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Keenan resigns as Panthers' GM

Mike Keenan Michael Edward Keenan (born October 21 1949 in Bowmanville, Ontario) is the current head coach of the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League, and former General Manager of the Florida Panthers. He is 5'11" and weighs 198 lbs.

Keenan was a player for the St.
 resigned Sunday as the Florida Panthers' general manager, stepping down after a little more than two years running the team's day-to- day operations. Panthers coach Jacques Martin Jacques Martin may refer to:
  • Jacques Martin (ice hockey), (born 1952), head coach and general manager of the Florida Panthers ice hockey team of the NHL.
  • Jacques Martin (TV host), a French journalist and TV animator
  • Jacques Martin (comics) (born 1921)
, who came to the club with Keenan in May 2004, assumes the GM duties.

``I feel well-prepared for this challenge,'' Martin said. ``I've been close friends with Mike for a lot of years and we've worked together for a long time. And this club is in a much better position now than when we came here two years ago.''

FOOTBALL: Clemson linebacker Anthony Waters Anthony Waters (born July 25, 1985 in Lake View, South Carolina), is an American football linebacker for the San Diego Chargers. He grew up in Lake View and attended Lake View High School. College career
Waters attended Clemson University for college.
 will miss the rest of the season with a torn ligament in his left knee.

He tore the anterior cruciate ligament anterior cruciate ligament
n. Abbr. ACL
The cruciate ligament of the knee that crosses from the anterior intercondylar area of the tibia to the posterior part of the lateral condyle of the femur.
 late in the third quarter of Clemson's 54-6 win over Florida Atlantic on Saturday.

The injury could mean the end of his college career.

Mississippi celebrated the memory of Chucky Mullins Roy Lee "Chucky" Mullins (July 8, 1969 in Russellville, Alabama – May 6, 1991 in Oxford, Mississippi) was an American football player at Ole Miss ( University of Mississippi ) best known for the devastating football injury that left him paralyzed below the neck. , retiring his number in a ceremony Sunday before the Rebels' nationally televised game against Memphis in Oxford, Miss.

Mullins was paralyzed par·a·lyze  
tr.v. par·a·lyzed, par·a·lyz·ing, par·a·lyz·es
1. To affect with paralysis; cause to be paralytic.

2. To make unable to move or act: paralyzed by fear.
 in a game in 1989 and died in 1991 after returning to school in a wheelchair to pursue his degree.

HIGH SCHOOLS: A memorial service for former Hoover High Athletic Director Dee Kohlmeier is being held today at 1:00 p.m. at the Hoover High gymnasium, located at 651 Glenwood Road in Glendale. Kohlmeier died Aug. 12 of natural causes at age 86.

-- Erik Boal
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Sep 4, 2006
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