Sports Log
Football
All signs are pointing toward Matt Hasselbeck returning to quarterback the reeling Seahawks against Jacksonville. The three-time Pro Bowl passer looked sharp while completing a second consecutive practice yesterday, his first work since he broke a rib Sept. 20 on a dive for the goal line at San Francisco. Hasselbeck took the majority of snaps with the first-team offense, with backup Seneca Wallace left with only a few snaps . . . Giants coach Tom Coughlin declined to predict whether quarterback Eli Manning would be able to start his 83d straight game, saying only that inflammation in Manning’s heel was feeling better . . . Matthew Stafford and the Detroit Lions are being coy about the quarterback’s injured right knee and his status. Stafford, who missed a second straight practice, wouldn’t say if his kneecap was dislocated or if he would play Sunday against the Pittsburgh Steelers . . . The NFL has given the Arizona Cardinals a 24-hour extension to the television blackout deadline for Sunday’s game in Glendale against the Houston Texans . . . Leon Clarke, a two-time Pro Bowl wide receiver in the NFL with Cleveland and Minnesota, and who played for Southern California in the 1955 Rose Bowl, has died at 76.Baseball
Astros, Moehler exercise 2010 option
Brian Moehler and the Houston Astros exercised a mutual $3 million contract option for next season. The righthander was 8-12 with a 5.47 ERA in 29 starts this year. His deal originally included a $2.3 million club option for 2010 with a $250,000 buyout, but it became a mutual option at a higher salary because he reached 150 innings this year. Moehler pitched 154 2/3 innings, one season after going 11-8 with a 4.56 ERA for the Astros . . . Indians shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera and reliever Chris Perez have undergone surgical procedures since the season ended. The team said Cabrera had an arthroscopic operation on his right elbow. Perez had a loose bone and cyst removed from the back of his ankle . . . The NCAA settled a lawsuit with former Oklahoma State pitcher Andrew Oliver, who sued after he was ruled ineligible for using legal advisers in contract negotiations with a major league team. The NCAA agreed to pay $750,000 to Oliver, who was a second-round draft pick by the Detroit Tigers.Hockey
Sharks’ Staubitz suspended 1 game
San Jose Sharks forward Brad Staubitz has been suspended for one game for his hit on Los Angeles Kings’ Davis Drewiske. He will lose $2,590 in salary but will be eligible to return tomorrow against Minnesota . . . Atlanta Thrashers defenseman Boris Valabik is expected to miss 4-6 weeks after having surgery to repair a high ankle sprain . . . Chris Chelios could be back on the ice Monday, skating with the Chicago Wolves of the American Hockey League. Chelios, 47, was not re-signed by the Detroit Red Wings after last season. Chelios has played 25 NHL seasons, winning three Stanley Cups and three Norris Trophies as the league’s top defenseman.Olympics
Jones’s relay team seeks medals
Marion Jones’s relay teammates will learn by Dec. 18 whether they can keep their medals from the 2000 Sydney Olympics. “We’ll have to wait until then,’’ IOC vice president Thomas Bach said at an IOC meeting in Copenhagen. Jones lost all five of her medals - including three gold - after admitting in 2007 she was using performance-enhancing drugs at the time of the Games. The Americans won gold in the 4 x 400-meter relay and bronze in the 4 x 100 relay. Jones’s teammates on the 4 x 400 relay squad were Jearl-Miles Clark, Monique Hennagan, LaTasha Colander-Richardson, and Andrea Anderson. The 4 x 100 relay squad had Chryste Gaines, Torri Edwards, Nanceen Perry, and Passion Richardson . . . Swimmer Dara Torres’s arthritic left knee is damaged worse than she thought, requiring a radical, reconstructive procedure that will leave her with a recovery of 12-18 months. But she said she’s not giving up on the London Games . . . Former world and US figure skating champion Kimmie Meissner has withdrawn from The Cup of Russia and the NHK Trophy because of knee problems. The 2006 world gold medalist and 2007 US champ has been bothered by tendinitis in her right knee after suffering a dislocated kneecap. That almost certainly will keep Meissner off the US team for the Vancouver Olympics.Miscellany
Frazier can’t sue tribe in New York
A federal appeals court ruled former heavyweight boxing champion Joe Frazier cannot sue the Oneida Indian Nation over the use of his picture to promote a fight at a casino because of the tribe’s sovereign status. The 2d US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said that Frazier will have to take his dispute with the operator of the Turning Stone Casino to the tribe’s own court. Frazier sued the tribe in 2002, saying it used his picture without permission to promote a June 2001 boxing match between his daughter, Jacqui Frazier-Lyde, and the daughter of Muhammad Ali, Laila Ali . . . A preliminary hearing has been set for Jan. 15 in Las Vegas for boxing trainer Roger Mayweather, who is accused of attacking a female boxer he once trained. The woman told police Mayweather attacked her Aug. 2 at an apartment he was renting out. He is charged with felony coercion and battery-strangulation . . . The Boston Breakers agreed to terms with free agents Tiffany Weimer and Erika Sutton for the 2010 Women’s Professional Soccer season.
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