BRIEFLY BOURQUE, COFFEY, MURPHY ENTER HALL.Byline: - Daily News Staff and Wire Services Ray Bourque Raymond Jean Bourque (born December 28, 1960 in Saint-Laurent, Quebec, now a district of Montreal) is a Hockey Hall of Famer who currently holds the records for most goals, assists and points by a defenseman in the National Hockey League (NHL) and has become near-synonymous with , the finest defenseman of his generation, entered the Hockey Hall of Fame The Hockey Hall of Fame, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is dedicated to the history of ice hockey with exhibits featuring memorabilia and NHL trophies (including the Stanley Cup) along with interactive activities. on Monday with Paul Coffey Paul Douglas Coffey (born June 1 1961, in Weston, Ontario) is a retired professional ice hockey defenceman in the National Hockey League. Known for his speed and scoring prowess, Coffey ranks second all-time among NHL defensemen in career goals, assists, and points . and Larry Murphy Lawrence Thomas Murphy (born March 8, 1961 in Scarborough, Ontario) is a former Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played defence. Playing career Larry Murphy was drafted 4th overall in the 1980 NHL Entry Draft. . The three stellar defensemen combined for nine Stanley Cups and joined the hall with builder Cliff Fletcher and hockey writer Jim Kelley. --Former St. Louis Blues player Mike Danton was sentenced in East St. Louis, Ill., to 7 1/2 years in prison for trying to have his agent killed. The 24-year-old is expected to seek transfer to a prison in his native Canada. --Alexei Kovalev, Brad Richards and Nikolai Khabibulin signed with Russia's AK Bars Kazan. --Jaromir Jagr 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). is leaving the Czech league to play for the Russian club Omsk Avangard, the Czech daily newspaper Sport and The Canadian Press reported. BASEBALL: Anaheim city manager Dave Morgan said the city of Anaheim will resist any attempt by the Angels to change their name to the Los Angeles Angels. ``We're pretty fired up. We want the Angels to understand this is very important to us,'' Morgan told the Associated Press. ``They won the world championship as the Anaheim Angels two years ago and should remain the Anaheim Angels.'' The franchise began play as the Los Angeles Angels in 1961, became the California Angels when it moved to Anaheim in 1966 and has been the Anaheim Angels since 1997, after the team negotiated a 30-year lease with Anaheim. BASKETBALL: Kansas sat atop the Associated Press' preseason Top 25, the first time since the 1950s the team has been ranked No. 1 in the first poll. Tennessee took the No. 1 spot in the women's poll, the 11th time it has started the season atop the rankings - and first since 1998. SWIMMING: Six-time Olympic champion Michael Phelps was arrested last week and charged with drunken driving. A trooper saw the 19-year-old swimming sensation go through a stop sign Thursday night in Salisbury, Md., state police said Monday. The trooper saw signs of intoxication intoxication, condition of body tissue affected by a poisonous substance. Poisonous materials, or toxins, are to be found in heavy metals such as lead and mercury, in drugs, in chemicals such as alcohol and carbon tetrachloride, in gases such as carbon monoxide, and and arrested Phelps for driving under the influence, police said. Phelps also was charged with violation of a license restriction and failure to obey a stop sign. The legal drinking age The legal drinking age is a limit assigned by governments to restrict the access of children and youth to alcoholic beverages. In most countries the legal age to purchase alcohol is at least 18, but there are notable exceptions. in Maryland is 21. RUNNING: Former USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. sprinter Lennox Miller, a silver medalist in the 1968 Olympics and member of USC's world-record 440-yard relay team, died from brain cancer. He was 58. Miller's daughter, Inger, won a gold medal in the relay at the 1996 Olympics. |
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