BRIEFLY\Herron hangs on to Honda lead.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services About the time rookie nerves were getting the best of Tim Herron, he birdied two of the last three holes to shoot an even-par 72 Saturday and take a three-stroke lead in the Honda Classic in Coral Springs, Fla. Herron, who completed the third round at 202, will be paired today with New Zealand's Michael Campbell, who shot a 68 to reach 11-under on the TPC (Transaction Processing Performance Council, San Francisco, CA, www.tpc.org) An organization devoted to benchmarking transaction processing systems. In order to derive the number of transactions that can be processed in a given time frame, TPC benchmarks measure the total performance of at Eagle Trace. "A great relief," Herron said of his finish, which included a 12-foot putt for par on the last hole. Campbell is not the only one Herron will have to contend with. Mark O'Meara, who won the Mercedes Championship to start the year, shot a 7-under 65 to get to 10-under 206, tied with Mark McCumber. Nick Price and Payne Stewart are another two strokes back. "He's got a lot of guys chasing him, but if he plays well he can win the tournament," McCumber said. Three strokes is the closest anyone has been to the chubby 26-year-old from Minnesota since he eagled his sixth hole on Friday to get to 13-under and lead by six. Lee Trevino fired a 2-under-par 70 in the third round for a four-shot lead in the Australian PGA (1) (Professional Graphics Adapter) An early IBM PC display standard for 3D processing with 640x480x256 resolution. It was not widely used. (2) (Programmable Gate Array) See gate array and FPGA. Seniors in Canberra. Peter Hedblom of Sweden rolled in a birdie putt on the 18th green to complete a 2-over-par 74 and hold his four-shot lead in the Moroccan Open in Rabat Rabat (räbät`), city (1994 pop. 787,745), capital of Morocco, on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Bou Regreg estuary, opposite Salé. with a 209 total. Henry John Puget, the first caddy A plastic container that holds a CD or DVD disc for added protection. The bare disc is placed in the caddy, and the caddy is inserted into the drive. A caddy is not a jewel case. A jewel case protects the disc for transportation. A caddy protects the disc while reading and writing. at Pebble Beach and the Cypress Point Club's beloved pro, has died of respiratory failure Respiratory Failure Definition Respiratory failure is nearly any condition that affects breathing function or the lungs themselves and can result in failure of the lungs to function properly. . He was 91. He died Friday at the Hospice House in Monterey. BASEBALL The Cleveland Indians put about 115,000 temporary bleacher bleach·er n. 1. One that bleaches or is used in bleaching. 2. An often unroofed outdoor grandstand for seating spectators. Often used in the plural. and standing-room tickets on sale, and about 80,000 were sold by 5 p.m. About 1,000 people, bundled in heavy coats and hats, lined up outside Jacobs Field. Mark Sauer will remain as president of the Pittsburgh Pirates but will relinquish control of daily operations in a front-office reorganization by new owner Kevin McClatchy. MOTOR SPORTS Terry Labonte won the Busch Light 300 Grand National race in Hampton, Ga. Labonte, a Winston Cup regular and part-time driver in the Busch Series, beat former Grand National champion David Green to the finish line by 2.2 seconds in a battle of Chevrolets at the Atlanta Motor Speedway Atlanta Motor Speedway (formerly Atlanta International Raceway) is a superspeedway in Hampton, Georgia, twenty miles (32 km) south of Atlanta. It is a 1.54-mile (2.48 km) quad-oval track with a seating capacity of over 125,000. It opened in 1960 as a 1.5 mile standard oval. . Jeremy McGrath, three-time defending American Motorcyclist Association The American Motorcyclist Association is a U.S. not-for-profit organization of more than 280,000 motorcyclists that organizes numerous motorcycling activities and campaigns for motorcyclists' legal rights. 250cc champion, extended his record supercross streak by winning the Daytona Supercross in Daytona Beach, Fla. BASKETBALL Ex-USC star Lisa Leslie scored 20 points, and the United States rallied in the second half to beat China 80-68 in the International Women's Basketball Challenge in Haikou, China. A 16-7 run gave China (1-1) a 36-27 lead with 3:50 left in the first half. China led 49-44 early in the second half, but the Americans (2-0) went on an 18-6 run. Dick Herbert, 82, former sports editor of the Raleigh News and Observer, was taken to a hospital after suffering a stroke, moments before the start of the ACC See adaptive cruise control. tournament semifinals. WINTER SPORTS Urs Kaelin of Switzerland, two weeks after losing to Alberto Tomba in the World Championships, got a measure of revenge by winning the final giant slalom of the World Cup season, in Hafjell, Norway. The University of Utah The University of Utah (also The U or the U of U or the UU), located in Salt Lake City, is the flagship public research university in the state of Utah, and one of 10 institutions that make up the Utah System of Higher Education. , the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association Ski Championships' runner-up the two previous seasons, won the team title with a strong showing in the nordic class races in Bozeman, Mont. Bjoern Daehlie of Norway clinched the World Cup cross country skiing title by finishing second in the 10-kilometer race at Falun, Sweden. TRACK AND FIELD The longest streak in the history of NCAA Division I athletics is over for Arkansas. The Razorbacks, winners of 12 consecutive men's titles at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships, did not go out with a whimper as George Mason's internationally laden team won for the first time, in Indianapolis. The Patriots, foreign-dominated like the Texas-El Paso teams that won 19 NCAA titles in track and field and cross country between 1974 and 1983, compiled 33 points in the two-day championships at the RCA Dome. It was the lowest winning score since Washington State had 25-1/2 in 1977. Arkansas finished third with 30 points, behind Nebraska, the runner-up with 31-1/2. Louisiana State, the only woman's team to win more than two titles in a row indoors, won its fourth straight and seventh in 10 years, with 52 points, 18 ahead of runner-up Georgia. Former Agoura High School Agoura High School is a four-year high school, freshman-senior, in Agoura Hills, California, United States. It is the largest high school in the Las Virgenes Unified School District, with an enrollment of approximately 2,400 students. star Ryan Wilson, running for Arkansas, won the men's 3,000 meters in a season-best collegiate time of 7:51.66. Cal State Northridge junior Beth Burton finished eighth with a throw of 59 feet, four inches in the 20-pound weight throw Friday night in the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships. That qualifies her as an All-American. Dawn Ellerbe of South Carolina won the competition with a throw of 67-10-1/4. UCLA's Valeyta Althouse won the women's shot put with a throw of 57-11, giving the Bruins a sweep of men's and women's shot. ETC ETC - ExTendible Compiler. Fortran-like, macro extendible. "ETC - An Extendible Macro-Based Compiler", B.N. Dickman, Proc SJCC 38 (1971). . Gabriel Ruelas will fight Julio Cesar Herrera in the main event Wednesday at the Olympic Auditorium. Ruelas was to have fought Eduardo Perez, who dropped out Thursday. . . . Soccer's rule-making body rejected a proposal by the new U.S. league to use larger goals. The International Football Association Board refused to even consider the matter at its annual meeting, in Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, city, Brazil Rio de Janeiro (rē`ō də zhänā`rō, Port. rē`  thĭ zhənĕē`r . CAPTION(S): PHOTO Photo (1) Labonte (2) Trevino |
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