BRIEFLY\Illinois coach Henson to retire.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services Confirming longstanding rumors, Illinois basketball coach Lou Henson Lou Henson (born January 10, 1932 in Okay, Oklahoma, U.S.) is a former collegiate basketball coach. He retired as the all time leader in victories at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with 423 victories and New Mexico State with 289 victories. announced that this season will be his last. Henson, 63, made the announcement just after his team's 91-86 win over No. 18 Iowa in Champaign, Ill. Henson said he would remain at Illinois as a part-time assistant athletic director Athletic director (commonly, "athletics director") is a position at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, which oversees the work of the coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic after the season's end Season's End are a British band based in Hampshire. They describe themselves as playing Progressive symphonic metal[1], although they are often tagged as a gothic metal band by reviewers and reference sources[2][3]. . Henson has an overall record of 422-220 at Illinois and 213-161 in the Big Ten. Clyde Drexler's nagging knee injury will require arthroscopic surgery Arthroscopic Surgery Definition Arthroscopic surgery is a procedure to visualize, diagnose, and treat joint problems. The name is derived from the Greek words arthron, which means joint, and skopein, which means to look at. in a few days, and he's not very happy about it. "All I can do is be angry," Drexler told the Houston Chronicle. "The key is to get it taken care of as soon as possible. Hopefully, everything will work out and I'll be back as quickly as possible." The recovery time for arthroscopic surgery can vary from three to 10 weeks. It could be much longer if there are problems with Drexler's anterior cruciate cruciate /cru·ci·ate/ (kroo´she-at) cruciform. cru·ci·ate or cru·cial adj. 1. Having the form of a cross, as in certain ligaments of the knee. 2. or medial collateral ligaments. The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Knicks, desperate for rebounding help, signed center Matt Fish to a 10-day contract. Fish, who played 26 games last season for the Clippers, will be in uniform today as the Knicks play the Phoenix Suns on national television. The Knicks are without their two leading rebounders, Patrick Ewing and Charles Oakley. FOOTBALL Jumbo Elliott, a mainstay of the Giants offensive line for eight years, used the free agent route to move to New York's other NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga team, the Jets. Elliott agreed to a five-year deal said to be worth between $15 million and $16 million. It was another major step for the Jets following a season in which they went an NFL-worst 3-13. BASEBALL Gordon Goldsberry, a former major-leaguer with the St. Louis Browns and Chicago White Sox The Chicago White Sox are a professional baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois. The White Sox are a member of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the White Sox have played in U.S. , died in Lake Forest, apparently from a heart attack, at age 68. Goldsberry had spent the past seven years with the Baltimore Orioles as special assistant to the general manager. SPEEDSKATING Hiroyuki Noake of Japan and Gunda Niemann of Germany set track records while winning their events at the World Cup all-round speedskating races in Milwaukee. Niemann won the 3,000-meter race in 4 minutes, 18.57 seconds to break the Pettit Center record of 4:25.20 set in 1994 by Seiko Hashimoto of Japan. Hashimoto's time was eclipsed by 10 skaters in the race. |
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