BRIEFLY MIAMI SUES FOUR BIG EAST SCHOOLS.Byline: - Daily News Staff and Wire Services The University of Miami This article is about the university in Coral Gables, Florida. For the university in Oxford, Ohio, see Miami University. The University of Miami (also known as Miami of Florida,[2] UM,[3] or just The U filed suit against the Big East Conference and member schools Connecticut, West Virginia, Rutgers and Pittsburgh on Monday, claiming it suffered ``substantial monetary damages'' by remaining in the league. The school also filed a separate lawsuit against the University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut is the State of Connecticut's land-grant university. It was founded in 1881 and serves more than 27,000 students on its six campuses, including more than 9,000 graduate students in multiple programs. UConn's main campus is in Storrs, Connecticut. for defamation. Both were filed in state circuit court in Miami. Miami will seek an undetermined amount in damages, school attorney Eric Isicoff said. A Big East official acknowledged the conference had seen the lawsuit but had no comment. The four schools are currently suing Miami, alleging it was involved in a conspiracy with the Atlantic Coast Conference The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is a collegiate athletic league in the United States. Founded in 1953, the ACC's twelve member universities compete in twenty sports in the NCAA's Division I. to weaken the Big East. Miami and Virginia Tech, the league's premier football schools, are leaving the Big East to join the ACC See adaptive cruise control. after the current academic year ends. Boston College is also leaving the Big East for the ACC, but perhaps not until 2006. --After losing Rice, SMU and Tulsa to Conference USA, the Western Athletic Conference The Western Athletic Conference (commonly referred to as the WAC, pronounced "wack") was formed on July 27, 1962, making it the sixth oldest of the 11 college athletic conferences currently participating in the NCAA's Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS; formerly has identified New Mexico State, North Texas, Louisiana-Lafayette, Louisiana-Monroe, Arkansas State, Utah State, Idaho and Middle Tennessee State as possible replacements. All of those schools are members of the 15-team Sun Belt Conference. AWARDS: The Women's Sports Foundation The Women's Sports Foundation (WSF) "is a charitable educational organization dedicated to ensuring equal access to participation and leadership opportunities for all girls and women in sports and fitness. named Sparks center Lisa Leslie as the 2003 Sportswoman of the Year Team Award winner for the second time, and swimmer Natalie Coughlin was the individual top athlete. MOTOR SPORTS: Two-time Indy 500 winner Al Unser Jr. was hospitalized in serious condition after being injured in an all-terrain vehicle accident in the woods Sunday near his home in rural Chama, N.M. Unser went over an embankment and broke his pelvis, his sister, Mary Unser Tanner, told The Associated Press. She said her brother called for help for about an hour before being found by a hunter. FOOTBALL: The Avengers fulfilled their primary offseason goal, signing free-agent lineman Silas Demary to a three-year contract. Demary, who recorded three sacks last year with the Buffalo Destroyers, is expected to bolster the Avengers' pass rush. RUGBY: The United States extended its losing streak in the Rugby World Cup For the rugby league competition, see . The Rugby World Cup is the premier international rugby union competition. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Rugby Board (IRB), and is contested by the men's national teams. to 10, falling to Scotland 39-15. Its next game is Oct. 27 against Japan. |
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