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INDIANAPOLIS – Colts running back Kenton Keith walked into a whole new world Monday afternoon. His cell phone was ringing and reporters surrounded his locker.\nThe former Canadian Football League player, who never had a serious chance in the NFL until this season, had become an instant star.\n“I knew I could do it,” Keith said. “It was just a matter of feeling comfortable with the game, the tempo of the offense and my position as a whole.”\nFor months, people around Indianapolis worried about the backup to feature running back Joseph Addai. Critics and online message boards constantly asked: Who is Kenton Keith, and why would the Colts go into the season with someone so untested?\nKeith heard everything, and Sunday, he laid to rest all \nthose doubts.\nLike unknown Colts running backs before him, most notably James Mungro and Dominic Rhodes, Keith had an emphatic answer in his first career start. He ran 28 times for 121 yards and two touchdowns, caught five passes for 37 yards and, perhaps most importantly, protected Super Bowl MVP Peyton Manning in passing situations.\nNobody seemed to notice that Addai was out with a bruised shoulder.\n“I’m more proud of me being in there and keeping my wind,” said Keith, who never had more than 17 carries in a pro game until Sunday. “I’d not really had a chance to go more than six or seven plays in a row in a game before this, and the week before I was tired after running five in a row.”\nIt’s not that Keith didn’t have talent, he simply got lost in the shuffle.\nIn four CFL seasons, he ran for more than 3,800 yards, topped 1,000 yards twice, caught 52 passes in 2006 with Saskatchewan and had eight touchdown receptions in 2003.\nHe also wanted to add to his family lineage.\nOne of his cousins is former NFL running back Roger Craig, the first player in league history to top 1,000 yards rushing and receiving in the same season. Another cousin is Ahman Green, who had six 1,000-yard seasons in Green Bay before joining Houston this year. His father, Percy, like Green and Craig, was a running back at Nebraska.\nUnlike his cousins and dad, though, Keith wound up going to New Mexico State, where he rushed for 2,134 yards in 39 career games and dropped off the radar of most NFL teams.\nOne, the New York Jets, signed him in 2004 – after his first CFL season. Buried behind Curtis Martin, LaMont Jordan and B.J. Askew, the Jets cut him before training camp opened and Keith headed back to Saskatchewan.\n“At the time, I didn’t know what a training camp body was,” Keith said. “When I left, I knew what it was. They didn’t really need me.”\nOne game changed everything.\nSome contend the Colts (5-0) could put almost anyone in the backfield and have a 100-yard rusher, and there is a hint of truth to that. Mungro, primarily a short-yardage back during his five seasons with the Colts, ran for 114 yards and a touchdown in his starting debut against Philadelphia in 2002 and Rhodes ran for more: 1,104 yards in 10 games – an NFL record for undrafted rookies – in 2001.\nYet the Colts insist there’s more to playing the position than impressive statistics.\n“Most of the backs that come into this league can run,” Dungy said. “It’s the other things where experience comes into play, things like pass protection, audibles and route-running. We weren’t really on the lookout for an experienced guy once we saw the guys in the preseason. We felt they’d be fine.”\nNow Keith is the toast of his native Omaha, Neb., and \nIndianapolis.\nHe had 87 missed calls by the time he made it back to the locker room Sunday, and heard tales of Omaha hangouts being filled with old fans watching the Colts game.\nBut the 27-year-old isn’t overwhelmed by his new fame.\n“I think people are expecting me to be overjoyed or whatever word you want to use,” Keith said. “I just did what I’ve been doing.\n“I don’t know what they’ll do right now. I’m pretty sure if they go with me or with me and Joe, yesterday gave them the confidence I can do it.”
