BRIEFLY: LOVE: EUROPE IS NO BASTION OF COURTESY.Byline: - Daily News Staff and Wire Services Still glowing over a Ryder Cup victory, Davis Love III Davis Milton Love III (born April 13, 1964) is an American professional golfer. Love was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina before turning professional in 1985. isn't about to let European complaints of the 17th green celebration or boorish behavior by the Boston gallery spoil America's great comeback. ``We didn't cry when we lost two in a row,'' said Love, one of four Ryder Cup players at Callaway Gardens in Georgia for the Buick Challenge. Love on Wednesday also accused the European team of purposely playing slowly to rattle the Americans, and said the excessive partisanship was no different from what was heard at Valderrama in Spain two years ago or at The Belfry in England in 1993. ``They were poking umbrellas through the ropes trying to trip people going from tee to green,'' Love said. ``And how long have they been calling our wives `flight attendants' and `bimbos'? They act like we're the only ones who do it.'' FOOTBALL: Ricky Williams, Texas Tech's offensive nucleus, aggravated a sprain of his left knee during practice Tuesday and is out for the rest of the season, coach Spike Dykes said. Tech doctors said surgery would be scheduled later this week. TENNIS: Martina Hingis beat Amelie Mauresmo 7-6 (7-1), 6-2 at the $6.7 million Grand Slam Cup The Grand Slam Cup was a tennis tournament held annually in Munich, Germany, from 1990 through 1999. The event was organized by the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The ITF invited the best-performing players in the year's Grand Slam events to compete in the Grand Slam Cup. in Munich, Germany. The world's No. 1 player, one day before her 19th birthday, was competing in her first match since losing the U.S. Open final to Serena Williams nearly three weeks ago. In the men's field, Tommy Haas beat Dominik Hrbaty 6-3, 6-2 to set up a quarterfinal today with top-ranked Andre Agassi, the U.S. Open champion who had a first-round bye. HOCKEY: Travis Roy, the Boston University hockey player paralyzed par·a·lyze tr.v. par·a·lyzed, par·a·lyz·ing, par·a·lyz·es 1. To affect with paralysis; cause to be paralytic. 2. To make unable to move or act: paralyzed by fear. when he crashed into the boards 11 seconds into his first game as a freshman, will be the subject of a screenplay by Robert Redford's son, James Redford, a Boston production company announced. The Kings assigned right wing Jason Podollan and left wing Bill Huard to the Lowell Lock Monsters The Lowell Lock Monsters were an ice hockey team in the American Hockey League that played in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA at the Tsongas Arena from 1998 through 2006. In 2006, they were purchased by the New Jersey Devils hockey team and now have the name Lowell Devils. of the AHL AHL American Hockey League AHL Action Half-Life (Half-Life modification) AHL Acyl Homoserine Lactone AHL Aramark Harrison Lodging AHL Acylated Homoserine Lactone AHL Association for the History of Language AHL Architects Hawaii Ltd , and center Len Barrie to the Long Beach Ice Dogs The Long Beach Ice Dogs were a professional ice hockey team in the ECHL. They had suspended operations at the end of the 2006-2007 season. The Ice Dogs trace their origins to the San Diego Gulls, a team in the now-defunct International Hockey League that began play in 1990. of the IHL. BOXING: IBF IBF See: International Banking Facility junior middleweight champion Fernando Vargas is tentatively scheduled to defend his title againstNo. 1 contender Diego Corales on Dec. 4 in Las Vegas on HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy . Vargas, who hasn't fought since he knocked out Raul Marquez on July 18, has pleaded not guilty to assault charges stemming from a beating incident shortly after the Marquez fight. The fighter's handlers insist he is innocent and expect charges to be dropped. His preliminary hearing is set for Nov. 3. |
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