BRIEFLY COLORADO'S AD IS SPARED.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services Five of the eight members of an independent commission that investigated the University of Colorado's football recruiting scandal wanted somebody at the university fired, in particular athletic director Athletic director (commonly, "athletics director") is a position at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, which oversees the work of the coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic Dick Tharp, the Denver Post reported. But because not all on the panel agreed, and the members wanted their final report to be unanimous, the commissioners decided they would not call for the job of any particular official, they said. On Thursday, Colorado president Betsy Hoffman and chancellor Richard Byyny announced they were reinstating suspended football coach Gary Barnett
The Post reported that five commissioners said someone - most named Tharp - should have been dismissed. ``Read page six of our report,'' said Jacqueline St. Joan, a lawyer involved in victim advocacy who served on the commission. ``It must have been missing from their copy.'' This sentence appears on that page: ``The university's leadership must be held accountable for systemic failings that jeopardized students' safety and allowed for ongoing misconduct in the football recruiting program.'' Some commissioners now accuse university officials of overemphasizing a statement that appeared on the previous page, that there was ``no clear evidence'' any Colorado coaches or administrators knew football players were using ``sex, alcohol and drugs ... as football recruiting tools.'' In its 38-page report, the panel accused Byyny of failing to follow through on his requests to Tharp that football recruiting weekends be reformed. LACROSSE lacrosse (ləkrôs`), ball and goal game usually played outdoors by two teams of 10 players each on a field 60 to 70 yd (54.86 to 64.01 m) wide by 110 yd (100.58 m) long. Two goals face each other 80 yd (73. : Syracuse beat top-seeded John Hopkins 15-9 to advance to Monday's title game against second-seeded Navy. The Midshipmen defeated Princeton 8-7 in the other semifinal. Attendance at the semifinal doubleheader in Baltimore, Md., was an NCAA-record 46,923. DECATHLON decathlon (dĭkăth`lŏn), in modern Olympic games, a contest for men held over two days and composed of 10 track-and-field events. : Three-time U.S. champion and current world champion Tom Pappas Tom Pappas (born September 6, 1976 in Azalea, Oregon) is an American track & field decathlete. Pappas won the gold medal at the 2003 World Championships held outside Paris, France, and was rated number 1 in the world that year by Track & Field News. was third in the standings after the first day of the Hypo Meeting in Goetzis, Austria. Pappas won the high jump and had 4,499 points at the first big decathlon event of the season. Roman Sebrle of the Czech Republic Czech Republic, Czech Česká Republika (2005 est. pop. 10,241,000), republic, 29,677 sq mi (78,864 sq km), central Europe. It is bordered by Slovakia on the east, Austria on the south, Germany on the west, and Poland on the north. was first with 4,536 points, with Dmitriy Karpov Dmitriy Karpov (born July 23, 1981 in Karaganda) is an athlete from Kazakhstan who competes in decathlon and heptathlon (the latter during the winter season). He won the bronze medal in the 2004 Summer Olympics. of Kazakhstan second with 4,526. Pappas' U.S. teammate, Stephen Harris, won the 400 meters and is fourth at 4,400. MOTOR SPORTS: Michael Schumacher Michael Schumacher (pronounced / /, born January 3, 1969, in Hürth Hermülheim, Germany)[4] is a former Formula One driver, and seven-time world champion. rebounded from last week's crash to capture the pole position pole position Noun 1. (in motor racing) the starting position on the inside of the front row, generally considered the best one 2. an advantageous starting position Noun 1. for the European Grand Prix This article is about Formula One race. For other uses, see European Grand Prix (disambiguation). The European Grand Prix is a separate Formula One event that was reintroduced during the mid-1980s and was held regularly from 1993 to 2006. Formula One race in Nuerburgring, Germany, the 60th pole of his career. ROWING: The United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. captured the women's eights at the World Cup in Munich, Germany. The Americans were timed in 6 minutes, 30.16 seconds and were followed by China (6:31.13) and world champion Germany (6:31.95). In the men's eights, two-time world champion Canada held off Germany to win in 5:47.34. SHOOTING: Koby Holland and Adam Saathoff held the top two spots after the second day of competition in the men's running target at the U.S. Olympic trials at Fort Benning, Ga. Holland led after the first day with a score of 671.3. He shot a 672 Saturday, putting him in first place with a score of 1,343.3. Saathoff, a two-time Olympian in this event, hit a 677.8 Saturday and is second overall. Both are in position to make the Athens Olympics with one round remaining. The top two finishers qualify for the games. SOCCER: Crystal Palace won promotion to the English Premier League, beating West Ham United 1-0 in a playoff final on Neil Shipperley's goal in the 62nd minute. -- Palermo beat Triestina 3-1 and clinched promotion to Italy's top league for the first time in 32 years. CYCLING: Italy's Damiano Cunego all but clinched the Giro d'Italia title by holding his overall lead with a fifth-place finish in the next-to-last stage. MODERN PENTATHLON: Hungary's Szuzsanna Voros won her second world title in a row and third since 1999, finishing with 5,624 points in the event at Moscow. |
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