Marion Jones has given up the five medals she won at the Sydney Olympics, days after admitting she used performance-enhancing drugs.\nIt wasn’t immediately clear where the medals are now. Jones’ lawyer, Henry DePippo, said Monday that she had relinquished them, but declined to say who had possession of them. The normal protocol would be for Jones to give them to the U.S. Olympic Committee, which then would return them to the International Olympic Committee, said International Olympic Committee spokeswoman Giselle Davies.\n“The IOC wants to move forward as quickly as possible in getting the facts and sorting out all the issues from the BALCO case,” Davies said.\nA call to the U.S. Olympic Committee was not immediately returned, but the group has scheduled a 7 p.m. EDT news conference. No one answered the door at Jones’ house in Austin, Texas.\nShe pleaded guilty Friday to lying to federal investigators about using steroids, saying she’d taken “the clear” from September 2000 to July 2001. “The clear” is the designer steroid that’s been linked to the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, the lab at the center of the steroids scandal in professional sports.\nIt wasn’t immediately clear what will happen next. The international committee and other sports bodies can go back eight years to strip medals and nullify results. In Jones’ case, that would include the 2000 Olympics, where she won gold in the 100 meters, 200 meters and 1,600 relay and bronze in the long jump and 400 relay.\nThe standings normally would be readjusted, with the second-place finisher moving up to gold, third to silver and fourth to bronze.\nPauline Davis-Thompson of the Bahamas was the silver medalist in the 200 meters and Tatiana Kotova of Russia was fourth in the long jump. The silver medalist in the 100 meters in Sydney was Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou – at the center of a major doping scandal at the Athens Olympics.\nShe and fellow Greek runner Kostas Kenteris failed to show up for drug tests on the eve of the games, claimed they were injured in a motorcycle accident and eventually pulled out. Both later were suspended for two years.\nThe relays could be a trickier issue, because there are more people involved. Jearl Miles-Clark, Monique Hennagan, Tasha Colander-Richardson and Andrea Anderson all won golds as part of the 1,600-meter relay. Jamaica finished second.\nChryste Gaines, Torri Edwards, Nanceen Perry and Passion Richardson were on the 400-meter relay, which finished third ahead of France.\nJones stands to lose more than her Olympic medals, too. The International Association of Athletics Federations can strip athletes of results and medals after notification of a doping violation, and it said last week it was waiting to hear from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. Jones won a gold (100 meters) and bronze (long jump) at the 1999 worlds in Seville, Spain, and two gold (200 and 400 relay) and a silver (100) at the 2001 championships in Edmonton.\nThe federation’s rules also allow for athletes busted for doping to be asked to pay back prize money and appearance fees. British sprinter Dwain Chambers, who admitted to using the clear, had to pay back a reported $230,615 before he was allowed to return to competition after a two-year ban.\nIt’s unclear whether this would be applied to Jones, who would have earned millions in prizes, bonuses and fees from meets all over the world, including a share of the $1 million Golden League jackpot in 2001 and 2002.
