of their season. Swell Water Bottle Clearance . 8 Kansas to a 64-63 win over Texas Tech on Tuesday night. The freshman from Vaughan, Ont. http://www.swellbottleaustralia.com/s-well-bottle-wood-australia.html . 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But its a start.The thing that excites me is weve got more pieces now, Anderson said. Pieces to the puzzle that fit what we want to do.Arkansas spent much of last season unable to recover from the early departures of former SEC Player of the Year Bobby Portis and All-SEC performer Michael Qualls.This season, the Razorbacks hope to mesh quickly around Kingsley, who considered leaving for the NBA before deciding to come back for his final season.The 6-foot-10 Nigerian center emerged from Portis shadow last season to average 15.9 points and 9.3 rebounds per game, and he had an early glimpse of his new teammates during a 10-day, four-game team trip to Spain over the summer. 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We have to make teams uncomfortable with the basketball, Anderson said.POINT DUTYFormer Arkansas point guard Jabril Durham graduated after leading the Razorbacks with an average of 6.4 assists per game last season, and Anderson expects the 6-foot-3 Barford to try and take over that position of lead playmaker. Barford averaged a national-best 26.3 points per game in junior college last season, but he also averaged 5.1 assists per game two years ago and has good passing ability.BEARDS RETURNBeard played in 23 games last season, but he never appeared fully comfortable after missing the first semester following his arrest on forgery charges. The junior has stayed out of troubles way this year, and Anderson is counting on the guard to return to his All-SEC freshman form of two years ago -- when he averaged 5.8 points per game.THOMAS DEBUTThe power forward position was a prime weakness for Arkansas last season, and Anderson hopes 6-foot-8 Colorado transfer Dustin Thomas can help fill that void. Thomas averaged 4.4 points per game as a sophomore with the Buffaloes two seasons ago, and he was second on the Razorbacks in rebounding during their four games in Spain this summer. ' ' '