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Key duo might miss Gators' opener
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Fifth-ranked Florida may be without receiver Percy Harvin and middle linebacker Brandon Spikes for its Saturday opener against Hawaii.
Harvin, who is still battling a right heel injury that required offseason surgery, participated in portions of practice last Friday and Saturday, but the 5-11, 195-pound junior has been unable to go full speed since the second day of fall practice on Aug. 5.
"He still has reaction where once he goes for a little bit he has to watch it because it gets sore on him," coach Urban Meyer said.
The speedy Harvin rushed for 764 yards and six touchdowns and caught a team-high 59 passes for 858 yards and four touchdowns last season.
Meyer said Spikes injured his right foot during practice last week.
The 6-foot-3, 245-pound junior was a first-team all-SEC selection last season after finishing second in the league with 131 tackles.
Both players will be re-evaluated later in the week, Meyer said.
SEC, ESPN sign 15-year deal
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The Southeastern Conference signed a 15-year deal with ESPN to televise football games and other league sports.
The deal begins with the 2009-10 season. The SEC had already announced a 15-year pact with CBS earlier in August. The league had been considering starting its own network.
The football coverage will include games on Saturday night and two prime-time Thursday games. The deal adds a second and third night of SEC basketball games on ESPN and ESPN2 and includes coverage of league championships in women's basketball, baseball, softball and gymnastics. In other college news:
NBA
Mavericks sign veteran George
DALLAS - The Dallas Mavericks re-signed forward Devean George nearly six months after the veteran player blocked a trade to the New Jersey Nets.
George played his first seven seasons for the Los Angeles Lakers before signing with the Mavericks in 2006.
Terms of the deal were not immediately available.
George earned NBA championship rings in each of his first three seasons with the Lakers and blocked a deal earlier this year to be traded to the Nets in exchange for point guard Jason Kidd and other players.
Sun Yue signs with Lakers
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. - Sun Yue, a second-round pick in the 2007 NBA draft, signed a multiyear contract with the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers.
Terms of the deal were not announced.
The 23-year-old Sun, a 6-9 guard taken with the 40th overall selection by the Lakers in last year's draft, averaged 6.8 points, 1.7 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 1.33 steals in six games for China in the Olympic Games in Beijing.
NFL
Former Cowboys lineman dies
DALLAS - Frank Cornish IV, an offensive lineman on two of the Dallas Cowboys' Super Bowl champion teams in the 1990s, died over the weekend at age 40.
Mr. Cornish was pronounced dead Saturday morning at a Grapevine hospital, where he was taken from his home in nearby Southlake. His death was caused by heart disease, the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's office found.
Mr. Cornish played in the NFL for six years and was a backup with the Cowboys in the 1992 and 1993 seasons, when they won Super Bowls. He started five games for Dallas those years.
HORSE RACING
Kentucky regulators ban steroids
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Kentucky horse racing regulators approved a major ban on anabolic steroids that could outlaw the drugs for next year's Kentucky Derby and other races in the state.
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission approved the measure unanimously. Gov. Steve Beshear has said he'll support an emergency order to enact the ban in time for next year's Derby. - From Wire Reports
