Posted on Tue, Jul. 8, 2008
The Cleveland Gladiators earned a matchup with the Soul in the Arena League's National Conference championship with a 73-70 win over the Georgia Force last night in Atlanta.
The Gladiators will meet the Soul at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Wachovia Center.
The top-seeded Soul advanced to the conference championship with a 49-48 win over the New York Dragons on Saturday.
A California man said Pro Bowl tight end
Tony Gonzalez of the Kansas City Chiefs kept him from choking to death.
"Tony saved my life. There's no doubt,"
Ken Hunter, a shipping company manager, told the Associated Press in a phone interview from Huntington Beach, Calif. "Tony came up behind me and gave me the Heimlich maneuver."
Gonzalez, a nine-time Pro Bowl selection, was having dinner at Capone's restaurant in Huntington Beach on Thursday night. Hunter, 45, was dining with his girlfriend at the next table when suddenly a piece of meat stuck in his throat.
Gonzalez jumped out of his chair, came up behind the stricken man and began to perform the Heimlich maneuver.
Pittsburgh Steelers chairman
Dan Rooney and his son, team president
Art Rooney II, want to buy Dan Rooney's brothers' shares in the team.
The team said some of Dan Rooney's four brothers want to focus their business efforts elsewhere. The Rooney family owns racetracks in New York and Florida.
Former Chargers linebacker
Steve Foley has agreed to settle his lawsuit for $5.5 million against a police officer who shot him while off-duty two years ago, ending his pro football career.
Elsewhere: James Brown, Phil Simms and
Cris Collinsworth will host
Inside the NFL when it moves to Showtime in the fall. . . .
Dan Patrick will join
Keith Olbermann and
Bob Costas on NBC's Sunday night NFL coverage.
Colleges
Notre Dame's
Mike Brey, the Big East basketball coach of the year the last two seasons, has agreed to a two-year contract extension to remain with the Irish through the 2014-15 season.
Notre Dame also signed women's basketball coach
Muffet McGraw, a former Archbishop Carroll star, to a two-year contract extension through the 2014-15 season.
Elsewhere: Lefthanded pitcher
Mike Mongiardini, who recently completed his senior season for Temple, signed a contract with the Kalamazoo Kings of the Frontier League. . . .
Carlene Mitchell, a Rutgers assistant coach for seven years, has been promoted to associate head coach. . . . Former Connecticut star
Shea Ralph will return as an assistant coach after assisting for five seasons at Pittsburgh.
Noteworthy
Joseph Berry of Hatboro-Horsham High and
Ryann Krais of Methacton High were named to the Team USA roster for the World Junior Track Championships, which begin today in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Berry, a sophomore at Tennessee, will compete in the pole vault. Krais, who will attend UCLA in the fall, is in the heptathlon.
Sharp Susan closed strongly from off the pace and pulled away to a 23/4-length victory in the $200,000 Dr. James Penny Memorial Handicap for fillies and mares on the turf at Philadelphia Park.
Ridden by
Kent Desormeaux, Sharp Susan paid $5.20 to win as the 8-5 second choice in the field of five.
Mando Ramos, a two-time lightweight boxing champion beset by drug and alcohol abuse, has died. He was 59.
Ramos died Sunday at his home in San Pedro, according to his wife,
Sylvia.
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