Pro football
COLTS INK DRAFT PICKS: The Colts say they've signed seventh-round draft picks Kavell Conner and Ray Fisher. Monday's announcement comes six days before the Colts open training camp at Anderson University.
Conner and Fisher are the first two Colts draft picks to sign. Contract terms weren't announced.
Conner is a 6-foot, 242-pound linebacker out of Clemson, where he was a two-year starter. He had 263 tackles, 14 tackles for losses and three sacks in four years.
Fisher is a 5-9, 185-pounder out of Indiana. He played three years as a wide receiver, catching nine touchdown passes.
BEARS ADD QUARTERBACK DEPTH: The Bears signed quarterback Mike Teel to a two-year contract.
A sixth-round draft pick out of Rutgers by Seattle last year, he spent the season on the Seahawks' active roster but did not appear in a regular-season game. He was claimed off of waivers by the New England Patriots in May but released three weeks later.
NFL WON'T PUNISH VICK: Michael Vick said Monday that he cried following the shooting after his 30th birthday bash, but not because he had done anything wrong.
The Philadelphia Eagles quarterback said he cried because he had let people down by putting himself in situation he now knows he should have avoided.
The NFL never took any disciplinary against Vick as a result of the incident and on Monday NFL spokesman Greg Aiello told the Associated Press that there had been no change in Vick's playing status. When asked whether a league investigation of Vick had been completed, Aiello told the AP via e-mail that the league would have no further comment on the matter at this time.
The NFL and the Eagles have been looking into a June 25 shooting outside a restaurant in Virginia Beach, Va., where Vick's birthday party was held.
CHILDRESS NOT GIVING FAVRE A DEADLINE: Brad Childress did not give Brett Favre a deadline to make a decision on whether he intends to play this season when the two convened at Favre's home in Mississippi last week.
But with the Vikings' first practice of training camp set for Friday, the coach said he has a general idea of how long Favre would need to prepare if — as everyone expects — he returns for his 20th NFL season. Childress figures the 40-year-old quarterback could be ready for the season in "two or three weeks."
Pro soccer
FIRE MAKE TRADE: Midfielder Justin Mapp has been traded from the Chicago Fire to the expansion Philadelphia Union for allocation money.
Mapp was drafted by D.C. United as the league's fourth overall pick in 2002 and joined the Fire a year later.
He had 14 goals and 36 assists in 174 games with the Fire. Mapp has no goals in five international appearances for the United States.
College soccer
EVANSVILLE PLAYERS COPE WITH IDENTITY MIXUP, NOT FUNERAL: Women's soccer players from the University of Evansville in Indiana who planned to travel to Arizona for a teammate's funeral are dealing with a rollercoaster of emotions following word she's alive.
John Stanley, athletics director at the Indiana school, told The Associated Press on Sunday that the players were grief-stricken when told last week that 19-year-old Abby Guerra had been killed in an Arizona traffic crash.
Stanley says Guerra's teammates had expected to attend her funeral Monday. Now, he says, they're in Phoenix to support her and her family.
Guerra's friend, 21-year-old Marlena Cantu, actually died in the crash. The mix-up was discovered Saturday.
Guerra is a nursing major and this fall was scheduled to begin her sophomore year.
Around the horn
River Forest High School needs a varsity boys and girls cross country coach. Anyone interested should call Dennis Leonard at (219) 545-5594. ... In her final game pitching in the USA uniform, Jennie Finch threw another shutout -- a 3-0 win against the USA Futures team at the World Cup of Softball. Finch, after a 10-year career, planned to retire from international softball after the U.S. played Japan later Monday night. Finch struck out 12 pitching against the best players who didn't make the national team and allowed only three singles — including two that didn't make it out of the infield — in her last international start. ... Leah Siegel, an ESPN producer and mother of three whose two-year struggle with breast cancer inspired thousands of Dallas-area residents, died early Monday, her family said. She was 43.
