Titans player cited in Ga. DUI, crash
Sheriff’s officials say a Tennessee Titans tight end has been arrested in a rollover drunken driving crash in eastern Georgia.
A Lincoln County Sheriff’s report says 23-year-old Brandon Barden lost control of a truck carrying two other passengers on Feb. 23 and crashed into a ditch in Lincolnton, about 35 miles northwest of Augusta.
He was charged with DUI and failure to maintain lane.
FOOTBALL
The Canadian Football League’s Edmonton Eskimos will hold free-agent tryouts Sunday at Memphis University School’s stadium. Registration ($100 in cash) is at 9 a.m. and tryouts at 10. ... The Dallas Cowboys have reworked the contracts of five starters to save salary cap space. By restructuring the deals of linebacker DeMarcus Ware, tight end Jason Witten, wide receiver Miles Austin, cornerback Brandon Carr and center Ryan Cook, the Cowboys wiped out the $20 million they were projected to be over the cap this year.
BOXING
The Nevada State Athletic Commission fined and suspended boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. on Thursday over a failed drug test last year before a Mexican Independence Day fight in Las Vegas. Chavez (46-1-1) was suspended for nine months from the date of the fight and fined $900,000.
HOCKEY
The Nashville Predators have traded forward Brian McGrattan to the Calgary Flames for defenseman Joe Piskula. McGrattan had not appeared in a game this season for Nashville. Piskula, 28, will report to the Milwaukee Admirals in the American Hockey League, Nashville’s top developmental team.
TENNIS
Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic remained unbeaten this year by routing Andreas Seppi of Italy 6-0, 6-3 as the top four seeds powered into the semifinals of the Dubai (United Arab Emirates) Championships on Thursday. Defending champion Roger Federer will play fourth-seeded Juan Martin del Potro. Djokovic will face third-seeded Tomas Berdych.
Third-seeded Sam Querrey of the U.S. double-faulted on the last two points of the third-set tiebreaker to lose to qualifier Ernests Gulbis of Latvia 6-4, 4- 6, 7- 6 (4) at the Delray Beach (Fla.) International Championships. Querrey double-faulted eight times. ... Venus Williams beat fifth-seeded Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia 6-4, 6- 0 to reach the semifinals of the Brazil Tennis Cup in Florianopolis. The 20th-ranked Williams will next face Olga Puchkova of Russia. ... Hsieh Su-wei won two matches Thursday to reach the Malaysian Open women’s quarterfinals at Kuala Lumpur. Hsieh beat Kurumi Nara of Japan 6-7, 6-3, 6-4, then got a few hours of rest before defeating China’s Zhang Shuai 6-2, 6-2.
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