BALTIMORE (AP) -- Former Baltimore Ravens owner Art Modell died. He was 87.
The team said Modell died early Thursday at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he had been admitted Wednesday. A cause of death was not given.
Modell was among the most important figures in the NFL as owner of the Cleveland Browns, which became the Ravens after he took the team to Baltimore in 1996 in a move that tarnished his reputation as one of the league's most innovative and influential owners.
NEW YORK (AP) - A study of former NFL players finds they were unusually prone to dying from degenerative brain disease, the latest indication that repeated blows to the head may cause serious trouble later on.
The death rate from Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Lou Gehrig's disease combined was about three times what one would predict from the general population, researchers reported.
Prior research had suggested football players were unusually prone to those diseases, said lead researcher Everett Lehman of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, which is part of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
NEW YORK (AP) - The Dallas Cowboys are the first American sports franchise worth more than $2 billion, according to Forbes magazine.
The NFL's most valuable team for the sixth consecutive year, the Cowboys saw their overall worth increase 14 percent to $2.1 billion. That's about $1 billion higher than the average NFL team value, $1.11 billion, up 7 percent.
Only Manchester United of the English Premier League, at $2.24 billion, is more valuable than the Cowboys, according to Forbes' surveys. And Man U's owner, the Glazer family, also owns the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who are $1.033 billion, 18th in the NFL.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A federal judge all but ruled out any prospects for a settlement in the case of four NFL players challenging their bounty suspensions.
U.S. District Judge Ginger Berrigan issued an order in which she lamented the failure of settlement talks, then asked for more filings pertaining to the players' request for a temporary restraining order that would allow them to return to their teams while their case against the NFL proceeds.
Berrigan wrote that she believes the four players' interests have been undermined by ''longstanding acrimony among all of the attorneys representing all of the parties that predates these disputes.''
BEREA, Ohio (AP) - Trent Richardson's pro debut, delayed by an unexpected surgery, appears to be on schedule.
The Browns rookie running back practiced for the second time since having knee surgery on Aug. 9. The No. 3 overall pick in April's draft, Richardson is expected to play and perhaps even start Sunday when Cleveland opens the season at home against the Philadelphia Eagles.
TENNIS
NEW YORK - On an emotion-filled afternoon that morphed into a shocker of an evening, Andy Roddick and Roger Federer both bid farewell to Flushing Meadows; Roddick for good.
Roddick lost 6-7 (1), 7-6 (4), 6-2, 6-4 to No. 7 seed Juan Martin del Potro to bring the curtain down on his career Wednesday - an ending that came, fittingly, on the court where he won his only Grand Slam title, back in 2003.
Federer fell 7-6 (1), 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 to No. 6 Tomas Berdych, who improved to 4-3 in his last seven matches against the 17-time Grand Slam champion, ending Federer's string of U.S. Open semifinal appearances at eight, much the way he halted Federer's streak of 23 straight trips to major semifinals back in 2010 at Wimbledon.
In other matches, No. 4 seed Serena Williams overpowered No. 12 Ana Ivanovic 6-1, 6-3 to set up a semifinal against 10th-seeded Sara Errani, who beat her Italian doubles partner, Roberta Vinci, 6-2, 6-4.
The other women's semifinal will pit top-seeded Victoria Azarenka against No. 3 Maria Sharapova, who returned to her rain-suspended match with a 4-0 deficit but defeated 2007 Wimbledon runner-up Marion Bartoli 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.
Advancing to the men's quarterfinals were defending champion Novak Djokovic and his Serbian Davis Cup partner, eighth-seeded Janko Tipsarevic, along with No. 3 Andy Murray, who was down a set and 5-1 in the second before he rallied for a 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-2, 6-0 over No. 12 Marin Cilic.
NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. Open semifinalist Sara Errani says she will stop working with Luis Garcia del Moral, a former member of Lance Armstrong's medical staff who was recently handed a lifetime ban by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.
PENN STATE
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky regrets not taking the stand at his child sex abuse trial and likely will be sentenced next month, his defense lawyer said.
Attorney Joe Amendola said he has not received a presentence report for Sandusky from the county court system and the defense has not decided whether to contest a recommendation that the 68-year-old be declared a sexually violent predator under Pennsylvania's Megan's Law, which would subject him to stringent reporting requirements if he's released on parole.
PARALYMPICS
LONDON (AP) - Former Formula One driver Alex Zanardi of Italy won the gold medal in the 10-mile handcycling time trial at the 2012 London Paralympics.
The two-time CART champion who lost both legs in 2001 race car crash in Germany posted a time of 24 minutes, 50.22 seconds.
Germany's Norbert Mossandl took silver and Beijing gold medal winner Oscar Sanchez of the United States, a former U.S. Marine who injured his spinal cord in a hit-and-run motorcycle accident in 2001, earned bronze.
LONDON (AP) - Oscar Pistorius captured his first gold medal of the London Paralympics, helping South Africa win the 400-meter relay in a world-record time at the Olympic Stadium.
The double amputee known as ''Blade Runner'' anchored the team home in a time of 41.78 seconds. South Africa set the previous record at 42.50 in February.
BASEBALL
SEATTLE (AP) - Boston manager Bobby Valentine insisted he wasn't serious when he threatened to punch a talk-show host in the mouth.
Hours later, his Red Sox put up little fight at the plate.
Valentine said he made it clear he was kidding when he made the comment during an interview on Boston radio station WEEI with hosts Glenn Ordway and Michael Holley.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Dodgers No. 2 starter Chad Billingsley will miss the rest of the season after being placed on the 60-day disabled list because of elbow pain.
The 28-year-old left-hander, who hasn't pitched since Aug. 24, was 10-9 with a 3.55 ERA in 25 starts.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - Texas Tech disclosed that it had reprimanded men's basketball coach Billy Gillispie earlier this year after learning he was exceeding NCAA practice-time limits.
Red Raiders athletic director Kirby Hocutt said the school reported the secondary violations to the NCAA and the governing body approved the penalty that Texas Tech had decided upon. The letter of reprimand came in January and included language that there would be ''no tolerance for disregard of rules,'' Hocutt told The Associated Press after speaking to members of the local media.
CYCLING
NEW YORK (AP) - Tyler Hamilton says writing his tell-all book about Lance Armstrong felt like taking ''a thousand-pound backpack'' off his shoulders.
Armstrong told The Associated Press he always thought he'd take some of the secrets about doping and cycling to the grave with him.
But he says his world changed when he received a subpoena to testify to a grand jury looking into the Armstrong case.
The 41-year-old Hamilton, who rode with Armstrong on the U.S. Postal Service team from 1998 to 2001, details the years he spent lying about using performance-enhancing drugs and his relationship with Armstrong in his book, ''The Secret Race, Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-Ups and Winning at All Costs.''
CAMALENO, Spain (AP) - Alberto Contador made an audacious break to win the 17th stage of the Spanish Vuelta on Wednesday and take the overall lead from Joaquin Rodriguez.
The two-time Tour de France champion drew on his experience to make his gutsy break more than 31 miles from the mountain finish, leaving Rodriguez behind. He crossed the finish line 2 minutes, 38 seconds ahead of the previous leader.
Contador erased Rodriguez's 28-second lead entering the 17th stage. He let out two loud cries in celebration as he finished in 4:29:20, closing in on his second Vuelta and first title since returning from a doping ban.
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