Newsmakers
Sidelined TCU leading rusher Waymon James will miss the rest of the football season for the 17th-ranked Horned Frogs because of a left knee injury. Jones appeared to get hurt in the fourth quarter Saturday of Big 12 newcomer TCU’s 20-6 win at Kansas. He clutched his knee after making a cut on a run.
Signed One-time high school football star Brian Banks, who was recently exonerated in a California rape case in which he was falsely accused, is finally getting a chance to play professional football. The 26-year-old linebacker signed with the Las Vegas Locomotives of the United Football League. Banks was trying to land a spot in the NFL and got his first tryout with the Seattle Seahawks.
• Alexander Ovechkin is returning to his former Russian team Dynamo Moscow during the NHL lockout. The KHL team said that it signed the Washington Capitals star to a contract that lasts until the lockout ends.
Ordered A federal court judge in Nevada ordered boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. to pay about $114,000 in lawyer fees and costs for avoiding questioning from rival fighter Manny Pacquiao’s lawyers. The judge ruled that Mayweather violated a court order to be questioned under oath by Pacquiao’s attorneys in a civil defamation lawsuit. Pacquiao accuses Mayweather of defamation for statements alleging that the Filipino fighter used performance-enhancing substances.
Pleaded Suspended Iowa State basketball player Bubu Palo pleaded not guilty to one charge of sexual abuse. Palo was suspended Sept. 7 after being charged with sexually abusing a woman he was driving home earlier this year. The criminal complaint says the men offered to give a woman a ride home on May 18, but instead drove her to a home owned by Cruise’s family and “committed a sex act by force against the victim’s will.”
Announced Middleweight fighter Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. could be stripped of his $3 million purse, depending on the explanation he offers to Nevada boxing regulators about a positive test for marijuana after his first professional loss last weekend in Las Vegas, officials said. The commission can ban a fighter for one year and penalize him for up to 100 percent of his purse for a failed test, officials said. Sergio Martinez won a unanimous decision.
• Professional wrestler and commentator Jerry “The King” Lawler says he had no warning before collapsing with a mild heart attack while announcing a World Wrestling Entertainment event last week. He said he doesn’t remember taking part in a tag team match Sept. 10 or moving ringside to work as a commentator that night.