BRIEFLY COLORADO PLANS FOOTBALL PROBE.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services The University of Colorado's president said Saturday she wants to create a special committee to investigate allegations the school has used sex parties to lure football recruits, and urged Colorado's Legislature to stay out of the matter. President Betsy Hoffman said she will ask regents to give her the authority to set up an investigative committee that would report to the university. The regents scheduled an emergency meeting for Friday after the release in the past week of a deposition in which Boulder (Colo.) District Attorney Mary Keenan said the university ignored warnings she made in 1997 to put an end to to destroy. - Fuller. See also: End sex parties for football recruits. Hoffman, football coach Gary Barnett and other university officials have denied using sex to lure recruits. --Tennessee running back Troy Fleming's two second-half touchdowns rallied the North to a 35-31 victory over the South in the Gridiron Classic in Lady Lakes, Fla. --Chris Owens, a 6-foot-2, 210-pound quarterback from Thousand Oaks High, committed to Florida A&M. BASEBALL: The Detroit Tigers and Ivan Rodriguez moved closer to finalizing their $40 million, four-year contract, and the deal could be announced Monday afternoon. BASKETBALL: The University of Rhode Island History The University was first chartered as the state's agricultural school in 1888. The site of the school was originally the Oliver Watson Farm, and the original farmhouse still lies on the campus today. has reported six possible rules violations to the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association . The school, following an internal investigation that began last March, acknowledged possible violations during the coaching tenures of Jim Harrick, the former UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX coach, and Jerry DeGregorio from 1997 to 2000. --Woody Clements, who coached New Mexico, has died in McIntosh, N.M. He was 90. MOTOR SPORTS: NASCAR NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), organization that sanctions American stock-car races, est. 1948. It held its first race in Daytona Beach, Fla. stars Tony Stewart and Dale Earnhardt Jr. combined with sports car ace Andy Wallace to hold the lead in a heavy rain nearing the halfway point in the Rolex 24 endurance race in Daytona Beach, Fla. --New Hampshire International Speedway owner Bob Bahre was in intensive care with injuries suffered when his car went off the road Thursday in Maine. ETC ETC - ExTendible Compiler. Fortran-like, macro extendible. "ETC - An Extendible Macro-Based Compiler", B.N. Dickman, Proc SJCC 38 (1971). .: Gail Devers (UCLA) won the women's 60-meter hurdles at the Boston Indoor Games in a meet-record 7.85 seconds. ... Rafael Marquez retained his IBF IBF See: International Banking Facility bantamweight ban·tam·weight n. 1. A weight division in professional boxing having an upper limit of 118 pounds (53.1 kilograms), between junior bantamweight and junior flyweight. 2. A boxer competing in this weight division. 3. title, stopping Pete Frissina. ... Brian McBride scored the winning goal in his debut with Fulham, a 2-1 victory over Tottenham in the English Premier League. ... Ethiopia's Berhane Adere set the indoor world record in the women's 5,000 meters in Stuttgart, Germany. She finished in 14:39.29. Staff Writer Matthew Kredell contributed to this report. |
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