BRIEFLY : HINGIS BREEZES, BUT 2 HIGH SEEDS DEPART.Byline: - Daily News Wire Services Martina Hingis Martina Hingis (pronounced: hɪŋˈɡɪs) (born September 30, 1980 in Košice, Slovakia) is a former World No. 1 Swiss tennis player. easily advanced Wednesday at the German Open in Berlin, but the tournament lost Jana Novotna and Mary Pierce Mary Pierce (born on January 15, 1975, in Montreal, Canada) is a French-American women's professional tennis player on the WTA tour and the winner of a total of four Grand Slam titles: two in singles; and two in doubles. Pierce plays for France. . Hingis, the top seed, breezed into the third round with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Gala Leon Garcia of Spain. Novotna, the No. 2 seed, was upset by Romania's Ruxandra Dragomir Ruxandra Dragomir Ilie (born October 24, 1972 in Piteşti) is a female tennis player from Romania, who won four singles and five doubles titles during her career. The righthander reached her highest individual ranking on the WTA Tour on August 25, 1997, when she became the 7-6 (7-4), 6-2 on a day when rain again disrupted play. Pierce, No. 5, pulled out of the $1 million clay-court event with a thigh injury. Pierce had reached the final of her last two tournaments, in Hamburg and Rome, and lost both times to Venus Williams. FOOTBALL: Pittsburgh Steelers star running back Jerome Bettis underwent emergency surgery to remove his appendix following a workout in Los Angeles. Bettis, 27, experienced sudden pain Tuesday while training and had the operation at the UCLA Medical Center UCLA Medical Center is a hospital located on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California. It is rated as one of the top three hospitals in the United States and is the top hospital on the West Coast according to US News & World Report. . Buffalo Bills receiver Eric Moulds must serve a 30-day jail term in Mississippi for contempt of court for delaying child support payments, George County Chancery Court records show. Quarterback Jason Thomas, who left USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. to transfer to Nevada-Las Vegas, will have to sit out next season. He will then have three years of eligibility. A former coach and elementary school teacher was charged in Charleston, Ill., with secretly videotaping players and others in a locker room last October at Eastern Illinois. According to Coles County assistant state's attorney Roy Dent, Lance Schneiderman allegedly set up the camera in a locker room being used by members of the Southwest Missouri football team Oct. 3 and videotaped players dressing and undressing. SOCCER: The nation's first stadium built specifically for major professional soccer opens Saturday in Columbus, Ohio, a city known more for Ohio State football. A capacity crowd of 22,500 will watch the Columbus Crew play the New England Revolution The New England Revolution, nicknamed the Revs, is a professional soccer club based in Foxborough, Massachusetts, that participates in Major League Soccer. Even though the club is based in Foxborough, the club represents all of New England. in the state-of-the-art venue that has tilted banks of lights at each corner and open-air loges with bars and TVs. OLYMPICS: Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker filed a motion in Fulton County Superior Court to intervene in a lawsuit over the sealed Atlanta Olympic bid records. The attorney general is joining the litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. as a co-defendant with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in the suit filed by Olympic officials in their quest to keep bid records closed. COLLEGE BASEBALL: Siena College of Albany, Ky., wants to become the first American college team to play in Cuba. The Franciscan school has filed papers with the U.S. Treasury U.S. Treasury Created in 1798, the United States Department of the Treasury is the government (Cabinet) department responsible for issuing all Treasury bonds, notes and bills. Some of the government branches operating under the U.S. Treasury umbrella include the IRS, U.S. Department for a trade-embargo waiver and the Cuban Intersection seeking permission for a January trip. |
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