Flyers forward Joffrey Lupul has a sprained left wrist and was listed as day to day on Thursday, an improved diagnosis after Philadelphia feared he broke his wrist. “He had some medicine injected into that wrist this morning, and we’re hopeful that with three-to-five days of rest, he’ll be better,” said Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren.
The son of Nashville Predators’ owner Craig Leipold was charged with drunken driving Thursday after police pulled him over for speeding, marking his second drunken-driving arrest since May. Christopher Leipold was pulled over Thursday morning after Officer Kevin Wayne Lovell said he clocked him driving 43 mph in a 35-mph zone.
Titans quarterback Vince Young thanked Reggie Bush for helping him get tickets to Monday night’s game in New Orleans. That doesn’t mean Young has forgotten losing the Heisman Trophy to the running back. Young tells “60 Minutes” in an interview performed in June but airing Sunday night that he was angry about not taking the Heisman Trophy back with him to Texas in December 2005.
Brady Quinn was urged to “Play Like A Champion” at Notre Dame. These days, all he can do is practice like one. While his fabled alma mater anguishes through its worst start in its 119-year history of football, Quinn, the former Golden Dome quarterback, is doing all he can to stay sharp as a backup for the Cleveland Browns.
Bills cornerback Terrence McGee worked out fully for a second straight practice Thursday and is expected to play Sunday, when Buffalo hosts the New York Jets. McGee missed last week’s 38-7 loss at New England because of sore ribs, and his return is the first positive news for a banged-up defense that’s lost numerous players to injury, including three starters on season-ending injured reserve.
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The owner of the New York Knicks dismissed a top female executive solely in retaliation for accusing head coach Isiah Thomas of boorish behavior and to scare other unhappy employees, a lawyer said Thursday in closing arguments at the sexual harassment trial. Madison Square Garden “completely fabricated its reasons for firing” Anucha Browne Sanders, the plaintiff in the $10 million lawsuit, said…
Paul Westhead is leaving the WNBA champion Phoenix Mercury to return to the NBA, accepting an assistant coach job with the Seattle SuperSonics on Thursday. Westhead’s move to join the staff of friend P.J. Carlesimo was not unexpected after the Mercury won their first title two weeks ago. The WNBA crown was the second title for the 68-year-old Westhead, who also won the NBA championship in 1980 as a…
