BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo Sabres leading scorer Derek Roy will miss the rest of the season after tearing his left quadriceps tendon.
General manager Darcy Regier announced Friday that the center will have surgery to repair the injury in the next couple of days and is expected to miss from four to six months.
Roy was hurt in the first period of Thursday night’s 4-3 loss to the Florida Panthers. Carrying the puck into the Panthers’ zone, Roy was driven into the boards by defenseman Dmitry Kulikov.
Roy leads the Sabres with 35 points (10 goals, 25 assists) and the team’s forwards in ice time (20:03) over 35 games this season.
ESPN hires former Cavs coach
CLEVELAND — Former Cleveland Cavaliers coach Mike Brown has been hired by ESPN as an analyst.
Brown, who was fired in June after the Cavs lost to the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference semifinals, will begin his TV stint today for the New York-Chicago telecast on ESPN 3D. Brown also will contribute as an ESPN studio analyst throughout the season.
Ex-Clemson coach Wilhelm dies
CLEMSON, S.C. — Bill Wilhelm, widely credited for building Clemson into a national college baseball power, died. He was 81.
Wilhelm coached the Tigers from 1958-93 and never had a losing season, finishing with a record of 1,161-536-10. He won 11 Atlantic Coast Conference titles and appeared in the College World Series six times.
Mississippi St. players suspended
HONOLULU — The two Mississippi State players caught on camera fighting in the stands at the Diamond Head Classic have been suspended indefinitely and sent home from Hawaii.
Renardo Sidney and Elgin Bailey, who are roommates, were involved in a fistfight after the Bulldogs’ game Thursday night. The altercation lasted for several minutes before being broken up by teammates and coaches.
Sidney, a 6-foot-10 sophomore, has averaged 15.5 points and 4.5 rebounds in two games this season. Bailey, a 6-8 junior, has started 10 out of 11 games and is averaging 6.2 points and 3.9 rebounds.
Taurasi tests for modafinil
NEW YORK — WNBA standout and former UConn star Diana Taurasi tested positive for modafinil while playing in a professional women’s league in Turkey, the country’s basketball federation said.
Neither her lawyer nor her team, Fenerbahce, would confirm Taurasi tested positive for the stimulant, which has been involved in several major doping cases, including that of U.S. sprinter Kelli White.
“We’re not going to confirm what the drug is,” Taurasi’s lawyer, Howard Jacobs, said. “We’ll revisit it after the ‘B’ sample returns. They shouldn’t be speaking about it at all.”
Footnotes.
Iowa fullback Brad Rogers will miss Tuesday’s Insight Bowl against Missouri, and the rest of this season’s practices, because the freshman is undergoing heart tests.
• David Fay is retiring from the U.S. Golf Association after two decades as executive director.
