MICHIGAN QUARTERBACK HAS CRACKED VERTEBRAE

Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh says quarterback Wilton

Speight has cracks in his vertebrae. Harbaugh says he doesn’t know whether Speight will be out for the season but he will miss multiple weeks. Harbaugh says

John O’Korn will make a second consecutive start when the 17thranked Wolverines play at Indiana on Saturday. O’Korn threw three interceptions in a 14-10 loss to Michigan State in his first start of the season. Speight was hurt in the first quarter of last month’s victory at Purdue.

Tennessee has suspended starting defensive end Darrell Taylor indefinitely, the latest adversity for a team that has dropped its first two Southeastern Conference games and is coming off its most-lopsided home loss since 1905. Volunteers coach Butch Jones said Monday that “multiple factors” had led to Taylor’s suspension. Jones added that no timetable had been set for the sophomore’s potential return. Taylor already had been expected to miss the first half of Tennessee’s next game because he had received an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for fighting in the second half of the Vols’ 41-0 loss to No. 4 Georgia on Sept. 30. Taylor has 20 overall tackles, two tackles for loss and one sack this season. Tennessee (3-2, 0-2 SEC) hosts South Carolina (4-2, 2-2) on Saturday.