BRIEFLY : DUCKS' SANDSTROM OUT FOR 8-10 WEEKS.Byline: Daily News Wire Services Mighty Ducks right wing Tomas Sandstrom underwent surgery Tuesday to repair a fracture in his left wrist and will be sidelined eight to 10 weeks, the team said. Sandstrom, 34, suffered the injury during Sunday night's 3-2 loss to the Detroit Red Wings
The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan. . Sandstrom, who will begin rehabilitation in two to three weeks, has five goals and two assists in 12 games this season. He has played in 937 games over 15 seasons with 384 goals and 447 assists. Teemu Selanne's availability for the Ducks' 5 p.m. home game against Carolina today is questionable because of the bruised right foot he suffered when blocking a shot against the Red Wings. The Vancouver Canucks said they lost $21.6 million last year and blamed it on the weak Canadian dollar and high taxes. The NHL NHL Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, see there suspended New Jersey Devils The New Jersey Devils are a professional ice hockey team based in Newark, New Jersey. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Devils have won the Stanley Cup three times, in 1995, 2000, and 2003. center Bobby Holik for two games after finding he tripped Florida Panthers defenseman Paul Laus. TENNIS: Top-seeded Marcelo Rios of Chile, in the race for the No. 1 ranking on the ATP ATP: see adenosine triphosphate. ATP in full adenosine triphosphate Organic compound, substrate in many enzyme-catalyzed reactions (see catalysis) in the cells of animals, plants, and microorganisms. tour, defeated Marcio Carlsson of Brazil 6-2, 1-6, 6-2 in the first round of the $315,000 Chevrolet Cup tournament in Santiago, Chile. The second-ranked Rios was cheered by a highly partisan crowd. Australian qualifier Wayne Arthurs upset second-seeded Karol Kucera of Slovakia 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-4) in the $825,000 Stockholm Open. In the second round, Arthurs will face America's Todd Martin, a 6-1, 6-2 winner over Swiss qualifier Ivo Heuburger. In Villanova, Pa., top-ranked Lindsay Davenport beat Kimberly Po 6-1, 6-2 to advance into the third round of the Advanta Championships. Third-seeded Goran Ivanisevic of Croatia fired 18 aces in beating Carsten Arriens of Germany 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-3) in the $1.1 million Kremlin Cup in Moscow. BASKETBALL: Former Georgetown player Kevin Millen, accused of stalking and making threatening phone calls to coach John Thompson, has been sent to a halfway house by a D.C. Superior Court judge. Millen was detained by campus security after allegedly trying to reach the office of the university president. He also was arrested last week and ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation after he was accused of stalking Thompson. Zach Marbury, younger brother of NBA player Stephon Marbury, has been told he can neither play basketball nor attend the University of Rhode Island History The University was first chartered as the state's agricultural school in 1888. The site of the school was originally the Oliver Watson Farm, and the original farmhouse still lies on the campus today. on scholarship this year. A spokesman for the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association Clearinghouse told URI Uri, in the Bible Uri (y  `rī), in the Bible.1 Father of Bezaleel (1.) 2 Father of Geber (2.) 3 Porter. officials that Marbury, a freshman guard for the Rams, had been ruled to be a nonqualifier by NCAA academic standards. CYCLING: Tests disclosed that six cyclists from the Dutch TVM team used banned substances during the Tour de France Tour de France World's most prestigious and difficult bicycle race. Staged for three weeks each July—usually in some 20 daylong stages—the Tour typically comprises 20 professional teams of nine riders each and covers some 3,600 km (2,235 miles) of flat and last summer, the French newspaper Le Parisien reported. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO RIOS |
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