BRIEFLY : LINDROS IS HANDED $1,000 FINE BY NHL.Byline: Daily News Wire Services 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). center Eric Lindros was fined $1,000 Saturday by the NHL NHL Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, see there for slashing in Friday's 3-0 loss at Buffalo. The incident took place in the first period when Lindros was given a major penalty for slashing and a game misconduct after swinging his stick toward the upper body of Buffalo's Jay McKee. ``Even though Mr. Lindros did not make contact, this type of reckless use of the sticks is not acceptable,'' NHL Director of Hockey Operations Colin Campbell said. The $1,000 is the maximum fine allowed in the labor agreement between the NHL and its players union. NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga : Broncos cornerback Darrien Gordon faces a municipal court date after being accused of shoving the manager of a Denver-area nightclub early Friday. Gordon, the latest AFC (1) (Application Foundation Classes) A class library from Microsoft that provides an application framework and graphics, graphical user interface (GUI) and multimedia routines for Java programmers. defensive player of the week, was arrested for misdemeanor harassment after an altercation at Jimmy's Grille in Glendale, a small city southeast of downtown Denver. He later was released. Broncos officials did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment. Tennessee Oilers defensive back George McCullough remains on the inactive list for today's game against Baltimore after being arrested and charged with disorderly conduct disorderly conduct Conduct likely to lead to a disturbance of the public peace or that offends public decency. It has been held to include the use of obscene language in public, fighting in a public place, blocking public ways, and making threats. at a Nashville nightclub early Thursday. A security officer found McCullough with blood on his face and shirt, yelling that he had been attacked. He was with Louis Adams, a linebacker who was cut from the Oilers last summer. Asked to leave, McCullough refused. SKI JUMPING: Germany's Martin Schmitt benefited from double Olympic champion Kazuyoshi Funaki's blunder in the second round of a ski jumping World Cup to earn his third win in as many events this season in France. Funaki began the competition with a 106-1/2-meter jump, breaking the three-year-old 95-meter hill record by a meter and carrying a substantial 11-1/2-point lead over Schmitt into the second leg. But the Japanese skier reached a mere 88 meters on his second effort on Mont Blanc and dropped to third place with 239 points. BOBSLEDDING bobsledding, winter sport in which a bobsled—a partially enclosed vehicle with steerable sledlike runners, accommodating two or four persons—hurtles down a course of iced, steeply banked, twisting inclines. : Switzerland's Francoise Burdet maintained her superiority on the women's World Cup The Women's World Cup could refer to either the:
SOCCER: Hundreds of fans rioted before and after a Greek League soccer game between defending champion Olympiakos of Piraeus and rival Panathinaikos of Athens. Fans smashed cars, attacked police and ripped up seats inside Olympic Stadium. At least 10 people were injured, including a police motorcyclist and passengers in a taxi who were pulled out and beaten while the cab was smashed and looted. Olympiakos won 4-2, overcoming a two-goal deficit. |
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