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Sports Briefing
New York Times – Dec 23, 2006
– Louisville Athletic Director Tom Jurich received a two-year contract extension that will make him one of the highest-paid college athletic administrators in the country. The new deal increases Jurichs base salary to $440000 a year a $75000 increase from his current contract and it raises his annual deferred compensation by $15000. The contract runs through 2016 and automatically renews each year until 2024 when Jurich will turn 67. I came here to do a job Jurich said. I really want to make sure we follow through with it and do everything that we think were capable of.
A daily glance inside the numbers from the world of sports:
ESPN – Dec 23, 2006
nly three other teams in NBA history ended two winning streaks of 12 or more games in the same season: the 2001-02 Trail Blazers (Kings 12; Spurs 13); the 1990-91 Suns (Lakers and Trail Blazers 16 each); and the 1949-50 Rochester Royals (Minneapolis Lakers 14; Syracuse Nationals 12). • The Wizards scored 144 points in Phoenix on Friday giving them 525 in four games on their current trip. That’s the most points any team has scored over four road games since 1992 when the Warriors had 531 over four road games in March and April.
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Press-Enterprise – Dec 23, 2006
Now he's mad and fighting back. 10:44 PM PST on Saturday December 23 2006By WAYNE CFFEYNew York Daily News MURRIETA – The most renowned yellow shirt in sports hangs in his bedroom closet a spandex reminder of the greatest day of his competitive life and also of the worst. The number on it is 71. It is the shirt Floyd Landis wore as he rode down the Champs Elysees on July 23 triumphantly crossing the finish line of the world’s most famous bicycle race then hugging his wife Amber and swilling champagne atop his sport at last.
