The Philadelphia Daily News (Philadelphia, PA) articles from April 2006

The Philadelphia Daily News (Philadelphia, PA) archives from April 2006

IT'S GAME TIME, CINDERELLA.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Bob Cooney Apr. 1--INDIANAPOLIS - It's time for Cinderella to trade the glass slipper and beautiful evening gown for a pair of sneakers, jersey and shorts. As wonderful a story as George Mason has been all week with its...

Sixers work way out of a tight spot.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Phil Jasner Apr. 1--NEW YORK - One night after the Indiana Pacers hung Reggie Miller's retired jersey, Madison Square Garden presented a game between the New York Knicks and the 76ers, two teams that have spent the season largely...

Road-rage slaying nets life term: SW Phila. man guilty.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Theresa Conroy Apr. 1--A 52-year-old Southwest Philadelphia man who pulled out a revolver and shot a man in a road-rage battle last spring was convicted yesterday of first-degree murder. Frank Jeffs, who shook his head and...

Milton Street out in House bid: Judge rules he doesn't even live in Pa.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Bob Warner Apr. 1--MILTON STREET'S half-hearted, half-baked attempt to resuscitate his political career blew apart on the launching pad yesterday, as a Commonwealth Court judge blocked his run for a seat in the state House. ...

Student snatched, robbed in W. Phila.: Similar to 3 recent crimes near St. Joe's.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Simone Weichselbaum Apr. 1--A University of the Sciences in Philadelphia student was kidnapped and robbed last night before being released near 30th Street Station, police said. The unidentified student was taken from an...

Delaware taps Hawks aide Ross as new coach.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Dick Jerardi Apr. 1--INDIANAPOLIS - Saint Joseph's is 141-54 over the last six seasons. One mark of a successful program is when the assistants get head-coaching jobs. Two years ago, then-Hawks assistant Matt Brady was named head...

Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray column: AILING POPE USED TV AS MESSENGER.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Ellen Gray Apr. 1--THOSE WHO think TV cheapens everything it touches can only marvel at Pope John Paul II, who used the cameras to his own ends right up until the end. Cable news has been on death watch for weeks now, with the...

LOCAL POLES HAIL POPE.
April 1, 2006... Byline: G.W. Miller Iii Apr. 1--THERESA ROMANOWSKI was nervous about meeting the pope. "I was so excited I didn't know what to say," she recalled. But Romanowski, a Polish-American from Port Richmond, said that when she met the pope in...

Philadelphia Daily News Dan Gross column: Ex-Phils aide charged.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Dan Gross Apr. 1--A FORMER Phillies employee has been charged with criminal trespass, criminal mischief, computer theft and unlawful use of a computer after video cameras at Citizens Bank Park caught him inside the park's computer...

Pitkanen playing like Olympian: Injury forced him out of games, but rest has done wonders.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Ed Moran Apr. 1--Joni Pitkanen wanted badly to be with his Finnish teammates in Turin, Italy, during their surprise run to the Olympic finals. He had been looking forward to the Olympics since the NHL season began, and in the...

Players, Phils' brass engage in wall talk at luncheon.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Ted Silary Apr. 1--PAT BURRELL had one of those looks on his face. The kind that says, "I could be doing better things with my time, and so could you guys." This was yesterday at Citizens Bank Park after the Chamber of...

Layoffs, cuts loom as feds slice city $.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Mark Mcdonald Apr. 3--As Mayor Street and City Council lurch toward a budget agreement, they've skirmished over cutting business taxes and spending priorities. But while mayor and Council have argued over how best to grow the...

Dellucci deal gets Conte down.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Marcus Hayes Apr. 3--CHRIS CONTE wasn't about to mimic Chris Roberson's platitudes. Not at 33. Not after having the best spring training of any Phillie. Not after manager Charlie Manuel, who was a large part of the reason...

Rebounding machine Barkley makes one Hall of a choice.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Phil Jasner Apr. 3--At 6-4 7/8, he is the shortest player in modern NBA history to win a rebounding championship. He was named to the 50th Anniversary All-Time Team in 1996. He helped the United States win Olympic gold medals in...

