BRIEFLY.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services Warren shoots 62 for Chrysler lead Charles Warren
General Sir Charles Warren shot 30 on the front nine and tied the course record at Forest Oaks with a 10-under 62 to take the first-round lead Thursday in the Chrysler Classic of Greensboro (N.C.), beating his previous best on the PGA Tour by four shots. Warren, who has made only two cuts in his past 15 starts, was two shots clear of K.J. Choi and three ahead of D.J. Trahan. --Rich Beem, David Howell and Alessandro Tadini shot 5-under 67s at Carnoustie in St. Andrews, Scotland, to share the first-round lead in the Dunhill Links Championship. HOCKEY: The owners of the St. Louis Blues signed a letter of intent to negotiate a sale with a group headed by David Checketts, the owner of Major League Soccer's Real Salt Lake and a former president of the NBA's New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Knicks and Utah Jazz. BASKETBALL: USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. assistant coach Rudy Hackett was hospitalized Wednesday and diagnosed with vertigo after passing out on campus. He was released from the hospital but has not returned to work yet. --The Clippers signed veteran forward Walter McCarty, who played seven seasons with Boston, to a guaranteed one-year contract. SOCCER: Defending champion CSKA Moscow advanced to the second round of the UEFA UEFA Union of European Football Associations UEFA n abbr (= Union of European Football Associations) → U.E.F.A. Cup with a 6-2 aggregate victory over Denmark's FC Midtjulland, but runner-up Sporting Lisbon and former champions Bayer Leverkusen, Feyenoord and Galatasaray were eliminated. --Cesar Villaluz scored two goals and Mexico dominated the Netherlands 4-0 to advance to Sunday's title game at the FIFA FIFA International Association Football Federation [French Fédération Internationale de Football Association] FIFA n abbr (= Fédération Internationale de Football Association) → FIFA f U-17 World Championship in Peru. Igor's last- minute goal lifted Brazil past Turkey 4-3 in the other semifinal. --Referee Edilson Pereira de Carvalho, who admitted taking bribes in the Brazilian league, was attacked by a disgruntled dis·grun·tle tr.v. dis·grun·tled, dis·grun·tling, dis·grun·tles To make discontented. [dis- + gruntle, to grumble (from Middle English gruntelen; see fan after being released from jail. Another Brazilian referee, Paulo Jose Danelon, also admitted he took bribes. TENNIS Maria Sharapova has clinched a spot in the $3 million Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Championships The WTA Tour Championships is a tennis tournament played annually at the end of the season for the top-ranked players on the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) tour. The event's current sponsored name is the Sony Ericsson Championships. , to be held Nov. 8-13 at Staples Center. Lindsay Davenport and Kim Clijsters also have qualified for the eight-player event. TRACK AND FIELD USA Track and Field officials has informed Anschutz Entertainment Group The Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) is a sporting and music entertainment presenter and a subsidiary of The Anschutz Corporation. The company owns or operates several major entertainment/sporting venues, including Staples Center and The Home Depot Center and beginning in that its bid to bring the 2008 U.S. Olympic Track and Field Team Trials to Home Depot Center had been eliminated from consideration. Sacramento and Eugene, Ore., are finalists to stage the event. Hollywood Park finished renovations on the one-mile turf course in time for the track's autumn meeting that begins Nov. 9. |
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