In Brief
The ABC Youth Football League will hold its Super Bowl championship and consolation games Saturday at Slippery Rock High School.
The Junior consolation game, Punxsutawney vs. Redbank Valley, will begin at 10 a.m., followed by the Senior consolation finals between Brockway and Prospect at noon.
At 2 p.m., Moniteau (9-0), the Western Division champions, will meet Grove City (8-1), the No. 2 seed from the West Division in the championship game.
At 4, the Seniors title game will pit Karns City (8-1) against Brookville (8-1). Karns City was the Western Division champions and Brookville the Eastern Division champions.
Cost is $3 for adults and free for children.
BOSTON - A 21-year-old college student died of a head injury Thursday after a clash between police and a crowd of Red Sox fans celebrating their team's victory over the New York Yankees in the streets outside Fenway Park.Victoria Snelgrove, a journalism major at Emerson College, was shot in the eye by a projectile fired by an officer on crowd-control duty. The nature of the projectile was not immediately identified but the weapons are meant to be non-lethal.During a news conference carried live on local television stations, Boston Police Commissioner Kathleen O'Toole expressed the department's sympathies to Snelgrove's family.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Sports' highest court rejected an appeal from a South Korean gymnast, ruling that Paul Hamm is the rightful champion in the men's all-around competition at the Athens Games.The decision by a three-judge panel from the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which was announced Thursday, ends a tussle that began more than two months ago, when South Korea's Yang Tae-young claimed a scoring error had cost him victory. Yang asked the court to order international gymnastics officials to change the results and adjust the medal rankings accordingly, giving him the gold and Hamm the silver.But the CAS panel dismissed the appeal, leaving Hamm with gold and Yang with bronze. Kim Dae-eun of South Korea will keep the silver.
CANTON, Ohio - Quarterbacks Dan Marino and Steve Young and wide receiver Michael Irvin are among nine first-time nominees for the Pro Football Hall of Fame announced Thursday.Commissioner Paul Tagliabue also is among the 89 nominees on the preliminary ballot.Other first-time nominees include coach Dan Reeves, guard Nate Newton, defensive lineman Charles Haley, Kevin Greene, Steve Atwater and the late Derrick Thomas.The list of 89 will be narrowed first to 25 semifinalists and then to 13 finalists.
ZURICH, Switzerland - Former champion Venus Williams was pushed to two tiebreakers over two hours by 16-year-old qualifier Ana Ivanovic of Serbia-Montenegro before reaching the Swisscom Challenge quarterfinals Thursday.The seventh-seeded Williams edged Ivanovic 7-6 (11), 7-6 (6) and will meet Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova on Friday.Elena Dementieva, Patty Schnyder and Nadia Petrova also advanced to the quarterfinals.
