USC basketball player Brynn Cameron will miss the upcoming season because she is expecting a baby with Cardinals quarterback Matt Leinart, according to her father. Cameron is due to deliver a boy in November, Stan Cameron told the Ventura County Star. Cameron, a 20-year-old junior guard, and Leinart dated while he attended USC. He graduated in December and was drafted by the Cardinals in April. Asked Wednesday about Cameron, Leinart said, "I'm not going to comment."

Moving to bolster their offensive line, and to compensate for the absence of starting right tackle Oliver Ross, the Cardinals on Monday acquired four-year veteran Brandon Gorin from the Patriots, ESPN.com has learned. New England will receive a conditional choice in the 2007 draft.

Matt Leinart looked like a Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback at the start of his NFL career. It didn't last. Leinart spent the rest of Arizona's 30-3 loss to the New England Patriots on Saturday night resembling what he is, a rookie with almost no real practice experience.

Emmitt Smith is getting ready for "Dancing With the Stars". And the NFL career rushing leader isn't upset that the receiver who once danced on the star at Texas Stadium is now playing for the Cowboys. Smith visited the Cowboys' training camp Wednesday during a break from his preparations for his upcoming appearance on the ABC-TV dance competition. He showed up the same day that Terrell Owens was back on the field for the Cowboys after missing 14 straight practices with a hamstring problem

ESPN's Chris Mortensen is reporting that quarterback Matt Leinart and the Arizona Cardinals have agreed to terms on a six-year deal that would be worth as much as $50.8 million.

The Cardinals and the agent for quarterback Matt Leinart were expected to resume negotiations Sunday in the hopes of reaching an agreement early this week. The Cardinals showed little interest in negotiating late last week as they prepared for the opening of their new stadium.

Ben Roethlisberger didn't mind that his appearance at the grand opening of the extravagant new home of the Cardinals was as brief as it was fruitless. After what the Steelers quarterback has been through, simply taking the field at all was enough. "It kind of hit me right before the kickoff," Roethlisberger said, "to sit here and say thank you that I'm able to be out here, to put on the jersey, to be in front of people and playing again two months to the day after a pretty bad accident."

A strange sound erupted an hour before the Arizona Cardinals' first game in their new stadium Saturday afternoon. The visiting team was booed as it took the field for pregame warm-ups. This rarely occurred in the Cardinals' former home, Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, where visiting fans often outnumbered Cardinal faithful. No longer. Cardinals Stadium is sold out for the 2006 season, and the $455 million retractable-domed palace was awash in red as a crowd of 63,400 watched the Cardinals beat the defending Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers 21-13 in their preseason opener.

A franchise long labeled a wasteland among the otherwise fertile fields of the NFL finally has a home of its own. The Cardinals' new football stadium will host the defending champion Steelers on Saturday. And this is no one-bedroom fixer-upper. This is a $465 million palace. Cardinals Stadium, has already been voted one of the top 10 sports facilities in the world by Business Week magazine. "Man, it's sweet," running back Edgerrin James said. "It's everything you'd want in a stadium. I'm happy I came at the perfect time."

Negotiations between the Cardinals and No. 10 overall pick Matt Leinart, the second quarterback taken in the draft, didn't just remain deadlocked Monday, they were nonexistent. Agent Tom Condon said Monday night that he didn't speak with Arizona management at all during the day after also not speaking to the team Sunday. Condon had spent three days in Arizona before leaving Sunday night to return to his home in Kansas City.