BRIEFLY : SAMPRAS LOSES TO AGASSI, GIVES UP NO. 1 RANKING.Byline: Daily News Wire Services Andre Agassi Andre Kirk Agassi (born April 29 1970, in Las Vegas, Nevada) is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player from the United States who won eight Grand Slam singles tournaments and an Olympic gold medal in singles. kept his impressive run going while keeping Pete Sampras from staying No. 1. The eighth-seeded Agassi beat the top-seeded Sampras 6-7 (7-5), 6-1, 6-2 Friday night in the quarterfinals of the $2.45 million du Maurier tournament in Toronto. Agassi, a three-time champion in this event, has improved his ranking more than 100 spots to No. 11. Sampras needed to win this event for the first time to maintain his No. 1 ranking. That spot will now be taken by Chile's Marcelo Rios. Each of the players had to play two matches Friday because of rain on Thursday. Agassi advanced with a 2-6, 7-5, 6-3 victory over No. 10 Goran Ivanisevic of Croatia. Sampras was sluggish in a 7-6 (7-5), 6-2 victory over Tommy Haas of Germany. Venus Williams withdrew because of a leg injury from her quarterfinal-round match against France's Mary Pierce in the $450,000 Toshiba Tennis Classic in Carlsbad. Williams, the No. 3 seed, retired after falling behind 4-0 in the third set with what she said was patella patella (pətĕl`ə): see kneecap. tendinitis in her left knee. Williams, 18, won the first set 6-2, Pierce the second 7-6 (7-3). Williams said she wasn't worried the injury might keep her out of next month's U.S. Open. Mariano Zabaleta of Argentina survived six match points and rallied from a 5-1 deficit in the third set to beat defending champion Slava Dosedel 2-6, 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-5) for a semifinal berth at the Grolsch Open in Amsterdam. Zabaleta next plays Magnus Norman of Sweden, who downed Galo Blanco of Spain 6-2, 6-4. Retired USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. and L.A. Tennis Club coach George Toley, teacher of some 300 national champions in his long career, underwent successful heart-bypass surgery Tuesday at St. John's Hospital St. John's Hospital may refer to: In the United Kingdom:
MOTOR SPORTS: Bryan Herta broke his own track record in the first day of qualifying for Sunday's Miller Lite 200 at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course is a road course auto racing facility located in Troy Township, Morrow County, Ohio, United States, just outside of the town of Lexington. (Mid-Ohio has also colloquially become a term for the entire north-central region of the state, from south of in Lexington, Ohio. Herta, an alumnus ALUMNUS, civil law. A child which one has nursed; a foster child. Dig. 40, 2, 14. of Hart High in Newhall and last year's polesitter in the race, drove his Team Rahal Reynard-Ford Cosworth to a fast lap of 122.977 mph on the 2.25-mile, 13-turn road course. OLYMPICS: Defiant and angry, banned Olympic champion swimmer Michelle Smith of Ireland insisted she is innocent of tampering with a drug test and accused swimming authorities of conspiring to end her career. ``I'm not going to crawl under a stone and never be heard from again and not fight against this ban,'' she said. FINA FINA Fédération Internationale de Natation (French: International Swimming Federation; Lausanne, Switzerland; formerly Fédération Internationale de Natation Amateur) , swimming's governing body, suspended the triple gold medalist for four years after determining she had spiked her urine sample with alcohol. American shot putter Randy Barnes, suspended for a second time after testing positive for a banned substance, filed an appeal with USA Track & Field for a hearing. The 1996 Olympic gold medalist and world indoor and outdoor record-holder is trying to avoid a lifetime ban. Barnes was first suspended for two years in 1991 by the International Amateur Athletic Federation for the steroid methyltestosterone. A decision by International Business Machines Corp. to sever its 38-year marketing relationship as a sponsor of the Olympic Games is sparking a competition by about a dozen major computer companies to fill Big Blue's shoes. Instead of signing an exclusive agreement as they did with IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Olympics organizers this time are seeking a group of computer, software and networking equipment makers to handle the behind-the-scenes technology,, from running Olympics World Wide Web sites to scoreboards. HOCKEY: Pat LaFontaine of the New York Rangers The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in New York, New York, U.S.A. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). , one of the NHL's all-time-great American-born players, will retire next week due to numerous concussions, according to the New York Post The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily.[3] Since 1976, it has been owned by Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and is one of the 10 . The Washington Capitals reacquired goaltender Rick Tabaracci from the Calgary Flames for an undisclosed draft pick and future considerations. Tabaracci, 29, played with the Capitals before being traded to Calgary in 1995. ETC ETC - ExTendible Compiler. Fortran-like, macro extendible. "ETC - An Extendible Macro-Based Compiler", B.N. Dickman, Proc SJCC 38 (1971). .: The 50th annual Catalina Water Ski Race is set for Sunday, starting at 8 a.m. from the Queen Mary in Long Beach. More than 115 ski teams will participate. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO BRYAN HERTA If he stays the fastest driver when qualifying ends today, it would be his third pole of 1998. |
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