BRIEFLY : MANCHESTER UNITED CAPTURES F.A. CUP.Byline: - Daily News Wire Services Manchester United kept alive its bid for an unprecedented triple sweep in soccer by beating Newcastle 2-0 Saturday to win the F.A. Cup in Wembley, England. United, unbeaten in 32 games, earlier won the Premier League title. It can become the first to win all three major European trophies in one season by beating Bayern Munich in Barcelona on Wednesday in the European Champions Cup European Champions Cup may refer to one of the following sports tournaments:
The game was the season finale for English soccer and drew a capacity crowd of 80,000 to Wembley Stadium For the old stadium, see Wembley Stadium (1923). For the railway station, see Wembley Stadium railway station. Football in England . Mia Hamm entered the international record book as four of her teammates helped set up her 108th career goal in the United States' 3-0 victory over Brazil in Orlando, Fla. Hamm's goal, which took place during injury time at the end of the first half, moved her out of a tie with retired Elisabetta Vignotto of Italy. The United States improved to 13-2-1 this season with its fifth straight victory in a nine-game tour leading up to its Women's World Cup The Women's World Cup could refer to either the:
BOXING: The heavyweight championship unification rematch between Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield will be Nov. 6 at Mandalay Bay hotel-casino, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal The Las Vegas Review-Journal is published in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is the largest circulating daily newspaper in Nevada, and one of two daily newspapers in Las Vegas (the Greenspun Media Group-owned Las Vegas Sun is distributed with it). . A source told the newspaper that neither the casinos nor the promoters would confirm the fight because all the details have not been worked out. Lewis-Holyfield II would be a rematch of the controversial draw in 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 on March 13 in what most observers thought Lewis won by a comfortable margin. The outcome prompted several investigations and proposals for reform in the scoring of boxing. Unbeaten WBO WBO World Boxing Organization WBO Western Buddhist Order WBO Wehrbeschwerdeordnung WBO World Bamboo Organization (formerly International Bamboo Association) WBO Won by One (Malibu, California; a cappella group) middleweight champion Bert Schenk of Germany defended his title in a close unanimous decision over the Dominican Republic's Juan Ramon Medina-Padilla in Budapest, Hungary. COLLEGE TENNIS: Baylor, seeded 15th in only its second appearance in the NCAA Men's Tennis Championships, ousted four-time defending champion Stanford 4-2 in the round of 16 at Athens, Ga. Stanford, 58-5 in 12 previous national tournaments, had never lost on the first day of competition at the nationals. In another match, 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 beat Virginia Tech 4-1. Florida and Stanford, the two most dominant women's tennis teams of the decade, will meet for this year's NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association title. Florida, the defending national champion and top seed in this year's tournament, beat fifth-seeded Duke 5-2. Second-seeded Stanford, which owns nine NCAA championships, including three in the 1990s, cruised past Cal 5-1 at Gainesville, Fla. SKIING: Olympic champion Picabo Street, after sitting out last season while recovering from injuries, was picked for the U.S. Alpine team. Street broke her left thigh and tore ligaments in her right knee a month after winning the Olympic super-G gold medal in Nagano, Japan. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO HAMM |
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