BRIEFLY : TWO ALL-STARS INJURED.

The Houston Rockets learned that injuries will sideline All-Stars Charles Barkley for 10 days and Clyde Drexler for two games.

Drexler became the third Rockets player chosen to the Western Conference All-Star team Tuesday, joining starters Barkley and Hakeem Olajuwon. No other team has more than two players.

But their health might determine if Barkley and Drexler play in the Feb. 9 All-Star Game at Cleveland.

Both players were injured in Saturday night's game against Utah. Drexler injured his right hamstring and Barkley reinjured his right ankle. Barkley first hurt the ankle Jan. 16.

NFL: New Detroit Lions head coach Bobby Ross completed his staff by naming former Atlanta Falcons assistant Bob Palcic as tight-ends coach.

Palcic, 48, has spent the past three seasons as Atlanta's offensive line coach. Prior to joining the Falcons, Palcic served as offensive-line coach at UCLA and Ohio State.

BASEBALL: New York Yankees pitcher David Wells will not face charges in connection with a fight that left two other men injured, a San Diego district attorney said.

Wells and a male companion fought with two men Jan. 12 after they thought that two other men had taken the keys to Wells' car.

Wells signed a $13.5 million, three-year contract with the Yankees last month.

TRACK AND FIELD: In Neuss, Germany, the sport's world-governing body dropped its appeal of a German court verdict that allowed Katrin Krabbe, the former sprint world champion, to seek compensation from the IAAF over a drug-related suspension.

MOTOR SPORTS: NASCAR team owner and auto dealer Rick Hendrick wants his money-laundering and fraud trial moved from Asheville, N.C. to Charlotte, N.C., so he can be treated for leukemia.

Hendrick discovered he had a rare and deadly form of the disease on Nov. 18, two weeks before he was indicted by a federal grand jury, his attorneys said in a motion filed Monday.