BRIEFLY : ASS'AD GETS YOUTH-SOCCER DIRECTORSHIP.Byline: Daily News Wire Services Marwan Ass'ad, who was men's soccer coach at Cal State Northridge for 16 seasons, has been named the full-time director of coaching for the West Valley Soccer League. WVSL is a nonprofit organization that has been sponsoring youth soccer in the western San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. for 28 years. OLYMPICS: A nonprofit foundation paid Billy Payne $975,000 for memorabilia he collected while organizing the 1996 Olympics, but he used most of the money to pay off personal debts incurred while preparing for the Games, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Payne said the sale was the only way he would accept money from the Georgia Amateur Athletics Foundation, the group that succeeded the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games. The newspaper said Payne, former head of ACOG ACOG American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. ACOG American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists , owed $606,000 to the foundation and used the proceeds of the sale to erase the debt. The beleaguered be·lea·guer tr.v. be·lea·guered, be·lea·guer·ing, be·lea·guers 1. To harass; beset: We are beleaguered by problems. 2. To surround with troops; besiege. International Olympic Committee “IOC” redirects here. For other uses, see IOC (disambiguation). The International Olympic Committee (French: Comité International Olympique) is an organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas on June 23 begins deciding this weekend whether to expel another dozen or more members in what is already the worst scandal in modern Olympic history. The IOC's six-man investigative panel will meet at its Swiss headquarters to weigh more evidence of wrongdoing wrong·do·er n. One who does wrong, especially morally or ethically. wrong  do by IOC IOCabbr. International Olympic Committee IOC n abbr (= International Olympic Committee) → COI m IOC n abbr (= members submitted recently by the Salt Lake Organizing Committee as well as numerous bid cities for five other Games. GOLF: Arnold Palmer, 69, bothered by the way he is playing, said he is planning to cut back on his Senior PGA Tour tournament schedule. He has played in a minimum of 12 Senior 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. tournaments every year since 1983, but he said that will likely end this year. Karrie Webb opened the defense of her Australian Ladies Masters title by breaking her own course record with a 9-under-par 63 in Gold Coast, Australia. American golfer Marianne Morris has headed home from the event following the shooting death of her brother James Morris, who was discovered dead in his suburban Atlanta golf shop with a bullet wound to the back of his head. TRACK & FIELD: Maria Mutola of Mozambique set an indoor world record in the women's 1,000 meters, running 2 minutes, 30.94 seconds in Stockholm. It was exactly three years after she set the previous record on the same track with 2:31.23. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: ASS'AD |
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