BRIEFLY\Raiders to leave El Segundo, too.Hoping to satisfy concerns over the club's drawn-out return to Oakland, Raiders owner Al Davis For other persons named Al Davis, see Al Davis (disambiguation). Allen "Al" Davis (born July 4, 1929 in Brockton, Massachusetts) is an American football executive, who currently serves as the president and managing general partner of the NFL's Oakland Raiders. said Wednesday he expects the team to complete relocation of its operations by mid-June.Davis said decisions are imminent on both the location of a training camp and team headquarters. Davis brought the Raiders back to Oakland last year, but he has maintained the Raiders' El Segundo El Segundo (ĕl sēgŭn`dō), industrial city (1990 pop. 15,223), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1917. Its products include navigation and computer systems, aircraft parts, office machines, telephone apparatus, and headquarters and flew the team north for its home games. In a separate matter, he defended the filing of his second lawsuit against the league since returning to Oakland after a 13-year stay in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . The suit had raised concerns locally because it claimed certain league officials and some owners "pushed the Raiders out of the Los Angeles market" and into the smaller and less lucrative Oakland market. Davis said the suit in no way sent a mixed signal about his desire to be back in Oakland. HOCKEY The San Jose Sharks The San Jose Sharks are a professional ice hockey team based in San Jose, California, United States. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). fired executive vice president Chuck Grillo. Grillo, who has been with the Sharks since the team was awarded a franchise in 1990, supervised the club's scouting department and player development program. Grillo, 55, has been criticized for the team's miserable record this year. The Sharks are 15-44-6 after two seasons in which they made it to the second round of the Stanley Cup Stanley Cup: see hockey, ice. Stanley Cup Trophy awarded annually to the winning team of the National Hockey League championship. Named for its donor, the Canadian governor-general Frederick Arthur Stanley, Lord Stanley of Preston playoffs. His dismissal follows last week's announcement that team president Art Savage was resigning. FOOTBALL Three of four Clemson football players charged with raping a woman should be suspended while the fourth should be kicked off campus but allowed to continue attending school, a university judicial board recommended.The players' lawyer promised an appeal. He compared the university's hearing to a lynch mob. SKIING Former Olympic champion Donna Weinbrecht Donna Weinbrecht won the first gold medal awarded in the first Olympic mogul competitions in freestyle skiing, which were held at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France. Weinbrecht grew up in West Milford, New Jersey. won a tight moguls final in Salen, Sweden, for her 42nd career World Cup victory. The American skier collected 24.27 points with her run down the Hundfjallet course. The 30-year-old Weinbrecht, who won fame in 1992 as the first Olympic mogul gold medalist, leads the overall standings with 600 points. She is going for her fifth World Cup moguls title. BASKETBALL In response to violations over junior college transfers, the president of New Mexico New Mexico, state in the SW United States. At its northwestern corner are the so-called Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet at right angles; New Mexico is also bordered by Oklahoma (NE), Texas (E, S), and Mexico (S). State cut the number of basketball scholarships by two and banned off-campus recruiting this year. President Michael Orenduff said the university agrees with last year's NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association findings. The governing body alleged Aggies assistant coaches completed players' correspondence course exams and term papers through Southeastern College of the Assemblies of God in Lakeland, Fla. The players' credits were then transferred to New Mexico State. |
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