BRIEFLY : NBA TALKS RESUME TODAY.Byline: Daily News Wire Services The NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= lockout lockout, intentional closing up of a company, factory, or shop by an employer to prevent employees from working during a strike or labor dispute. The term lockout entered its fifth month on Sunday, with both sides ready to resume bargaining on the week the regular season was supposed to begin. League and union lawyers are to meet today, with the full negotiating teams for the owners and players to meet Wednesday. The season was supposed to begin Tuesday night, but the first month of the schedule has been wiped out because of the work stoppage. ``This thing is pretty much in David Stern's hands and I'm not unduly optimistic,'' said agent Steve Kaufman, a member of the union's agents advisory committee. RUNNING: A powerful John Kagwe ran away from Kenyan countryman Joseph Chebet Joseph Chebet (born August 23, 1970) was the winner of the 1999 Boston Marathon and the 1999 New York Marathon. He won in Boston in 1999 after losing to fellow Kenyan Moses Tanui the year before by only three seconds. in the final yards and won the New York City Marathon The New York City Marathon is an annual marathon foot-race run over a 42,195 m (26.2 mile) course through all five boroughs of New York City. It is the largest marathon race in the world, and with 37,866 finishers in 2006, was also the largest marathon race ever run. for the second straight year in the second-closest finish in the race's 29-year history. Kagwe's winning time was 2 hours, 8 minutes, 45 seconds. Chebet finished three seconds back. Franca Fiacconi became the first Italian to win the women's division of the NYC NYC abbr. New York City NYC New York City Marathon. She outdueled world-record holder and two-time 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 champion Tegla Loroupe of Kenya over the closing miles. MLS See multilevel security. : Defender Paul Caligiuri, whose goal qualified the United States for the 1990 World Cup, has been waived by the Galaxy. His most famous goal was the 35-yard dipping shot that gave the United States a 1-0 victory over host Trinidad & Tobago in a 1989 World Cup qualifier. It sealed the first appearance for the United States in the World Cup since 1950. He played in 18 matches for the Galaxy during an injury-plagued 1998 season. HOCKEY: Elmer ``Moose'' Vasko, a member of the Chicago Blackhawks' last Stanley Cup championship team, in 1962, has died of cancer in Chicago. He was 62. BASKETBALL: Louisville basketball coach Denny Crum remained hospitalized, a day after he collapsed while preparing to board a flight. ``He's still very stable and resting well,'' said Kathy Keadle, a spokeswoman at Jewish Hospital. |
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