Sharpshooter could get Gators over the Hump.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Bob Cooney Apr. 3--INDIANAPOLIS - Don't let the aw-shucks attitude and choirboy looks fool you. Lee Humphrey is an assassin. His weapon of choice? A deadly three-point shot that not only is dead-eye accurate, but usually delivered...

Owls might be closing in on Dunphy.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Mike Kern Apr. 3--Temple's search for a basketball coach to replace John Chaney appears, as expected, to finally be reaching a conclusion. And, to the surprise of just about no one, it has become clear that Penn coach Fran Dunphy...

Philadelphia Daily News Sam Donnellon column: Local girls make good.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Sam Donnellon Apr. 3--BOSTON - You get to college ball, they dress up the bios. Your smallest conquests look larger, your legit ones look like penultimate events. Here's the truth: As great a player as Crystal Langhorne was at...

Nedved listed day-to-day.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Ed Moran Apr. 3--UNIONDALE, N.Y. - Petr Nedved underwent an MRI on his sore right groin after Saturday's home loss to the New Jersey Devils, and the results showed he does not have a tear. He has been dealing with a sore groin...

No kidding, Carter gets Flyers rolling.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Ed Moran Apr. 3--UNIONDALE, N.Y. - Sami Kapanen and Jeff Carter were going back and forth in the hallway outside the visitors' locker room in Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum a good 2 hours before game time. It sounded a lot...

No heroics, this time, for Rivera.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Ted Silary Apr. 3--No one would have believed it, and this newspaper would have been skewered for printing falsehoods. What happened a month ago in the waning moments of the Catholic League basketball championship game was...

Plenty still hanging: What are the Phils' chances? Much hinges on getting the answers to these questions right.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Marcus Hayes Apr. 3--CLEARWATER, Fla. - Plenty of teams have question marks all over the field. What makes the Phillies' questions remarkable this season is that they entered the last three seasons with so few. Jim Thome,...

Forget elephants, here comes the fun.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Paul Vigna Apr. 3--JOHN BRAZER had no trouble recalling two promotions that didn't quite go the way they were sketched out. Only the dates will remain nameless to protect the innocent who planned them. One brought over a dozen...

Philadelphia Daily News Carla Anderson Urban Warrior column: Chestnut Hillers don't feel too convenienced by bank.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Carla Anderson Urban Warrior Apr. 3--"AMERICA'S MOST Convenient Bank" touts its branch offices as open every day, offering free personal checking. But so far, the people of Chestnut Hill have gotten a dangerous, semidemolished...

Lessons of her life: Teacher heads into retirement with a record of achievement.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Mensah M. Dean Apr. 3--ONE DAY BACK in 1985, Barbara Bivins got the shock of her life after a long day teaching business and computer courses at Overbrook High School: Her car, which had been parked right outside, was gone. Stolen....

Library gives students online help: Instant-message-style aid with homework is free.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Valeria M. Russ Apr. 3--Deep in South Philly, traffic whizzes past cars parked in the median and immigrant vendors sell fruit and vegetables near the Broad and Morris subway entrance. But the bustle of city life seems miles...

Philadelphia Daily News Sandra Shea column: Is Gaming Board playing fair? Don't know yet.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Sandra Shea Apr. 3--A WEEK FROM today, public hearings begin about the two slots parlors that the state has mandated for Philadelphia. These hearings, running April 10, 11, 12 - a fourth day was just added for race tracks in...

Philadelphia Daily News Stu Bykofsky column: Pet peeve: Agency's turnaround not likely to continue.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Stu Bykofsky Apr. 3--IN JANUARY, the rebounding Philadelphia Animal Care and Control Association recorded a first - a month in which not one healthy animal was killed for want of an adoptive home. PACCA then repeated the feat in...

Philadelphia Daily News Dan Gross column: Svetlana's 2 favorite things.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Dan Gross Apr. 3--RICHBORO'S Svetlana Shusterman, of MTV's "Real World Key West," has a six-page spread of bikini pictures in the May FHM in which she raves about two of her favorite things: her breasts. "I love to play with...

John Lewis, former Tuskegee Airman.
April 3, 2006... Byline: John F. Morrison Apr. 3--JOHN HARDY LEWIS had no intention of letting cancer beat him. "I'm going to fight this thing," he told his niece. "I'm going to fight it. I have things to do." Even in the last few days of his...

