• Cowboys’ TE Witten out with spleen injury: Pro Bowl tight end Jason Witten has a spleen injury and will likely miss the rest of the preseason. It is unclear if Witten will be ready for the Dallas Cowboys’ regular season opener in three weeks, Sept. 5 at the New York Giants. Coach Jason Garrett said Wednesday that Witten sustained a “slightly lacerated” spleen in the preseason opener Monday night. He said Witten has to remain still as much as possible over the next week so he can heal.

• Paterno distraught after Penn State firing: Joe Paterno sobbed while meeting with his coaches and a former player the day after he was fired from Penn State, according to an excerpt of an upcoming article on Paterno to be published in GQ magazine. “My name,” the Hall of Fame coach was quoted in the excerpt as telling his son and quarterback coach, Jay. “I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it’s gone.” Paterno was fired by school trustees in November in the fallout of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. He died in January at age 85.