EAST LANSING, Mich. – Mark Dantonio expected growing pains in his first year as Michigan State’s head football coach. After back-to-back losses to Wisconsin and Northwestern, there’s little doubt that he’s smarting.\nThe Spartans (4-2, 0-2 Big Ten) know how close they came to an upset on Sept. 29, when they fell 37-34 at then No. 9 Wisconsin. And they have a right to feel upset with themselves after last weekend’s 48-41 overtime loss to visiting Northwestern.\nIt will take much better defense than that to stop the bleeding against explosive IU (5-1, 2-1) on Saturday. The Hoosiers’ record might be a surprise to some, but not to the MSU veterans who lost 46-21 last fall in Bloomington.\nDantonio insists his team won’t fold the way several recent squads did after an initial disappointment. And he should know the difference.\nDantonio was an assistant when Nick Saban’s 1999 Spartans started 6-0, were blown away by 54 points in consecutive thrashings at Purdue and Wisconsin, then finished 10-2 with four more victories, including a win over Florida in the Citrus Bowl.\n“If you’d said to me last spring, ‘You’re 4-2 after six games,’ you’d assume we weren’t playing that awful,” Dantonio said Monday. “The trouble is, the last two weeks were Big Ten games, and we had opportunities to win. But we don’t make the plays to get over the hump. We don’t make the calls to get over the hump. And we don’t coach to get over the hump.”\nThe Spartans’ challenge is to learn from a string of costly mistakes. For quarterback Brian Hoyer, that means a focus on the immediate future and forgetting about the past 10 days.\n“Watching that film yesterday made me sick,” Hoyer said. “And it was hard to sleep on Saturday night. I kept thinking about a couple of plays where I should’ve done something different.\n“But that’s something you can learn from and make the right play the next time.”\nThe play that kept Hoyer up was a rushed throw in overtime that barely missed wide-open tight end Kellen Davis for a tying touchdown. But Dantonio second-guessed himself, too, admitting that it wouldn’t have been a bad idea to give the ball to tailback Javon Ringer, who was averaging 15.4 yards per rush. Instead, Hoyer launched four incompletions toward the end zone.\n“We’re all growing, including myself,” Dantonio said. “We’re all trying to get to the point where we’re going to be successful. But this is a long-term project. As I said when I took the job, there are going to be times when we say to each other, ‘What happened? I wish this. I wish that.’ And there are going to be times when you don’t want to get out of bed on Sunday morning. This weekend was one of those days. But we can’t change what just happened.”
IU offensive leaders\nPassing: QB Kellen Lewis – 96-162 for 1228 yards, 14 TDs, five INTs\nRushing: QB Kellen Lewis – 63 carries, 372 yards, 5.9 yards per carry, three TDs\nReceiving: WR James Hardy – 20 catches for 400 yards, 20 yards per catch, seven TDs
INDIANAPOLIS – Tony Dungy hopes three of his injured starters can play against Tampa Bay this week. He just can’t count on it.\nSo when the Indianapolis Colts went back to work Wednesday, Dungy was making contingency plans for the possible absences of wide receiver Marvin Harrison, running back Joseph Addai and safety Bob Sanders – all of whom were hurt in last Sunday’s victory over Denver.\n“No one’s out, and if they can practice by Friday, it would be a plus, definitely,” the Colts coach said Wednesday before practice. “You can sit and wait and hope that they’ll come back, but I’ve never been one to do that. You have to move on.”\nThe three were not expected to practice Wednesday, and the only certainty was that outside linebacker Rob Morris, another starter, would be placed on injured reserve, ending his season. Morris, the Colts’ first-round pick in 2000 and a key ingredient in the defense’s playoff resurgence last season, had surgery Tuesday to repair a tendon in his left knee.\nBut uncertainty continues to swirl around three of the Colts’ biggest names.\nHarrison, fourth on the NFL’s all-time receptions chart, injured his left knee when Denver linebacker D.J. Williams rolled into Harrison’s leg while tackling Addai. When the series ended, Harrison headed to the locker room with what the Colts called a bruised knee.\n“I can’t say it would not be different if he wasn’t out there,” quarterback Peyton Manning said. “We certainly hope he will be.”