Wednesday's Sports In Brief

Here's a look at Wednesday's sports in brief around the country.

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The NFL is giving Adam “Pacman” Jones another chance.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said the suspended cornerback has been reinstated by league commissioner Roger Goodell, but he must miss two more games — this Sunday and the following game on Thanksgiving. He’ll be back Dec. 7 at Pittsburgh.

Jerry Jones would not reveal any conditions the commissioner may have imposed and the league office said it would not have any immediate comment. However, Robinson, said, “He knows what he has to do. It’s very clear.”

Adam Jones was suspended from the entire 2007 season because of multiple incidents while with the Tennessee Titans. Over the offseason, he was traded to Dallas and then given another chance by Goodell. The Cowboys gave him a security team to help keep him in line, but on Oct. 7, Jones got into an alcohol-related scuffle with one of the bodyguards during a private party at a Dallas hotel.

Jones spent part of his time away undergoing alcohol rehabilitation.

It also will be up to Pacman to police himself. The Cowboys will no longer be providing bodyguards.

Jerry Jones said Adam Jones can have “limited participation” this week, but would not be part of full-squad practices or conditioning. He can return to practice Monday.

Goodell suspended Adam Jones indefinitely on Oct. 14, saying he’d put a timeframe on it after the cornerback missed at least four games. This decision means it will be a six-game suspension. Jones also missed the entire 2007 season. By the time he returns, he will have been suspended from 22 of a possible 28 games.

NEW YORK (AP) — Desperate for starting pitchers, the New York Yankees expect to enter next season without 20-game winner Mike Mussina.

FoxSports.com reported that Mussina intends to retire and will make the move official this week. In the report, the Web site cited unidentified major league sources.

Mussina, who turns 40 next month, would become the first pitcher to call it quits following a 20-win season since Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax in 1966.

Only 30 wins shy of 300, Mussina was 20-9 with a 3.37 ERA for the Yankees this season — becoming the oldest pitcher in big league history to win 20 games for the first time. The right-hander tossed 200 1-3 innings in 34 starts, rebounding impressively from a disappointing 2007 season that included a career-worst 5.15 ERA.

Mussina has spent 18 years in the majors — the first 10 with Baltimore followed by eight in New York. He filed for free agency after the World Series.

The FoxSports.com report said Mussina delayed his retirement announcement until after baseball’s major postseason awards had been handed out. He won his seventh Gold Glove and finished tied for sixth in AL Cy Young Award balloting.

A text message sent to Yankees general manager Brian Cashman was not immediately returned. Yankees manager Joe Girardi said he hadn’t spoken with Mussina since the season ended.

After missing the playoffs for the first time since 1993, New York is pursuing several big-name starters on the free-agent market, including CC Sabathia and A.J. Burnett.

NEW YORK (AP) — The lawyer for three New Orleans Saints players facing suspension said the NFL’s independent drug administrator acknowledged he did not inform NFL players that the supplement StarCaps contained a banned diuretic.

During the players’ appeals hearing, attorney David Cornwell said that Dr. John Lombardo’s testimony proved none of his clients — Deuce McAllister, Will Smith or Charles Grant — took steroids.

Cornwell said in an e-mail that Lombardo testified he learned in late 2006 that StarCaps contained Bumetanide, a diuretic considered a masking agent for steroids.

The league said the hearing was confidential.

McAllister, Grant and Smith are among several players identified as facing suspension after testing positive for Bumetanide. Others include defensive tackle Grady Jackson of Atlanta and defensive tackles Pat and Kevin Williams of Minnesota.

The Williams’ will have their appeal heard Thursday.

Cornwell said that Lombardo’s failure to disclose the fact Bumetanide was in StarCaps “may have exposed NFL players to the significant health risks.”

DENVER (AP) — The man accused of killing Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams now faces murder charges in another slaying.

Willie D. Clark, 25, was indicted in the December 2006 shooting death of Kalonniann Louisa James Clark. Prosecutors said they don’t believe the two killings were related.

Also indicted in Kalonniann Clark’s death was Brian Hicks, 29, who police say owned an SUV that was used in Williams’ drive-by slaying on New Year’s Day 2007.

Willie Clark faces 39 counts, including murder, in Williams’ slaying. He hasn’t entered a plea.

Authorities say Kalonniann Clark, 28, had survived a previous shooting and was scheduled to testify against her alleged assailant at the time she was killed on Dec. 6, 2006.

Police said at the time that several men broke into her home and she was trying to flee when she was shot.

The new indictment accuses Willie Clark of hiring Shun Birch, 27, to help him kill Kalonniann Clark. The indictment says Willie Clark was acting on Hicks’ orders.

Clark and Hicks were both indicted on charges of murder, solicitation to commit murder, conspiracy to commit murder and witness intimidation in Kalonniann Clark’s slaying. Clark also faces a burglary charge.

Birch was indicted on charges of murder, conspiracy to commit murder and burglary.