Pujols has surgery on right elbow
St. Louis first baseman Albert Pujols had surgery Wednesday on bone spurs and bone chips in his right elbow, the Cardinals said.
The National League team termed the operation, performed by Dr. James Andrews in Birmingham, Ala., "successful." The arthroscopic procedure was a "debridement" of bone spurs in addition to the removal of bone chips from Pujols's throwing arm elbow.
The operation was unrelated to a nerve operation Pujols had last year.
The Cardinals said Pujols was expected to immediately begin rehabilitation and should be ready to play by spring training next year.
Pujols hit .327 and with 47 home runs and 135 runs batted in last season. He has batted .334 and has hit 366 home runs over a nine-year career, all with St. Louis. Pujols has been voted the NL Most Valuable Player twice (2005, 2008) and has been selected to the All-Star team eight times. He is considered a front-runner to win the MVP award this year.
Kiffin finally signs deal with Tennessee
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Lane Kiffin, six games into his tenure as the Tennessee Volunteers football coach, has signed his six-year contract with the school.
Kiffin was hired in December to take over the Volunteers' program and has been working under an agreement in principle while attorneys worked out contract details.
The Knoxville News Sentinel, which obtained a copy of the agreement through a Freedom of Information Act request, said Kiffin would receive more than $14 million over the life of the deal. The total includes a base pay and compensation for radio and television services, equipment shoe and apparel contracts' and endorsement or consultation contracts.
If the university were to buy out the contract this year or 2010, it would owe Kiffin $7.5 million. The buy out clause slides to $6.25 million in 2011-12 and $5 million in 2013-14. If Kiffin opted out, he would own the school as much as $1 million.
The Volunteers are 3-3 under Kiffin.
Bruins' Savard has broken foot
BOSTON, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Marc Savard, the leading scorer for the Boston Bruins this season, will miss 4-6 weeks because of a broken foot, the NHL team said Wednesday.
It wasn't clear when Savard, 32, suffered the injury to his left foot. He played Saturday in the Bruins' most recent game. Boston placed Savard, a center, on the long-term injured reserve list, filling the roster spot with forward Trent Whitfield.
Savard has four goals and three assists over the Bruins' seven games this season. He has been the team's leading scorer each of the last three seasons. In 2008-09 he had 25 goals and 63 assists.
Whitfield, called up from Providence of the American Hockey League, has appeared in 177 NHL games, scoring 11 goals and earning 17 assists. He signed with the Bruins as a free agent this summer and had three goals and five assists in six AHL games this season. He previously played for Washington, the New York Rangers and St. Louis.
Report: Jilted lover dogs ESPN's Phillips
A jilted co-worker allegedly harassed the family of ESPN baseball analyst Steve Phillips after he dumped her, police reports reveal.
Phillips declined to press charges against the 22-year-old woman despite her alleged repeated and ominous contacts with his wife and teenage son.
"I have extreme concerns about the health and safety of my kids and
myself," Phillips said in a statement given to police in Wilton, Conn.
Phillips and ESPN declined immediate comment on the scandal that broke in the New York Post Wednesday. A source told the newspaper Phillips had been suspended for a week.
The Post said Phillips, 46, admitted to a summer fling with ESPN production assistant Brooke Hundley. He told police the harassment began soon after he broke it off.
Hundley allegedly contacted Phillips' son by e-mail and at one of his football practices. She also allegedly badgered Marni Phillips with phone calls and text messages, and confronted her in the driveway of the Phillips home.
