Lakers
Cliff Meely, a former basketball star at the University of Colorado, was sentenced to 90 days in jail Friday on an earlier guilty plea to a charge of selling cocaine to an undercover police officer.
Sept. 21, 1985
Sports
Justice was dispensed, bartered and postponed with almost mechanical efficiency.
Sept. 28, 1985
Former University of Colorado basketball star Cliff Meely, who played briefly for the Lakers, pleaded guilty at Boulder, Colo., to one count of possessing and selling cocaine.
Aug. 2, 1985
In Utah the other day, a teen-age boy with braces pulled a gun on his orthodontist and said, “Take ‘em off.”
Feb. 25, 1985
*--* The Houston Rockets will have the No. 1 overall pick in the 2002 NBA draft, the fifth time the Rockets have had the top pick in franchise history.
May 20, 2002
Francis Affleck, a 34-year-old Canadian-born stock car driver, was killed Thursday during a practice run at Daytona International Speedway in Florida.
Feb. 8, 1985
UCLA spreads work around in 77-60 rout of Colorado
Jan. 28, 2012
Books
MEELY LABAUVE By Ken Wells; Random House: 244 pp., $19.95 : THE VISION OF EMMA BLAU By Ursula Hegi; Simon & Schuster: 432 pp., $25 : THE DANISH GIRL By David Ebershoff; Viking: 278 pp., $23.95 : THE MYSTERIES WITHIN A Surgeon Reflects on Medical Myths By Sherwin B. Nuland; Simon & Schuster: 286 pp., $24
Feb. 13, 2000
World & Nation
Elie Borowski, whose vast collection of Middle Eastern artifacts formed the bulk of Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum, has died.
Jan. 16, 2003
John Hart Ely, an influential constitutional law scholar and author who taught at Yale, Harvard and Stanford, where he served as dean of the law school from 1982 to 1987, has died.
Nov. 2, 2003