BRIEFLY : LINDROS, FLYERS AGREE ON ONE-YEAR EXTENSION.Byline: Daily News Wire Services Eric Lindros Eric Bryan Lindros (born February 28, 1973 in London, Ontario, Canada) is a professional ice hockey player in the National Hockey League. Biography The son of Carl and Bonnie Lindros[1], Eric has Swedish heritage. and the Philadelphia Flyers The Philadelphia Flyers are a professional ice hockey team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). reached a handshake agreement on a one-year contract extension arrangement Tuesday that could keep the star center with the team through the 1999-2000 season. Carl Lindros, the player's father and agent, said he had come to terms with Flyers team chairman Ed Snider Edward M. Snider (born January 6, 1933, Washington, D.C.) is the Chairman of Comcast-Spectacor, a Philadelphia-based sports and entertainment company which owns the Philadelphia Flyers of the NHL, the Philadelphia 76ers of the NBA the Philadelphia Phantoms of the minor American . The extension was left up to the Flyers' option at the end of the 1998-99 season and will pay Lindros about the same salary - $8.5 million plus bonuses - that he was to receive under the Flyers' five-year contract proposal. He said he was satisfied with the arrangement because it ends negotiations for the time being and will allow him to concentrate on hockey. One of the prime reasons for reaching the agreement was to eliminate the possibility of Lindros playing out the final year of his current contract and becoming a Group II restricted free agent next July 1. MOTOR SPORTS: The pit crew chief for Adam Petty Adam Kyler Petty (July 10, 1980 – May 12, 2000) was an auto racing car driver. He was the first fourth-generation driver in NASCAR history. Early life Petty was born in High Point, North Carolina into stock car racing "royalty. was crushed to death when the car he was working on during a race was lowered off the jack too soon and the driver sped away over him at Falcon Heights, Minn. Crew chief Chris Bradley, 40, of Grand Rapids, Mich., was taken to a hospital in St. Paul, where he was declared dead two hours later. Adam Petty, 18, is the son of Winston Cup NASCAR NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), organization that sanctions American stock-car races, est. 1948. It held its first race in Daytona Beach, Fla. driver Kyle Petty and the grandson of stock car legend Richard Petty. The accident happened Monday during a pit stop in a stock-car race at the Minnesota State Fair The Minnesota State Fair is the state fair of the U.S. state of Minnesota. It has been marketed for generations as "The Great Minnesota Get-Together. . No charges were expected, a police spokesman said. |
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