Red Wings forward Valtteri Filppula is out indefinitely after breaking his right wrist in Thursday’s loss in Edmonton. The Finn has six points this season . . . Chicago Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews missed his fourth straight game because of concussion-like symptoms, sitting out last night against Montreal. Toews hasn’t resumed skating after a crushing open-ice hit from Vancouver’s Willie Mitchell Oct. 21. Toews is listed as day-to-day.

Connecticut picked up right where it left off last season: unanimous No. 1 in the Associated Press women’s poll. The Huskies received all 40 first-place votes from a national media panel. Stanford was voted second and Ohio State third, with Notre Dame and North Carolina rounding out the top five . . . Bentley’s men’s team is ranked ninth in the National Association of Basketball Coaches preseason Division 2 rankings. Merrimack was picked 15th.

Venus Williams joined Serena Williams in the semifinals of the WTA Sony Ericsson Championships along with Jelena Jankovic and Caroline Wozniacki in Doha, Qatar. Venus Williams, the defending champion, lost her first two group matches but advanced on sets when Svetlana Kuznetsova beat Elena Dementieva, 6-3, 6-2. Jankovic routed Wozniacki, 6-2, 6-2, who also advanced when Victoria Azarenka retired against Agnieszka Radwanska, trailing, 4-6, 7-5, 4-1 . . . Top-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga lost in the Lyon Grand Prix quarterfinals in France, falling, 5-7, 6-4, 7-6 (10-8), to Arnaud Clement, who next plays third seed Ivan Ljubicic. Ljubicic beat Florent Serra, 7-6 (8-6), 6-2, serving 16 aces . . . Andre Agassi, who admits to drug use in his upcoming autobiography, told People magazine he used crystal meth periodically for “a year or so.’’

John Cook shot a tournament-record 10-under-par 62 in Sonoma, Calif., to take a three-stroke lead over Tom Watson and Phil Blackmar after the second round of the Champions Tour’s season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship. Watson shot a 64. Blackmar had five birdies on the back nine for a 67 . . . Jim White shot a 6-under 66 for a share of the second-round lead with Kim Thompson in the Senior PGA Professional National Championship in Port St. Lucie, Fla. Thompson had a 67 to match White at 9-under 135 . . . PGA Tour officials postponed the Viking Classic in Madison, Wis., until at least tomorrow.

The Manchester (N.H.) Wolves arena football team says it’s shutting down. General manager Stephanie Bike said the franchise will not join the new Arena Football 1 League for the 2010 season. The Wolves played from 2002-09 in the arenafootball2 league . . . The New York Racing Association barred trainer Jeff Mullins from Aqueduct, Belmont, and Saratoga for six months for violating its barn rules by giving one of his horses an unknown substance and then providing conflicting information about it . . . Jockey Julia Brimo, 33, was hospitalized in critical condition at the University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital following a spill at Keeneland.