SPORTS digest

Wendell August Forge partners with NFL

GROVE CITY, PA.

Wendell August Forge has created giftware honoring the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Brown.

Wendell August Forge is partnering with the NFL to create a series of hand-forged metal products to celebrate the league’s 100th season.

“We’ve been forging metal for nearly 100 years, and this is the most significant opportunity for our company to date,” said Christian Werner, Wendell August Forge president.

Keychains, bag tags and coasters in aluminum and bronze are available now. Additional home d cor, entertaining accessories and ornaments will be available later this summer.

CFL purchases Montreal Alouettes

MONTREAL

The Montreal Alouettes have been sold to the Canadian Football League.

The CFL and Robert Wetenhall, the American businessman who owned the team since 1997, and his family confirmed the move Friday in a statement released by the league.

“We want to reassure Alouettes’ players, coaches, staff and fans that this is part of an orderly, step-by-step process that is entirely devoted to putting in place a new foundation for the Alouettes’ and the CFL’s success” CFL Commissioner Randy Ambrosie said. “Our conversations have led to significant interest by new ownership groups and we are confident in the process we initiated many months ago.”

Wetenhall resurrected the Alouettes in 1997 after they were revoked from Michael Gelfand and declared bankruptcy. Wetenhall also assumed the organization’s debts despite not legally being obligated to do so.

Early in Wetenhall’s tenure, the Alouettes were a CFL powerhouse. From 1999 to 2012, they finished atop the East Division nine times and advanced to the Grey Cup on eight occasions, winning three.

But Montreal hasn’t been to the Grey Cup since winning it in 2010. The club has missed the CFL playoffs the past four seasons, amassing a 21-51 record over that span.

Colts QB Chad Kelly suspended 2 games

INDIANAPOLIS

The NFL has suspended Indianapolis Colts quarterback Chad Kelly for two games for violating the league’s personal conduct policy.

Kelly signed with the Colts on May 20 — after pleading guilty in March to a second-degree trespassing charge. He had been arrested in October after entering the home of a man and woman he did not know following a Halloween party.

It was the latest legal issue for the nephew of Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly.

Chad Kelly can participate in all offseason and preseason practices and games and can return to the active roster on Sept. 16. He is listed fourth on the Colts’ depth chart behind Pro Bowler Andrew Luck, one-time starter Jacoby Brissett and Phillip Walker.

Clippers fined $50,000 over complement

TORONTO

The Los Angeles Clippers are paying a price, because Doc Rivers paid Toronto star Kawhi Leonard a compliment.

The NBA fined the Clippers $50,000 on Friday for violating the league’s anti-tampering rule. The league did not specifically say what comments were determined to be fine-worthy, other than saying it was in response to what Rivers — the Clippers’ coach — said about Leonard “in a recent television appearance.”

Rivers appeared on an NBA Finals preview show on ESPN earlier in the week and compared Leonard to Michael Jordan. The NBA has regularly warned teams about the perils of saying anything that could be construed as lobbying for a player who is under contract to one team to join another.

The Clippers are expected to target Leonard when free agency opens this summer.

Rivers was part of a panel with Magic Johnson and others discussing Leonard’s game when he made the Jordan comparison.

Staff/wire report