• End of season? • FBI investigating hate mail to Jeter, others End of season? NEW YORK — Jets quarter-back Chad Pennington will miss the rest of the season because of a torn right rotator cuff, The Associated Press learned
• End of season?
• FBI investigating hate mail to Jeter, others
End of season?
NEW YORK — Jets quarter-back Chad Pennington will miss the rest of the season because of a torn right rotator cuff, The Associated Press learned Monday night.
Pennington’s injury was confirmed by a person with knowledge of his condition, but who declined to be identified because the team had not made an official announcement.
An MRI exam showed Pennington tore his rotator cuff in Sunday’s 26-20 overtime loss to Jacksonville. The NFL Network originally reported the injury, the second time Pennington has had this tear in less than a year.
Pennington was expected to visit noted orthopedist Dr. James Andrews in Alabama on Tuesday.
Backup Jay Fiedler also damaged his shoulder Sunday and will be sidelined, leaving third-stringer Brooks Bollinger to play quarterback against Baltimore this weekend.
Last season, Pennington missed three games with the same injury and had offseason surgery to repair it. He was sacked on consecutive plays during the Jets’ first series of the second half against Jacksonville. On third-and-11, Pennington was taken down by Bobby McCray and fumbled for the second straight down and recovered the ball, but his shoulder was injured on the play.
Fiedler came in, but was hit while completing a 16-yard pass to Justin McCareins — his sixth play in place of Pennington — and hurt his shoulder.
Pennington came back to lead the Jets (1-2) on two scoring drives, both capped by field goals, but clearly was hurting and said after the game that the injury felt “similar to last year.”
Pennington also had a major injury in 2003, when he broke his left wrist in a preseason game and missed six regular-season games.
FBI investigating hate mail to Jeter, others
NEW YORK — Yankees star Derek Jeter has received a threatening letter reportedly warning him to stop dating white women or “he’ll be shot or set on fire.”
FBI special agent Scott Wilson, speaking by phone from Cleveland, confirmed the bureau’s probe Monday, saying “we have an ongoing open investigation into racially threatening letters to Jeter and others across the country.” He declined to comment further.
The New York Police Department has also investigated the matter.
The Daily News reported Monday that the hate mail to the Yankees’ 31-year-old captain called him a “traitor to his race” for dating white women.
The Daily News reported that others received similar threats, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Miami Dolphins defensive lineman Jason Taylor, and the parents of tennis star James Blake.
