BRIEFLY OHIO STATE GIVES TRESSEL A RAISE.Byline: - Daily News Staff and Wire Services Six months after Ohio State won football's national championship, coach Jim Tressel James Tressel (born December 5, 1952) is the current head football coach at the Ohio State University. He was hired in 2001 to replace John Cooper. Since becoming Ohio State's 22nd head football coach, his team has won a National Championship, achieving the first 14-0 season signed a new six-year contract Monday worth at least $1.3 million this season and as much as $1.8 million in the final year. The contract replaces a deal that would have expired after the 2005 season. Added to the new base salary of $285,700 is $420,000 from radio, television and public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most and $335,000 from the school's Nike deal. Tressel has a record of 21-5 in his first two seasons at Ohio State, including an NCAA-record 14-0 last year. COLLEGES: 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. presidents tentatively are set to convene via conference call Wednesday morning and might vote on expansion at that time, according to several reports. ACC See adaptive cruise control. commissioner John Swofford will decide during the call whether he has enough support to hold a vote on extending invitations to Miami, Boston College and Syracuse. There is urgency for all parties to resolve the matter before July 1, when the Big East exit fee jumps from $1 million to $2 million. BASKETBALL: USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. has hired former Cal State Northridge assistant Mike Johnson for Mike Bibby's staff. Johnson, currently an assistant at UC Irvine, worked at Northridge from 1992 to 2001. He replaces Damon Archibald, who went to Iowa State. Former NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= player Reggie Theus was also a candidate. TENNIS: Defending champions Lleyton Hewitt and Serena Williams are the top seeds for Wimbledon, which begins June 23. Hewitt received the top men's seeding ahead of Andre Agassi, who replaced the Australian as No. 1 in this week's ATP ATP: see adenosine triphosphate. ATP in full adenosine triphosphate Organic compound, substrate in many enzyme-catalyzed reactions (see catalysis) in the cells of animals, plants, and microorganisms. Tour rankings. On the women's side, Williams was seeded ahead of Belgian stars Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin-Hardenne, while Venus Williams was seeded fourth. Meanwhile, Anna Kournikova pulled out of the tournament because of a back injury, and on the men's side, Tommy Haas withdrew with an unspecified injury. --American Jan-Michael Gambill was knocked out of the Samsung Open during the first round, losing 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 to British wild card Alex Bogdanovic in Nottingham, England. |
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