BETHLEHEM - A day after they booted Terrell Owens out of training camp, the Philadelphia Eagles took an even harder stance on their star's contract dispute:

T.O. can play for the Eagles or he won't play at all.

Team president Joe Banner said that when the banished wide receiver returns to camp next week, it will be without the new contract he desperately wants and with an understanding that he can no longer become a disruption.

Owens' timeout from training camp won't end until he meets with coach Andy Reid next week. He was told to go home Wednesday after a heated dispute with Reid - and to stay there for a week.

TORONTO - The Toronto Maple Leafs signed unrestricted free agent Eric Lindros to a one-year contract.The team didn't release terms of the deal but it was expected to include bonuses based on games played.Lindros, 32, played 39 games for the New York Rangers in 2003-2004 collecting 10 goals and 22 assists with 60 penalty minutes.

INDIANAPOLIS - A foot injury kept Chellsie Memmel out of last year's Olympics. Now that she's healthy again, she's looking more like the girl who hauled in all that gold in 2003.The double gold medalist at the 2003 world championships outperformed pre-meet favorite Nastia Liukin, finishing first in preliminaries at the U.S. Gymnastics Championships. Memmel scored 38.382 points, putting her almost a point ahead of Liukin.Liukin, who was hurt by a major slip on the balance beam, is third with 37.515 points. Jana Bieger, third behind Liukin in last year's junior division, is second with 37.615 points.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Reed Sorenson, a hotshot 19-year-old Busch Series driver, will run a full Nextel Cup schedule next season in a fourth team for Chip Ganassi Racing, two people within the team told The Associated Press.A formal announcement was scheduled for Friday at Watkins Glen International, and the two sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity confirmed that Sorenson would be introduced as the driver of the No. 41 Dodge. They did not want to be identified before Sorenson's official introduction.