BRIEFLY : NCAA TITLE GAME IS TV-RATINGS BUST.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services The championship of one of the most exciting NCAA Tournaments in history brought CBS the lowest prime-time title game rating ever. Kentucky's victory against Utah on Monday night got a 17.8 rating/28 share, the lowest for the NCAA championship game since the 1972 UCLA-Florida State final, played in the afternoon, got a 16.0/35. The rating is 6 percent below the 18.9 for Arizona's 1997 overtime win against Kentucky and 22 percent below the 22.7 from the Michigan-Duke final in 1992. Since that game, the rating has slipped every year except 1997. MOTOR SPORTS: Tim Flock, a pioneer of big-time stock-car racing and one of NASCAR's top 50 drivers, died Tuesday at his home after a battle with liver and throat cancer. He was 73. Flock won 40 races, leaving him tied with current Winston Cup star Bill Elliott for 13th place in career victories, and set a NASCAR NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), organization that sanctions American stock-car races, est. 1948. It held its first race in Daytona Beach, Fla. record with 19 poles in 1955. He won the Winston Cup title in 1952 and 1955. FOOTBALL: San Francisco 49ers CNN/Sports Illustrated reported that DeBartolo will complete the transaction to buy out Denise DeBartolo York Marie Denise DeBartolo York (born 1951 in Youngstown, Ohio) is the owner of the San Francisco 49ers.[1] She is the daughter of late construction magnate Edward J. DeBartolo, Sr. and Marie Patricia Montani DeBartolo. by the middle of the week. DeBartolo had resigned as the 49ers' chief executive in December, when he was facing a possible indictment in a casino probe in Louisiana. He wasn't indicted INDICTED, practice. When a man is accused by a bill of indictment preferred by a grand jury, he is said to be indicted. . The Pittsburgh Steelers will get four compensatory draft picks this year and the Dallas Cowboys will get three as a result of free-agent losses in 1997. LOCAL: Quartz Hill High girls' soccer player Shauna Murray has committed to Cal State Bakersfield, her coach, Maury Cauchon, said. HOCKEY: The Kings sent right wing Vitali Yachmenev back to the Long Beach Ice Dogs The Long Beach Ice Dogs were a professional ice hockey team in the ECHL. They had suspended operations at the end of the 2006-2007 season. The Ice Dogs trace their origins to the San Diego Gulls, a team in the now-defunct International Hockey League that began play in 1990. of the International Hockey League Presently, one ice hockey league is using the name International Hockey League:
Eric Lindros, out since March 7 with a concussion, will return to the Philadelphia Flyers lineup on April 13 against the Buffalo Sabres. SOCCER: The Galaxy figures to get through today's Major League Soccer roster cutdown cutdown /cut·down/ (kut´doun) creation of a small incised opening, especially over a vein (venous c.), to facilitate venipuncture and permit passage of a needle or cannula for withdrawal of blood or administration of fluids. without losing a player because coach Octavio Zambrano was prepared to place midfielders Mauricio Cienfuegos (back) and Gerardo Laterza (ankle) on the injured reserve list Injured Reserve is a special sports reserve list for professional teams to use if a player is injured and unable to play for a period of time. It is used so that that player does not take up a roster spot. In baseball, a similar list called the disabled list is used. , trimming the active roster to the league-mandated maximum of 20 players. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion