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[0] BRIEFLY\Chavez, King accused of fixing 1995 fight.


Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services

A boxing promoter claims champion Julio Cesar Julio Cesar could refer to those people:
  • Julius Caesar, Ancient Roman dictator
  • Julio César González, light-heavyweight boxer
  • Julio César Chávez, Mexican boxer, world champion
Football (soccer) players
 Chavez and promoter Don King conspired to fix a fight in Chicago last summer.

Jose Venzor claims in a lawsuit filed Jan. 22 in Cook County Circuit Court that Indiana boxer Craig Houk took a fall 1 minute, 19 seconds into the first round of his fight against Chavez at the United Center on July 29.

The lawsuit claims King chose Houk as an opponent because Chavez, the WBC WBC white blood cell; see leukocyte.

WBC
abbr.
white blood cell


WBC,
n stands for white
blood
cell.
 super lightweight super lightweight
n.
See junior welterweight.
 champion, had "consumed substances deleterious to his body (that) put him at risk in any honest fight at the professional level."

BASKETBALL

Georgia guard Saudia Roundtree Saudia Roundtree (born October 4, 1976 in Anderson, South Carolina) is a basketball coach, and also a former star player. She began her collegiate career at Kilgore College, where she captured National Junior College Player of the Year honors in 1994. , who's at her best in big games, and two players from defending national champion Connecticut lead The Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency.
Associated Press (AP)

Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world.
 women's All-America basketball team announced Wednesday.

Kara Wolters and Jennifer Rizzotti of the Huskies joined Roundtree on the first team, along with versatile Vickie Johnson of No. 1-ranked Louisiana Tech and explosive scorer Latasha Byears of DePaul.

FOOTBALL

Valley College receiver Maurice Bryant has accepted a football scholarship to Houston. He is the 17th player off last year's 10-1 Valley team to accept a scholarship to a Division I program.

The NFL NFL
abbr.
National Football League

NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga
 took what could be the first step toward establishing an expansion franchise in a new Los Angeles stadium being planned by Dodgers owner Peter O'Malley.

NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue acknowledged that O'Malley discussed his stadium project at the football owners' meetings this week in Palm Beach, Fla. Tagliabue said that the discussions with O'Malley will resume next week in Los Angeles.

Soccer

Derek Dyslin of La Canada has been named to the Parade magazine high school soccer team.
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Title Annotation:Sports
Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Mar 14, 1996
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