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INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Pacers guard Stephen Jackson was led away in handcuffs Thursday after a judge entered a not guilty plea on his behalf on a felony charge of criminal recklessness and two other counts for a fight outside a strip club.

Jackson was booked into jail and released after posting $10,000 bond, a spokesman with the prosecutor's office said.

Authorities say Jackson, already on probation for his role in the brawl with Detroit Pistons fans two years ago, shot a gun in the air at least five times during the fight outside Club Rio on Oct. 6.

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — This might be the final season for Kurt Warner in the NFL.The 35-year-old Arizona Cardinals quarterback, who lost his starting job to rookie Matt Leinart last week, said Thursday he is considering retirement after this season.

PALM DESERT, Calif. — Michelle Wie didn't exactly steal the show at the Samsung World Championship Thursday.If anything, she held it up.Wie took a half-hour to play the 14th hole at Bighorn with two rulings, a whiff, an unplayable lie from a desert bush and a shot off the cement cart path just to get back to the fairway. She wound up with a quadruple-bogey 8 on the shortest par 4 at Bighorn, sending her to a 2-over 74.The real show belonged to Lorena Ochoa and Annika Sorenstam.Both waited endlessly along the back nine for the Wie rulings, although it hardly affected their games. Ochoa fired off four birdies in five holes, and Sorenstam caught up with her in the final holes as both finished at 67.

Floyd Landis took his case to the public with an online presentation that included key elements of his defense against doping charges. Exhaustive as it appeared, his attorney said Thursday, "This is by no means everything."Landis is scheduled to go before an arbitration panel in January or February and formally appeal doping violations that could cost him his Tour de France and a two-year ban. Rather than wait several months to present his defense in a public form, portions of it were posted on his Web site.

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