BRIEFLY HISTORY FOR KOSTELICS.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services A dazed daze tr.v. dazed, daz·ing, daz·es 1. To stun, as with a heavy blow or shock; stupefy. 2. To dazzle, as with strong light. n. A stunned or bewildered condition. and teary Ivica Kostelic embraced his sister at the finish after putting an unmistakable family stamp on the world championships in St. Moritz St. Moritz (German: Sankt Moritz, Romansh: San Murezzan) is a popular resort town in the Engadine valley in Switzerland. , Switzerland. The Croat won the slalom Sunday to join sister Janica in setting skiing history and denying Bode Miller of the United States a shot at a third gold medal. Miller finished sixth and completed the two-week event with three medals. This was Ivica Kostelic's first major title and the first time a brother and sister won the same event at a world championship. Janica took the combined last week and the slalom Saturday. Ivica Kostelic dawdled at the finish line, then dropped to his knees. ``I couldn't help shedding a tear at the finish because it was a great day for me,'' Ivica Kostelic said. FOOTBALL: Keith Brooking wouldn't be dining at Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank's house tonight if he wasn't hopeful of re-signing with the team before Thursday. ``Considering how bad I want to be here and how bad they're saying they want me here, I think we'll get something done,'' Brooking said. Blank invited Brooking to his home with an NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga deadline looming for teams to place franchise or transition tags on players they want to keep from becoming unrestricted free agents. BASKETBALL: When Kettering Alter forward Andrew Stichweh blocked Lebron James' shot, the Alter student section began to chant ``overrated Overrated was a Horde World of Warcraft guild, based on the US Black Dragonflight Realm. On November 2 2006, the majority of the guild members were indefinitely banned from the game for use of (or directly benefiting from) a third-party "wall-hack", used to bypass content !'' James silenced those fans a minute later when he stole a pass and unleashed a tomahawk tomahawk [from an Algonquian dialect of Virginia], hatchet generally used by Native North Americans as a hand weapon and as a missile. The earliest tomahawks were made of stone, with one edge or two edges sharpened (sometimes the stone was globe shaped). dunk that had the crowd gasping at the University of Dayton Arena University of Dayton Arena is a 13,409-seat multi-purpose arena in Dayton, Ohio. The arena opened in 1969. It is home to the University of Dayton Flyers basketball teams, and has hosted 72 games in the NCAA men's basketball tournament over its history, the fourth most prolific . The nation's top high school player had 22 points and 11 rebounds to lead No. 1 Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary to a 73-40 victory over Kettering Alter in front of a sellout crowd of more than 13,000. Although James didn't reach his 33 points-a-game average, his acrobatics acrobatics Art of jumping, tumbling, and balancing. The art is of ancient origin; acrobats performed leaps, somersaults, and vaults at Egyptian and Greek events. Acrobatic feats were featured in the commedia dell'arte theatre in Europe and in jingxi (“Peking wowed the audience. --The Houston Comets believe Cynthia Cooper is close to coming out of retirement to rejoin her old team. SPEEDSKATING: Russian Yevgeny Lalenkov won the 1,500-meter race in a World Cup speedskating event in Baselga Di Pine, Italy, moving 20 points ahead of American Derek Parra in the overall standings. GYMNASTICS: Top-ranked 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 defeated No. 7 Arizona State 198.400-198.150 in Tempe, Ariz. 2000 Olympian Jamie Dantzscher scored perfect 10s on the vault and uneven bars for the Bruins. She also tied for first on the floor exercise with a 9.950 score. Onnie Willis tied for second in the all-around with a 39.25. SOCCER: Mia Hamm scored her 137th international goal as the United States beat Iceland 1-0 in the cold and rain in Charleston, S.C. |
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