Miscellany

Sat., Dec. 20, 1997

Compiled From Wire Services

Players Don Carter and Jim Roban are leaving the University of Montana men’s basketball team for personal reasons.

Fog forced postponement of the first of two World Cup downhill races this weekend in Val Gardena, Italy. It was the fourth speed race of the men’s circuit postponed this season because of poor weather conditions.

David Mack, a police officer, who was one of the world’s top 800-meter runners during the early 1980s, was arrested this week for investigation in a $722,000 bank robbery in Los Angeles.

Colgate University men’s basketball coach Jack Bruen died of pancreatic cancer at his home in Hamilton, N.Y. He was 48.

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