BRIEFLY\Eckersley traded to Cardinals.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services Dennis Eckersley said goodbye to the Oakland Athletics on Tuesday, following his former manager and pitching coach to the St. Louis Cardinals For the National Football League team that played in St. Louis from 1960 to 1987, see . The St. Louis Cardinals (also referred to as "the Cards" or "the Redbirds") are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. . Eckersley was traded from the A's to Cardinals for minor-league reliever Steve Montgomery. Eckersley, 41, rejoins Tony La Russa and Dave Duncan, who revived his career when they remade the onetime starter into one of baseball's most dominating closers. With Oakland, Eckersley won four division titles, a World Series, a Cy Young and MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. award in the same season and had five 40-save seasons in six years. Kevin McClatchy's $90 million purchase of the Pittsburgh Pirates was unanimously approved by major-league owners, ending an 18-month ordeal that threatened the franchise's existence. McClatchy, 33, will be the majors' youngest owner. Only minutes after the sale was approved, the Pirates signed All-Star left-hander Denny Neagle to a contract extension through the 1997 season. Outfielder Bernie Williams won his arbitration case with the New York Yankees  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. and was awarded $3 million by a arbitrator Ralph Berger,
7-1/2 times his 1995 salary.
FOOTBALL The Indianapolis Colts, hoping to avoid the possibility of losing quarterback Jim Harbaugh, notified the NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga that he has been designated a "franchise" player. The Minnesota Vikings released middle linebacker Jack Del Rio Jack Del Rio, Jr. (born April 3, 1963 in Castro Valley, California) is a former American football player and is the current head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Early life Del Rio attended and played football for Hayward High School in Hayward, California. . The ex-USC star missed seven of the last eight games of the 1995 season with a knee injury. He was injured just days after he signed a $3.2 million extension for 1996-97. USC's 1996 football game at Houston has been moved to Sept. 21 from Sept. 28 because of a scheduling conflict in the Astrodome. Kickoff is tentatively set for noon (PDT PDT abbr. Pacific Daylight Time PDT Pacific Daylight Time PDT n abbr (US) (= Pacific Daylight Time) → hora de verano del Pacífico PDT ). USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. opens the season Aug. 25 against Penn State in the Kickoff Classic in East Rutherford, N.J. The Washington Supreme Court The Washington Supreme Court is the highest court in the judiciary of the U.S. state of Washington. The Court is composed of a Chief Justice and eight Justices. Members of the Court are elected to six-year terms. Justices must retire at the age of 75. agreed to decide where King County's legal battle with the Seattle Seahawks will be fought. The court put the case on an accelerated calendar and scheduled a hearing for March 27 to decide whether competing lawsuits will be heard in King or Kittitas County. King County sued Seahawks owner Ken Behring after he announced he was moving the team to Southern California. The county argues that Behring's lease obligates the Seahawks to play in the Kingdome through 2005. Behring filed a countersuit coun·ter·sue tr.v. coun·ter·sued, coun·ter·su·ing, coun·ter·sues Law To bring proceedings against (a plaintiff) in direct opposition to a suit brought against onself. in neighboring Kittitas County, contending the lease can be broken because the Kingdome is unsafe and not a first-class facility. Meanwhile, the Seahawks reopened their headquarters in Kirkland, Wash., although Behring said his plans to move the team remain unchanged. OLYMPICS American swimming's governing board punished a promising teen-ager for steroid use, but the decision opened debate about how international anti-doping rules should be interpreted. The United States Swimming Federation banned 15-year-old freestyle swimmer Jessica Foschi from national and international competition for two years after a urine test last August turned up positive for steroids. BASKETBALL The U.S. Olympic men's basketball team will be in the same pool with Angola, Argentina, China, Croatia and Lithuania; the first game will be against Argentina on July 20. America's women are in a pool with Australia, Cuba, South Korea, Ukraine and Zaire. The NBA All-Star game was seen on television by more than 35 million people, NBC said, making it the second most-watched NBA All-Star game ever. ETC ETC - ExTendible Compiler. Fortran-like, macro extendible. "ETC - An Extendible Macro-Based Compiler", B.N. Dickman, Proc SJCC 38 (1971). . Dick Enberg of NBC Sports and Dan Jenkins of Golf Digest are going into the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association The National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association, or NSSA, is an American organization of sports media members. It constitutes the American chapter of the International Sports Press Association (AIPS). Hall of Fame. . . . Tammy Turner of West Palm Beach, Fla. moved ionto the lead after the first 16 games of the $65,000 Claremore (Okla.) Classic bowling tournament. Tish Johnson of Northridge is in second place, 22 pins behind Turner. Robin Romeo of Newhall is seventh. CAPTION(S): PHOTO Photo ECKERSLEY |
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