Sports Desk
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BASKETBALL
Odom Out for at Least One Month
Los Angeles Lakers forward Lamar Odom will miss at least the next month because of a sprained right knee.
Odom was diagnosed yesterday by team orthopedist Dr. Steve Lombardo a day after the 6-foot-10-inch star was hurt in a 102–94 victory at Houston.
Odom is averaging a career-high 17.5 points and 8.7 rebounds this season.
He was injured in the first quarter when he landed awkwardly after Shane Battier blocked his shot on a drive. Odom stayed in the game for an other 90 seconds, but the Lakers called a timeout to pull him.
“I felt like something was really wrong,” Odom said after the game “I’ve never had anything like this.”
BASEBALL
Wells Offered Extension By Blue Jays
The Toronto Blue Jays have offered All-Star center fielder Vernon Wells a contract extension worth more $120 million.
“We like him a lot and we’re going to try to keep him,” the team’s general manager, J.P. Ricciardi, said yesterday.
Ricciardi declined to give specifics Wells told the Globe and Mail that it would be worth between $126 million and $136 million and extend for seven or eight years.
HORSE RACING
Surgeon: Barbaro Could Be Released in ‘Not Too Distant Future’
Barbaro’s long hospital stay finally may be winding down.
While refusing to give a timeline, the Kentucky Derby winner’s surgeon said yesterday that Barbaro is still making good progress in his recovery.
“His departure from here depends on many things,” the chief surgeon at the University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton Center, Dean Richardson, said “In my mind’s eye, he can leave in the not so distant future.”
Richardson has been cautious in his updates since Barbaro was admit ted for what doctors described as “life-threatening injuries” after breaking down at the Preakness in May.
Barbaro’s weight fluctuates, Richardson said, but that is common with hospitalized horses. He said the colt’s appetite, vital signs, and blood work are good and that the horse’s coat “looks beautiful.”
TENNIS
Three-time Slam Champion Davenport Is Pregnant
Three-time major champion Lindsay Davenport is pregnant and will miss at least the start of the 2007 tennis season.
Davenport and her husband, Jonathan Leach, are expecting their first child in early summer, according to a news release issued yesterday by her agent, Tony Godsick.
There was no indication in the release whether or not the 30-year-old Davenport plans to play professionally again. Davenport will miss the Australian open in January.
She won the U.S. Open singles title in 1998, Wimbledon in 1999 and the Australian Open in 2000, along with an Olympic gold medal in 1996. The American has won a total of 51 titles in singles, 36 in doubles, and finished four seasons ranked no. 1: 1998, 2001, 2004 and 2005.
FOOTBALL
Fred Taylor, Delhomme Miss Practice
Carolina Panthers quarterback Jake Delhomme started 66 consecutive games before a thumb injury snapped his streak last week.
Watching from the sidelines is something Delhomme hopes he never has to do again.
“When the teams get introduced and you walk out from the other tunnel, it kind of feels like you have no life inside of you,” Delhomme said yesterday. “It feels like you aren’t part of it. As a player, that’s the hardest thing — especially when things aren’t going the way you want them to.
Running back Fred Taylor missed practice yesterday because of a sore right hamstring, but coach Jack Del Rio expects him to play at Tennessee.
Taylor strained his hamstring Sunday against Indianapolis.
— Associated Press