Undefeated Barbaro on the way to Kentucky Derby.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Dick Jerardi Apr. 3--When Barbaro enters the gate at Churchill Downs on May 6, the colt will have nearly 5 A1/2 miles of racing experience, hundreds of miles of training and a real chance to follow Seattle Slew and Smarty Jones as...

The road to victory: Unchallenged by Knicks, Sixers help playoff hopes.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Phil Jasner Apr. 3--THIS WAS the South Philly sports complex yesterday: The Phillies at 12:30, the Phantoms and the 76ers each at 6. Traffic figured to be a tangle coming and going. Not, though, for the Sixers. All roads, all...

Philadelphia Daily News Dick Jerardi column: Two games barely semi-interesting.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Dick Jerardi Apr. 3--INDIANAPOLIS - This NCAA Tournament has been so good, so competitive (second-most games decided by five points or fewer or in overtime) and so filled with surprises that Saturday's national semifinals at...

4 fatal shootings during bloody weekend in city.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Kitty Caparella & Damon Williams Apr. 3--Frustration ran high among police and residents yesterday at the West Philadelphia crime scene of the city's fourth homicide of the weekend. Outside Ahzar Fashions, on Lancaster Avenue...

Duke's defense adds up to win over LSU.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Sam Donnellon Apr. 3--BOSTON - Sometimes, two plus two equals, well, about one-half. At least it did last night, when the Duke women advanced to tomorrow's NCAA title game with an easy 64-45 victory over LSU, using double...

Big oops from Boston Acoustics, Microsoft.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Jonathan Takiff THE GIZMO: HD Radio and Vista flubs. Sometimes high-tech developers see the forest but miss the trees, threatening the success of what should be a terrific, breakthrough product. RECEPTER PROBLEMS: National...

Here's to you, Jimmy Rollins.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Marcus Hayes Apr. 3--Why not? Why shouldn't Jimmy Rollins challenge Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak? He seems to have the qualifications. Sure, Rollins opened his stance and got a bit closer to the plate,...

A great ride for Maryland's Doron.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Sam Donnellon BOSTON _ She has moved her family from Israel to New York, won gold medals for two countries, surrendered her scorer's touch for an all-around game that propels teams to championships as it disappears from the box...

Three musicians vent their anger.
April 4, 2006... Byline: Jonathan Takiff Apr. 4--Anger is a great motivator, pressing creative types to vent through their art. Consider this trio of taut, tantalizing CD releases landing in stores today. In the Pink: Many femme pop stars flaunt a...

Rockledge car theft paints a sad picture.
April 4, 2006... Byline: Regina Medina Apr. 4--Muralist Jason Slowik has a message for the thief or thieves who stole his minivan, which stored a work of hope painted by 17 Graterford prisoners. "You don't realize what you've actually taken," said the...

Rollins gives fans reason to cheer.
April 4, 2006... Byline: Paul Hagen Apr. 4--MOST OF the drama had headed for the exits long ago, along with a majority of the announced sellout crowd. There wasn't much reason to hang around. The Cardinals had put the game away early, the day was dank and...

GENTLEMEN'S DISAGREEMENT.
April 4, 2006... Byline: Dan Geringer Apr. 4--OULD OPENING A strip club in the bosom of Old City's ripe-for-rehab warehouse district derail development or just be a bump in the slow grind toward high-end high-rises? Coming to a head at tomorrow's...

Swann Inc. to collect sales tax: Candidate's firm sells grid memorabilia.
April 4, 2006... Byline: Bob Warner Apr. 4--The Republican candidate for governor, former Steelers wide receiver Lynn Swann, has agreed to start collecting Pennsylvania sales tax on the $200 footballs and other memorabilia he sells on his Internet Web...

Look for some cuts in $2B school budget.
April 4, 2006... Byline: Mensah M. Dean Apr. 4--The School District of Philadelphia will operate under a structurally balanced budget for a third consecutive year, school officials are expected to tell City Council today during the first of two days of...

