Court-appointed committee to study basketball stadium proposal

September 22nd, 2009 NCAA coaches back health care reformWASHINGTON — NCAA basketball coaches who are sometimes rivals on the court came united to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to push for quick approval of health care reform. "Now is the time to press full court," Notre Dame Coach Mike Brey told about 200 American Cancer Society activists and others, adding, "And foul a little bit." Georgetown University Coach John Thompson III countered that Brey's team knows more than a little bit about fouling.

September 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The body of an unidentified man, aged about 23 years, was found hanging at a basketball court in Chanakyapuri here Friday, police said. We received a call around 7 in the morning that a body has been found hanging at a basketball court near the Bangladesh embassy, a senior police officer said.

September 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Supreme Court appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC) has recommended on Friday to halt the construction of Ambedkar Park in Noida with immediate effect. The Mayawati Government is constructing the Bhimrao Ambedkar Park in Noida with an estimated cost of Rs.550 crore on the banks of the River Yamuna.

July 7th, 2009 Basketball court ready for Obama at G-8L'AQUILA, Italy — A summit held in a police barracks in a quake-stricken city may not provide Barack Obama with the luxury to which a U.S. president is accustomed.

May 9th, 2009 Dolphins' home becomes LandShark StadiumMIAMI — The name of the Miami Dolphins' home will be LandShark Stadium, but not for long. It will be for this season only and expires before the stadium hosts the Super Bowl in February.

May 8th, 2009 Feds: Gambler met, spoke often with Toledo playersTOLEDO, Ohio — Court documents say former Toledo athletes charged in an alleged point-shaving scheme talked and met several times with two suburban Detroit men who bet large amounts on Toledo basketball and football games. A federal indictment in Detroit says Ghazi Manni (GAH'-zee MAN'-ee) of Sterling Heights, Mich., met with players near Toledo's football stadium and a casino in Detroit.

May 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - International Hockey Federation (FIH) president Leandro Negre Tuesday said he would like India's ad-hoc committee to move 'little faster' with the process of putting up a unified federation before next year's hockey World Cup here. Negre, in his first visit to India last month had said that the World Cup would be moved out of India if the ad-hoc committee could not meet the guidelines of forming Hockey India before the event slated for March 7-20.

April 30th, 2009 Spike Lee films a game-in-the-life of Kobe BryantNEW YORK — You could call Spike Lee the basketball auteur. No other filmmaker has sought to accurately portray basketball as much as Lee has.

April 30th, 2009 CONI suspends racism ruling against JuventusROME — The Italian Olympic Committee has suspended a ruling by the Italian soccer federation that had ordered Juventus to play its next Serie A home match in an empty stadium as punishment for fans' racist insults. CONI's high court said on Thursday it would meet again on May 14 to make a decision on the case.

April 25th, 2009 Northeastern men's basketball program is penalizedBOSTON — Northeastern University has been placed on probation for two years and had its scholarships and recruiting privileges reduced because of violations in its men's basketball program, the NCAA announced Friday. The school's recruiting violations included giving unauthorized benefits to a student-athlete and banned activity by a booster, someone who helps an athletics department land new players, the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions said.

April 22nd, 2009 Women's hoops gets lots of A's for coaching hiresINDIANAPOLIS — Women's college basketball is getting good marks in racial diversity for its coaching hires. One reason: The search committees for coaches are more diverse.

March 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - President Pratibha Patil Wednesday appointed five chief justices of high courts across the country. 'The president is pleased to appoint Justice Chandramauli Kumar Prasad of the Patna High Court as the chief justice of the Allahabad High Court with effect from the date he assumes charge of his office,' said a statement by the ministry of law and justice here.

March 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Monday asked the government to explain why mobile magistrates were not appointed to control the menace of beggars in the city as per the court's earlier orders. A Division Bench of Justices B.D.

February 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The construction of an indoor basketball stadium at the Ajmal Khan Park in west Delhi for the 2010 Commonwealth Games was put on hold Tuesday after the Delhi High Court imposed an interim stay on a plea that it posed ecological hazards. A division bench headed by Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice Sanjeev Khanna put an interim stay on the ongoing construction of the stadium after amicus curiae (appointed by court) submitted his report that the construction would pose great danger to environment.

January 6th, 2009 ANKARA - Some 1,500 police were called to Ankara's Ataturk Arena late Tuesday after fans and demonstrators forced a European Cup basketball match between a local and an Israeli team to be called off. An Israeli flag was burned outside the stadium, while inside supporters of the Turk Telekom team chanted anti-Israeli slogans and shook their fists at opponents from the Israeli Bnei Hasharon club.