BUFFALO, N.Y. --
Pro Bowl punter Brian Moorman signed a three-year contract extension with the Buffalo Bills on Monday. His new deal runs through 2012 and is worth $10 million, putting him among the league's best-paid punters.
Moorman has become one of the NFL's top punters since breaking into the league with Buffalo as an undrafted free agent in 2001. He made the Pro Bowl the past two seasons. -- ASSOCIATED PRESS
Elsewhere
DALLAS: Receiver Terrell Owens filed a $600,000 lawsuit, contending his name and photo were used in nightclub ads without his permission.
Owens says the Avalon nightclub on Manhattan's West Side improperly used his name, likeness and initials T.O. in 2006 and 2007 to promote its Friday Night Lights events and other parties.
OAKLAND: The Raiders lost their case in California's top court after contending that the NFL sabotaged the team's effort to build a stadium at Hollywood Park in Los Angeles.
ARRINGTON UPDATE: Three-time Pro Bowl linebacker LaVar Arrington was released from the hospital, two weeks after breaking his arm and cutting his leg in a motorcycle accident.
Arrington had been hoping to sign with a new team this offseason after being cut by the New York Giants in February. He made the Pro Bowl three times with the Redskins.
JOHNSON UPDATE: Tank Johnson's blood alcohol level was below the legal limit when the former Chicago Bears tackle was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving June 22.
Johnson's blood alcohol level was .072, under the limit in Arizona of .08 percent, police said. No charges have been filed pending an investigation.
Johnson, 25, was released by the Bears three days after his arrest. He had been suspended for the first eight games of the 2007 season for violating probation on a gun charge. He spent two months in jail and was released in May.
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