Archive for Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Haywood avoids suspension
Washington Wizards center Brendan Haywood, ejected for a flagrant foul on the Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James in Monday’s Game 2 loss, was not suspended by the league Tuesday for the act.
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Boston Celtics forward Kevin Garnett won the NBA’s defensive player of the year award, receiving 90 first-place votes and 493 points from a media panel to beat out Denver’s Marcus Camby (178) and Houston’s Shane Battier (175).
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Charging that the buyers of the SuperSonics “were willing to lie, and did lie” about their intentions to keep the team in Seattle, former owner Howard Schultz filed suit seeking to undo the $350-million sale to an Oklahoma City group… . Fired coach Isiah Thomas was banned from having any contact with New York Knicks players as part of his reassignment agreement as an advisor to President Donnie Walsh, the New York Daily News reported.
From Times Wire Reports
- A federal bailout for Prop. 8
- How does CBS spell success? 'NCIS'
- Memory loss: What's normal? What's not?
- Older adults' sexual desires don't have to fade
- Report to Congress: Gulf War syndrome is real
- Automakers' pain felt far beyond Detroit
- After more than 400 lawsuits, disabled man can sue no more
- CSU may cut future enrollment by 10,000
- Lincoln and the myth of 'Team of Rivals'
- Soccer team helps Westmont College rise from ashes
- Pirates seize oil tanker off East Africa coast
- 'No' to Obama's experimental government
- Pirates hijack another ship off Africa
- Massive riot in northwestern China
- Lincoln and the myth of 'Team of Rivals'
- Small spark can mean disaster for home
- San Diego jury finds man guilty of surfer's murder
- Firefighters making progress on wildfires as residents return to homes -- or rubble
- Most Southern California homes sold in October were foreclosures
- Malia and Sasha's big move
