BRIEFLY.Byline: Staff and Wire Services Former Duke lacrosse lacrosse (ləkrôs`), ball and goal game usually played outdoors by two teams of 10 players each on a field 60 to 70 yd (54.86 to 64.01 m) wide by 110 yd (100.58 m) long. Two goals face each other 80 yd (73.15 m) apart; each cone-shaped goal is 6 ft (1.8 m) square at the mouth and 7 ft (2.13 m) deep. The ball, about 8 in. coach gets new job Former Duke University Duke University, at Durham, N. C.; coeducational; opened 1838, chartered 1841 as Union Institute in Randolph County. Reorganized 1852 as Normal College, it became Trinity College (Methodist) in 1859 and moved to Durham in 1892. It was renamed in 1924 for James B. Duke, who gave it financial assistance. One of the most selective institutions in the country, Duke offers its 11,000 students a wide range of programs including business, engineering, law, and medicine. Men's lacrosse coach Mike Pressler was hired by Bryant University, four months after he resigned in the wake of a rape scandal that temporarily shut down the program he guided for 16 seasons. ``I truly believe that everything happens for a reason in the end,'' Pressler told the Associated Press on Sunday. ``For this program and this athletics director to step up and make this happen for myself and my (family), I'm very, very indebted and very grateful. Now it's up to me to go up there and deliver.'' Pressler agreed to a five-year contract at Bryant, a NCAA Division II school that has about 3,600 students in Smithfield, R.I. TENNIS: Maria Sharapova outslugged an erratic Kim Clijsters 7-5, 7-5 to win the championship of the Acura Classic in Carlsbad. The second-seeded Sharapova snapped Clijster's 24-match winning streak in North American summer hardcourt events. Andy Roddick withdrew from the hard-court Rogers Cup tournament in Toronto, citing a strained lower back that forced him to pull out of another U.S. Open tuneup last week. SOCCER: Miguel Sabah Sabah (sä`bä), state (1991 pop. 1,736,902), 28,417 sq mi (73,600 sq km), Malaysia, N Borneo, on the South China and Sulu seas. It is bordered on the south by Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). The capital is Kota Kinabalu; other significant towns are Sandakan and Victoria. The terrain is densely forested and mountainous; Mt. scored two goals, netting the 69th-minute winner as visiting Cruz Azul topped Clausura champion Pachuca 3-2 in a Mexican Primera Division Apertura apertura /ap·er·tu·ra/ (ap?er-too´rah) pl. apertu´rae [L.] aperture. opener. Guadalajara, using primarily a second team, lost 1-0 at Toluca in its season opener. -- Scott French POKER: Jamie Gold was in the lead with 3.9 million in chips in the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: MIKE PRESSLER Former Duke University men's lacrosse coach is hired at Bryant University, a Division ll school in Rhode Island. |
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