BRIEFLY : LESLIE SCORES 16 TO LIFT U.S. WOMEN.Byline: Daily News Wire Services Lisa Leslie Chamique Holdsclaw scored 13 points, Natalie Williams had 11 and Nikki McCray 10. NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= : Prosecutors are unlikely to pursue statutory rape Sexual intercourse by an adult with a person below a statutorily designated age. The criminal offense of statutory rape is committed when an adult sexually penetrates a person who, under the law, is incapable of consenting to sex. charges against former New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Knicks guard Anthony Mason, clearing the way for him to avoid a prison term, the New York Daily News New York Daily News Morning daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson and his cousin Robert McCormick as a subsidiary of the Tribune Co. of Chicago. The first successful tabloid-format newspaper in the U.S. reported. A law enforcement source said the felony sex case against Mason was significantly weakened when DNA tests failed to support the two underage girls' claims that they had sex with the hoop star. If convicted of statutory rape, Mason would have faced a mandatory prison term because he has a prior gun conviction. NHL NHL Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, see there : J.P. Dumont, the New York Islanders' first-round pick in the 1996 draft, signed a three year, $2.6 million contract - and hours later was traded to the Chicago Blackhawks for 21 year-old left wing Dmitri Nabokov and a fifth-round pick in this June's draft. The Islanders had been trying to deal Dumont, the third overall pick in '96, since last fall. BASEBALL: Cuban officials denied that any arrangements had been made with Nicaragua to grant Nicaraguan visas for three Cuban baseball players and a coach who tried to flee the island but were forcibly returned. The four said they have been promised visas by officials at the Nicaraguan embassy in the Cuban capital. Afterward, coach Orlando Chinea said he was told the offer applied to all of the approximately 190 Cubans the Bahamas repatriated in recent weeks. Cuba's Foreign Ministry said that if Nicaraguan President Arnoldo Aleman is willing to accept immigrants, he could have all the Cubans he wanted - but not the repatriated baseball players. TENNIS: Rain suspended play in the semifinals of the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association men's tennis tournament in Athens, Ga. The semifinals will be completed this morning with the championship match scheduled for approximately 1:30 p.m. EDT EDT abbr. Eastern Daylight Time EDT Eastern Daylight Time EDT n abbr (US) (= Eastern Daylight Time) → hora de verano de Nueva York EDT . Three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker said he will definitely skip the grand slam tournament that provided the backdrop for many of his greatest successes. ``People will have to get used to the idea that the tennis player Boris Becker belongs to the past,'' said the 30-year-old German, who now only occasionally plays a tournament. TRACK: Four of the fastest sprinters on earth - including Marion Jones - headline today's Prefontaine Classic (Channel 2, 1 p.m.), the last major invitational track and field meet still thriving in the United States. Jones, the former Thousand Oaks High star, said she is eager to perform in the Prefontaine meet in Eugene, Ore., with a capacity crowd of about 13,000 anticipated. ``The last time I raced (here) was when I was 12,'' she said. ``I won then.'' CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO LESLIE |
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