BRIEFLY : SABRES COACH WILL NOT BE BACK.Buffalo Sabres The Buffalo Sabres are a professional ice hockey team based in Buffalo, New York. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). coach Ted Nolan Ted Nolan (Born - April 7, 1958, on the Garden River Ojibwa First Nation Reserve outside of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada) is the Head Coach of the New York Islanders. , recently honored as the NHL's top coach, said Monday that he won't be returning to the team he led to the division title last season. Nolan said new general manager Darcy Regier Darcy John Regier (born November 27, 1957 in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada) is the current general manager of the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League. He also played 26 games in the NHL for the Cleveland Barons and New York Islanders as a defenceman. flew to Nolan's home in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario For the city of Sault Ste. Marie in Michigan, or the Canadian federal and provincial electoral districts of the same name, see: Sault Ste. Marie. Sault Ste. Marie (nicknamed "the Sault" or "the Soo") is a city on the St. Marys River in Ontario, Canada. , Monday evening to tell him that the team's latest contract offer was no longer on the table. Nolan will be out of a job as of today. ``He could've made a telephone call to tell me,'' Nolan said in a telephone interview from his home. ``It didn't make me feel any better.'' A call seeking comment from the Sabres was not immediately returned Monday night. SOCCER: Galaxy forward Eduardo Hurtado will probably miss Friday's game against New England at the Rose Bowl, leaving for Ecuador to play in a World Cup qualifier on Sunday. Galaxy coach Octavio Zambrano said he would ask the Ecuadoran national team if Hurtado could be released after Friday's game, but the crucial nature of the qualifier against Venezuela makes that prospect dim. Hurtado has missed three of the past four Galaxy games. FOOTBALL: Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Michael Irvin has made a decision about his playing future and intends to announce it before the July 18 start of training camp, his attorney said. What that decision is, Peter Ginsberg isn't saying. ``I can't tell you which way he's going with it,'' said Ginsberg, a Washington, D.C., attorney. ETC ETC - ExTendible Compiler. Fortran-like, macro extendible. "ETC - An Extendible Macro-Based Compiler", B.N. Dickman, Proc SJCC 38 (1971). .: Lisa Moldrem, coach of Washington's women's tennis team for 14 years, is resigning to return to club-level coaching in the Seattle area. . . . Jacques Anquetil was the first of four men to win the Tour de France Tour de France World's most prestigious and difficult bicycle race. Staged for three weeks each July—usually in some 20 daylong stages—the Tour typically comprises 20 professional teams of nine riders each and covers some 3,600 km (2,235 miles) of flat and a record five times, and this year's edition of the bicycle race will honor him. Before its start Saturday in Anquetil's hometown of Rouen in Normandy, the race will commemorate his first victory in the Tour de France 40 years ago and his death a decade ago at age 53. . . . The Miami Heat, NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= Eastern Conference champion this season, will make its first trip overseas for an exhibition game when it travels to Tel Aviv, Israel on Oct. 12, 1998. |
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