The Baltimore Ravens have matched the one-year, $3 million offer sheet running back Chester Taylor signed last week with the Cleveland Browns. The Ravens had until tomorrow to match the offer for free agent Taylor, the primary backup to Pro Bowler Jamal Lewis, but opted to act yesterday. The deal includes a $2 million base salary, a $1 million signing bonus and a pair of $100,000 incentive clauses.

Bills
Travis Henry is through playing for Buffalo, intent to sit out as long as it takes the team to trade him. "I'm definitely not going back to Buffalo if that's what you want to hear," the running back told The Associated Press from his home in Orlando, Fla. "No minicamps. No training camp. No nothing. ... I packed my stuff and left."

Cardinals
The NFL will play its first regular-season game outside the United States Oct. 2 when Arizona plays the San Francisco 49ers in Mexico City. The NFLconfirmed the matchup yesterday. ESPN will televise the Sunday night game from Azteca Stadium. Arizona will be the home team.

Panthers
Former Carolina player Rae Carruth was denied a request for a new trial in the 1999 shooting death of his pregnant girlfriend. Judge Charles C. Lamm Jr. rejected defense arguments that a 911 call made by Cherica Adams moments after her shooting should not have been allowed into evidence at Carruth's 2000 trial.

Redskins
Washington set the NFL's regular-season home paid attendance record for the fifth consecutive year. The Redskins, whose 91,665-seat stadium is the largest in the NFL, drew 707,920 fans -- an average of 88,490 -- for eight home games. Regular-season games drew 17,000,811 fans, or an average of 66,409 per game.

Elsewhere
Philadelphia and St. Louis will get four compensatory picks in next months' NFL draft and Carolina, New England and San Francisco will get three each among the 32 extra choices mandated by the league's labor agreement. A total of 14 teams will get extra selections in the third through seventh rounds, based on the value of the free agents they lost in 2004.