Rush Limbaugh should not be surprised. As someone who stokes controversy—often via personal ridicule—surely he expected the reaction to reports he belonged to a group interested in buying football’s St. Louis Rams. He should not be surprised by the outcome, either. The affair qualified as farce from the get-go. Given the cast of characters, how could it not? Limbaugh probably will receive a ratings boost.

DALLAS—A police officer was placed on administrative leave Thursday over a traffic stop involving an NFL player whom he kept in a hospital parking lot and threatened to arrest while his mother-in-law died inside the building. Officer Robert Powell also drew his gun during the March 18 incident involving Houston Texans running back Ryan Moats in the Dallas suburb of Plano, police said.

Polishing those résumés Players use pro day to show they really do have NFL credentials CHARLOTTESVILLE—A year ago, the main attraction was defensive end Chris Long. Yesterday, that distinction belonged to offensive tackle Eugene Monroe, who may be one of the first 10 players taken in the April 25 NFL draft. Monroe wasn’t the only reason, though, that every NFL team except Tennessee and Arizona was represented at the University of Virginia. About a dozen players eligible for the upcoming draft were measured and weighed and timed and tested as scouts looked on.

LOS ANGELES—Former NFL player-turned-actor Brian Bosworth has been charged with drunk driving after being arrested in Hollywood last Friday. City attorney spokesman Frank Mateljan says Bosworth was charged today with two misdemeanor counts in Los Angeles Superior Court. Mateljan says the former Seattle Seahawks linebacker was riding his motorcycle when police stopped him for not having a front license plate.

ASHBURN—Safety Reed Doughty has re-signed with the Washington Redskins. The signing today means he will return for a fourth season with the team and is expected to back up Chris Horton. Doughty became an unrestricted free agent before the start of free agency. Last year, Doughty played in only four games because of a back injury. His teammates voted him the winner of an annual award given to a player who overcomes injury and displays courage under difficult circumstances.

BUFORD, Ga.—The suburban-Atlanta house where Michael Vick used to live is still available if anybody will pay the asking price. The gated-community home went up for auction today with a minimum price of $3.2 million—a half-million dollars less than Vick paid before he moved into the luxurious dwelling in 2005. But no one showed with the qualifying payment of $160,000, which was required just to start the bidding on the eight-bedroom, 11-bath home.

ASHBURN—Three-and-a-half sacks later, Jason Taylor is no longer a member of the Washington Redskins. The three-time, first-team All-Pro defensive end arrived last year in a trade with Miami, in part for the Redskins’ second-round pick in this year’s draft. Today, the Redskins announced Taylor’s release. The draft pick remains with the Dolphins.

BOSTON—New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady says his recovery from knee surgery remains on schedule and he doesn’t see any reason he won’t be ready for the 2009 opener. But Brady stopped short of predicting when exactly he’ll return to the field. “I’m feeling great. I’m feeling really good. Everything is progressing just as I expected,“ said Brady told reporters today at a charity event.

COLUMBUS, Ohio—The widow of Minnesota Vikings lineman Korey Stringer has reached a settlement with the NFL over his heat stroke death during training camp in 2001. Under an agreement with Kelci Stringer, the NFL will support her efforts to create a heat illness prevention program. No other terms of the settlement were released in the announced today by her attorney.

Tiki Barber sits where he does now—pretty much on top of the world—because he sat so much in his first few seasons in the National Football League.

A second attempt to sell Michael Vick’s former house and dogfighting compound in Surry County at auction failed yesterday. None of the prospective buyers produced the necessary 10 percent deposit, the auctioneer said. Tim Dudley of Motley’s Auction and Realty Group in Richmond said seven groups of would-be buyers showed up to bid on the five-bedroom house on 15 acres at 1915 Moonlight Road, for which the current owner wanted at least $590,000. But because none of the bidders brought a sufficient deposit, the auction did not proceed, Dudley said.