IN BRIEF

FOOTBALL

NFL suspends Chiefs' Johnson for one game

Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson was suspended for Week 10 of the NFL season by commissioner Roger Goodell for violating the league's personal conduct policy.

Johnson was deactivated the last two weeks by Kansas City and also won't play Sunday against Tampa Bay. He will miss the Chiefs' game at San Diego on Nov. 9 under the NFL's suspension.

The suspension will cost Johnson about $147,000.

Also: Dallas Cowboys tight end Jason Witten still hasn't been ruled out of playing with a broken rib against the New York Giants, even after missing practice again Friday.

Witten hasn't practiced this week, but the team listed him as questionable for Sunday's road game.

Washington Redskins receiver Santana Moss was unable to practice again Friday because of a strained hamstring and will be a game-time decision for Monday's home game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. He is listed as questionable.

The Green Bay Packers signed quarterback Aaron Rodgers to a contract extension through 2014. Terms were not disclosed.

Seattle Seahawks Pro Bowl defensive end Patrick Kerney is out indefinitely and will have his surgically repaired shoulder examined.

Coach Mike Holmgren said Kerney is returning to Alabama to see Dr. James Andrews, who repaired torn labrum cartilage in Kerney's left shoulder after last season. Kerney re-injured the shoulder Sunday during a victory at San Francisco.

Jim Mora, an assistant coach with the Seahawks who will become the team's head coach next year, said he is not interested in the coaching job at the University of Washington, which fired coach Tyrone Willingham on Monday. Mora is a former Huskies linebacker and was a graduate assistant at the school.

MOTOR SPORTS

Jeff Gordon wins fourth Sprint Cup pole of year

Jeff Gordon won the pole for Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Dickies 500 on the 1.5-mile Texas Motor Speedway oval at Fort Worth.

Gordon ran a fast lap of 188.469 mph for his fourth pole of the season. Martin Truex Jr. was second at 188.003 mph. Jimmie Johnson, the series leader and defending race winner, qualified seventh.

Rain had washed out qualifying the previous three weeks.

Also: Carl Edwards won his fourth pole of the season in the Nationwide Series, turning a lap of 188.101 mph for today's O'Reilly Challenge at Texas Motor Speedway. Kevin Harvick qualified second at 186.587 mph.

Ron Hornaday Jr. came from a lap down early for a dominating victory in the NASCAR Trucks Series Chevy Silverado 350K at Texas Motor Speedway, putting him within six points of leader Johnny Benson with two races left. Kyle Busch finished second.

Fernando Alonso raced to the fastest time in practice for the Brazilian Grand Prix in Sao Paulo, Brazil, finishing in 1 minute, 12.296 seconds with his Renault to edge home-crowd favorite Felipe Massa of Ferrari by 0.057 seconds.

GOLF

Palmer nabs one-shot lead in Florida event

Ryan Palmer missed only one green on the back nine and finished with a 1-under-par 71 and a one-stroke lead after the second round of the Ginn sur Merr Classic in Palm Coast, Fla.

Palmer is at 6-under 138. Four players are one shot behind, and David Duval, who hasn't won in seven years, shot 69 and is two behind.

Also: Andy Bean made five birdies in six holes through intermittent rain showers, finishing at 6-under 66 to take a one-shot lead over Nick Price after two rounds of the Charles Schwab Cup Championship at Sonoma, Calif. Bean is at 10-under 134 in the Champions Tour's season-ending event.

Rain suspended second-round play in the Volvo Masters at Sotogrande, Spain, with only three players in the 57-man field finishing their rounds. First-round leader Soren Kjeldsen had yet to tee off.

UNLV

Wronski prevails twice, reaches tennis semis

Senior Elliot Wronski won twice to advance to the first flight semifinals of the Rebel Classic men's tennis tournament at the Fertitta Tennis Complex.

Wronski defeated Siddarth Alapati of Fresno State 6-1, 6-2 and Ravid Hazi of Arizona, 7-6, 6-2. In the second flight, Attila Toth beat Taylor King of Arkansas 6-7, 6-4, 6-4 after a first-round bye.

In doubles, Wesley Burrows and Toth whipped Connor Smith and Nicholas Spinazze of Arkansas, 8-4.

Also: The UNLV men's soccer team fell to New Mexico 3-2 in a Mountain Pacific Sports Federation game at Albuquerque. Lamar Neagle scored both goals for the Rebels (8-5-1, 3-3-0), who had won three straight.

The UNLV women's soccer team lost to New Mexico 2-1 at Johann Field in its regular-season finale. Haley Partridge scored on an assist from Niki Connolly for the Rebels (11-6-2, 3-3-1 Mountain West Conference), who finished tied for fourth with the Lobos and will play them Wednesday in the first round of the league tournament at UNLV.

UNLV lost at San Diego State 3-1 (25-15, 23-25, 12-25, 22-25) in a Mountain West volleyball match. The Rebels (13-11, 6-5) have dropped three straight.

MISCELLANEOUS

Diaz gains unanimous decision at Hard Rock

Julio Diaz outpointed Fernando Trejo to take a 10-round unanimous decision in their lightweight featured bout on a Top Rank boxing card at the Hard Rock hotel.

Diaz (36-4) was ahead 100-90, 99-91 and 99-91 on the scorecards. Trejo fell to 30-15-4.

In the co-feature, featherweight Miguel Angel Garcia (15-0) survived a fourth-round knockdown and rallied late to take an eight-round unanimous decision over Walter Estrada (30-7). Garcia won the final three rounds on all three scorecards.

Also: Injuries got the better of Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer in the Paris Masters quarterfinals.

Nadal retired with a knee injury after losing the first set 6-1 against sixth-seeded Nikolay Davydenko, hours after Federer pulled out against 11th-seeded James Blake with a sore back.

Eighth-seeded David Nalbandian ended the 14-match winning streak of fourth-seeded Andy Murray 7-6 (3), 6-3, and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, the lowest surviving seed at 13th, defeated Andy Roddick, 5-7, 6-4, 7-6 (5).

Options were exercised on New York Mets first baseman Carlos Delgado and Boston pitcher Tim Wakefield, preventing them from becoming free agents.

Forty-two players filed for free agency Friday, raising the total to 107 in two days. Pitchers Curt Schilling of Boston, John Smoltz of Atlanta and Pedro Martinez of the Mets were among the 42.

An appeals court released Mets pitcher Ambiorix Burgos on $57,000 bail after he spent three weeks in jail in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Burgos reiterated his innocence in a Sept. 30 car crash that killed two women, saying he wasn't driving the vehicle.

Prominent sports agent Leigh Steinberg was arrested Oct. 22 on suspicion of being drunk in public in Newport, Calif. Police said Steinberg, 59, was taken into custody about 8 p.m. after they got a report about a man "screaming and attempting to climb a hill" above the Newport Auto Center.

Sidney Crosby has an undisclosed injury, and it's unclear if the Pittsburgh Penguins star will be able to play today against the St. Louis Blues. Crosby left Thursday's game at Phoenix early in the third period and said afterward only that he had "some discomfort."

Alex Ovechkin will miss the Washington Capitals' game at the Buffalo Sabres today but is expected to return to the team next week. He is visiting his ailing grandfather in Russia.