BRIEFLY : MUSTER ESCAPES SUSPENSION.Austria's Thomas Muster Thomas Muster (born October 2, 1967 in Leibnitz, Austria) is a former World Number 1 tennis player from Austria. At his peak in the mid-1990s, he was known as the "King of Clay". He is considered one of the finest clay court players that the game has produced. avoided a suspension over his Davis Cup doubles walkout in Brazil when the International Tennis Federation decided Monday that the $8,000 fine it already had imposed was enough punishment. Muster strutted angrily across the court in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Sept. 21, waving his racket furiously and trying to draw the umpire's attention to fans he said had been spitting, cursing and throwing objects at him. Sweden was seeded No. 1 and the United States No. 2 for the 1997 Davis Cup World Group. SWIMMING USC's Kristine Quance, an Olympic gold medalist and 1996 NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association Swimmer of the Year, has won the 1995-96 Honda Sports Award for NCAA women's swimming and diving. The Northridge resident is among 11 athletes in contention to be named Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year Athlete of the Year
MOTOR SPORTS Ernie Irvan was released from Carolinas Medical Center Carolinas Medical Center (CMC) is a public, not for profit hospital located in Charlotte, North Carolina. The hospital was organized in 1940 as Charlotte Memorial Hospital on Blythe Boulevard in the Dilworth neighborhood. in Charlotte, N.C., after an overnight stay following a crash at Charlotte Motor Speedway in which he was briefly knocked unconscious. A spokesman for the Robert Yates Racing team said Irvan had no other injuries except a concussion. BASEBALL After a career-year with the bat (.331, 75 RBI RBI abbr. Baseball runs batted in Noun 1. rbi - a run that is the result of the batter's performance; "he had more than 100 rbi last season" run batted in ), first baseman Mark Grace agreed to return to the Chicago Cubs for at least two more seasons, with a club option for 1999. SOCCER Cal State Northridge's men's soccer team received goals from freshmen Michael Preis and Danny Ortega to beat host UC Santa Barbara 2-1 in a Mountain Pacific Sports Federation The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation is a college athletic conference whose member teams are located in the western United States. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I. match. Northridge improved to 4-4-1. |
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