Tuesday's sports briefs

Tony Romo does not need surgery on his broken left collarbone, and doctors are expecting the Dallas Cowboys quarterback to miss up to eight weeks.

With only 10 weeks left in a season that's off to a 1-5 start, there may not be much reason for Romo to return at all. The team said Romo had additional evaluation and testing, including a CT scan.

Romo broke his left collarbone on a hard hit by an unblocked linebacker early in the second quarter against the New York Giants on Monday night. He spent the second half watching from the bench, his arm in a sling.

"I was upset, disappointed. I was frustrated," Romo said after the game when told of the injury. "You work very hard to play in these games, to be in these positions. The train keeps going on, the games are going to be played."

Carruth seeking new trial

Rae Carruth's lawyer told the federal Court of Appeals in Richmond that the former Carolina Panthers player should get a new trial in connection with the 1999 slaying of his pregnant girlfriend.

Carruth, 36, has been in prison since 2001 after being convicted of conspiring to murder Cherica Adams. Adams, 24, was eight months pregnant with Carruth's baby when she was shot four times in a drive-by shooting in south Charlotte. Her baby, Chancellor, survived but suffered brain damage. Carruth was sentenced to at least 18 years and 11 months in prison.

Though Adams was wounded, she told a police officer at the crime scene that Carruth had shot her, the officer testified. Adams also scribbled notes to a nurse from her hospital bed that implicated Carruth in her shooting.

Widenhouse argues that Adams' statements should not have been introduced during the trial because Carruth was not able to cross-examine her. Adams died a month after she was shot.

In other NFL news: Adam (Pacman) Jones' comeback season with the Bengals has been cut short by a neck injury. The Bengals said Tuesday that they put Jones on the injured reserve list because of a herniated disk in his neck suffered in Sunday's 39-32 loss at Atlanta.

... The Chargers signed former Vikings linebacker David Herron and waived outside linebacker Cyril Obiozor. Herron entered the NFL as an undrafted rookie with the Minnesota Vikings in 2007. He played in 10 games for Kansas City last year, making 11 special teams tackles.

Paul the octopus dies

Spain, in particular, hailed Paul as a national treasure after the mollusk twice picked the Spaniards as winners, first against Germany then over the Dutch in the final.

The octopus died in his pool in the night between Monday and Tuesday. The aquarium said there were no suspicious circumstances concerning the death -- although no one was expecting it.

"We all grew very fond of him, and we will grievously miss him," said Sealife chief executive Stefan Porwoll.

Aquarium staff employed Paul as an oracle by giving him a choice of two plastic buckets, each marked with a national flag, and seeing which one he reached into first for his favorite food, shellfish.

NCAA: New NCAA President Mark Emmert announced that Julie Roe Lach will replace David Price as the governing body's vice president of enforcement.