First Test: Australia v India Dates: 26-30 December
Play starts: 2330 Wednesday GMT
Venue: Melbourne Cricket Ground
Australia’s Adam Gilchrist does not want the Test series against India to feature the verbal clashes that marred recent one-day games in India.
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Bills tight end Kevin Everett arrived at Ralph Wilson Stadium on Sunday morning to watch Buffalo’s home season finale, less than four months since sustaining a severe spinal cord injury on the same turf.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Dallas receiver Terrell Owens left the Cowboys’ game in the second quarter Saturday night against Carolina because of a left ankle injury in the Cowboys’ 20-13 victory.
Shaun Pruitt scored the go-ahead basket on a putback with 35 seconds to go, his third shot in the sequence, and Illinois survived a wild finish to beat Missouri 59-58 on Saturday night in the annual Braggin’ Rights game.
Pruitt had 14 points and Trent Meacham 13 for Illinois (7-4), which has an eight-game winning streak in the annual holiday season neutral-site game.
California battled back from a 16 point first half deficit on Saturday afternoon, only to drop a heartbreaking 67-65 decision to Utah at Haas Pavilion. A stunned crowd of 7,387 saw Utes junior forward Shaun Green hit a high degree of difficulty driving shot with 1.4 seconds left to win it for the visitors.
New York Jets
East Rutherford, NJ (Sports Network) - The New York Jets placed wide receiver Laveranues Coles on the injured reserve list Saturday, eliminating any doubt about his status for Sunday’s game at Tennessee.
He had been questionable with an ankle injury, but now the Jets will be without their highest-scoring receiver. Coles, who will turn 30 on December 29, had caught 55 passes for 646 yards and six touchdowns.
Miami Dolphins
DAVIE, Fla. - Miami Dolphins linebacker Channing Crowder will miss the rest of the season because of an injured right knee. His roster spot was filled by quarterback Casey Bramlet leading to Sunday’s game against undefeated New England.
Crowder, sidelined the previous two games, was placed on injured reserve Saturday. He led the Dolphins with 78 tackles.
An £80m national centre for English football – without any footballers. Only this country and the various conflicting interests, factions, committee-men and garden-shed dictators that run our national game could have come up with that one.
English football is to have a new national centre but after six years and £25m of investment, the whole project could still be uprooted from its original site at Burton-upon-Trent and moved closer to London. The Football Association board want the centre to develop the future English coaches who will one day be qualified to succeed the new England manager, Fabio Capello.
CENTRAL Coast Mariners remain defiant they can claim the A-League minor premiership despite paying a heavy price for their dramatic 5-4 loss to Sydney FC in Gosford.
As many as six Mariners from Saturday night’s remarkable New South Wales derby could be sidelined for the league leaders next week, with three key players already confirmed out.
Australia hopeful Dean Heffernan suffered the biggest blow, with the defender undergoing surgery to have a screw inserted in his right leg after sustaining a season-ending broken tibia.