BRIEFLY : USC TO HIRE HALEY AS VOLLEYBALL COACH.Byline: - Daily News Staff and Wire Services Mick Haley, coach of the U.S. women's national volleyball team, has agreed to become coach of the USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. women's volleyball team. Several details are being worked out before Haley signs a contract, but a formal announcement is expected this week. Haley previously coached at Texas, where he won national championships in 1981 and 1988. Haley compiled a 522-137-1 record in 17 seasons at Texas and won 13 Southwest Conference
In 1997, he became coach of the U.S. women's national team The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. . He will coach the U.S. team through the 2000 Olympics, meaning USC would have an interim coach, expected to be current assistant Jerritt Elliott, for the 1999 season. Haley could conceivably join USC earlier if the U.S. team does not qualify for the Olympics. Haley replaces Lisa Love, who resigned in April to concentrate on being an associate athletic director at the university. His selection concludes a longer-than-anticipated search for Love's successor. UC Irvine men's coach Charlie Brand turned the job down, and USC also interviewed Stanford assistant Denise Corlett and Florida coach Mary Wise. - Scott Wolf HORSE RACING: D. Wayne Lukas Darrell Wayne Lukas (born September 2, 1935 in Antigo, Wisconsin) is a former educator who became one of the most successful horse trainers in American Thoroughbred horse racing history and a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee. , trainer of Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Charismatic, has been suspended by Churchill Downs for 10 days after one of his horses failed a postrace drug test. The suspension most likely will be upheld by other state commissions, meaning Lukas will not be permitted on the grounds of any recognized race track in the country as long as he is suspended. The suspension is scheduled for July 6-15. Dance Master, a 2-year-old, tested positive on May 16 for benzenemethanol, which is present in most analgesics Analgesics Definition Analgesics are medicines that relieve pain. Purpose Analgesics are those drugs that mainly provide pain relief. and antihistamines Antihistamines Definition Antihistamines are drugs that block the action of histamine (a compound released in allergic inflammatory reactions) at the H1 . CYCLING: Jan Ullrich, the 1997 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 winner, withdrew from this year's race with a knee injury, becoming the latest top rider to miss the sport's showpiece show·piece n. Something exhibited, especially as an outstanding example of its kind. showpiece Noun 1. anything displayed or exhibited 2. event. The 25-year-old Ullrich joins last year's winner, Marco Pantani, and world No. 1 Laurent Jalabert among those who will be absent from the July 3-25 race. BASKETBALL: A former Arizona State player and four other men who admitted involvement in a college basketball point-shaving scandal were sentenced to prison or probation. Former Arizona State guard Isaac Burton Jr. was sentenced to two months in jail, six months of home detention and three years probation. Burton was also fined $8,000 and will have to complete 200 hours of community service. He could have faced up to 1-1/2 years in prison. The Sparks traded point guard Jamila Wideman, who is on injured reserve, to the Cleveland Rockers for seldom-used guard Jen Howard. The Sparks then waived Howard to remain at the WNBA's 11-player roster limit. |
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