BRIEFLY : GREENE JUST MISSES OWN WORLD RECORD HE RUNS A 9.87 AT STOCKHOLM MEET.Byline: Daily News Wire Services Maurice Greene Maurice Greene may refer to:
With almost no wind, Greene was just eight-hundredths of a second off the world record he set last month in Greece. ``It just thrills me how well I'm running at the moment,'' Greene said. ``This is a special stadium, a special meet. But it was not even close to a perfect race.'' Michael Johnson had a far rougher day. The double Olympic champion abandoned the 400-meter race after about 100 meters, apparently pulling a right thigh muscle. Jerome Young of the U.S. won in 44.64. GOLF: Juli Inkster isn't playing her best golf in the du Maurier Classic, but she is in the lead anyway, halfway home to a third straight major championship and a place in the LPGA LPGA abbr. Ladies Professional Golf Association Hall of Fame. Inkster pieced together a 3-under 69 that left her tied with Canadian Dawn Coe-Jones in Priddis, Alberta. Katsuyoshi Tomori of Japan eagled the final hole to complete a 6-under 66 and tie New Zealand's Michael Campbell for the first-round lead in the European Open at Dublin, Ireland. Brent Geiberger and Pete Jordan, good friends in search of their first PGA Tour victory, were tied at 11 under par for the second-round lead of the Greater Hartford Open at Cromwell, Conn. Little-known Steve Veriato tamed the Park Meadows Golf Club with an 8-under-par 64 to seize the first-round lead in the $1.35 million Senior PGA Tour Utah Showdown at Park City. TENNIS: Lindsay Davenport recorded four aces in the same game en route to a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Cornia Morariu in the quarterfinals of the Bank of the West Classic The Bank of the West Classic is a tennis tournament on the WTA Tour held in Stanford, California, United States. The 2007 event will be held from July 23 to July 29. Held since 1971, the tournament is played on outdoor hardcourts. at Stanford. Top-seeded Yevgeny Kafelnikov struggled for a third straight match before defeating unseeded Richard Fromberg 6-3, 6-7 (6-8), 6-3 in a quarterfinal match of the Generali Open tennis tournament in Kitzbuehel, Austria. Magnus Norman of Sweden ousted top-seeded Carlos Moya of Spain 6-2, 7-6 (10-8) in the quarterfinals of the Croatia Open 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. tournament. BASKETBALL: The Philadelphia 76ers are ready to sign two of their own free agents, Eric Snow and George Lynch, when the NBA's moratorium on trades and signings is lifted Sunday, sources told the Associated Press. The Phoenix Suns signed first-round draft pick Shawn Marion of Nevada-Las Vegas, the ninth pick overall, to a four-year deal worth just under $5 million. HOCKEY: New York Islanders The New York Islanders are a professional ice hockey team based in Uniondale, a hamlet located on Long Island in Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, United States. goalie Felix Potvin signed a one-year contract worth $2.7 million. The Mighty Ducks hired Steve Carroll to do radio play-by-play on flagship station XTRA XTRA Extra XTRA X-band Thin Radar Aperture (US DoD) XTRA Xml Transaction Architecture Sports 690. Carroll, 43, called play-by-play the past two seasons for the New Orleans Brass The New Orleans Brass was a hockey team in the ECHL from 1997-2002. The team was at one time affiliated with the San Jose Sharks. Home games were played first at the New Orleans Municipal Auditorium (until October 29, 1999) and then at the New Orleans Arena. of the East Coast Hockey League. The Kings agreed to terms with free-agent center Bryan Smolinski, acquired as part of an eight-player deal with the New York Islanders in June. FOOTBALL: 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 announced kickoff times for its first three games this season: Sept. 4, vs. Boise State at the Rose Bowl, 6 p.m., on Fox Sports West 2; Sept. 11, at Ohio State, 5 p.m., on ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. ; Sept. 18, vs. Fresno State at the Rose Bowl, 7 p.m., on Fox Sports West 2. FISHING: Day two of the world championship of bass angling, the 29th annual BASS Masters Classic Bass Masters Classic is a fishing video game, released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1995 by Malibu Games. , being held out of New Orleans on the Louisiana Delta and Mississippi River Basin, saw more scorching scorch v. scorched, scorch·ing, scorch·es v.tr. 1. To burn superficially so as to discolor or damage the texture of. See Synonyms at burn1. 2. heat and humidity - 93 degrees, 70 percent. Castaic qualifier Aaron Martens continued a disappointing performance, taking a five-fish limit weighing 6 pounds, 15 ounces, for a two-day total of 14 pounds, 1 ounce, moving him up three places from Thursday into a three-way tie for 28th place out of 45 contenders. Davy Hite, of aptly named Prosperity, S.C., third after day one, now has a commanding lead on the field, weighing in a 19-pound, 3-ounce limit for a total of 35 pounds, 12 ounces. Hite believes if the spectator boats and camera crews give him space on the water he can win it. The final day of the three-day derby is today. |
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