Saints starting cornerback Jason David will miss four to six weeks with a fractured left forearm. Head coach Sean Payton said Tuesday he hasn’t decided who will start in David’s place when New Orleans returns to action at home against the Carolina Panthers on Oct. 7. David got hurt during the Saints’ 31-14 loss to Tennessee on Monday night, a costly game in which running back Deuce McAllister was…
Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward has a sprained right knee and is doubtful for Sunday’s game at Arizona. Ward has missed only three games due to injury in 10 NFL seasons, and Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said Tuesday he hasn’t ruled Ward out of the game. “I have learned not to count a guy like Hines Ward out,” Tomlin said.
With the Breeders’ Cup at Monmouth Park next month, the New Jersey Racing Commission on Wednesday passed new regulations that will allow pre-race testing on thoroughbreds for performance-enhancing agents. The commission approved out of competition testing for EPO (Epogen) and TCO2 testing on thoroughbreds competing at the four state racetracks.
Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense breezed five furlongs at Churchill Downs on Wednesday as he prepares for his final prep race before the Breeders’ Cup Classic next month. The colt, with jockey Calvin Borel in the saddle, covered the distance in 1:00.60, the second-fast time of the 16 horses who worked the distance.
The Cleveland Indians are not about to ease up even though they clinched the AL Central title Sunday for the first time since 2001. They still have something to accomplish. The Indians, who blew a two-run lead in the ninth, recovered in the 12th inning for a 4-3 victory over Seattle on Tuesday night. After a wild pickoff attempt set up the go-ahead run, Kenny Lofton drove in Asdrubal Cabrera with a…
Brian Giles broke out his slump with one powerful swing and stopped the San Diego Padres’ late-season swoon for now. Giles, who had four hits in his last 52 at-bats, hit a go-ahead three-run homer with two outs in the ninth, and the Padres ended a four-game losing streak with a 6-4 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday night.
Ilya Kovalchuk scored in a shootout to give the Atlanta Thrashers a 3-2 victory over the Nashville Predators on Tuesday night. After Kovalchuk, the Thrashers’ third shooter, beat Nashville backup goalie Dan Ellis, Atlanta’s Johan Hedberg stopped Vernon Fiddler with his right pad to seal the victory. Hedberg made 28 saves, 21 in the first two periods.
Henrik Zetterberg had two goals and an assist to left the Detroit Red Wings to a 6-1 preseason win over the New York Rangers on Tuesday night. Johan Franzen, Chris Chelios, Pavel Datsyuk and Tomas Kopecky also scored for the Red Wings. Nicklas Lidstrom, Mikael Samuelsson and Tomas Holmsrom each had two assists.
In Deuce McAllister’s locker, front-and-center on the top shelf, is a gold-painted wooden carving of the word: “Believe!” After his second season-ending knee injury in three seasons, the Saints’ 28-year-old all-time leading rusher wants to believe he will return to the NFL as an elite running back. It won’t be easy, and he knows it.
The Houston Texans placed center Steve McKinney and defensive tackle Cedric Killings on injured reserve, ending their seasons, and signed David Anderson and Joel Dreessen on Tuesday. Killings remains hospitalized as he recovers from a fracture of his C-4 vertebra from a headfirst collision with Indianapolis receiver Roy Hall on Sunday.
