Bettman upset with union’s 3 proposals

NHL: NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman received three counterproposals from the players’ association on Thursday and left the negotiating table “thoroughly disappointed.”

No new talks have been scheduled, and the possibility of a full hockey regular season is quickly shrinking.

“This is not a good day,” union executive director Donald Fehr said. “It should have been.”

The players’ association offered multiple options in response to the NHL’s offer on Tuesday that called for an 82-game season and a 50-50 split of hockey-related revenues between owners and players.

Bettman said that proposal was the “best that we could do” and added that the two sides are still far apart.

“None of the three variations of player share that they gave us even began to approach 50-50, either at all or for some long period of time,” Bettman said.

“It’s clear we’re not speaking the same language.”

Bettman said he was still hopeful the league can have a full season, but time is running out to make that happen.

Bettman said Tuesday that the sides would have to reach an agreement by Thursday for a full season to be played.

Fehr said two of the union’s proposals would have the players take a fixed amount of revenue, which would turn into an approximate 50-50 split over the deal, provided league revenues continued to grow.

The third approach would be a 50-50 split, as long as the league honored all existing contracts at full value.

Fehr said the players would sacrifice nearly $1.8 billion in revenue under the league’s proposal. He added that concessions made by the players in the last round of bargaining have cost them $3.3 billion over the term of the last agreement.

Coroner: Reid died from heroin overdose

NFL: An accidental heroin overdose killed Garrett Reid, the son of Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid, a coroner said.

Northampton County (Pa.) coroner Zachary Lysek said a toxicology test confirmed the presence of heroin in Garrett Reid’s body. Investigators revealed they found a used syringe and spoon in his room, along with a gym bag filled with dozens of syringes and needles, many of them unopened.

Reid was found dead in his dorm room early on Aug. 5 at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, where he was assisting the team’s strength and conditioning coach during training camp.

Cauley, Dawson tied for lead at Sea Island

Golf: The McGladrey Classic at Sea Island in St. Simons Island, Ga., is where Bud Cauley did well enough to secure his PGA Tour card, joining an elite list of players who went from college to a full tour card without going to Q-school. Now he’s after his first win, and Cauley took a big step by overpowering the course for an 8-under-par 62.

It was his best score on the tour, and it gave him a share of the lead with Marco Dawson.

Boo Weekley and Rod Pampling joined Greg Owen at 64. Ryder Cup captain Davis Love III, the tournament host, was in a group at 65 that included David Toms and Camilo Villegas.

• PGA Tour acquires Canadian Tour : The PGA Tour has acquired the Canadian Tour, giving it smaller circuits north of the border and in South America as a potential starting point to eventually reach the big leagues.

<p>Web.com Tour cards will be awarded to the top five players on what will be called “PGA Tour Canada,” with the next five players given exemptions into the final stage of qualifying school for the Web.com Tour. The circuit will have at least eight tournaments, each with prize money of about $150,000.

Miscellany: Tommy Haas won for the 500th time in his career, reaching the milestone by defeating Jesse Levine of the U.S. 6-4, 6-2 at the Erste Bank Open in Vienna. Haas is the 38th player in the modern era to have won 500 matches. Only three others are still active – Roger Federer (871), Rafael Nadal (583) and Lleyton Hewitt (566).

• Hamlin crashes during testing at Kansas: Weeks after Dale Earnhardt Jr. sustained a concussion during a tire test on Kansas Speedway’s repaved surface in Kansas City, Denny Hamlin slammed into the wall at 202 mph during a day of testing. He was encouraged to seek an evaluation in the care center.

• UCI could respond ‘any time’ to Armstrong report: Cycling’s governing body could respond “at any time” to the report by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency that seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong was a serial drug cheat. The International Cycling Union received USADA’s report last week and has until the end of the month to decide whether to accept the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency’s decision to strip Lance Armstrong of his Tour titles or appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.