BRIEFLY ANDRETTI SWITCHES FROM CART TO IRL.Byline: - Daily News Staff and Wire Services Once an outspoken critic of the Indy Racing League The Indy Racing League, better known as IRL, is the sanctioning body of a predominantly American based open-wheel racing series. The League consists of two series, the premiere IndyCar Series , Michael Andretti is the series' newest owner and driver. Andretti, the winningest driver in CART history, jumped to the rival series Tuesday, convinced the IRL is becoming the dominant, most competitive series in American open-wheel racing. ``Things change. Life changes,'' Andretti said. ``We have to go where we feel the momentum is in auto racing.'' Andretti will join the IRL with Dario Franchitti and Tony Kanaan as his teammates for the 2003 season. TENNIS: U.S. Open runner-up Venus Williams was uninjured when the car in which she was riding crashed west of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., over the weekend. The crash occurred either late Saturday night or early Sunday morning, Palm Beach County Sheriff spokesman Jay Hart said. HOCKEY: Philadelphia right wing Mark Recchi will be sidelined three to five weeks with a sprained right knee, an injury that could cause him to miss the Flyers' regular-season opener Oct. 10. Recchi, who injured the knee in an intrasquad scrimmage Monday, was diagnosed with a sprain of the medial collateral ligament The medial collateral ligament or MCL (or tibial collateral ligament) is one of the four major ligaments of the knee. It is on the medial or inner side of the joint. . HORSE RACING: Sky Jack, winner of the Hollywood Gold Cup The Hollywood Gold Cup is a Grade I stakes race for thoroughbred horses inaugurated in 1938 at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California. It was run as a handicap race until 1997 when it was switched to weight-for-age conditions. in July, had a third operation to remove a bone chip in his right knee and will be out of training for six months. ETC ETC - ExTendible Compiler. Fortran-like, macro extendible. "ETC - An Extendible Macro-Based Compiler", B.N. Dickman, Proc SJCC 38 (1971). .: The Big West Conference announced it has reached a multiyear agreement with the National College Sports Network, which will have rights to championships, tournaments and regular-season games. The NCSN will launch in 2003 and will be the first 24-hour all-college sports network. ... The University of Tennessee The University of Tennessee (UT), sometimes called the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UT Knoxville or UTK), is the flagship institution of the statewide land-grant University of Tennessee public university system in the American state of Tennessee. received permission from the federal government to play three exhibition baseball games in Cuba in December. ... Richard Mulrooney, an All-Star midfielder for the defending Major League Soccer champion San Jose Earthquakes
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