Newsmakers
Rejoins: Former Washington State quarterback Alex Brink rejoined the Houston Texans on Tuesday after being released in June. He’ll work as Houston’s third quarterback while Rex Grossman recovers from a hamstring injury.
Signs The NBA’s Orlando Magic have announced signing free-agent guard Jason Williams. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Williams retired in September 2008 after playing a season for the Miami Heat, where he averaged 8.8 points per game. He did not play the 2008-09 season. Williams has played in 679 career NBA regular-season games with Sacramento, Memphis and Miami.
Indicted Chicago Blackhawks star Patrick Kane and a cousin have been indicted in Buffalo, N.Y., on misdemeanor assault and theft charges after he was accused of beating up a cab driver over a fare dispute. The grand jury dismissed a more serious felony charge of second-degree robbery. Kane, 20, and his cousin, James Kane, 21, were arrested Aug. 9 after 62-year-old cabbie Jan Radecki told police they attacked him when he said he didn’t have 20 cents in change for the fare.
Died Former Cincinnati basketball star Paul “Duke” Hogue, a center on the Bearcats’ back-to-back national championship teams, has died at age 69. The 6-foot-9-inch center helped lead the Bearcats to NCAA championships in 1961 and 1962.
Selected Former Georgetown basketball coach John Thompson, the late Kay Yow and high school coaching legend Jack Curran were selected to receive the second annual Lapchick Character Awards.
Pleads A former Kentucky high school football coach has pleaded not guilty to a charge of wanton endangerment related to a practice where a player collapsed and later died. David Jason Stinson entered the plea in Louisville, Ky., as his attorneys sought to have the new charge tried separately from a charge of reckless homicide. The reckless homicide charge, a rare case of a coach being charged in a player’s death, is scheduled to go to trial Aug. 31. Both charges stem from the Aug. 23, 2008, death of 15-year-old lineman Max Gilpin. Gilpin had collapsed at another practice three days earlier.