Monday's Sports In Brief
By The Associated Press
Dec 02, 2008 - 10:45:14 CST
Here's a look at Monday's sports in brief around the world.
NEW YORK (AP) — Career steals leader Rickey Henderson heads 10 first-time candidates on this year’s Hall of Fame ballot, joining holdovers Mark McGwire and Jim Rice — eligible for the final time.
Other newcomers are Jay Bell, David Cone, Ron Gant, Mark Grace, Jesse Orosco, Dan Plesac, Greg Vaughn, Mo Vaughn and Matt Williams.
Just 23 players are on the ballot, the smallest group ever. Holdovers include Harold Baines, Bert Blyleven, Andre Dawson. Tommy John, Don Mattingly, Jack Morris, Dale Murphy, Dave Parker, Tim Raines, Lee Smith and Alan Trammell.
A 10-time All-Star who played from 1979-2003, Henderson holds the career records for steals (1,406) and runs (2,295), and his 2,190 walks are second to Barry Bonds’ 2,558.
Henderson played for nine teams, winning the 1990 AL MVP award with Oakland.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Lane Kiffin was introduced as the new head coach at Tennessee, and the 33-year-old became the youngest coach to lead a major program.
The former coach of the Oakland Raiders and son of longtime NFL defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin is five months younger than the previous youngest coach in the Bowl Subdivision, Northwestern’s Pat Fitzgerald.
Kiffin will be the Volunteers’ 21st coach, but only their third in 32 years. He took over two days after Phillip Fulmer’s 17-season tenure ended with a win over Kentucky and has a six-year contract worth $2 million in 2009.
Kiffin was the youngest coach in the NFL’s modern history when hired to lead the Raiders in January 2007 at age 31 after spending two seasons as USC’s recruiting and offensive coordinator.
It’s not the first time Tennessee has hired a youthful coach — Fulmer had no previous head coaching experience and the Vols’ revered Gen. Robert Neyland was 33 when he was hired.
GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — Stephon Marbury was ordered to stay away from the New York Knicks while the team looks for a solution to its $21 million problem — one that has lingered since the preseason and exploded last week when the team suspended him for refusing to play and he retaliated with a series of inflammatory remarks.
Marbury’s future was “not resolved” during a meeting with team president Donnie Walsh at the Knicks’ practice facility, according to the players’ association attorney representing him. The sides will continue to talk, but Marbury won’t be around in the meantime.
He will earn about $21 million this season in the final year of his contract and is adamant that he won’t give much of it up in a buyout. However, that salary makes him nearly impossible to trade, and the Knicks are reluctant to give him all his money to leave.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Ownership of reigning Horse of the Year Curlin remained divided after a judge’s surprise ruling rejecting a proposed sale that would have consolidated control of the horse under winemaker Jess Jackson.
Jackson’s Stonestreet Stables owns 80 percent of the richest North American racehorse in history and had offered $4 million to buy out the remaining 20 percent interest from William Gallion and Shirley Cunningham Jr. The two disbarred attorneys are under a court order to pay $42 million to former clients they represented in a settlement over the diet drug fen-phen.
Although a court-appointed receiver recommended the transaction be approved, an attorney for Gallion and Cunningham argued $4 million was too low of a price for a share of such a promising stallion prospect. Circuit Judge Roger Crittenden agreed to disallow it after hearing the same plea from Angela Ford, who represents the fen-phen clients in their civil case against Gallion and Cunningham.
BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Cleveland Browns quarterback Derek Anderson, who lost his starting job to Brady Quinn several weeks ago, will miss the final four games after tearing a ligament in his left knee on Sunday against Indianapolis.
An MRI revealed Anderson tore the medial collateral ligament when he was sacked in the final minutes of Cleveland’s 10-6 loss. Anderson, making his first start since Nov. 2 after being benched, will not need surgery. He will wear a brace and needs four to six weeks to recover.
Quinn, too, is done for the season with a finger injury. He has not yet decided whether to have surgery on his broken right index finger, which he hurt on Nov. 17 at Buffalo.
The injuries to their top two QBs means the Browns will start third-stringer Ken Dorsey on Sunday against the Tennessee Titans. Return specialist Joshua Cribbs, who played quarterback at Kent State, will serve as Dorsey’s backup unless the Browns can sign a veteran quarterback in the next few days.
LONDON (AP) — The New England Patriots will play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers next season at Wembley Stadium, the third straight year the NFL will stage a regular-season game in the British capital.
The game will be played Oct. 25. The Bucs will be listed as the home team, giving up a game in Tampa.
Five weeks ago, the New Orleans Saints beat the San Diego Chargers 37-32 before 83,000 fans at Wembley. Last season, the New York Giants defeated the Miami Dolphins 13-10. Both games were sold out.
The NFL is also expected to play a regular-season game in London in 2010.
