Sports briefs February 26, 2013
Football
Tom Brady will be a Patriot until he is 40 years old.
Brady agreed to a three-year contract extension with New England on Monday, a person familiar with the contract told The Associated Press. The extension is worth about $27 million and will free up nearly $15 million in salary cap room for the team, which has several younger players it needs to re-sign or negotiate new deals with.
Sports Illustrated first reported the extension.
The 35-year-old two-time league MVP was signed through 2014, and has said he wants to play at least five more years.
A three-time Super Bowl champion, Brady will make far less in those three seasons than the going rate for star quarterbacks. Brady currently has a four-year, $72 million deal with $48 million guaranteed.
- Manti Te'o's first appearance on a football field since the BCS championship game didn't go as well as planned.
The Notre Dame star and Heisman Trophy runner-up was clocked at 4.82 seconds in the 40-yard dash. NFL Network draft analyst Mike Mayock had said Sunday anything faster than 4.7 would be "phenomenal." Anything 4.8 or over would be a "concern."
The workout comes more than a month after Te'o's highly-publicized online romance with a girlfriend was exposed as a hoax and that Te'o was a victim of the hoax.
Since then, he's done a handful of one-on-one interviews and took questions Saturday in one of the craziest scenes in NFL scouting combine history.
Some wonder whether the story has become a distraction, and Te'o's sub-par performance Monday didn't help.
Baseball
Mike Trout singled in his first at-bat this spring and scored twice for the Los Angeles Angels in a 9-8 loss to the Seattle Mariners in Peoria, Ariz.
The 20-year-old Trout, the AL Rookie of the Year and runner-up in the MVP voting last season, also walked.
Hank Conger homered, doubled, singled and drove in five runs for the Angels (0-3). He hit a three-run homer in the first off Jeremy Bonderman.
The 30-year-old Bonderman, trying to secure a spot in Seattle's rotation after missing the past two seasons, allowed two hits and a walk in his lone inning.
Brendan Ryan homered for the Mariners and Justin Smoak doubled and singled. Seattle (2-1) rallied for seven runs in the final three innings.
The Mariners play Milwaukee in Phoenix today at noon.
Basketball
- Top 25 men
Indiana remained No. 1 for the fourth straight week, and Gonzaga (27-2) inched forward to No. 2 in the Associated Press poll.
Duke moved up three spots to third and was followed by Michigan and Miami, which dropped from second after falling to Wake Forest, the Hurricanes' first Atlantic Coast Conference loss this season.
Kansas is sixth, followed by Georgetown, Florida, Michigan State and Louisville.
No. 6 Kansas 108, Iowa St. 96, OT: At Ames, Iowa, Elijah Johnson scored a career-high 39 points - 12 in overtime - and No. 6 Kansas (24-4, 12-3 Big 12) rallied to beat Iowa State (19-9, 9-6) for coach Bill Self's 500th career win.
No. 13 Kansas St. 75, Texas Tech 55: At Manhattan, Kan., Thomas Gipson scored 20 points and the Wildcats (23-5, 12-3 Big 12) beat the Red Raiders (9-17, 2-13).
Kansas State now has 12 conference wins for the first time in 40 years.
No. 22 Marquette 74, No. 12 Syracuse 71: At Milwaukee, Davante Gardner scored a career-high 26 points and Marquette (20-7, 11-4 Big East) beat the Orange (22-6, 10-5) in a game that further tightened things at the top of the Big East.
- The Associated Press