\nAddai, last year’s top rookie rusher, bruised his right shoulder in the fourth quarter when he was tackled near midfield, and Sanders, the heart of the Colts defense, didn’t play in the second half against Denver after hurting his ribs.\nIt’s a familiar theme for the former Pro Bowl safety who entered this season hoping to play all 16 games for the first time in his four-year career. He missed 24 of 48 games in his first three seasons.\n“Obviously, Bob is a big part of our defense, and if he’s not out there, we’ll miss him,” middle linebacker Gary Brackett said.\nAnother factor in Dungy’s decision may be timing.\nThe Colts (4-0) have a bye next week, and because Tampa Bay plays in the NFC, the game won’t have the same tiebreaker implications as an AFC opponent. Holding all three players out would give them two weeks to recuperate.\nPlus, the Colts appear to have enough depth to overcome most of the injuries.\nBackup safety Matt Giordano played extensively in Sanders’ absence last season and has been even better this year in limited action.\nSix-year veteran Rocky Boiman, who has one start, 11 tackles and an interception this season, replaces Morris.\nIf Harrison can’t play, the Colts’ options include using rookie receiver Anthony Gonzalez – a first-round pick – more frequently, moving tight end Dallas Clark into the slot – which the Colts did successfully in last season’s playoffs– or reverting to their two tight-end formations.\n“I think we’re preparing for a little bit of everything like we always do,” Clark said. “We’ve just got to go in and see, kind of, what the personality of the game is.”\nFinding a replacement for Addai would be tougher.\nThe only other running backs on the team’s active roster are Kenton Keith, Luke Lawton and Clifton Dawson, who was signed last week. Keith spent the last four seasons in the Canadian Football League, and none of the three had an NFL carry until the season opener.\nLast week, Keith carried 10 times for 80 yards, primarily after Addai left, and is confident he can do the job this week if needed.\n“I’m ready to roll,” Keith said. “I’m always ready to roll.”\nBut will Dungy need all those replacements? Perhaps.\n“We’re preparing to play without those guys,” he said. “Hopefully, they’ll practice by Friday, but you never know. So we’ve got to get the other guys ready to go.”
1. Animal Collective -- Strawberry Jam \n2. Shout Out Louds -- Our Ill Wills \n3. The New Pornographers -- Challengers \n4. Rilo Kiley -- Under The Blacklight \n5. The Go! Team -- Proof of Youth
It's a bit hard to hate on the Foo Fighters. Not merely because front man Dave Grohl has a reputation for being one of the nicest guys in rock. But because, for those of us who remember the early '90s alternative revolution and who were crushed when it was co-opted and replaced by moronic nu-metal and post-grunge, the Foos seem like the torchbearers for the good old days. \nHere in the late noughties, however, that flame doesn't seem so bright. That's partly because there's a lot of great rock around (even if it almost never gets mainstream airplay), but unfortunately, it's also because the Foos are stuck in a rut.\nTaken as a whole, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace is better than 2005's In Your Honor -- not least because it's shorter and lacks IYH's awkward electric-acoustic division. But it suffers from a similar problem in that the Foos try again to go emo -- that is, crank out screamy angst and sobby ballads -- and, again, manage merely to lower themselves into the dull, mechanical, cliched ranks of nearly everything else on modern-rock radio.\nNot everything suffers from this treatment, though. Indeed, you can divide ESPG into three acts. The first, from "The Pretender" through "Erase Replace" is all formulaic scream-fests. The third, from "Ballad Of The Beaconsfield Miners" through "Home" is admirable, but is also comprised of somewhat boring ballads (although "But, Honestly" stands out from this act, not only because it is a good, stripped-down acoustic number but also for its glorious transition into unabashed arena rock). \nHowever, act two, from "Long Road To Ruin" to "Summer's End," manages to shake off the tedium and deliver the Foos you love to love -- hooky, exciting, fun. Its finest moment is the bouncing buzzsaw-guitar anthem "Cheer Up Boys (Your Makeup Is Running)." \nOf course, thanks to online music stores, you can simply buy act two (swapping out the merely OK "Come Alive" for the superior "But Honestly") and have a nice little EP for about half the price of ESPG. Not living in the "good old days" sometimes has its advantages.
