BRIEFLY.Oakland jury rules against Romanowski An Oakland jury ordered Bill Romanowski William Thomas Romanowski (born April 2, 1966 in Vernon, Connecticut) is a former American football player. He is commonly known as "Romo". A linebacker, he graduated from Rockville High School in 1984, Boston College in 1988 (with academic honors and Scanlan Award Recipient), and to pay former Raiders teammate Marcus Williams $340,000 in damages for smashing the tight end's face with a punch during a practice drill in 2003. Williams had been seeking millions of dollars in damages for the Aug. 24, 2003, attack, saying it broke his left eye socket eye socket n. See orbital cavity. , shortened his memory, gave him double vision and depression, and ended his career after less than two seasons. ``We are very pleased with the verdict because it establishes that there are limits to the violence in football,'' Williams' attorney, James Brosnahan, said outside the courthouse. TENNIS: Wimbledon champions Roger Federer and Maria Sharapova were three-time winners at the inaugural Pro Tennis Choice Awards in Miami. Coming off a year in which he won three Grand Slam events and 11 singles titles, Federer was the easy choice for the ATP's Player of the Year. He was also voted the Fans' Favorite Award by ATPtennis.com users and was named the Stefan Edberg Sportsman of the Year Since its inception in 1954, Sports Illustrated magazine has annually presented the "Sportsman of the Year" award to "the athlete or team whose performance that year most embodies the spirit of sportsmanship and achievement." A majority of the winners have been American. . SOCCER: The Galaxy signed Costa Rican national team defender Pablo Chinchilla and Brazilians Ednaldo da Conceicao and Paulo Nagamura. The 26-year-old Chinchilla chinchilla (chĭnchĭl`ə), small burrowing rodent of South America. It lives in colonies at high altitudes (up to 15,000 ft/4,270 m) in the Andes of Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. has played for Liga Deportiva Alajuelense of Costa Rica's Primera Division since 1999. He has played 29 games for Costa Rica's national team since 1997. Da Conceicao, a 29-year-old forward, joins the Galaxy from Switzerland's FC Saint Gallen. FOOTBALL: David Little, a durable linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers who was voted to the Pro Bowl in 1990, died while weightlifting at home in Miami. He was 46. Little had heart disease, and a cardiac fluttering Thursday caused him to drop 250 pounds of weights on his chest, the coroner said. Little, the younger brother of former Miami Dolphins All-Pro guard Larry Little, played his entire 12-year career in Pittsburgh after he was drafted out of Florida in 1981. Jason Thompkins, a JC All-American kicker for College of Canyons this past season, has accepted a scholarship to Division II Minnesota State. - Gerry Gittelson BOXING: Riddick Bowe's bout scheduled for Friday night in Salt Lake City, Utah For ships of the United States Navy of the same name, see . Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake, or its initials, S.L.C. was postponed indefinitely because of contract and scheduling problems. CURLING: The United States lost for the first time at this year's World Women's Championship in Paisley, Scotland with a 6-4 defeat to Sweden, then regained first place with a 9-4 victory over Finland. OLYMPICS: Two members of the World Taekwondo Federation This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. have questioned the qualifications of interim president Choue Chong-won and would like to remove him from office before next month's elections. Choue, who replaced Dr. Jun Jae Park in June, is one of two candidates vying to fill the four-year term of Dr. Un Yong Kim, who resigned in February 2004. The International Olympic Committee “IOC” redirects here. For other uses, see IOC (disambiguation). The International Olympic Committee (French: Comité International Olympique) is an organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas on June 23 recommended last month that Kim, a vice president, be expelled for alleged corruption in South Korea. He was suspended from his IOC IOC abbr. International Olympic Committee IOC n abbr (= International Olympic Committee) → COI m IOC n abbr (= positions more than a year ago and is currently serving a two-year prison term on embezzlement embezzlement, wrongful use, for one's own selfish ends, of the property of another when that property has been legally entrusted to one. Such an act was not larceny at common law because larceny was committed only when property was acquired by a "felonious taking," i. and bribery charges in South Korea. - Daily News Wire Services |
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