BRIEFLY : TAPIA SCORES ON POINTS DESPITE A KNOCKDOWN.Byline: Daily News Wire Services Unbeaten bantamweight ban·tam·weight n. 1. A weight division in professional boxing having an upper limit of 118 pounds (53.1 kilograms), between junior bantamweight and junior flyweight. 2. A boxer competing in this weight division. 3. Johnny Tapia Professional Career His professional career began on March 25, 1988, when he beat Efren Chavez by a knockout in round four in Irvine, California. He won eight fights that year, five by knockout, of which four were in the first round. survived a knockdown and a listless (programming) listless - In functional programming, a property of a function which allows it to be combined with other functions in a way that eliminates intermediate data structures, especially lists. performance Saturday to win the WBA WBA West Bromwich Albion (English Soccer Club) WBA World Boxing Association WBA Weekly Benefit Amount WBA Wisconsin Broadcasters Association (Madison, WI) WBA Wireless Broadband Access bantamweight title from Nana Konadu in a majority 12-round decision in Atlantic City, N.J. Konadu, 33, of Ghana, dropped to 39-4-1 with a performance that had fans booing and chanting ``bor-ing'' midway through. Tapia, a former 115-pounder fighting for a title in the 118-pound class for the first time, was cut over the right eye in the third round and knocked down in the 11th, but he was the more active fighter throughout. In the co-feature, WBA welterweight champion James Page retained his title by rallying from two knockdowns to score a unanimous 12-round decision over Jose Luis Lopez in a strange but thrilling slugfest. Page slipped repeatedly on the canvas, falling in the seventh, eighth, ninth, 10th and 12th rounds. Lopez was never down. SWIMMING: Fourteen-year-old Megan Quann set her third American record at the U.S. Open meet in College Station, Tex., with a time of 2:25.52 in the short-course 200-meter breaststroke, breaking the mark held by Kristine Quance by .28 seconds. Quann, a high school freshman from Puyallup, Wash., set the American record in the short-course 100 breaststroke (1:07.41) earlier in the competition. NHL NHL Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, see there : Flyers center Eric Lindros was fined the maximum $1,000 by the NHL for slashing in Friday's 3-0 loss at Buffalo. The incident took place in the first period when Lindros was given a major penalty for slashing and a game misconduct after swinging his stick toward the upper body of Buffalo's Jay McKee. ``Even though Mr. Lindros did not make contact, this type of reckless use of the sticks is not acceptable,'' NHL Director of Hockey Operations Colin Campbell said. NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga : Broncos cornerback Darrien Gordon faces a municipal court date after being accused of shoving the manager of a Denver-area nightclub early Friday. Gordon, the latest AFC (1) (Application Foundation Classes) A class library from Microsoft that provides an application framework and graphics, graphical user interface (GUI) and multimedia routines for Java programmers. defensive player of the week, was arrested for misdemeanor harassment after an altercation at Jimmy's Grille in Glendale, a small city southeast of downtown Denver. He later was released. Broncos officials did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment. Tennessee Oilers defensive back George McCullough remains on the inactive list for today's game against Baltimore after being arrested and charged with disorderly conduct disorderly conduct Conduct likely to lead to a disturbance of the public peace or that offends public decency. It has been held to include the use of obscene language in public, fighting in a public place, blocking public ways, and making threats. at a Nashville nightclub early Thursday. SKI JUMPING: Germany's Martin Schmitt benefited from double Olympic champion Kazuyoshi Funaki's blunder in the second round of a ski jumping World Cup to earn his third win in as many events this season in France. |
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