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Kicker released after record season
Published on Wednesday, Aug 13, 2008
From Beacon Journal wire services
The Miami Dolphins cut kicker Jay Feely, 32, on Tuesday, one season after he set the team's single-season record for field-goal percentage.
Feely's release clears the way for undrafted rookie Dan Carpenter to take over as the starting kicker.
Carpenter made field goals of 41 and 49 yards in Miami's 17-6 preseason loss to Tampa Bay on Saturday.
''The decision was based purely on numbers, on performance and Carpenter has outperformed him right now. That's the bottom line,'' Dolphins coach Tony Sparano said. ''We chart a ton of categories with the kickers and Carpenter has outperformed him.''
Feely missed the preseason opener and practice last week because of a groin strain. He made 21-of-23 field goals last season, one of the few bright spots on the 1-15 Dolphins.
More NFL: Colts' Coe done for season
• Indianapolis Colts defensive back Michael Coe will be placed on injured reserve and will miss the rest of the season after having surgery on his left knee last week.
College: Season over for four
• Two more Florida players will miss the football season after tearing knee ligaments. Gators sophomore offensive lineman Jim Barrie and freshman linebacker Brendan Beal are the fourth and fifth players to tear their ACLs. . . . Georgia left tackle Trinton Sturdivant will have season-ending reconstructive surgery after injuring his left knee in the team's first preseason scrimmage Monday. . . . Pittsburgh lost starting defensive end Doug Fulmer to a knee injury, the third year in a row injuries have ended Fulmer's season.
• Two Nebraska wrestlers, including one who won an NCAA championship in 2007, have been dismissed from the team after posing naked for videos and photographs on an Internet pornography site. Paul Donahoe, the national-champion 125-pounder in 2007 and third-place finisher in 2008, and Kenny Jordan were let go, three days after a blog posted images of them taken from a site featuring naked or partially clothed male athletes. Donahoe and Jordan were declared ineligible because they violated an NCAA rule that prohibits athletes from appearing in pictures for commercial use, the university said.
• Duke associate athletic director Jacki Silar was chosen chairwoman of the NCAA Division I women's basketball committee for 2008-09.
Basketball: Hornets going to Europe
• The New Orleans Hornets will play two games in Europe as part of NBA Europe Live among their seven preseason games prior to their season opener at Golden State in late October.
• The Detroit Shock of the WNBA acquired six-time All-Star Taj McWilliams-Franklin from the Washington Mystics for forwards Tasha Humphrey and Shay Murphy and a 2009 second-round draft pick.
NHL: Islanders hire new coach
• The New York Islanders hired Scott Gordon, the AHL coach of the year, to replace dismissed coach Ted Nolan. Gordon, 45, guided the Providence Bruins to the second round of the playoffs last season and the AHL's best record.
• Brett Hull and longtime New York Rangers Brian Leetch and Mike Richter are members of the 2008 class of the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame. The other member of the group is Cammi Granato, the all-time scoring leader for the U.S. women's hockey team with 343 points in 205 games. Hull, one of the leading goal-scorers in NHL history with 741, recorded 1,391 points in a 20-year career that included Stanley Cup titles in Dallas and Detroit.
Other: Two advance in tennis at Mason
• Second-seeded Nadia Petrova and sixth-seeded Aleksandra Wozniak rode straight-set wins into the second round of the Cincinnati Women's Open in Mason. Petrova rolled to a 6-3, 6-0 win over fellow Russian Galina Voskoboeva, and Wozniak cruised past Aiko Nakamura 6-3, 6-2 at the $175,000 Tier III tournament.
• Luke Donald underwent surgery on his left wrist and will miss the remainder of the season, officially ending any hopes of playing on the Ryder Cup team for Europe. Donald, 30 of England, who played on the last two Ryder Cup teams, with a 5-1-1 record, was forced to miss the final two majors of the year. He had surgery in New York to repair a tendon injury in his wrist.
• The remains of filly Eight Belles will be interred Sept. 7 at the Kentucky Derby Museum in Louisville. Eight Belles suffered two broken ankles after finishing second to Big Brown in the 134th Kentucky Derby on May 3. She was euthanized on the track. Eight Belles' owner, Rick Porter, will unveil a plaque honoring the champion filly during the public ceremony. The plaque will be mounted under a magnolia tree where the filly's remains will be interred.
• Suspended boxer Joey Gilbert, 31, a middleweight from Reno, Nev., agreed to pay a $10,000 fine for a positive steroid test as part of a settlement with the Nevada Athletic Commission that will allow him to return to the ring as soon as Sept. 22.
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