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Jury in Trial of Ex-Nets Star Won't Hear of Pet's KillingBy BOB HANLEYPublished: February 5, 2004 OMERVILLE, N.J., Feb. 4 - The judge in the manslaughter trial of Jayson Williams refused on Wednesday to allow prosecutors to introduce evidence about Mr. Williams's killing of his pet watchdog with two shotgun blasts in 2001.The judge, Edward M. Colman, barred any testimony about the death of the dog, a Rottweiler named Zeus, saying it would inflame the jury and undercut Mr. Williams's right to a fair trial.   "I can't think of anything that would be more prejudicial," Judge Colman said. He...

<p>January 11, 2004 -- Yinka Dare, the Nets' first-round draft pick in 1994, has died after collapsing at his New Jersey home. He was 32.</p> <p>A medical examiner determined that Dare, pronounced dead Friday at Englewood Hospital after being rushed to the emergency room, had a heart attack due to an arrhythmia condition that was discovered when he was in college at George Washington.</p>

<p>EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- New Jersey Nets center Alonzo Mourning is leaving basketball again because the kidney disease he's had for three years is worsening and he needs a transplant.</p> <p>The team said Mourning needs a transplant "in the near future" and that a nationwide search is under way for a prospective donor.</p>