Sports in Brief: Knee surgery for QB Pryor

Ohio State quarterback

Terrelle Pryor

has undergone arthroscopic surgery on his right knee, a team spokeswoman said yesterday.

Shelly Poe

said that Pryor's knee will require only minimal rehabilitation and that if the Buckeyes had a game next week, the quarterback would be available to play.

A heralded recruit out of Jeannette, Pa., Pryor capped his sophomore season by passing for 266 yards and two touchdowns in a 26-17 Rose Bowl victory over Oregon.

North Carolina basketball player Travis Wear is out indefinitely with an ankle injury. The school said the 6-foot-10 freshman sprained his left ankle during practice.

PRO FOOTBALL: Coach Gary Kubiak signed a contract extension with the Houston Texans that runs through the 2012 season. The Texans finished 9-7 this season - the first winning record in the franchise's eight-year history.

Houston is 31-33 in Kubiak's four seasons.

HORSE RACING: The owner of Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra says his filly will not run against Zenyatta in a $5 million race in Arkansas, but he is proposing a three-race series between the top females.

Jess Jackson says he has been in discussions with the president of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association.

Jerry Moss, who co-owns Zenyatta with his wife Ann, was surprised by Jackson's announcement. "I have no idea what he's even talking about," Moss said.

A week ago, Oaklawn Park said it would boost the purse of the Apple Blossom on April 3 to $5 million from $500,000 if both horses competed.

SOCCER: Major League Soccer's labor negotiations have been postponed because of the snowstorm in the Northeast.

MLS commissioner Don Garber, president Mark Abbott and other management representatives had been scheduled to travel to Washington yesterday to meet with union officials.

The league's five-year labor contract expired Jan. 31, but the sides announced three days earlier that they were extending bargaining through tomorrow in an effort to avoid a work stoppage. The players fear a lockout.

GOLF: Sweden's Jesper Parnevik said he probably will have to quit golf because of a broken vertebra in his lower back.

Parnevik, a five-time winner on the PGA Tour, told Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet that doctors said he needs to have joint fusion surgery, "which means I can't play anymore."

The paper reported that Parnevik, 44, had emergency back surgery on Monday that would keep him from playing for at least a month. He said that a more advanced operation that could risk his career "seems inevitable."

SAILING: The first race of the America's Cup was postponed again off the coast of Valencia, Spain, this time because of big waves on the Mediterranean Sea. The giant carbon-fiber multihulls USA and Alinghi 5 did not even leave the docks.

Race organizers will try again tomorrow to get in the first race of the series between American challenger BMW Oracle Racing and two-time defending champion Alinghi of Switzerland. Light winds scrapped the race on Monday.

- Inquirer wire services