European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 2007 stars and stripes Page Bruins fire coach Lewis after just one year sports briefs the associated press Boston the rebuilding Boston Bruins flirted with Mak ing the playoffs last season before they collapsed in the final 12 that inconsistency helped bring an end to Dave Lewis ten ure As Bostons coach after just one general manager Peter Chiarelli announced Friday that Lewis will be reassigned to another Posi Tion in the associate coach Marc Habscheid also will be the Bruins went 1101 in their last 12 games and played shoddy allow ing 289 goals the second most in the Boston also was Short on offence with 217 seventh fewest in the you see a level of play that you expect and want and it teases and obviously something want getting said brought in along with Lewis in a major housecleaning in the past i have great respect for both of those men and what Treyve done in the past and what i think they will accomplish in the Chiarelli said he has a Short list of candidates to replace Lewis but refused to comment on specific he said its critical to have new leadership in place before the july 1 free agent signing any free agent who going to consider a place to play wants to know who the coach is and what the coaching staff consists Chiarelli the sudden removal of Lewis and Habscheid is a departure from comments Chiarelli made at the end of the i also know Quick fixes dont and so i have to be he said i have to balance the two things because i know our ownership demands a Winner and i know the City demands a Lewis was 35416 in his Lone season on the Bruins he also was the head coach in de troit from where he had a 9641216 Union complaints end raiders workouts the final week of the Oakland raiders off Winslow Bruins coach Dave Lewis stands behind his players during a game last his Only year behind the Bench in he was fired season training program was can celled Friday after complaints from the nil players Union about the intensity of the practice in a Brief coach Lane Kiffin said the players Union believes the raiders offset son program violated league rules on practice the Union has complained about the High level of player aggressiveness and fast Pace of our practices As a re has taken away the final week of our of season said the Nils youngest and least experienced head the raiders wont hold next weeks scheduled of season Active which were expected to be mostly weightlifting Oakland wrapped up a Volun tary minicams on wednesday under a former assistant coach at Southern he had just one season of nil train ing Camp experience As an Assis Tant in Jacksonville in the raiders training Camp opens july 27 in redskins Landry misses practice with paintball injury a paintball shot in the Groin left Rookie Laron Landry unable to practice when the Washington redskins opened their minicams the 6 Overall pick in this years draft was injured during a Tea building Outing when coach Joe Gibbs allowed the players to leave Early at the end of the voluntary Spring work some players went Bowling or had lunch while Many of the defensive players went to play i didst know paintball was that linebacker mar Cus Washington i Hope it want Friendly Gibbs said Landry should be Fine after a couple of Days its kind of Gibbs almost anything can Hap pen in so every now and then something like that does Amateur boxing to Reform judging system Geneva the International Amateur boxing association plans to scrap its electronic scor ing agreeing to Ioc de mands to make the judging of bouts More transparent and harder to the old system was based on three of the five judges pressing a Button within the same second to validate a it will be re placed by one in which each judge counts blows and the highest and lowest of the five judges scores will be discard this caused a lot of Gerhard chairman of the groups Reform said but it works really Well in ski Why  it work As Well in Box ing the proposal by the executive committee must be approved at a meeting of Abbas 195 federations during the 2007 world championships in Chicago in once that occurs and the International olympic committee the new system will be used at the 2008 Beijing olym Nadal loses at Queens club Roddick advances to semifinal London French open Champion Rafael Nadal was knocked out of the Queens club grass court championships Fri losing 76 0 to 106thranked Nicolas Mahut of second seeded Andy Roddick advanced to the semifinals after defeating Marin civic looking sluggish throughout the was Bro Ken in the last game of the first set and then failed to win a single Point in the it was the spaniard i didst really play very but i am Happy with my Nadal got to the same stage Here last year and went on to reach the Wimbledon where he lost to Roger Nadal plans to go Home to Mallor for a few Days to relax before returning for which starts june Roddick held off a break Point at 54 with a service Winner to take the first but had to rally from 41 Down in the second As he failed to find any i played spotty Rod Dick i was a Little bit Sloppy with some of the if i want to get through two More matches and try to win this tournament ill have to do better than Sharapov advances to Dps quarterfinals England Maria Sharapov Defeated 16yearold Tamira Pleszak 62 saturday to reach the Dos classic quarterfinals in a match that was postponed two Days because of the to seeded Sharapov faced the Prospect of playing three More matches by the end of the weekend in the grass court Warmup event for Sharapov next was to face Elena Litho Veseva in a quarterfinal later but More rain started falling immediately after her match against Basso is first High profile cyclist banned in probes Rome a year of secrets and lies caught up with Ivan Basso on the 2006 Giro Ditalia Champi who also finished on the tour de France podium received a maximum two year Dop ing penalty from the italian cycling with he became the first High profile rider suspended for the recent scandals rocking by i know i made and i deserve to be Basso since i admitted my mis takes Ive started feeling better with myself and my i kept it All secret for a even from my i was afraid of getting last Basso acknowledged involvement in the Spanish blood doping known As operation i want to stress that i told them everything i and that not easy for an athlete of my Basso Basso confessed to attempted saying he never actually went through with i accept the i knew the situation want an easy Basso Basso already was suspended for nearly eight months by the Csc team last year and discovery Channel this so the lat est penalty will expire on Basso also was already banned from last yearns tour de he will now miss two More Tours and next years Giro nevadas sessions will remain in Aba draft Nevada Point guard Ramon sessions will forgo his senior season with the Wolf pack and remain in the Aba sessions announced in his intention to make himself available for the june 28 draft but didst hire an meaning he could have reconsidered and re turned to he said in a statement Friday he would stay in the tides sabans on a pitch count so he can focus on coaching by John Zenor the associated press Alabama Nick Saban is a football not a pitch his Domain is the football Field and film not the podium and banquet its in his right there on Page the Crimson tide coach after that hell be judged on wins and titles rather than speeches and any heres what everybody needs to under stand Why did i get hired Here to do what coach right in a Saban said Friday in an interview with the associated if s Why his million con approved by University trustees on stipulates that he Doest have to make More than 15 appearances a year at alumni gatherings and other such fun dont expect to see him in commercials or on billboards Saban said he had a similar limit in place at leu and other its Why he chose to recruit and hire a staff instead of saying yes to Many of the 100 or so requests for appearances that poured in during his first two months on the its a full time Job to run this football program and the Guys that Are on this team and get them to All do what there sup posed to Saban i think that what people How Many Public appearances can you do How Many commercials can you make its a Trade off most Alabama fans will Likely accept even if they love a Little Ger slice of the Mullion year coach this is the Way Ive always done Saban i do it because i know what my priorities i know whats important to being he also knows that his hiring in january raised expectations for a team that we pfc 67 last season and Hast had sustained Success in a Saban after Lead leu to a South Eastern conference championship in his second season and a share of the National title two years he prefers to talk about the process of achieving those successes instead of predicting when or  youve got to be realistic about your sex he expectations can be a negative when you have High expectations and there not realistic and they dont come to fruition and everybody gets a negative