BRIEFLY : WINLESS UNLV WILL FIRE FOOTBALL COACH.Byline: Daily News Wire Services Nevada-Las Vegas football coach Jeff Horton Jeff Horton, born (date?) in Arlington, Texas, is currently an assistant coach (Special Assistant/Offense) for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He has also been active as an assistant coach at the collegiate level (Minnesota, Nevada, UNLV, Wisconsin) and as a , whose team has lost 15 straight games, will be fired at the end of the season. Horton confirmed Tuesday that athletic director Charles Cavagnaro told him he would be let go after Saturday's season finale against Texas Christian. UNLV UNLV University of Nevada, Las Vegas is 0-10 this year. ``Cavagnaro called me in (Monday),'' Horton told the Las Vegas Sun The Las Vegas Sun is one of Las Vegas, Nevada's two daily newspapers. It is owned by the Greenspun family and is affiliated with Greenspun Media Group. The paper was published in the afternoons on weekdays from 1990-2005. . ``He told me he decided to let me go.'' Horton, who has one year left on his contract, said he turned down an opportunity to remain in the athletic department's development office. Pro Bowl defensive end Derrick Thomas was suspended for one game and linebacker Wayne Simmons was waived, a day after Kansas City Chiefs TENNIS: Martina Hingis was healthy this time. The last time she played her Swiss Fed Cup teammate, Hingis retired with leg cramps during their semifinal match at the Grand Slam Cup The Grand Slam Cup was a tennis tournament held annually in Munich, Germany, from 1990 through 1999. The event was organized by the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The ITF invited the best-performing players in the year's Grand Slam events to compete in the Grand Slam Cup. just over a month ago. The two were tied 5-5 in the third set. This time, Hingis lost a hard-fought first set before defeating Patty Schnyder 4-6, 6-0, 6-3 and advancing to the quarterfinals at the $2 million Chase Championships in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . Steffi Graf continued her remarkable resurgence, advancing into the quarterfinals with a 6-7 (5-7), 6-4, 6-1 victory over third-seeded Jana Novotna. GOLF: Tiger Woods rolled in an uphill, curling putt on the 427-yard 15th hole to shut out Lee Janzen and advance to the championship round of the $1 million PGA Grand Slam of Golf The PGA Grand Slam of Golf is the world's most exclusive golf tournament. It is an annual off-season golf tournament contested by the year's winners of the four major championships of regular men's golf, which are The Masters, the U.S. in Poipu, Hawaii. The 3-and-2 victory put Woods into today's final 18 holes of match play against V.J. Singh, who had to go the full 18 holes to turn back Mark O'Meara, who dropped his second shot at the final hole into the water. Singh took the match 2-up. BOXING: Chris Dundee, who turned Miami Beach into a boxing capital and promoted more than 1,000 fights in a 40-year career, died at a nursing home in Miami. He was 91. ``Chris couldn't lick that stroke,'' said his brother Angelo, a trainer and cut-man who worked with such champions as Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard Ray Charles Leonard (born May 17, 1956) is a retired American professional boxer. He was one of the leading boxers in the world in the late 1970s and 1980s, winning world titles at multiple weights and engaging in contests with such celebrated opponents as Wilfred Benitez, Thomas . LOCAL: Agoura High baseball player Michael Falco, a senior outfielder-pitcher, signed with Pepperdine. Falco also visited Tulane and Santa Clara before committing to the Waves. Calabasas High junior catcher Sara Hall has been selected by the Woman's National Team selection committee of USA Softball to participate in the National Team Camp in San Diego, Jan 2-6. |
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