BRIEFLY : KINGS SIGN QUARTET; JONES WINS IN PARIS.Byline: - Daily News Wire Services The Kings signed four players Wednesday, adding depth and a possible replacement for enforcer Matt Johnson, who was lost to Atlanta in last month's expansion draft. Signed were 32-year-old tough guy Bill Huard Billy Huard (b. June 24, 1967 in Welland, Ontario) is a former professional ice hockey player. Huard had a professional career of over 600 games, including 7 years at the NHL level with the Boston Bruins, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Nordiques, Dallas Stars, Edmonton Oilers and Los ; center Len Barrie, 30; goalie Mike O'Neill, 31, and right wing Brad Chartrand, 24. Huard played three games last season with Edmonton and the balance of the season with the IHL IHL International Humanitarian Law IHL I Have Lost IHL Institutions of Higher Learning IHL International Hockey League IHL Internet Header Length IHL International House of Logorrhea IHL Idiopathic Hearing Loss IHL Idiopathic Hepatic Lipidosis champion Houston Aeros. In 38 games in Houston, he had 14 points and 201 penalty minutes. Barrie has spent the past two seasons in Germany. Previously, he has starred at the IHL level. O'Neill, who spent the 1996-97 season with the Long Beach Ice Dogs The Long Beach Ice Dogs were a professional ice hockey team in the ECHL. They had suspended operations at the end of the 2006-2007 season. The Ice Dogs trace their origins to the San Diego Gulls, a team in the now-defunct International Hockey League that began play in 1990. , played in Austria last season and could return to Long Beach this year. Chartrand had 30 points in 64 games with the AHL's St. John's Maple Leafs The St. John's Maple Leafs were an ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. They played in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada at Memorial Stadium from 1991-2001, and at Mile One Stadium from 2001-2005. last season, and played for two seasons for Kings coach Andy Murray with the Canadian national team Canadian National Team or Team Canada can mean various things:
TRACK AND FIELD: Marion Jones again showed she has no equal at 200 meters, outclassing the field in 21.99 seconds at the Golden League meet in Paris. The American, 23, is unbeaten in 18 races spanning three years and is the only woman to have run below 22 seconds this year. Maurice Greene powered away from Francis Obikwelu of Nigeria in the last 40 meters to win the 200-meter sprint, showing he's in top form heading into the World Championships. His time: 20.13. PAN AMERICAN GAMES Pan American (Sports) Games Quadrennial sports festival. The games, conceived in 1940 as an event for the nations of the Western Hemisphere, were first held in 1951. : Cuban pistol shooter Abel Juncosa Reyes defected in Winnipeg, Manitoba, when his team arrived at the Pan American Games, sources confirmed. FOOTBALL: The San Francisco 49ers Hall of Fame quarterback Johnny Unitas, 66, was released from the University of Maryland University of Maryland can refer to:
Arkansas defensive end Carlos Hall was arrested on a forgery complaint after, police say, he stole three checks made out to the university and cashed them at a bank. Hall, 20, was booked at the Fayetteville City Jail on Tuesday and later released. His arrest came after a three-month investigation by campus and city police. TENNIS: Defending champion Gustavo Kuerten quit after just 37 minutes of his match at the Mercedes Cup in Stuttgart, Germany, because of fatigue from the Davis Cup. Kuerten was trailing Magnus Norman 5-2 in the first set of the second-round match when he stopped. Last weekend, he played a five-setter and two three-setters in Brazil's 3-2 Davis Cup loss to France. |
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