Leonard Russell, a New England Patriot running...

Leonard Russell, a New England Patriot running back, was in stable condition at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston after being stabbed in the chest outside a nightclub early Friday. According to police, Russell had been talking with a woman as he waited for a limousine when he argued with two men and was stabbed. Tim Edwards, a defensive end for the Patriots, went to the aid of his teammate and suffered a slash wound, police said. He was released after treatment.

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Washington Redskin linebacker Wilber Marshall sued the Houston Oilers, claiming they backed out of a deal to pay him $2.75 million for the coming season. The suit seeks up to $7.9 million if Marshall is left sitting out the 1993 season.

In May, the Redskins agreed to trade Marshall to the Oilers for Houston’s first- and fifth-round draft picks in 1994 if Marshall and the Oilers could agree on a contract. In his suit, Marshall said that his agent faxed a letter to the Oilers, accepting a one-year offer for $2.9 million. The Oilers, however, say they withdrew the offer before they knew it had been accepted.

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The NFL Players Assn. has ratified the new collective bargaining agreement with the NFL Management Council with a 96% approval rating, Executive Director Gene Upshaw said.

Miscellany

L.A. United of the Continental Indoor Soccer League will play its home opener Sunday at the Forum against the Portland Pride. Game time is 7:30 p.m. . . . A lawsuit filed over the secret videotaping of a Nevada Las Vegas conditioning class has been settled, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The paper quoted unidentified sources as saying former assistant basketball coach Tim Grgurich received a six-figure payment. . . . Yolanda Chen of Russia broke the world record in the women’s triple jump with a leap of 49 feet 1 1/2 inches at the Russian track and field championships in Moscow. The previous record, 49-0 3/4, was set by Ukraine’s Inessa Kravets two years ago.

Oscar De La Hoya, undefeated in eight professional bouts, will face Renaldo (Little Red) Carter of Detroit in a junior lightweight bout. Aug. 14 in Bay St. Louis, Miss. Carter is 27-4-1. . . . Cherokee Parks of Duke scored 23 points to lead the United States to a 93-90 victory over Brazil in the opening game of the Under 22 qualifying tournament in Rosario, Argentina. The world championship will be decided next month in Spain. . . . Brett Bodine, driving Kenny Bernstein’s Ford Thunderbird, won his second Winston Cup series pole of the stock car racing season for Sunday’s Miller Genuine Draft 400 at Michigan International Speedway at Brooklyn, Mich., with a lap of 175.45 m.p.h. . . . Former pro football player Curtis Bledsoe has pleaded guilty in El Cajon to a felony charge of statutory rape for an incident involving a 16-year-old Alpine girl.

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Harry Welch, football coach at Canyon High, will receive an undisclosed amount to drop his civil suit against the Southern Section resulting from his one-year suspension by the Southern Section Executive Committee two years ago. . . . Emil Lence, who promoted some of heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson’s fights in the 1950s, died at 76.