BRIEFLY : MORE ASIAN INFLUX: S. KOREA STAR SIGNS.Byline: - Daily News Wire Services South Korean pitcher Byung-Hyun Kim
The Arizona Diamondbacks (also referred to as the D-backs) are a Major League Baseball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. They play in the West Division of the National League. . Kim, who struck out 15 in 6-1/3 innings playing for South Korea against a U.S. national team last year in Tucson, Ariz., gets a $2.25 million signing bonus A signing bonus or sign-on bonus is a sum of money paid to a new employee by a company as an incentive to join that company. These are often given as a way of making a compensation package more attractive to the employee e.g. if the annual salary is lower than they desire. . Kim helped South Korea to the finals of last year's World Championships in Italy, giving up one earned run in five innings against Cuba, and he struck out 12 in six perfect innings against China in the semifinals of last year's Asian Games. He is expected to be assigned to High Desert of the Single-A California League. New York Yankees  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. interim manager Don Zimmer will miss today's
exhibition game against the Detroit Tigers while undergoing tests to
check if a bleeding ulcer is under control, the team said.
Nomar Garciaparra's ailing right elbow should heal completely and he should resume playing shortstop soon for the Boston Red Sox The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Red Sox are a member and currently champions of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball’s American League. From to the present, the Red Sox have played in Fenway Park. , team physician Arthur Pappas said. The Cincinnati Reds put Denny Neagle and two other pitchers on the disabled list and temporarily dropped Pete Harnisch from the rotation because of back spasms. BASKETBALL: Former Twin Cities sportscaster Dick Enroth, the voice of the old Minneapolis Lakers, is dead at 80. He died Tuesday of cancer at a nursing home in Wayzata, Minn. A University of Minnesota (body, education) University of Minnesota - The home of Gopher. http://umn.edu/. Address: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. graduate student said she wrote a class paper for a men's basketball player on her first day as a tutor in 1995 and then told coach Clem Haskins she would not do it again. The next day, Alexandra Goulding said, team academic counselor Alonzo Newby told her she would not be offered a contract to continue working as an athletic-department tutor. Ricky Stokes, 36, a Virginia native and perennial contender for college vacancies, was hired as Virginia Tech's men's coach. It is the first head job for Stokes, who succeeds Bobby Hussey, fired Monday after two seasons in which the Hokies went 23-32. MOTOR SPORTS: Al Unser Jr. was released from an Indianapolis hospital two days after surgeons inserted a metal plate into his broken right ankle. Unser broke the ankle during a crash on the first lap of the Marlboro Grand Prix of Miami on Sunday. SOCCER: Kansas City Wizards goalkeeper Tony Meola will have arthroscopic surgery Arthroscopic Surgery Definition Arthroscopic surgery is a procedure to visualize, diagnose, and treat joint problems. The name is derived from the Greek words arthron, which means joint, and skopein, which means to look at. on his left knee next week and probably will miss half the MLS See multilevel security. season. He was hurt during practice last week. TENNIS: In the men's draw of the Lipton Championships in Key Biscayne, Fla., 74th-ranked Sebastien Grosjean of France, who upset top seed Carlos Moya earlier, blew two match points, then beat 40th-ranked Dominik Hrbaty 6-3, 5-7, 6-1. |
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