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09-12-1998
PHOENIX (AP) _ Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Bernard Gilkey will undergo laser surgery Wednesday to correct a vision problem.
Manager Buck Showalter said Friday the surgery will be performed at the Gimbel Eye Centre in Calgary, Alberta, since it has yet to be approved in the United States.
The surgery would require about two weeks of recovery time. Since U.S. approval may not come until October, Gilkey is having the surgery done in Canada so he can test the results in the final week of the season.
Gilkey's vision is about 20/30.
Gilkey, acquired from the Mets earlier this season, is batting .233 and has just one extra-base hit in 27 games with Arizona.
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MONTREAL (AP) - The Montreal Canadiens signed two of their restricted free agents Friday, forward Scott Thornton to a two-year contract, and goalie Jose Theodore to a one-year deal.
Thornton, 27, had six goals, nine assists and 158 penalty minutes in 67 games last season.
Theodore, who will turn 22 Sunday, spent last season with Fredericton of the AHL, but got into three playoff games for Montreal, posting a 0.50 goals-against average and .971 save percentage.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The Carolina Hurricanes signed defenseman Steve Halko to a multiyear contract Friday.
Halko, drafted by the Hurricanes in the 10th round of the 1992 NHL entry draft, was a restricted free agent.
Halko, 24, played 18 games last season, registering two assists and 10 penalty minutes. He played in the season opener against Tampa Bay but was reassigned to New Haven of the American Hockey League three games into the season. Halko was recalled for the second time in late March and finished the season with Carolina.
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EMMITSBURG, Md. (AP) - Mount St. Mary's women's basketball coach Bill Sheahan resigned for health reasons Thursday.
Sheahan, 60, who is an insulin-dependent diabetic, said the rigors and uncertain schedules of road travel made it difficult for him to stick to the proper diet and eating schedule necessary to control his diabetes.
Vanessa Blair, who played at Mount St. Mary's and was an assistant there the last two seasons, will replace Sheahan.
Sheahan compiled a 372-104 record in 17 years at the school. He was the Mason-Dixon Athletic Conference Coach of the Year for three consecutive seasons (1985-88) and won Northeast Conference honors three times (1989-90, 1991-92, 1995-96).
Sheahan's teams made two appearances in the NCAA tournament, in 1994 and 1995.
Blair takes over a team that has gone 15-13 each of the last two seasons after going 14 of the previous 15 seasons with nine or fewer losses.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - A referee is suing Brazilian soccer star Bebeto after he allegedly insulted him during a match, according to a news report Friday.
Alvaro Quelhas claimed the striker called him a ``thief'' after he awarded a penalty shot against his side, Botafogo, last March, the news agency Sport Press reported.
Botafogo lost the game, part of an annual regional Rio tournament, against Flamengo 3-0.
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MANKATO, Minn. (AP) - Mankato State University will start the 1999 fall semester a week later than previously scheduled, in part to accommodate the Minnesota Vikings' summer training camp at the school.
``The number one priority is for the change in academic issues, but it does affect the Vikings. They were a consideration in this,'' university spokeswoman Shannon O'Neill said Friday.
O'Neill said university president Richard Rush wanted the delay to help students complete summer internships and jobs, and to help the Vikings.
The Vikings wanted to open camp July 30 and break on Aug. 19. But before the schedule was changed, Mankato State students were to begin arriving in their dorms Aug. 18 while the Vikings were still in town.
The faculty unanimously recommended the change and Minnesota State Colleges and Universities chancellor Morrie Anderson approved it.
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AP Online
09-12-1998
PHOENIX (AP) _ Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Bernard Gilkey will undergo laser surgery Wednesday to correct a vision problem.
Manager Buck Showalter said Friday the surgery will be performed at the Gimbel Eye Centre in Calgary, Alberta, since it has yet to be approved in the United States.
The surgery would require about two weeks of recovery time. Since U.S. approval may not come until October, Gilkey is having the surgery done in Canada so he can test the results in the final week of the season.
Gilkey's vision is about 20/30.
Gilkey, acquired from the Mets earlier this season, is batting .233 and has just one extra-base hit in 27 games with Arizona.
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MONTREAL (AP) - The Montreal Canadiens signed two of their restricted free agents Friday, forward Scott Thornton to a two-year contract, and goalie Jose Theodore to a one-year deal.
Thornton, 27, had six goals, nine assists and 158 penalty minutes in 67 games last season.
Theodore, who will turn 22 Sunday, spent last season with Fredericton of the AHL, but got into three playoff games for Montreal, posting a 0.50 goals-against average and .971 save percentage.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The Carolina Hurricanes signed defenseman Steve Halko to a multiyear contract Friday.
Halko, drafted by the Hurricanes in the 10th round of the 1992 NHL entry draft, was a restricted free agent.
Halko, 24, played 18 games last season, registering two assists and 10 penalty minutes. He played in the season opener against Tampa Bay but was reassigned to New Haven of the American Hockey League three games into the season. Halko was recalled for the second time in late March and finished the season with Carolina.
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EMMITSBURG, Md. (AP) - Mount St. Mary's women's basketball coach Bill Sheahan resigned for health reasons Thursday.
Sheahan, 60, who is an insulin-dependent diabetic, said the rigors and uncertain schedules of road travel made it difficult for him to stick to the proper diet and eating schedule necessary to control his diabetes.
Vanessa Blair, who played at Mount St. Mary's and was an assistant there the last two seasons, will replace Sheahan.
Sheahan compiled a 372-104 record in 17 years at the school. He was the Mason-Dixon Athletic Conference Coach of the Year for three consecutive seasons (1985-88) and won Northeast Conference honors three times (1989-90, 1991-92, 1995-96).
Sheahan's teams made two appearances in the NCAA tournament, in 1994 and 1995.
Blair takes over a team that has gone 15-13 each of the last two seasons after going 14 of the previous 15 seasons with nine or fewer losses.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - A referee is suing Brazilian soccer star Bebeto after he allegedly insulted him during a match, according to a news report Friday.
Alvaro Quelhas claimed the striker called him a ``thief'' after he awarded a penalty shot against his side, Botafogo, last March, the news agency Sport Press reported.
Botafogo lost the game, part of an annual regional Rio tournament, against Flamengo 3-0.
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MANKATO, Minn. (AP) - Mankato State University will start the 1999 fall semester a week later than previously scheduled, in part to accommodate the Minnesota Vikings' summer training camp at the school.
``The number one priority is for the change in academic issues, but it does affect the Vikings. They were a consideration in this,'' university spokeswoman Shannon O'Neill said Friday.
O'Neill said university president Richard Rush wanted the delay to help students complete summer internships and jobs, and to help the Vikings.
The Vikings wanted to open camp July 30 and break on Aug. 19. But before the schedule was changed, Mankato State students were to begin arriving in their dorms Aug. 18 while the Vikings were still in town.
The faculty unanimously recommended the change and Minnesota State Colleges and Universities chancellor Morrie Anderson approved it.
Copyright 1998 The Associated Press All Rights Reserved.
