Newsmakers

Out Stanford tight end Levine Toilolo will miss the rest of the season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee. Toilolo, who earned the starting spot for No. 25 Stanford’s opener against Sacramento State on Saturday, was hurt during the game’s second play. He caught a 27-yard pass from Andrew Luck and was hit with a helmet to his knee. “It’s really unfortunate,” Cardinal coach Jim Harbaugh said Tuesday. “He had prepared so well for the year and risen to the starting job. I feel sickened by it. I wanted to give him a hug after he said, ‘It’s OK, Coach, I’ll be back.’ ”

Sidelined Alabama tailback Mark Ingram has missed another practice ahead of the Penn State game. Ingram didn’t practice with a left knee injury that kept the Heisman Trophy winner out of the top-ranked Crimson Tide’s opener against San Jose State. Coach Nick Saban said that Ingram’s status would depend on how he progressed daily in his rehab. He said in order for him to put his star into the game against the 19th-ranked Nittany Lions, he had to “see Mark Ingram being Mark Ingram.”

Retired Embattled Kansas athletic director Lew Perkins retired 12 months early, following a year of controversy and embarrassment for both him and the school. Perkins, 65, said in June that he would retire in September 2011. Instead, he and chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little announced he was leaving immediately and didn’t make themselves available to reporters to explain why. Senior associate athletics director Sean Lester, who came in with Perkins in 2003, was named interim athletic director.

Signed The Montreal Canadiens have signed veteran center Jeff Halpern to a one-year contract for $600,000. The 34-year-old Halpern joined his fifth NHL team. Halpern split last season between Tampa Bay and Los Angeles. He had nine goals and 10 assists. In 720 career games with Washington, Dallas, Tampa and Los Angeles, he has 131 goals.

Set Olympic figure skating champion Kim Yu-na is set to train in Los Angeles. Although for how long and under whose tutelage still remains to be seen. Since splitting from her longtime coach Brian Orser in a public spat last month, Kim had remained coy on her future plans.