Florida Sentinel Bulletin

GREEN BAY, Wis.  – Green Bay Packers rookie running back Alex Green is out for the season after injuring his knee during Sunday’s victory at Minnesota.

Packers coach Mike McCarthy calls Green’s injury “very unfortunate,” saying his play had been improving and the team expected him to make an impact this season. Green will have surgery, although no timeline has been established.

Green appeared to sustain the injury on a first-quarter kickoff against the Vikings.

DALLAS – Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Vince Young is being sued by a Dallas strip club manager he allegedly punched in the face last year.

Creiton Kinchen claims in a lawsuit filed in a Dallas court Tuesday that the 28-year-old Houston native and former University of Texas star hit him “suddenly and without provocation’’ at the club.

Kinchen, a manager at Club Onyx in Dallas, says he refused to convert $8,000 off Young’s credit card into single dollar bills for tip money.

Kinchen says Young was drunk at the time of the June 12, 2010, scuffle. Young was cited for misdemeanor assault. He has said that he was provoked and “made a mistake even being there.’’

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota cornerback Chris Cook has been suspended indefinitely by the Vikings without pay, following a felony charge for allegedly strangling his girlfriend during an incident that left her bloodied.

The team issued a statement late Tuesday announcing the suspension and describing the allegations as “very disturbing and disappointing,” but declined to comment further “until the appropriate time.”

Cook was charged earlier Tuesday with felony domestic assault by strangulation, which carries a penalty of up to three years in prison and a $5,000 fine. State guidelines call for a sentence of a year and a day.

Cook was released on $40,000 bail from jail, where he’d been since his arrest early Saturday at his home in suburban Eden Prairie near team headquarters.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers tried to muster up one of their infamous comebacks Sunday in London, but this time mistakes and injuries to key players was too much to overcome.

The Bucs fell 24-18 to the Chicago Bears, and if the loss wasn’t bad enough, they lost several starters to injuries during the game.

Tailback Earnest Graham in the game because of an injury to LeGarrett Blount, suffered a serious leg injury in the first quarter and shortly after, the Bucs lost the services of Jeremy Zuttah, Mason Foster, Tanard Jackson and Erik Lorig.

Buc quarterback Josh Freeman had one of his worst games, tossing four interceptions. Bears quarterback Jay Cutler finished the game 17 of 32 for 226 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions. Thanks to tailback Matt Forte’s 145 yards on 25 carries, the Bears were able to keep the Buc defense off balance.

The Bucs will have a bye week, then travel to New Orleans next Sunday to face NFC South division foe, the New Orleans Saints.

Fan Runs Onto Field During Bucs-Bears Game

WEMBLEY, ENGLAND – Tampa Bay and Chicago came to London to show off the American version of football. One fan gave them a sample of a tradition that’s more common in the European game.

A male fan ran onto the field at Wembley on Sunday during the fourth quarter of the Bears’ game against the Bucs when Tampa Bay was getting ready for a kickoff. The man promptly took his shirt off and ran the length of the field and back while players looked on in surprise. He even had time to give a high-five to Tampa Bay safety Sean Jones and Bears cornerback Corey Graham before being stopped by security officials.

ARLINGTON, TX — The only drama at the end of this one was whether rookie DeMarco Murray would set the Dallas Cowboys’ franchise rushing record, a remarkable feat considering it’s gone from Hall of Famer Tony Dorsett to NFL rushing king Emmitt Smith.

Murray indeed pulled it off, running through a shoddy St. Louis Rams defense for 253 yards, including an early 91-yard touchdown that got the Cowboys started toward a 34-7 victory on Sunday.

Murray ran for the most yards in the NFL this season and the ninth-most in league history. His touchdown was the second-longest run in team history, topped only by the NFL-record 99-yarder by Dorsett in January 1983. He also had the most yards ever against the Rams, replacing Jim Brown on that list.

“I never thought in a million years that I’d ever have a day like this,” Murray said. “This is what I’ve been working hard for since my Pop Warner days.”

DETROIT — ESPN is reporting that Detroit Lions running back Jerome Harrison has a brain tumor.

The network cited two NFL sources it did not identify in Thursday’s report. It says the tumor was revealed when Harrison had a physical after being dealt this week by Detroit to the Philadelphia Eagles in a trade that was voided by the discovery.

Lions coach Jim Schwartz wouldn’t confirm or deny the report, citing a privacy issue. He said Harrison was back on the team’s 53-man roster.

Harrison’s agent, Mitch Frankel, did not return phone and email messages.

NEW YORK  — Three days and 30 hours’ worth of talks ended on a nasty note Thursday in NBA labor negotiations. And only one thing seemed fairly certain: more games were likely to be cut. Possibly even the season.

Players insist that’s the outcome owners wanted all along – “preordained,” as union executive director Billy Hunter said.

“We’ve always felt there was still a place where they would just not go and they would lock us out as long as it would take in order to get us beyond that place.

There was never really a willingness to negotiate beyond certain points,” union president Derek Fisher of the Lakers said. “There was just a line drawn, and regardless of what’s going on, how many times we meet, `we’re not going past that.”‘

After 30 hours of negotiations before a federal mediator, the sides remained divided over two main issues – the division of revenues and the structure of the salary cap system.

Former pound-for-pound king Roy Jones Jr., who suffered a brutal knockout in his last fight and has lost three bouts in a row, is getting back into the ring.

Jones, 42, will face journeyman Max Alexander in a scheduled 10-round cruiserweight bout Dec. 10 in Atlanta, McGee Wright, Jones’ adviser, told ESPN.com.

“Roy is going to do a little tuneup fight, get back in the ring and see how he feels,” Wright said. “He’s been training for the fight for about six weeks already.”

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers arrived in London and after getting some rest, started running drills with about 200 students at Wimbley Stadium as they prepare to face the Chicago Bears.

The NFC South leading Bucs (4-2) are coming off their second NFC South victory, a 26-20 win over the New Orleans Saints. In their only other game at Wimbley Stadium in 2009, the Bucs lost to the New England Patriots.

The Buccaneer run defense will be tested again, this time with Matt Forte. Forte has gained 291 yards running to his right, which is the left side of the defensive line. The

Bucs usually start Michael Bennett and Gerald McCoy on the left side, but McCoy is out with an ankle injury, and linebacker Mason Foster is questionable with an ankle injury.

It’s been widely publicized that Saints head coach, Sean Payton, was injured  during the Buccaneer game, but few know that Buccaneer defensive backs coach, Jimmy Lake, was also injured, suffering a knee injury. He tore his patellar tendon while celebrating an interception by Tanard Jackson.

Aside from McCoy and Foster, the Bucs will enter Sunday’s contest with Luke Stocker out, Aqib Talib probable, LeGarrett Blount doubtful, and Quincy Black probable.

The Bucs will also be counting on running back Earnest Graham (pictured) to turn in another stellar performance, after rushing for 109 yards against the Saints last week.

Sunday’s game will start at 1 p. m.