BRIEFLY WILL TEAM FOLD?Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services The president of St. John's told a newspaper he might recommend suspending the school's basketball program if it can't remain scandal-free. But the school's chief spokesman said Thursday there hasn't been any consideration of dropping the team. The Rev. Donald Harrington told the New York Daily News New York Daily News Morning daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson and his cousin Robert McCormick as a subsidiary of the Tribune Co. of Chicago. The first successful tabloid-format newspaper in the U.S. : ``I would go to the board (of trustees) and say, 'It's now my conviction we can't do it,' '' if the program's troubles persist. ``The university's values and mission are too important. If the question is, 'Would you sacrifice your principles rather than face fact?' The answer is no. We will not sacrifice our principles or our mission. Ultimately, that would be the decision of our trustees, but that would be my recommendation.'' School spokesman Jody Fisher said in reply: ``In no way, shape or form are we thinking of disbanding the program.'' Wednesday, guard Elijah Ingram, a sophomore who led the team in scoring, withdrew from the university, one week after he and five teammates broke curfew to go to a strip club. --Troubled Syracuse sophomore point guard Billy Edelin Billy Edelin is an American former college basketball player for the Syracuse Orange from Silver Spring, Maryland who was a member of Syracuse's 2003 NCAA National Championship team. will be out indefinitely as he deals with personal issues, coach Jim Boeheim James Arthur "Jim" Boeheim (IPA: [ˈbeʲ.haʲm]) (born November 17, 1944 in Lyons, New York) is the men's basketball head coach for Syracuse University. In his twenty-ninth season as head coach for Syracuse, he earned his 700th victory, becoming only the eighteenth said. Edelin, averaging 13.8 points, will not accompany the team to Miami for a game Saturday. --Missouri forward Linus Kleiza, averaging 11.1 points and a team-best 8.4 rebounds a game, will have right-shoulder surgery and miss the rest of the season. --Wisconsin guard Maurice ``Boo'' Wade pleaded not guilty to a charge of choking a woman at her apartment. COLLEGES: Responding to recent recruiting scandals, NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association president Myles Brand Myles David Brand (born May 17, 1942) is executive director of the United States' National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and prior to that served as the sixteenth president of Indiana University. announced he's forming a new task force because he's concerned that recent allegations could tarnish tarnish, n 1. surface discoloration or loss of luster by metals. Under oral conditions, it often results from hard and soft deposits. 2. a chemical process by which a metal surface is discolored or its luster destroyed. the organization's image. Brand said NCAA vice president David Berst, the group's former head of enforcement, will lead the task force. SWIMMING: Michael Phelps For the American biophysicist, see . Michael Fred Phelps II (born June 30, 1985 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American swimmer and World Record Holder in several events. pulled away from a star-studded field in the 200-meter freestyle at the Spring National swimming championships in Orlando, Fla., for his third victory in three events. The 19-year-old finished in 1:46.77, nearly two seconds ahead of Chad Carvin Chad Robb Carvin (born April 13, 1974 in Laguna Hills, California) is a freestyle swimmer from the United States, who became the second man since the legendary Mark Spitz in 1972 to win four individual titles at a US Nationals (1997). , one of seven Olympians in the event. HORSE RACING horse racing, trials of speed involving two or more horses. It includes races among harnessed horses with one of two particular gaits, among saddled Thoroughbreds (or, less frequently, quarterhorses) on a flat track, or among saddled horses over a turf course with : Keys to the Heart edged Jolie Rafaela by three-quarters of a length in the $56,000 feature race at Santa Anita. SOCCER: The United States finished fourth in the regional Olympic qualifying tournament, falling to Honduras in a penalty shootout at Guadalajara, Mexico. Hounduras won the shootout Shootout Venture capital jargon. Refers to two or more venture capital firms fighting for the startup. 4-3 after the teams finished regulation tied at 1. The loss came two days after a 4-0 defeat against Mexico, eliminating the U.S. from the upcoming Athens Games. --Former German World Cup standout Jurgen Klinsmann, who has lived in Orange County since retiring from professional soccer following the 1998 World Cup, was named as technical adviser to the Galaxy. Klinsmann will attend and participate in evaluations of training sessions, coaches' meetings, planning sessions and individual player meetings. He also will assist in international player exchanges, overseas training opportunities and exhibitions. A 1990 World Cup winner with Germany, Klinsmann played for Bayern Munich, Inter Milan (Itlay), Monaco (France) and Tottenham Hotspur Hotspur: see Percy, Sir Henry. Hotspur Sir Henry Percy, so named for his fiery character. [Br. Lit.: I Henry IV] See : Irascibility (England). - Fred J. Robledo GOLF: Laura Davies became the first woman to play in an event sanctioned by the European and Australasian tours, opening the ANZ Championship in Port Stephens, Australia, with a minus-1 total under the modified Stableford scoring system. Davies had five bogeys and two birdies, and was 19 points behind leader Nick O'Hern. She was tied for 124th in the 156-player field, with the top 70 and ties making the two-round cut. TENNIS: Fresh off a successful Davis Cup debut, Robby Ginepri lost 3-6, 7-5, 6-4 to Cyril Saulnier in the second round of the Siebel Open in San Jose. |
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