BRIEFLY : FORMER USC CENTER CONVICTED ON 4 COUNTS.Byline: Daily News Wire Services Former USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. and Fresno State basketball player Avondre Jones was convicted Tuesday in Fresno of threatening a man with a Samurai sword in his apartment just hours after an NIT A measurement of luminance. One nit is equal to one candela per square meter (1cd/m2). Ten thousand nits are equal to one stilb. See candela. tournament game. Jones, the Bulldogs' starting center last year, and recruit Kenny Brunner were arrested in March after an acquaintance reported the pair threatened him with a gun, beat him with Samurai swords and stole his camera and cash. Jones was found guilty of one felony count of possessing a firearm while on probation, two misdemeanor counts of brandishing a deadly weapon deadly weapon n. any weapon which can kill. This includes not only weapons which are intended to do harm like a gun or knife, but also blunt instruments like clubs, baseball bats, monkey wrenches, an automobile or any object which actually causes death. in a rude and offensive manner and a single misdemeanor count of marijuana possession. He was acquitted on six of the charges, including theft, extortion and assault with a deadly weapon Assault with a Deadly Weapon is the term used to describe the act of threatening to harm one or more people by using a weapon (usually a firearm). Here, assault must be differentiated from battery as they are often confused. Assault is threatening to use force. . A separate preliminary hearing was scheduled for Brunner later this month. SOCCER: The head of English soccer quit amid questions regarding a $5.3 million loan in the latest potential bribery scandal to hit sports. The resignation of Graham Kelly, chief executive of the English Football Association, arises from a loan promised to the Welsh Football Association in exchange for a top job with FIFA FIFA International Association Football Federation [French Fédération Internationale de Football Association] FIFA n abbr (= Fédération Internationale de Football Association) → FIFA f , soccer's governing body. French World Cup hero Zinedine Zidane, Davor Suker of Croatia and Brazilian star Ronaldo were selected as finalists for soccer's World Player of the Year award Several sports leagues honor their best player with an award called Player of the Year. In the United States, this type of award is usually called a Most Valuable Player award. The awards with the "player of the year" phrasing include these. , which will be announced Feb. 1. BASKETBALL: Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun, upset with how his No. 1 Huskies were treated during their 70-69 victory at Pittsburgh, plans to complain to the Big East Conference. Calhoun said the team's point guard, Khalid El-Amin, was subjected to racial slurs. TRACK AND FIELD: Olympic sprinter Dennis Mitchell did not commit a doping doping, in electronics: see semiconductor. Altering the electrical conductivity of a semiconductor material, such as silicon, by chemically combining it with foreign elements. violation, a three-member panel unanimously agreed. Mitchell had been suspended by the International Amateur Athletic Federation in July after the world body concluded Mitchell's urine sample from an out-of-competition test in April had high testosterone and epitestosterone levels. BOXING: Robert Douglas, 35, the brother of former heavyweight champion Buster Douglas, was shot to death in a fight with two men in a laundry parking lot. The cause of the fight was not immediately known and there were no arrests. Simon Ramoni of South Africa retained the junior featherweight title of the fringe IBO Ibo: see Igbo. by stopping Briton Michael Alldis in the second round at Durban, South Africa. TENNIS: The father of three professional tennis players claims the pro tennis tour is ``racist'' and kept one of his sons out of the U.S. Open. William Washington, who is African-American, contends that his son Mashiska, 23, did not receive a wild card into the main draw at this year's U.S. Open or to the qualifying tournament despite having a better ranking than six players who did. NHL NHL Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, see there : St. Louis center Pierre Turgeon will be sidelined four to six weeks with a broken hand. Turgeon has 11 goals, 11 assists and 22 points, second on the team. |
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