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Duke associate athletic director Jacki Silar has been chosen chairwoman of the NCAA Division I women's basketball committee for 2008-09.
She succeeds LSU senior associate athletic director Judy Southard, who chaired the committee the past two years.
Silar was Duke's field hockey coach for 15 years and women's assistant basketball coach for 12 seasons.
Her appointment with the NCAA basketball committee is effective Sept....

The New Orleans Hornets will play seven preseason games prior to their season opener at Golden State in late October, including two games in Europe as part of NBA Europe Live.
The Hornets take on the Washington Wizards on October 14 at the O2 World in Berlin, Germany. The game will be one of the first major sporting events held at the...

The Boston Red Sox have acquired pitcher Paul Byrd in a trade with Cleveland.
The Red Sox will send either a player to be named or cash to the Indians.
The 37-year-old Byrd is 7-10 with a 4.53 ERA this season. But the right-hander has won all four of his starts since the All-Star break.
Boston leads the AL wild-card race. The Red Sox...

NEWARK, N.J. - Fans heading to the Meadowlands Sports Complex can expect fewer hours for tailgating under new rules regarding alcohol and fan behavior.
Parking lots for Giants Stadium, the Izod Arena and the Meadowlands Racetrack will open five hours before events, instead of seven.
In addition, season ticketholders who are ejected from...

It's Monday afternoon, the next-to-last day of training camp for the Dallas Cowboys.
Tuesday, they leave for Denver where they will practice with the Broncos for the rest of the week. There is packing to be done.
Yet since practice ended, Jerry Jones has spoken to the mayor of Oxnard, Calif....

NEWARK, N.J. - Fans heading to the Meadowlands Sports Complex can expect fewer hours for tailgating under new rules regarding alcohol and fan behavior.
Parking lots for Giants Stadium, the Izod Arena and the Meadowlands Racetrack will open five hours before events, instead of seven.
In addition, season ticketholders who are ejected from...

It's Monday afternoon, the next-to-last day of training camp for the Dallas Cowboys.
Tuesday, they leave for Denver where they will practice with the Broncos for the rest of the week. There is packing to be done.
Yet since practice ended, Jerry Jones has spoken to the mayor of Oxnard, Calif....

BEIJING - Rau'shee Warren pulled his shirt up out of his boxing trunks, buried his head in it and sobbed.
He had to say something. Six or eight reporters who had been following his Olympic Dream were waiting to hear exactly how it had died in the Worker's Gymnasium. They wanted to know why he danced around the ring for the...

TAMPA, Fla. - The Super Bowl might be six months away from coming to town, but the celebrity rumors already are running rampant.
The New York Post's Page Six reported on Tuesday that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will perform live at the Super Bowl halftime show on Feb. 1...