BRIEFLY NEW RECRUIT COMMITS TO USC HOOPS.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. men's basketball has received an oral commitment from center Julius Lamptey of Garden City (Kansas) Community College. Lamptey (6-foot-10, 270 pounds) holds the distinction of signing or committing to Georgia, Florida and Oklahoma State but was unable to qualify academically. He graduated from Northeastern High in Oklahoma City Oklahoma City (1990 pop. 444,719), state capital, and seat of Oklahoma co., central Okla., on the North Canadian River; inc. 1890. The state's largest city, it is an important livestock market, a wholesale, distribution, industrial, and financial center, and a farm , Okla., and also attended New Hampton New Hampton is the name of several towns in the United States:
Mike Freeman, born October 13, 1961 in Mount Holly, New Jersey was a former African-American football player and currently a sports columnist working for CBS Sportsline.com. . - Scott Wolf Scott Richard Wolf (born June 4, 1968) is an American actor. Born in Boston, Massachusetts to Steven Wolf and Susan Enowitch, Wolf was raised in West Orange, New Jersey. He graduated in 1986 from West Orange High School. --Sacramento Kings center Greg Ostertag will be out four-to-six weeks after breaking his right hand in a fall at his home Saturday night. Ostertag signed with the Kings in July after nine seasons with the Utah Jazz. He is expected to be the backup to All-Star center Brad Miller. --The Connecticut Sun reached the WNBA Finals for the first time by beating the New York Liberty The New York Liberty is a Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) team based in New York City. They are one of the eight original WNBA teams that began to see action in 1997, as well one of the most successful teams in WNBA history. 60-57 behind Taj McWilliams-Franklin's 18 points to complete a two-game sweep of the Eastern Conference finals. Lauren Jackson scored 23 points to lead the Seattle Storm over Sacramento 66-54 and force a decisive third game in the Western Conference finals. Game 3 is Tuesday in Seattle. SOCCER: European soccer's governing body threatened to remove the 2008 European Championships from hosts Austria and Switzerland, citing the Swiss for failing to build a new stadium in Zurich. CYCLING: Spain's Oscar Freire won the road race at the cycling world championships for the third time in a sprint finish in Verona, Italy. Germany's Erik Zabel was second and Italy's Luca Paolini third in the 164.6-mile race. RUNNING: Kenya's Paul Kirui won the world half-marathon title in New Dehli with a time of 1 hour, 2 minutes and 15 seconds. The win caps a year in which he also captured 13.1-mile races in Rome and Berlin. China's Sun Ying Jie, who finished first in last year's Beijing Marathon with the third fastest time ever, won the women's race in 1:08:40. --Kenya's Augustus Kavutu and Russia's Irina Permitina won the Twin Cities Marathon in a race along the Mississippi River in St. Paul, Minn., that drew about 10,000 runners. Kavutu covered the 26.2 miles in 2:13:33. Permitina finished with a personal-best 2:26:53. |
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