TOO EARLY IN DAZE FOR BOOS.
April 4, 2006... Byline: Marcus Hayes Apr. 4--YOU'RE A Phillies fan. At the suggestion of your favorite team's slogan, you're ready to "Paint the Town Red." Instead, you leave the opener early, seeing red. That's not how the Phillies see things. ...

Jeff Lamana, philaphans.com co-founder, dies at 32.(Obituary)
April 4, 2006... Byline: Mark Kram Apr. 4--Condolences continued to pour into philaphans.com yesterday in commemoration of its co-founder, Jeff Lamana, who died of cancer on Saturday morning at a hospice in Wilkes-Barre. He was 32. Lamana had become a...

Philadelphia Daily News Phil Jasner column: Memories of Barkley will last a lifetime.
April 4, 2006... Byline: Phil Jasner Apr. 4--THERE WAS A day, early in the 1984-85 season, when Billy Cunningham did something that - for him - was unprecedented. Cunningham, then the 76ers coach, told us he would close practice to reporters. He told us it...

GATORS ARE CHOMPIONS.
April 4, 2006... Byline: Bob Cooney Apr. 4--INDIANAPOLIS - Billy Donovan was known during his playing days at Providence as "Billy the Kid." He led the Friars to an improbable Final Four run in 1987, with his long-range bombing and all-over-the-court...

Win a relief for Fitzgerald: Bonner righty helps pitch Friars over St. Joe's Prep.
April 4, 2006... Byline: Ted Silary Apr. 4--Not everyone is ready for sunshine and warmth. The way Sean Fitzgerald figures, the spring cannot be filled with too much rain and/or chilly temperatures. "This is the third or fourth time I've pitched in...

Philadelphia Daily News Bernard Fernandez column: Cauthen's class project coming along nicely.
April 4, 2006... Byline: Bernard Fernandez Apr. 4--A FUNNY THING happened to Terrance Cauthen on his way to becoming a phys-ed teacher for grown-ups. Cauthen, a bronze medalist at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, has been instructing a white-collar boxing...

Judge refuses plea in tix-extortion case.
April 4, 2006... Byline: Michael Hinkelman Apr. 4--A federal district judge refused to accept the guilty plea yesterday of a former city hearing officer accused of fixing Philadelphia parking tickets in exchange for $200 in cash and $169 worth of concert...

Philadelphia Daily News Ronnie Polaneczky column: First-class guy wants soldiers to get the best seats.
April 4, 2006... Byline: Ronnie Polaneczky Apr. 4--WHEN HE WENT on his frequent business trips, Mike Bosaczyk used to care deeply about whether he flew in a first-class seat. "There's nothing like it," he said. "You're first on, first off. There's...

Philadelphia Daily News Dick Jerardi column: Finally, it's Donovan's time to shine.
April 4, 2006... Byline: Dick Jerardi Apr. 4--INDIANAPOLIS - When the basketball stars are aligned and it is your time, you ask no questions, you just go with it. In the 20th season of the three-point shot and 10 years since the coach who taught it best...

Philadelphia Daily News Sam Donnellon column: Doron's sacrifices have Maryland on cusp of a championship.
April 4, 2006... Byline: Sam Donnellon Apr. 4--BOSTON - She has moved her family from Israel to New York, won gold medals for two countries, surrendered her scorer's touch for an all-around game that propels teams to championships as it disappears from the...

Wright denies rumors, says he'll stay at Villanova.
April 4, 2006... Byline: Dana Pennett O'neil Apr. 4--Contrary to the rumor mill that can't seem to let it go, Jay Wright isn't trading in his East Coast ride for a surrey with a fringe on top. Since Kelvin Sampson resigned his position at Oklahoma to...

Philadelphia Daily News Dan Gross column: A 'Chatter' publicity ploy.
April 4, 2006... Byline: Dan Gross Apr. 4--WE KNEW something was fishy yesterday when we got a dozen e-mails about the Saturday morning "Sports Chatter" show on SportsTalk 950 AM, since we probably heard from more people than the show has listeners. ...

Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray column: Little good news about 'Pepper Dennis'.
April 4, 2006... Byline: Ellen Gray Apr. 4--PEPPER DENNIS. 9 tonight, Channel 17. STOP ME IF you've heard this one before: An ambitious young woman throws caution to the winds and takes a cute stranger home from a bar, only to discover, on arriving...

