Following just three starts, the Cleveland Browns quarterback will be shut down for the season with a broken index finger, sources told ESPN on Tuesday. Sources told ESPN that the team has not determined whether surgery will be necessary, but Quinn must cease all football activity for at least six weeks, ending his season.
Quinn and the Browns made the decision after the quarterback had been examined in Birmingham, Ala., earlier Tuesday. According to FoxSports, the exam found that the break had gotten worse and was threatening tendons in the finger as well. Derek Anderson will return to the starting spot when the Browns host the Colts on Sunday.
The Jets (8-3) came in atop the AFC East after a victory over New England at Foxborough. They have won five straight for the first time since October 2004 and seven of their last eight. The win also pulled them within two of Tennessee (10-1) with five to play in the race for home-field advantage through the playoffs.
The Titans had won 13-straight regular-season games dating to Dec. 16, 2007, in becoming only the 11th team since 1970 to win its first 10 games. Favre threw two touchdown passes, Leon Washington ran for two scores and the New York Jets served notice they will be a factor in the AFC this season by routing the Titans 34-13, ending the perfect start by the NFL’s last undefeated tea
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb was benched after the first half of Sunday’s game against the Baltimore Ravens following a decidedly dismal performance in which he committed three turnovers and failed to produce any points.
McNabb was 8-for-18 for 59 yards and two interceptions and a fumble — a miserable 13.2 quarterback rating. A week earlier, he threw three interceptions and lost a fumble in an overtime tie with Cincinnati. After that game, the 10-year veteran said he didn’t realize an NFL game could end in a tie.
With the Eagles down 10-7 at halftime Sunday, Philadelphia coach Andy Reid turned to Kevin Kolb, a second-round pick who didn’t throw a pass as a rookie last year and had attempted nine throws this season.
After acquiring a potential closer in Florida’s Kevin Gregg on Thursday morning, it was announced that the Cubs would not try to re-sign Kerry Wood, who will be able to accept free-agent offers from other clubs on Friday.
Wood, the 1998 NL Rookie of the Year who saved 34 games this year, had been the longest-tenured player on the Cubs. General manager Jim Hendry said Kerry Wood was deserving of a three- or four-year deal and the Cubs are not prepared to offer him one.
The Chicago Cubs acquired reliever Kevin Gregg in a trade with the Florida Marlins on Thursday, and in addition to the right-handed Gregg, who was the Marlins’ closer until the final month last season, Chicago also has a talented set-up man in Carlos Marmol, who could close. Unlikely that this could ever change the Cub’s World Series betting odds.
Yao Ming throws up this incredible behind-the-back flip shot that bounces in. Game is against the Memphis Grizzlies on October 29, 2008. Watch the video.
The Denver Nuggets traded All-Star guard Allen Iverson to the Detroit Pistons in exchange for Chauncey Billups and Antonio McDyess. Detroit Pistons center Cheick Samb also will go to Denver to make the salaries match in the trade. Iverson was traded to Denver in December 2006 but was not able to help Carmelo Anthony lift the Nuggets out of the first round of the playoffs in his two seasons there.
The trade gives the Pistons salary-cap flexibility at the end of the season. Iverson’s contract, which pays him $21.9 million this season, expires in July. Billups is owed $36.3 million over the next three seasons and has an additional $14.2 million team option for 2011-12. McDyess will make $6.8 million each of the next two seasons.
McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton became the youngest world champion in Formula One history just barely after a thrilling Brazilian Grand Prix. The 23-year-old’s title rival Felipe Massa won the race in his Ferrari but Hamilton took the fifth place he needed at the last corner. A late rain shower looked to have cost Hamilton the title when he dropped to sixth after a stop for wet tires, but he passed Toyota’s Timo Glock as they entered the pit straight. Renault’s Fernando Alonso, the previous youngest champion, was second ahead of Massa’s team-mate Kimi Raikkonen and Toro Rosso’s Sebastian Vettel. Hamilton’s success buries the ghosts of last year, when after a remarkable debut season he let slip a massive lead in the final two races and Raikkonen sneaked in to win the title.
Brazilian Grand Prix result:
1. Felipe Massa (Brz) Ferrari one hour 34 minutes 11.435 seconds
2. Fernando Alonso (Spa) Renault 13.298 seconds behind
3. Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) Ferrari +16.235
4. Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Toro Rosso-Ferrari +38.011
5. Lewis Hamilton (GB) McLaren-Mercedes +38.907
6. Timo Glock (Ger) Toyota +44.368
7. Heikki Kovalainen (Fin) McLaren-Mercedes +55.074
8. Jarno Trulli (Ita) Toyota +1:08.463
9. Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault +1:19.666
10. Nick Heidfeld (Ger) BMW Sauber one lap behind
