This and that

• End-of-the-day breaking news: Redskins sign former Boone County High School star Shaun Alexander.

Also, injury news from ESPN.com:

• Ohio State's Lawrence Wilson is out for the season.

• The Lions are putting former Bengal and current Detroit Lions quarterback Jon Kitna on the season-ending injured reserve.

• Dante Love update: Good news, as the receiver (who played quarterback at Withrow) who suffered a cervical spine fracture Sept. 20 against Indiana left a rehab center in Indy, was back in Cincinnati for a couple of days and is getting ready to return to Muncie.

• Speaking of local products, Packersnews.com has a piece about former Reading High School star DeShawn Wynn getting a second chance with the team.

• In his column that leads off with an item about Tom Brady (in other words, be patient and/or scroll down), my former co-worker Don Banks writes about how it's the offense that's the problem for the Bengals.

• The DDN's Chick Ludwig mentions that Bengals fans are attempting to organize a walkout during the Nov. 16 home game against the Philadelphia Eagles in conjunction with a boycott of Bengals merchandise, souvenirs, season tickets and training camp.

• Ludwig also suggests that Marvin is seriously considering benching Chris Perry.

• AZCentral.com has a piece about extra costs arising as developers build the new Spring Training facility for the Reds and Indians in Goodyear. Uh oh.

• Doesn't sound like the Red Sox will be replacing the Reds in Sarasota. Reds fans who weren't crazy about the way Sarasota treated the Reds when it was time to build a nicer stadium are having a little "take that" chuckle, because the Red Sox would have been a dream come true for Sarasota.

• The Boston Globe's Nick Cafardo has a short item about the possibility of Junior returning to Seattle.

• With the Bengals as bad as they are and nothing doing with the Reds, I figure it's time to start thinking about college hoops. Dustin Dow has a solid blog post about the competition at point guard for Xavier as well as an interesting post about Kevin Parrom, who just gave Xavier a verbal commitment.

• For the few Ohio Bobcat fans in the area who might read this (I know you're not typically acknowledged by the local media for some reason, but ...) I found it interesting that the AJC mentions former Ohio and current Wake Forest head football coach Jim Grobe as a candidate for the Clemson job. (Grobe coached the Bobcats before Brian Knorr.)

• This is my favorite non-local link of the day, only because you'd love to be reading this story over the shoulder of the school administrator who suspended the kid.