Disc injury: NASCAR's Edwards breaks foot playing Frisbee

Carl Edwards will race this weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway despite breaking his right foot playing Frisbee.

Edwards is on crutches but was cleared to race in both the Nationwide and Sprint Cup Series by doctors from the University of Missouri. He is from Columbia, Mo., and was injured in a hometown game Wednesday night.

"I know this probably sounds ridiculous to a lot of people, and I could hardly believe it myself," Edwards said yestersday. "I was playing Frisbee with a couple of buddies and we both went for the Frisbee at the same time. I put my foot on it, my friend dove for it, and the next thing you know, we all heard a pop.

"I knew it was broken and we all kind of looked at each other in disbelief that of all things, I would break my foot playing Frisbee."

Edwards has three victories at Atlanta and is the defending race winner. He said doctors told him he'll have no problems using the accelerator.

Edwards is fifth in the Sprint Cup Series standings with two races remaining before the title-deciding Chase for the championship begins.

* Dirk Nowitzki's attorney says prison medical records show the Dallas Mavericks player's former fiancee isn't pregnant. Cristal Taylor is serving a 4-year prison sentence in Missouri after her arrest at Nowitzki's Dallas home on a probation violation. Taylor's attorney Scott Renick says he doesn't know if Taylor "was never pregnant." Taylor was arrested in May on a 2006 theft-of-services charge involving dental work. She had been on probation after pleading guilty in 1999 in Missouri to forgery and felony stealing.

* John Loyer, a Sixers assistant the last four seasons, was hired as a New Jersey Nets assistant.

* David Stinson put winning ahead of safety, a prosecutor said as trial opened in Louisville, Ky., for the former high school coach charged in a player's death following football practice, but Stinson's defense said the practice wasn't unusually hard. Stinson is charged with reckless homicide and wanton endangerment.

* U.S. Alpine skier Cody Marshall returned home from the hospital less than 2 months after injuring his head in a 20-foot fall while sliding down an escalator railing. Marshall says he is not setting any timetables on his recovery from severe head trauma. Police say the 26-year-old ski racer was out with teammates when he fell off the escalator rail at a mall. Police say the escalator was out of order and chained off. Marshall, from Pittsfield, Vt., finished third in the slalom at the U.S. Alpine Championships this spring.

* Australia's Brett Rumford shot a 62 for a one-shot lead after the first round of the European Masters in Switzerland.

* Former NHL union leader

Paul Kelly

denies an accusation that he misused his office by reading a transcript of a private players' meeting. Kelly was dismissed Monday at a meeting of the NHL Players Association executive board. * The Independence, of Women's Professional Soccer, named as its coach

Paul Riley

, who won two Women's Premier Soccer League titles with the Long Island Fury (2006, '09).

* Bruce Bowen, an eight-time selection to the NBA all-defensive team, retired at 38. A former Sixer, Bowen was waived this summer by Milwaukee, where San Antonio dealt him in a veteran dumpoff for Richard Jefferson - a decision Bowen said he understood.