Pearl Jam front man Eddie Vedder is no stranger to movie soundtracks, especially soundtracks for Sean Penn movies. Considering Vedder's past musical contributions to "Dead Man Walking" and "I Am Sam," in addition to him being an avid, eco-conscious naturalist, Penn's selection of Vedder to compose music for his film version of Jon Krakauer's novel "Into the Wild" seemed like a fitting choice.\nNot too much of a departure for Vedder, Into the Wild has plenty of ambient sounds that exude visions of a person taking a trip to a natural outdoor setting, especially for listeners familiar with Krakauer's book. The album's opener "Setting Forth," with its vibrant guitar-strumming and Vedder wailing in the chorus about "setting forth in the universe," has a steady beat that paints a good picture of Chris McCandless -- whose story the movie is based on -- hitchhiking his way to Alaska. \nThe banjo-plucking of "No Ceiling" seems to be a woodsman's ode to embarking on a journey into a natural environment. The soft, arpeggiated notes of "Long Nights" paint a tranquil nighttime setting of reflection and introspection. By the time the listener gets to the robust instrumental "Tuolumne," they can almost see visions of wooded hills and rolling brooks.\nThese songs aren't bad music per se, but they go by quickly without leaving much of an impression. The album's strongest tracks, the single "Hard Sun" and the quietly catchy "Society" ironically enough are songs not penned by Vedder. \nOverall, Into the Wild feels like an album written for a movie. The music is colorful and ambient. The songs are short (seven of the 11 clock in at about two-and-a-half minutes or less) and fitting to hang in the background of movie scenes. But without the visual aid of watching the film, the songs don't hold up as well. They serve as music meant for a movie, not for grabbing listeners.
NEW YORK – A federal jury decided Madison Square Garden and its chairman must pay $11.6 million in damages to former New York Knicks executive Anucha Browne Sanders in her sexual harassment lawsuit.\nThe jury also found Knicks coach Isiah Thomas, who led Indiana to the 1981 NCAA championship and coached the Pacers from 2000 to 2003, subjected Browne Sanders to unwanted advances and a barrage of verbal insults, but that he did not have to pay punitive damages.\nDeciding MSG had harassed Browne Sanders, the jury found the Garden owes $6 million for allowing a hostile work environment to exist and $2.6 million for retaliation; MSG chairman James Dolan owes $3 million.\n“What I did here, I did for every working woman in America,” said Browne Sanders, who came out of the courtroom beaming. “And that includes everyone who gets up and goes to work in the morning, everyone working in a corporate environment.”\nShe said it also was for “women who don’t have the means and couldn’t possibly have done what I was able to do.”\nThe Garden said it would appeal, but the verdict gave Thomas a partial victory after an ugly, three-week trial.\n“I’m innocent, I’m very innocent, and I did not do the things she has accused me in this courtroom of doing,” said Thomas, who is married with two children. “I’m extremely disappointed that the jury did not see the facts in this case.”
NEW YORK – The New York Knicks signed rookie guard Text you want it to say Roderick Wilmont of Indiana to a free agent contract on Monday.\nThe 6-foot-4 Wilmont was the Hoosiers’ second-leading scorer and rebounder last season at 12.5 points and 5.8 boards a game. He also led Indiana with 70 3-point baskets in the regular season.\nWilmont was not selected in the NBA draft in June.
This weekend marked the beginning of the fall season for the men’s tennis team. While three players were at the Polo Ralph Lauren All-American Tennis Championships in Tulsa, Okla., junior Peter Antons and freshmen Santiago Gruter and Jai Yoon traveled north for the Tom Fallon Invitational at Notre Dame.\nThe three Hoosiers compiled a singles record of 6-6 and a doubles record of 3-5 on the weekend.\nOn day one, Antons got off to a good start with a 6-4, 6-2 win over the Fighting Irish’s Patrick Callaghan, a highly touted freshman out of Iowa. Antons then lost to Alejandro Staub of Western Michigan, 7-5, 7-5. \nGruter lost to Notre Dame’s Brett Helgeson 6-0, 6-2 before rebounding against WMU’s Kevin Hayward in a third-set super-tiebreak. Yoon, meanwhile, lost both of his Friday singles matches. \nIn doubles action, Gruter and Yoon fell 8-4 against Iowa’s Reinoud Haal and Tommy McGeorge. Antons, meanwhile, paired up with Notre Dame’s Daniel Schafer and also lost to a Hawkeye pairing, 9-7.\nOn day two, Gruter and Antons began the day with wins over Ball State opponents, while Yoon fell in his second consecutive third-set super-tiebreak. Gruter and Antons lost a doubles match to Hayward and Casey Cullen of WMU, but won 8-6 against Daniel Vidal and Joe Vallee of Ball State. Yoon and Notre Dame’s Schafer lost 8-1 to a WMU doubles team.\nOn the final day of competition, Antons and Gruter brought their singles records to 3-1 with wins over Iowa opponents, while Yoon dropped to 0-4 with a loss to the Hawkeye’s Walker Grimes, 6-4, 6-3. Antons and Gruter ended the invitational with a strong 8-5 victory over Purdue’s doubles team of Griffin Nienberg and Eren Turkmenler, while Yoon got his lone win of the weekend, pairing up with Notre Dame’s Callaghan for an 8-5 victory.
