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CHATTER: THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE BURROUGHS.


Byline: Lee Barnathan Staff Writer

Doug Nicol considers himself a homebody home·bod·y  
n. pl. home·bod·ies
One whose interests center on the home.

Noun 1. homebody - a person who seldom goes anywhere; one not given to wandering or travel
stay-at-home
, so when home came calling, its pull proved too much.

Nicol, Burroughs High Class of 1982 and the Burbank school's girls' basketball coach for the past eight years, decided to stay put instead of jumping to 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  of Sherman Oaks.

``Burroughs has big plans that I can be a part of,'' Nicol said. ``I want to be a part of it.''

He was referring to the renovation of the school. Burroughs, which dates to the early '30s, is being rebuilt over the next few years. A new television-production department - in which Nicol would teach - also is planned.

Notre Dame has such a department and its girls' basketball team has been more successful than Burroughs'. So, when Notre Dame athletic director Athletic director (commonly, "athletics director") is a position at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, which oversees the work of the coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic  Kevin Rooney Kevin Rooney born on May 4, 1956 in Catskill, NY and is a boxing trainer and former boxer. Amateur Boxing Career
Rooney won the 1975 147lb Sub-Novice New York Golden Gloves Championship. Rooney defeated Kevin Higgins of West Point in the finals.
 offered Nicol a teaching-coaching spot, he accepted.

However, Burroughs made a similar offer and Nicol decided to stay.

Nicol will have his challenges from the start. Burroughs' chances of winning the Foothill League championship were dealt severe blows when center Gracie Coronado tore her ACL See access control list.

1. ACL - Access Control List.
2. ACL - Association for Computational Linguistics.
3. ACL - A Coroutine Language.

A Pascal-based implementation of coroutines.

["Coroutines", C.D.
 and point guard Shaina Zaidi transferred to Marlborough. . . .

Senate Bill 338, which seeks to protect college athletes should their university cancel their sport, passed the state's Assembly Appropriations Committee In the United States government, the Appropriations Committee can refer to either:
  • the United States House Committee on Appropriations
  • the United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
. This wasn't a surprise because the bill has no significant costs. But now comes the real challenge: The bill goes to the full Assembly, which begins debate this week.

The Cal State University system continues to oppose it.

``We've won three times. I'm kind of proud it's still going,'' local activist Duke Russell said. ``I'm hoping people will contact their local Assemblyperson and say they want sports for their children and grandkids.'' . . .

Camarillo's Delmong Young and Tim Murphy of Burroughs played on the United States' youth national team that won the gold medal gold medal

traditional first prize. [Western Cult: Misc.]

See : Prize
 in baseball at the recent Pan-American Games Pan-American games, amateur athletic competition among representatives of countries in the Western Hemisphere. The competition, held every four years, follows the organization and eligibility rules of the Olympic games and is held in the year before the Olympics in  in Monterrey, Mexico.

The U.S. beat Cuba 2-1. Young and Murphy each went 0 for 3 in the gold-medal game. . . .

West Hills Chaminade finished second in the American Legion American Legion, national association of male and female war veterans, founded (1919) in Paris. Membership is open to veterans of World Wars I and II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.  state tournament. The local team knocked off defending state champion Danville twice and overcame injuries to Sean Clark (he took a ball to the knee) and T.J. Franco (separated a shoulder).

Against Danville in the semis, little-used pitcher Jason Tufeld sprinted in from the bullpen a la John Rocker and earned the save with a double-play grounder and a strikeout. . . .

Four members of the Van Nuys Hawks youth track team won the national title in the boys' 1,600-meter relay at the USA Track and Field Junior Olympics in Buffalo, N.Y. Durral Richardson, Braden Lepisto, Anthony Hernandez and Damon Rodriguez, a group of eighth graders, won in 3 minutes, 31.4 seconds. Richardson will attend Birmingham this fall, and Rodriguez is going to Notre Dame.
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Date:Aug 15, 2000
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