IN BRIEF
CARNEGIE — Bob McKee and Butch Neff won the Pennsylvania Horseshoes Class Adoubles championship Saturday.
McKee and Neff are members of the O'Donnell's team in the Butler County Horseshoe League. O'Donnell's will face Roadhouse for the league title this Sunday.
GREENSBURG— Butler Country Coub assistant pro Rob McClellan was a double winner at Wednesday's Ashworth Pro-Pro-Am-Am at Totteridge Golf Club.McClellan teamed with Totteridge pro Ryan Sikora and amateurs Jeff Dyer and Brandon Antus to win the pro-am best ball portion of the event, carding a 14-under-par 130 for 36 holes.McClelland and Sikora won the pro-pro better ball with a 63.John Aubrey Sr. of Aubrey's Dubbs Dred teamed with Craig Mankins, Frank Fairman and Butler's Jon Pratkanis to finish second in the pro-am, four strokes back.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Patriots signed quarterback Matt Gutierrez to their practice squad Wednesday, choosing a youngster who knows their system over a more experienced player who would have to learn it.Gutierrez could be activated for Sunday's game at the New York Jets. After last Sunday's season-ending left knee injury to Tom Brady in the season opening 17-10 win over Kansas City, the Patriots' two quarterbacks are starter Matt Cassel and rookie Kevin O'Connell.
AUSTIN, Texas — With Hurricane Ike barreling toward the Texas coast, sports officials across the state are postponing games, moving them inland, changing starting times or still trying to decide if games will be played this weekend.Saturday's scheduled matchup between No. 8 Texas and Arkansas was postponed until Sept. 27, which was an open date for both schools. Houston moved its game with Air Force to Dallas, and TCU moved up the starting time for its game with Stanford.Baylor officials said they were still monitoring Ike before deciding what to do with their 11:30 a.m. kickoff against Washington State.
BOSTON — Curt Schilling blasted New York sports fans, calling them "bitter and mad and miserable" for their apparent glee over Patriots quarterback Tom Brady's knee injury.Schilling talked about Brady's injury Tuesday during his weekly appearance on WEEI radio, and said New York fans are perhaps excited about Brady's injury because they are bitter that the Yankees are having a down year.
BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. — Clint Dempsey scored his fourth goal in four games, Michael Bradley and Brian Ching padded the margin, and the United States' offense finally got on track in a 3-0 victory over Trinidad and Tobago in World Cup qualifying Wednesday night.