In their first meet of the season with postseason implications on the line, the IU men’s cross country team placed sixth in a crowded field of 23 teams at the Roy Griak Invitational in Minneapolis, Minn.\nLeading the way for the Hoosiers was sophomore All-American Jordan Kyle, who placed eighth in a field of 211 runners and possibly took a step toward running at the national championship next month. \nAlso competing for the men were 10 other runners, who placed between 36th and 189th place. \nThe IU women’s cross country team was not as successful. They placed 19th in a field of 26 teams.\nLeading the way individually for the women was sophomore Sarah Pease, who placed 44th in a field of 258 runners.\nAlso competing for the Hoosiers were six other runners who placed between 100th and 160th place.\nBoth teams return to action Oct. 13, when they compete in the Pre-Nationals in Terre Haute, which will also be the site of the NCAA Championships in November should either team make it that far. This will also be the final tune-up for both teams before postseason play begins with the Big Ten Championships at the end of October in Columbus, Ohio.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – A University of Memphis football player was fatally shot on campus in what police believe was a targeted attack, and classes were canceled Monday as a precaution.\nTaylor Bradford, 21, apparently was shot near a university housing complex at about 9:45 p.m. Sunday and then crashed a car he was driving into a tree a short distance away on campus, officials said.\n“We found him with a bullet wound to the body and the ambulance took him to the hospital where he was pronounced (dead),” said Roger Prewitt, a Memphis Police inspector.\nDetectives investigating the shooting received reports of gunfire being heard in a parking lot of the housing complex about 200 yards from where Bradford was found, police spokeswoman Monique Martin said.\nHomicide detectives were unsure of a motive for the shooting and had no suspects, she said. \n“That’s all still under investigation,” she said.\nUniversity president Shirley Raines said witnesses told police they saw more than one person leaving the scene who could have been involved.\n“This was an act directed specifically toward the victim, and it was not a random act of violence,” she said.\nResidence halls in the surrounding area were closed to outsiders immediately, and residents were advised not to go outside. Students, faculty and staff were told by e-mail early Monday morning that classes were canceled.\nIn an e-mail alert to faculty, staff and students at 3:40 a.m. Monday, officials wrote that “the initial investigation indicates this was an act directed specifically toward the victim and was not a random act of violence.”\nThe university decided to cancel classes Monday, although police believe the person or persons involved in the shooting left the campus immediately.\n“We feel like the campus is safe, but we’d rather err on the safety than not,” said Curt Guenther, director of communications services for the university.\nBradford, a 5-foot-11, 300-pound defensive lineman, was a junior who transferred to Memphis after two seasons at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala.\nThe Memphis Tigers host Marshall University on Tuesday night. A moment of silence is planned before the game.\n“Our entire football team is deeply saddened by the loss of Taylor,” head coach Tommy West said in a statement. “He was well-respected and a popular member of our team. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family.”\nBradford, a resident of Nashville, Tenn., transferred to Memphis in 2006 and was on the roster for this season, but had not played in a game this season.\nBradford lettered in three sports at Antioch High School in Nashville, and held school records in shotput and discus.
