San Francisco 49ers president Jed York is dropping the team's tampering charge against the New York Jets over Michael Crabtree, a league source told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter on Monday.

Notre Dame quarterback Jimmy Clausen was involved in a fight outside a South Bend bar early Sunday morning, according to a report Monday evening by WGN-AM's David Kaplan. According to Kaplan, Clausen has two black eyes from the altercation at around 2:30 a.m. Sunday. The incident comes on the heels of the Irish's overtime loss to Connecticut, their fifth of the season, leaving Notre Dame at 6-5. The Tribune's Brian Hamilton reports that a South Bend police spokesman said Monday no police reports were filed over the weekend that involved Clausen. The particulars of the confrontation are thus unclear, though a person answering the phone at CJ's, the bar in question, said the incident "absolutely did not take place inside the bar."

The death of the mother of Saints quarterback Drew Brees has been ruled a suicide, according to an Associated Press report on Friday. Mina Brees, an attorney from Austin, Texas, died August 7 while visiting Colorado. Grand County coroner Brenda Bock concluded this week that the 59-year-old Brees died of a prescription drug overdose and ruled the death a suicide.

A federal appeals court has backed a decision to let Michael Vick keep more than $16 million in roster bonuses from the Falcons. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Judge David Doty's order saying Vick had already earned the bonuses before his dogfighting conviction.

NFL Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor was arrested Sunday night after cops say he left the scene of an accident. He was arrested for "leaving scene of an accident/property damage." Taylor was brought to a Dade County police station in Florida, where he was booked and eventually released on $500 bond.