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NFL
Frye may start for Hasselbeck
Seattle quarterback Matt Hasselbeck served as spectator all week during practice.
He’ll likely reprise that role Sunday for the Seahawks (1-3).
Hasselbeck’s sore right knee hasn’t received clearance to play against Green Bay, meaning that Charlie Frye will likely be the starter against the Packers, coach Mike Holmgren said after practice Friday.
Frye, the only healthy QB on the roster, took almost all the snaps in practice this week, while Hasselbeck rested his knee and backup Seneca Wallace nursed a sore calf.
Holmgren said there is still a slight chance Hasselbeck could get cleared to play, but Holmgren must have the belief Hasselbeck won’t be at an increased risk with a knee not at 100 percent to consider putting him in the game.
The Seahawks likely won’t have receiver Deion Branch, who didn’t practice all week and was listed as questionable with a bruised heel. But Holmgren plans on starting Bobby Engram and Koren Robinson at receiver after Robinson had a full week of practice without any problems from a sore knee.
Keary Colbert, Billy McMullen and Michael Bumpus will rotate in as Seattle’s other receivers.
Track and field
Montgomery gets 5 years
Disgraced former Olympic star Tim Montgomery, once dubbed “the world’s fastest man,” was sentenced to five years in prison for dealing heroin to an informant.
“I was blind – I never had a job in my life,” Montgomery told U.S. District Judge Jerome B. Friedman. “I did the wrong thing.”
Montgomery, 33, will serve the five-year sentence after he completes a 46-month prison term for an unrelated conviction in New York.
Under an agreement with the government, he pleaded guilty in July to possession and distribution of more than 100 grams of heroin. He received the minimum term under federal sentencing guidelines.
Montgomery won an Olympic gold medal in the 400-meter relay at the 2000 games and a silver in the same event four years earlier. A doping scandal wiped his achievements from the books.