Owens ready to end quarrel

PHILADELPHIA – Terrell Owens is ready to end his feud with Donovan McNabb.

Owens and McNabb haven’t been on speaking terms throughout the preseason, but the All-Pro wide receiver said Tuesday in an interview on ESPN that he plans to talk to McNabb before Philadelphia’s season opener at Atlanta on Monday night.

“It’s not that I hate Donovan. I love Donovan. I don’t hate him at all,” Owens said, speaking publicly for the first time since he returned from a one-week exile from training camp three weeks ago. “I was just disappointed in a few things. I have the right to do that.

“Everybody speaks out of emotion. Everybody speaks out of frustration. Everybody’s done it. That means I’m human. If you want me to go in and say I was wrong, maybe I was. Maybe I wasn’t.”

Owens started the friction in April when he took a shot at McNabb, saying he “wasn’t the guy who got tired in the Super Bowl.”

McNabb responded harshly, insisting he didn’t get sick and wasn’t tired in the fourth quarter of the Eagles’ 24-21 loss to New England.

After he was banished from camp last month following a heated dispute with coach Andy Reid, Owens again went after McNabb, calling the five-time Pro Bowl quarterback a hypocrite. Owens has changed his act since returning to practice.