BRIEFLY\UMass leader Camby will be out two weeks, says he feels 'great'.Byline: Daily News Wire Services Massachusetts center Marcus Camby Marcus D. Camby (born March 22, 1974 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays center for the Denver Nuggets of the NBA. He won the 2006-07 NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award[1] will be sidelined at least two weeks for further tests, which so far show no heart abnormalities, the team doctor said Monday. Dr. James Ralph said the star center, who collapsed Sunday minutes before a game against St. Bonaventure, likely will remain at the hospital until the battery of tests is completed. Camby returned to Massachusetts on Monday, saying he felt "100 percent" and was "anxious to get back on the court." "I'm fine, I feel great," Camby said upon leaving Olean (N.Y.) General Hospital. Ralph said doctors were uncertain what caused Camby to collapse based on preliminary tests that included an echo cardiogram cardiogram /car·dio·gram/ (kahr´de-o-gram?) a tracing of a cardiac event made by cardiography. apex cardiogram apexcardiogram. precordial cardiogram kinetocardiogram. , blood work, CAT scan CAT scan (kăt) [computerized axial tomography], X-ray technique that allows relatively safe, painless, and rapid diagnosis in previously inaccessible areas of the body; also called CT scan. , brain MRI 1. (application) MRI - Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 2. MRI - Measurement Requirements and Interface. and spinal tap spinal tap: see spinal puncture. . Massachusetts coach John Calipari said doctors told him Camby's life was never in danger. That news, he said, was "like winning the Final Four." WINTER SPORTS Blaming a bout with the flu, defending World Cup champion Alberto Tomba is skipping the giant slalom race today at Adelboden, Switzerland. FOOTBALL Mike Summers, Oregon State's offensive coordinator and running backs coach for the past five years, resigned to pursue other coaching opportunities. AUTO RACING Four of NASCAR's biggest stars have accepted invitations to drive in the 1996 International Race of Champions series. Winston Cup champion Jeff Gordon, seven-time champion Dale Earnhardt, two-time defending Daytona 500 winner Sterling Marlin and series pole-leader Mark Martin, the top four in the 1995 point standings, will compete in the four-race all-star series. David Caruso, a champion stock car driver whose family has been a fixture at New Enmgland race tracks for decades, has been found dead in a parking lot in Shrewsbury, Mass. He was 29. ETC ETC - ExTendible Compiler. Fortran-like, macro extendible. "ETC - An Extendible Macro-Based Compiler", B.N. Dickman, Proc SJCC 38 (1971). . Former Olympic rower Arthur Gallagher, who had been treated for Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease (ăls`hī'mərz, ôls–), degenerative disease of nerve cells in the cerebral cortex that leads to atrophy of the brain and senile dementia. and had pneumonia, has died. He was 77. Martina Navratilova has filed suit against the St. James's Club Antigua Limited for allegedly breaching a contract that was to pay her $385,000 for a five-year stint as the club's touring pro. |
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