BRIEFLY.Byline: - Daily News Staff and Wire Services Francis can come back to Magic Steve Francis was reinstated by the Orlando Magic on Monday, three days after he was suspended for ``conduct detrimental to the team.'' Francis, who missed two games, met with team officials Monday. ``We now consider the matter closed and look forward to Steve's return to practice tomorrow,'' assistant general manager Otis Smith said in a statement. Citing anonymous sources, two newspapers reported Francis was suspended for refusing to re-enter re·en·ter also re-en·ter v. re·en·tered, re·en·ter·ing, re·en·ters v.tr. 1. To enter or come in to again. 2. To record again on a list or ledger. v.intr. the fourth quarter of a blowout loss last week. -- New Jersey Nets backup guard Jeff McInnis has torn cartilage in his left knee that will require surgery, coach Lawrence Frank said Monday. -- Students from 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. rivals Duke and North Carolina completed their 2 1/2-day basketball game Monday, finishing with an expected world record for the longest continuous game. Duke won 3,688-3,444. The game began at 5 a.m. Saturday and ended at 3 p.m. Monday, marking 58 straight hours in Fetzer Gymnasium on the loser's Chapel Hill, N.C. campus. --Kayla Burt ended her college basketball career at the University of Washington, four days after her internal heart defibrillator defibrillator, device that delivers an electrical shock to the heart in order to stop certain forms of rapid heart rhythm disturbances (arrhythmias). The shock changes a fibrillation to an organized rhythm or changes a very rapid and ineffective cardiac rhythm to a went off during a game against UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX . Burt, 23, had the defibrillator implanted in her chest after her heart stopped on New Year's Eve 2002. She was in her off-campus apartment and teammates came to her rescue, performing CPR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Definition Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a procedure to support and maintain breathing and circulation for a person who has stopped breathing (respiratory arrest) and/or whose heart has stopped (cardiac until paramedics arrived at the scene and took her to the hospital. BASEBALL:John Lackey agreed to a $3.76 million, one-year contract with the Angels on Monday, bypassing salary arbitration. The Angels also avoided arbitration with catcher Jose Molina by reaching a two-year deal. The 27-year-old right-hander went 14-5 with one complete game in 33 starts for the Angels last year. Three Angels now remain eligible for arbitration: closer Francisco Rodriguez, reliever Scot Shields and reliever Brendan Donnelly. Other salary arbitration moves: Dontrelle Willis agreed to a $4.35 million, one-year contract with Florida. ... Cincinnati's Austin Kearns agreed to a $1.85 million, one-year contract. ... Houston shortstop Adam Everett agreed to a $1.9 million, one-year contract. ... Toronto agreed to one-year contracts with new first baseman Lyle Overbay and pitcher Scott Downs. Overbay's deal is for $2,525,000, and Downs will earn $705,000 this year. ... Pittsburgh left-hander Oliver Perez agreed to a one-year contract worth approximately $1.9 million. ... Left-hander Mark Hendrickson agreed to a $1.95 million, one-year contract with Tampa Bay. -- Relief pitcher Jeff Nelson agreed to a minor-league contract with the St. Louis Cardinals For the National Football League team that played in St. Louis from 1960 to 1987, see . The St. Louis Cardinals (also referred to as "the Cards" or "the Redbirds") are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. , who need a middle man to replace injured Al Reyes. CYCLING: A criminal court in Paris refused to hear a defamation brought by Italian cyclist Filippo Simeoni against Lance Armstrong. Judicial officials said Monday the statute of limitations A type of federal or state law that restricts the time within which legal proceedings may be brought. Statutes of limitations, which date back to early Roman Law, are a fundamental part of European and U.S. law. had expired in the case against the seven-time Tour de France Tour de France World's most prestigious and difficult bicycle race. Staged for three weeks each July—usually in some 20 daylong stages—the Tour typically comprises 20 professional teams of nine riders each and covers some 3,600 km (2,235 miles) of flat and winner. The court said Simeoni's lawyers misinterpreted French law. Armstrong, quoted in an April 2003 report in the online edition of French daily Le Monde n. 1. The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty. Le beau monde fashionable society. See Beau monde. Demi monde See Demimonde. , contended that Simeoni had agreed to testify against doctor Michele Ferrari in exchange for a lesser penalty if the Italian rider were accused of doping doping, in electronics: see semiconductor. Altering the electrical conductivity of a semiconductor material, such as silicon, by chemically combining it with foreign elements. by the sport's governing body. Armstrong faces a March 7 trial in Italy on civil charges of defaming Simeoni. Armstrong is being investigated for pursuing the Italian during a stage of last year's Tour de France and reportedly threatening him for testifying about doping in a trial of Ferrari. |
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