Quarterback Tom Brady is a Patriots team captain for the seventh straight season, and wide receiver Randy Moss gets the honor from his New England teammates for the first time .Yesterday, the team announced the 2008 captains selected this week.
Tackle Matt Light is the third offensive captain. On defense, the captains are linebacker Tedy Bruschi, safety Rodney Harrison, linebacker Mike Vrabel and defensive lineman Vince Wilfork. It's Bruschi's seventh season as a Patriots captain and Wilfork's first. Linebacker Larry Izzo is special teams captain for the eighth season.
Pro baseball: AL home run leader Quentin has broken wrist
American League home run leader Carlos Quentin has a broken wrist, and the Chicago White Sox left fielder will have surgery Monday that could sideline him for the rest of the season. Quentin was removed from the lineup before Tuesday's game because of what the White Sox described then as a sore right forearm, and he hasn't played since. The team said that he was hurt during last Monday's game at Cleveland. A screw will be inserted into the wrist, and he will be re-evaluated in two to three weeks. Quentin is batting .288 with 36 homers and 100 RBIs.
More pro baseball: Trembley to return as Orioles manager in 2009
Dave Trembley will get another chance to coax a winning season out of the Baltimore Orioles in 2009. The Orioles announced that they will bring Trembley back next season, exercising an option that was the contract he signed last year. The club also added a team option for 2010. Although the Orioles are in last place in the AL East and took a six-game losing streak into last night's game against the Oakland Athletics, the team has been remarkably competitive for much of the season.
Pro football: Arrest warrant for ex-football star Ingram
An arrest warrant was issued for Mark Ingram, a star on the New York Giants' 1991 Super Bowl-winning team who failed for a third time to appear in federal court for sentencing on a money laundering and bank fraud conviction.
U.S. District Court Judge Denis Hurley said the warrant won't be enforced until Sept. 15, one day before Ingram's rescheduled court appearance. Ingram's attorney assured the judge his client would surrender to U.S. marshals at the Long Island courthouse on the eve of his next court date. He is expected to get 71/2 to 91/2 years in prison. Attorney Raymond Colon said Ingram contacted him early yesterday morning, saying his car had broken down on a Pennsylvania highway as he was driving from his home in Flint, Mich., to Long Island. Two previous sentencing hearings were postponed after Ingram went to emergency rooms complaining of illnesses that were later unfounded, Hurley noted.
Auto racing: Hurricane Hanna washes out NASCAR at Richmond
Steady rain that began last night and expectations that it would continue through today with Tropical Storm Hanna moving in forced NASCAR to postpone tonight's Sprint Cup Series race at Richmond International Raceway.
The Chevrolet 400, which will finalize the field of 12 drivers who will be eligible to compete for the 2008 series championship, is now scheduled to be run at 1 p.m. tomorrow.
Track: Former sprinter released from prison
Disgraced sprinter Marion Jones has been released from federal prison after completing her sentence for lying about her steroid use.
A federal Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman says Jones was released yesterday morning from a halfway house in San Antonio after serving most of her six-month sentence for lying to federal investigators about her use of performance-enhancing drugs.
An admitted steriod dealer testified that he gave Jones a cocktail of steriods before the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
She was stripped of her five medals in 2007 after admitting that she used the drugs.
College football: PSU player off team, three to miss Oregon St.
A Penn State football player from Connecticut has been kicked off the team for an undisclosed violation of team rules, and three others will miss this weekend's game against Oregon State because of a separate, off-field issue coach Joe Paterno said.
Reserve defensive back Willie Harriott of New Haven is off the squad, Paterno said on his weekly radio show. In November, Harriott was arrested for driving under the influence and speeding.
Paterno also said that defensive linemen Maurice Evans and Abe Koroma, and tight end Andrew Quarless will sit out today's game against Oregon State. Paterno said he's still gathering information on a recent off-field incident.
