Fast Break
NFL
Alexander out, Branch a maybe
Shaun Alexander will not play for the Seattle Seahawks until he’s healthy enough to practice full time.
“I told him until he can practice the whole week … I’m not going to put him on the field,” coach Mike Holmgren said.
Alexander has been hampered all season by a broken left wrist, and added a twisted left knee and ankle to the equation two weeks ago.
Holmgren left open the possibility that wide receiver Deion Branch could make his return Sunday. Branch has been out since he sprained his right foot in the Seahawks’ loss at Pittsburgh on Oct. 7.
College basketball
Zags face Riverside
No. 14 Gonzaga (2-0) returns to the court against UC Riverside (0-3) tonight at 5 at the McCarthey Athletic Center. The Highlanders, under first-year coach Jim Wooldridge, are wrapping up a four-game, 10-day road trip to open the season.
UC Riverside led Eastern Washington by 11 at halftime Thursday but was outscored 37-18 in the second half.
After tonight, Gonzaga’s next five games are away from home, beginning with Western Kentucky on Thursday in the Great Alaska Shootout in Anchorage.
Update
Harris’ wife asks for help
The wife of missing former Washington State basketball player Tony Harris has set up Web site on MySpace and is asking for help to finance the search for her husband.
Lori (Eastep) Harris, a former Washington State volleyball player and Pullman High volleyball coach in the mid-‘90s, is asking for help at myspace.com/findtonyharris.
Harris left Seattle on Oct. 31 to play basketball for a professional team in Brazil’s capital, Brasília, where he previously had played for several years. Harris, who led WSU to the NCAA tournament in 1994, has not been heard from since a distressing phone call to his wife on Nov. 4.
“We are aware of the incident, and we know the local officials are engaged and we’re closely monitoring them as they handle the investigation,” Steve Royster, spokesman for Consular Affairs at the State Department in Washington, D.C., told the Seattle Times.