BRIEFLY PIERCE HOOPS RETURNS WITH WIN.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services Sylvester Allison scored 24 points as Pierce College In 2006 the Library won a national Excellence award. Academics Pierce College offers associate's degrees, mainly in the arts and sciences. There are also certificate programs in early childhood education, social services, dental hygienist, and others. won its first basketball game after 16 years without a program, beating Rio Hondo Rio Hondo may refer to:
LACC Los Angeles Convention Center LACC Latin American and Caribbean Center (Florida International University) LACC Los Angeles College of Chiropractic LACC Local Aid Coordination Committee Tournament of Champions. Robert Parish Robert Lee Parish (born July 30 1953 in Shreveport, Louisiana) is a retired American basketball center. III, son of the former Boston Celtics great, added 13 points and 10 rebounds in 20 minutes despite being limited by foul trouble. Pierce plays host L.A. City College tonight at 8 in the tournament final. - Matthew Kredell --Former University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. men's basketball coach Steve Fisher Steve Fisher (born March 24, 1945 in Herrin, Illinois, U.S.) is a basketball coach currently at San Diego State University. Fisher attended Illinois State University, where he helped lead the Redbirds to the 1969 Division II Final Four. said Friday he had no knowledge of financial transactions between his players and a former Michigan booster. The university punished its men's basketball program after a federal investigation revealed that former booster Ed Martin had given a total of $616,000 to Chris Webber, Robert Traylor, Maurice Taylor and Louis Bullock. Fisher, now the coach at San Diego State, issued a statement, his first public comments about the scandal since the punishment was handed down, saying, ``I want to emphatically state once again that I had no knowledge of, or any involvement in, the exchange of money between any of our players and Ed Martin. I am saddened, disappointed and angered by the events that have hurt so many people.'' Meanwhile, there was disappointment among Michigan's current players, who will pay the steepest price for the program's mistakes. Even if the Wolverines improve enough following last season's 11-18 record, the sanctions bar them from participating in the NCAA Tournament or the NIT A measurement of luminance. One nit is equal to one candela per square meter (1cd/m2). Ten thousand nits are equal to one stilb. See candela. next March. --St. Vincent-St. Mary High in Ohio will have its boys' basketball games on pay-per-view this season because the team features LeBron James, considered the nation's top prep basketball player, on its roster. If he decides to skip college, the 6-foot-7 James likely will be a top pick in this spring's NBA draft. --Daren Tielsch, a projected starter at forward, has left the Penn State basketball team and withdrawn from the university. Tielsch, a 6-7 sophomore, averaged just four points and 3.4 rebounds last season. But his strength and versatility, allowing him to play inside and outside, made him one of the players Penn State expected big things from this year. HORSE RACING: Megahertz One million cycles per second. See MHz. MegaHertz - (MHz) Millions of cycles per second. The unit of frequency used to measure the clock rate of modern digital logic, including microprocessors. , who has earned more than $600,000 this year, will attempt to bounce back from the one dull performance of her 3-year-old season in today's $125,000 Matiara Stakes at Hollywood Park. Megahertz will be ridden by Alex Solis and carry a high weight of 124 pounds in the 1 1/8 mile race for 3-year-old fillies on turf. Megahertz won her first five races this year before finishing a nose behind Dublino in the Del Mar Oaks The Del Mar Oaks is an American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old fillies. The race carries a purse of $400,000 and is a Grade I event at a distance of one and one-eighth miles (9 furlongs) on the turf at the Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California. . A sixth-place finish followed in the $500,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup on Oct. 12 at Keeneland, where Megahertz ran at odds of 2-1. Megahertz has won six of her 15 lifetime starts and earned $624,646. A field of 10 is entered in the race, including: Secret Garden, who will make her U.S. debut following a 5 1/2-length victory in a stakes race at Ascot in England on Oct. 12; Alozaini, who finished fourth in the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge; and Nunatall, who won the Lake George Stakes The Lake George Stakes is a race for thoroughbred race horses open to three-year-old fillies and run at a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on the turf at Saratoga Race Course. It is a Grade III race with a purse of $100,000 added. at Saratoga in July. --A weanling weanling /wean·ling/ (wen´ling) 1. recently weaned. 2. a recently weaned infant. weanling see weaner. colt from the first crop of Yankee Victor brought a top price of $320,000 at Keeneland's November Breeding Stock Sale. OLYMPICS: Trying to ensure baseball remains in the Olympics, International Baseball Federation, president Aldo Notari will recommend his sport's competition be reduced from 12 to five days. In August, the International Olympics Committee program commission recommended that baseball, softball and modern pentathlon be dropped, starting with the 2008 Beijing Olympics. GOLF: Bidding for her third victory of the season, Mi Hyun Kim Mi Hyun Kim (born in Inchon on 13 January 1977) is a professional golfer from South Korea. She turned professional in 1996 and won 11 events on the LPGA of Korea Tour (KLPGA) between 1996 and 1999. In 1999, she joined the LPGA Tour and was named was Rookie of the Year that year. of South Korea made six consecutive birdies en route to a 7-under 65 for the first-round lead in the Mizuno Classic in Otsu, Japan. FIGURE SKATING: World champions Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo of China opened their Grand Prix season with a narrow victory in the short program of the pairs event at the Nations Cup in Germany. VOLLEYBALL: The president of Argentina's volleyball federation was suspended for what the governing body called ``intolerable'' conduct during last month's world championships. The International Volleyball Federation said Mario Goijman signed sponsorship contracts worth $158,000 without authority and failed to meet his financial obligations leading to the world championships in Buenos Aires. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: CHRIS WEBBER His former coach denied knowing that Webber took money from a booster. |
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