Good morning, America. Welcome to the VICE Sports World News Roundup. Be sure to stop by daily for your morning headlines.It's the 18th of August, 2015, and Sepp Blatter is still president of FIFA.Yesterday, I alerted you all to the anti-Platini "dossier" supposedly circulating around FIFA headquarters. Platini, the president of UEFA, is the favorite to succeed Blatter when he steps down in February. This interview, published in English on Saturday by Dutch magazine die Folksrant, sheds a little light on why Sepp's FIFA dislikes Platini enough to orchestrate a smear campaign. In the interview, Blatter accuses Platini of telling Blatter's older brother that Sepp would be arrested if he didn't step down before May's election. Blatter also suggests (before walking back his suggestion) that UEFA called in the bomb threat that briefly postponed the FIFA congress. Madness.
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A match fixing scandal has brought the Little League Softball World Series into disrepute. A team from the West had already qualified for the next round when it intentionally lost to a team from the Southeast, ensuring the second Southeastern team a spot in the next round. This is called a "sporting fix" (as opposed to a "betting fix"). It happens in sports all the time, but we rarely find out![H/T Deadspin]After thumping Barcelona 4-0 in the first leg of the Spanish Super Cup, Atletico Bilbo managed a 1-1 draw in the second leg to secure the trophy. Gerard Pique was sent off for cursing at the ref. Cue the think pieces about Barcelona being a team in decline.Today in horrific injuries: Bastian Lech, a 19-year-old, youth-team keeper at Germany's Greuther Fürth is recovering in the hospital after suffering a horrific injury in a match against TSV Buchbach. A Buchbach player caught the Fürth keeper in the head with the bottom of his foot (link in German). His studs punched a hole in the Lech's skull.2012 Olympic 1,500 meter champion Asli Cakir Alptekin had her gold medal stripped after testing positive for performance enhancing drugs. Money quote from the BBC: "Straight after the race, Britain's Lisa Dobriskey, who finished ninth, told BBC Radio 5 live: 'I don't believe I'm competing on a level playing field.'Photo of the Day:Yankee pitcher Bryan Mitchell was struck in the head by a line drive last night. He left the game covered in blood. Despite the gore, he seems to have only broken his nose, which seems incredibly lucky.