Sixers' Dalembert, Knicks' Brown have friendly meeting.
April 4, 2006... Byline: Phil Jasner Apr. 4--CLEVELAND - The coach and the player met for 15 minutes after Sunday night's game. Only in this case, it was New York Knicks coach Larry Brown and 76ers center Samuel Dalembert. And it was more than OK with...

For final weeks, Hitchcock's crystal ball cloudy.
April 4, 2006... Byline: Ed Moran Apr. 4--Trying to judge where the Flyers will end up in the race for the Atlantic Division title with the New York Rangers is pretty close to impossible, just by comparing the remaining games on the schedule. ...

Philadelphia Daily News Rich Hofmann column: Top pitchers starting season on red alert.
April 4, 2006... Byline: Rich Hofmann Apr. 4--THE OPENING DAY scoreboard at Citizens Bank Park said that red means passion, heart, power, love, heat and go. That red also means embarrassment apparently went without saying, what with the other...

Auriemma humbled by honor.
April 4, 2006... Byline: Bob Cooney Apr. 4--INDIANAPOLIS - When he swaggers onto the biggest stage basketball has to offer in September, Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma will bring not only the amazing resume he's compiled as coach of one of women's...

Barkley, on entering Hall: 'That's pretty cool'.
April 4, 2006... Byline: Dick Jerardi Apr. 4--INDIANAPOLIS - Charles Barkley never has been to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. "I have superstitions," Barkley said. "I would never touch the NBA championship trophy. And I...

Bell doesn't start on Opening Day, and it takes a toll.
April 4, 2006... Byline: Marcus Hayes Apr. 4--Without venom but with passion, David Bell says he wants to play. Every day. Period. But wither the venom? Where is the edge with which Bell made the same declaration each of the past three seasons? Has he...

Philadelphia Daily News Elmer Smith column: Class action: Retired lawyer, 80, is a teacher at MLK.
April 4, 2006... Byline: Elmer Smith Apr. 4--BILL FITZPATRICK was 80 when he finally took down his shingle, ending a 40-year career as an attorney. Then he started looking around for a job. He pondered a number of possibilities - up to, but not...

After testifying, teen shot dead.
April 4, 2006... Byline: Kitty Caparella Apr. 4--A North Philadelphia teenager who testified at a murder trial last week was fatally shot on a porch on Saturday in what his family calls retaliation for his testimony about a crime he claimed he had never...

Henry Clack, man of enterprise and style.
April 4, 2006... Byline: John F. Morrison Apr. 4--IF YOU BOUGHT men's clothing in local stores over the past couple of decades, there was a good chance you got to meet Henry Clack Sr. He was the immaculately dressed guy who came to greet you in the...

The Chef's Table.
April 5, 2006... Byline: Jim Coleman and Candace Hagan Q. My wife and I enjoy eating General Tso's Chicken when we go out for Chinese food, and would like to try this dish at home. Do you have a recipe for this dish? Also, who is General Tso? _Lester...

Giving troops a first-class trip.
April 5, 2006... Byline: Ronnie Polaneczky PHILADELPHIA _ When he went on his frequent business trips, Mike Bosaczyk used to care deeply about whether he flew in a first-class seat. "There's nothing like it," he said. "You're first on, first off....

Tough ethical standards in Washington? Fat chance.
April 5, 2006... Byline: Elmer Smith Apparently the U.S. Senate has decided that incest is family business. If our elected representatives on Capitol Hill and their kissin' cousins along lobbyist row on K Street have become a little too close for our...

New ad attacks Casey, but who's paying for it?
April 5, 2006... Byline: Bob Warner Apr. 5--A VIRGINIA-based group that refuses to identify its contributors is throwing another $400,000 into the U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania. The Americans for Job Security, classified by the Internal Revenue...

State House votes to withdraw $25M from city schools.
April 5, 2006... Byline: Mensah M. Dean Apr. 5--As Philadelphia School District officials answered a wide range of questions about their 2006-07 budget during City Council hearings yesterday, the health of the 2001 city-state partnership that led to the...

