BRIEFLY : KNIGHT CLEARED BUT BLASTS PROSECUTOR.Byline: - Daily News Wire Services No charges will be filed against Bob Knight for a restaurant confrontation - and he still had harsh words for the prosecutor. The Indiana basketball coach had been accused of making a racist remark and choking a customer in a parking lot June 7, but Monroe County Monroe County is the name of seventeen counties in the United States, named after President James Monroe:
Knight criticized Salzmann for letting the case drag on Verb 1. drag on - last unnecessarily long drag out last, endure - persist for a specified period of time; "The bad weather lasted for three days" 2. nine days. ``I told the prosecutor if the Monroe County prosecutor's office investigated Charles Manson, it still would be undecided,'' Knight said. Chris Foster, a 38-year-old Bloomington guitar-maker, had accused Knight of making a racist remark while the two dined separately. He said the coach started screaming at him and grabbed him by the neck when the two went outside afterward. ``Without exception, these things are either immediately thrown out or resolved in two days. . . . I'd like to refer to this whole thing as a real Mickey Mouse operation, but that would be an insult to Mickey Mouse,'' the coach said. FOOTBALL: Offensive lineman Nate Newton, 37, cast aside by the Dallas Cowboys after 13 years, became the oldest member of the Carolina Panthers when he signed a one-year deal with the team. Hicham El-Mashtoub, a free-agent lineman waived by Cleveland in April, filed suit against the Browns, alleging he was cut because he is of Arabic descent. El-Mashtoub, 27, claims Browns officials made, or were present, when disparaging dis·par·age tr.v. dis·par·aged, dis·par·ag·ing, dis·par·ag·es 1. To speak of in a slighting or disrespectful way; belittle. See Synonyms at decry. 2. To reduce in esteem or rank. remarks were made to El-Mashtoub. He is seeking at least $25,000 in damages. He played for Arizona in college and has appeared in four games for Tennessee and Kansas City since 1995. Leonard Little of the St. Louis Rams OLYMPICS: American Olympic hopefuls, including a team of WNBA WNBA Women's National Basketball Association WNBA World Ninepin Bowling Association WNBA Wannabe Nasty Boys Association WNBA Women's National Book Association, Inc. WNBA Warszawski Nurt Basketu Amatorskiego players, will take on top international opponents in a four-day, five-sport tournament in San Diego this summer, the Associated Press reported. The U.S. Olympic Cup, set for Sept. 9-12, will feature women's basketball and softball, men's boxing, and men's and women's beach volleyball and swimming. The event will be telecast on ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network 2. BASKETBALL: Malachi Thurston, a guard from The Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn., has signed a letter of intent with USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. . He averaged 24 points per game last season. VOLLEYBALL: Four 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 volleyball players have been named to compete at the World University Games in Spain July 3-11. Adam Naeve, Brandon Taliaferro and Tom Stillwell will play on the U.S. men's team, which will be coached by the Bruins' Al Scates. UCLA's Elisabeth Bachman is on the women's team. |
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