MiscellanyCornerback Eric Allen signed a five-year, $14-million...

Miscellany

Cornerback Eric Allen signed a five-year, $14-million offer sheet with New Orleans that would make him the second-highest paid Saint. The Philadelphia Eagles are not expected to match the offer, which is topped on the Saints only by linebacker Renaldo Turnbull’s five-year, $15-million deal. . . . Colombian Harold Grey retained his International Boxing Federation super flyweight title in Cartagena, Colombia, defeating compatriot Orlando Tobon in a 12-round decision.

Iditarod musher Keizo Funatsu, who endured a Bering Sea storm, was treated for frostbite and withdrawn from the race only22 miles from the finish while in 24th place. He also lost a dog, the first dog fatality reported in this year’s race. The race was won in record time Tuesday by Montana musher Doug Swingley. . . . Swimming pioneer Florence Chadwick, who broke the record for swimming the English Channel in 1950 and later became the only woman to swim the waterway in both directions, died at 76 of leukemia in San Diego. . . . Jess Stayrook of Tempe, Ariz., won his second Professional Bowlers Assn. title of the year, the $200,000 Bud Light Championship, by one pin with a 237-236 victory over Philip Ringener of Big Spring, Tex., in Stony Brook, N.Y.