BRIEFLY : PURDUE COACH COLLETTO DECIDES TO CALL IT QUITS.Jim Colletto, unable to turn around a program that has not had a winning season since 1984, resigned Monday as Purdue football coach. The Boilermakers are 2-6. Colletto, 52, who came to Purdue in December 1990, compiled a 20-40-3 record in six seasons. He will coach the final three games this season, and the resignation will be effective when a new coach is hired. Colletto previously coached at Cal State Fullerton and was an assistant at 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 , Brown, Xavier, Pacific, Arizona State and Ohio State. His overall record as a head coach is 35-72-4. Three of four football players at the center of the gambling investigation at Boston College have admitted to betting on football games but deny having wagered on their own games or doing anything to affect the outcome of those games, sources told the Boston Globe. Sources close to the players, meanwhile, say the four feel they have been unfairly singled out for public scrutiny and claim that, at a team meeting Saturday, as many as two dozen other players acknowledged having gambled on sporting events other than BC football games. As the investigation intensified, and school officials scrambled to contain a burgeoning scandal, lawyers for the four players at the center of the probe insisted their clients had done nothing illegal. BASEBALL Jon Miller, the voice of the Baltimore Orioles for a generation of fans, agreed to a five-year contract with the San Francisco Giants The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in San Francisco, California that currently play in the National League West Division. New York Giants history Early days and the John McGraw era . TENNIS Steffi Graf is all alone on top of the WTA WTA Washington Trails Association WTA Women's Tennis Association WTA World Transhumanist Association WTA Willingness to Accept WTA Winner-Take-All WTA Winner Takes All WTA World Toilet Association (Singapore) Tour world rankings for the eighth time in her career. Monica Seles, co-ranked No. 1 with Graf since returning to the WTA Tour on Aug. 14, 1995, fell to a co-ranking of No. 2 with Spain's Arantxa Sanchez Vicario following her semifinal loss to Jennifer Capriati last Saturday. Top-seeded Wayne Ferreira lost his bid to qualify for the season-ending ATP ATP: see adenosine triphosphate. ATP in full adenosine triphosphate Organic compound, substrate in many enzyme-catalyzed reactions (see catalysis) in the cells of animals, plants, and microorganisms. Tour Championships by losing his opening-round match in the Stockholm Open against Greg Rusedski 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. Displaying his deadly touch and notorious temper, John McEnroe beat Johan Kriek 6-4, 6-4 to win the NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform Data Champions tournament in Tokyo. BASKETBALL Vincent Askew was traded by the New Jersey Nets to the Indiana Pacers for Reggie Williams in an exchange of veteran forwards. In San Antonio, former NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= All-Star Alvin Robertson was ordered to serve six months in jail for a burglary conviction. Robertson was convicted in October of burgling the apartment of an ex-girlfriend. Former 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 Knicks forward Anthony Mason was fined $250 and sentenced to 120 hours of community service after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct in connection with a scuffle with police in Times Square. ETC ETC - ExTendible Compiler. Fortran-like, macro extendible. "ETC - An Extendible Macro-Based Compiler", B.N. Dickman, Proc SJCC 38 (1971). . Hawaii's women's volleyball team lost its first match of the season to Stanford, but it didn't lose its No. 1 ranking in the Volleyball Magazine poll. Stanford is second, followed by Florida, Long Beach State and Nebraska. . . . The Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of millionaire equestrian George Lindemann Jr., convicted of insurance fraud in the 1990 electrocution electrocution Method of execution in which the condemned person is subjected to a heavy charge of electric current. The prisoner is shackled into a wired chair, and electrodes are fastened to the head and one leg so that the current will flow through the body. of one of his horses. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Jim Colletto, a former assistant at UCLA, has decided to resign as coach at Big 10 doormat Purdue. Associated Press |
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