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First-year New Jersey Nets coach John Calipari, whose wife Ellen is expecting a baby in early November, will not accompany his team on its two-game trip to Japan next month if the baby has not been delivered by then, CBS-TV reported… . Spurred on by the hometown crowd, Barbara Heeb won the women’s road race at the world cycling championships in Lugano, Switzerland, to become the first Swiss woman to win a gold medal in the event.