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** FILE ** NFL Players Association Executive Director Gene Upshaw talks with reporters in Detroit in a Friday, Feb. 3, 2006 photo. NFL labor talks broke off Tuesday three days before the start of free agency, leaving teams and players in a quandary about negotiating new contracts. Gene Upshaw, executive director of the NFL Players Association, spent the last three days meeting in New York and Washington with commissioner Paul Tagliabue. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, file) ORG XMIT: NY159 (Michael Conroy / The Spokesman-Review)
** FILE ** NFL Players Association Executive Director Gene Upshaw talks with reporters in Detroit in a Friday, Feb. 3, 2006 photo. NFL labor talks broke off Tuesday three days before the start of free agency, leaving teams and players in a quandary about negotiating new contracts. Gene Upshaw, executive director of the NFL Players Association, spent the last three days meeting in New York and Washington with commissioner Paul Tagliabue. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, file) ORG XMIT: NY159 (Michael Conroy / The Spokesman-Review)

NFL

Upshaw, 63, dies of cancer

Gene Upshaw, a towering lineman on the football field who went on to win untold millions of dollars for NFL players as their union leader, has died at age 63.

Upshaw died Wednesday night at his home near California’s Lake Tahoe, of pancreatic cancer, the NFL Players Association said Thursday.

Upshaw had a Hall of Fame career as a guard for the Oakland Raiders and was the long-time director of the NFL Players Association.

ArenaCup

Shock game on KQUP

KQUP-TV will televise the ArenaCup, the championship game of arenafootball2 between Tennessee Valley and Spokane on Monday at the Spokane Arena. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m.

The telecast can be seen on cable channel 24 in Spokane, cable channel 16 in Coeur d’Alene and channel 47 over the air.

Basketball

Annual event fights cancer

The seventh annual Coaches vs. Cancer fundraising event, hosted by Gonzaga men’s basketball coach Mark Few and his wife Marcy, kicked off Thursday.

The 2007 event brought in a record $775,000 in support of cancer research and other local cancer-fighting organizations.

UNLV’s Lon Kruger, New Mexico’s Steve Alford, San Diego’s Bill Grier, Long Beach State’s Dan Monson and Montana’s Wayne Tinkle are among the coaches expected to attend. The weekend itinerary includes golf today at the Spokane Country Club and Saturday at Indian Canyon, followed by a black-tie dinner and auction Saturday night at the Davenport Hotel.

Football

Scrimmage at G-Prep

Eastern Washington University will stage its second scrimmage of the fall this afternoon at Gonzaga Prep.

The scrimmage, originally scheduled for this morning at Woodward Field, will start at approximately 2:30 and, according to first-year coach Beau Baldwin, will be tightly controlled.

It was moved to G-Prep because of the recent wet weather and delays in the track resurfacing project at Woodward.

Associated Press Jim Meehan