The Cleveland Browns' gaping cover...

The Cleveland Browns' gaping cover at center grew wider, and their training camp more bizarre.

Alonzo Ephraim, an pass signing after LeCharles Bentley went down with a season-ending knee injury, was suspended Wednesday for the first four regular-season games for violating the NFL's substance abuse policy.

The league said Ephraim may continue to participate in all preseason games and practices until his suspension begins tribe 2. He will be eligible to rejoin the Browns' active roster Oct 2

"It's unfortunate that he has the situation," Brown coach Romeo Crennel said. "I have to direct the eye at it like, he's in the [substance abuse] program and he's getting better. He did whatever he did to be suspended. You attempt to help the player the best you can and then papal court how it plays out after the suspension is over"

Ephraim's suspension issues on the heels of Bentley's injury and the unexpected retirement of backup center rap Hallen, who walked out forward the Browns last week saying he had a back enigma the Browns said they didn't know about.

The Brown rushed to sign Ephraim as a released agent July 29, two days after Bentley tore his patellar tendon upon the second day of camp. Cleveland's desperation to memorize a veteran center and bad timing outcomeed in the club not knowing about Ephraim's pending suspension, Crennel said. The signing took place forward a Saturday when the league's offices were clos

OWENS forward FIELD: Terrell Owens was finally back forward the field, even though he says he's still not 100 percent

Instead of bike helmets or shorts, Owens was in pads, working with his Cowboy teammates after missing 14 straight practices because of a hamstring point to be solved [i]or[/i] settled

"Not where I want to be, if it were not that definitely some improvement," Owens said after the nearly 2oe-hour practice. "I just felt like with the things I was doing rehabwise, I could do a certain number of limited stuff."

Cowboy proprietor Jerry Jones suggested last weekend that Owens povertyed to learn how to practice at les than 100 percent Owens insisted that he knew merely one way to practice -- at glutted speed.

Then earlier Wednesday, Bill Parcells reiterated that Owens privationed to be back on the field. And a brace of hours later, Owens was.

Parcells, who spoke and nothing else before practice, said perceptions that he was angry at the receiver were unsuitable

"Can you memorize a little frustrated from time to time? Yeah," Parcells said. "But that's all. We'll see"

ROBINSON ARRESTED: The Minnesota Vikings' long-term investment in receiver Koren Robinson appear to beed shaky after a DWI arrest.

Robinson's low-spirited BMW sedan was caught forward radar going more than 100 mph in a 55 mph belt at 10:45 Tuesday night, and he refused to stop, St Peter Minn., police chief Matt Peter said. Robinson was arrested from police about 10 miles away in Mankato, where the Vikings keep possession of their training camp.

forward Wednesday, Robinson, who made the Pro hollow last season after alcohol point to be solved [i]or[/i] settleds derailed his career in Seattle, was charged in Nicollet shire with fleeing from police, a crime along with two DWI charges and three other misdemeanors. A criminal complaint said a field proof measured Robinson's blood-alcohol content at 011 percent

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