Miscellany

Thu., May 29, 1997

Compiled From Wire Services

Jim Harrick, the new University of Rhode Island basketball coach, plans to go back to his UCLA roots and hire Larry Farmer as his top assistant, The Providence Journal-Bulletin has learned.

Former major leaguer Derrel Thomas, suspended as a minor league manager by the Cincinnati Reds last week, pleaded innocent to a charge of possessing cocaine.

Lynn Archibald, former head basketball coach at the University of Utah and Idaho State University, died after a long battle with prostate cancer. He was 52.

Northwestern used the home-course advantage in taking the first-round team lead in the 100th annual NCAA men’s golf championship at Conway Farms Golf Club in Lake Forest, Ill. Pepperdine senior Jason Gore led the individual standings with a 6-under-par 65.

The U.S. men’s national soccer team will prepare for its next World Cup qualifier by playing a friendly June 17 match against Israel in Jacksonville, Fla.

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Miscellany

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