Titans QB McNair will return after injury-plagued ‘04 season

Tennessee Titans quarterback Steve McNair, whose injury-plagued 2004 season left him considering retirement, says he feels good again and plans to return for his 11th season.

McNair hurt his chest last September, and wound up missing eight games. In December, McNair had surgery to graft a sliver of bone from his right hip onto his sternum to strengthen it. Doctors have been monitoring his recovery with periodic tests.

“I am excited about coming back to play this season. I feel good physically. My sternum is healing,” he said.

NFL turns in drug-testing documents

The NFL met Friday’s deadline for turning over documents about its drug-testing results and policy to the congressional panel that held last month’s hearing on steroids in baseball.

“They were just delivered. We’ll start going through them,” said Karen Lightfoot, spokeswoman for the House Government Reform Committee’s ranking Democrat, Henry Waxman of California.

Legal battle over Redskins’ name continues

Major American Indian groups went to court trying to revoke the Washington Redskins’ trademark name, calling it a disparaging reference to millions of people.

Four national organizations joined a District of Columbia resident who sued in 1992 to pressure the team to drop the Redskins moniker because they consider it offensive. But a team lawyer argued that the appeal should be dismissed because the legal complaints weren’t filed until decades after the name was first adopted in 1933.