BRIEFLY : GALAXY LOSES PENA, HARTMAN.The Galaxy lost starting defender Danny Pena Danny Pena (born November 25, 1976 in Inglewood, California) is a retired U.S. soccer defensive midfielder. He spent most of his career, both indoors and outdoors, with teams in the western U.S. and backup goalkeeper Kevin Hartman Kevin Eugene Hartman (born May 25 1974 in Athens, Ohio) is an American soccer player, who currently plays goalkeeper for the Kansas City Wizards of Major League Soccer. He is known by some as "El Gato" (Spanish for "the Cat"). on Thursday - in what for the club was a worst-case scenario worst-case scenario n → Schlimmstfallszenario nt - in the Major League Soccer expansion draft. The Chicago Fire Chicago fire conflagration destroyed most of city (1871). [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 94] See : Disaster selected Pena - widely considered the best player available - with the first pick of the 12-round draft, which also filled the roster of the new Miami Fusion to bring the number of teams in the league to 12. Chicago used its second pick and third overall to draft Hartman, the Galaxy's highly regarded backup to Jorge Campos. In the final round, Miami chose reserve striker Brian Taylor. ``It is a tough situation, but the last paragraph has not yet been written,'' Galaxy coach Octavio Zambrano said. ``We're going to try to do whatever we can to keep our team intact.'' ?13- Patrick Hipes NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga : Carolina's 38-14 victory over Oakland on Sunday turned out to be costly for both teams. The NFL fined 13 players a total of $54,500 for their roles in a fight late in the game. Raiders defensive tackles Chester McGlockton, who was fined $17,500, and Russell Maryland, who was fined $5,000, were both ejected after the fight. NHL NHL Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, see there : Ken Daneyko, 33, the only member of the 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. to play in all 95 of the team's playoff games, has entered a substance-abuse rehabilitation program.Daneyko has not played since Oct. 30 and missed the last three games for ``personal reasons.'' The defenseman, a 14-year veteran and one of the senior players on the team, entered rehab on Saturday morning, president and general manager Lou Lamoriello Daneyko has not been suspended and will be getting his full pay, Lamoriello said. GOLF: Bob Murphy shot a 6-under 66 for the first-round lead in the Senior Tour Championship in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Murphy birdied the final two holes to lead Hubert Green by a shot. Hale Irwin, chasing a record 10th Senior PGA Tour victory, was next with a 68, tied with Bruce Summerhays. David Toms, who won his first PGA Tour event in the Quad Cities Classic in July, birdied four of the first six holes and four of the last five for an 8-under-par 63 and a one-stroke, first-round lead over Loren Roberts and Olin Browne in the Kapalua International in Hawaii. ALSO: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA's career scoring leader, is asking a judge to bar Karim Abdul-Jabbar, a running back for the Miami Dolphins, from using that name, court papers showed. The former Milwaukee Bucks and Lakers center also wants a federal judge to award him damages and immediately stop the sale of merchandise with the running back's name on it. Both men attended UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX , but more than 25 years apart, before starting their professional careers. |
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