BRIEFLY.Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Notre Dame Notre Dame IPA: [nɔtʁ dam] is French for Our Lady, referring to the Virgin Mary. In the United States of America, Notre Dame is investigating possible NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association violations Notre Dame is investigating whether athletes, including football and basketball players, violated NCAA rules with comments promoting a local sports talk show on a CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. affiliate. John Heisler, Notre Dame's senior associate athletic director, said Saturday he became aware of possible violations when contacted Friday by The Journal Gazette of Fort Wayne, Ind. Heisler said the school has not seen the spots, promoting ``Sports Dogz'' on WSBT-TV in South Bend, Ind. ``We're just trying to figure out what this is,'' he said. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. if we know for sure it's an NCAA violation.'' Jennifer Kearns, an associate director of public and media relations with the NCAA, said that in past situations when an athlete did not know he was breaking an NCAA rule the infraction Violation or infringement; breach of a statute, contract, or obligation. The term infraction is frequently used in reference to the violation of a particular statute for which the penalty is minor, such as a parking infraction. INFRACTION. was deemed a secondary violation. GYMNASTICS: Nastia Liukin was just good enough to win her second straight title at the U.S. Championships. The 16-year-old overcame a big wobble wobble /wob·ble/ (wob´'l) to move unsteadily or unsurely back and forth or from side to side. See under hypothesis. wob·ble n. 1. on her closing beam routine to defeat Natasha Kelley in St. Paul, Minn. Liukin's two-day score of 123.7 was 0.5 more than Kelley's. SWIMMING: Aaron Peirsol lowered his own world record in the 200-meter backstroke, clocking 1 minute, 54.44 seconds at the Pan Pacific Championships in Victoria, British Columbia. Peirsol's effort was one of two world records produced Saturday by Americans. Michael Phelps, Neil Walker, Cullen Jones and Jason Lezak won the 400 freestyle relay in 3:12.46, breaking the previous mark of 3:13.17 set by South Africa at the Athens Olympics. -- Erik Boal TENNIS: Andy Roddick defeated Chile's Fernando Gonzalez 6-3, 6-3 to reach the finals of the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters in Mason, Ohio. The victory set up a rematch with Juan Carlos Ferrero Juan Carlos Ferrero Donat (born February 12 1980) or JCF is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Spain. He captured the men's singles title at the French Open in 2003, and in September that year he became the 21st player to hold the World No. 1 ranking. , the player Roddick beat for his 2003 U.S. Open title. The unseeded Ferrero beat fellow Spaniard Tommy Robredo 6-3, 6-4. Martina Hingis reached the Rogers Cup final in Montreal when Anna Chakvetadze quit during the second set because of an arm injury. |
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