BRIEFLY : GEORGIA QB ARRESTED IN FIGHT.University of Georgia Organization The President of the University of Georgia (as of 2007, Michael F. Adams) is the head administrator and is appointed and overseen by the Georgia Board of Regents. quarterback Mike Bobo was arrested and charged with obstruction of a police officer early Thursday after he ran from the police outside an Athens, Ga., bar. Bobo was arrested after police responded to a reported fight. He ran into the nightclub after a officer called out to him, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the police report. Bobo, 23, posted a $5,000 bond and was released less than two hours later. Bobo finished the regular season as the Southeastern Conference's top-rated passer. He led the Bulldogs to a 9-2 record, a No. 11 national ranking and a Jan. 1 berth in the Outback Bowl in Tampa, Fla., against the University of Wisconsin. BASKETBALL: Charles Barkley was formally charged with throwing a man through a plate-glass window at a popular Orlando, Fla., downtown bar. The Houston Rockets star was charged with battery, disorderly conduct disorderly conduct Conduct likely to lead to a disturbance of the public peace or that offends public decency. It has been held to include the use of obscene language in public, fighting in a public place, blocking public ways, and making threats. , criminal mischief and resisting an officer without violence for the Oct. 26 fight, said a spokeswoman for the Orange County State Attorney's Office.Barkley claimed he was provoked after 20-year-old Jorge Lugo threw a glass of ice at a table he was sitting at with three women. There's a slam-dunk contest scheduled at a professional basketball all-star game this season, but it's not the one you might expect. The NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= has dropped its slam-dunk contest, but a group of women on the American Basketball League American Basketball League is a name that has been used by three defunct basketball leagues in the United States:
SOCCER: The United States will begin its World Cup preparation with an exhibition game against Sweden on Jan. 24 at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Fla. The Americans already had been scheduled to play Cuba (Feb. 1) and Costa Rica (Feb. 7) in the CONCACAF CONCACAF Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (Soccer) CONCACAF Confederacion Norte, Centroamericana y del Caribe de Futbol Asociacion (Spanish) Gold Cup at Oakland. The Gold Cup, played every two years, is the championship of soccer's North and Central American and Caribbean region. TENNIS: Eliot Teltscher and Mervyn Webster have been named U.S. Tennis Association national coaches, the first of 12 who will be hired under the new, restructured USA Tennis Player Development program. Teltscher, from Manhattan Beach, is a former All-America at 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 and was the men's coach at Pepperdine in 1992. |
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