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Reported today by Greg Bishop of The New York Times:

Sen. Arlen Specter clarified Thursday that his involvement in the New England Patriots' videotaping controversy was not over. Neither is his battle with the NFL.

"My view on the overall situation is that we may well see the other shoe drop somewhere," Specter said. "We went about as far as we could go, given the public attitude today about the economy and gas prices and Iraq. We're always very careful about initiating a congressional investigation.

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Since the announcement in April that he's forming Moss Motorsports LLC to run a truck in the NASCAR Craftsman series, there hasn't been a lot of news on Randy Moss' newest venture.

But in a mailbag posting on espn.com yesterday, Marty Smith wrote that Moss' team is coming together (scroll about two-thirds down the page).

Wrote Smith:

"According to Moss Motorsports, the wide receiver is in the final stages of completing the purchase of an existing "top team" in the Craftsman Truck Series, Trey. It's in lawyers' hands now, the team says, and Moss is waiting for them to hammer out the final details.

The team says it also is working to finalize a sponsor, and the tentative plan is for a truck debut in the next four to six weeks, once the deal is completed."

BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) - Mike Dukes, who played linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers and two AFL teams from 1959 to 1965, was killed in a traffic accident earlier this week. He was 72.

The longtime Beaumont resident was killed when an eastbound pickup crossed the median on Interstate 10 on Monday afternoon, striking his truck head-on, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.

The trooper's report said the driver of the other vehicle was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. Dukes was pronounced dead at the scene.

Dukes grew up in Kentucky and Georgia, and went on to play football for Clemson.

He began his professional football career with the San Francisco 49ers in 1959, then moved to the American Football League's Houston Oilers from 1960 to 1963 and the AFL's Boston Patriots in 1964-65.

He moved to the Beaumont area in the early 1980s and became a businessman.

In an interview with the editorial board of the Philadelphia Daily News, Sen. Arlen Specter says he has gone as far as he can go in pressing for more investigation of the Spygate story, and adds that he will not bring the issue before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he is the ranking Republican. He says the committee "already has too much to do."

Specter has been the most public critic of the way the NFL has handled the scandal resulting from the Patriots' videotaping practices, even calling for an independent investigation of the affair that would be modeled on baseball's Mitchell Report on the use of performance-enhancing drugs.

Specter also says he is "not interested" in the allegations by former NBA referee Tim Donaghy about the manipulation of playoff games by the league.

HOUSTON (AP) — Free agent linebacker Rosevelt Colvin said Monday he's set to sign with the Houston Texans.

Colvin, who won two Super Bowls with the New England Patriots, told Houston television station KRIV that final contract details were being worked out.

"Both parties feel like they fit each other," Colvin said. "Hopefully, we can get everything squared away as far as dotting the i's and crossing the t's."

Texans spokesman Zac Emmons said Colvin hasn't signed but will address the media at the team's facility Monday.

The 30-year-old was released by New England after a foot injury sidelined him for the last eight games of last season, including the playoffs.

He signed with the Patriots in 2003 after back-to-back career highs of 10 1/2 sacks with Chicago, but his first season in New England ended after just two games because of a hip injury.

Colvin bounced back to play three full regular seasons for the Patriots before last year's injury. He has 52 1/2 sacks in nine seasons.

Colvin's agent, Kennard McGuire, didn't return a phone call Monday from The Associated Press.