Miscellany

Darrin Smith, who missed the Dallas Cowboys’ first six games, finally agreed to a contract that will pay him for the final 10 games of the season.

Terms of the contract were not released, but Cowboys vice president Stephen Jones said the deal leaves the team about $25,000 under the NFL’s $37.1 million salary cap. Jones said the deal includes performance bonuses.

Jones said he expects Smith to play Oct. 29 at Atlanta - the game in which cornerback Deion Sanders is expected to debut.

St. Louis’ Trans World Dome won’t be ready for the St. Louis Rams’ Oct. 22 game against San Francisco.

The Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority, which is in charge of building the $260 million domed stadium, ended months of speculation when it announced that it could not guarantee the stadium would be “football ready” in time.

A day after a frustrated Darius Kasparaitis stormed out of New York Islanders practice because he felt no progress was being made toward a new contract, the Islanders announced they had signed the defenseman to an undisclosed multiyear deal.

Charles Douglas Cline, an original member of the Houston Oilers, was buried Friday at Rutherford College, N.C. He was 57.

A former linebacker, Cline played for seven seasons with the Oilers and joined the San Diego Chargers in 1966.