The Buccaneers are owned by the Glazer family, the same group that runs defending Premier League champion Manchester United.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Career steals leader Rickey Henderson heads 10 first-time candidates on this year’s Hall of Fame ballot, joining holdovers Mark McGwire and Jim Rice — eligible for the final time.
Other newcomers are Jay Bell, David Cone, Ron Gant, Mark Grace, Jesse Orosco, Dan Plesac, Greg Vaughn, Mo Vaughn and Matt Williams.
Just 23 players are on the ballot, the smallest group ever. Holdovers include Harold Baines, Bert Blyleven, Andre Dawson. Tommy John, Don Mattingly, Jack Morris, Dale Murphy, Dave Parker, Tim Raines, Lee Smith and Alan Trammell.
A 10-time All-Star who played from 1979-2003, Henderson holds the career records for steals (1,406) and runs (2,295), and his 2,190 walks are second to Barry Bonds’ 2,558.
Henderson played for nine teams, winning the 1990 AL MVP award with Oakland.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Lane Kiffin was introduced as the new head coach at Tennessee, and the 33-year-old became the youngest coach to lead a major program.
The former coach of the Oakland Raiders and son of longtime NFL defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin is five months younger than the previous youngest coach in the Bowl Subdivision, Northwestern’s Pat Fitzgerald.
Kiffin will be the Volunteers’ 21st coach, but only their third in 32 years. He took over two days after Phillip Fulmer’s 17-season tenure ended with a win over Kentucky and has a six-year contract worth $2 million in 2009.
Kiffin was the youngest coach in the NFL’s modern history when hired to lead the Raiders in January 2007 at age 31 after spending two seasons as USC’s recruiting and offensive coordinator.
It’s not the first time Tennessee has hired a youthful coach — Fulmer had no previous head coaching experience and the Vols’ revered Gen. Robert Neyland was 33 when he was hired.
GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — Stephon Marbury was ordered to stay away from the New York Knicks while the team looks for a solution to its $21 million problem — one that has lingered since the preseason and exploded last week when the team suspended him for refusing to play and he retaliated with a series of inflammatory remarks.
Marbury’s future was “not resolved” during a meeting with team president Donnie Walsh at the Knicks’ practice facility, according to the players’ association attorney representing him. The sides will continue to talk, but Marbury won’t be around in the meantime.
He will earn about $21 million this season in the final year of his contract and is adamant that he won’t give much of it up in a buyout. However, that salary makes him nearly impossible to trade, and the Knicks are reluctant to give him all his money to leave.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Ownership of reigning Horse of the Year Curlin remained divided after a judge’s surprise ruling rejecting a proposed sale that would have consolidated control of the horse under winemaker Jess Jackson.
Jackson’s Stonestreet Stables owns 80 percent of the richest North American racehorse in history and had offered $4 million to buy out the remaining 20 percent interest from William Gallion and Shirley Cunningham Jr. The two disbarred attorneys are under a court order to pay $42 million to former clients they represented in a settlement over the diet drug fen-phen.
Although a court-appointed receiver recommended the transaction be approved, an attorney for Gallion and Cunningham argued $4 million was too low of a price for a share of such a promising stallion prospect. Circuit Judge Roger Crittenden agreed to disallow it after hearing the same plea from Angela Ford, who represents the fen-phen clients in their civil case against Gallion and Cunningham.
BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Cleveland Browns quarterback Derek Anderson, who lost his starting job to Brady Quinn several weeks ago, will miss the final four games after tearing a ligament in his left knee on Sunday against Indianapolis.
An MRI revealed Anderson tore the medial collateral ligament when he was sacked in the final minutes of Cleveland’s 10-6 loss. Anderson, making his first start since Nov. 2 after being benched, will not need surgery. He will wear a brace and needs four to six weeks to recover.
Quinn, too, is done for the season with a finger injury. He has not yet decided whether to have surgery on his broken right index finger, which he hurt on Nov. 17 at Buffalo.
The injuries to their top two QBs means the Browns will start third-stringer Ken Dorsey on Sunday against the Tennessee Titans. Return specialist Joshua Cribbs, who played quarterback at Kent State, will serve as Dorsey’s backup unless the Browns can sign a veteran quarterback in the next few days.
LONDON (AP) — The New England Patriots will play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers next season at Wembley Stadium, the third straight year the NFL will stage a regular-season game in the British capital.
The game will be played Oct. 25. The Bucs will be listed as the home team, giving up a game in Tampa.
Five weeks ago, the New Orleans Saints beat the San Diego Chargers 37-32 before 83,000 fans at Wembley. Last season, the New York Giants defeated the Miami Dolphins 13-10. Both games were sold out.
The NFL is also expected to play a regular-season game in London in 2010.
The Buccaneers are owned by the Glazer family, the same group that runs defending Premier League champion Manchester United.