Cincinnati's Antwan Jones heard talk that he would not be healthy enough to play in games until next month, and he could only shake his head. Xavier 68, Miami 54 Xavier tried the Cintas Center on for size Saturday, and it was a loose, comfortable fit. He's working on his English, the way he's working on everything else. Earnestly and without attitude. The difference is, basketball comes easier to him than the language.
Basketball requires a different sort of fluency.
It translates directly. New XU arena draws raves Dennis O'Connell has lived in California for 12 years, but he made the trip back to Cincinnati with alumni from all over the country for homecoming at Xavier University and the opening of the basketball season at the school's new Cintas Center. Xavier-Miami notebook Miami coach Charlie Coles checked David West's line in the box score and sighed. The decision to start Scott Mitchell at quarterback today at New England was coach Dick LeBeau's. Blue Jays want Williamson Add Toronto to the list of teams coveting right-hander Scott Williamson, who has been featured in trade speculation since he won the National League Rookie of the Year award in 1999.