By Tom Hays
GEORGETOWN, Ky. - Indiana University basketball recruit Bud Mackey was arrested on drug charges Friday after police allegedly found him with crack cocaine while he was at school.\nMackey, 18, a senior at Scott County High, was charged with one count of trafficking a controlled substance and one count of trafficking within 1,000 yards of a school, said Deputy Bobby Townsend of the Scott County Jail.\nThe amount of cocaine on Mackey at the time of his arrest was not available, Townsend said.\nMackey said last year he picked Indiana because of coach Kelvin Sampson. The 6-foot-4 guard said he also received scholarship offers from Florida, Tennessee, Xavier, Clemson, Miami (Fla.) and Mississippi State.\nHe verbally committed to Indiana last year and planned to sign a letter of intent in November.
The IU men’s golf team finds itself ranked 26th in GolfWeek’s first rankings of the season following an impressive third place finish at the Wolf Run Intercollegiate tournament last weekend in Zionsville, Ind. \nIU will take their game to the suburbs of Chicago this weekend to face a field stacked with talent from top to \nbottom.\nHosted by the University of Illinois, the Olympia Fields/Fighting Illini Invitational will be held at the Olympia Fields Country Club (par 70; 7157 yards) this Sunday and Monday in Olympia Fields, Ill. \nThe eleven teams joining the Hoosiers will be Illinois, Duke, Arizona State, Stanford, Northwestern, Texas, Tennessee, Purdue, Oklahoma State, Florida State and the University of Central Florida. \nDuke returns to the field as the defending tournament champion and is joined by powerhouse Stanford, the 2007 NCAA champions.\nThe tournament will start at 7:45 a.m. Sunday.
IU OFFENSIVE LEADERS\nQB Kellen Lewis \n77-136 for 906 yards, 11 TDs, 4 INT\nRB Marcus Thigpen \n51 rushes for 247 yards, 4.2 yards per carry\nWR James Hardy \n16 catches for 287 yards, 6 TDs
RICHMOND, Va. – A federal judge placed tighter restrictions Wednesday on Michael Vick after the Atlanta Falcons quarterback tested positive for marijuana.\nBecause of the result, U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson placed special conditions on Vick’s release, including restricting him to his home between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. with electronic monitoring and ordering him to submit to random drug testing.\nThe urine sample was submitted Sept. 13, according to a document by a federal probation officer that was filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court.\nVick, who has admitted bankrolling a dogfighting operation on property he owns in Surry County in his written federal plea, is scheduled for sentencing Dec. 10. He faces up to five years in prison.\nBecause Vick violated the conditions of his release, Hudson could take that into consideration during sentencing, said Linda Malone, a criminal procedure expert and Marshall-Wythe Foundation professor of law at the College of William and Mary.\n“Every judge considers pretty seriously if they feel that the defendant has flaunted the conditions for release,” Malone said. “It’s certainly not a smart thing to do.”\nOn Tuesday, Vick also was indicted on state charges of beating or killing or causing dogs to fight other dogs and engaging in or promoting dogfighting. Each felony is punishable by up to five years in prison.\nThe 27-year-old former Virginia Tech star was placed under pretrial release supervision by U.S. Magistrate Dennis Dohnal in July. The restrictions included refraining from use or unlawful possession of narcotic drugs or other controlled substances.\nThe random drug testing ordered Wednesday could include urine testing, the wearing of a sweat patch, a remote alcohol testing system or any form of prohibited substance screening or testing.\nHudson’s order also requires Vick to participate in inpatient or outpatient substance therapy and mental health counseling, if the pretrial services officer or supervising officer deem it appropriate. Vick must pay for the treatment.\nVick’s attorney Billy Martin also represents Idaho Sen. Larry Craig, who pleaded guilty in an airport sex sting.\nDuring a press conference about Craig on Wednesday, Martin was asked to comment on Vick. He declined, saying only, “I’m sure that in the future we’ll have something to say regarding Mr. Vick, but not now.”