Arizona Cardinals defensive end Calvin Pace, who is on the non-football injury list after suffering a severely lacerated forearm during a bye week accident last month, will not be paid his base salary for the balance of the season. League and team sources confirmed that the Cardinals have opted, as is their prerogative for players on the non-football injury list, to withhold $306,544 of Pace's scheduled base salary of $473,750 for the 2005 season. That represents 65 percent of Pace's base salary. Further, the team is expected to seek reimbursement for a prorated portion of the $2.1 million signing bonus that Pace received as a first-round choice in the 2003 draft. That could amount to approximately $271,000 more in penalties.

Kurt Warner remains the starting quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals, and believes he will stay there through the second half of the season. Of course, all that could change depending on how the 2-6 team performs on the field. "The plan is to stand pat with all our guys and get this thing moving in the right direction," Warner said after practice. "No coach ever wants to have to shuffle guys in and out and try to find the best mixture. You want to know it, and have it, and play with it." Coach Dennis Green agreed, as long as the team is doing well.

Pro Bowl defensive end Bertrand Berry has a torn left pectoral muscle and could be out for the season, the latest bad news for the fading Arizona Cardinals. Berry was injured in the fourth quarter of the Cardinals' 33-19 loss to the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday. An MRI exam Monday determined the extent of the injury. The team said in a late-afternoon announcement that it had not been determined whether surgery would be required. Initially, the Cardinals indicated it was expected to be a season-ending injury, but later amended the statement to say the injury would be evaluated before making a decision on whether to officially proclaim Berry's season over.

Team doctors told Cardinals receiver Anquan Boldin that he could be out 2-4 weeks with a deep bone bruise in his right knee. Boldin used the word "pleased" to describe the way he felt when he learned the results from a magnetic resonance imaging exam on his knee didn't contain the word "torn." Torn knee ligaments could have ended his season. "Just hearing the word 'bruise' was a sigh of relief," Boldin said Tuesday while signing autographs and meeting fans at a new Alltel store in Mesa. "Like I said before, I didn't think I tore anything. But you never know with a knee. (The current injury) doesn't require surgery. All it takes is for me to stay off of it a little bit." The Cardinals feared that the exam taken Monday would reveal torn ligaments, the same injury in the same knee Boldin suffered in training camp last season and kept him out of the first six games. "I don't want to rush anything, but at the same time I want to get back on the field and help my teammates," Boldin said.