IRVING, Texas (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys are putting the franchise tag on linebacker Anthony Spencer for the second consecutive season.

Spencer’s agent, Jordan Woy, wrote in a tweet Monday that the Cowboys and their sack leader from 2012 would work on a long-term contract. Spencer had a career-high 11 sacks last season.

Under the franchise tag in 2013, a player is paid according to a formula based on salaries for the past five years at the position and their percentage of the total salary cap.

With the non-exclusive tag, his team has the right to match any offer sheet, or get two first-round draft picks in return for allowing him to leave. An exclusive tag ties him to his current team at a higher, but as-yet-undetermined price, for one season.

The Cowboys also released safety Gerald Sensabaugh.

KENT, Wash. – Justin Feser scored once and set up two more as the Tri-City Americans defeated the host Seattle Thunderbirds 5-3 on Saturday in Western Hockey League action.

Drydn Dow, Zachary Yuen and Jesse Mychan each had a goal and an assist for the Americans (37-23-3), who won for the seventh time in their last eight games, and Malte Stromwall added a single goal.

Luke Lockhart scored twice for the Thunderbirds (22-35-8) and Riley Sheen scored the other.

Luke Lee-Knight made 25 saves for the win as Brandon Glover turned aside 26-of-30 shots in defeat.

Tri-City went 0 for 5 on the power play while Seattle failed to score on three chances with the man advantage.

We loved it when Eric Cartman’s hand stole a guy from J. Lo, so we certainly love Chloe Green for doing the same.

Granted, Marc Anthony didn’t cheat on J. Lo with Chloe the way Ben Affleck did with Cartman’s hand, and he had a girlfriend in between, but we’re not going to fuss over the details. We’re proud of you, Chloe.

We’re also proud of you because you’re not just being another useless heiress like Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian. You know how to shut the f–k up and not embarrass yourself, your family, and humanity in general. Oh wait…you do, but you do it in Britain so we don’t have to listen to it.

In that spirit, we’re presenting you to the world the way you like you best, in 2-dimensional, silent form.

It’s official, Joe Flacco isn’t going anywhere.

Fox Sports insider and NFL Network contributor Jay Glazer reported the Baltimore Ravens have agreed to terms with the quarterback. He’s expected to sign the deal Monday.

The only question is: What are the numbers? The Ravens were prepared to franchise Flacco if a deal wasn’t completed by the start of free agency. There was no way they would let him hit the open market.

ESPN’s Adam Schefter believes he could sign the richest deal in NFL history. New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees currently holds that distinction with a five-year, $100 million contract, including $60 million guaranteed, signed last year. Others think New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady‘s extension could force Flacco into a Ravens-friendly deal.

There are only seven starting quarterbacks in the NFL with a Super Bowl ring and Flacco is one of them. The numbers will be big and Flacco called it before the season when he said the price tag would only go up.

We’ll see how much it went up.

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PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Rory McIlroy abruptly walked off the course Friday at the Honda Classic and left everyone wondering what was wrong with golf’s No. 1 player.

McIlroy already was 7-over par through eight holes of the second round when he hit his second shot into the water on the par-5 18th at PGA National. He shook hands with Ernie Els and Mark Wilson and was headed to the parking lot before they even finished the hole.

”There’s not really much I can say, guys,” McIlroy told three reporters who followed him to his car. ”I’m not in a good place mentally, you know?”

He said there was nothing wrong physically. When asked about his swing, the 23-year-old from Northern Ireland replied, ”Yeah, I really don’t know what’s going on.”

About an hour after he left, McIlroy released a statement that attributed his withdrawal to a sore wisdom tooth.

”I have been suffering with a sore wisdom tooth, which is due to come out in the near future,” McIlroy said. ”It began bothering me again last night, so I relieved it with Advil. It was very painful again this morning, and I was simply unable to concentrate. It was really bothering me and had begun to affect my playing partners.”

McIlroy apologized to the tournament, saying he had every intention of defending his title at the Honda Classic.

If his golf wasn’t shocking enough, the manner in which he left raised plenty of questions about the state of game – and his head – in the month leading to the Masters.

McIlroy, coming off a year in which he won a second major in record fashion, already set himself up for scrutiny when he left Titleist to sign an equipment deal with Nike that was said to be worth upward of $20 million a year.

Nike introduced him with blaring music and a laser show in Abu Dhabi, but it’s been all downhill from there.

McIlroy missed the cut in the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship with rounds of 75-75. He took a four-week break, and then was eliminated in the opening round of the Match Play Championship to Shane Lowry in one of the most poorly played matches of the round.

McIlroy played 36 holes with Tiger Woods at The Medalist on Sunday and said Tuesday it was no time to panic.

”Even though my results haven’t revealed it, I really felt like I was rounding a corner,” McIlroy said. ”This is one of my favorite tournaments of the year and I regret having to make the decision to withdraw, but it was one I had to make.”

It looked more like McIlroy was sinking than rounding the corner, not difficult to do on a course with so many water hazards. And he found plenty of them.

McIlroy, who opened with a 70, hit two poor chips that led to double bogey on No. 11, and a wild tee shot to the right led to a bogey on the 13th. His round really unraveled on the par-4 16th, when he hit his tee shot to the right and into the water, took a penalty drop, and then came up short of the green and into the water again. He made a 6-foot putt for a triple bogey.

He three-putted from 40 feet, running his first putt about 10 feet by the hole, for a bogey to go 7 over. And then came the approach that found water for the third time of his short day on the 18th.

McIlroy is scheduled to play next week in the Cadillac Championship at Doral, which has no cut, and then the Houston Open. But on the first day of March, he has completed only four rounds of competition.

It was the second straight year one of golf’s biggest stars failed to finish a tournament on the Florida swing. Woods withdrew after 11 holes on the final round at Doral last year because of tightness in his Achilles tendon, raising questions about the seriousness of his recurring leg injuries. He won Bay Hill two weeks later.

McIlroy at least drove off from PGA National without a helicopter camera following him.