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The Los Angeles Lakers have withdrawn their contract offer to A.C. Green, a free agent who has spent eight years with the team.
The 6-foot-9 forward still could play for the Lakers next season if a contract suitable to both is negotiated. Terms of the Lakers' offer were not disclosed.
"We have only 30 days until the start of training camp, and salary-cap restrictions make it impossible to leave an offer to A.C. on the table and at the same time pursue other player opportunities," said Lakers general manager Jerry West.
The Charlotte Hornets have signed first-round draft pick Scott Burrell to a multiyear contract.
Terms of the deal were not made public.
Burrell was the second of the Hornets' two first-round draft choices last June, and the 20th overall selection. The 6-7 Burrell played forward at Connecticut.
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Marianne Stanley's legal battle to return as the women's basketball coach at the University of Southern California has reached the U.S. Supreme Court.
The outcome, expected this week, could affect last Thursday's hiring of Cheryl Miller as the new Trojans coach.
A maze of legal maneuvers brought the case before the Supreme Court over the weekend, and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is expected to decide todayor tomorrow whether to reinstate Stanley - thereby nullifying Miller's hiring.
An $8 million sex-discrimination suit that Stanley brought against USC and athletic director Mike Garrett is pending, and O'Connor's ruling would be in effect only until Stanley's appeal to retain her position is resolved.
The complicated process to bring the matter before the Supreme Court began last week after a federal judge denied a request that Stanley be reinstated until the suit was resolved.
Penn State wide receiver Bobby Engram, only the fifth Big Ten player ever to catch four touchdown passes in a game, was named the conference's player of the week on offense.
