Receiver Poole Free on Bond

New Orleans Saint wide receiver Keith Poole was free on bond Monday, alleged to have attacked a La Crosse, Wis., man with a golf club.

Poole, 24, a 1997 fourth-round draft choice from Arizona State, was released on a $150 bond and ordered to appear in La Crosse County Circuit Court on Aug. 13.

“There was an altercation I was involved with,” Poole said after practice Monday. “I don’t want to say any more about it now.”

Police said Poole and teammate Jake Delhomme, a second-year quarterback, accepted a ride back to their dormitory from three La Crosse residents about 2:30 a.m. Sunday. Before they reached the University of Wisconsin La Crosse, where the Saints are staying for training camp, the two players began yelling obscenities at the driver, who stopped and told them to get out of the car, the report said.

One of the passengers, Timothy Whitewater, 26, of La Crosse, told police that he and Poole then got into an argument outside the car. Poole grabbed a golf club from a bag in the back of the car and struck Whitewater on the left hip several times, causing a two-inch-long gash, Whitewater said.

Poole and Delhomme practiced Monday.

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The Miami Dolphins released safety Corey Harris, who started seven games last season and could return to the team if the salary cap permits. Harris started the first six games at safety in 1997 before he was replaced by George Teague.

Miami receiver Yatil Green, the team’s first-round draft choice in 1997 who underwent arthroscopic surgery Sunday to remove damaged cartilage in his right knee, is expected to return for the team’s final two exhibition games.

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Police at the Dallas Cowboys’ training site at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas, say they will investigate how guard Everett McIver sustained a deep cut last week. School police chief H.G. Evans expressed frustration at an apparent lack of cooperation by the team. Coach Chan Gailey said it was the result of “horseplay” in a dormitory.

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San Diego Charger linebacker Junior Seau sat out two practices because of swelling in his right knee. Seau had a bone spur removed from his knee last month. . . . Saint quarterback Heath Shuler, who underwent off-season surgery that removed the bones in the ball of his left foot and repaired torn ligaments, returned to training camp Monday on crutches and wearing a toe-to-knee cast on his left leg. He had experienced numbness in the foot, and tests revealed a cyst under the scar tissue on the foot. . . . Chicago Bear rookie tight end Alonzo Mayes grudgingly ended a 10-day holdout by signing a three-year contract.