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Dallas’ Owens to get $3 million roster bonus

Terrell Owens will get his $3 million roster bonus from the Dallas Cowboys even though he hasn’t been practicing with the team.

Owens will get that bonus, plus a $5 million salary for the 2007 season, because he was still on the roster Friday, when he was again absent from voluntary organized team activities.

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones repeatedly had said Owens would remain with the team.

Owens took part in the mandatory minicamp two weeks ago while recovering from two operations this offseason to repair a torn tendon in his right ring finger.

Also: Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Odell Thurman was sentenced to six days in a treatment program, settling his drunken-driving conviction.

Thurman also received two years’ probation. He is still suspended by the NFL for violating its substance abuse policy.

Offensive lineman Joe Andruzzi, released by the Cleveland Browns last month after two seasons with the club, has been diagnosed with a treatable form of non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

Andruzzi, 31, has begun chemotherapy in Boston, said his agent, Joe Linta.

COLLEGES

Duke golfer fires 60, breaks tourney record

Duke golfer Michael Schachner broke the NCAA Tournament record with a 10-under-par 60, and Stanford took a two-stroke lead over Coastal Carolina with one round left in Williamsburg, Va.

Schachner, 120th after rounds of 79 and 69, matched the tournament record for lowest score in relation to par, set by former Stanford star Notah Begay at 10-under 62 in 1994. Schachner jumped to 14th, four strokes behind the third-round leaders.

Stanford shot a 5-under 275 for a 12-under 828 total.

Stanford’s Rob Grube, Clemson’s Kyle Stanley and Georgia Tech’s Cameron Tringale are tied for the individual lead at 6-under 204.

Also: Andrew Walker and Bryan Kervin homered in the seventh inning to lead Mountain West Conference champion Texas Christian (47-12) to a 3-2 victory over Baylor (34-26) in the first round of an NCAA Division I baseball regional in Houston.

TCU will play Rice (50-12) today. The Owls defeated Prairie View, 5-0.

MISCELLANEOUS

Adubato quits as coach of WNBA’s Mystics

Washington Mystics coach Richie Adubato resigned after his team started the WNBA season 0-4. Assistant Tree Rollins was named interim coach.

The Mystics were 33-39 under Adubato.

Also: Houston Comets All-Star Sheryl Swoopes will miss two to four weeks with a bulging disk in her lower back. Swoopes, 36, is averaging 7.6 points and 5.6 rebounds for the Comets (0-3) this season.

David Beckham’s free kick set up John Terry for the first international goal at the new Wembley stadium, but Diego scored in the second minute of injury time to give Brazil a 1-1 exhibition tie against England at Wembley, England.

Beckham played with the national team for the first time since the World Cup quarterfinal loss to Portugal on July 1 in Germany, and he received the loudest cheers from the crowd of 88,745 in the 90,000-seat stadium, which cost $1.57 billion to build.

The Carolina Hurricanes re-signed defenseman Glen Wesley to a one-year, $1.4 million deal, bringing back their alternate captain for a 13th season with the franchise.

Former WBC light-flyweight champion Eric Ortiz (26-6-1, 17 knockouts) stopped Colombia’s Jonathan Perez (12-2) in the 11th round in Miami.

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