\nIn January, Vick was cleared by police of any wrongdoing after his water bottle was seized by security at Miami International Airport. Police said it smelled of marijuana and had a hidden compartment that contained a “small amount of dark particulate.”\nLab tests found no evidence of drugs, and Vick explained that he used the secret compartment to carry jewelry.\nThe federal dogfighting case began in late April when authorities conducting a drug investigation of Vick’s cousin raided the property and seized dozens of dogs, most of them pit bulls, and equipment commonly associated with dogfighting.\nSix weeks later, when the local investigation seemed to be dragging and a local search warrant was allowed to expire, federal agents arrived with their own warrants and started digging up dog carcasses buried days before the first raid.\nVick has admitted helping to kill six to eight dogs, among other things. His three co-defendants also have pleaded guilty. One of them, Quanis Phillips, failed a drug test and was ordered jailed after his plea.\nPhillips and co-defendants Tony Taylor and Purnell Peace were placed on electronic monitoring at the time of their arraignments because they had prior criminal records.\nVick had no prior criminal record, so monitoring is the next step for him, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Another failed drug test likely would land him in jail.
Don’t get him wrong. Prince Fielder is plenty pleased with becoming the youngest player to hit 50 homers in a season.\nBut he really wants to hit 52 – especially if it helps Milwaukee reach the playoffs.\nFielder connected twice Tuesday night to help the Brewers beat St. Louis 9-1, bringing Milwaukee within two games of the Chicago Cubs in the NL Central. It also allowed the typically jovial slugger to surpass Willie Mays as the youngest to reach that single-season milestone.\nBut Fielder was serious when he talked about hitting two more. His estranged father, former major leaguer Cecil Fielder, hit 51 home runs with Detroit in 1990 – and surpassing that total would be especially sweet.\n“That’s why I’m so passionate about playing,” the younger Fielder said. “Hopefully one day, whenever they mention my name, they won’t have to mention his.”\nFielder hit a two-run homer to right field in the first inning and a two-run shot to left in the seventh, giving him 50 at 23 years, 139 days old. Mays was 24 years, 137 days old when he hit his 50th in 1955, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.\n“It was a great thrill,” said Brewers manager Ned Yost, who this week was given a vote of confidence by team owner Mark Attanasio. “I told the boys, ‘We’re watching a little history here. Remember it.’”\nFielder’s feats overshadowed the fact that Milwaukee drew ever closer to the Cubs, who were hamstrung by Dontrelle Willis and lost 4-2 at Florida.\n“We’re in the middle of a pennant race right now, and that’s all I care about,” Yost said.\nPrince Fielder is guarded about the reasons behind the split with his father. According to a 2004 story by The Detroit News, Cecil Fielder frittered away his baseball earnings through gambling and bad business decisions.\nCecil has been more outspoken. At a Toronto Blue Jays alumni event in June, he said his son should show him more respect.\n“I just don’t think my son knows how to let it go,” Cecil Fielder said. “I don’t think he’s grown up yet. Until he can move on and talk to me like he’s my son, we don’t need to talk.”\nFielder said he wasn’t offended by any one particular comment from his father, but made it clear that he has been paying attention to what he says in public.\n“You’ve got to look at who’s saying it,” Prince Fielder said. “Let’s be honest, he’s not really the brightest guy.”\nNevertheless, the Fielders became the first father-son tandem to reach the 50-homer mark.\n“It’s just an awesome feat,” Prince Fielder said of No. 50. “Now my kids can know at one time, their dad was pretty good.”\nBraden Looper (12-12) served up Fielder’s first home run and gave up homers to Bill Hall and Rickie Weeks.\nMilwaukee starter Jeff Suppan (11-12) worked eight innings to beat his former team for the third time this year, scattering nine hits and three walks but allowing just one run.