TEEN'S MOM: 'ANGER WON'T BRING MY BABY BACK'.
April 5, 2006... Byline: David Gambacorta Apr. 5--IRIS BROWN WAS at work Saturday, sitting inside Aramark's Center City headquarters, when the panicked phone calls started pouring in. The first came from her granddaughter, whose cries made her...

Did inmate seek to scare witness?
April 5, 2006... Byline: Kitty Caparella Apr. 5--Robert Merritt was already under investigation in the 2004 arson murders of a federal informant's family - two women and four children - in North Philadelphia, according to authorities. Then, authorities...

Josephs boosters disrupt D.A.'s endorsement of rival.
April 5, 2006... Byline: Catherine Lucey Apr. 5--ROWDY SUPPORTERS OF state Rep. Babette Josephs yesterday crashed a press conference at which District Attorney Lynne Abraham endorsed Josephs' challenger in the Democratic primary, Center City lawyer Larry...

Philadelphia Daily News Rich Hofmann column: Skating a fine line.
April 5, 2006... Byline: Rich Hofmann Apr. 5--NEW YORK - There are big signs and little signs in April in the National Hockey League. The standings become magnified, and they are the big signs, and they tell you plenty. They tell you, this morning, ...

JUST OUT OF RANGE.
April 5, 2006... Byline: Ed Moran Apr. 5--NEW YORK - There is a sign on the Belt Parkway on the way to Long Island that uses a very specific New York way of saying see ya. It reads: "Leaving Brooklyn. Fugetaboutit." That just about sums up what...

Garden ice bears a heavy load.
April 5, 2006... Byline: Ed Moran Apr. 5--NEW YORK - The workers in Madison Square Garden were pulling up the wood floor that covers the ice when the circus is in town, a slight 2 hours before game time. It should have been cause for concern for both...

Green makes it back into Sixers' lineup.
April 5, 2006... Byline: Phil Jasner Apr. 5--CLEVELAND - Willie Green's initial goal was to make it back to the 76ers. After that, it was "standing on the court, hearing the national anthem." And then, to play. Coming back from arthroscopic...

Philadelphia Daily News Sam Donnellon column: These Terps built for speed.
April 5, 2006... Byline: Sam Donnellon Apr. 5--BOSTON - Before last night's NCAA championship game, Maryland's brash freshman point guard, Kristi Toliver, predicted that Duke's veteran frontcourt could not match the speed of Maryland's young and athletic...

Dunphy still on hold for Temple job.
April 5, 2006... Byline: Mike Kern Apr. 5--It has been more than 3 weeks days since John Chaney stepped down as Temple's basketball coach, and there was no movement yesterday in the search to find a successor. Penn coach Fran Dunphy told Comcast...

Ross gets job he wants as Hens' head coach.
April 5, 2006... Byline: Dick Jerardi Apr. 5--NEWARK, Del. - Just before his first news conference as the head basketball coach at Delaware yesterday afternoon, Monte Ross was seated at his new desk in his new office in the Bob Carpenter Center, surrounded...

Florida has the talent to remain a dominant force.
April 5, 2006... Byline: Dick Jerardi Apr. 5--INDIANAPOLIS - You had to look very hard to see this coming. With hindsight, it is all quite clear now. When Billy Donovan became head coach at Florida a decade ago, the university had all the necessary...

Tiger embraces the moment.
April 5, 2006... Byline: Mike Kern Apr. 5--AUGUSTA, Ga. - Nine years ago, when Tiger Woods won the first of his four green jackets, the most indelible moment wasn't any one swing, fist pump or look. It was a simple hug. Earl Woods wasn't supposed...

Owls to play 8 of 12 games on the road.
April 5, 2006... Byline: Ed Barkowitz Apr. 5--New Temple coach Al Golden brought with him a vision of how to get the Owls back to respectablility. Hopefully, he also brought a suitcase. Temple's 2006 season starts with four road games in the first...

Accused fixer now wants trial, not a guilty plea.
April 5, 2006... Byline: Michael Hinkelman Apr. 5--Molden David Faison now wants to go to trial. Faison, a former city hearing officer accused of fixing parking tickets for $200 in cash and Prince concert tickets worth $169, had been set to plead...