SPORTWATCH : NFL.IRVIN INDICTED INDICTED, practice. When a man is accused by a bill of indictment preferred by a grand jury, he is said to be indicted. : Michael Irvin, the Dallas Cowboys' all-time leading receiver and one of the NFL's most popular players, was indicted on two counts of drug possession. He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted. Irvin and two female companions were indicted by a grand jury less than a month after police found them in a motel room littered with cocaine and marijuana. The indictment charges Irvin with felony possession of at least four grams of cocaine and misdemeanor possession of marijuana. HOSS WILL RETURN: Injury-plagued quarterback Jeff Hostetler Jeff W. Hostetler, (born April 22, 1961 in Hollsopple, Pennsylvania), nicknamed “Hoss”, is a former American football quarterback in the NFL, who played for the New York Giants, Los Angeles/Oakland Raiders, and Washington Redskins. will re-sign with the Oakland Raiders today, a team official confirmed. The 34-year-old unrestricted free agent was bothered by a sore right elbow and finished last season a week early following surgery on his left shoulder. BASEBALL GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS: Average spring training attendance was up 15.3 percent from 1995 but down 24.5 percent from 1994, the last season before the strike. NHL NHL Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, see there STREAK IN JEOPARDY: Grant Fuhr of the St. Louis Blues, who injured his right knee, might be unable to build on his NHL record of 76 consecutive starts by a goaltender. Fuhr did not practice Monday. The team lists his injury as ``day to day.'' It was not known if he would be available Wednesday when the Blues travel to Colorado. LOSING STREAK ENDS: Rob Niedermayer of the Florida Panthers is slammed into the boards by Hartford's Glen Featherstone during the Panthers' 3-2 victory, which snapped a four-game losing streak. NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= GUILTY PLEA: Rod Strickland, the star guard for the Portland Trail Blazers The Portland Trail Blazers are a professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon. They play in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The franchise, based in Portland throughout its existence, entered the league in 1970 and has won the NBA Championship once, in 1977. , pleaded guilty to hitting his girlfriend. Criminal Court Judge Lettiteia Martin ordered him to attend a therapy program for batterers. He faces up to a year in jail if he fails to attend. OLYMPICS PRACTICE: A three-day security drill, involving an airline hijacking hijacking Crime of seizing possession or control of a vehicle from another by force or threat of force. Although by the late 20th century hijacking most frequently involved the seizure of an airplane and its forcible diversion to destinations chosen by the air pirates, when , a chemical attack and a hostage-taking, will be the last major anti-terrorism exercise before the Summer Olympics. Authorities confirmed the drill, involving more than a dozen federal, state and local agencies, will be held April 16-18. AUTO RACING WHAT'S IN A NAME?: Championship Auto Racing Teams Inc. has filed a lawsuit saying it is entitled to use the brand name ``IndyCar.'' The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Michigan, is a response to a March 19 letter from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Indianapolis Motor Speedway, located in Speedway, Indiana (a separate town completely surrounded by Indianapolis) in the United States, is the second-oldest that said the Speedway is ending a 1992 licensing agreement concerning the IndyCar name. The Speedway claims that it owns the IndyCar trademark as well as other racing trademarks with the word ``Indy'' in them. In the letter, Speedway officials gave CART 30 days to stop using the name. NASCAR NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), organization that sanctions American stock-car races, est. 1948. It held its first race in Daytona Beach, Fla. GOES INTERNATIONAL: Dale Earnhardt and Rusty Wallace are en route to Japan for tire tests in preparation for a NASCAR exhibition race in the country on Nov. 24. A group of approximately 25 from NASCAR and the Richard Childress Racing RCR Enterprises, LLC, doing business as Richard Childress Racing, is a NASCAR team fielding Chevrolets for Kevin Harvick, Clint Bowyer, Jeff Burton, and Scott Wimmer in the NEXTEL Cup Series as well as the #2 BB&T Chevy for Clint Bowyer, the #21 AutoZone Chevy for Harvick and Penske South teams also are on the trip. |
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