For The Record

Claimed
Off waivers by the Packers , 2001 Heisman Trophy winner Eric Crouch . The former Nebraska quarterback hasn't played since last September, when he left the Rams ' camp and returned a $395,000 signing bonus because St. Louis wanted him to play wide receiver. The Rams had taken Crouch in the third round of the 2002 draft. Crouch , who was living in Omaha and training, was to report to minicamp this week, and Green Bay is hoping he can win a job as a backup signal-caller to Brett Favre . "On the day the Packers called, I had been planning to head to Toronto , to try to play for the Canadian Football League ," says Crouch . "I really couldn't believe someone was giving me this chance."

Selected
By the Texans in the sixth round of the NFL draft, former Michigan quarterback and current Yankees farmhand Drew Henson , who would likely have been the top pick in the 2001 NFL draft had he stuck with football. Though Henson , 23, says he won't play in the NFL—last week he said asking him about a return to his former sport was a "stupid question"—Texans G.M. Charley Casserly took a flier on the passer. "He was rated as a franchise quarterback," Casserly said. "You're in the sixth round and that player is there, you take him." In his last year at Michigan , Henson threw for 2,146 yards and 18 touchdowns. But he got a six-year, $17 million deal from the Yankees, who saw him as a potential star at third base. Henson is hitting .167 with Triple A Columbus . Should he go back to football, the Yankees would not be obligated to pay him the $12 million they owe him if he stays with baseball until 2006.

Revealed
In court papers reviewed by SI , key witnesses and documents that federal prosecutors will use to try to revive bribery and fraud charges against former Salt Lake City Olympics organizers Thomas Welch and David Johnson . An Olympics ticket broker plans to testify that Welch had him deliver $150,000 in cash-filled envelopes to Welch at airports and hotels. The government says documents show that while bid-committee executives ordered Welch and Johnson to keep their campaign for votes "squeaky clean," the two prepared lists of IOC members whose votes were available in return for "special attention" or "specific help." Six of the eight listed members of the IOC later received bribes, prosecutors say. Welch and Johnson say they did nothing illegal.

Died
Of pancreatic cancer, Mike Larrabee , who won two track gold medals as a 30-year-old at the 1964 Olympics. Larrabee , a star prep runner in Ventura , Calif. , missed the '56 Olympics after finishing eighth in the 400 at the trials while battling the flu; a ruptured Achilles tendon kept him out in '60. Undaunted, Larrabee trained rigorously while working as a math teacher in Van Nuys , Calif. , and qualified for the '64 Games in Tokyo . He won the 400—he was then the oldest man to win it at the Games—and ran the 4x400 relay. In recent years Larrabee skied avidly, climbed mountains and bred llamas for wilderness trekking.

Demoted
Cubs minor league pitcher Jae Kuk Ryu, after beaning an osprey named Ozzy (right). During batting practice with Class A Daytona, Ryu, 19, hurled a ball at Ozzy—who lives in the Daytona stadium and was in his nest atop a light pole in leftfield—damaging his right eye. Ozzy died three days later, and because the osprey is a protected species, Ryu has been charged with a misdemeanor that could put him in jail for 60 days. "It's a huge blow to the kid's career," said Cubs director of player development Oneri Fleita. "He made a poor decision, and he feels awful." Ryu, who had a 3.05 ERA in 20 innings, was sent to the Lansing Lugnuts of the Midwest League.