RIO DE JANEIRO -- When Merrill Moses first started playing for U.S. water polo, the team manager would pack a TV and VCR for overseas tournaments, and players would watch VHS tapes of their games. Tony Azevedo remembers waiting and waiting for the play he wanted to see.On the eve of the United States opener at the Rio de Janeiro Games, Moses can scout an opponents tendencies on his phone. Azevedo can watch every one of his shots for the last week. Water polo, one of the smallest sports in the Olympic program, has come a long way.Its time management, said Moses, a three-time Olympian who turns 39 on Aug. 13. Were definitely using our time more wisely and preparing in a much better way.When world champion Serbia takes on Hungary in the first mens game on Saturday, followed by the U.S. and defending Olympic champion Croatia, there will be no need for any introductions. Coaches are sharing more video than before, helped by the ease of technology, and USA Water Polo sends a staffer to major championships for video work -- even when the U.S. isnt participating in the competition.The increase in accessible scouting information puts water polo in line with some of the worlds biggest sports, where video libraries have been more commonplace for a longer time. But Azevedo, playing in his fifth Olympics -- a record for the U.S. program -- thinks there is plenty of room to grow.I think the more and more we start to understand our sport and people start investing more technology into our sport, then well actually be able to take it to a whole new level, Azevedo said Friday. I think its just started happening as water polo started growing in the United States and really outside of Europe.The use of underwater cameras also has added another level to water polo scouting. Some major competitions like the Olympics show the thrashing and wrestling that goes on below the surface, giving coaches a closer look at how players are fighting for leverage in key areas of the pool.The 34-year-old Azevedo said the additional information helps in a variety of ways.I mean weve used it, of course, against opponents, saying 90 percent of this guys main shots or his goals are high left, he said. Weve even used it against ourselves, where you take a guy and say `Hey, you shoot 90 percent of your shots here. You need to start learning how to shoot, you know, cross cage or a lob or something else because people are going to catch on. So its really made both sides better.Shooting tendencies could take on even more importance in Rio. Following group play, tie games go straight to a shootout after regulation. Think penalty kicks in soccer.Whether its Moses or his backup, 6-foot-8 McQuin Baron, in goal for the tiebreaker, each of them can take a closer look on where shooters like to go in those situations.For Moses, an assistant coach at Pepperdine who takes a lot of pride in his preparation, the abundance of information presents a different challenge.Theres a fine line where you dont want to, Id say, overthink things, he said. A shooter has his tendencies. I watch it to pick that up, but you also got to understand that hes not always going to do that. When I was younger, I used to go `Oh, hes always shooting there, and now, I kind of know the tendencies, but Im still reading the situation.---Jay Cohen can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/jcohenapWholesake Fake Air Jordan 1 . The return match will take place next Wednesday. Udinese leads Fiorentina 2-1 in the other semifinal. 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Far from it, with further allegations of wrongdoing emerging and pressure to act from the government.The Daily Telegraph also filmed an agent accusing 10 managers, which it did not name, of taking bribes linked to player transfers.The latest installment of the months-long investigation, which was published late Wednesday, led to second-tier club Barnsley suspending its assistant manager. Tommy Wright was filmed apparently accepting an envelope which the newspaper said contained 5,000 pounds ($6,500) from a fake Asian firm to help place players at the northern club.Bribes linked to transfers have long been suspected in England, which hosts the worlds richest domestic soccer competition in the Premier League.The vast number of Premier League transfers, loans and contract renegotiations involving large sums of money, combined with the greed of those involved in the deals, give rise to corruption, Liz Ellen, head of sports at law firm Mishcon de Reya, told The Associated Press.There is one quick fix.There should be a separation of powers, Ellen said. Managers and players should not have the same agents as this creates conflicts of interests and appearances of bias or conflict which are difficult to overcome.The League Managers Association said it is taking the allegations of bribery very seriously as they are obviously damaging to the game.Queens Park Rangers said it had every confidence in manager Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink while launching an investigation after he was filmed appearing to seek a fee of 55,000 pounds ($71,600) to work for a fake Far Eastern firm suggested selling players to the second-tier London club. Hasselbaink denied any wrongdoing, saying he was only offered a fee to make a speech in Singapore and did not ask QPR to sign players said to have been represented by the fake firm.Allardyce is the highest-profile scalp from the investigators.A video published on Monday showed Allardyce appearing to offer advice to fictitious businessmen on how to sidestep an outlawed player transfer practice and also negotiating a 400,000-pound ($519,000) public-speaking contract to top up an annual England salary of 3 mmillion pounds ($4 million).ddddddddddddA further recording showed Allardyce mocking predecessor Roy Hodgson, who was fired after Englands humiliating loss to tiny Iceland at the European Championship in June, questioning the FAs financial strategy, and talking dismissively about the organizations president, Prince William.On reflection it was a silly thing to do, Allardyce said outside his home near the northern English city of Manchester on Wednesday. Unfortunately, it was an error of judgment on my behalf and Ive paid the consequences.Allardyce was heading for the airport to escape England and to reflect on becoming the shortest-serving manager of the team.Before getting in his car, Allardyce had a message for the investigative journalists.Entrapment has won on this occasion, the former Sunderland and West Ham manager said, and I have to accept that.Covert investigations were also at the heart of wrongdoing around FIFA being exposed, although U.S. authorities instigated the case that led to dozens of soccer officials being indicted.In English soccer, a newspaper is leading the charge through covert operations.This kind of expose is a good tonic to the issue of corruption in football because it adds a fear factor, said Ellen, the London-based lawyer. When club officials and agents see what could happen when they are exposed, then the fear of getting caught could be a bigger motivating factor than the desire to act properly in the first place.But Allardyce received backing from an earlier occupant of the England job who was fired over bad results rather than any off-field conduct.Sam has innocently has paid the price, said Steve McClaren, whose reputation is defined by his miserable spell with England in 2006 and 2007. It could have happened to any of us in high-profile sports positions.When asked later by the AP if he was aware of being caught up in the Telegraph investigation, McClaren said: No comment.Earlier at the SoccerEx global convention, McClaren complained that as a manager: Privacy can only really be found in the four walls of your own home.If Allardyce had a greater awareness of his responsibilities as England manager when being wooed by fake businessmen, he would not have lost the job he chased for more than a decade.And now the British government wants action.We will be discussing the matter with the football authorities, sports minister Tracey Crouch said. All the evidence presented to them must be investigated fully and we stand ready to assist in any way we can.The FA and Englands leagues responded, saying in a joint statement that the allegations from the newspaper stings will be investigated and any evidence of criminality would be handed to authorities.---Rob Harris is at www.twitter.com/RobHarris and www.facebook.com/RobHarrisReports ' ' '
